Minkowski and others of the truly great minds of the 19th Century-----and well it may be. But if so, then what we refer to as velocity would no longer be considered a vector but in fact a tensor of rank two.Any event perhaps the Chinese are right when they say that if you truly know an answer to such an enigma, then you will never be able to explain it in words........
We have been told throughout the last century that time is a "dimension"----actually it was Jean d'Alembert, the highly gifted French experimenter and inventor who first proposed that time was the Fourth Dimension and this idea was advanced later by Aecker, Lorentz, Fitzgerald, William Kingdon Clifford, Minkowski and others of the truly great minds of the 19th Century-----and well it may be. But if so, then what we refer to as "velocity" would no longer be considered a "vector" but in fact a tensor of rank two.
Any event perhaps the Chinese are right when they say that if you truly know an answer to such an enigma, then you will never be able to explain it in words....and if you think you can, then you really don't know it. Words can only convey so much in the way of abstract concepts and then the symbolism of mathematics can go further but even then sooner or later grinds to a halt and serve to do little more than glorify our own confusion about Nature.
But regardless, seek and ask---and eventually you very well may come up with a revelation that hits you like the 5:46 express and YOU will know inside what the answer is but you won't be able to explain it to anybody to save your soul from hell because they never coined the words. It can happen.
