helaman ferguson sculpture: Superstring Virus I

Provenance:

a paper by the physicist .. Nakamura

Collection:

Arthur Jaffe, Wes Peterson

Availability:

allow 6 weeks

Price:

$100 (USD) for a similar carving

Dimensions:

2 ½ " x 2 ½ " x 2 ½ "

Weight:

½ lb

Engraving:

x, y, z, t axes (four 1-forms), xy, xz, xt, yz, yt, zt, (six 2-forms), to account for all ten dimensions.

Material:

Silicon bronze

Cf., that physicist's paper suggesting that anyone who believes in more than the four dimensions of space-time is suffering from a disorder at best or a disease at worst. I thought that such an ailment should have an accompanying virus, since it does not appear to respond to any known antibiotic.

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