Webb Traverse

[Dave Monroe]

--- bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> At 6:18 AM -0700 4/22/07, Dave Monroe wrote:
> >--- Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > ... an intentional red herring.
> >
> > Every time someone says something like this
> > here, I gotta ask, why?  For what reason?  To
> > what effect? ...
>  
> "Because of Einstein, we often call time the fourth
> dimension...." - 
> <http://www.jimloy.com/physics/4d.htm>

>From Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Fourth Dimension
and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton UP, 1983), Ch. 1, "Nineteenth-Century
Background," pp. 3-43 ...

    In the end, the definition of the fourth dimension
as time was actually to displace popular interest in
higher places.  Following its use by H.G. Wells in his
science fiction tale of 1895, The Time Machine, a
temporal fourth dimension became part of the science
"fact" of Minkowski's space-time continuum for
Einstein's Theory of relativity in 1908.  However, in
the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
literature on the fourth dimension, time was always
the less important of the two interpretations of the
fourth dimension. (p. 9)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0704&msg=117253

> Instead of ignoring the anachronisms ...

Down the line, I'll ask, why distrust, say, Ryder
Thorn, whn he's right about Ypres et al. (pp. 553-5). 
Always with the problem of sorting with Pynchon ...



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