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Light on Rupestrian Naļads

In I asked for suggestions to help me understand the meaning of these mysterious symbols. My prejudice, that the Huu Rrii should build (or, refine) caverns to worship their sun, did not seem to agree with the pictographs themselves, and I ended by pondering:
Perhaps the characters I descry are water sprites?
It now seems that the “swimming figures” (last slide) are, indeed, water sprites, based perhaps on some ancestral memory of such in the ocean when the ocean still had salt (and, therefore, a lot more life than it has now). The Huu Rrii assume that such creatures still exist under the mountains, where they know that there are pockets of brackish water (as evidenced by the existence of a grove of Salt Bush).

The Huu Rrii are hoping that these water sprites shall find, or build, a passage to the ocean, so that they can tell Father Ocean about His missing salt. Or, maybe, if the Huu Rrii dig a deep enough well in the vicinity of the salt bush, they can eventually make contact with the water sprites. The details escape me, but it does have to do with salt, and with underground. That's why they're singing inside the mountain, as opposed to praising their sun in the open, which they regularly do. The sun symbol on the cave wall (slide 4) appears to represent, not the sun they see in the sky, but some near-relative thereof, that hopefully illuminates the place where the naïads live.

Of course, the ceremonial caves and associated song are much older than the discovery of the salt bush grove, so, to the Huu Rrii, said discovery vindicates their beliefs, and one can understand that the cavern that lies nearest the gathering place for expeditions to The Grove should become the most fervently hallowed.

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Extra Dimensions? What kind?

Journal Entry: Sat May 2, 2009, 2:12 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.

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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.


P.S. If you feel like making a comment, please send me a note instead --uh; never mind: Zareste has convinced me to put the upcoming Visitor's Guide in the "Custom" module to the left of here. Thank you!










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:iconmwahahaplz: It’s “Cookie Delivery” time again, cookie lovers! Thank you for the :+fav: on The end really IS near… , Tom![link] And as usual, I am happy to bring you a cookie for every fave! (…I wanted to bring you a Dark cookie in exchange for your support, so please accept these 3 Triple Dark Chocolate Fudge Cookies… they’re small, but decadently sinful! :devilish:)
:icontripledark01plz::icontripledark02plz: …oh, and something to drink! :milk: :coffeecup: :iconteaheeplz:
:iconcookiefataleplz: ~Ellen :iconbonklers:

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Oh!?

Well, it's an honor for me to be visited by someone with an "equal" sign!
eh? ^^

you're welcome :)

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Hi again, Tom!

Just wanted to send you an official "thanks" for the :+devwatch:... I appreciate it immensely!
:icontftdwplz: ~Ellen

(I added a new one today, but probably after you began "watching"... Check it out - I think you'll like it ;))

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The Elf Sisters?

Oh, that so reminds me of the first sight of the Sirens in O Brother, Where Art Thou!

You are a serious source of stimulus ! :nod:
I remember that scene now - lol! :lmao:

I hope that "stimuli" isn't a bad thing... ;)

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Lord knows I need it!
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[I'm such a slowpoke.]
:lmao: Glad I could help!

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:wave: Hello, Tom!

I just wanted to thank you for the :+fav: on Pegicornitauress? I really appreciate your support and taking the time to browse through my gallery of fantastical creatures and beautiful Elven maidens!
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As a special "thank you," I am continuing to offer one giant cookie for every fave! :cookie: So enjoy and come back when you're hungry again! :giggle:
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~Ellen :iconcookiemonsterplz:

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Oh, wow! What a response!

We should be friends! In fact, I just added you to my "friends" list. :neom:

Yes, that Pegicornitauress was not to be resisted, even though I try --I do try!-- to not let my faves collection grow too fast (so that they'll still fit on a 120-page).
omg, I couldn't possibly resist faving whatever I see that I really like, no matter how many there are - lol! You have a lot of willpower!

Thanks for the watch, Tom... I really appreciate it, and hope you just can't resist the new image I just added today....;)

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Ah, yes; a few more faves and I'll have to get serious about folders with commentary. :bucktooth:

For you, I recommend the Koi Mermaid (poolmaid?) and --especially-- the froggie siren! :hexentanz:
Thanks... I already had the Frog Siren in my faves, but I hadn't seen the Koi Mermaid yet - good suggestion! :hug:

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