¶ Dynamic Frame of Reference (2)
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Dynamic Frame of Reference:
"This schematically kinetic tapestry is the advanced concept of relativity–> now,at last, popularly significant, because pivotal to the everywhere severe worldwide reorientation of all men’s everyday affairs from a static to an a priori dynamic frame of reference. The reorientation is severe because it is more than an uprooting. Realization of relativity spontaneously evokes a springing, to dive from a then vanishing springboard into an infinite dynamic sea where man must learn to swim tirelessly, naturally, before he sinks, but only because what he used to think was that he ought to ‘sink’ rather than be attracted by dominant neighbors.
"As man learns to eliminate his preposterous one-, or two- or three-dimensional a priori references to a fixed level planar breadth and its inherent upwardness or downwardness of Universe and substitutes therefor the now reliable sensation of an inwardness and outwardness relative to plural centers, he will come naturally to his new sustaining awareness of the impossibility of his doing aught but sustain his equilibrious and navigable position. If there is no inherent ‘down’ in Universe, man cannot sink.
¶ Citations
- TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.232, May’49
