Three Klein Bottles Inside (Outside?) One Another

By Alex in Art, Pictures on Sep 1, 2008 at 2:51 pm

What’s more awesome than a Klein bottle? Why, three Klein bottles inside (outside?) one another! Here’s the glass sculpture by Alan Bennett for the Science Museum in London:

It consists of three Klein bottles, one inside another. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions. In the series Alan Bennett made Klein bottles analogous to Mobius strips with odd numbers of twists greater than one.

Link – via Mad Rabbit, Dead Hare


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  1. Jerse
    Sep 1st, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    hmm – that definitely has some insides and outsides…

  2. Christophe
    Sep 1st, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    superb craftmanship

  3. Evil Pundit
    Sep 1st, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    I’m beside myself with delight!

  4. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    Sep 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    I see more than three. But maybe that’s the point…?

  5. Johnny Cat
    Sep 1st, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    o_O

    My synapses asploded.

  6. HenningKO
    Sep 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 am

    I want a video where they pour grape juice in the top. Why would you build this and not do that?

  7. brittney08
    Sep 2nd, 2008 at 3:41 am

    hello – Nice Image

  8. Brian Lutz
    Sep 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    I didn’t know there were cheat codes in glassblowing…

  9. Peer Lawther
    Sep 3rd, 2008 at 3:40 am

    Hi all – a link to the original photo on the Science Museum website:
    http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/mathematics/1996-545.aspx


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