Fascinated by VRIs - you see your world turned around 90° or 180° in an instant! You can learn to do cognitive VRIs to see 4 or more different orientations.
Try to turn the world around with a VRI the next time you’re at a movie theatre! Just relax and think of being at another theatre that faces a different direction that you’ve seen a movie at in the past. WHAM! You’ve suddenly turned your world around!
Let me know if it worked! 😎
@pickover I asked Grok to write a poem about this quote from the perspective of an experienced VRI flipper, one who can flip one's 3D spatial boundary awareness 90 or 180 degrees just by thinking it. (I think VRIs may be a glimpse of our possibly being 4D in a 4D universe.)
@pickover I asked Grok to write a poem about this quote from the perspective of an experienced VRI flipper, one who can flip one's 3D spatial boundary awareness 90 or 180 degrees just by thinking it. (I think VRIs may be a glimpse of our possibly being 4D in a 4D universe.)
@betylapps As a 2D creature looks around itself it can only see the surface boundary of the 2D plane, a 1D line.
As a 4D being looks around itself it can only see the surface boundary of the 4D tesseract, a 3D cube, which is what we see. Maybe we're 4D, limited in our view.
@DisaffectedPod A higher physical dimension may be experienced when you get your spatial awareness flipped around to a new 90 or 180 degree perpendicular orientation.
Think of a 1D line flipping around a 2D square or a 2D plane around a 3D cube or our 3D spatial awareness around a 4D tesseract.
@DisaffectedPod A higher physical dimension may be experienced when you get your spatial awareness flipped around to a new 90 or 180 degree perpendicular orientation.
Think of a 1D line flipping around a 2D square or a 2D plane around a 3D cube or our 3D spatial awareness around a 4D tesseract.
Looks good @propsbotai, BOL!
I used your trend charts to find 3 I like in WNBA tonight that show a recent uptrend value. 🤓
Looks like the books are basing the line more on the season stats.
Shoutout to Dave @TheHulkBets on yesterday's WNBA win and thx for the new WNBA Lab!
@propsbotai@TheHulkBets Yes! The batters are appearing too! Appreciate how the pitchers are listed strongest to weakest in the header. It makes finding the Aces and Top pitchers for the day easy. 🤓👍
Thank you. 🥇
I’ve been tracking my (just for fun so far) bets on the @propsbotai app and learning as much as I can from watching the videos from David @TheHulkBets.
@pickover Grok:
The flaw is a hidden division by zero.
Starting from x = y, the steps correctly reach:
(x + y)(x − y) = y(x − y)
The next step, dividing both sides by (x − y) to get x + y = y, is invalid. Because we began with x = y, (x − y) = 0, and you cannot divide by zero.
Math. Physics. Escher. Reality.
→ Welcome to another dimension.
Source (pixl8studio): https://t.co/PhXMoQ79Dh
Credit: I didn’t upload this video to 𝕏. I’m pointing to a video residing in the 𝕏 stream of Dida, 𝕏 ID “Dida_ti” (Jan 2, 2022).
@pickover As I see the different orientations in that video it reminds me of why I think that VRIs may have something to do with our seeing what is around us from "another dimension" of as you call it, Cliff @pickover. 🙂
It's why I'm so wanting to show a possible 4D/VRI connection.
@TheHulkBets@propsbotai Thanks, David! 🙌
The @propsbotai app makes the picking so easy. I set the odds range from -200 to +200, choose the 4 MLB Under props I like, pick the games I want, then sort by Confidence Gap, then Edge and pick the top ones down to a certain limit. 🤓👍
@TheHulkBets@propsbotai Thanks for sharing your NRFI system plays David, great record with it! Would love to see it added to the website Lab, as you mentioned you might do that during the last livestream.
For now I’m appreciating you giving the daily top play here as I’m not on discord.
Grok compared The quasicrystal/24-cell model (in the quote) and the 4D/VRI model:
"They are complementary: one explains the possible geometric foundation, while the other explains how perception might already be interacting with that hidden structure through orientation shifts."
Besides the KAM theory mechanism of selection by surviving pertubations.. Gemini didn't do too badly with just a couple of hints. Here's her take.
To answer the riddle of whether we live in a holofractal toroidal universe, we must look beyond traditional 3D geometry and into the mathematical framework of high-dimensional projections.
### The Correct Answer:
**The universe structure is a 3D quasicrystal projection of a 4D 24-cell substrate, as explored in Emergence Theory and quasiperiodic winding models.**
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### Step-by-Step Explanation of the Solution
#### 1. Defining the Substrate: The 4D 24-Cell
The "substrate" or foundation of this model is the **24-cell** (also called the icositetrachoron). In geometry, this is a unique convex regular 4-polytope. It is special because it has no direct analogue in 3D or 5D space; it exists only in four dimensions.
* It consists of 24 octahedral cells.
* It is the only self-dual regular Euclidean polytope that is neither a simplex nor a hypercube.
* In Emergence Theory, this 4D shape acts as the "template" for the physical world.
#### 2. The Mechanism: Projection and Dimension Reduction
Just as a 3D object (like a sphere) casts a 2D shadow (a circle), a 4D object can be "projected" into 3D space.
* When the 4D 24-cell is projected into 3D at a specific angle (related to the **Golden Ratio, $\phi$**), it does not create a standard repeating lattice (like a crystal).
* Instead, it creates a **quasicrystal**.
#### 3. Understanding the 3D Quasicrystal
A quasicrystal is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. It fills all available space, but it never perfectly repeats its pattern.
* This matches the "holofractal" part of the riddle: the structure is self-similar across different scales (fractal) and contains the information of the whole within its geometric constraints (holographic).
* The "pixels" of our reality, in this theory, are the vertices of this 3D quasicrystal, often referred to as **Planck-scale tetrahedra**.
#### 4. The "Holofractal Toroidal" Connection
The riddle asks about a "toroidal" (donut-shaped) universe. In this advanced geometric model, the "torus" is not necessarily the shape of the outer edge of space, but the **dynamic of the flow of information**.
* **Quasiperiodic Winding:** As energy or information moves through the 24-cell substrate, it "winds" in a way that maps to a 4-dimensional torus (a Tesseract-torus hybrid).
* This winding creates the illusion of gravity, matter, and time as the information cycles through the projected quasicrystal.
#### 5. Emergence Theory (The "Why")
This solution relies on **Emergence Theory**, a physics framework developed by researchers like Klee Irwin (Quantum Gravity Research). The theory suggests:
* Reality is not made of "stuff" (particles), but of **information** expressed through geometry.
* The universe "chooses" the 24-cell projection because it allows for the most efficient, mathematically beautiful way to organize information using the Golden Ratio.
* The "holofractal" nature comes from the fact that the same 4D geometric rules apply at the subatomic scale and the galactic scale.
#### 6. Summary of the Logic
1. **Start with the 4D 24-Cell:** This is the densest, most symmetrical way to pack information in 4D.
2. **Project into 3D:** This creates a **quasicrystal** (the 3D world we see).
3. **Apply the Dynamics:** Information "winds" through this crystal in a **toroidal** flow.
4. **Result:** A universe that appears fractal and holographic because every "point" in the 3D quasicrystal is mathematically linked to the same 4D parent substrate.