Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00099)

In a message dated 03/05/05 5:16:54 PM, forums@sova.us writes:

>Sunday, March 6, 2005, 12:00:20 AM, leonmaurer wrote:
>
>> If we wish to nit pick further :-) we might say that length is also 
distance
>> from one point to another along any path straight or curved.
>
>This kind of length is useless and senseless for, with such a
>definition, between two given fixed points you would be able to
>measure virtually any such "length" -- from zero to infinity.

How is that kind of length "useless and senseless"? 

I was referring to a specific "path"... In this case, the "great circle" path 
around the circumference of a sphere. Although, such measurement, which is 
finite between any two fixed points in space, applies to any straight or 
particularly traveled curved "path" between those fixed points. 

Therefore, on any such path, there is only a single fixed measurement. 

Thus, Pi must always remain a fixed ratio between the finite path length of 
the radius and the finite path length of the circumference of a circle -- 
regardless of the "length" measurement of either of those paths. 

That's as "sensible" and as "useful" to know as anything either of us can 
imagine. :-) Since, without such a fixed Pi ratio as a universal a priori, both 
scientific physics and theosophical metaphysics (ref: my ABC model of globes 
within globes, within globes, etc.) -- not to mention all geometric, fractal, 
and topological mathematics -- would become indecipherable and meaningless.

Best wishes,
Leon...