Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom (2)

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Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:

"You get down to 1/200th of an inch and you can't see it at all. Long before people had microscopes there was a black speck against a white background: it was too small, it was under the dimensions that you and I can differentiate. You have a speck of 200th of an inch; you can see it as a speck but you couldn't resolve anything about it as a polyhedron. This is where man invented the idea of a point. You could point to it, but it was subdimensional--he said.

"I started to see how we could make the mistake of points, and lines, and planes as something that you put together and find that you make reality. I started with my reality, and then if there's a point to it, well, there's something there; and if I put a really powerful magnifying glass to it I'm going to find there is a crystal. It is a polyhedron and it has an insideness and an outsideness. Anything that is substantial has an insideness and an outsideness. Any substance has something that stands below it: sub-stance, withinness.

"I am going to take the minimum something. I take a rock and I get a child to hit the rock; you keep hitting it and"