Identify this:

[missmanners]

or a crochet table cloth that granny made.


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[FBI parte due]

It looks like one of those yarn godseye things they told you how to make during arts and crafts time at day camp, except in the 27th dimension.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Is it specifically a physics thing or is it just a mathematical model?

It's one that's significant to the other. Sorry to be cryptic --I give too many leading clues as it is.

Here's a better pic of the same thing:

 

[Archibald Nixon]

And a "triacontagon" would not need any lines inside of it. You'll have to do better than that, el.

 

[FBI parte due]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E₈

Is this it? I just clicked around from the article on manifolds until I found something that looked like it.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

It's related to Garrett Lisi's An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything, a work in progress which, if helped along by the LHC in the coming years, will probably turn a lot of string theory on it's collective head --hence, the "opposite" hint. I posted a link to an interesting New Yorker article about it in the Mine Field (I think) awhile back.

Your turn --post two, when you find the time.

 

[FBI parte due]

I honestly don't know when I'll be able to come up with two stumpers for this thread, so if anyone can come up with something interesting in the meantime, be my guest. Seriously.

 

[FBI parte due]

Here's something.

http://rapidshare.com/files/156520703/IT_IS_A_MYSTERY.mp3.html

See if you can tell me what the name of the instrument being played over the drums in this song is. This will probably be easy for you old hippies, but it'll buy me some time.

 

[missmanners]

Sitar?

:duh:
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[missmanners]

Jew's harp.


:duh:
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[FBI parte due]

Warmer.

 

[Friday]

Tubular Bells?

http://www.supertimbre.com/images/Pitched Percussion/Tubular Bells.jpg

 

[missmanners]

Is it a uhhh.... klimbia


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[missmanners]

A Kalimba
?


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[missmanners]

Since I can't spell...


:duh:
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[FBI parte due]

I had to look that up, and no.

 

[FBI parte due]

Figuring out who's playing is a huge part of this.

 

[FBI parte due]

This one should be a lot easier to figure out.

 

[FBI parte due]

Shit. Hope no one saw that filename.

 

[missmanners]

Too easy...

Romanesque Broccoli.

I thought it was a cauliflower so googled cauliflower images and saw one that looked like this but it was labled Romanesque Broccoli.

:duh:
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