Tuesday 4 February 2014


This video places hyperbolic geometry within a process that forms the ever changing world of our everyday life. This corresponds to Einstein’s Relativity in which the Euclidean geometry of our everyday life is only an approximation to hyperbolic geometry. 

Therefore hyperbolic geometry that in many ways is more beautiful than Euclidean geometry is also more fundamental in the nature of space and time. 

Because hyperbolic geometry has negative curvature with every point in hyperbolic space being a saddle point, we are going to need a dynamic process that naturally forms negative curvature in three dimensional space. This can be formed by a very simple process of spherical symmetry forming and breaking. In the images in the video from the International Space Station we can see a candle flame in almost zero gravity takes on the form of a sphere. Light radiates out in all directions forming a sphere that is interacting with the atmosphere on the two dimensional surface of the sphere. The outer surface of the sphere has positive curvature, but relative to the radiating light of the candle flame the inner surface has the negative curvature that is needed for hyperbolic geometry. This forms a dynamic process in three dimensional space instead of a boundary circle we have a boundary sphere. The infinite nature of hyperbolic geometry can be represented on the negative curvature of the interior surface of the light sphere. 

In this way we have the three dimensions of our everyday life with Euclidian geometry within three dimensional space formed by one dynamic process that is based on hyperbolic geometry. 

The spontaneous absorption and emission of light forms a process of continuous energy exchange or what I like to call continuous creation. This will be relative to the flow of electric charge with the future coming into existence light photon by light photon with each new photon electron coupling or dipole moment.

The negative curvature of Hyperbolic Geometry represents the curvature of spacetime that forms gravity.

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