A fourth world for Roger Penrose’s diagram

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Posted on 3rd July 2009 by Judy Breck in Networks

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The image posted here is my modification of a drawing from Roger Penrose’s marvelous best selling book The Road to Reality. I have added the dark circle on the upper right, which is a miniature of the depiction of Internet clustering that is illustrated by the new Los Alamos Map of Science.

Surely we can say that the Internet is a new world “out there” in cyberspace. We know that it is a network. It seems to form a natural mirror of more tangible worlds, especially when we let it form in an open way obeying its own network laws.

I think the image with this new fourth world has strong merit. It certainly is interesting to think about.