You might be patiently enqueued waiting for the doors to open, the curtain to raise, on the Martian Math vista. Or you might be already on stage, putting on a show & tell.
The ETs were not interested in our contiguous landmass huge perimeter states except as addressing units it various memory (data management) grids, zip codes and postal area codes being good examples. The nesting is regionally specific with neither "county" nor "state" in the US Federation precisely matching "canton" in the sense the Swiss use it.
Matching their approach might be our "virtual nation" economies, which often get some support from a business class interested in promoting tourism. Outside the business associations you'll have random boosters in the journo- or even blogo- spheres. The long-running Jefferson State campaign is a good example.
In the shadow of a Civil War, the threat was one of "succession", but now that we have virtual states, and Disney World (global), the threat is existential in a different sense: the theater (cosplay) of nations becomes virtualized across the board, as we become aware of our social programming (where "become aware of" does not have to mean in some "rebellious" sense; we're social creatures).
Silicon Forest digital (as in discrete) Synergetics sets the contest for a synergy among our four loosely defined, not to mention overlapping, four categories: Supermarket, Casino, Martian, Neolithic. The ETs, fictive visitors to Earthling Planet, mingle with our own, if not physio-genetically (science fiction writers take it in different directions), at least by means of memes (physio-epigenetically) such as through educational programs.
The back and forth horizontal sweep of an X beam (CRT talk) is combined with a Y beam bearing signal. X is the ticktock of a reference frequency whereas Y is from a pulsing voltage at the neck of the tube, where the cathode is thermally excited to radiate charged leptons with spin.
Rastering the X beam back and forth reveals a waveform or, if it's a TV signal, such as NTSB, a full grayscale or color picture. Here we'd maybe reference Tractor Graphics using Python.
Once we have our magnetic field controlled beams and currents, we're ready to dive in. We have impedance, inductive and resistive. We have transmission lines and three-phase. Trigonometry (the so-called circular functions) are now front and center.
So where's the Synergetics, outside the geometry of great circle spheres and their spin-poly networks?
I'm thinking at first in terms of visualizing energy amounts, in the sense of saved potential, battery power. The water behind a dam and the pressure it exerts is compressive in nature, energy to be released at a specific rate relating to both volume of current and voltage.
What's the pressure? One may have ridiculously high voltage pressures with only the tiniest of current flows.
