Map Earth's Fourth Dimension
A gravitational rainbow points to our planet's invisible topography.
by Bjorn Carey
From the August 2006 issue; published online August 14, 2006
Your weight is not the same everywhere. Because Earth is not a perfect sphere, the pull of gravity is stronger in some places than in others. It's also in a constant state of change, moving with Earth's mantle, falling sea levels, and even tropical storms. The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment mission, better known as GRACE, was launched in 2002 by NASA and the German Aerospace Center to measure exactly how what goes up must come down.
1 AMAZING GRACE
Before GRACE, scientists had only a vague idea of what Earth's gravity map might look like. But even the tiniest rises and dips in Earth's gravity push GRACE's two identical satellites together or pull them apart, generating a map so precise it can chart monthly changes in Earth's crust and seasonal ocean currents.
2 BIG BEER BELLY
Earth's rotation causes our planet to bulge at the equator. This extra girth around the middle partly explains why things weigh more at the poles.
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3 RAPID WEIGHT LOSS
Once the central bulge is accounted for, more subtle gravity differences appear. For example, what goes up falls a tad faster in London than it does in Athens.
4 ULTIMATE YO-YO DIET
Earth's mantle has mountain-valley systems resulting from old tectonic clashes, which make gravity's pull strongest in the southwestern Pacific and weakest just off the southern tip of India. So the fastest way to lose weight is a direct flight from Singapore to Sri Lanka.
5 BUILT LIKE AN AMAZON
Annual flooding increases (reddish areas) and decreases (bluish areas) the gravity of the Amazon basin. Because GRACE is sensitive enough to measure rainfall, it helps scientists understand how climate changes affect the rainy season.
6 THE BIGGEST LOSER
From 2002 to 2005, GRACE found that Antarctica's ice mass had decreased by 36 cubic miles a year, helping prove that global warming and melting polar ice play a role in rising sea levels.
SOURCE: http://discovermagazine.com/2006/aug/map4d
Friday, 15 July 2011
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
4-D CUBE
Magic Cube 4D
MagicCube4D is a fully functional four-dimensional analog of Rubik's cube plus dozens of beautiful new 4D puzzles besides just the hypercube. The image above shows the 34 puzzle in its solved state. Click on it for a simple resizable applet version that you can interact with to get a feeling for how it works. Then download the full-featured application below and try to solve it.
VISIT HERE: http://www.superliminal.com/cube/applet.html
MagicCube4D is a fully functional four-dimensional analog of Rubik's cube plus dozens of beautiful new 4D puzzles besides just the hypercube. The image above shows the 34 puzzle in its solved state. Click on it for a simple resizable applet version that you can interact with to get a feeling for how it works. Then download the full-featured application below and try to solve it.
VISIT HERE: http://www.superliminal.com/cube/applet.html
Sunday, 10 July 2011
Thursday, 7 July 2011
VECTORIAL REPRESENTATION
Vectors
Mathematically four-dimensional space is simply a space with four spatial dimensions, that is a space that needs four parameters to specify a point in it. For example a general point might have position vector a, equal to- Source: wikipedia.org
SPECULATIONS ON 4D
Speculations on the 4th dimension
Many fascinating possibilities exist when a spatial fourth dimension is present. Several types of wheels are possible, very complex machines can be built, and many more shapes are possible. Objects can pass by each other more easily, but they are harder to break into multiple pieces. Energy reduces much faster with distance than in the 3rd dimension, so both light and sound are weaker. Much more things can be compacted into a small space, but its much easier to get lost. In this page, I will explore these and many other interesting properties of the fourth dimension
Source:http://teamikaria.com/hddb/classic/
Monday, 4 July 2011
Saturday, 2 July 2011
QUAD-DREAM
QUAD DIMENSION- THE 4th DIMENSION WORLD
Let I, Describe myself first...
I'm Rahil Pathan
From Ahmedabad, India.
fb: www.facebook.com/rahilpathan
Studying Mechanical Engineering
At Gandhinagar Institute of Technology
Once while studying Vector Spaces...
I thought how a fourth Dimension could be possible...
since, no-one in this world exactly knows, so how i could.
So, I started Google-ing...
To Preserve all searches... I MADE THIS BLOG !
ANYTHING NEW I DISCOVER, I'LL SHARE ON THIS BLOG !
IF YOU GOT ANYTHING MORE, SHARE WITH ME !!
Let I, Describe myself first...
I'm Rahil Pathan
From Ahmedabad, India.
fb: www.facebook.com/rahilpathan
Studying Mechanical Engineering
At Gandhinagar Institute of Technology
Once while studying Vector Spaces...
I thought how a fourth Dimension could be possible...
since, no-one in this world exactly knows, so how i could.
So, I started Google-ing...
To Preserve all searches... I MADE THIS BLOG !
ANYTHING NEW I DISCOVER, I'LL SHARE ON THIS BLOG !
IF YOU GOT ANYTHING MORE, SHARE WITH ME !!
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