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Space-Tearing Conifold Transitions
Many years ago in my doodling, I created some comparisons to what I would have percieved in describing a point, line and plane. To me, I wanted to find a way to describe this point amidst a vast background of all points, so by constructing this diagram, and by realizing coordinates, intersection of lines and…
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Supersymmetry
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky John Ellis: Extensions of the Standard Model often contain more discriminatory parameters, and this is certainly true of supersymmetry, my personal favourite candidate for new physics beyond the Standard Model. One…
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Stretching the Brain
Pettit shakes a remarkably sturdy film of water onboard the ISS. See the full-length movie: Reel 1, Reel 2. “Observations of nature, no matter how seemingly arcane, are like peeling off one more layer from the great onion of knowledge, tickling your imagination with what you have found but always revealing yet another tantalizing layer…
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Civilizations Within the Cosmo
In the recent article ‘Conflict between anthropic reasoning and observation’ (gr-qc/0303070) Ken D. Olum, using some inflation-based ideas and the anthropic premise that we should be typical among all intelligent observers in the Universe, arrives at the puzzling conclusion that ‘we should find ourselves in a large civilization (of galactic size) where most observers should…
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Topology and Early History
Part of the effort here is to outlay the idealization of what Genus figures means and the relationship to string amplitutdes. A diagram of the Königsberg bridges Topological ideas are present in almost all areas of today’s mathematics. The subject of topology itself consists of several different branches, such as point set topology, algebraic topology…
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The Emergence of Time, What Lies Beneath?
The intuitive classical space-time picture breaks down in quantum gravity, which makes a comparison and the development of semiclassical techniques quite complicated. Taken in context of how supersymmetrical levels could have ever been reached, is really a wonderful thnng to consider. If singularities were to be devised in methods that would experiementally bring forth blackholes…
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Quantum Gravity at Planck Length
It was necessary to bring some of this infomration here while things are getting sorted out elsewhere. 6.4 Spacetime Topology Change by Joseph Polchinski This subsection is not directly related to black holes, but deals with another exotic question in quantum gravity. Gravity is due to the bending of spacetime. It is an old question,…
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Light Humour From Another
When your feeling all alone in the dimensional world, think about Homer’s triumph:) Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into… the third dimension. …..and tongued tied, as to how you would explain yourself to others, on these…
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GR Reduced From Higher Dimensions?
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Where to Now?
