Over the last several centuries, science has discovered objects in the world along a continuum of scale. In one direction, we have found planets and stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. In the other direction we have found cells and proteins, atoms, and neutrinos. In order to locate and model this world, we use the 3 traditional directions of length, width and height. However inherent in all our measurements is the scale of what we are measuring – a continuum we do not directly see with our eyes. We need to include this continuum in a full model of the natural universe. However, we do not understand how to measure along this continuum and may lack the mathematical tools to do so. Those tools could require a new numeric representational system with more power than our traditional decimal or positional based numerals.
Donald Palmer
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