..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

[Joseph Tracy]

On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Richard Fiero wrote:

> Mathematics is a language. A piece of paper is a piece of paper. A picture on paper can be used as a thought aid. A point is 2-space can be represented as (a,b). A point in 5-space can be represented as (a,b,c,d,e). What is the big deal? 
The deal for me is that I have a perceptual and conceptual experience for a,b,c,d but not for e. What is your e? Is temperature a dimension?  Is color? How do you decide if a scalar phenomenon represents a dimension or not?  
And time is different from space because there is no evidence that anything can move back in time except the grasp of memory. Is that real movement or something else? Also  time and space are linked. You can't move in either without moving in both. If you move forward and back in space when you arrive back where you were you are occupying different time coordinates and you are older. Is it the same place, the same you? 

What I am saying here is just that the real trumps the mathematical model, That the coordinate system of thought , for example, has qualities that don't accord with actual space-time qualities as they can be experienced and experimentally tested.