One of my university teachers in christallography once said to me: "The reciprocal lattice does not exist. Keep that in mind when you do solid state chemistry. Otherwise you get crazy." That was true then. Nevertheless it somehow mimics how we see things, doesn't it. We have a spatial perception in which proximity makes things large and the infinite seems to lie within micrometers.
What a nice analogy anyway.
Maybe (:-)) physicists have discovered the utility of a reciprocal lattice only, so that we can see what the diffractometer can see, too (or the other way around?). However, there is a genius mind behind all that as is easy to see on Wikipedia.
Maybe one day reciprocal space and Fourier transformation can be introduced into sociological network analysis.
Neil Young would say: There is just one song
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