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.
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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
mathetic spirit until it was discovered that all efforts to trace out
any definite lines of correspondence were futile. Then the policy of
ignoring the question of conformability was adopted and has since been
pursued with unchangeable regularity by the analytical investigator.
Among the results obtained by the non-Euclideans in their profound
researches into the nature of hyperspace are these: 1. It was found
that the angular sum of a triangle, being ordinarily assumed to be a
variable quantity, is either less or greater than two right angles
so that a strictly Euclidean rectangle could not be constructed. 2.
The angle sums of two triangles of equal area are equal. 3. No two
triangles not equal can have the same angles so that similar triangles
are impossible unless they are of the same size. 4. If two equal
perpendiculars are erected to the same line, their distance apart
increases with their length. 5. A line every point of which is equally
distant from a given straight line is a curved line. 6. Any two lines
which do not meet, even at infinity, have one common perpendicular
which measures their minimum distance. 7. _Lines which meet at infinity
are parallel._ But it is apparent that these results have not followed
upon any mathematical consequence of other supporting postulates or
axioms such as would place them on a coördinate basis with those used
as a support for the parallel-postulate; for they are based upon the
envisagement of an entirely new principle of space-perception and
belong to a wholly different set of space qualities.
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