Euclidean Space:
The History of Elements according to Jack
Just a little over two millennia ago, there lived a Greek gentleman by the name of Euclid (aka, Euclid of Alexandria, aka, "The Yuke". Euclid was a peculiar character that enjoyed spending a lot of time alone crunching numbers, playing solitaire and experimenting with water color. One day in the beautiful Mediterranean, Euclid was racing along in his fine chariot on the Rameses Toll road on the way back to Alexandria Egypt when he suddenly had epiphany! He began to ponder the distance he traveled and compared to where he was before and where he was going. He then started pondering the shapes of objects and their angles. After making it to Alexandria, he decided to put all his thoughts and geometric theorems into book form and titled it, "Elements". Euclid said to himself, "YES! Everyone will thank me, for I have brought boredom to a new level! This will be much better than Optics!"
Euclid's book became a hit among his Greek and Egyptian counterparts and being the good sport he was, he gave out free copies of is book to all of his friends. They in turn made copies at work on the Xerox machine and before Euclid thought about getting an agent, it was too late. While his unique vision became such a hit, he forgot about inventing copyright laws. Needless to say, he didn't make much money on his views on space, as he believed it to be. When he did finally find an agent to help him with another book, he ran off with his wife to Gaul and none of his works got him anywhere in life. Euclid spent the remainder of his days discussing axioms and watching Alton Brown on the Greek food network channel. Nevertheless, he did go down in history as that Greek from Alexandria who wrote that geometry book on everything. "Elements" as it was titled, became a hit down through the ages except for a few hundred years when everything went really dark, and folks quit bathing for some reason.
"Elements" was a great success with mathematicians and engineer until this odd Austrian guy started thinking too much about elevators in outer space, and before you knew it he threw a monkey wrench into Euclid's ideas with the notion that gravity changed things too much to the point of disrupting time and space - Why Einstein!? Why did you have to do that?
So it goes to show that sometimes our own views on time and space are all that matter for the moment. Euclid determined was space was with geometry while Einstein proved that space and time can be changed. With my take on it all, I've decided that I would title my thoughts as, Euclidean Space as defined by the J.T.
Enjoy.
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