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the oroborus universe
The Diagonally Woven Single Joined Thread Klein Bottle is constructed with a diagonally woven thread of copper wire that meets beginning to end after negotiating a repeated motif that completes the construction. The Motif has been called a double circuit as it is a motion that circumscribes the Klein bottle configuration twice, the second circuit being a completely mirrored representation of the first circuit. It is a single sided four dimensional modality which means that locally a differentiation of sides is discernable, but globally the surface is continuum. There is a singularity located where the neck passes through the body of the bottle which is the reason it has been considered an impossible construction to make, as the singularity signifies an absolute zero point.
"My first contribution was to show that organisms are essentially rhythmic systems accounting for the universality of biological clocks. But I was interested in the spectrum of frequencies showing that control systems oscillate, they have rhythms, the whole organism is an integrated dynamic system that works on many different frequencies. This results in the notion of homeodynamics instead of homeostasis. Instead of having physiological variables that are constant, you have variables that are rhythmic: your temperature, concentrations of substances in the blood, your heartbeat, your respiration, circadian rhythms, menstrual cycles - what is now known as chronobiology. I didn't invent the term, but I gave a strong impetus to the dynamic view of organisms as rhythmically organized entities."
Brian Goodwin, biologist
"You say, Hey, Musgrave's far out. I'm not far out — that's the common sense way to think. It wasn't til the 1930's we acknowledged any other galaxy. Why? Because we have this anthropocentric error that we have made historically. It's always... there is only one intelligent being, and that's us. We are the center of the universe. If you look at the historical error science has made, it's making the same error today in thinking there's only one universe or in thinking that something began in some discreet thing.... Hey, big bang may be an oscillatory state. It wasn't the beginning. It was a singularity. And I think there's much more common sense in that kind of thinking. But... we need to put a beginning on things, because WE had a beginning."
Story Musgrave, astronaut
Read more about the cyclic universe in Wikipedia, ActionBioScience and Popular Mechanics
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