Comments on: Really Really Haute Couture

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sun, 21 May 2006 21:47:37 +0000

John Branch: In spite of the considerably tongue-in-cheek nature of my above comment, I - nevertheless - fully accept your kind thought: keep in mind, I’m far too fashionless to take fashion seriously.

Clifford: I’m sorry to have submerged you in my sea of “all at sea”.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 20 May 2006 22:33:49 +0000

LOL! After the things I’ve blogged about here, you’d think that was pointlessly silly? ! In fact, I’d already had my eye on it…. just had to do a 10 hour flight first. But thanks again for the reminder, as I’d forgotten…. I’m all at sea with regards your last paragraph, but there you go.

-cvj

By: John Branch

John Branch — Sat, 20 May 2006 15:59:53 +0000

After I emailed Clifford about that Times story, I worried that he’d think it was pointlessly silly. I’m glad he didn’t. There’s something…gleeful in this mingling of fashion and physics.

Now, if only we could work Lisa Randall into this (beyond whatever indirect connection she has to cynthia’s ideas, which are a delight of their own)…

By: serial catowner

serial catowner — Sat, 20 May 2006 12:24:31 +0000

I think I’ll stick with Xena, Girl of the 21st Century. Close enough, for all practical purposes.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:03:31 +0000

If one is to consider designing the latest gravitational gown, then one first must grasp the latest on gravity. Keep in mind, the mundane era of Newton has long faded away. Even the charismatic Einstein with his spacetime curvature is on the verge of exiting the fashion scene. It is time for designers to embrace extra dimensions beyond the ordinary 3 + 1 ! To set this new epoch of gravitation into motion, one must be required to imagine “the girl” as the brane and “the gown” as the cosmic interloper freely flowing to and fro in the bulk. In order to capture this Gia Dvali original, one must create the look of gravity oscillating between the brane and the bulk. However, one possible glitch might arise: during the designing process of approaching absolute zero gravity (unless the technical staff can find some quantum means to sequester gravity upon the brane), a total leakage of gravity into the bulk might transform a fully dressed brane into a naked brane. Therefore, for the sake of preventing absolute nudity, perhaps designers ought to return to the safetynet of Newton and Einstein.