Epiphany in Contexts & Scales

I was driving down from Berkeley to Los Angeles two nights ago. Without strong FM signal or an mp3 player, it turned out to be a very mindful drive.

An idea occurred to me, perhaps only for its counter-conventional entertainment value. What if instead of myself driving a car over the earth from one geographic point to another, my car was remaining stationary and rotating the earth unidirectional underneath it? In the scope of spatial understanding and functional value, this proposition is incorrect--but who is to say? From the context of myself in my car, the idea that the interaction between my tires and the universe produced movement only outside of itself was not entirely wrong. Context always matters immensely.

Economic equations and models can only be accurate insofar as the variables in place are the variables that exist. Exogenous forces can throw off accuracy, but the internal context and its outcomes should be stable with respect to each other otherwise.

So while it may not be true that my car and I were stationary within a moving universe, it is also not right to say that my car was independently propelling itself over the landscape. If there were a strong wind in the favorable direction or even, for the sake of proposition, an objection in LA with massive gravitational pull for my car only, these would also have to be included in the description of how reality unfolded.

Both the micro and macro scales for observation and description are correct with respect to their variables, but they remain incomplete. We are only as good as the information we have. Every smallest unit of space is independently interdependent, causally or correlated, but the biggest picture is still yet to reflect perfect accuracy. The unknown is simply what's next. Space-time wins.