Or maybe Gazebo can write another comic strip for this one.
The term of the day is "ZZ topology". OK, it's not a real term, but in my current tired state, I noticed an article whose first two words are "Z2 topological" (the e-mail was in plain text, so the latex formatting wasn't present) and I misread it as "ZZ topological".
So, what would a ZZ topology look like? :)
Well, there are a few issues to consider. First, what's the fractal dimension of one of those beards? Second, there are two reference frames to consider, rotating with respect to one another, not to mention the periodicity of the system as a whole along the x axis (usually only extended to two wavelengths), which really makes the rotational frames of reference a mess (they then have a time-dependent, periodic periodicity!).
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to an aperiodic periodicity?
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point, though. I might have to talk to the people who define measures on fractals to be able to deal with this topology properly.
Let me untangle my fun little statement there...
ReplyDeleteIn the rotating reference frame (the guitars), the periodicity (two identical guys standing next to each other, the camera often has the two of them, I'm assuming you can paste them end-to-end and repeat ad nauseum) is changing its orientation as the guitars turn -- this change is time-dependent, and periodic as well. The other "periodic" was referring to the nature of the time-dependent variation in the original periodicity.
That still doesn't make my original wording sensible, of course, but at least clarifies the inspiration for that fantastic tangle of words. ^^&
I'm confused. We're now in a rotating reference frame, so this misreading on my part seems to have been slightly combined with the Rotating Hell.
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