¶ Fourth Dimensional Modelability
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Fourth Dimensional Modelability:
"Since the middle of the 19-th century it had been the confusion brought about by the succession of visible thermodynamics by invisible electrodynamics. The crisis was dramatized by the discovery that black bodies were demonstrated to have fourth-power rates of change. The trouble was that the world was accustomed to an eight-place omnidirectional clock (eight cubes around one point) instead of a 20-place omnidirectional clock (with 20 tetrahedra around one point. With the number 20 you can bring the the fourth dimension into modelability with no trouble at all.
“It’s been several years now since I made this point in a conversation with C.P. Snow in London and he was kind enough later to acknowledge in an article that ‘an American architect’ had indeed shown him that the fourth dimension could be modelable.”
