Theory of the Mobius

There is the theory of the Mobius, a places in the space of time and space, a place where time becomes a loop.

On a completely tangent topic, did you know that:

1.  The triangly-loopy-logo for recycling symbol is actually called the mobius?

2. You can build your own mobius using a strip of paper and a piece of tape?  Simply turn the strip 180 degrees at some point and tape the edges together?

3. It is the only three dimensional shape that I can think of with only one boundary?  Don’t believe me?  Draw a line down that strip on #3 after you’ve constructed it.  Darn that line doesn’t ever meet itself! Evil mobius!

4.  Mobius shapes do not roll very well.

5.  It’s describes modern American Economic Policy?

Yeah, the government is constantly taking big sums of paper bills, half twisting them from a useful purpose, and taping them together to form yet-another-mobius (aka bailout).  Huzzah for the mobius, the most awesome shape without end that will never reach it’s goal that doesn’t even half-roll decently.

Which begs the question.  If you drop a rubber band is it mathmatically possible to spontaneously go from a multiboundary surface to a single boundary surface?
And, does the world care.  Probably not.

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