Welcome to my home page. If you're interested in strange topics such as four dimensional shapes and ridiculously large numbers, then you come to the right place. Last updated February 8, 2009.
2009 February 8 - Polyteron site is here!!!, also new content on polychoron site. Updated worlds page - 2003 EL 61 was finally named too - Haumea.
2008 August 23 - New content at the polychoron site, also added content to this page, as well as updated worlds of the solar system page - 2005 FY 9 is finally named - Makemake!
2008 July 3 - Added Welcome to the Fourth Dimension and Forever Endeavor stories as well as some crazy cartoons from my Another Reality series.
2008 March - Updated array notation and infinity scrapers pages, defined meameamealokkapoowa oompa.
2007 December - Updated and fixed a link to the Existance of God page.
Personal Info
Name: Jonathan Bowers, AKA Hedrondude or Jabe.
Location: Tyler, Texas, USA.
E-mail: hedrondude at suddenlink dot net
Birth: Nov. 27, 1969 Tyler, TX.
Occupation: Mathematics Guru specializing in multidimensional shapes and gigantic numbers.
Interests and Hobbies: Element collecting (now up to 82), planets/worlds, polytopes (have discovered and given short names to thousands of these), drawing cartoons (usually with a Far-Side / Bizarro style humor - newly added to this site), comical skits (my family has been involved in making some humorous skits starring some strange colorful characters, such as Jabe, Texas Bob, and Tribalman, e-mail me if interested), video games (hope to one day design some games, thought up some really cool (and strange) game ideas), uber-numbers (we're talking numbers so huge that "giant", "super", and "catastrophic" do them no justice, we would need new words like "gongulacious" or "kungulacious"), making up strange words and phrases (you may have seen many of these on my site already, like gongulus and gaquatid), fruits (its amazing how many different types of fruits there are, most of which are nearly unheard of in the States, like jabotacaba, grumichama, or ilama), Heaven (which is sometimes portrayed as mild and ghostly vague - I suspect the very opposite is true - exciting and full of crispy sharp details and may include access to higher dimensional places), computer graphics (primarily of 4 and 5 dimensional shapes), building polyhedra, reading, and riding roller coasters.
Pic: Below is a picture of myself. To the right is a picture of a cross section of a four dimensional face.
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Here's a list of my various pages.
Polychoron Web Site - NEW Content! Feb. 2009 This is one of my most popular sites, it has been renewed and is filled with new pics. This site deals with uniform polychora and will have links to my other geometric sites such as polytwisters, I will soon add much more content, including powertopes.
Polyteron Web Site - NEW - Feb. 2009 This site parallels my polychoron site - but this time its going 5-D.
Polytwisters - Last updated Aug. 2007 This page describes the strange swirling 4-D objects that are related to polyhedra in the same way a circle is to a line segment. Polytwisters don't have vertices, they have equaters that swirl around each other. Their sides aren't flat, but are cylindrical. If one was placed on a 4-D table it would roll, no matter how you placed it. So in a way, these are rollable twisted "polyhedra" in four dimensions.
Huge Numbers and Array Notation Web Site - Coming Soon - Due to the popularity of my Infinity Scrapers and Exploding Array Function pages, I'll be creating a main hub page with many new pages detailing these giant numbers and the exploding array function to make it easier to follow through.
Exploding Array Function - Last updated March 2008 This page deals with my Array Notation which I now call the Exploding Array Function - this is a function that generates some of the largest finite numbers known. Compare the old version which has 5 rules for only the simplest arrays with the newer version which has only 3 rules for any kind of array.
Infinity Scrapers - Last updated March 2008 This page will introduce some extremely outrageous sized numbers that make googolplex look pathetic, I've added many new number names, some of the numbers have been redefined. This page will introduce numbers such as tetratri, gongulus, kungulus, the big boowa, and for the first time - the big hoss and meameamealokkapoowa.
Illion Numbers - Here's an extended list of numbers with the -illion suffix, this list goes past a googoltriplex. Some names have been modified, also there are some new illion numbers here.
Chemical Elements - Coming Soon What are the elements really like, I'll describe them from an element collector's point of view, expect some humorous comments, ex. (holmium could be described as "petrified lead", and scandium could be described as "darth aluminum"
Worlds of the Solar System - New update! Aug. 2008 This page describes all of the known worlds (planet-like objects) in our solar system (planets, large moons, dwarf planets). I'll be adding some much needed pics soon.
Existence of God - Last updated Dec. 2007 Ever asked that question "How did God get here?, or "Why does He exist?", or "is there a logical reason to believe He exists?", this page may reveal that answer.
Thoughts of Heaven - Coming Soon This page will attempt to uncover what the real Heaven is like, and expose the boring stereotypes as false. If you expect this page to be warm and fuzzy - beware - it will be cutting edge and full of adrenaline and wonder!
Another Reality - Added July 3, 2008 Wanna see my goofy side, take a look at these off the wall cartoons I drew during the 90's and up to the present.
Welcome to the Fourth Dimension - Added July 3, 2008 Some time ago I started to write a story about a man who stumbled into a four dimensional world - Here are the first two chapters.
Forever Endeavor - Added July 3, 2008 I also started writing another story about a man named Mr. Bentley who found an opportunity to earn a million dollars. All he needs to do is build ten counters, he must stay there until the job is complete. After starting this job to make the counters with a mysterious co-worker named "Compadre" who never speaks, but has a frightening stare, he found out that it would take MUCH longer than he could ever imagine.
Crazy Fruits - Coming Soon Back in 1994, I started to research exotic fruits, during this time I drew several made-up fruits for fun, all having cool or crazy names like spinakerfruit, frogfruit, vemaplacina, and quosapina - I'll have these drawings with descriptions here. - Note, the fruit on this page don't exist, they're here for fun.
Characters - Coming Soon Here I'll introduce some of the many characters that I've come up with over the years - such as Jabe, Frisky, Pathetisaur, Kamone Punk, and Dorky Duke.