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6 Sep 2024 09:16:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Theoretical physics is just plain weird.  
From: Darren New
Date: 16 Jan 2009 12:42:34
Message: <4970c70a$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> "He showed that the physics inside a hypothetical universe with five 
> dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking 
> place on the four-dimensional boundary."
> 
> Seriously, *why* would you try to show that?? o_O

Because we live in a four-dimensional universe which might be the boundary 
of a five-dimensional space with negative curvature? (I wonder if he figured 
out how to detect the curvature from inside the boundary.)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.


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