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To: RightWhale
Time for a little more (mathematical) comic relief - from the economist, mathematician, philosopher, con man, and presidential candidate, (self-advertised as the only opponent George Bush feared enough to put in prison) Lyndon LaRouche. .

"The Timaeus takes the same view of the universe as St. Paul's observation that "we see things as through a mirror darkly," the argument Plato also makes in describing the images of visible space as like the shadows cast upon the wall of a dark cave. The problematic feature of Plato's argument (and St. Paul's) on this point, is that a rational comprehension of the fuller meaning of this was not available in any available written source until Riemann's 1854 habilitation dissertation, On The Hypotheses Which Underlie Geometry. In Riemannian physics, the real, unseen universe is a continuous manifold. The images seen in that real world, the continuous manifold, are "projected" as visible events of sense-perception into a distorted spherical mirror, such that we see the continuous manifold projected onto that "mirror" in the form of apparently discrete objects moving about in empty, Euclidean space. This "mirror", called the discrete manifold, is a subsumed feature of the continuous manifold, and exists as if it were a mirror everywhere embedded within the subsuming continuous manifold."

PP> 172-173.Will this man become president?

Lyndon LaRouche

New Benjamin Franklin House (1983)

I am a casual collector of crackpot books.

203 posted on 01/07/2002 7:05:55 PM PST by Aurelius
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To: Aurelius
No, I can't imagine Larouche as president. He would have to be the smartest president of all time, so smart that nobody could understand a word he said. Cut from the same cloth as Khaddafi.
208 posted on 01/07/2002 7:59:37 PM PST by RightWhale
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