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Muu Nai from afar

Natural history of an Earth-sized planet that is over 90% diamond, harbors Life only along the coast of a continent that is in permanent sunlight, has an atmosphere that not even the natives can breathe, and whose mountains have evolved into a natural computer that has become sentient and telepathic: check out my Interview with "Moon Eye"!

Huu Rrii up close

Muu Naï's natives, the Huu Rrii, are currently in a Paleolithic stage. They are slow-moving, amphibious, hermaphroditic, and quite lovely-- especially their character. The Mountain that Thinks is hoping to ease them into high-tech by a path that preserves their core values and attitudes. Start with Sunset Failed!

Sipsi

A project totally(?) disjoint from Muu Naï and the Huu Rrii, this gal Sipsi lives in a place so faar out that she has no recollection of ever having seen a sun, a moon, or a sky.

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Thank you, DollBlue, for opening this to critique! It allows me to state “for the record” that the style you show in t...

by *DollBlue

Before we begin, allow me to spell out some biases of mine. When it comes to introducing a character, I favor full-figure presentations...

DollBlue is on fire :onfire: to show us her wonderful world of elves, anthros, nymphs, and whatnots, in amorous and feisty interaction: go cheer!

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Extra Dimensions? What kind?

Journal Entry: Sat May 2, 2009, 1:12 PM
A fourth spatial dimension, like the dancing tesseract? That was Riemann, 1854.
(3+1)D, aka 4-dimensional spacetime? Einstein and Minkowsky, 1908.
All right, so how about (9+1)D, as in string theory, 1984?
Ah, but those were supposed to be our regular (3+1)D (space plus time) dimensions,
plus six spatial dimensions rolled up into tight cylinders of subatomic radius.

Nowadays, some of us (e.g. Itzhak Bars) are thinking grand scale:
that our (3+1)D universe is immersed in a (4+2)D spacetime
--that's right: four extensive space dimensions, plus two dimensions of time!
As foreshadowed by C.S. Lewis (1949):

You walk to the back of this closet and cross into Narnia; live there for fifteen years; re-enter the closet (from the Narnia side), thereby returning to your starting point, and find that only seconds have passed, or maybe a minute or two. Right. We normally think of a time line. If time were 2-dimensional, it would be like a sheet, and we would normally be advancing along one “axis” of time, say T1. If, upon crossing the portal, you inadvertently make a right-angle turn on that time sheet, then you might advance several years along T2 with no change in T1. When you eventually return to the portal's space coordinates and cross back into your own world, you undo the sharp turn, and find yourself back to traveling along the usual T1 direction.
The postulated (4+2)D spacetime might, in turn, be immersed in an even richer “bulk”, so, perhaps only one or two spatial dimensions are rolled up, or, maybe none of them are.

Whenever the (in)famous Large Hadron Collider finally gets into productive mode, we'll see if any “new physics” emerges. One idea that has almost reached consensus among physicists these days is that, of the forces known and measured by us humans, gravity, in particular, can leak out into the space that envelops our universe. This is taken as an explanation as to why gravity seems so much weaker than the other forces.

Allow me to opine: our non-detection of gravitational waves, despite several years' worth of exquisitely designed and deployed instrumentation to that effect --sensitive beyond belief-- and despite the fact that we can plainly “see” (from their diminishing frequency of rotation) that binary pulsars are losing gravitational energy, the non-detection of gravitational waves, I say, gives me the impression that such waves do, indeed, leak out into some large spatial dimension(s) external to our universe.

So, where does this leave Sipsi's Bubble? Mere whimsy?
Or, physically possible?
How about:

It's a bubble of false vacuum,
stabilized by a naked singularity of spacetime in dimension greater than 4.
Preposterous? Read for yourself,
Matthew C. Johnson and Magdalena Larfors (2008), p.1:
Domain wall spacetimes in certain two–field models contain naked singularities…
Such singularities prevent the formation of regions of a new phase inside of bubbles [of false vacuum] and might render the false vacuum stable.
But! If so, where would such naked singularities be coming from?
Depending on the structure of the spacetime that envelops our universe(s), they may be inevitable mathematically, in the same way that, for example, you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick. The center of the cowlick would be the singularity, the cowlick itself, Sipsi's bubble.

•••••••••••••••••••••• :butterflytwo:

This account/webspace I am devoting to two long-term projects:

the "Moon Eye" and the Sipsi.

Here's a Muu Naï executive summary.

Sipsi lives in a place SO far out it's not on any planet, and revolves around no sun!


Sipsi Bubble Baubles

Sipsi
and her
(4+1)D
"Bubble"

:heart: css :heart:

Aphrodite's Boots Yes, she's naked;
if you're not subscribed to DA, you'll see only comments. But even meandering minors :yum: can lick view her future boots:


As usual, I tend to collect related images into "slide shows" which, technically, are Flash animations, but not the kind of strongbad cartoons that DA assumes(?) when defining categories. For example: suppose you have a beautiful nymph that you want to unveil :phae:, so you choose several poses and string them together into a Flash presentation. DA will not currently allow you to classify the entire sequence as "female"(!). Oh, well. :bucktooth:

Horse floats?
Any must-publish inspirations not directly related to either Muu Naï or Sipsi I shall post over at ~ttobserve, a simple account that I began some time ago, merely to give close friends and relatives of mine who are not "into" DA :pc: a better lurking experience! Half a year later, I decided to re-dedicate said space.
:popcorn: Allow me to recommend the horse-in-the-sky story.


Thank you, DA programmers, for the groovy software! :neom:



Devious Info

  • Current Residence: 33º21' S, 70º28' W.
  • Interests: Frequency-dependent echo delays in Huu Rrii "cathedrals"
  • Favourite poet or writer: Piers Anthony
  • Operating System: Mac OS X
  • Favourite cartoon character: Jessica Rabbit, Red Shetland, ...
  • Tools of the Trade: SubEthaEdit; Wikipedia et al.; Blender et al.; Keynote; Metro & Melodyne; neuro- endo- tele-...

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:iconvaledhelven:
:iconstarlight2infinity01::iconstarlight2infinity02:
:iconstarlight2infinity03::iconstarlight2infinity04:...Thanks so much for the :+fav: on 'Cause Imma Dungeon Master, Fairy Vore, and/or None of It, collab with Tia... [link] Seems I've lost track of exactly who faved what again, so if there are extra Thanksgiving cookies here, enjoy 'em anyway, Tom - lol! :blush:
~Ellen :iconcookienomplz:

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Welcome to MY fantasy realm: [link]
:iconmevagh:
Thanks for the fave!
:iconttnn:
Thanks for your visit!

Your picture reminds me of the horse-in-the-sky picture that I paint in words, over at ~ttobserve; your Above the Clouds even more so, but I fell in love with your mythical creature, so well presented in Atop the Trees.

—and thanks for showing us the Syndey dust storms!
:shocked: I had no idea.
:iconmevagh:
I'm glad you like my mythical creature, that painting is also my fave out of all of them :D
And thank you for showing me your 'horse in the sky' story, it was beautifully written and very unusual!(in a good way;)). Just one question, what is onierical thinking?
:iconttnn:
Thank you, and yes, you're right: dictionary.com has no entry for “oneirical”! It's supposed to be “oneiric” —but— I object: we have whimsical thinking, magical thinking, so, from Greek oneiros (dream), why not oneirical?
:sherlock: Anyway, be sure to check out this neuroscientist's first-hand account of left- versus right- brain!
:iconmevagh:
Ahh I understand now. And thanks for the article, it was very interesting (and pretty crazy)!
:icondollblue:
thank you so much for the critique! i feel happy ^^ and it also motivates me to learn drawing better (f.e. with backgrounds xD) =)
:iconttnn:
Ah, yes; delighted!

You know, I was re-examining some of your work --e.g. Forest Elf-- and find that you are perfectly capable of doing beautiful backgrounds; it's just that you're sometimes in too much of a hurry (law school and other tribulations?) but you DO have the talent!
:icondollblue:
thank you =) well, the problem is... it is not just that i am often in a hurry... i don't like drawing backgrounds. i have to force myself to do it. always more attracted to the living things that can move xD
but without a bg a pic often looks too empty... =/
:iconshinyheels:
Thanks for the fav:blowkiss:
:iconttnn:
Ah, yes!

Because one gets to see at most 120 faves per page, I've been trying hard to not exceed that limit. Your reflections are my 112th, so I'm getting very stingy, but, you win:
:worker: it's glorious! :rose: :sun:
:iconttnn:
If you browse my faves, you may notice that I generally go for originality, beauty, and light.
Your reflections showcase all three. :neom:
:iconshinyheels:
:worship: you cant possible imagine how much this means to me:hug: Thank you so much:aww:
:iconmissinghorcrux:
Thanks very much for the visit! Your passion for science (and anthropology, it looks like, or at least religious studies) rivals my passion for linguistics. I enjoyed reading your devID, and I've been aware of that information for quite awhile - it was refreshing to hear someone else who holds the same point of view I do.

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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" (Albus 7:35)
:iconttnn:
And thank you, Kelly, for pushing my buttons:
thanks to you --and DA's excellent software--
my projects have become easier to navigate,
without a long-winded Visitor's Guide.
I just pulled another writeup out of storage: Hermaphrodite Families!
Oh-- and, thanks for the fave!! :flirty:
:iconttnn:
Oh, wow! :neom: Linguistics: yummy!

Microtonality too, perchance?

In recent weeks, I'm sidetracked by a music project inspired by Valparaíso and my blues-singing daughter and her guitarist husband, Gonzalo.

Your comment may be the kick-in-the-ass I need --thank you!-- to inch forward on the Muu Naï theme. I've uploaded more than I show publicly, because the various pieces form a whole-- a whole that I'd like to build up enough that it becomes obvious to a first-time visitor. If you're curious, I can send you a not-yet-unveiled writeup or two. :rose: :bucktooth:
:iconmissinghorcrux:
Honestly, until you mentioned it, I'd never heard of microtonality. Wikipedia has a good article on it, but I'm afraid I'm not as versed in musical notation as I should be (it's been about seven years since I played my violin), are we talking half-steps, here? Or smaller increments than that?

I'm at work now, but I sure will listen to some of your stuff when I get home. I'm intrigued!

And I have to say, I've never heard of Muu Naï. Is it one of your creations?

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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" (Albus 7:35)
:iconttnn:
P.S. Should the re-tuning of Pachelbel's famous canon offend your classically-trained ears, allow me to opine that the same Herman Miller has some interesting compositions of his own. For example, I am totally charmed by his Rriladéni Tharnien
:tunes: (from his own music page).
:iconttnn:
Microtonal, in practice, is any tuning other than
twelve equally-spaced degrees per octave:
feast thine ears on Herman Miller's Warped Canon page!
Now, with a violin, you can do as you please! :sing:

Never heard of Muu Naï?
:shocked:
Oh, boy: the ball is in my court!
:iconmissinghorcrux:
Oh, goodness. I'm just so used to western tuning that it all just grated on my nerves. I can see how the theory would be interesting, but my ear isn't quite used to the sound of it, yet.

So explain, what is Muu Naï? Ball's in your court!

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"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" (Albus 7:35)

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