Mobius Strip

[jre]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KlnQ...eature=related

[Lucy815]

The mobius strip structure reminds me of the move Lost Highway. Anyone see it? It ends with the main character outside his own house, giving an important message over the intercom, which the main character hears at the very beginning of the movie.

[hypocrite lecteur]

whatever happened will happen again

[Lucy815]

Cool link, hypocrite lecteur! Thanks!

[hypocrite lecteur]

Originally Posted by Lucy815

Cool link, hypocrite lecteur! Thanks!

you betcha. i always think of star trek when moebius comes up...

[jinseng]

Take a strip of paper and just twist one end. Then, while the paper is still twisted, tape it closed so that it's a twisted loop. Then cut along the middle of the strip all the way around. Instead of cutting the ring in two and creating two rings like intuition would suggest, you instead end up with one bigger loop, uncurled.

If you've never done this you should try it. It's so trippy.

[lostfan308]

*tries to wrap mind around concept*

*keeps failing*

[rocray]

Originally Posted by plkrtn

A mobius strip/loop is a shape with only one side and one boundary.
If you were to walk along one, you'd walk across the entirity of both sides without ever having to cross a boundary/edge.

The infinity (∞) symbol is a form of mobius strip. Take from that what you will

Oh and lets not get into Klein bottles, although I'm pretty sure the show will.
If you dissect a klein bottle, you get two mirror image mobius strips
However, a true klein bottle can only exist in four dimensional space, not the fourth dimension being spacetime either.
This image of a 3d shadow of a tesseract (a 4D cube essentially) rotating around a plane in 4 dimensional space does a lot for me to explain what is going on with this show!

I think its time to study Euclid!

I posted this about a year ago

[jinseng]

Originally Posted by plkrtn

Hypercube FTW!

[The Continental Op]

Originally Posted by plkrtn

This image of a 3d shadow of a tesseract (a 4D cube essentially) rotating around a plane in 4 dimensional space does a lot for me to explain what is going on with this show!

I think its time to study Euclid!

I can't figure that damn thing out.