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Rubber Tires:
"What we are learning here is something very fascinating and it means the following: That in an omnimotional Universe it is possible for me to take two moving systems-- if you have two systems-- which move four dimensionally, comfortably, the way you see those four sets of wheels, eight wheels altogether moving perfectly comfortably, but I can fasten one vector equilibrium to another by a pair of wheels, immobilizing one of them and getting one of theses axes-- the axis which is immobilized but on which the rest of the system can keep right on rolling around. By fastening one such part of the Universe literally, you don’t stop the rest of the motion of Universe. That is what we are learning here.
“In all the other kinds of mechanical systems that you will ever run into on a three-dimensional basis, if anything is blocked then everything is blocked. In a four-dimensional system this is not true at all. You are able then to have one local thing occur. You can have two atoms join one another perfectly well and the rest of Universe can go right on in its motion. Nothing is frustrated but they themselves do certain polarized things in relation to one another, which begins to explain a lot of the basic joinings.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 264-265. 11 Jul’62
