I enjoy period pieces; movies that recreate earlier eras in minute 
detail.  They have been pretty good at it, costumes, languange, or 
architecture carefully recreated to tell a story. 
 
From time to time, I catch them at anomaly.  Like a 19th century 
farm scene with horse drawn wagons- hauling baled hay.  Haybales 
did not show up on the farm I was born on till the 1950's. before 
that, we usta put the hay up loose. I don't think I ever saw a 
baler that was made before 1940. 
 
Likewise, I consider the world around me, and wonder if some of 
the odd stuff I see is some sort of anomaly in reality itself, as 
opposed to phenomena that are simply misconstrued.  That is to say 
that, there is nothing wrong with my perceptive input, but that 
the perception itself does not make sense given the conventional 
time/space continuum. 
 
This is in some large measure confirmed by the findings in Quantum 
mechanics and sub-atomic physics, where the more you look at it, 
the weirder it gets. Like the movie period piece, most folks don't 
notice, or don't bother with stuff like this; this suggests to me, 
that reality is no more convincing than necessary to satisfy most 
of the viewers, but if you are not one of them, you may indeed see 
some inconsistency in the image presented to your mind. 
 
Of course, perceiving anomaly and understanding... in the former, 
it is pretty obvious that the film director and actors were not 
actually 19th century farmers, and would not notice anything odd 
about a bale of hay on a wagon.  In the latter, the anomalies are 
studied by mathematicians, who at least know something strange is 
afoot, but otherwise are like the director and actors- clueless. 
 
The answer awaits the attention of a mystical mathematician. I do 
not know that he could communicate the understanding any more than 
Einstein could present his to the general run of mankind.  So far 
as I can see, the necessity to do so is debateable. 
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 * OFFLINE 1.58 * I think better now than I usta, but is that good enough? 
--- Maximus 3.01
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