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Hi Gregg
Abbot's (what an ironic surname) book is a treasure! The only guy i've
ever met who ACTUALLY grasps string theories uses it to teach about
simultaneity in a grad-school physiscs class!
it's fun to watch physicists go after one another about how to explain
  particle behavior that 'appears' to operate outside of linear time.
These brouhahas (comically called conferences) get ALMOST as
entertaining as discussions of panel features.

("who will prove the proofs themselves")
-Rube Godel

;'>
-doc



--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "mrboningen"
<darkflametwentythree@...> wrote:
>
> and for those of us who shun the technical side, there are some truly
> great explanations of "projection", as well as thoughts on the more
> religious/spritual aspects, in edwin a. abbot's book "flatland". find
> out how A. Square (who lives in a two dimensinal reality) deals with
> life when proof of a third dimension comes his way!
> 
> gregg
> 
> --- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Grant Richter" <grichter@> wrote:
> >
> > It is one thing to have the intuition that audio can be described by
> a terrain oscillator 
> > tracing overlapping projections of higher dimensional objects on a
> plane. It is another 
> > thing to build it in analog. Or prove it or calculate it. It does
> relate sound back to 
> > geometry.
> > 
> > Still, geometry is a lot of fun to study. If someone wants to lend
> me a copy of the original 
> > folio of J.F. Nicerons "Thaumaturgus Opticus" (1649) it would help
> (pretty seminal on 
> > anamorphic projection). Oops, Vatican has it...
> > 
> > "Projection" is a way of expressing higher di


mension objects in a
> lower dimension. A 
> > geometric analog of mixing, as an example because you can not
> generate a full original 
> > from only information contained in shadows. (a projection is the
> shadow of a higher 
> > dimension geometrical object which is veiwable in a lower dimension).
> > 
> > I'll have to settle for the works of Claude Bragdon such as this:
> > 
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/048627117X/
> > ref=sr_11_1/104-0050071-2953569?%5Fencoding=UTF8
> > 
> > I was so excited, then I found out he wrote the intro to the
> "Tertium Organum".
> > Up here in Wisconsin you know we have Lawsonomy. Also very
> geometric, "The Law of the 
> > Zig-Zag and Swirl" for example.
> > 
> > Apparently, studying geometry above 3 dimensions makes you start a
> religion, so begin 
> > tithing now and beat the rush!
> > 
> > Number Theory may be the Grande Dame of mathematics, but Geometry
> sure is the pretty 
> > looking one. Now someone tell me there is a one to one
> correspondence between number 
> > theory and geometry... (I recall something about unification).
> >
>