¶ Calculus (1)
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Calculus:
“To implement the invention of the calculus, man has used the XYZ coordinate system formalized by Descartes out of the Greeks’ 90-degree symmetrical ‘crosstree’ of three supposedly straight and supposedly continuous ‘infinite lines.’ We have learned to reason only in terms of these experimentally demonstrated fallacial suppositions and only in three dimensions: of width (X), breadth (Y), and depth (Z). But width, depth, and breadth do not include consideration of how hot a local structural event may be, not how long it has been there, nor how much it weighs. There are a lot of other aspects of Nature which the ghostly Greek kind of geometry did not accommodate, as for instance, the experimental information that two actions cannot take place through the same point at the same time-- i.e., two lines cannot run simultaneously through the same point. In the Greeks’ three-dimensional conceptions, 90-degree perpendicularity and nonparallelism to a plane already established, were essential to qualification as a new dimension. Thus in the development of the XYZ coordinate system, we have found only three unique 90-degree line convergences in a common ‘point.’ All our analytical geometry, and the technically difficult structures we build with it, are translated through the XYZ coordinate system.”
