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SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE


Posted by Hartley On Nov 26, 2007

A Möbius strip made with a piece of paper and tape.

Möbius Band

 

The Möbius band (pronounced /moʊbiːəs, mei-/ i.e. beginning with "Moe" or "may"; German /ˈmøbiʊs/) is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. It has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. It is also a ruled surface. It was discovered independently by the German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing in 1858.

GO AUGUST AND JOHANN!!!!

A model can easily be created by taking a paper strip and giving it a half-twist, and then joining the ends of the strip together to form a single strip. In Euclidean space there are in fact two types of Möbius strips depending on the direction of the half-twist: clockwise and counterclockwise. The Möbius band is therefore chiral, which is to say that it is "handed".

IT IS CHIRAL SO THEREFORE HANDED. AWESOMEOMEOMEOME!!!!

It is straightforward to find algebraic equations the solutions of which have the topology of a Möbius band, but in general these equations do not describe the same geometric shape that one gets from the twisted paper model described above. In particular, the twisted paper model is a developable surface (it has zero Gaussian curvature). A system of differential-algebraic equations that describes models of this type was published in 2007 together with its numerical solution.

LOVE THE MOBIUS. LOVE IT SOOOOO MUCHIEZ. LOVE DIFFERENTIAL ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS!!!!

There is also an indie rock group that calls itself, The Mobius Band, I'm sure with more than a little bit of a chuckle. They are from Brooklyn, and released an album this year that is quite good if you like samples, and guitars, and big hooks. It looks like this:

BRM blog image

bloggers like it. and so do we.

GOOD MUSICS TO MAKE NICE SOUND IN EARS HEAD!!!!

check out this awesome song off of it called "secret language." it could really be dope if you all ever needed an LCD Soundsystem "All My Friends" replacements. there are also some killer handclaps on the chorus. And the bank robber likes handclaps. Fo' realziez.

 Lastly for those NYC people who've made it this far in this Blog post - The Mobius Band are playing the Bowery Ballroom this Thursday night. Prove to me you've read this shit, and hit us for some free guest list action!!!

YOU LIKE US! YOU LOVE US! WE GIVE YOU FREE CONCERT TIX!!!

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