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This question and concept disturbs me, especially because I can't find an answer. |
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"mound" is a synonym for "hole". the opposite is "schlong". |
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"in that woman, there was a hole, and on the man, there was a stick...." |
Think about it. Imagine a flat plane. There's a circular hole in the plane, it goes all the way through it. Now imagine that hole not being in the plane. What the hell is the word to describe that? A continued solidity of being? The opposite of a mound would be a depression or a hollow or a valley or even a pit. I'm just talking like a hole in, per se, a peice of paper. |
maybe the opposite of the hole is the paper itself, 'cause there's nothing else. |
The opposite of left is right, but the opposite of right is wrong... |
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I'm with dbone. Schlong. |
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A black hole is an intense GRAVITATIONAL field caused by MATTER packed extremely densely. Light travels best in a vacuum. What a black hole is really is what's called a "singularity" A nearly one-dimentional dot of matter packed insanely tight. This creates a gravitational field so strong that light cannot escape once it passes the event horizon. The event horizon is the edge of what we consider to be a "black hole" where light goes but does not return. That is the point where something would have to be travelling faster than the speed of light to escape the black hole. Some cosmologists think it might be possible to travel through a black hole if you could avoid the singularity. If you reach the singularity, you become the singularity. Or rather, your matter is added to it. There was something very entertaining about seeing Homer discover the 3rd dimention and fall into a black hole. |
next, trig! Or how about quantum physics? :-) |
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However, they have supposedly proven that teh univeris is flat, not curved, and expanding indefinitely. So no "Big Crunch". If you want to read a very good novel about singularities, try "Earth" by David Brin. |
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It's a very simple, yet effective treatise (in the guise of a story) bout multiple dimensions. It was published in 1880. If you want something really meaty to wrap your mind around, try "Hyperspace" by Michio Kaku. |
Because matter attracts matter, the more it "eats," the stronger it gets. How about cosmic strings? vibrating in like 24 dimensions or something? I love this shit. erm. Hearing about multiple dimensions makes me laugh, because it reminds me of the Alexander Pope vision of god. Pope argued the Great Chain of Being, how everything, good and bad and in between, everything imaginable, was created by God, because God is the essence of Goodness and all Good qualities, and creativity and the ability to generate things was a Good quality: therefore the essence of goodness must also be the essence of creativity; and must have spawned at least one of EVERYTHING. how does this relate to multiple dimensions? I remember hearing that multiple dimensions were thought up because the big bang must have generated "anti-matter" as well as matter: exact opposites for each sort of particle in our universe, so you get this "shadow universe" existing right on top of ours, in the exact same space, just with all the particles spinning in the opposite direction. The argument seems reminiscent: The Big Bang must have created everything; even particles we can only imagine. right. I'm starting an official Church of the Big Bang. There MUST be one out there already, somewhere. |
2nd is heighth 3rd is depth 4th is time 5th is tesseract what's beyond the 5th dimension? could it be defined in spacetime? |
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Dimensions don't need those names, you know. They're just ways of describing the area in which a given object exists. I'm not sure what the point of all that was. |
:points to head: an inquiring mind lives here and it won't stop bothering me until i find out. |
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A tesseract is a 4 dimentional version of a cube. It's not a dimention of its own. A square's sides are equal in length in two dimentions, a cube in three, and a tesseract in 4. "Drawing" a tesseract in 3 dimentional space looks like two cubes, one inside the other with the corners connected. It's similar to how drawing a cube in 2 dimentions looks like two squares with the corners connected. If the 5th dimention has a name, I don't know it. |
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I'm really excited for him to move to Missoula. Have I been talking about him a lot? He drops by here on occasion. I suppose I should let him speak for himself. I get excited. |
yum. |
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