Do you really understand this?
>>16831427You and I see the rope as a one-dimensional space, but the ant sees a tightly curved second dimension that it can exploit to hyperspace from point A to point B. Same thing.
>>16831427No. I remember Lee Smilin talking about this and he said that no one really understood this among the string theorists except the guy (Yau) who came up with it, along with Calabi presumably. Although he might be exaggerating. Basically the loops you are seeing are part of a torus, the parts where the surface pinches together is just where the torus closes up, so these images are in some sense a crosssection of the actual surface, which is higher dimensional anyway, and we dont get to see the whole thing. The string lives on the brane and the masses and path integrals are all calculated there without singularity or infinities. But there are more than 10,000 equivalent Calabi-Yau manifolds so they are back to square 1.
>>16831427Um, I would like that mayny apples please. Yeah.
