China’s contentious Island-building in the South China Sea
must surely be a tactical diversion from their surreptitious main game, what
ever it is. It is inconsistent with traditional
Chinese subtlety, politeness and intelligence, that China would incur
international wrath by these actions, unless they intended to do so in order to
divert international attention away from their actual battle-preparation. It is very likely that future wars will not
be fought on traditional battlegrounds, either on land or on the sea, but in
two new arenas of potential conflict that have become part of human domain for
the first time in human history due to technological advancements.
For all Human History, we were bound to inhabit the two horizontal
dimensions. Living on a globe, these are
polar co-ordinates, not Cartesian co-ordinates, with slightly more complicated
but much more realistic mathematics.
Although it is over a century since we Humans have started to conquer the
third special dimension and travel vertically it is only in this New Era that
we have been able to travel freely and not just zoom through, and at heights
far exceeding the thin layer of Atmosphere above the Bio-sphere in which all
life on Earth has previously been bound.
“Space, the final frontier” is now a potential battleground. United States of America’s President Reagan
started such a program when the enemy was the Soviet Union. Now the potential “enemy” is the Han
Republic.
Over the same time frame, another Dimension has opened up to
us, one that is potentially vastly larger.
It is already called the Fifth Dimension by many because Time is called the
Fourth by Physicists and Mathematicians.
It is a virtual dimension where distances are not measured using our
familiar number line that adds or subtracts one or multiples of one, but
instead counts using the square root of minus one, which is a number that does
not exist in the “real world” where squaring both positive and negative numbers
always only results in a positive number and so nothing can be squared to
produce negative unity - in our “real” 3D world.
This would only be a mathematical curiosity, like the
tesseract, the 4D cube that is interesting and entertaining to think about but
totally useless except for modern Electronics.
In an inexplicable way, the electromagnetic energy fields and high
frequency alternating currents seem only to be explicable and certainly calculable
by reference to this fifth dimension and it spooky square root of minus one.
It is hard to get one’s head around the idea of this being a
genuinely four-dimensional physical universe, where one of the dimensions is
completely outside our sensory experience.
Indeed, our senses have a very limited awareness of electromagnetic
fields, although we are immersed in them, like being submerged in an ocean of
mixed fluids of different consistencies.
Oddly, in a possibly ironic way, we all sense the supposed “force
of gravity” but don’t sense electromagnetism.
Yet our “sense of gravity” is more of an effect that a cause, despite
what traditional Physics (where electric currents still mostly go backwards)
tells us, but that is another missive that need not concern us now..
This multi-dimensional reality is possibly stranger that it
initially seems. We should not think of
ourselves living within an orthogonal grid, with an up/down, left/right,
forward/backwards in straight lines and flat zero-planes, but in spherical
co-ordinates that we actually do use for some terrestrial and celestial
mapping, but don’t think of in our daily lives.
Most of us are familiar with circular trigonometry, with its
Sine and Cosine Curves and regular or irregular oscillations. These are appropriate for our terrestrial
dimensions, which have polar coordinates.
However there is another entire, parallel trigonometry that uses
exponential functions and these are not cyclical but are unending and
expansionary.
The Virtual world of Cyberspace only exist in our real world
as fleeting and rapidly changing electromagnetic charges that are imperceptible
apart from the tiny spectrum of visible light and its neighbour, radiant heat. But it is ontologically related to our real
world mathematically and significantly, gives meaning to the ”new frontier” of
Cyberspace. What can exist in Cyberspace
is limited to the mathematically possible, as is our world, but the limits are
vastly greater. Adding an extra dimension
is equivalent to moving from the area of a circle to the volume of a sphere,
but while the circle and sphere are enclosed and limited in capacity, an
exponential dimension has no such totality.
Once again, my posts have totally veered off the topic,
which was that the Bai Jing government may be working on dominating Space, Outer
Space, and Cyberspace, while we are devoting our military resources towards a
possible future escalation in a very small, localised area, that the rest of
the world should leave the China, the traditional “Central Kingdom” of the “East. Let China have the China Seas, North and
South, and the Americas, North and South can have the Pacific Ocean.
