Transforming the CLR to numerical applications, and the nullspace that results.

Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Salvia - a drug to help with understanding projective geometry?

I've been working hard to get a good grasp on projective geometry - reading as much as I can on books.google.com as well as purchasing what appears to be a key exposition for beginners - The Geometry of Incidence by Harold L. Dorwart.

However, it is quite a bit of work to get the brain to accept projective space. Understanding linear projection of vectors via the dot product was hard... projective geometry is a new level of hard.

There seems to be hope, though... a drug called Salvia which is becoming quite the buzz (no pun intended).

From a Slate article:

"Generally, smoked salvia effects come on quickly, peak for 5-20 minutes, and then begin to subside," the FAQ notes. Users report visions; feelings of fright; loss of physical coordination; uncontrollable laughter; confusion; feelings of being underground, or underwater, or flying, or floating; experiences of "non-Euclidean" spaces; and more, according to Erowid.

Experiences of non-Euclidian spaces? Like, perhaps "projective spaces"? Just what I've been searching for! Need to check if it is legal in my state...