Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Wormholes

If a section were to be cut across the 'rhizomic forms' in the previous sketch, this would be how the spaces are:

The chambers find themselves underground and emergent, and are connected to one another via what I term "wormholes".

These connections can also be thought of as the food/water suppliants or channels from rhizome to rhizome, in the previous post. The wormholes/channels act as transporters of people from each chamber to the next, and in the process, enables them to transcend from one media space to another.
"In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that is essentially a 'shortcut' through space and time. A wormhole has at least two mouths which are connected to a single throat. If the wormhole is traversable, matter can 'travel' from one mouth to the other by passing through the throat.

While there is no observational evidence for wormholes, spacetimes containing wormholes are known to be valid solutions in general relativity."
(excerpted from Wikipedia)


(Above two images taken from Wikipedia)

The whole notion of travelling from one chamber to another, and emerging in a different "mediascape", appeals to me on more than one level. Infrastructurally, it could be a set-up for several things - an exposition, a labyrinth, or simply an interactive park as has been described so far.

The entire organisation of the chambers would be systematised. An early idea is to map over relationships between different categories of information onto the physical spaces, as per "tagging" on an on-line forum or on Youtube. Thus, each chamber would begin to display categorically-specific media. The wormholes, so to speak, could form the basis of "common relationships" between these categorical information tags.

(Far from transporting them in hyperbolic fashion, though, the park-goers have to walk through the wormholes themselves.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i belive, that there is a distinct relationship between the 4th dimension, and spacetime manipulating. in theory, the wormhole expiriment, if conducted, would have to be built, on seperate dimensions. for example, earth and moon. distinct time difference, so in theory, if a wormhole were to exist between earth and the moon, as such a stargate, you would enter at earth time, exit on moon at time was designated in relationship to the moon's time at that exact time of entry on earth. right?