Timeline for Are there examples of non-orientable manifolds in nature?
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| Feb 3, 2019 at 16:57 | comment | added | Jim Conant | This seems relevant: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/12260/… | |
| Feb 3, 2019 at 12:13 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @KConrad: Thanks for catching that. It was a poor photo anyway. Cannot find a replacement, but I posted an answer re conveyor belts. | |
| Feb 3, 2019 at 1:53 | comment | added | KConrad | @JosephO'Rourke your link above is broken. | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 1:05 | comment | added | Benoît Kloeckner | Well, this example is more about non co-orientability. If we were to leave in a non-orientable space, we might have orientable conveyer belts which would be one-sided. But of course, my remark is far-fetched. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 20:15 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Nov 12, 2010 at 19:45 | comment | added | Richard Stanley | There is a humorous short story based on this idea by W. H. Upson. See kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf636. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 16:23 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Here is a (poor) photo of B.F.Goodrich's Möbius conveyer belt: mathforum.org/mathimages/index.php/Image:Conveyor.jpg . | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 16:16 | comment | added | J. M. isn't a mathematician | People might be surprised at just how many patents there are that use the strip: google.com/patents?q=mobius+strip | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 15:51 | comment | added | Autumn Kent | Another practical application: the hammer loop on a pair of painter pants usually has a half twist in it. | |
| Nov 12, 2010 at 15:22 | history | answered | Jim Conant | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
