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Tuesday, April 26. 2011

Klein Bottles

A friend sends this:



In 1882, Klein imagined sewing two Möbius Loops together to create a single sided bottle with no boundary. Its inside is its outside, it contains itself, and you can almost do it yourself… but not quite because you’ll need a fourth dimension to get the surface to pass through itself without making a hole.


Well, if you can’t make one, you can always buy one, at Acme, of course, http://www.kleinbottle.com/. Yep, no doubt about it: Your Acme's Klein Bottle is a real Riemannian manifold, just waiting for you to define a Euclidean metric at every point.



Their ad says:



Need a zero-volume bottle?


Searching for a one-sided surface?


Want the ultimate in non-orientability?


Get an ACME KLEIN BOTTLE!
Posted by Bird Dog at 10:59 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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Looks like somebody's bong, Bird Dog.
#1 Leag on 2011-04-26 11:07 (Reply)
Judging from the picture of the guy wearing the Mobius hat and scarf, it may be his.

It is odd that they claim they are actually authentic, but then show a Klein stein with something in it!
#1.1 mudbug on 2011-04-26 11:58 (Reply)
The lad's knit cap looks like a bong, too!

Is that Bird Dog ?!!!
#1.1.1 Leag on 2011-04-26 12:07 (Reply)
that's Clifford Stoll: still crazy after all these years...
#1.1.1.1 Andor Noman on 2011-04-26 12:34 (Reply)
Oh, that's Clifford.

http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything.html

My bongs never did that.
#1.1.1.1.1 Leag on 2011-04-26 12:44 (Reply)
I have a feeling Wile E Coyote is gonna get stuck in this somehow.
#2 DrTorch on 2011-04-26 12:41 (Reply)
Would a Riemann manifold improve the performance of my automobile?
#3 Ray on 2011-04-26 15:21 (Reply)
Only in four dimensional space.
#3.1 Tom Francis on 2011-04-26 19:45 (Reply)
This apparatus brings to mind apparatchik Obama, with his head up his ass.
#4 twolaneflash on 2011-04-26 20:54 (Reply)
I'll stick with my pet rocks, thank you.

Oh, and the mood rings.
#5 Chasmatic (Link) on 2011-04-27 10:52 (Reply)

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