Now Zone

Moment after moment the qualities of the most varied points of the world are falling, as instrumentally registered data, into other special points of the world and thus begin to complete or replace all the qualities and relations that have been, until this moment, just imagined.

 

TV: Moment after moment the appearance of the most varied points of the world is seen as a sequence of scenes and thus begins to modify every existing concept of the world, every particle of imaginary space created within us day after day.

 

 

How the NOW concept works …

Then I saw the Aleph. In this gigantic moment I saw millions of gladdening and horrible events; what astonished me most was that they all took place in the same location, without overlaying and without transparency. What my eyes saw, was simultaneous; what I will describe, is successive, because language is successive.

The Aleph, J.L. Borges 1949

 

Apparati whose workings are defined even to the millionth part of a second realise a spatial concept wherein, in each moment, the extension of the physical world is overcome and all distances converge towards zero.

 

… against the concept of IMAGINARY SPACE

 

Space and time cannot be observed. Rather, they are a sort of framework for objects and events. One might compare them to a system of compartments or a catalogue system for the organisation of observations. …

In vain he attempted to make clear that he had only denied the empirical character and the reality of space and time – an empirical character and a reality of the type we ascribe to physical objects and events.

Memorial Speech on the 150th anniversary of I. Kant’s death over the London Radio on February 12th, 1954.                                                                         K.R. Popper

 

Throughout millennia, the straight line of Euclidian geometry was the essential basic element of spatial concepts, until physically verifyable and sufficiently clear evidence lead to the conviction that in the entire observable universe exists no independent phenomenon that may be regarded as a straight line and that therefore all spatial concepts based an mere thought, such as the straight line, are untenable fictions, mere speculations within an imaginary space.

Date: 1979 Title: Now Zone