Thanks Terry, this is fabulous - I have watched the last part of it a dozen times now. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video can be worth a million... err ... if the details were to be trustworthy; and there is no real assurance of that yet - but if so, then this should be part of every science class.
I am wondering if using 137 strings is possible, in an animation without confusing it too much (as at the end)? Many of us who accept the validity of Mills experimental work - and I will say that it is top flight - must necessarily reject the orbitsphere model. It does not stand up to well to criticism, as has been evidenced on the HSG forum, but there does seems to be some truth to the more general OS concept, as Bourgoin has shown. Is there a middle ground where instead of a 1-D sphere, one can visualize 137 1-D strings forming this kind of 3-D structure? That may be "stretching" string theory to a place it does not want to go, but ... hey ... I can appreciate the closeness of a possible good analogy, not to mention the punage opportunity, if nothing else... Jones -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton Subject: [Vo]:Half Integer Spin is something I have always had trouble visualizing. Here is a Dirac String Trick analogy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY That dance is a.k.a. the Indonesian Candle Dance. There is a scene near the end of "S. Darko" (sequel to Donnie) where it rains tesseracts. Quite an impressive effect; but, unfortunately, the only reason one might rent the movie. Terry
