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Saturday, December 17, 2022

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


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SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 
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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.

Axioms, Domain Walls, and the Early Universe, P. Sikivie in Physical Review Letters, Volume 48. No. 17, pp.1156-1159; April 26, 1982.