Paul Laffoley, Parturient Blessed Morality of Physiological Dimensionality_ Aleph-Null Number , 2004-2006

2004

Medium

Giclee print on UltraSmooth Fine Art 100% rag paper

Dimensions

40.6 × 58.4 cm

Edition

No. 71 of an Edition of 75

Status

For Sale

Price

On request

Collect24 Art ID

C24-986236

Subject_ The connection between Human Physiology and Dimensionality. Symbol Evocation_ The Mystery of Light as Consciousness without the Brilliance. Comments_ Rationalized dimensionality above and below the dimensional realm- the dimension that has been defined as “consensus reality” – is the work of the geometer and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), who conceived on a higher-dimensional analytic geometry, and the mathematician-physicist Georg Friedrich Bernard Riemann (1826-1866), who as a student was influenced by Gauss. From 300 B.C.E. to 1854 the third dimension of the ancient Greek geometer Euclid held sway over the spatial imaginations of most of the population of the Western world. Even a mind as brilliant as that possessed by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was not immune. The sense of the misplaced absolutism concerning space and time was never challenged with the exception of G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) until the beginning of the nineteenth century. Then a number of mathematicians began to voice a new direction such as Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856) and János Bolyai. But it was ultimately Riemann who advanced the concept of dimensionality into an N-dimensional manifold with a metric so as to establish a quantitative rule for assigning lengths to paths. This now meant that one could consider force or energy to be a consequence to geometry, making the laws of nature seem simpler when viewed from the context of a more comprehensive dimensional space. The apotheosis of his thinking resulted in the revolution in physics initiated in the early twentieth century by Albert Einstein (1879-1955), and continues to influence contemporary physics although modified into quantum geometry.