From: Archimedes Plutonium on
Alright, I have to retrench somewhat here. Looking at Mathworld's
pseudosphere and funnel
equations, that the contact nested inside is a line contact and not
area.

So I have to retrench the model and operation. What I do is cut the
sphere into half
and then cut a hole into what used to be the poles and slide the two
hemispheres
down the two spines of the pseudosphere and as I slide it down I keep
an eye out
as to when I reach a maximum surface area contact between the sphere
and
pseudosphere.

This revised model operation reminds me of bicycle axles and the race
cup and the
bearings in the race cups. So that the bearings freely move around
inside the race
and that race is like a pseudosphere. But in that bicycle analogy, the
bearings want
as little of surface contact as possible. Here I want the opposite of
the maximum
surface area contact.

If my hunch is correct it will have a maximum surface area contact of
18 degrees
arc on both hemispheres adding up to a total of 36 degrees arc.

I think I am getting closer and closer to the perfect model that
easily explains and proves
the final answer.

Another way of finding the final answer is to manipulate the equations
and see where intersections of the sphere with pseudosphere occur. I
am not expert on those equations
and leave it to those who are very much everday familar with those
equations.

So is the final answer of a Pseudosphere of radius 1 unit with Sphere
of radius 1 unit,
of the maximum surface area contact that of 10% of the sphere surface?


Archimedes Plutonium
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