The cracks in this mud gradually widened into
progressively more crack-resistant regions...
Similar to the way we develop a
city, starting with the most desirable and easiest-selling land, then
progressing to the lesser sub-divisions, the cracks cut gradually smaller
avenues of force as the clay shrinks. With very little imagination, one can see
this as an arial view of a city, complete with major thoroughfares, tiny
sidestreets and small plots of "undeveloped" land. This is a simple,
natural fractal, or fractional dimension, of which you're sure to learn
about on this site.
This website
is dedicated to the proposal that the metaphorical relationships drawn
between any two disciplines are, in fact, universal, being
isomorphic mathematical derivations of the Unified Field Theory. Further, that this symmetric
aspect of
metaphor is extrapolatable both linearly and laterally, thus may be harnessed to mathematically
predict missing knowledge
and invention in all
other disciplines: an interdisciplinary Rosetta stone of
universal scope.
"The
metaphor reminds us that the universe is full of cousins." -
J.D. Casnig
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use only. Work should be cited as:
Casnig, John D. 1997-2009. A
Language of Metaphors. Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Knowgramming.com