986.020 Elementary School Definitions

986.021 My first mathematics and geometry teachers taught me games that I learned to play well enough to obtain swiftly the answers for which their (only-axiomatically-argued) assumptions called. Webster’s dictionary states tersely the definitions of the games they taught me. Webster’s definitions are carefully formulated by leading academic authorities and represent the up-to-the-minute concensus of what the educational system assumes geometry, mathematics, and science to consist.

986.022 Webster defines geometry as “the mathematics of the properties, measurements, and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids”none of which we ourselves observe can exist experientially (ergo, science-verifiably), independently of the others; ergo, they cannot be isolatable “properties” or separate characteristics.

986.023 Physics has found no surfaces and no solids; only localized regions of high-frequency, self-interfering, deflecting, and consequently self-knotting energy events. These self-interference patterns occur in pure principle of ultra-high-frequency intervals and on so minuscule a scale as to prohibit intrusion by anything so dimensionally gross and slow as our fingers. We cannot put our fingers between any two of all the numbers occurring serially between the integer 1 and the integer 2,000,000,000,000 two trillionas aggregated linearly in one inch. This is the approximate number of atomic domains (the x-illion-per-second, electron-orbited atoms’ individual spinout domains) tangentially arrayable in a row within an experience inch.

986.024 Within each of the electron-orbited spheric domains the respective atomic nuclei are centered as remotely distant from their orbiting electrons as is our Sun from its orbiting planets. Within each of these nuclei complex, high-frequency events are occurring in pure principle of interrelationship.

986.025 How do you see through a solid-glass window? Light passes through glass. Light is high-frequency radiation passing unobstructedly at 700 million miles per hour with lots of time and room “to spare” between the set of energy events that constitute the atomic-event constellation known as “glass.” (In lenses the light caroms off atoms to have its course deliberately and angularly altered.)

986.026 Webster’s definition of mathematics is “the science of dealing with quanitites, forms, etc., and their relationships by the use of numbers and symbols.”

986.027 Webster defines science as “systematized knowledge derived from observation and study. ”

986.028 In respect to those definitions I was taught, between 1905 and 1913 at the private preparatory school then most highly regarded by Harvard, that “the properties of a point” are nonexistentthat a point is nondimensional or infradimensional, weightless, and timeless. The teacher had opened the day’s lesson by making a white chalk mark on the cleanly washed-off blackboard and saying, “This is a point.” I was next taught that a line is one-dimensional and consists of a “straight” row of non-dimensional pointsand I am informed that today, in 1978, all schoolchildren around the world are as yet being so taught. Since such a line lacks three-dimensionality, it too is nonexistent to the second power or to “the square root of nonexistence.” We were told by our mathematics teacher that the plane is a raft of tangentially parallel rows of nonexistent linesergo, either a third power or a “cube root of nonexistence”while the supposedly “real” cube of three dimensions is a rectilinear stack of those nonexistent planes and therefore must be either a fourth power or a fourth root of nonexistence. Since the cube lacked weight, temperature, or duration in time, and since its empty 12-edged frame of nonexistent lines would not hold its shape, it was preposterously nondemonstrableergo, a treacherous device for students and useful only in playing the game of deliberate self-deception. Since it was arbitrarily compounded of avowedly nonexistent points, the socially accepted three-dimensional reality of the academic system was not “derived from observation and study”ergo, was to me utterly unscientific.