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

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.