Terminator 2_Hour of the Wolf by Mark W. Tiedemann

Author:Mark W. Tiedemann [Tiedemann, Mark W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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and in the course of our talk I will get a good estimate of your knowledge and talents. So in some ways this may seem like a thesis review.”

“Um…sure.”

“Excellent. Shall we begin?”

“Uh…”

Casse worked a keyboard on his desk. The wall screen winked on, a glowing milky white. Then an equation appeared:

“You recognize that?” Casse asked after a few moments.

“Yes, sir. Riemann. His statement expressing distance between two local points whose corresponding coordinates differ infinitesimally.”

“Very good, yes. Basic, I understand, for your level, but it’s a starting point.”

In quick succession, Casse took Bobby through a series of transformations that carried them from Riemannian geometry through Kaluza-Klein expressions of curved space-time, and into the abstruse corridors of Calabi-Yau shapes.

Ever more complex geometries, they concerned themselves with descriptions of higher-dimensional space-time, mostly hypothetical attempts to describe non-Euclidean manifolds, conditions pertaining in and around black holes or the theorized precincts of the primordial singularity, before the Big Bang. Bobby found himself enjoying the exchange.

Casse appeared to have a solid grasp of the principles and Bobby felt challenged to keep up. He had no idea where Casse was heading with all this, but Bobby was on familiar ground, having covered most of this in his own work on singularities and monopoles.

“Do you believe string theory?” Casse asked suddenly.

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“I…frankly, sir, I haven’t given it much thought. I mean, I know it a little, but it seems like a lot of hand waving to me.”

“Then let us see what you think of this.”

gHO = 1/ g1

Bobby thought for a moment. “That’s a statement of equivalence in Type I string theory. The first part is the Heterot-ic-O coupling constant—”

“Very good. Now.”

Bobby watched the equations scroll across the screen.

They were still in Calabi-Yau territory, the math describing more and more intricate curved space-time forms. He understood the link between Calabi-Yau and string theory, they fed on each other, but—

“Wait!” he said. “That’s…”

He recognized some of his own work integrated with the other, broader equations.

“These describe closed time-like loops,” he pointed out.

“You drawn an equivalence with M space models. But…”

“But?” Casse prodded.

“Instead of having the extra dimensions posited by string theory folded up inside Einsteinian space-time, you’ve got them wrapped around the outside, like coils. That suggests the universe is little more than a closed time-like loop within a larger dimensional matrix.”

Bobby became aware of Casse watching him intently.

“What does this suggest to you, Mr. Porter?” Casse asked.

Bobby shook his head. “Several things…I’m not sure which one you’re interested in.”

“What, for instance, does this suggest about the condition of our present universe? We have four dimensions, three material, one time.”

“Oh…well, according to this model, any of the coiled dimensions could sort of swap with any one or more of ours. It’s not required that it be…it’s not divergent. In some ways it’s recursive, so…”

He swallowed dryly, thinking about his struggle with the 147

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problem of monopoles. Some of these equations described the condition a monopole would have to exhibit in order to exist within a given field, like the universe as is.

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