¶ Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom (2)
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Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
"You get down to 1/200th of an inch and you can’t see it at all. Long before people had microscopes there was a black speck against a white background: it was too small, it was under the dimensions that you and I can differentiate. You have a speck of 200th of an inch; you can see it as a speck but you couldn’t resolve anything about it as a polyhedron. This is where man invented the idea of a point. You could point to it, but it was subdimensional–he said.
"I started to see how we could make the mistake of points, and lines, and planes as something that you put together and find that you make reality. I started with my reality, and then if there’s a point to it, well, there’s something there; and if I put a really powerful magnifying glass to it I’m going to find there is a crystal. It is a polyhedron and it has an insideness and an outsideness. Anything that is substantial has an insideness and an outsideness. Any substance has something that stands below it: sub-stance, withinness.
“I am going to take the minimum something. I take a rock and I get a child to hit the rock; you keep hitting it and”
