The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space — John Shaqi
The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of spaceBrowne, Robert T.
Religion
The mystery of space : $b a study of the hyperspace movement in the light of the evolution of new psychic faculties and an inquiry into the genesis and essential nature of space
Browne, Robert T.
Hyperspace
In presenting this volume to the public profound apologies are made
to the professional mathematician for the temerity which is shown
thereby. All technical discussion of the problems pertinent to the
geometry of hyperspace, however, has been carefully avoided. The reader
is, therefore, referred to the bibliography published at the end of
this volume for matter relating to this aspect of the subject. The aim
rather has been to outline briefly the progress of mathematical thought
which has led up to the idea of the multiple dimensionality of space;
to state the cardinal principles of the Non-Euclidean geometry and to
offer an interpretation of the metageometrical concept in the light of
the evolutionary nature of human faculties and material characteristics
and properties.
The onus of this treatise is, therefore, to distinguish between what is
commonly known as sensible space and that other species of space known
as geometric spaces. Also to show that the notion which has been styled
_hyperspace_ is nothing more nor less than an evidence of the faint,
early outcroppings in the human mind of a faculty which, in the course
of time, will become the normal possession of the entire human race.
Thus the weight of all presentations will be to give currency to the
belief, very strongly held, that humanity, now in its infancy, is yet
to evolve faculties and capabilities, both mental and spiritual, to a
degree hitherto viewed as inconceivable.
On this view it must appear that the faculty of thought including the
powers of imagination and conceptualization are not psychological
invariants, but, on the other hand, are true variants. They are,
consequently, answerable to the principle of evolution just as all
vital phenomena are. Some have thought that no matter what idea may
come into the mind of the human race or at what time the idea may
be born the mind always has been able to conceive it. That is, many
believe that the nature of mind is such that no matter how complex an
idea may be there has always been in the mind the power of conceiving
it. But this view cannot be said to have the support of any trustworthy
testimony. If so, then the mind must at once be recognized as fully
matured and capable during every epoch of human evolution, no less
in the first than in the latest, which, of course, is absurd. It is
undoubtedly more reasonable and correct to believe that the powers of
conceptualization are matters of evolutionary concern. For instance,
the assertion that the mind was incapable of conceiving, in the realm
of theology, a non-anthropomorphic god, or, in the field of biology,
the doctrine of evolution, or, in the domain of invention, the wireless
telegraph, or, in mathematics, the concept of hyperspace before the
actual time of these conceptions, cannot be successfully controverted.
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