Search All of the Math Forum:
Views expressed in these public forums are not endorsed by
Drexel University or The Math Forum.
|
|
|
|
Re: Elementary Query on hypersurfaces
Posted:
Feb 4, 2013 5:07 PM
|
|
In article <3e17162e-d419-414c-b586-3c10f54313b5@googlegroups.com>,
stargene <stargene@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> I'm hoping that at least one of you has a real
> familiarity with hyper-surfaces, (which for myself
> are mostly interesting as the posited analogs, in
> some models, of our physical universe.) Being
> very uninformed about hyper-anythings, I ask:
>
> Assuming for sake of discussion that our universe
> were somehow the equivalent of a (say) three-dimen-
> sional hyper-surface on a hyper-sphere, would
> a given point <in> our universe correspond to a
> given point <on> that 3-D hyper-surface? Or
> might a given point in our universe correspond
> somehow to a higher dimensional object, perhaps
> even a 2-D surface entirely spanning the hyper-
> sphere. I'm just wildly grasping at straws here.
Or perhaps grasping at fibre bundles?
|
|
|
|
