we are in a limestone cave and we begin by looking through that special 'normal' window near the centre of our array - seeing a few stalactites and stalagmites and an occasional fellow ontologist walking in front of us, appearing life-size and walking at normal speed. to get a wider view, we decide to look through the next window on the right - the 10x demagnification window - and we do this by shifting the entire framework to the left. our view is temporarily interrupted by the thick window frame but when it is reestablished, everything is ten times smaller, including the people, who now appear 18 centimetres high. we see behind them the entire wall of the cave. reversing the process, we come back to the original view, and then go one window further to the left where everything is enlarged by ten - whereupon we notice water dripping onto the rounded top of the stalagmite. for an even closer look, we view the scene at one hundred times magnification, one column still further to the left, and see huge drops of water smashing down. remembering strobe pictures of water falling on wet surfaces, we slow down time by looking through the first and then the second window below, (moving the framework up!) acheiving a time dilation of one hundred times and see the crown shaped splash. finally, we want to see the stalagmite grow by crystallization of carbonate of lime from the water. as a first stab at this, we quickly shift the framework down nine steps so that we are now looking through the seventh row above normal speed - where in one second we what normally takes four months - but nothing noticeable happens. finally, when the window three rows higher is put in our line of view, we see (still at one hundred time enlargement) the stalagmite growing upward from the centre of the screen and out of our field of view in four seconds.
now for each thing and phenomenon of the world and universe, there will be some appropriate viewing scale and rate, i.e. some particularly advantageous window through which to watch.
the use of our system deserves some general remarks. one is that a fixed speed can be observed through a number of windows diagonally adjacent - thus in their initial moments, the explosion of a bomb or of the universe occupy small spaces (if the universe is finite); at later stages, if we want to see the expansion in its entirety, we must both enlarge our field of view and speed up the process.
another result, not surprising, is that the commonly used windows as a group will have a diagonal distribution. in particular, we will presumably never use the lower right region because, since currently nothing moves faster than the speed of light we will never see motion there. (when we are manipulating wave fronts of light or objects moving at speeds approaching or above that of light, we will probably ignore relativity, and view by 'superlight' that travels instantaneously, and as if simultaneity had meaning).