How did Calabi and Yau create their infamous Calabi-Yau figure?
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The mathematician Eugenio Calabi first conjectured in 1957 that all Kähler manifold with a vanishing first Chern class admit a Ricci-flat metric (one in each Kähler class), and this conjecture was mathematically proven by Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) in 1977 and became Yau's theorem. Consequently, a Calabi-Yau manifold can also be defined as a compact Ricci-flat Kähler manifold.\n\nHowever Calabi-Yau manifolds can be n-dimensional, or n-fold. It was String Theorists that utilized a 6-dimensional  Calabi-Yau manifold to describe the compactified higher spatial dimensions proposed by Superstring Theory.
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The two focal sculptural figures derive from an episode described by Teresa of Avila in her autobiography, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582), a mystical cloistered Discalced Carmelite reformer and nun. \n\nThe chapter describes divine visions, including one where she saw an angel standing aside her body:\n\nI saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying." Chapter XXIX; Part 17, Teresa's Autobiography \n\nThis is a mystical vision not sex.\n\nMaybe the sculptor could have done a better job.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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APOCATEQUIL: God of Lightning. He's also chief priest for the Moon God. An obvious case of moonlighting. To keep him happy, statues of his noble self were erected upon the mountaintops.\n\nit says they erected statues on "mountain tops". "Apo" could just be a short version of Apocatequil, because that is a hard word to remmember. Plus it said he was the cheif priest of the moon god. The moon god would have been a popular deity on top of MOUNTAINS, because of the view. These all relate in some kind of way. You just have to find the relationship between the gods.
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another way of teaching E=MC２\nBuddha discovered this secret of the Universe 2000 years before Einstein.
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The Impossibles. It was a Hanna Barbara cartoon waaaaay back in early 60s. There was Coil Man, Fluid Man and Multi Man. I think their boss was called Big D.
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Beautiful Human females with rather large breasts!\nThus began the Nephilim.\n\nLoL, I love mythology!
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Pygmalion - the sculptor of ancient mythology - fell in love with his own creation. In George Bernard Shaw's play, Henry Higgins "creates" a lady out of Eliza Doolittle and then falls in love with her.
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Interesting question. Since they were the ONLY two people in the world, where did everyone else come from?\nMythology is stupid isn't it? Now watch the christians make up stories and excuses for this lame book of bronze age jewish mythology...
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Cryptics do infact exist. I have seen a couple before in musuems, as to how to make one or where to get plans for one not sure. Check for websites about Da Vinci and you might find them, or do a search for "cryptic"
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Artist: Escher\nPhysician-Mathematician: Roger Penrose. He studied quasi-regular tessellation which were lately found to describe the structure of quasi-crystals, that is the chemical structure of some artificial metallic leagues.\n\nOh, I was forgetting another contemporary one: Raoul Raba. Made famous by the French mathematical organization of Kangourou, for which he created the logo.
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Eight Trigrams, or ba-gua...\nin taoist families', they usually hang the mirror @ the main door of the house to ward off demons & ghosts.\naccording to old chinese folklores, demons & ghosts didn't know how ugly they actually look. so, if you hang the ba-gua mirror @ the main door, these entities see their own reflections & appalled @ how horrifying 'the other person' looks, will fled in fear.
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Click this link... there's a ton of em!\n\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Buddha&btn=Yahoo%21+Search&tab=Images&fr=my-vert-img-top
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no one really knows. there are a lot of theories though. it could be a sort of calandar or a place where they had rituals. unless someone finds a script in which it's use is mentioned or someone invents a timemachine, no one can be sure.
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There was no such person as Yeshua ben Nazareb.  It is a fictional being, invented by committee 1700 years ago, a retelling of other "saviours" from other religions.  I'll borrow my own words from another posting:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahd8J7EE5iH6xqL_.MlWehLsy6IX?qid=1006060402294\n----------------------------------------\nThe word "christ" is a corruption of the ancient Greek word "christos", or saviour, and that word is itself a corruption of the Hindu god Krishna.\n\nThere have been more than a dozen "saviours" predating christian mythology, most of them borrowing from each other. You'll also notice that their years of origin go east (oldest) to west (newest), following the "Silk Road" from China between 600 BCE (2600 years ago) until 200 CE.\n\nKrishna\nBuddha\nOsiris \nMithras\nDionysus\nHeracles\n\nAmong many others. Most were born shortly after the winter solstice (Dec. 22), most were born to virgins screwed by a "god", and most "suffered" before they "died" and "went to heaven". \n\nIt's the same stupid fairy tale, regurgitated and retold with local bits added on as it went place to place.\n----------------------------------------\n\nHere's question you won't have an answer for: If you jeebus was such a troublemaker in the land of Palestine, why do the Roman's written records of their occupation make no mention of such a person nor do the dozens of writers from that time, whose words we still have today (eg. Pliny the Elder), not make any mention of such a person?\n\nNobody talked about "jeebus" because "jeebus" wasn't there.  No such person ever existed.
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My favorite is Earth Bending, but then again, I do study Hung Gar.\n\nInterestingly enough, each nation represents a different Chinese martial art: Air - Xing Yi (pronounced "Sheeng Yee"), Water - Tai Chi Chuan, Fire - Northern Shaolin, and again, Earth - Hung Gar. Toph, though, does southern Mantis.
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None official that I know of, though in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese the name translates as "star of the king of the dead". Also, in Korean, it is named "Yama" after the guardian of hell in Budhism and Hinduism.
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ancient chinese secret