Conservative Party Topography
- it has only one edge
- it has only one side
- left and right are meaningless when describing its properties
- it is a two-dimensional object existing in three dimensions
- if you travel along it you reverse your orientation when you arrive at the place you started
- if you stitch two of them together edge to edge, you end up with a Klein bottle. Interestingly, you cannot unite two Mobius strips into a Klein bottle properly in three dimensions.
- Furthermore, a Klein bottle paradoxically has no volume, and neither has it any boundaries, nor any inside or outside. In three dimensions, it has a hole, but in the fourth, the hole vanishes.
- Klein bottles (and Moebius loops) are also beloved of topographically-minded knitters. I have no idea why. Google "Moebius strips knitting" and you'll see what I mean.
And who says graphic designers don't have a sense of humour?
1 Comments:
Of course the key difference is that the Moebius strip has only one edge, whereas the CPoC has no edge at all.
-Balbulican
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