It seems that this circle has a
colored mass outside it, with tiny trails passing through the colored area...
On the far side of the bridge,
a similarly colored area surrounds a thin, winding patch of dark water. These two
fundamental shapes, a line and a circle, divided only by the obstruction,
illustrate a conversion from line to circle. We see this same phenomenon when we
line up to leave a stadium, then, bursting through the doors, spread quickly and
evenly outwards. Picturing the line as a garden hose, we get the final, rounded
burst of spray. If you wish, you may see the obstruction as an adapter between
two realms: The new flow of water has adapted to its' new, free
environment. The adaptations made by living creatures have their roots in such
simple physics.
Furthermore, light appears to adapt
to a change of energy, where a low energy wave is nearly a straight line,
but a high energy wave becomes very zig-zagged, as if the light is trying
to make a dimensional pop from a line into a plane. Of
course, you knew that from your trip to the bank, when so many people tried to
fit into a short space that everyone had to stand beside each other...
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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Casnig, John D. 1997-2009. A
Language of Metaphors. Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Knowgramming.com