Eccentrics

 

I’m An Ordinary Man

An average man am I, of no eccentric whim,
Who likes to live his life, free of strife,
doing whatever he thinks is best, for him,
Well... just an ordinary man...

If no eccentricity is ordinary, then being eccentric must be exceptional!

In mathematics, ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas can all be defined as sections, slices, of a cone. If that slice passes exactly through the apex, tip, of that cone, it's eccentricity is exactly one and it is a parabola. Eccentricity describes your relationship to the tip. If the eccentricity is less than one, then the slice, section, of the cone is closed, an ellipse, where a circle is a subset of an ellipse. If the eccentricity is greater than 1, then the section is open and is a hyperbola.

Astronomers have confirmed that the universe is open, not closed. That rules out the shape of the universe being an ellipse, or some other sphere.  But both a hyperbola and a parabola are open, infinite. The question is therefore whether the universe also passes through the apex of the cone. It appears that the universe is also hyperbolic, and not a parabola. This has an additional mathematical feature. Rotation of a parabola creates a complex number, a number that has a real and an imaginary component. A hyperbolic cosine already has imaginary components, but the result is a real number. Its rotation by any degree is still a real number.

In an earlier blog post, I had proposed that approaching an absolute (God) is what cast Lucifer out of Heaven (Order) into Hell (Chaos). Based on observed data from vehicles at I-4 and the Central Florida Parkway in Orlando, since Greenshields and Van Aerde are parabolic functions,  I would also like to suggest that, in Heaven ( uncongested conditions) there is no difference between Van Aerde’s parabolic function and a hyperbolic function, but in Hell (congested conditions) there is little difference between Greenshields’ parabolic, functions which tolerates no eccentricity and thinks it has passed through the apex/absolute ( an individual), and a hyperbolic function which recognizes that it did NOT pass through the absolute (a group).

IOW, Lucifer  cast himself out of heaven because he thought he was God, and acting only for yourself and tolerating no eccentricity, means that you share in Lucifer’s sin. If America is exceptional, as it claims to be, it should also tolerate eccentrics.