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
The gist of the arguments put forward as a basis for plane-rotation
is briefly stated thus: The face _cefg_ is conceived as consisting of
an infinity of lines. A cube, as in Figure 15, is imagined or assumed
to be sected into an infinity of such lines, each line being the
terminus of one of the planes which make up the cube. Each one of the
constituting planes is thought of as rotating about its line-boundary
which intersects the side of the cube. The process is continued
indefinitely until the entire series of planes is rotated, one by
one, around the series of lines which constitute the axial plane.
Hence, in order that the cube, Figure 16, may change from its initial
position to its final position each one of the infinitesimal planes
of which the cube is assumed to be composed must be made to rotate
about each one of the infinitesimal lines of which the plane used as
an axis is composed. In this way, it is shown that the entire cube
has been made to rotate about its face, _cefg_. This concisely, is
the "QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM" of the metageometrician who sets out to
prove rotation about a plane. Thus it is made to appear that in order
that tridimensional beings may be enabled to conceive of four-space
rotation, as in Figures 15 and 16, in which the rotation must also be
thought of as taking place in the direction of the fourth dimension,
they must adopt the same tactics that a two dimensional being would use
to understand some of the possibilities of the tridimensional world.
It is, of course, unwise to assume that because a thing can be
shown to be possible by analogical reasoning its actuality is
thereby established. This consideration cannot be too emphatically
insisted upon; for many have been led into the error by relying too
confidentially upon results based upon this line of argumentation.
There is a vast difference between mentally doing what may be assumed
to be possible, the hypothetical, and the doing of what is actually
possible, the practical.
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