¶ Sphere (1)
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The Greeks defined a sphere as ‘A surface equidistant in all directions from a point.’ As defined there could be no holes in the sphere, because if there were any holes the surface would be turning inwardly around the holes rim, and radius would change and the holes would leave areas within them where radius would not be equal in all directions. The Greeks’ definition inferred that there is some kind of continuous and impervious continuum which absolutely subdivides all the universe which is outside the sphere forever, from all the universe which is inside the sphere. Were there no holes in the sphere, there could be no possible energy traffic inbound or outbound-- therefore entropy. Entropy-- the second law of thermodynamics shows that every local energy system in physical universe is always losing or emitting energy. The minimum set of all energy transactions and transformation is physical universe itself. Therefore only universe as an aggregate of non-simultaneous energy event transformings is the only possible perpetual motion system. If we could have a local perpetual motion machine we could throw away the rest of universe. Therefore the sphere, as defined by
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- NASA Speech, pp.84-85, Jun’66
