Chocolate Grinder
1913, oil on canvas		 Chocolate Grinder #2
1914 Mixed media, oil on canvas

The Chocolate Grinder, an element of the Large Glass

In a state of flux. This page will use only elements describing the Chocolate Grinder found on the internet. A cut and paste page. Links throughout with be determined by association chosen though search engines. Enjoy!
From Tony Smiths Site:

The spacetime of the lightcones and the fermions and scalar are connected to the chocolate grinder.

The chocolate grinder receives octonionic structure from the water wheel.

Mitchell Whitelaw has a musical composition (in Macintosh Finale format) based on the chocolate grinder on his home page.

The chassis of the chocolate grinder represents the 28 infinitesimal generator gauge bosons of the adjoint representation of Spin(8).

The 3 rollers of the chocolate grinder represent the 8-dimensional spacetime (blue dot), the 8 (first generation) fermion particles (red dot), and the 8 (first generation) fermion antiparticles (green dot).

The necktie of the chocolate grinder represents the scalar particle.

Together, the chassis and 3 rollers of the chocolate grinder form the Dynkin diagram of Spin(8):

The chocolate grinder and the hypercube are connected to a pair of scissors, which cut off 4 of the 8 dimensions of spacetime, leaving a quaternionic 4-dimensional spacetime with basis (1,i,j,k) and lightcones:

(i,j), (j,k), (k,i)

This week we look at history, in particular the reign of Louis XIV of France. Although he is most famous for his design of the chassis for Duchamp's Chocolate Grinder, it is much less known that he is responsible for the invention of the cookie, especially remarkable given that the French don't have a single decent word meaning "cookie". His brownies were also quite celibrated, nearly as much as Marie-Antoinette's famous cakes.
[Download Bachelor QuickTime Movie]which featured the chocolate grinder in motion.
Other Elements of "Deconstructing Duchamp " :

Deconstructing Duchamp Home Page
Dew Harrison's Announcement and description of the project
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  • Water Mill
  • Nine Shots
  • Region of the Wilson-Lincoln Effect
  • Sieves
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