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Modelability:
"Cubing does not permit the making of models of N^4 or N^5…
"In the fundamental accounting of energy behaviors fourth- and fifth-power relationships occur. The scientists found that they could accommodate the fourth and fifth powering by use of nonmodelable, complex number calculations by involving the square root of minus one. In effect, this calculation of ‘imaginary number’[] is accomplished by borrowing an hour from tomorrow’s clock to solve the problem-- after which we repay tomorrow.
"When the fourth- and fifth-power energy relationships showed up back in the mid-19th century, as in th energy output of ‘black bodies,’ the electromagnetic scientists said: ‘We can’t make a model of it because models must always be three-dimensional, that is, they must be defined by their XYZ-axes and be coordinated with 90-degree angles. Because we cannot find a fourth perpendicular to the XYZ system that will produce a fourth-dimensional model.’
“Thus the generalized case for models seemed to fail and models went out as a tool of science in the mid-19th century.”
