Broken Continuum

29.03.07

The continuum is broken.

We are no longer the solid group that is dependent and interdependent, because one of us is missing. Gone astray.

The implications of the term are innumerable, but let me give you a small insight in to this.

If a continuum is any compact, connected set containing at least two elements then you and I were that: compact and complicit in our friendship and love for each other, and as you are no longer here, floating around in the universe as some carbon form as I have been led to believe, then the continuum is broken.

Moving on to another analogy, that of you and your beloved son, who now faces his life alone, fatherless, then that contention is also true - the continuum of P and you is also obsolete, broken, undone.

Furthermore, the continuum of you and your wonderful sisters now ceases to exist in some form, as one part has been vaporised, undoing the tightly compact unit that existed previously, leaving just the two remaining. The interrelationship that was has been transformed.

The permutations, dear John, are endless, you have undone, unravelled, set aside and removed the core of all these continua - not sure if that is the correct Latin plural, but I am sure you will forgive me, as although my forte has always been the linguistic bent, not the mathematical one, at times of stress we are not always at our best! You have made our perpetuity with you finite and we are defined by that too.

All of this goes to show that my grasp on maths and its workings is proving to be better than I would ever admit to.

Broken continuum = redefined lives + your departure.