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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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.

[notmyownage]

"That's what they need all the strings for."

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"So gravity works on it as a point of reference?" Scully paused. "Or is gravity the tree? ... My ball of yarn pales in comparison."

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

[notmyownage]

"Gravity works in whatever direction I want it to?" Claudia shrugged. "I figured Old Dude might find this entertaining."

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully sent Professor Farnsworth a very dubious glance. "I think this entire class is designed for his entertainment. And I'm glad it's a summer workshop and not are regular course."

Yes, she still cared about grades. Shut up.

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

[notmyownage]

"Yeah, I'm thinking no one is going to pass this sucker, anyway. It's too bad, it could be really interesting."

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"It is interesting," Scully felt compelled to say. "As a refresher course. Knowing some of this already. Otherwise, I'd think he was doing experiments on us, seeing how we'll react."

A pause.

"The wouldn't let him do that, would they?"

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

[notmyownage]

Claudia shrugged. "I'm not sure this island is technically under US jurisdiction. So, uh. Who knows?"

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"That's comforting." Scully sounded even more disillusioned and wondering.

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

[notmyownage]

"Hey, I'm thinking of it as 'maybe they don't do extradition'."

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully snorted in amusement, expression lightening. And underneath it, relieved that nothing had changed between them since Dead People Weekend.

"Should I have bail money ready?"

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

[notmyownage]

"Nah, we were totally slick."

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully's eyebrow quirked up as she realized Claudia was talking about something more specific than the usual banter. "Who's we? And which jurisdiction is out of luck tracking you?"

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

[notmyownage]

Claudia's mouth dropped open slightly. "Uh. I mean." She winced. "Jacob and I kind of broke into my brother's old lab, this weekend."

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully's jaw dropped, and she kind of hated that her voice almost squeaked. "Claudia!" Then she put up her hands and said, "Wait. Stop. Rewind. Was this about Joshua's experiment?" The one he died doing?

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

[notmyownage]

Claudia ducked her head and nodded. "I did it. I found him, Scully."

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

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully's next planned words melted away in the face of that statement, and she frowned, confused, and leaned forward. "Found him-- found his body?" she said, her voice lowering, gentler, but still confused.

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

[notmyownage]

Claudia rolled her eyes. "No, no, him. He showed up. He tried to talk to us."

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.