more space lost and found

[Ian Livingston]

> Maybe the whole way of thinking is a subset of real estate speculation. The obsession with  mapping and owning a fixed region of space. Of parceling wealth and power in units.   Location location location.

Nah, nah, nah. Timing is everything. Today's wrinkle is tomorrow's void.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2012, at 1:50 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> surface.
>>
>> However, I can't reach in my desk drawer and pull out something that
>> non-verbally reminds me of 5-space.  As far as I know, anyway...
>>
>>
>> Now in the abstract sense, I think it's fairly true to say that you
>> could define a 5-space such as "Pynchon's merits" - so that humor,
>> historical references, intricate plotting, pleasing sentences and
>> mathematical references could constitute the 5 dimensions, and
>> particular passages could be characterized by a location within that
>> co-ordinate system.
>>
>> Also pretty sure that effort wouldn't win any math prizes - but
>> technically it would be a 5 dimensional space, wouldn't it?
>
> I'd go with it being a 5D matrix, but would it be a 5D space? The more I think about the whole Idea of 3D space the more I question the number as an arbitrary product of the euclidean grid. That grid concerns itself only with location. But what are the points it locates other than theoretical points and planes in theoretical space. In reality The "fixed points" by which we may actually measure are wrinkles in space/time which are moving in relation to other wrinkles in space/time. The pure  grid  isolates space from time and from the  attractive and repulsive forces that distort space and make up its real properties. It's close enough for government work, its very useful technologically.
>
> Maybe the whole way of thinking is a subset of real estate speculation. The obsession with  mapping and owning a fixed region of space. Of parceling wealth and power in units.   Location location location.



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant