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of physicality, and which is amenable to quantitative analysis via statistical theorizing and extrapolating. Well, this is enough about the long-distance factor for now, and, to be sure, this topic will be re-introduced several times in chapters ahead. But an important distinction has been made, and perhaps the perceptive reader will already have realized what it is. If not, don’t worry, because it will later be made abundantly more clear herein. * Meanwhile, it will be helpful to discuss certain aspects of the Wilkins/Sherman experiments. During their 1937-38 experiments, when Sherman was physically in New York and Wilkins was physically somewhere in the Arctic, there was an average long-distance of about 3,000 physical miles between them. Furthermore, although Wilkins had begun his trek by having something of an operating schedule to be at this or that place by a given time, the schedule was often defeated by unanticipated equipment failure, inclement weather, other kinds of delays and upsets, and so forth. How, then, was Sherman to "know" or "locate" WHERE Wilkins was physically at in any given long-distance aspect? According to the pre-arranged experiment plan, Sherman was to "tune in" on Wilkins at specified days and times for nearly six months, with the physical distance between them averaging about 3,000 miles.