Subject: Reply to "Re: Reply to Do Points Have Area

Volumetric Points

Subject:      Reply to "Re: Reply to Do Points Have Area?"

Author:       Candice Hebden <dreamy_aurora@hotmail.com>

Date:         21 Jan 98 09:06:17 -0500 (EST)

Kirby,

On January 20, 1998

[You wrote]

At the risk of being redundant, I'd prefer to ascribe volume to

points,

since your pancake points, if as flat as the ghostly "2D plane" won't

stack to create volume, any more than ghostly "0D points" you

criticize would make a line.

Response:  By assigning points area, hence giving lines length, the 3D

can be arrised... with out even giving lines thickness (although I

don't personally believe that lines can really have zero thinckness)

Let me explain:

No matter how much sense it makes, there is nothing that states that

if you lay a bunch of lines together you will have height!  But, to

make a cube, you need 12 line segments (which could have zero width)

because of the angles of the line segments, the construction will be

three dimentional!  Even though lines with width makes sense, it is

not necessary in order to (visually) construct in the 3D

I can't wait till a new geometry that makes more sense, maybe Jesse

Yoder's circular geometry, but I don't want to disclaim things in

Euclidean geometry yet if they still make some sense!

Candice Hebden

dreamy_aurora@hotmail.com

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