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Geometry of Vectors:
"I felt that it would be possible, for instance, when I could make a model of two ships running in to each other, where I took each of the ships. . . and I simply put it into compression, and I make it into a great long sphere, and it weighed and had the same density as the other sphere, and it would have a certain length and I saw that I could make a model out of these interesting things.
“I thought vectors were extremely realistic. In fact, I liked the idea then of a geometry which would be made up entirely of vectors instead of a geometry made up of some hypothetical kinds of patterns. In other words, they could be made of vectors of actions. They were our experiences of basic phenomena, so I said wouldn’t it be interesting if we had no geometry unless there were vectors, because the vectors are real experiences, and because the vectors had inherent velocity and mass. Velocity is the complementarity of time and space. Time and space are simply functions of velocity. Velocity is really the reality. You can examine the time or space increment, but they are never independent of one another. They were unified as velocity. I said because it had”
