262.00 Conceptual Minimum
262.01 Since there was nothing more exaltedly high than heaven and nothing more degradingly low than hell, up and down were limited or terminal dimensions. Since humans wer e so tiny in respect to their laterally surrounding world, and since the tales of travelers reported greater mountains as one went inland from the sea, and since the sea ever surrounded the land, the best-informed humans assumed Earth to be an island floating on a sea that extended laterally to infinity in all horizontal directions as a plane, a plane whose surface could be made rough by god-blown winds, while the skies were filled with gods disguised as clouds blowing winds. Since the shortest distances between two points seemed obviously to be a straight, stretched-hair line, all the straight lines on the infinite plane of the world ran to infinity; and since humans could never reach infinity, they need not worry about where the points were located between which the straight infinite lines were stretched. All they had to do was to have two local points through which to run their “straight” line, which could thus be extended to infinity in two opposite directions. This was the genesis of “flat land,” from which hum ans have not yet emerged. In flat land there are infinite biggest and smallest: I n the vertical sense this means giants bigger than mountains and gods bigger than giantsergo, the biggest greatest god, the biggest of visually engendered conceptioning enthroned on the highest mountain, while the invisibly smallest emerged as the el ves and the evil spirits existing in things.
262.02 The human concept of a geometrical point was established eons before the inventive conceptualizing by anyone that humans might develop a microscope. The point seemed to be the terminal, smallest visual experience. The visual smallest was smaller than the smallest touchable, handleable experience. The visual smallest engendered the assumption of an infinitely smaller nondimensional point. The point is premicroscopic.
262.03 Similarly, the concept of spatial nothingness is pretelescopic, established eons before anyone knew that humans might develop a telescope. Now that huma ns have acquired discretely measured knowledge regarding the speed and other behavioral characteristics of all radiation, including the refraction of light, and have developed the science of optics and the chemistry of light-sensitive emulsions for phototelescopy, they have discovered a marocosm of bill ions of galaxies consisting of an average of 100 billion stars each; 99.9999 percent of these progressively outwardly considered, discovered phenomena are invisible to the naked human eye. In the opposed or inwardly considered experience field the physicists have discovered and measured the unique frequency characteristics of each of the chemical elements together with frequency characteristics and other energetic characteristics of atomic components. Physicists employing the same radiation-senitive emulsion photographyfirst through the human-spectrum-range microscope, subsequently through the scanning electron microscope, and after that through the field emission microscopehave photographed individual ato ms. In this inwardly and diminishing magnitude progression humans have photographically harvested knowledge of physical reality that is
262.04 Man suddenly got to thinking of the atom as the terminal, the conceptual minimum. He had the terminal case of the atom as a point, but then later found that the atoms consisted of at minimum a proton, a neutron, an electron, and an atomic nucleus, and so forth. And so for a while the atomic nucleus was the terminal limit, until humans began smashing the atom and breaking the nucleus into new component particles: Th us the quarks became the most recently apparent terminally smallest limits of considerability. But the characteristics of the quarks are very exciting because they, too, incontrovertibly manifest a complex of a plurality of interdependent and numerically consistent behaviors. So what physics is really discovering is primitive system conceptuality independent of time and size. And in synergetics conceptuality independent of time and size discloses a complex hierarchy of nuclear system intertransformabilities with low-order numerical and topological relationships, a complex of interrelationships consistently characterizing every one of their realizations as special case, experimentally demonstrable, sense-tuned, physical reality. (See Secs. 1052.330-340.)
262.05 Whenever we look at something that is special casecall it a nucleus or call it a quarkwe find that the special cases all break up into the complex of pure principles of conceptuality independent of size and time as elucidated by synergetics. Physically discovered, i.e., experientially, i.e., sense-tuned terminal discoveries, are always special case. Special cases have always time-incremented duration magnitudesergo, they are terminal.
262.06 There are no terminal generalizations. Generalizations are eternal independent of size and time. The weightless, sizeless, frequency-innocent principles are dealt with in synergetics and are exclusively mind-employable. Synergetics represents an exclusively mind-conceptual, complex system of numerically identifiable, geometrical interrelationships holding eternally true in all special case manifestations and physical discover abilities, utterly independent of time-size. (See Sec. 445.11.)
262.07 Our Scenario Universe will continually open up more thing-and-thing ness special cases and our beautifulbecause eternally exquisite generalized thingless principles will tend to become conceptually ever more lucidly c le ar and more evidently operative at no matter what magnitude: macro … medio …micro.
262.08 The physical is always special case; this is why we spell Universe with a capital U.
262.09 So our new unde rstanding of reality involves an eternal extension of the tunability in pure unl imited principle. Physical energy occurs only in finite packages. Physical Universe is a discontinuity of such finite islanded events. Events and novents: so life and death so high-frequency intermingled as to be distinguishable only by our live-event-frequency-tuning capability. Death is as-yet-untuned reality. We used to have two structurally static Universes of life and afterlife. Th at we seem to be accelerating toward a unified Scenario Universe field seems to be implicit.
262.10 We do not have two Universes: this world and the next world. Death is only the as-yet-unexperienced, superlow frequencies. Both death and life a recomplementary functions of our electromagnetic experience. (See Secs. *526.25.*and 531.10.)