Calabi-Yau Writing Fiction Question

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Hi, this is my first post, so if it's in the wrong place please let me know. I'm writing a bit of fiction, more fantasy than science fiction, but I don't want to immediately offend the sensibilities of everybody who knows something about science. I really like the idea of a six dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold,and I was wondering if there's any restriction on the relative size of such a structure.

I don't understand the math of them but I have seen visual representations of them, and it looks as though their spaces between the folds, I'm not sure that's the right word. Could you had a situation in which you had a Calabi-Yau manifold made of space-time and obviously two other dimensions was able to house universes within the folds? I realize this is well outside of the range of physics as it exists today, but again I just want to remind you that this is supposed to be a work of pure fiction.

I kind of like the idea the Calabi-Yau manifold as a knot and worlds or universes existing in the gaps that exist, however small relatively speaking, that you'd find in any kind of knot or structure.

I have a few other writing questions but I'm not sure is the place to ask them, and I guessed that would be a good idea to ask one specific question first.this doesn't need to be hugely accurate, I just need to know this is a completely lunatic idea, inasmuch as maybe there are no spaces within the Calabi-Yau manifold, and it's just an artifact of the visualization.
 
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Misericorde said:
I don't understand the math of them but I have seen visual representations of them, and it looks as though their spaces between the folds, I'm not sure that's the right word.
No, I don't think those spaces between the folds mean anything. That's just an artifact of a particular method of representing the manifold visually.
 
bcrowell said:
No, I don't think those spaces between the folds mean anything. That's just an artifact of a particular method of representing the manifold visually.

Also remember that Calabi-Yau manifold is 6-dimensional and so the popular picture you see is just only a "2-dimensional representation" of it.
 
OK, I thought that might be the case, thanks for the fast answers!
 
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