{"id":47,"date":"2011-04-12T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2015-05-17T02:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T02:02:39","slug":"plus-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/plus-twenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201c\u2026Some modern physical speculations&#8230; regard space and time as being abstractions which apply to our size level, but which become utterly meaningless out past the thirtieth decimal place\u2026\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rudy Rucker in <strong>Infinity and the Mind<\/strong>, p. 31<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-47-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PlusTwentyVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PlusTwentyVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PlusTwentyVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you think, Rudy,<br \/>\nwe\u2019d better ask whoever inhabits<br \/>\nthe thirty-first decimal dimension<br \/>\nwhether he or she is an abstraction<br \/>\nand utterly meaningless? Rudy,<br \/>\ndid you know that you inhabit<br \/>\nthe thirty-first decimal dimension<br \/>\nto a being far enough out there<br \/>\nin that abstraction which is space?<br \/>\nAnd don\u2019t give me someone\u2019s rejoinder<br \/>\nabout the utmost boundaries of space<br \/>\nor how meaningless infinite numbers are.<br \/>\nto the Kalahari bushman<br \/>\nall our numbers were meaningless<br \/>\nexcept the first twenty<br \/>\ncounted on toes and fingers<br \/>\nand that twenty\u2019s mighty hard<br \/>\nto think about\u2014as close to infinity<br \/>\nas it is\u2014the Omega number<br \/>\nof the bushman\u2019s vision.<br \/>\nBut the difference between<br \/>\nhis twenty and your thirtieth decimal place<br \/>\nis just the difference between<br \/>\nyour lining up laser beams<br \/>\nand his good hot chase after<br \/>\nlizards in the desert.<br \/>\nAnd that difference is less important<br \/>\nthan anyone thinks, Rudy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026Some modern physical speculations&#8230; regard space and time as being abstractions which apply to our size level, but which become utterly meaningless out past the thirtieth decimal place\u2026\u201d Rudy Rucker in Infinity and the Mind, p. 31 https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/PlusTwentyVx3.mp3 &nbsp; Don\u2019t you think, Rudy, we\u2019d better ask whoever inhabits the thirty-first decimal dimension whether he or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightotherverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}