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West Coast Conference Features
Hands-On Dialogue With
History's Greatest Minds

by Sky Shields
LaRouche Youth Movement

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15—Continuing a tradition begun, now, over a year ago, the West Coast end of the, with the Lyndon LaRouche-led International Caucus of Labor Committees, featured a pedagogical exhibition of revolutionary discoveries in the arts and sciences. In between conference presentations, attendees, young and old, were able to engage in a hands-on dialogue with the greatest minds in history, as they moved through a sequence of demonstrations designed by LaRouche Youth Movement members. Demonstrations featured everything from Lavoisier's seminal contributions to founding the science of physical chemistry—and its further development in the work of Dr. Robert Moon—to an audio exploration of Bach's "Jesu meine Freude" motet, to fully functional models of proposed economic development projects—as in the case of the flowing rivers and live fish of the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) demonstration.

The idea of this exhibit was twofold. Firstly, the intent was to lay the basic foundations required to understand LaRouche's economic and strategic forecasting method. So far as that went, the exhibit served as a sort of window, looking into the continuing work of the Youth Movement in these various areas.

The audience was able to play with a large, adjustable, chain-link catenary—the transcendental curve, formed by a hanging chain, which LaRouche has called essential for a further development of a concept of the geometry of universal gravitation—while reading about its discovery as part of Leibniz and Bernoulli's development of the infinitesimal calculus.

LaRouche's 'Higher Geodesic'

Afterwards, they could extend this concept of least-action by working a series of investigations of curved surfaces and "Prince of Mathematicians" Carl Friedrich Gauss's idea of a geodesic. This led into, first, Gauss's student Bernhard Riemann, and then LaRouche's more developed idea of a "higher geodesic," as a change in the expression of least-action in a constantly evolving (or, in some cases, devolving) economic manifold, as a result of the introduction and application (or lack thereof) of fundamental creative discoveries in the arts and sciences.

For a further look at the anatomy of human creativity, there were demonstrations of the role of Classical artistic composition as the science of the effective communication of truthful ideas. This included watching the successive development of the C-minor theme of Bach's "Musical Offering" to Friedrich II by, first, Mozart, and then Beethoven, and looked at through the eyes of Bernhard Riemann as a dialogue across time, as well as a collaborative project, up and down the coast, to bring to life, in a series of panels, Gauss's 1799 attack on the empiricism of Euler, D'Alembert, and Lagrange, in order to demonstrate the nature of true human creativity, as opposed to the simple animal behavior the handlers of Newton have imposed on today's population.

Second in intention, was to hark back to the memory of America's 1876 Centennial celebration, in which the power of the American system to harness the creative powers of the human individual was demonstrated to the world.

The Seattle Youth Movement was, unfortunately, unable to build their steam engine large enough to power the entire hall—as the Corliss steam engine did at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial—but their newly built, two-piston steam engine with flywheel and steam-release valve was still enough to spark a memory of that celebration, as people went on to see the final application of these ideas in models of vast economic projects such as LaRouche's proposed Mars colonization plan.

This kind of depth and vision characterizes the LaRouche movement, and we are committed to making sure this forms the basis of a new national mission and outlook for these United States of America, as, no doubt, are each and all of those conference attendees who partook in our exhibition of these works in progress.

Further elaboration of this work will be seen at upcoming conferences, as well as future publications of the New Federalist , as well as , , and magazines. So, keep your eyes open!