“Man,” said Protagoras, “is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.” Bernard Gros in his article entitled, ‘Relativist Pretensions Cabbage Leaf’ wrote, “The actual story of the cabbage leaf, borrowed from Crookes for chapter IX of Faustroll, has dragged around from books to ‘science’ manuals. The illustrious Henri Poincare - illustrious, we know, as the original of the scientist Cosinus - bent down to gather perhaps not the actual leaf, but at least the cliche that changing the dimension of things would take us beyond the human viewpoint. (La Valeur de la Science)... One really has to be quite naive to imagine one can be ‘taken out of the human viewpoint’ and thus become able to ‘explain’ its relativity. Who is it that discovers the properties of water on a microscopic scale, and imagines a universe with modified dimensions, other than the human mind itself, following its laws and logic, or, in a nutshell, its point of view? Is it not quite obvious that this talk about relativity is terribly relative to man, however much it leads him to believe he can be raised above his ‘own point of view’, from which, by definition, there is no question of his escaping? Cosinus and other absent-minded mathematicians forgot about this... detail... The detection of relativity has no sense except in ‘Pataphysics. Once again, as in ‘morality’ or ‘art’ only Pataphysicians have everything their own way.”