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A lot of people ask me what my mosaics are about so I thought I would shine a little light on this one, the Tholian Web. I named it after an old original Star Trek adventure – A. because I thought it had a bit of grid going on and B. because I liked the name. However, the true meaning of this particular work lies deep in the world of modern physics. It is not well known but back in the 1930’s when Einstein and the Copenhagen interpretationists were disagreeing over the quirks of quantum mechanics, the main point of contention was over the existence of worm holes, specifically the wormhole that pops into existence when one reaches the final stages of a toothpaste tube. No matter how much one squeezes the tube dry, there is always more toothpaste that comes out. Einstein (and Nathan Rosen) claimed this was an example of a special solution of Einstein’s field equations, while the Copenhagonists were proposing a “spooky action at a distance” where the energy from the Casimir effect basically acting upon entangled particles from other toothpaste tubes in the known universe creates more toothpaste instanteously when pressures in the squeezed tube reach a certain threshold if a Minkowski spacetime contains a compact region Ω, and if the topology of Ω is of the form Ω ~ R × Σ, where Σ is a three-manifold of the nontrivial topology, whose boundary has topology of the form ∂Σ ~ S2, and if, furthermore, the hypersurfaces Σ are all spacelike, then the region Ω contains a quasipermanent intrauniverse wormhole. Q.E.D., right? Not so fast said Einstein.
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