Can you help with a math problem?
One of the apparent weaknesses
of the paradigm change storyline (see: http:\\frostscientific.com )
that I am advocating is, when I say people need to "begin with
tetrahedron", rather than with the XYZ-cube, that is NOT an easy sell
on several counts. First off, ALL of us are who are able to read these
sentences have already been indoctrinated or educated or initialized
into the cube-first orientation. And there generally is really no going
back, completely, for us. We start with what's given. So the best WE
may be able to do do is perhaps just ADD tetrahedron to our thinking
and nest it somehow as primary within our engrained cubism.
Secondly,
though, there is the large matter of calculation and so-called
coorelation with rationality. In our traditional cube-first
initializations, we are intensely satisfied with observing that a stack
of 3 blocks wide by 3 blocks long always involves 9 blocks. And if we
stack these three layers deep there are 27 blocks which is also 9 plus
9 plus 9, three times nine and also three cubed. So, the cubic
orientation comes with this rather inherent counting math flowing quite
directly from its basic cubic structure. The patterns are so rational,
efficient and useful. Everybody likes them.
But when when crawl
through the opening in the dominant paradigm shield wall and we
saunter over
