510.01
A star is an exquisitely concentrated coordination of events that your optical tuning facilities are unable to resolve differentially into separately identifiable events. We may call a star a point. Playing Euler’s game, “stars,” or “points,” are “crossings,” or “fixes” as navigators would say it. As so considered, a “star-point-crossing” does not have an outsideness and an insideness. It is the point of superimposed crossing of trajectories or of their interferences. A point fix is a potential embryo consideration, a potential thought, a potential system.
510.02
Thinking is the consideration of different experiences and of inherently separate sets of events, and trying to find out what their relatedness is. Each one is a star. How many stars does it take to develop a geometry of outwardness and inwardness? What is the minimum number of stars needed to divide the Universe into outwardness and inwardness? I find it takes a minimum of four; you can’t do it with three. Four very clearly has an outsideness and an insideness. This is what we call the tetrahedron, which has these four stars and six sets of interrelatedness. This comes in very interestingly in mathematics with the generalization that you don’t have to worry too much about the shape, but the four stars are the minimum we can have for a thought. If I can at first discover only three stars in a thought challenge, there must be at least a fourth star lurking somewhere in the critical neighborhood. In fact, I discover that the total number of stars that could possibly be related is always subdivisible by four. The mathematics shows this up very clearly as complexes of tetrahedra. Tetrahedron becomes the minimum thinkable set, the minimum reconsiderable set, and it turns out to be the fundamental increment out of which all thoughts are constructed.
510.03
The minimum set that may form a system to divide Universe into macro- and micro-cosmos is a set of four items of consideration. Four nonsimultaneously bursting rockets in a unitarily considerable set of overlapping visibility durations.
510.04
The stars of the four rocket bursts constitute the four vertexes of a tetrahedron—the fundamental quantum of Universe’s structuring. There is a tetrahedral structuring interrelationship between (a) the day before yesterday, (b) yesterday, (c) today, and (d) tomorrow. Though we speak of them as “the four balls in the air” —maintained there successively by a juggler using five balls to do his trick—they are not the same balls, and the four are never in the same positions; nonetheless, there are always and only six fundamental interrelationships between “the four balls in the air” —i.e., ab, ac, ad, bc, bd, and cd, although a, b, c, and d are nonsimultaneous events. Universe structures most frequently consist of the physical interrelationship of nonsimultaneous events.
510.05
A star is the focal point of an as yet undifferentiated concentration of events, ergo, considerable or constellar patterning: an exploratory grouping of stars or complex- idea entities that seem to man’s limited tunability to stand out together. The word consideration comes from con, together, and sidus, the Latin “star.” When we have found all the relationships between the number of items of our consideration, we have what we speak of as “understanding.” When we understand, we have all the fundamental connections between the star events of our consideration. They then become a constellation. They stand clearly together.
510.06
When n stands for the number of stars or items of consideration, the number of connections necessary to understanding is always
510.07
Four is the minimum number of stars having an inherent arrangement of withoutness and withinness. The minimum conceptually considerable, generalized- experiences-set affording macro-micro separation of Universe is a set of four local-event foci. Between the four stars that form the vertexes of the tetrahedron, there are six edges that constitute all the possible relationships between those four stars. The four stars have an inherent sixness of interrelationship. The four-foci, six-relationship set is definable as the tetrahedron. This minimum fourness of relevant frequency—ergo, thinkable—“stars” coincides with quantum mechanics’ requirement of four unique quanta numbers per each uniquely considerable “particle.”
510.08
The regenerative patterns of structural events may be described as constellar because their component events interinterfere tensively in high-frequency, dynamic, self- regenerative patternings which only superficially seem to stand together as “static” structures. Star groupings “fly” in celestial formation, though seeming to hang motionless in the celestial theater. Any event patternings that become locally regenerative are constellar patterns. They are momentarily conceptual.
510.09
Until the present age, people thought that all of their faculties were simultaneously and instantly coordinate and operating at equal velocities. Einstein showed that neither simultaneous nor instant are valid, i.e., experimentally demonstrable. Observe that when we send up four rockets one-half second apart, their afterimages are approximately simultaneous. So we say that we see four rockets “at the same time.” The illusion of simultaneity is one of the most important illusions for us to consider. Musicians may be able to comprehend nonsimultaneity better than do others. Einstein emphasized the importance of attempted spontaneous comprehension of the nonsimultaneity of all the events of Universe—a concept akin to our discovery that in our Universe, none of the lines can ever go simultaneously through the same points (See Sec. 517 et seq.). What Einstein is telling us is that there is no conceptual validity to the notion that everything in Universe is actually in simultaneous static array.
510.10
All words in the dictionary do not make one sentence; all the words cannot be simultaneously considered, yet each of the words is valid as a tool of communication; and some words combine in a structure of meaning. All the words are memoranda of all of humanity’s attempts to communicate to self or to others their understanding of the unique evolvement of their separately viewed experiences. The dictionary is the inventory of unique aspects of the totally composited experiences known as Universe.