The Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields; Tuesday, Period 4 [ 07/27 ].

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

"I see you've all survived our little adventure from last week," said Farnsworth at the beginning of class, not even bothering to mask his disappointment. If giant caves and monsters couldn't kill them, he'd just have to revert back to good old fashioned boring them to death.

He went to the blackboard and wrote: Today's Lesson: Superduper Symmetrical String Theory and, below it, a great mass of goobledy gock formulas, and a diagram of what looked like dog, but a dog covered in a giant dog-sized sock tied with string.

He went on to explain a whole mess of information regarding how the superduper symettrical string theory, or SD SdT from here on in, is all about a quantum theory of gravity, which is different than a quantum theory of, say, electromagneticism, nuclear forces, or your mom. Essentially, it is focused on the idea that the universe could never be smaller than the size of a string, at which point it would actually begin expanding, and that no measurable differences can be detected between strings that wrap around dimensions smaller than themselves and those that move along larger dimensions.

Which all made enough sense a baby could figure it out and was surely helped along by Farnsworth's drawings, which appeared like they belonged more on a Rorchacht test than a science classroom.

"Now," Farnsworth continued without pause, "our physical space is observed by complete idiots to have only three large dimensions and, taken together with duration as the fourth dimension, a physical theory must take this into account. However, nothing prevents a theory from including more than 4 dimensions, you know. String theory here consistency requires spacetime to have 10 dimensions. We have four here." He drew something on the board. "Where are the other six?"

"So your assignment today," he turned back to the class with such a deceptively kind smile, "is to create one of those missing six dimensions. Won't that be fun?"

"And when you're finished with that, I have this very informative video for you to watch and, next week, I'd like you to write a report about its main points and how it showcases the theories on the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields discussed thus far."


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Comments

Sign In -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

No strings attached.

Re: Sign In -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Griffin O'Conner

Re: Sign In -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[mathletenomore.livejournal.com]

Lindsay Weir

During the Lecture -- M.o.Q.N.F.. 07/27.

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

Because string theory is so easy to follow even when you don't have Farnsworth explaining it.

Re: During the Lecture -- M.o.Q.N.F.. 07/27.

[angelo_wings]

Ten dimensions? Rinoa was not following. At all. There were only three. Except there were ten. Fine, then, where were they?

This class didn't make any sense.

Re: During the Lecture -- M.o.Q.N.F.. 07/27.

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime's face exploded. Oh, wait, that's just what it felt like. What his face actually did was look very, very confused. He'd managed to follow at least some of the earlier lectures. Or, well, he thought so, but... this one was.

What?

Re: During the Lecture -- M.o.Q.N.F.. 07/27.

[she-sheds.livejournal.com]

Joolushko tried to follow this. She truly did. She failed, but she tried. Her notes for the day, whenever she looked over them later, were going to be a complete mess.

Re: During the Lecture -- M.o.Q.N.F.. 07/27.

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt was perfectly comfortable with extra dimensions. Not the math so much -- at all, really -- but the general concept was a-okay with him.


Also, he was sort of hiding in the back shyly, because he was blue and fuzzy today.

Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

Make fifth through tenth dimension. Like you do.

Re: Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

Griff drew an intricate design to represent all ten dimensions. And then he decorated the page with pictures of the professor dancing.

Re: Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[mathletenomore.livejournal.com]

Lindsay attempted to create a drawing of all the dimensions. It made sense. Sorta.

Re: Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[notmyownage]

Claudia's diagram involved bunches of dots with legs running a complex obstacle course around the lines of her paper.

What? It made about as much sense as the dog-sock thing.

Re: Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully leaned over to see what Claudia was doing. "So, the missing dimensions have tire-swings?"

Re: Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[angelo_wings]

Somehow, Rinoa's illustrations of the fifth through tenth dimensions bore a strange resemblance to her dog.

Re: Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

If you squinted, you might notice that Bruce's extra dimensions looked suspiciously like a W with some extra flanges off to the side.

This was not at all intentional.

Re: Assignment -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt drew a picture of a hellish landscape, filled with lakes of burning sulfur and scary dinosaur-like demons. He wasn't sure which number that dimension was, but it was one he'd been to.

Video -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

Even better that it's in Japanese (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBYz3WRnHLA)! It's completely boring and has nothing to do with science. Or it might, who knows?

Re: Video -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

...there was nothing to do but stare and wonder why in the hell pots kept falling on people's heads and setting off the laugh track.

Re: Video -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce understood Japanese, so it was at least easy enough to follow it.

He couldn't quite see the point of it, but he could follow it.

Re: Video -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt... had no idea what the video was about, or what it had to do with anything. So he just enjoyed himself laughing at the people getting hit on the head by things.

Talk to the TA -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

Maybe she can tell you what the video is about.

Re: Talk to the TA -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[mathletenomore.livejournal.com]

Lindsay was there and would be happy to try to tell you what the video was about. She may not have the right answer, but she could certainly attempt an explanation. Maybe.

Talk to Farnsworth -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

Who is, appropriately, getting himself tangled up in cat's cradle string because he thought that might be a good way to pass the time while the kids suffer...err, learn.

OOC -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[ivejustinvented.livejournal.com]

...string theory makes my brain hurt.

Re: OOC -- M.o.Q.N.F., 07/27.

[weldedtomyspine]

I just felt the need to go on record with the fact that this class is consistently genius.

The end.