Texts – 4D Eye

This light was reflected in all the mirrors; but more especially from one great concave mirror in the middle of the front wall, which caught the rays of the light and threw them into the little mirrors, where they sparkled like so many diamonds.

Full of surprise Pancho approached that mirror and saw his own image reflected, although magnified into superhuman dimensions. While his attention was directed intensely toward that mirror, and while he was wondering about this strange phenomenon, his consciousness became suddenly centred in that image, and then it seemed to him as if he himself were that image, looking out of the mirror, and he beheld his figure reflected from all the little mirrors along the walls.

It was found, also, that the shape of the brain, at the foundation-point, was of the same general form or shape as the earth on which we dwell; that is to say, an oblate spheroid, whence, by experiment, it was deduced that such section of a figure, oblately spheroidal, was also the very best form of a magic mirror. Such a figure having two mathematically true and absolutely certain foci, so that a stream of magnetism being thrown upon one focus slid along the surface and returned to the centre of the other focus, from the centre of the fore-brain, thus completing a magnetic circuit and rendering the portion of brain in the line of contact exceedingly active, by reason of its increased magnetic play and motion of the brain-particles there situate.

the reflection is a double, that is to say at the same time an other and a same. This ambivalence provokes in baroque thought an inversion of significations which makes identity fantastic (I am an other) and otherness reassuring (There is another world, but it is similar to this one).[2]

Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House! I’m sure it’s got, oh! such beautiful things in it! Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through.

Begin discussing materiality of strings

Think of a worm made of strings

A space time worm that leaves a space trace

Each string is a loop that is a time point

Fused loops

Loops are like rubber bands not chains

Imagine colour gradation of loops into past and future away from current time point loop

‘think of the fourth dimension, not as a new region of space – a direction, as has been said, toward which we can never point– but as a principle of growth, of change, a measure of relations which cannot be expressed in terms of length, breadth and thickness’

GA I’m going to rephrase the question. If you had to describe or introduce the fourth dimension briefly how would you do that?

How did your collaboration with the Fano team at Imperial College come about? I was in Imperial College March 2007, for a meeting with someone in Material Sciences (concerning aluminium) and while I was waiting, I started reading the Imperial College newsletter.

MV What do you want us to do?

GA can you help me to visualise and to draw in 4D?

GA Yeah.

Elementary parallelism: a formal decomposition, linear elements following eachother like parallels and distorting the object. The object is completely stretched out, as if elastic. The lines follow eachother in parallels, while changing subtly to form movement, or the form of the object in question.

think of the fourth dimension, not as a new region of space – a direction, as has been said, toward which we can never point– but as a principle of growth, of change, a measure of relations which cannot be expressed in terms of length, breadth and thickness

In tiny, mysterious, curled-up dimensions, is the world of strings. These strings, the tiniest of forms, vibrate in multi-dimensional geometric spaces that are beyond the human senses.