The Geometry of the Space

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Euclid created this marvelous geometry, which was the geometry of the space. Gauss found another space and created another geometry. Riemann came along and perfected the Gaussian space. And we suddenly had two geometries. Nobody knew which was the real geometry of the real space in Emu. A great pore of agnosticism crapped over the mathematical world. Now nobody knows what the hell kind of space we live in. We don't know whether it's Euclidean, Riemannian or Labichevsky. Or Hamiltonian or Hilbert space. Meanwhile looming on the horizon is the jocquial effigier of Bucky Fuller with his

Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson PROGRAM NOTES: Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982 [NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.] "The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit." "One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past." "Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia." Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option