Even more advanced spacetime
technology shown in English fields
Five wormhole-type crop pictures have
appeared so far in 2006: Avebury Trusloe, Savernake Forest, New Barn,
Old Hayward, and Blowingstone.
The first two, Avebury Trusloe (or
Savernake Forest), showed two (or four) ordinary wormholes which had
been placed into a special arrangement known as the "Roman ring" (named
after Tom Roman, an American cosmologist). That particular
arrangement is theoretically supposed to allow wormholes to be used for
time travel.
Yet wormholes come in several
different categories! An ordinary wormhole might have the symmetry of a
sphere; whereas a slightly more complex version might have the
symmetry of a Torus or doughnut; and yet another more
complex version might have the symmetry of a Klein bottle.
The third crop picture to appear, New
Barn, seems to represent one of the second category: it is called a
"ring hole", and has the symmetry of a Torus or doughnut.
Figure
1: Schematic picture of a "ringhole"
Figure 2: Comparison with "New
Barn"
The fourth picture at Old Hayward
showed two curved yet distant regions of spacetime, being connected
by two singularites, so as to form an ordinary spherical wormhole.
Finally, the
fifth crop picture at Blowingstone does not show any "rings" to
indicate category; but it does show the highly curved or "pointed"
structure of spacetime, through which a ringhole may act
theoretically as a time-travel device (Pedro Gonzalez-Diaz ,
Physical Review D68, 084016, 2003).
Figure
3: A ringhole may be used to travel between two distant regions of
highly curved or "pointed" spacetime.
Figure 4:
Comparison with "Blowingstone"
These two schematic figures come
from a respected journal Physical Review, where Gonzalez-Diaz
writes: "It is speculated that a ring hole could be converted into a time
machine."
A
"diagonal checkerboard" patterning of crops was seen at both at
Blowingstone and Old Hayward. Evidently the crop artists wish us to
understand that they deal with similar themes.
By drawing Blowingstone, the crop
artists seem to be telling us that spacetime is not always "flat":
sometimes it may be highly "pointed" or curved, thereby offering the
opportunity for clever wormhole-technologists to travel across vast
expanses of space or time, without having to worry about a locally finite
speed of light c. |
