¶ Dynamic Frame of Reference (3)
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Dynamic Frame of Reference:
"This is not a semantic abstraction. What did man mean when he said, ‘Up’? He meant two or more vertical and parallel lines perpendicular to the respective spots of a supposedly common plane whereon supposedly stood-- fixedly in Universe-- both himself and his addressee, with whom he would, avowedly, communicate meaningfully.
"But he is, in fact, employing non-sense. Unless one is standing on the other’s shoulders, the direction of ‘up’ for any two men on the curved face of Earth is always geometrically different. They are respectively nonidentical radii of their commonly predominant energetic center, the Earth ball. It makes no difference what the local curvature of the Earth may be; they each balance, perpendicularly independent, as ‘radii’ of the perfect sphere.
"By the time one man explains to the other by directional indication what he had meant by ‘up’ of a moment ago, the direction ‘up’ as registered in direction to the stars in Universe-- the other energy centers-- has shifted angularly to absurd non-identity. In the clocktime course of a sentence, his succession of complex ‘ups’ at Earth’s level
