Moebius strip riddle solved at last(tsal ta devlos elddir pirts suibeoM)

ABC.AU ^ | Jul 16, 2007

[Hegemony Cricket]

[ClearCase_guy]

two experts in non-linear dynamics, Gert van der Heijden and Eugene Starostin of University College London, present the solution.

This article seems awfully convinced that these guys have solved the puzzle. I don't know if that's true. If you ask me, this reporting is pretty one-sided.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The Moebius strip was named after a German mathematician, August Ferdinand Moebius, who discovered it in 1858.

Another German, Johann Benedict Listing, separately discovered it in the same year.

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Seems a bit hard to believe that nobody twisted a piece of paper and glued the two pieces together until 1858.

[Ramius]

If you ask me, this reporting is pretty one-sided.

Ack. Nicely done. :-)

[SubGeniusX]

this reporting is pretty one-sided.

...nice..

[Starstruck]

Joseph Paper invented paper in 1857 so it only took a year.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Interesting. One sure can learn a lot on the internet!

[The Electrician]

If you strip away the thin layer of rhetoric, all that you’re left with is twisted logic...

[metmom]

ping

[Daffynition]

Explain this ... Robert Krampf plays with a Möbius Strip

[Daffynition]

Escher's "Moebius Strip II"

[Daffynition]

Nice one! LOL

Here is what a learned mathematician has to say about the study...

"That is simply a mathematical parameterisation of the surface within 3 dimensional space. What the work in the article is talking about is describing the mechanical stresses a physical object with the shape of a Mobius strip will have upon it due to it's material strength and rigidity. As the article says, it's an important thing to understand if you're building fabric or chemical structures which twist in such a way."

[discostu]

They probably did, but there’s a difference between some guy gluing a piece of paper into a weird shape, saying “that’s cool” then throwing it away, and some science type doing it and writing a paper about it. In general stuff isn’t considered “discovered” until there’s published data about it.

[SubGeniusX]

ok... that was cool

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I’m sure you’re right. When Mobius’s paper came out all across Europe there were guys digging through their trash out back thinking “Dang - I wish I hadn’t thrown that doodad out last month - it could have been the Vinkowyz strip instead of that darned Mobius strip.”

[SunkenCiv]

of interest.

[Daffynition]

Wouldn't this explain why my telephone cord coils to the left, then to the right? Tertiary structures ...Eureka!

[SunkenCiv]

Could it be that your telephone cord crosses the Equator? ;’)

[Daffynition]

B-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-d.