How so? I would like to know more about this.

...the compass and square, the great and true levellers, notions such as point, line, the rotation of a line segment...

...I picked it up as practice of the art as a lesser art, along with plumb and level.

It probably arose as a reply to the photographic documentation of the tessaract of a cat as it arise and fall in a smaller space.

(8(pi)g)/c^4. It becomes a little bloody obvious when shown a picture of him next to a chalkboard with it. Take out the gravitational constant, and it's just the survey of the equivalent of a sphere in four dimensions - the compass, in four dimensions.

The basic, never-defined constant - 8(pi)g, wherein G is Newton's gravitational constant - shows up a few other places, such as, well, "Einstein's equation" itself - 8(pi)GT(uv). It is one constant.

It is (pi) because it's a circle derivative, albeit across more dimensions. It is G because, well, gravitational constant. Only one important number in this never-defined constant is left.

"8" in binary is, in fact, 1000. You can count it on your fingers yourself. Why such a number?

I'm tired as crap right now and am not checking the references (which are basically close to lost). Counting in binary starts at zero, however, and that's how it's shown to work in practice. 2^0 = 1; 0001 in binary. 2^1 = 2, 0010 in binary. 2^2 = 4, 0100 in binary...

...and 2^3, the fourth index position, is, well, 1000. Eight. The only number in general relativity, just add pi and G to the degree that's what you're applying them to. :)

Works for the lower dimensions, too. 2^1 = 2, of "2(pi)r" fame. It is the second index position and the equation describes a two-dimensional circle (in terms of surface area, which is important to the dissipation of an infitesimal moment in its propagation across space and time). Sphere? The third position is 2^2 = 4, and 4(pi)r is pretty close to the answer - just make it 4(pi)(r^2) to account for a two dimensional surface.

....aaaand, you already know what the number 1000 in binary is. Just replace the number (r^3) with Newton's gravitational constant, and you have the very, very old basis from a couple million years ago. ;)

Apparently, when you show people who are pretty powerful at the lower-order dimensions a dual-slit photon interference pattern and a stop-motion multiexposure of a kitten with the feynman diagram of a cat drawn between the more-sensibly-taken sampling points of resolution, they tend to get jealous and create a unified field theory or something. And it is, structurally, the number 1000 in binary... at least to the degree that one presumes a fourth dimension.

Here we are, a couple million years later. Some self-impressed absolute moron is obsessed with making everything square and level, and their only concern for higher-order dimensions is to crush all possibility and make everything the same. There is a very different sort of horizontalism, however, a very different way for things to be level.

The solution remains the same as it always was : to arm everyone, and vow to remain in the demielemental place of warmth and delicious and slay our gods in the perpetual war of all against all - that none should rule and that none should obey. To ride a black rag, to bow to no kings. I get the feeling that some have been, umm, slacking a little in their duties, and feel that personal religious preference is no excuse : any god you can reach with an axe is committing blasphemy.

Of course, the scale of universal armament changes a little. But that charming new constant is just the fourth dimension in a zero-inclusive numbering system; the number 1,000 in binary, a continuation of the basic 2(pi)r structure. ;)

I find myself severely disappointed upon my return.