Kamangir (Archer)

The matter of dimension.

Kamangir | October 26, 2004 | Category Iran

I was just listening to BCC. There was some news there about the recent operations of the Israeli army in Gaza. As the reporter was mentioning, the army has killed about 14 people including children just today. The name Gaza was so familiar for me, as I remembered the book Sinoha (I am not sure that the name is spelled correctly). There, the Pharaoh physician tells stories about his travels in the ancient world. He has once or twice traveled to Gaza, a city at the border of the ancient Egypt. At that time, the city was governed by an awesome man. The important thing about Gaza, as mentioned in the book, was the strong walls surrounding the city. Sinoha writes that no foreign troop had been able to conquer the city for a very long interval, because the fighters were not actually able to enter the city.

I started to think that on that historical age, a strong wall was a perfect fortress for an entire city. Clearly, no body was heard of B52s that time. Then I told myself, this is the nature of the human race. They get trapped behind a tough wall and then suddenly they solve it as there exists no such problem at all. Just imagine the epidemics that were threatening all human beings.

I get so surprised when I watch the erotic programs on Multivision channels. Actually, they do all sorts of nasty things. Although, I am not going to describe them here, but the fact is that pornography, like other aspects of human life, is trapped behind that strong wall. Other examples are the inefficiency of modern science to send men to Mars, the most trivial task in science fiction stories, curing many diseases like the AIDS, cancer, Hepatitis, and the forth, solving social problems like poverty, ethnic violence, and religious extremism and so on. The wall is really out there!

(c) 95, G Sarcone

Petroleum has been available naturally in some planes; even Noah used it when he wanted to seal his ship. But, why didn’t he use it for making his vessel go faster? Of course I know, that time it was fully ridiculous. You can laugh to death hearing famous quotes like the one by an IBM governor that “Who will need more than 64KB of memory?”. The growth by the men has not been like going along an ever present known road, it has been just “manufacturing” a new way. I am emphasizing the point that in the time of Galilee, if the earth was getting rounding, the “wind would blow everything away”! The science, the tradition, and the brain of those times’ human beings were not able to accept such ridiculous thing such as “the earth is cycling around iteslf”. I have ever laughed on enthusiastic trials to enhance the performance of computers when it is easily observable that it is not the computation power that limits the science. It is the sort of approach the science has adopted.

When thinking scientifically, we are interested in finding a few (even if 100000000) parameters and variables that control a certain phenomenon. If you are familiar with probability theory, it is just like working on the marginal PDFs of a totally sophisticated multidimensional random variable. I hope I have described my viewpoint clearly.

Thus, a new dimension should be found. I am trying to be sensitive, but why not explore the dimension itself? Who has ordered to assume dimension as a discrete thing? Why do we try to think about natural events as depending on one, two, or three parameters? Think about dimension reduction as another example. Consider the most familiar one, the linear dimension reduction PCA technique. Why we don’t respect a 2.6869873 dimensional event? I have to inform you that mathematically a half plane is yet a 2D object, so think more broadly!

I think the new era begins with fuzzy dimensional interpretation of the world. I will talk about this idea more.