131.9 cents per litre is somewhere between surf rats and shipsterns
If physicists don’t find the God Particle, create Dark Matter, reveal the nth dimension, or develop the Theory of Everything, at least the Large Hadron Collider will have resulted in the lyric “the LHC accelerates the protons and lead / and the things that it discovers will rock you in the head“. That definitely furthers human advancement - rumor has it there is a Neutrino Detector in Antartica called Ice Cube that will soon create its own rap and video, with penguins instead of fly girls.
A French team of mathemeticians and computer artists has just released a documentary that attempts to help us mere math-mortals transcend the three-dimensional space we are trapped in, and visualize regular polyhedra in 4 dimensions just as a Escher tile-lizard might visualize our 3-D world. The two hours worth of videos are very well done, and also touch on fractals, the Juliet Set, complex numbers and topology. This correspondent was only able to catch a tiny glimpse of 4-space, but it was stunning. It looks like an exquisite world, maybe even more beautiful than ours.
