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
RIEMANN'S notion that space is limited gains weight in the light of the
foregoing considerations. But he could not conceive of the limitability
and unboundedness of space as such in its pure essence; but was
compelled, by his own limitations, to make an idealized construction in
which he could actualize his conception. And for real, dynamic space,
he substituted his ideal construction and proceeded upon that basis.
And of course, his view while it had no reference to perceptual space
nevertheless possessed an illative relation thereto and should be
recognized as construable in that light.
The process of squaring the circle recognized as a geometric
impossibility is significant of the fluxional nature of the universal
residuum perpetually maintained between the archetypal and the
manifested kosmos. It seems that there is a profound truth embodied in
this problem. There is a lesson that may be learned by mathematicians,
philosophers, scientists and thinkers in general. There is an element
of eternal necessity and universality about it which is truly symbolic
of the finity of the universe and the infinity of the archetypal. Just
as a square or a series of polygonal figures inscribed in a circle
cannot be made to coincide exactly with the circle so cannot the actual
be made to coincide with the ideal. The circumference of the circle
is the unapproachable limit of inscribed squares. If it were possible
so to multiply squares thus inscribed that a figure coincident with
the circumference of a circle might be constructed, such a figure
would not be a square but a circle. The manifested universe is like
that--the process of inscribing squares within a circle. It is ever
_becoming_, _evolving_, _developing_, but never quite attains. Infinity
is a process. But no single stage in that process is infinite. Each
is finite and their totality makes the infinity of the process. The
universe manifested to the senses or the intellect is finite.
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