Acerca do espaço de Minkowski

Um texto tão rico, tão cheio de verdadeiras pérolas metafóricas em "The Art of Looking: What 11 Experts Teach Us about Seeing Our Familiar City Block with New Eyes"
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Por exemplo:

"The thing you are doing now affects the thing you see next."

Concretizada, por exemplo, em:

"Tinbergen noticed that songbirds did not prey on just any insect that had recently hatched in the vicinity; instead, they tended to prefer one kind of bug  -  say, a particular species of beetle  -  at a time. As the numbers of young beetles rose through a season, the birds gorged on these beetlettes, ignoring any other available young insects nearby. Tinbergen suggested that, once the birds found a food they liked, they began to look just for that food, ignoring all others. He called this a search image: a mental image of a beetle—with its characteristic beetly shape, size, and colors—with which the bird scans her environment.
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This search image, it turns out, is something all of us employ when we need to narrow our attention in a goal-oriented task,"

Como não recordar o espaço de Minkowski, como não pensar na dificuldade natural que as empresas têm de enfrentar quando o seu mercado entra em queda e têm de procurar novos mercados e têm de se internacionalizar.