Subj : Extent of the Torah
To   : JOHN WILSON
From : DAVE OLDRIDGE
Date : Sun Nov 12 2000 12:23 pm

JW> -=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-

JW>  JW> -=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-


JW>  JW>  DO> ...we still don't know if
JW>  JW>  DO> there is enough mass to recollapse.  If it turns out that there
JW>  JW>  DO> definitely is enough, then I have a (sort of) steady state theory
JW>  JW>  DO> that I wouldn't mind examining...

JW>  JW>  Hey! Great!

JW>  JW>  .but it does NOT posit an
JW>  JW>  DO> infinite amount of time, since the time dimension (and it only
JW>  JW>  DO> has one timelike dimension) would be finite.

JW>  JW>  Steady-state without motion?

JW>  DO> Nope....a sort of hypertoroid focused on a single singularity
JW>  DO> that inverts entropy.

JW> I'm interested, but you are going to have to speak basic English
JW> for me to hang on. I vaguly know what a toroid is, a hypertoroid
JW> is a complete mystery, and while I make no pretension of knowing what
JW> a singularity IS, why  would it `invert entropy'. Inverting entropy
JW> is JUST what I need, though...or mebbie it's viagra...
JW> ...as far as your theory goes...I think I'm in the `hopeless case'
JW> catagory... :-) . Sorry.

I could draw it for you, but think of a donut with an infintely small 
"hole."  Calibrate the donut, starting at the center and going around the 
torus and back to the hole again.  That is the time dimension.  Now 
consider the circle represented by any particular instant in time.  That is 
two of the three space dimensions (had to leave one out so you could 
imagine it in three dimensions with time in).  Of course the toroid cross 
section need't be circular.
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