Proxemics
In the late nineteenth century, I believe it was, another Hall (we Halls have been quite active, one of us discovered how to separate aluminum from it's ore, and he did that in his barn!), discovered a new dimension. He noticed that animals, when given the chance, like birds on a wire, will establish seemingly automatically, a set space between them. He noticed this pattern in many other things, so he realized that he had discovered another dimension, as I just said before but which I reiterate for purposes of clarity. As they say, clarity begins at home. Or, home on the range.
Anyway, poor Mr. Hall's work these days is all but lost, it seems in the mathematical hype over length, width and heighth (I thought it semantic equity to give height the extra "h" that the others got. I mean, what the h.). Then someone came up with time as the fabulous forth dimension. Everyone caught on to that one. "Of course, then there are more than three dimensions, there is a fourth. Time!" they would spout triumphantly. It reminds me of when I taught the neighbor's dog, Missy, the concept of three. She was thrilled. It seems people got thrilled when they got beyond three.
How many dimensions are there? Probably thousands, two thirds at least of which may even be as mathematically stablishable as the first three. I named a couple when I was a teenager: "magnitude and mineatude". Magnitude extends beyond our frame of reference and mineatude extends into or below our frame of reference, but on a horrendous scale. Both are infinite but mineatude is more so than magnitude. I know it sounds like word games, but it does have applications, such as a lifting body re-entering the atmosphere. It must have miniatudinal shielding or it will disintegrate as a moving body is coming from magnitude.
People got the one beyond three, the time dimension, but they never learned the vital lesson of Mr. Hall's discovery of the dimension of proxemics. The mistake is fatal. Now, I checked the book out of the library in Oakland, but I have dyslexia and it takes me a month to read a book that it takes others a few days or a week or two. So I had to return the book before I got beyond the first chapter. That's why my web site is so primitive, I had to do it without reading any books about how to do it. So I can't quote Mr. Hall's law of proxemics. But I would estimate it to be something like this: objects of the same characteristic must have the same optimum spacing to function.
So now we see something important that I was able to actually observe concerning human beings and disease. If the human organism is thrust into too close a proximity with others for prolonged time, as in a common domicile, there will be incessant incidents of common infection from communicable disease.
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