Surfaces are unique. Each is significant and conveys the image of its source. Some hide the mysteries which lie beneath; others serve as a portal into the innards of an object. Everything has a surface, from the sun, to humans, to the smallest pebble one could find on the beach. Surfaces are indeed a part of the object itself- yet one could argue that it is a small part. Mapping only a surface only can allow one a superficial image of an object. It’s as if a doctor is imaging your bones with a regular camera. While some surfaces are beautiful, others are unintruiging – however, this conveys nothing about the actual object, in most cases. Surfaces are the exterior shells of all objects.
Surfaces and volume have very distinct properties. For example, for a cube, the surface covers an area equaling = 6*a2 , whereas the volume it displaces equals = a3. The volume in a cube obviously grows much faster than the surface area, and as a result, the surface of a cube hides the ‘non-correlational’ (tremendous) volume beneath. While an object might appear to contain little mass, it is quite possible that there lies a giant in the shadows. Another point to think about would be the relative quality of the inner materials versus the exterior surface – “a diamond in the rough” .
This leads me to my next topic regarding confining commentaries to surfaces. The surface of an object is a shell, protecting /hiding/displaying/containing the inner contents which make of the volume of the object. Thus, one should take into consideration the true qualities of an object which inherently lie in the volume of the object, not necessarily the thin exterior we perceive with our sight/smell/touch/taste/hearing. The examination of an entirety of an object is the root of a thorough evaluation.
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Perhaps it might also be fairly accurate, within certain framing circumstances, to consider that most thing have more than a single surface if the thing with a surface has more than one side; so multi-sided things would likely have at least two surfaces, at least one surface per side.
I do enjoy how in Limited Fork Theory there is a form of paradox of the surface hiding mysteries in that such surfaces can present infinite series of mysteries in which as layer after layer is accessed, each new interior layer accessed becomes a new surface, so surface relocates itself to the position of consideration; surfaces within surfaces.
Forked this way, the endless surface offers most of what can be considered, an injunction to attempt to understand the surface could be the most that can be demanded, but even then, that endlessness could compromise attempts to exhaust what study of the surface could reveal.
And if a surface is magnified so as to reveal more of what a surface offers on other scales, without cutting into that surface to access other/interior layers of surface, then an endlessness of an outermost surface could compromise attempts to complete study of an allness of that outermost layer of surface.
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