What Lurks In a Calabi-Yau Manifold?

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What Lurks In a Calabi-Yau Manifold?

Postby headcircus » Sun May 06, 2007 5:41 pm

Just for fun, a drawing... one in a brand new series of drawings that I am trying, related to quantum physics, string theory, extra dimensions, all the fun stuff. Since I haven't made much progress in actually making an interesting drawing on 4+ dimensions, I decided to back up and start more slowly. Before i can even get in to an extra dimensions, what does it look like? Welp, who knows. This is just an abstract drawing..

What Lurks In a Calabi-Yau Manifold?

I think there is a lot more going on that we can't see inside the unfathomably small extra dimensions described by String/M-theory. Since, as predicted since the birth of Quantum Physics that these extra spatial dimensions are so small we cannot even measure them, the world is an open book in terms of just what they are, and what goes on inside them. The Calabi-Yau Manifold was the best mathematical shape to represent a 6-dimensional structure. What you are seeing here is what String Theorists think is the origin point of the calabi-yau manifold. Since they think each point in a 3 dimensional structure is the insertion point for these hidden dimensions. This is meant to represent the entryway from the point into the manifold.

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Postby houserichichi » Sun May 13, 2007 2:17 am

Care to elaborate on your drawing some? What made you decide on the details of the insides here?


Regardless, you are far more artistically talented than I.
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Postby headcircus » Sun May 13, 2007 3:16 am

houserichichi wrote:Care to elaborate on your drawing some? What made you decide on the details of the insides here?


Regardless, you are far more artistically talented than I.


Hey thanks.. basically there is no real rhyme or reason to anything that is drawn there. For me to try would be for me to think to hard about it.. and the result might be less abstract and I wanted serious abstraction. Everything that exists in the drawing is completely ad hoc, and comes from the inspiration of just thinking about these things...

As far as elaborating... there are only 2 or 3 things even I can recognize and only 1 has relevance. At the bottom right of the drawing is what appears to be a well, or a circle that might lead in or out... that is what I am calling the portal into the manifold. On the other side, might be our universe, but definately the drawing is *inside* the manifold.

I dont know if that helped.. :)
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