the intellectual and practical activity
of the systematic study of the structure  &
behavior of the physical & natural world
through observation,  experiment & experience
is called science generally; Pythagoras positing
the theorem that reality is composed of
interconnecting points in space & that one
could instantly travel from one point to another
in what he cryptically referred to as the
[transmigration of souls]; a concept taken by
Christians & reinterpreted to mean the soul's journey
to heaven or hell;   Pythagoras meaning the physical
manipulation of dimensions but this era's
technology has yet to achieve that; Thomas Edison
& Einstein each had a part of the puzzle
but neither had the whole thing