¶ Starting With Parts: The Nonradial Line
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Starting With Parts: The Nonradial Line:
"Since humanity started with parallel lines, planes, and cubes, it also adopted the edge line of the square and cube as the prime unit of mensuration. This inaugurated geomathematical exploration and analysis with a part of the whole, in contradistinction to synergetics’ inauguration of exploration and analysis with total Universe, within which it discovers whole conceptual systems, within which it identifies subentities always dealing with experimentally discovered and experimentally verifiable information.
“Though life started with whole Universe, humans happened to pick one part-- the line, which was so short a section of Earth arc (and the Earth’s diameter so relatively great) that they assumed the Earth-scratched-surface line to be straight. The particular line of geometrical reference humans picked happened not to be the line of most interattractive integrity. It was neither the radial line of radiation nor the radial line of gravity of spherical Earth. From this nonradial line of nature’s event field, humans developed their formulas for calculating areas and volumes of the circle and the sphere only in relation to the cube-edge lines, developing empirically the ‘transcendentally irrational,’ ergo incommensurable, number pi (π), 3.14159… ad infinitum, which provided practically tolerable approximations of the dimensions of circles and spheres.”
