AtD, p 842 radial lines and apocalyptic wheels

[Mark Kohut]

Ian,
   
  Seems not by precise mathematical definitions....a point has no dimensions; a plane has two so the point cannot have any planes through it....
   
  But, I get it, maybe, in one visual way, elaborate?
   
  MK
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  In geometry, topology and related branches of mathematics a spatial point is used to describe a specific point within a given space. It is characterized by the fact that it has no volume, area, length, nor any other higher dimensional analogue; as a direct result of this, a point is a 0-dimensional object.
   
  In mathematics, a plane is a two-dimensional manifold or surface that is perfectly flat. Informally it can be thought of as an infinitely vast and infinitely thin sheet oriented in some space. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane (mathematics)

Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at yahoo.ca> wrote: 
          I'm no geometer so someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a point intersected by an infinite number of planes?

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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:24:47 PM
Subject: AtD, p 842 radial lines and apocalyptic wheels

  p. 842..lines passing radially one by one...singled up.....like the lines
at the slaughter-house to "the killing floor"....Aren't radial lines in the opening of GR?
"apocalyptic wheel' had begun to turn.....see Wheel(s) in Pynchon...GR....
mandala (on GR wiki).......Wheel of Life......
   
  p. 842 'notional railway".....Aerenthal.......see http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/boshtml/bos132.htm

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