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Comprehensive Universe:
"The difference between the comprehensive Universe, which combines both the metaphysical and physical Universe, and the local, conceptual, physical system which we never experience and consider, is just one tetrahedron or one unity-of-twoness.
"This is to say that the difference between the finite physical Universe of energy with which physics deals and the total Universe which also includes all metaphysical phenomena-- which we used to call infinity-- is just one tetrahedron.
"The metaphysical Universe is also finite. It is just one tetrahedron more than the physical Universe.
"What man used to call infinite, I call finite; what man used to call finite, I call definite; i.e., definable-- conceptually definable. The differences are all finitely and rationally calculatable.
“The physical Universe, as we have seen, is entirely characterized by entropy-- an ever-increasing randomness, an ever-increasing diffusion as all the different and nonsimultaneous transformations and reorientations occur.”
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech, pp.86-87, Jun’66
