Thus here, as well as in logic, the axioms of the
new mathematics
appear as
absurdities.
A magnitude can be not equal to itself.
The part can be equal to the whole or can be greater.
One of two equal magnitudes can be infinitely greater than
the other. All DIFFERENT magnitudes are equal to each other.
We observe a complete analogy between the axioms of mathematics and those of
logic. The logical unit - the concept - possesses all the properties of a
finite
and
constant
magnitude. The fundamental axioms of mathematics and logic are essentially
the same. And they are correct in similar conditions and cease
to be correct in similar
conditions.
We may say without the slightest exaggeration that the fundamental axioms of logic
and mathematics are correct only so long as logic and mathematics operate with
artificial, conditional
units which do not exist in nature.
The truth is that there are
no finite, constant
magnitudes in nature, just as there are
no
concepts.
A finite, constant magnitude and a concept are conditional
abstractions;
they are not
reality but, so to speak, sections of reality.
How to connect the idea of the absence of constant magnitudes with the idea of a
static universe?
At the first glance, the one contradicts the other. But in actual fact this
contradiction does not exist.
Not this one,
but
the greater universe is static, the world of
many dimensions of which we know the eternally moving section called the three
dimensional infinite sphere. In addition, the very concepts of motion and immobility
need to be reconsidered, because in the way our mind usually understands them, they
do not correspond to reality.
We have already examined in detail how the idea of motion results from our
sense
of time, i.e.
from the imperfection of our sense of space.
If our space-sense were more perfect, then, in relation to any given object, say to a
given human body, we would perceive the whole of its life in time, from birth to death.
Then within the limits of this compass it would be for us a constant magnitude. But
now, at every moment of its life it is for us not a constant, but a variable magnitude.
And what we call
the body
does not actually exist. It is only a section of a four
dimensional body which we never see. We must remember that all our three
dimensional world actually does not exist. It is the creation
of our imperfect senses, the
result of their imperfection. It is not
the world;
it is only what we see of the world. The
three-
dimensional world is the four-dimensional world observed through the
narrow slit of our senses. Therefore all the magnitudes we accept as such in
the three-dimensional world, are not real magnitudes, but are only
artificially
assumed.
They have no real
existence, just as the
present
has no real existence. This
has already been said. What we call the
present
is the transition from the
future into the past. But this transition has no extension. Consequently, the
present does not exist.
Only
the future and the past exist.
Thus constant magnitudes in the three-dimensional world are abstractions;
just as
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