Writing about symmetries and spacetime last week put me in a dimensional state of mind – 2D and 3D, and then 4D started blowing my mind and not in a way that felt particularly good, so — I backtracked out all the way back to the base of it all, to the point.

Visually, a point is usually represented by a dot. The basic structures of higher dimensional geometry – the line, plane, space, hyperspace – are all built up of infinite numbers of points arranged in a bunch of different, though particular, ways.

A point has no depth or any length — the only thing it has is its defined position. If two points are connected by a series of points — aka a line — then it follows that two positions have then been connected. A point marks the beginning – of a line, of a shape, of…well, anything and everything.

You likely use the word point as a synonym for purpose. Or for an exact moment in time. Or just using your finger to emphasize a particular direction or item.

In that mathematical definition, it’s so simplified. A point is solely about its position – and then I suppose there’s an assumption that it will, or it at least could be more. Additionally – and this really got me – a point cannot be defined in terms of any other points that you may have come across before in your day-to-day experiences of, well, other points. It’s its own thing, my dude.

There are soooo many definitions for the word point; I counted more than 20. Though I don’t like oversimplifying things, I do like to break things down to their most basic state in order to get a new perspective — maybe even a perspective that was the original intention.

With a 3day holiday weekend coming up here in the states as Memorial Day is celebrated, I feel like we’re all pushing to get projects done before the summer – and the summer mindset – begins.

So – I’m thinking, what’s my point this week? Meaning, what’s the position in space that I’m wanting to define here for myself (and myself only) right now, this week – especially if I sense that I’m pushing? Is it that I want to feel like I completed something? I kinda want my point to be uncrowded, to be clean and tidy, actually. I like the grounding in this – a lot more than having to define a point as a purpose or as a reason. I like the physicality of locking in that point as just a place – a position – in space, as is.

Let me end this one with a good ol’ math pun
Without geometry, life is pointless.