ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Orthonormal frame bundle

Okay kiddo, imagine you're in a big room with lots of toys. Every toy has a different shape and size, right? Just like how every point in space has its own shape and direction.

But imagine if instead of playing with just one toy, you could play with a whole bunch of toys at once, all stacked on top of each other. That's kind of what an orthonormal frame bundle is like.

An orthonormal frame bundle is like a big stack of toys that mathematicians use to help them understand the shapes and directions of things in space. It's made up of a bunch of little toy-bundles, one for each point in space.

Each little toy-bundle is called a "frame," and it's made up of a bunch of arrows that show the direction and shape of space at that point. Just like how a toy made up of lots of different shapes and sizes can help you understand how those shapes relate to each other, a frame helps mathematicians understand how different directions and shapes relate to each other in space.

The cool thing about an orthonormal frame bundle is that all the arrows in each little frame point in different directions, but they're also all the same length. This makes them "orthonormal," which means they're all perpendicular to each other and they all have the same length.

This helps mathematicians make sense of shapes and directions in space, just like playing with lots of different toys can help you understand how different shapes and sizes relate to each other.