¶ Dynamic Frame of Reference (1)
← Dynamic Equilibrium (2) | Dynamic Frame of Reference (2) →
Index Entry
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
"Education has now led us out and into a degree of meager awareness of Universe, somewhat as though we had been given spectators’ seats commanding an improved view of the game-f-games called ‘Universe.’ It is, however, not as though we had been given better seats in the same old static stadium, within which the sports of extension of personal facility are tried, but more as though we had been given seats in a relay of refueled airplanes to command a view of a new kind of ocean race, a continuous around-and-around-the-world race of relay teams of deep sea craft. Both the frame of reference and the observed are in obvious continual motion and persist as individually composite dynamic continuities, though the separate men (invisible but implicit) and planes and boats and their component parts and sub-parts progressively shuttle or drop out and are eventually substituted for by inconsequentially increasing or decreasing numbers.
“The whole dynamic assemblage of race and observer relays are invisible even to an observer at a 30,000-foot altitude, let alone to an observer on Mars, or on another planet of another star who could only observe the motion of Earth relative to Sun, or the Sun relative to galaxy, etc.”
