Many modern scientists believe that our current understanding of physics is on the verge of a major revolution. Modern physics recognizes four distinct forces of nature (gravity, electro-magnetism, and the two nuclear forces). Physicists have been working intensely for a century in an attempt to unify these four forces into one force. Many scientists believe that it is only a matter of time until they meet with complete success. Each small step on the road to unification is considered to be a great achievement. A theory that finally enables unification of the four forces of nature will have a major impact not only on all of the sciences, but on all of society. As physics progresses toward unification of the four forces, the model of nature that physics constructs has become ever increasingly complex and difficult to comprehend.
As we look at the world around us, we are aware that nature is indeed very complex. However, the fundamental laws of nature cannot be complex, but must be simple. The more complex our understanding of nature, the more complex the model of nature that science constructs, the greater the need for a simpler, more encompassing model to explain that understanding.
When Nicolas Copernicus was a student 500 years ago, astronomy was extremely complex. It was not a subject for the average person. The ancient Greek explanation of the paths of the sun and the planets around the earth had grown extremely complex in order to enable astronomers to maintain their geocentric model. When Copernicus introduced his model of nature, which placed the sun at the center of the solar system, astronomy became much simpler. Many of the great complexities of calculation and understanding disappeared under the new model.
Nowadays, astronomy and physics are again extremely complex. Most people cannot understand Einsteinian physics, and few people venture to try. As with the age of Copernicus, the great complexity of science means that science needs to evolve to a new model, one which again enables simplicity. This model is incredibly powerful, and yet is incredibly simple, such that the average person can understand it to a very deep level. This model requires no knowledge of mathematics other than basic geometry.
This theory is as practical and as useful as it is simple. Einsteinian physics is far too complex for people of casual interest to understand well, it has little practical applicability to anything outside of physics, and knowledge of it has no effect on our daily lives when we are not thinking about physics. This theory, in addition to being simple enough for the average person to understand well, is useful for the understanding not only of advanced physics but of all fields of science and non-science as well, and this knowledge will constantly throughout our daily lives affect and improve our relationship with each other and with the world around us.
This model is so powerful because it takes a linguistic approach to science. Physicists tend to look outward, to the far ends of the universe, in order to better understand the organization of the universe. It is now apparent that it is immensely valuable to take a moment to look inward, and to analyze the organization of the language grammar that we use to organize our understanding of the organization of the universe.
Zero Means More Than 'Nothing'
When the human species first evolved, there was no need, and there was no ability, to count to numbers as high as nowadays, such as to one million. In the beginning, there was no need or ability to count at all. Mankind learned to count slowly, only as there developed a need and a use for numbers.
The duodecimal (base 12) system of counting developed before the decimal (base 10) system in all societies that now use a decimal system. The duodecimal system first developed to enable counting of the cycle of the months of the year. It counted from one to twelve only. There was no month zero. After twelve months had passed by, a new year would begin, and counting of the months would begin again at number one. Counting of numbers higher than twelve, the continuation of the cycle of numbers until 'infinity', did not begin in the ancestor of the English language until the decimal system was adopted.
Chinese evolved from earlier counting systems to a duodecimal system before developing its modern decimal system. The duodecimal system is still important in China, but it is not nearly as important as the more recently developed decimal system. Modern Chinese has 10 basic numbers. These are equivalent to the arithmetic numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
The Chinese number 11 is written as 10+1.
(11 = 10 + 1) The ancestor of English was 'born' at the time that the duodecimal system had already developed, but before it had been replaced by the later decimal system. English later went on to develop a decimal system, but the clear markings of the original duodecimal system remain to this day. The ancestor of the English language originally had 12 basic numbers.
One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven TwelveBecause English originally used a duodecimal system of counting, the English measurement of length, the foot, is subdivided into not 10 but 12 inches; the English measurement of weight, the pound, originally had 12 ounces; there are 12 in a dozen; etc. As well, the more recent, higher numbers, which begin with the teens, begin following 12, at 13, and not following 10, at 11.
Thirteen (13 = 3 + 10)'Thir' sounds like 'three' and 'teen' sounds like 'ten', and 'thirteen' has the meaning of '3+10'. Modern counting in English is based on a decimal system, with ten basic numbers. However, with the modern Arabic numerals, these basic numbers are not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, but 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The number zero is a very recent development. Zero does not simply mean 'nothing'. Zero also means 'not one of the other numbers, of which there are, when using the decimal system, nine possibilities'. Notice that we consider this series from 0 to 9 to represent ten numbers, and not nine numbers. In other words, in modern arithmetic the number zero represents a distinction that is just as significant as each of the other nine numbers.
People who study geometry and physics consider that we live in a world of three dimensions of space. The first dimension is symbolized by the line, the second dimension by the plane, and the third dimension by three dimensional space. There is also the point. The point symbolizes zero dimensions. Why is it that in geometry zero is not considered to symbolize a dimension that is as distinct and as significant as the other three dimensions, whereas in arithmetic zero symbolizes a distinction that is just as significant as the other nine numbers?
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 10 (not 9) numbers!! Yet 0 1 2 3 = 3 (not 4) dimensions??Geometry is a 'model' of the world. Geometry is a theoretical model, because nothing in geometry can actually exist in the 'real' world. Geometry can only exist in the mind of mankind. Geometry is very useful, because the model of the world that is established by geometry is similar in organization to the organization of the real world. However, 'similar' should not be confused with 'identical'. Geometry is a simple mathematical model, and its simplicity is made possible by making certain inaccurate assumptions about the nature of the world, such as the notion that space is infinite. Geometry, and science that is based on geometry, accepts as fundamental and absolute that we live in a world wherein each dimension of space is infinite, either infinitely small or infinitely large. However, space is finite, and the human mind and human language relate to space as being finite.
The most fundamental unit in geometry is the point. The point is considered to exist, yet with zero dimensions of existence. People can draw a point,
Point ==> .but what is drawn here is a linguistic point, and not a geometric point, as this point not only exists, but it exists in all dimensions.
The non-existent geometric point is the building block of the one dimensional geometric line. Again, it is not possible to draw or otherwise create or point out in nature an example of a geometric line, as a geometric line can exist only in the mind. Instead, geometers represent the geometric line by drawing or pointing out a linguistic line, which exists in all dimensions, and not in just one dimension.
Line ==> ________________Unlike with a geometric line, the dimensions of a linguistic line are not infinite: The length of lines that people relate to in nature is never infinitely large, but always has a finite largeness, and the width and depth are never infinitely small, but always have a finite smallness.
The geometric line is the building block of the geometric plane. The plane is the building block of three dimensional geometric space. Nothing can exist in the real world that does not exist in all three dimensions of space.
And yet, three dimensional space has no more existence and is no more real than zero, one, or two dimensional space. Why? All of space exists in time. Without time, there can be no force, such as gravity, as force acts over time. There can be no growth, or change, in things, as change occurs over time. Without time, you could not even be aware of the above point or line, as light from the point and the line requires time to reach your eyes. Without its relationship to time, there can be no existence in space. Existence in space without existence in time would be like the video recorder of life eternally set to 'pause'.
Modern physics now recognizes three forms of dimensions. There is the point, which is so defined as to exist without any dimensions of existence. There are three dimensions of space, and there is one dimension of time. Modern physics recognizes 1+3+1 = 5 distinctions in time and space. These five distinctions enable a very powerful model of physics. Because they are not unified, they also necessitate an extremely complex model.
However, mankind, and human language, did not evolve by first recognizing things that have no existence, followed by things that have progressively more, although still incomplete, existence. Earliest mankind did not first become aware of the non-existent geometric point, but first became aware of the existent linguistic point. By analyzing the grammar of English within the context of the other languages of the world, a much simpler, yet more powerful, more unified, and more encompassing model of nature emerges.
Geometry Recognizes 3 Dimensions,
But The English Language Recognizes 4 DimensionsEuclidean geometry recognizes three dimensions. However, there are four distinctions, the point, the line, the plane, and space. These are also known as zero, one, two, and three dimensions.
Geometric symbols: Point Line Plane SpaceNumbers: 0 1 2 3It is now clear that, linguistically, zero geometric dimensions symbolizes to the human mind just as much a distinction from the other three dimensions as the number zero distinguishes from the other nine numbers. In other words, the grammar of the English language causes its speakers to recognize a world of FOUR dimensions of space and time, and not only the three dimensions of space that are recognized by geometry.
Because the English language recognizes a world of FOUR dimensions, speakers of English recognize FOUR dimensions of space and FOUR dimensions of time. It is for this reason that it is 'natural' that all primary subdivisions of space and all primary subdivisions of time in English are subdivisions not into groups of three but into groups of FOUR.
Subdivisions of Space
Speakers of English 'naturally' recognize that all of space, and all of the world around us, is subdivided into FOUR directions:
Directions: North South East WestIn ancient times, speakers of Greek, a language that is related to English, recognized that all that exists in space exists as a combination of FOUR elements, which compose all matter in space:
Elements: Air Earth Fire WaterAmong other things, these FOUR elements symbolize the FOUR states of matter in space that speakers of English traditionally recognize:
States of matter: Gas Solid Energy LiquidAir is an example of a gas, earth is a solid, water is a liquid, and fire symbolizes energy.
The ancient Greeks recognized FOUR forces in space, known as:
Forces: Hot Cold Wet DryThe names have long since changed, but modern science still recognizes that there are FOUR forces of nature, FOUR forces that affect things that occupy space, known as:
Forces: Gravity Electro- Strong Weak Magnetism Force ForceWhen things that occupy space are put in the mouth, they can produce a taste. Speakers of English recognize, not coincidentally, FOUR tastes:
Tastes: Sweet Sour Salty Bitter
Subdivisions of Time
The grammar of English causes its speakers to recognize FOUR primary measurements of time:
Units of time: Hour Day Month YearThe importance of the day, the month, and the year are easy to understand, as changes in these units of time are clearly based on changes that are seen in space. The day is based on the rotation of the earth, the month is based on the revolution of the moon about the earth, and the year is based on the revolution of the earth about the sun. The primary importance of the hour is explained in depth in the book. Other units of time, such as the week and the minute, are not primary units of time, but are secondary units.
Each year is subdivided into FOUR seasons:
Years: Spring Summer Fall WinterEach month is subdivided into FOUR weeks:
Months: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 to 1st qtr to full moon to 3rd qtr to new moonThis division of the month into FOUR weeks was more exact in ancient times, when the ancestor of English used lunar months, instead of the solar months that are used in modern times.
Each day used to be subdivided into FOUR parts. In ancient times, these were called 'hours', and roughly corresponded to:
Days: Morning Afternoon Evening NightBecause the English language recognizes FOUR dimensions, FOUR dimensions of time and FOUR dimensions of space, speakers of English are naturally guided by their grammar to subdivide and to recognize consciously all of time and space in groups of FOUR.
English Recognizes 4 Dimensions,
But Some Languages Recognize 5 DimensionsThis subdivision of all aspects of time and space into groups of four seems so natural to speakers of English that it is difficult even to imagine that this might not be an absolute and universal 'truth' of nature. It is not natural for speakers of English to challenge this belief, nor is it easy to do so, as this is a fundamental part of the 'reality' of speakers of English. The natural sciences of English naturally accept it as given that this is a fundamental truth of nature. Yet is the English model of reality the only possible model?
You might be surprised to learn that since ancient times the Chinese language has recognized FIVE directions in space:
Directions: North South Center East WestAncient Chinese recognized FIVE elements that compose all matter in space:
Elements: Wood Fire Earth Metal WaterSpeakers of Chinese recognize, not coincidentally, FIVE tastes:
Tastes: Sweet Sour Salty Bitter SpicyAncient Chinese recognized FIVE primary measurements of time:
Units of time: Hour Day Month Year Life Span
Each life span was subdivided into FIVE cycles (of 12 years, 5x12 is the source of the base 60 counting system). Each year was subdivided into FIVE seasons. Each month was subdivided into six weeks (six is a number that is symmetrical to FIVE). Each week was subdivided into FIVE days.
Ancient speakers of Chinese naturally subdivided all of time and space into groups of FIVE, because the Chinese language recognizes FIVE dimensions, and not four like English.
Evolution Through Five Dimensions
The entire universe, and everything in the universe, evolves, and that everything evolves according to a cycle. All evolution in the universe follows the same cyclic pattern. Mankind is aware of the pattern of evolution of the universe as a FIVE stage cycle or the "Pattern of Life".
Just as mankind is evolving as a species, the entire universe is evolving. Just as with the life of each person, the universe is born, it grows, it declines, and it dies, and it contains the seed of its own perpetuation.
Language is what has enabled mankind to become aware of the pattern of nature. This awareness is called 'consciousness'. The species Homo Sapiens did not become fully conscious all at once, but in incremental stages, which are known as 'dimensions'. Modern languages reflect mankind's evolution to the awareness of each of FIVE dimensions, such that mankind currently lives in a world of linguistic awareness of FIVE dimensions of space. The existence of each of these dimensions of space can be comprehended by the mind only in relation to a simultaneous awareness of the existence of a corresponding dimension of time. In other words, space and time are understood by the mind in terms of FIVE dimensions, each of which is a dimension not of space alone or of time alone, but of 'space-time'.
Speakers of English are also aware of the world in terms of five dimensions, but for reasons that are discussed in great depth in the book, the grammar of English does not enable its speakers to manipulate all five dimensions equally at the conscious level.
In geometry, space is considered to be infinite, because the ancient Greeks based their model of space on their understanding of time, and they recognized that time is infinite. However, space is finite. Language does not deal with infinitely small points, but with points of a finite smallness, and not with infinitely large lines, but with finite line segments, not with infinite planes, but with finite areas, and not with infinite space, but with finite volumes of space-time.
First Dimension Geometry: Infinitely small geometric points in space. English: Finitely small linguistic points in space-time. Second Dimension Geometry: Infinitely large geometric lines in space. English: Finitely large linguistic segments in space-time. Third Dimension Geometry: Infinitely large geometric planes in space. English: Finitely large linguistic areas in space-time. Fourth Dimension Geometry: Infinitely large geometric space. English: Finitely large linguistic volumes in space-time.
What is the meaning of a phrase such as 'finitely small point in space-time'? For example, you see this point, '.', which is of finite smallness, not across the street or even across the room, but 'here', at 'this point' in space, and you see it not yesterday and not tomorrow, but 'now', at 'this point' in time.
As our species evolved to the awareness of each succeeding dimension of nature, language evolved to express that awareness. The stages in the evolution of mankind, the stages in the evolution of the universe, can be traced through the stages in the evolution of the languages of mankind.
As mankind evolved to the awareness of succeeding dimensions in the homeland of Homo Sapiens in Africa, small groups continuously migrated out of Africa and around the world. Each group took with it a language that expressed all of the dimensions of which mankind was at that time aware. Whereas the languages of all such groups continued to evolve as their speakers became aware of succeeding dimensions, the small size of the gene pool that supported each language ensured that the grammar of each language remained 'oriented' in a fundamental and primary way to the number of dimensions of which the original speakers were aware at the very moment that they left Africa.
The dimension of consciousness that could be expressed in the language that each group of people took with them at the moment that they left Africa became their 'primary' dimension of orientation to the world. All modern people are now aware of all five dimensions (at least at the subconscious level). As each language evolved into its modern form, awareness of each subsequent dimension was incorporated into every aspect of the grammar in a manner that was consistent with the primary dimension of orientation, rather than being integrated into the grammar to form a new primary dimension of orientation, as continued to occur with languages that remained in or had not yet left the homeland in Africa.
The ancestors of the modern speakers of Chinese left Africa when Homo Sapiens first became sapient; mankind was conscious, but only of the first dimension. The Chinese language then had to superimpose its understanding of each succeeding dimension onto the first. In the homeland of Homo Sapiens in Africa, all five dimensions of awareness became integrated into a single pattern of nature. The ancestors of the speakers of English left Africa when mankind was aware of four dimensions, and these four were integrated into a single pattern, although the fifth dimension, which they became aware of after they left Africa, was not integrated.
Because none of the dimensions are integrated in Chinese, and because each dimension is therefore distinct from each of the others, Chinese provides the best evidence that enables understanding of each of the stages in the evolution of consciousness in mankind.
Evolution Through Five Cultures
English has a primary orientation to four dimensions, and therefore naturally recognizes four great centers of civilization around the ancient world, in China, India, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. In order to develop a five dimensional, integrated understanding of language evolution, it is necessary to recognize that there were five great centers of civilization, and not four. The fifth great center of civilization was located in the homeland of mankind, in the homeland of the speakers of the Bantu family of languages, which includes Swahili.
It is recognized in physics that the speed of light is constant throughout space-time. Now, the speed of light is not constant throughout space or throughout time, but it is constant throughout space-time. Thus, the greater the motion of an object through space, the less its motion through time, and vice versa. In the same way, the farther that an object moves through space, the less that the object moves through time; the less the object ages. For example, it is commonly recognized that people who exercise more throughout life, in other words move their bodies more through space, tend to remain younger longer, in other words age more slowly, or move more slowly through time.
S . T = C (Speed (Speed through through space) x time) = Speed of light (Constant) S . T = C Space - Time Is ConstantThe ancestors of the Chinese were the first group of people to leave Africa, whereupon they went into long term motion through space, a slow migration that lasted thousands of years, across the earth to what is now China. Of all of the five primary centers of culture of Homo Sapiens, the Chinese moved the most through space. The groups of mankind that occupied the other primary centers of cultural development moved later and less far from Africa through space. The cultures that remain today in Africa have moved the least through space over the millennia that mankind has been sapient. As the speed of light is constant throughout space-time, the Chinese, who have moved the farthest through space, have moved the least through time. Therefore, genetically, the Chinese form the youngest culture of mankind. The civilization of Swahili forms the oldest, or most evolved, culture of mankind.
Be aware that the words 'youngest' and 'oldest' are double edged words. The Chinese culture can be considered the 'oldest' culture on earth if we consider how many years 'before today' the culture began its path apart from the other cultures of mankind. However, the Chinese culture must be considered the 'youngest' culture on earth when we consider that the ancestors of the modern speakers left Africa first, when mankind was still at its youngest stage of evolution, and that the greater motion through space has caused Chinese to remain 'younger' (less motion through time) than all subsequent cultures ever since.
When children are born, they have no idea about the organization of nature, and they have no language that will help them to organize their understanding of nature. Children are at their maximum rate of motion through space of their lives; that is, children are at their maximum rate of change in space, or growth, and everyday they look different. Children are also at their maximum awareness of space, as they are too young, and have passed through too little time, to be well aware of time. As children age, they evolve to a better understanding of the organization of nature. They learn a language, which helps them to organize their understanding of nature.
The younger the children, the less time through which they have passed, and the more that they will rely on objects in space in front of them to understand the world. As children age, they begin to have more of a past, and they come to rely more on their past to help them understand what is in front of them now, and depend less on the objects in their present. In other words, youth are more aware of space, and as they age they become more aware of time.
The more that a language has traveled in motion through space, the greater will be the collective tendency of its speakers to explore and learn about changes in space. This is the basis for the development of culture using space, and so, of all of the five centers of civilization, Chinese has enabled the highest development of culture using space. The more that a language has traveled in motion through time, the greater will be the collective tendency of its speakers to explore and learn about changes in time. This is the basis for the development of culture using time, and so, of all of the five centers of civilization, the African languages have enabled the highest development of culture using time.
Evolution Of Language
Let's take a brief look at the Chinese and Swahili languages, as they are the extremes of orientation to space or time, to recognize how the orientation of youth to space evolves to orientation to time as it ages. English and the other languages of the world represent a more even balance of these two extremes.
When the ancestors of the speakers of Chinese left Africa, mankind was aware of only the first dimension. Chinese grammar is organized in such a way that as the speakers of Chinese became aware of each subsequent dimension, that awareness became superimposed in a consistent manner over the preceding dimensions. Each dimension is therefore completely distinct from each of the others, and Chinese speakers cannot not be aware of the distinct pattern of each of the five dimensions.
As the ancestors of the speakers of Swahili evolved through their greater time, they became increasingly aware of the organization of the patterns of nature. Swahili was able to integrate each of the five dimensions into one unified pattern of nature. However, the powerful act of organizing the integration of all of the five dimensions into one unified pattern of nature caused each of the dimensions to become indistinct from each of the others, as there is no distinction within unity. Therefore, the clear understanding of the nature of each distinct dimension does not at all permeate Swahili as it does Chinese.
How does each language grammar express its orientation to space and time? Why does more of one necessarily imply less of the other, such that there is always a balance of space and time? Just as when the universe began in the explosion known as the 'Big Bang', space-time is born at its maximum rate of motion through space, and at its minimum rate of motion through time. As there is more initial motion through space than through time, mankind as a species was, and each child is, initially more aware of space than of time. The first type of word in language was the noun. Nouns express awareness of space. Nouns name things that occupy space.
When the ancestors of the modern speakers of Chinese left Africa, at the stage of awareness of one dimension, there was only the noun in their language. The noun is the one dimensional unit of meaning in language. All subsequent words in Chinese, including all adjectives and all verbs, evolved out of what were originally nouns. These nouns were randomly created, and were poorly organized, as youth has little understanding of the organization of nature. Because there was no subdivision of time in the first dimension, verbs in Chinese have no tenses, such as past tense or future tense.
As mankind evolved, the species passed through more time, and so became more aware of time, and of the changes that space undergoes over time. This gave rise to verbs and their tenses. Verbs express awareness of time in the same way that nouns express awareness of space. Verbs name actions, which occur over time. As language evolved over time, verbs became increasingly prevalent.
By the time that Swahili was 'born', the speakers had evolved to the awareness of all five dimensions. They were aware of an extremely powerful, integrated, five dimensional organization of nature. Swahili is so well organized that all words in Swahili evolved out of what originally were verbs. All nouns, adjectives, etc. in Swahili evolved out of verbs in an extremely organized manner. Verb tenses in Swahili are numerous, and are extremely well organized.
Incidentally, the older, or more evolved, a culture, the better able the culture is to organize its understanding of space-time. The development of science is a reflection of the dimension of organization of space-time. Modern China places great importance on western science, because western science is much older (more evolved) than Chinese science. In the same manner, the grammar of Swahili has evolved to an entire dimension of organization beyond the grammar of English. The potential power of a science that is based on the evolved, organized, five dimensional grammar of Swahili is incredible.
Evolution Of Culture
Orientation to space is the source of culture using space, and so Chinese developed the most evolved culture using space in the ancient world. Orientation to time is the source of culture using time, and so the African civilizations have developed the most evolved cultures using time. Once the civilizations of mankind became aware of the fifth dimension, the younger, more space oriented Chinese applied more energy to the development of culture using space, and the older, more time oriented Swahili applied more energy to the development of culture using time.
For example, works of art occupy space (they are visible in space), and so art could be expected to flourish in a space oriented society, as it has in China.
Numbers also relate to space. The pattern of the numbers is identical with the pattern of nature, which is what numbers were originally developed to count. Numbers were originally counted on the fingers, which occupy space. Therefore, counting developed more in ancient China than in ancient Africa. The Chinese developed on their fingers a powerful, natural, base 60 counting system, which was superior to what developed in Africa.
Whereas speakers of Chinese have tended to excel at the cultural development of space, and of things that occupy space, such as art, metal work, writing, etc., speakers of Swahili have tended to excel at the cultural development of time, and of things that occupy time, such as music. The eyes see space, such as a painting, which does not change over time. The ears hear sound, such as music, only as it passes through time, because if sound were frozen at a moment in time, such that there were no change in time, there could be no sound.
Music is a complex interaction of sound. Knowledge of the organization of sound and of sound interaction determines the difference between music and noise. The ability to make music is the ability to organize sound, the ability to organize time. It is not surprising that the cultures of Africa have contributed greatly to the evolution of trends in music in American society. Pythagoras, the extremely influential philosopher of ancient Greece, must have been very evolved indeed to have realized 2,500 years ago that the organization of sound is identical to the organization of the universe.
As youth evolves to adulthood, the body continues to grow, and to increase its size in space. Therefore, descendants of the slightly older African civilization will tend to be taller and larger than descendants of the slightly younger Chinese civilization, who will tend to be shorter and smaller. There are certainly exceptions to this, some Chinese are very tall and some Africans are very short, but Africans clearly tend on average to be taller and larger than Chinese.
Just as older youth tend to have a more well-developed muscular system, and so are stronger, than younger youth, descendants of the African civilization tend to be physically stronger and more well-developed. This helps account for the much larger percentage of people of African descent who have become professional athletes in sports that require strength than people of Chinese descent.
At the same time, youth tend to lose their flexibility as they age. This helps account for the much larger percentage of people of Chinese descent who have excelled at sports of flexibility, such as gymnastics, than people of African descent.
While the body tends to be not as well developed in youth, the mind tends to be more aware of changes in the present. Youth adapts more quickly to the older ways of adults than adults adapt to the newer ways of children. This helps account for the larger percentage of people of Chinese descent, and the smaller percentage of people of African descent, that excel in American universities. These universities are designed by and for white people, and orient toward their four dimensional culture, which is older than the Chinese culture and younger than the African culture. It must be stressed that this is a cultural tendency, and does not necessarily apply to any given person.
Conclusion
We live in a world in which we are able to be aware of five dimensions of time and space. Everything of which mankind is aware evolves through the same cyclic pattern, and evolves through the same five dimensions of space-time. This includes the universe as a whole and everything within the universe, such as the solar system, the earth, the species Homo Sapiens, the life of each person, consciousness, language, etc.
Relationships among the fingers with patterns in nature are what have enabled mankind to evolve to awareness of each of the five dimensions of space-time. What are the cycles in nature that mankind uses to understand time? How are these same cycles 'translated' into an understanding of space, such as with geometry? How do these same cycles form the basis of, and serve as the model for, the patterns of language? How did finger signs evolve to symbolize our awareness of each of the five dimensions of space-time, the dimensions of existence, position, motion, interaction, and perpetuation?