Re: Lisa Randall interview
- From: "FrediFizzx" <fredifizzx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 23:34:50 -0700
"Mike Jr." <n00spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/271955_stringtheory29.html
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| "P-I: In the book [Warped Passages], you cite evidence many of us have
| in our kitchen that hint of extra-dimensional space -- the atomic
| arrangements of some non-stick metals used in cooking pots. Could you
| explain that again?
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| LR: Yes, the quasicrystals. Crystalline structures tend to form
| according to regular patterns. In this case, there is no recognizable
| pattern when considered in three dimensions. But when these
| quasicrystals are looked at as if in five dimensions, there is a
| pattern. Do we know that five dimensions exist? No. But we can explain
| this pattern by invoking five-dimensional space. It's intriguing."
Yeah baby! Lisa is my new physics hero. She and Sundrum should have
taken it further though. Two partially intersecting 3-branes with the
"gravity" brane loaded up with "less than virtual" fermionic pairs. The
intersection part is the bulk and the fifth dimension.
FrediFizzx
Quantum Vacuum Charge papers;
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.pdf
or postscript
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.ps
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0601110
http://www.vacuum-physics.com
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