Brief
René Descartes
The claims the writer was given for René Descartes, in the order they were given.
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Jacques Vallée argues that Cartesian spacetime coordinates, popularised around the time of René Descartes through the cultural artifact of graph paper, should be abandoned as the basis for a theory of information.
“Some genius around the time of Descartes (perhaps it was Descartes himself) popularized the idea of representing and measuring motions in terms of distance from two axes intersecting at right angles: “Cartesian” coordinates were born, and they have remained imprinted in our minds ever since. When we can draw something on graph paper, we think we understand it. I submit that it is proper to shake from our theoretical ankles the chains of spacetime.”
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults 0101-01-01 ch13:58456-58898 opinion first hand
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Russian theoretician Gannady Shipov, applying torsion ideas originally propounded by the 17th-century philosopher Rene Descartes that all motion is ultimately rotation in a curved universe, went on to prove that torsion fields are not static as Cartan had calculated but are actually dynamic.
“later Russian theoreticians (like Dr. Gannady Shipov),48 applying separate torsion ideas originally propounded by the 17th-century philosopher, Rene Descartes...would go on to prove that torsion fields are ultimately *not* static (as Cartan had calculated from his erroneous assumptions regarding what constitutes "rotation"), but actually *dynamic*”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:94798-95224 opinion second hand
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Dynamic torsion, also called Ricci torsion, is named after the 19th-century Italian mathematician Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, who refined Descartes' ideas and combined them with the pre-Relativity spatial geometry of Bernhard Riemann.
“*Dynamic* torsion (also called "Ricci torsion"—after the 19th-century Italian mathematician who refined Decartes ideas and combined them with the pre-Relativity spatial geometry of Bernhard Riemann)”
Dark Mission 2010-07-22 ch9:95250-95439 observation