<Eric Saltsman is a graduate of OSU, and enjoys calculus. We played together some years ago, while he was still at OSU and I was playing around with time concepts (a very long story-idea I’m still playing with). I have no idea what he's been up to lately, but he does still have his Hypercube page up, now called "The Fourth Dimension". Happily, every communication I sent to him is still available on his pages, as are, I believe, everyone else's from that period (mid 90s).

What piques me about the two of you, though, is the Vortex concept. Eric has an idea he's been batting around involving numbers that he calls his "Moustache Theory" I mentioned some time ago that, if the moustache theory in 3D were to be laid its side, you would get a representation of the limitless volume of infinity, as well as the typical sign for infinity -- the lazy figure eight (about the 5th entry down on this page). Go figure.

I found his "Curved Space Bubble Theory" interesting as well.

Then there's "The Fourth Dimension and the Klein Bottle Theory":

In my email to him, I mentioned that the Klein Bottle concept was limited. In the description, he states that "a Klein Bottle is a figure with a single closed surface and no interior." I found this description to be true, but by the same token the bottle would have no exterior either. In fact, the bottle could be a representation of how the Universe actually functions -- a sort of perpetual dynamo, with galactic pods splayed out in a plain tens of trillions of light-years thick. The plain appears like a flattened disk, the current concept of the Universe, but is actually flowing in a pattern similar to the Klein Bottle. We cannot see this, because we are within the Universe. There is no "inside" or "outside" to the bottle, because these are outside the realm of the Universe, which is inclusive of all "things", so "inside" and "outside" simply do not exist.

How would you step this 4 dimensional puzzle up to a 5th dimensional puzzle? How about with the concept I just described above for the Universe, but adding the concept of Time?

Regarding your Atomic Vortex, please bear in mind exceptions to the rule. Finding one (1) galactic string and discovering that it does not follow the expected spiral should be, well, expected. With the supposed limitless number of galactic strings available, errors in nature should be expected, and the odds for them occurring would be -- well -- infinite?
;^)

I think infinite odds one way or the other would average out to something like 50/50.

I emailed Eric regarding your Vortex page (I will also forward a copy of the email to you). Anyway, I just thought the two of you should get together and bat a few ideas around.

Who knows?

Cheers,
Dan