A Higher Dimensional Universe?

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:02 pm

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070318.html

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:56 am

Ow. My brane hurts.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:17 am

Indeed. I try to stay away from M theory related stuff where possible; far far too many headaches trying to understand it. It's just the little thorns like that on the rose of physics...

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:12 am

yippee. this pic finally proved my point to my wife that i need to buy the 3-d glasses.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:14 am

Ha-ha! Monster cool with 3D lenses! This stuff is kinda like trying to visualize multiple hash levels within a relational database.

djm

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:55 am

I didn't understand this at all, but my Algebraic Topologist husband did.
He also understood DJM's observations about hashes and databases. So
we spent a nice half an hour with him talking enthusiastically but
incomprehensibly, and me nodding sagely.

Nice reminder of the Good Old Days when we were much younger and he
was getting his PhD.

Thanks for the little bit of Marital Enrichment

jkwest · Post by **jkwest** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:19 am

WOW!!

Check this one out!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070320.html

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:22 am

mutepointe wrote:yippee. this pic finally proved my point to my wife that i need to buy the 3-d glasses.

If you hit the stereo button twice and look at it like you would a stereogram you don't need the glasses.

Sliabh Luachra · Post by **Sliabh Luachra** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:36 am

I.D.10-t wrote:
mutepointe wrote:yippee. this pic finally proved my point to my wife that i need to buy the 3-d glasses.
If you hit the stereo button twice and look at it like you would a stereogram you don't need the glasses.

OR you could drink more. . . and look at the middle one.

Caroluna · Post by **Caroluna** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:41 am

I.D.10-t wrote: If you hit the stereo button twice and look at it like you would a stereogram you don't need the glasses.

Whoa! It works!
For some reason I saw three of them though, that surprised me.

No, I haven't been drinking

hyldemoer · Post by **hyldemoer** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:08 pm

mutepointe wrote:yippee. this pic finally proved my point to my wife that i need to buy the 3-d glasses.

Casey was selling the glasses in addition to the Cd at his concert last weekend. He picked up a whole mess of them while touring Tibet with Abigail Washburn. I'd have bought a pair if I thought it could make me the kind of fiddle player he is.
That kid rocks!

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:19 pm

Caroluna wrote:So we spent a nice half an hour with him talking enthusiastically but incomprehensibly, and me nodding sagely.

At least you have someone to explain this stuff to you. Imagine trying to sit with a text book two inches thick, having to look up every third word, trying to envisage what they're talking about, only to come to a statement at the end of the page telling you it is impossible to envisage this stuff.

Oh, my brain hurts!

djm

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:51 pm

Woah, Higher dimentional universe, man!