..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

[Bled Welder]

Step in too--we're all arythmic here.
I enjoy expositoriying, and thank you for not doing so.  I knew what I was doing, or diddI, tickling a number of people who admire Pynchon about space.
Regarding your b): what else.  So the artist is a Don Quixote lunatic.  What is it then?
I'm down with space being a feeling of where one is, I'll agree with it, for lack of anything better.  It's idiotic, but I'm down with it....

> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:09:37 -0500
> Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space
> From: michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> what I would like to do is a nice natural-language exposition but
> frankly I'm not up to it.
> 
> There was a fellow named Monty who used to show up here once in awhile
> who surely could, and I bet Dave Monroe could if he wanted to.
> 
> I can tell you what your question makes me think:
> a) projective geometry (which figures in Pynchon, of course, with the
> eigenvalues) - when you look at a diagram of 3-dimensional space the
> diagram is flat, but if it's cunningly wrought it gives a sense of
> depth.
> 
> b) when you look at a diagram of the bowling balls on the plastic
> sheets representing gravitation, that artist has abandoned the quest
> for that particular illusion in favor of showing an illusion of the
> gravitational effect on a space which is represented as a plane
> although it really has at least one more dimension than that!
> 
> c) and of course the diagram is limited in size whereas space itself,
> as Douglas Adams said, is actually really really big
> 
> d) the other part of your question, about the orbits and all, is
> something I too wish I had a feel for.  I think it would be a matter
> of doing the chapter questions in a good astronomy text and preferably
> also talking extensively (and by talking, I mean listening) w/somebody
> who knows it really well...
> like, right now, I have a pretty good feel for where I am in local
> space, but almost none for my position and velocity in a larger cosmic
> framework...
> 
> 
> Bled Welder wrote:
> > I suppose I could go onto a science-l whatever, but that sounds like a
> > hassle and you people seem to might be able to answer this question that
> > bugs me: okay getting beyond the thing that Einstein was wrong, it'll be
> > happening any day now, what is space?
> >
> > More specifickly, whenever I see examples of it, space is on a flat plane,
> > then objects do their little push into the "fabric" of it --and case!
> > everything is on the same frikkin plane.
> >
> > Is everything on the same frikkin plane, indenting?  I don't even know if
> > the Moon circles on the same plane as Earth does the sun.  Are all planets
> > in the same orbital format?  You know what I mean here?      b
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