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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Architectural Sectioning and Hyperobjects


St. Paul's Cathedral London

Carl Douglas just pointed out to me that a human perception of a hyperobject was akin to sectioning technique in architectural drawing. That's a great analogy. Since hyperobjects occupy a higher dimensional phase space than is visible to us, we can only experience somewhat constrained slices of them at any one time.

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