Oumoff. And this is true. But old physics becomes lost and disappears not in electro
magnetic theories, but in ideas of a new extension of space which, so far, we have
called time and
motion.
The physics that is truly
new
will
be the physics which does
not contain
motion,
i.e. in which there is no dualism of rest and motion, and no dualism
of matter and vacuum.
By taking
the universe as
thought
and
consciousness,
we become completely free of
the idea of vacuum. And this point of view explains the
small probability of
matter, to
which Professor Oumoff has arrived. Matter, i.e. everything
finite,
is an illusion in the
infinite world.*
Out of the numerous psychological attempts to investigate the fourth dimension I
shall dwell also
on the book by Johan van Manen,
Some Occult Experiences.**
This book contains a remarkable drawing of a four-dimensional body, which the
author 'saw' by his inner vision. This interesting experience is described by van Manen
in the following way:
When residing and touring in the North of England, several years ago, I talked and
lectured several times on the fourth dimension. One day after having
retired to bed, I
lay fully awake, thinking out some problem connected with this subject. I tried to
visualize or think out the shape of a fourth-dimensional cube, which I imagined to be
the simplest fourth-dimensional shape. To my great astonishment I saw plainly before
me first a fourth-dimensional globe and afterwards a fourth-dimensional cube, and
learned only then from this object lesson that the globe is the simplest body, and not
the cube, as the third-dimensional analogy ought to have told me beforehand. The
remarkable thing was that the definite endeavour to see the one thing made me see the
other. I saw the forms as before me in the air (though the room was dark), and behind
the forms I saw clearly a rift in the curtains through which a glimmer
of light filtered
into the room. This was a case in which I can clearly fix the impression that the
objects seen were outside my head. In most of the other cases I could not say so
definitely, as they partake of a dual character, being almost equally felt as outside and
inside the brain.
I forgo the attempt to describe the fourth-dimensional cube as to its form.
Mathematical description would be possible, but would at the same time disintegrate
the real impression in its totality. The fourth-dimensional
globe can be better
described. It was an ordinary three-dimensional globe, out of which on each side,
beginning at its vertical circumference, bent tapering horns proceeded, which, with a
circular bend, united their points above the globe from which they started.
* A. Einstein's book on relativity, which has since appeared, makes it possible to
become better acquainted with the scientific (physical) treatment of this question.
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