Domain walls ...
"A domain wall is a type of topological soliton that occurs whenever a discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken. Domain walls are also sometimes called kinks in analogy with closely related kink solution of the sine-Gordon model or models with polynomial potentials.[1][2][3] Unstable domain walls can also appear if spontaneously broken discrete symmetry is approximate and there is a false vacuum.A domain (hyper volume) is extended in three spatial dimensions and one time dimension. A domain wall is the boundary between two neighboring domains. Thus a domain wall is extended in two spatial dimensions and one time dimension.
Important examples are:
- Domain wall (magnetism), an interface separating magnetic domains
- Domain wall (optics), for domain walls in optics
- Domain wall (string theory), a theoretical 2-dimensional singularity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_wall
conceptual spaces threshold concepts [#h2cm as] relational ontology | magnetism optics string theory |
a space to tell stories of and compare walls seek openings so many spaces of / to welcome | these walls: are they necessary? whose needs do they meet? we know walls listen and talk too who do they protect? who do the respect? |
Among the domain walls
are those that bring us together,
those that bring us - 'I' into being,
and yes, those that [try to] take us apart.
Inspiration:
Leslie Rosenberg, THE COSMOS IS MOSTLY MADE OF SOMETHING WE CANNOT SEE, Scientific American, January 2018, Volume 318, Number 1. pp.48-53.