There is No "Up" and "Down"
This flat conceptioning is manifest right up to the present in such every¬ day expressions as "the wide, wide world" and "the four comers of the Earth." As mentioned before, "up" and "down" are the parallel perpendicu¬ lars impinging upon this flat-out world. Only a flat-out world could have a Heaven to which to ascend and a Hell into which to descend. Both Christ and Mohammed, their followers said, ascended into Heaven from Jerusalem.
Scientifically speaking (which is truthfully speaking), there are no direc¬ tions of "up" or "down" in Universe—there are only the angularly specifi¬ able directions "in," "out," and "around." Out from Earth and into the Moon—or into Mars. IN is always a specific direction—IN is point-to-able. OUT is any direction.
Don't let these facts of comprehensive, human misorientation give you a personal inferiority complex. My own direct questioning of many large sci¬ entific audiences proves that all scientists as yet realistically "see" the Sun going "down" in the evening—though science has known for 500 years that this is untrue. Around the world nothing has ever been formally instituted in our educational systems to gear the human senses into spontaneous ac¬ cord with our scientific knowledge. In fact, much has been done^and mudi has been left undone by powerful world institutions that prevents such re¬ onentation of our misconditioned reflexes. Our own misconditioned reflexes are powerful deterrents to our successful self-reorientation of our apprehending facukies to accord with the emerging truths. Though I have been trying for fifty-three years to rid myself of the words up and down, I find them popping out in my speech.
We now know that we do not live on a flat-slab Earth. We do live on board an 8000-mile-in-diameter spherical spaceship speeding around the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour, spinning axially as it orbits. None of the per¬ pendiculars to a sphere are parallel to one another. The first aviators flying completely around the Earth within its atmospheric mantle and gravitationally cohered to the planet, having completed half their circuit, did not feel "up-side-down." They had to employ other words to correctly explain their experiences. So, aviators evolved the terms "coming-/«" for a landing and "going-ot/r," not "down" and "up." Those are the scientifically accreditable words—in and out. We can go only in, out, and around.
Notes:
There is only "in" and "out." The Sun does not go "down," but rather the Earth revolves us away from it.
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