Let us know how it goes, Aes.
Speaking of sinuses…
Have you guys read Larry Niven’s “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex” ? It’s pretty funny.
–viva, Woman of Kleenex
I never get any notices when viva posts to a subscribed thread. Not in CP nor in e-mail.
Weird.
Spherical Anomalies! Silik! Shran! Klingons! Home Depot! Hamsters!
I’m just firing blind at potential targets here.
Viva, I’ve read it. It was hilarious.
It was Klingon hamsters.
The hamster wheel has no honor!
Sorry to be so late throwing in my two cents here, but:
I’ve always said, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Pluto.”
Shouldn’t men be from Mercury in that instance?
i think it’s a mistake claiming they’re even in the same solar system, myself.
It depends on the deodorant the man wears.
But I think women are actually extra-dimensional. Calling us guys three-dimensional is somtimes pushing it, however women are decidedly 10 (or 11) dimensional as predicted in M-Theory. (cite: Extra Dimensions…) “However, if we assume that six of these dimensions are curled up very tightly, then we may never be aware of their existence,” which sounds like another stellar example of just why we can’t understand them. And also, why we love them. I just love it when my wife curls her boson around my manifold.
Ah, but what of the theory that the apparently 3-dimensional universe is only a hologram-like projection of a 2-dimensional reality? Women might only be 5 or 6 dimensional, in that case.
It’s still too many for the mere man’s mind to fathom.
Except a Vulcan female. She’s either thinking “That’s illogical. You’re obviously delusional; and I wouldn’t touch you with a ten-meter eyebrow.” or “If you kill him you would not want me because I betrayed you and I could go with him. If he kills you the I have him. Either way, I win.” 
{I’ve gotta stop typing so fast - obviously I was referring to a Vulcan female zombie L:DL}
No, tracer, it has to be 10 or 11 dimensions. Unless you include S (or T )-duality.
Now, in T-duality, you could have dimensions interacting with a world volume membrane. For instance, if four of the 10 dimensions (from the 10 dimensional model) curl up and the five-brane (from the soliton model proposed by Andrew Strominger of ITP, Santa Barbara, CA) wraps around these, the latter ends up as a one-dimensional object. A solitonic string in six-dimensional spacetime.
In addition, a fundamental string in 10 dimensions remains fundamental even in six dimensions.
So the concept of of duality between strings and five-branes leads to another duality- that is, between a solitonic and a fundamental string.
What? there is only one dimension in this universe. Length is a myth. depth is a pipe dream. And don’t get me started on time…because, since there is no time, i’ve both already started and haven’t started on it.
You know, the 5th season ST:TNG episode “New Ground” featured a runaway soltion wave.
What’s funny, is that my soliton post probably took more research than even my most involved religious debate post, or home remodel question answer post, or fiction writing add to this story post.
I had a general idea of what I wanted to say (as a continuation of a joke), but I wanted the actual science to be real, not just scientific sounding. So, I looked in my pile of Scientific American magazines, checked the tables of a few books that I barely understand (but own and read anyways), and even looked at an old fttp link that a physics major gave me.
Turns out, I did okay. I asked a Physics Doper to look at it afterwards, and they said I had the fundamentals nicely lain out. Of course, they might just be being nice to me… I’ll never know.