In my last post, Entangled Rotating Branes, I showed an animated model for the rotating motion of entangled helices of branes (toroidal arrays of elementary particles of energy). With the settings that I chose, the shape looked aesthetically pleasing, but somehow impossible. In today’s post I take the same model but adjust settings to illustrate more realistic motion of the particles. The main problem with the previous illustration was that I chose the dimensions for the m

In my last post “The Donut-Brane Particle” I presented a teaser version of a particle a particle comprising of branes. In the post I showed a rather complicated helical torus model of several particles both vibrating, but primarily rotating around two axes, forming a closed loop of moving particles. But I said in the post that it wasn’t the true model. In the true model I would need to present the interactions that would cause this rotational motion. As I was writing the po

I’m presenting a teaser in today’s post. The teaser is a simplified (lie-to-children) version of a brane. I already know what the correct model should be and I know I can make it eventually in Blender, but because I anticipate the building of the proper model to be laborious, I’ll present the simple model first. But before we dive deeper into the brane model, I’ll take you back over four and a half years to my realization that there is an elementary particle of energy and t

In today’s post I confess that the theory that I built upon a circular vibrating sine wave came crashing down, when I tried to formalize it. While the theory looked elegant it suffered from a fatal flaw: the back-and-forth motion required by the theory would soon result in the spherical particles of energy flying everywhere. But the core idea was still good. However, to resolve this problem, I encountered the phenomenon of liquid energy. The Vibrating Light model assumes th

In my last post I presented the circular sine-wave model of light and mentioned the wave-particle duality, but in the accompanying animation, my vibrating circular sine-wave was still a single element. However, to properly illustrate this, I knew I needed to actually illustrate the circular sine-wave model of non-connected particles of energy. So, this is that post. First of all, I think I need to clarify what I mean when I say particles of energy are not connected. There i

I’ve been talking about the nature of light in several of my previous posts, such as in The Definitive Particle-Wave. And I’ve had a bunch of ideas on the exact nature of light. While I’m pretty much 100 % certain it consists of elementary particles of energy, its actual shape in motion and its specific motion have eluded me. Whenever I’ve thought I’ve had an epiphany on it, on later inspection I’ve realized some serious flaws. But today’s post might be different. I might jus

In my last post I talked about the nature of solids and liquids and how these two phases are expressed in very concrete ways as vibrations in solid lignin spheres and rotations in liquid crystal lignin spheres. In the post I talked about the theory following the concept of rotation and vibration. But I forgot to mention that both of these are fundamental concepts of molecular motion. There is indeed a field called Rotational–vibrational spectroscopy, as are just Rotational sp

I’ve been working on very tangible models of both solid spherical crystals of lignin nanotubules, as well as spherical liquid crystals of the same lignin nanotubules, when suspended in a suitable reagent. My latest animation of the coupled rotation of “A Liquid Crystal Sphere” depicts quantum pressure in action, where the motion on the surface of a spherical object is transferred through the whole volume of the object. While I’ve talked about the differences between solids an

In my previous post I presented the general model of cylindrical crystals rotating within a confined lattice. However, without prior knowledge of what I’ve been working on, the model doesn’t really convey too well how this rotation looks like in a crystallite. So, in today’s post I take the model I used in the “Collapsing a Cylinder-Sphere” and “The Trypolite Crystal” posts and make the cylinders rotate. The major practical difference is that the models in my previous posts

I started my blog a bit over four years ago with a post “And Yet it Rotates”. In it I described my first guess at a supramolecular orbital, or a very complex trajectory for the confined closed-loop motion of molecules. While I still definitely believe that molecules mostly move in more-or-less closed-loop orbitals, even when gaseous or liquid, the model that I presented probably isn’t the correct one. Or if it is correct sometimes, it probably doesn’t describe the most common

In my last post, “The Rhombus Twist”, I presented the topological model of forming bent, twisted, seam between two cylindrical segments, where both have been compressed to rounded rhombuses, both where one of the rhombuses has been twisted clockwise and the other one counterclockwise. However, in the post I confessed that while the model was topologically correct, it didn’t quite match the electron microscope image that was the reason why I felt compelled to make such a model

In today’s post I’m finally presenting quite a literal twist to the trypolite crystal. Actually, at first I was planning on just presenting a visualization of the seam in the dodecagonal pyramidal stack, but as I was writing the post, I realized I could do something even better. But before that, let´s recap. In “The Dodecagon Pyramid Stack of Cylinders” post I presented the model for the formation of pyramidal stack of rotating cylinder, that would eventually collapse into de

In my last post “Collapsing a Cylinder-Sphere” I presented a model by which close-packed clusters rotating cylinders collapse into cylindrical crystallites and showed in a simple illustration how these cylindrical crystallites can be compressed into rounded rhombuses. However, for the illustration of a spherical crystallite, I only applied the second-to-last step of collapsed cylinders and left the rhombuses out. The reason for this was that making the rhombus model would be

In today’s post I collapse my lignin cylinders. In my previous post I had presented the uncollapsed model of cylinder stacking into a dodecagon (quasi-hexagon) pyramid. In this model I took an array of close-packed spheres, with a cylinder inside each sphere and showed their alignment once crystallized, but before the actual crystallization. In this model the radius of the cylinder is exactly √0.5, or ca. 0.707 the radius of its rotational sphere. And equally, the length of t

I’ve been working on the problem of crystallizing rotating cylinders into Waterman polyhedra for ages. To some extent I’ve been doing it for over six years, ever since I got the initial idea of the crystal structure of Lignin spheres. However, for some reason I never got round to properly illustrating the shape as a 3D model until two months ago. One of the big problems I had was that I had done a rough illustration of the crystallization model three years ago, which I includ

In my last post I presented the tricolor model of Waterman polyhedra that allowed me to visualize individual planes in this shape much easier than before. Of course, after making the model with spheres, I set about applying it to a Waterman-Lintinen polyhedron made of cylinders, very much like what I had done decently well with two colors. But once I had converted most of the spheres into cylinders, I began looking at the shape with more skeptical eyes than before. The reaso

This past week I’ve been slowly polishing the visual representations of my theory, and in the process I was learning a bit more about how the structure is grown. I had already illustrated the shape in my post “The Perfect Cylinder-Sphere”, but I thought I could make the shape ‘pop out’ more. In the post “The Waterman-Lintinen Cylinder Crystal” I showed the inner structure of the crystal. However, I wasn’t fully happy with the way the coloring expressed the crystal layer. That

Note: I posted a version of this post earlier today, but because I wasn’t happy with how the 3D model looked, I rewrote the text a bit and made a recolored model. In my last post I showed how to cut a cubic array of spheres into quasi-cylindrical zig-zag crystal. At the end of the post, I talked about how the shape can be multiplied into six copies that can be rotated to fill a circular volume with no gaps or overlaps. But it’s one thing to talk about something and another

In my last post I presented The Perfect Cylinder-Sphere, or a way to crystallize cylinders into a sphere. However, in the post I only presented the crust of such a crystal and led the reader imagine how the crystal structure continues to the core of the sphere. However, even when posting the model, I knew most people would be able to imagine the internal crystal structure. The biggest reason for knowing this is that despite knowing the structure of the crust, I couldn’t prope

It’s been nearly two weeks since my last post on The LignoSphere Cylinder Crystal, where I presented the mathematically accurate way to crystallize cylinders into quasi-spheres. Ever since then I’ve attempted to improve the theory, so that I can more closely describe the electron microscopy images that have guided me in working on the theory in the first place. One of the biggest needs for improvement has been how to make the model to produce more spherical crystallites. And