¶ Infinity & Finity
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Infinity & Finity:
“It was always thought that a sphere and a plane to which the sphere was tangent were for an infinitesimal moment congruent at the point of tangency. A sphere as defined by the Greeks, and as has always been accepted by the calculus mathematicians, had 360 degrees around every point. But we discover that all systems are polyhedra and there is just one tetrahedron less than all the vertexial points times 360 degrees. This is an important difference. The difference between what we will call infinity and coming back to close upon itself locally as a system to subdivide the universe into insideness and outsideness always requires “taking out” one tetrahedron, or 720 degrees from somewhere around all the vertexes of the system.”
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech, p.86, Jun’66
- CHBONDALE-DRAFT IV.55
