ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Frame bundle

Imagine you have a toy car that you can take apart and put back together in different ways. The car has a front part and a back part, and you can connect them by snapping them together.

Now imagine you have a big imaginary toy car that is very complicated and has lots of different parts. One of these parts is called the "frame," and it's like the skeleton or the backbone of the whole car. It helps to hold everything together and give the car its shape.

The frame bundle is kind of like a big imaginary box that holds all the different ways you can connect the different parts of the car to the frame. Each way of connecting the parts is called a "frame" or a "reference frame," and there can be lots of different ones depending on how you want to look at the car.

For example, you might have one frame where the front of the car is facing north and the back is facing south. Or you might have another frame where the front is facing east and the back is facing west. Each of these frames gives you a different way of looking at the car, but they all still connect to the same frame or backbone.

In math and physics, we use the idea of a frame bundle to help us understand complicated objects like space and time. We can imagine the frame as the backbone of space and time, and the different reference frames as ways of looking at space and time from different perspectives. The frame bundle helps us keep track of all these different ways of looking at things, so we can understand how everything fits together.