T

← Syte (Symmetrical Tetrahedron) (2) | T Module →

Letter Group Divider

T Module

← T | T Module →

RBF Definitions

"The triacontrahedron displays the sixty-degreeness plus the ninety-degreeness of its minimum spherical excess resulting from its self-divisioning, its self-halvings.

"The T Module is folded out of a square of which the edge is a vector of mass x velocity to the second power. But since second-powcring means using the triangle and not the square, it means that I have to rewrite Einstein's equation to become E = 2f².

"This simplifies Einstein: You don't have to say mass, you just say vector--which gets you out of the three-dimensional frame in which he wrote the equation. . . . The speed of light is normal--it's speed all right, but we have unit vector, that's what the vector equilibrium is... the spherical!"

T Module

← T Module | T Quanta Module (1) →

Index Entry

T Module:

"The T Module can be folded out of one whole triangle—the total area is a square... the four-foldability comes out as a square: a visual model of E = Mc².

"The vertexes are the tunings and the edges are the central angles.

"The tetrakaidecahedron results from the truncation of the four-frequency vector equilibrium.

"With the T Modules at Ultra Limit

-- the A & B Modules at Minimum Limit

-- Divide VE x 8 and the number is 24."

• Cite EJA notes from RBF patter with models and at blackboard during World Game Workshop presentation, Phila., PA; 21 Jun'77

T Quanta Module (1)

← T Module | T Quanta Module (2) →

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T Quanta Module:

"The T Quanta Module is the electron in conceptual form. It manifests itself as the tetrahedra formed by the sphere center and the 120 faces of the triacontrahedron.

"The T Quanta Module is unfoldable as a square with the unit vector radius--the prime vector--as its edge. The face of the T Quanta Module is the small triangular corner of the unfolded cube and is identical with the Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Spherical Triangle. That small basic triangle corner makes up part of the value c², but it has to be unhinged and reoriented, it has to cut itself off--at which point its its surface angles plunge down congruently into the central angles of the 120 tetrahedra of the triacontrahedron.

"The acute vertex of the T Quanta Module is at sphere center. This is what I was trying to draw /at midnight on 21 Sep'73; see Fig. 5417 in the picture of spherical photon packages as tetrahedra.

"With the T Quanta Module the Einstein Formula E = mc² becomes visual. The unfoldability had to be square for the c². It shows how the electron is radiation, a model of matter turning itself around at the center, but it has to unhinge and

• Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC; 12 May'77

T Quanta Module (2)

← T Quanta Module (1) | T Module T Quanta Modula (1) →

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T Quanta Module:

"cut off from its total self to plunge back down into the center and make the model of radiation.

"Now what we need to know is the ratio of that Basic Triangle corner to the rest of the unfolded square."

T Module T Quanta Modula (1)

← T Quanta Module (2) | T Module: T Quanta Module (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• O Module

T Module: T Quanta Module (2)

← T Module T Quanta Modula (1) | Tables →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron, 13 Apr'77
• Triacontrahedron, 13 May'77
• Electron, 12 May'77
• Min-max Limits, 8 Aug'77
• Trigonometry, 26 Sep'77

Tables

← T Module: T Quanta Module (2) | Tactical Information →

Cross Reference

Table: Tables:

Curves & Trendings

Cross-References

• Charts

Tactical Information

← Tables | Tactical Information →

Index Entry

Tactical Information:

"Probably our most polluted resource is that of the tactical information to which humanity spontaneously reflexes."

• Cite NEHRU SPEECH, P. .37 13 Nov'69

Tactical Information

← Tactical Information | Tactile →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• News, 25 Jul'72

Tactile

← Tactical Information | Tactile →

RBF Definitions

Tactile: preponderantly sensing the crystalline and triple-bonded atom and molecule state, which includes all the exclusively infraoptical frequency ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum's human receptivity from cold 'solids' through to the limit degrees of heat which are safely (i.e., nonburningly) touchable by human flesh." - Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/100-synergy#section-100.020100.020, 22 Feb'77

Tactile

← Tactile | Tactile →

Index Entry

Tactile:

"The tactile is very unreliable; it has little meaning."

• Citation and context at Thinkable You (2), 22 Nov'73

Tactile

← Tactile | Tactile →

Index Entry

Tactile:

"The real emphasis of judgement of life is on the tactile, the thing you can touch. . . . Reflect on some of the things it does, like making you want to get your hands on the money or the real estate, whatever it is."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 95. 5 Jul'62

Tactile

← Tactile | Tactile: The Tactile Sense →

Index Entry

Tactile:

"... What we call dead is strictly a tactile thing. I put the touchable thing in the ground but I can't put the thinkable you in the ground. ... The tactile is a very unreliable thing. It has very, very little meaning."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 99-100, 5 Jul'62

• Citation and context at 'Thinkable You, 5 Jul'62

Tactile: The Tactile Sense

← Tactile | Tactile Sequence (1) →

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Tactile: The Tactile Sense:

"Because the human's tactile sense has been operative months before birth as the only communication means between the pregnant mother and the live child she is bearing, the tactile sense becomes the comparative base for all the post-natally and successively acquired sensibilities. . . "

"Because primitive sensing is tactile, man measures his distances horizontally in feet, vertically in hands. . ."

". . . Man not only thinks he sees objects outside himself, but also identifies the external objects by their tactile surfaces. Thus men tend to think of one another in the form of their tactile modeling."

• Citation and context at Brain's TV Studio, (1) +(2), 6 Jun'69

Tactile Sequence (1)

← Tactile: The Tactile Sense | Tactile Sequence (2) →

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Tactile Sequence:

"And you and I have reviewed together how it is, due to the fact that our first apprehending capability inside the womb is where we have tactile communication with our mother for eight months. Then we're born. You can put your finger in a child's hand and already have communicated absolutely beautifully, tactilely.

"Therefore, all of our sensing about our life is always measured primarily in the tactile and everything else is referred to it. Distances are in feet and hands, our verticals in hands, and everything else we refer back to tactile. And you see me only when you say, 'I can touch you.' You're not saying, 'You're where I hear you.' You're not saying, 'You're where I think you,' or 'Where I understand you.' This is where I really am. There's absolutely nothing going on in this room except where you and I understand each other. That we really can see a touchable group-- which is the very lowest order of apprehending of the Universe-- and we make such emphasis of it. It was all so important for a human being because he weighs in as life utterly helpless and with no information so far; though he has extraordinary"

Tactile Sequence (2)

← Tactile Sequence (1) | Tactile Sequence (3) →

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Tactile Sequence:

"information collecting, identifying, and retrieving capability but he hasn't anything put in there yet. It is very important, then, for us to recognize that in that helplessness that had to be taken care of, and it is not surprising that the first apprehension is tactile. Man, like the physical part of all systems which is entropic, and therefore it has to break down and therefore it has to be regenerated.

"In order to be sure that life regenerates itself you have to give it a drive such as hunger, so as to be sure it takes up fuel and takes on energy. You have to give it a drive first so as to be sure to get the right chemical combining. You can have a hunger for air; that's the one it really has to have the most of. So you put in a pumping system so it really isn't even conscious of breathing. And then you give it the drive to reproduce itself, because many of them are going to break down and not work out. You've got to be sure--because of man's function in Universe--that life is going along in order to carry out that function.

"If you and I had to go out and buy ourselves, if you went to"

Tactile Sequence (3)

← Tactile Sequence (2) | Tactile Sequence →

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Tactile Sequence:

"the supermarket and had to buy your own heart and your own guts and your own lungs and your own kidneys and liver, and so forth, I'm sure most of you people would leave most of it out, and we would not be very attracted to them.

"In order to get this extraordinary complex of regeneration reproducing itself, you have to really skin it in. In a very important kind of a way, you have to make it somehow a very attractive matter-- this warmth here, and so forth, as something very attractive to make them like to get together again. And so the built-in drive to reproduce, to be sure that life is there, is very intimately tied up with the touch part and getting back in the womb, and so forth, that new life will come along then. So it's very hard for man to separate the physical in his thinking from the tactile or from the really metaphysical. It's awfully hard for him. I don't want to give up that something nice in me; that regenerative drive, something that's fascinating all the time; I really can't relinquish that and say that man is really, as far as life goes, metaphysical. But so far as I can see, that really is the fact."

• Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69

Tactile Sequence

← Tactile Sequence (3) | Tactile (1) →

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This is by way of really identifying that we are not the physical. We have an integral physicalness and we have an externalized physicalness, and I can call you on the telephone and there you are, and you're not the telephone and I'm not the telephone. But what we really are has nothing to do with the physical, yet it is so intimately associated, so emphatically, due to the fact that we see and feel in these touching things. Only in this century did we learn about the speed of light. Therefore we thought that things were instant: it was instant when, of course, you were the touchable.

But if-- with no instant, then this is no longer true, and you and I are seen, we even see each other, here-- I don't see out there anyway. I'm checking up on a communications system by touching here, but I'm seeing here in my television set.

Tactile (1)

← Tactile Sequence | Tactile (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Feel: Feeling
• Human Sense Ranging & Information Gathering
• Touch
• Touchable You
• Thermal = Tactile

Tactile (2)

← Tactile (1) | Tail End of Tail-end Events →

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Cross-References

• Brain's TV Studio, (1)(2)
• Geometry of Vectors
• Privacy, 22 Apr'61
• Sweepout, 5 Jul'62
• Thermal, 6 Mar'73
• thinkable You, 5 Jul'62 (2)
• Time, 6 Mar'73; Aug'71
• Womb, 20 Feb'73
• Space, 30 Sep'76
• Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas, (1)

Tail End of Tail-end Events

← Tactile (2) | Taj Mahal →

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Tail End of Tail-end Events:

Cross-References

• Trim Tab, 1963

Taj Mahal

← Tail End of Tail-end Events | Take Away the Leaders →

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Cross-References

• Montreal Expo'67 Dome Sequence, (1)

Take Away the Leaders

← Taj Mahal | Takeouts (1) →

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Cross-References

• Leaders: Take Away the Leaders

Takeouts (1)

← Take Away the Leaders | Takeouts (2) →

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Convex-concave Takeouts

Thinkability: Thinkable System Takeouts

Cross-References

• Angular Sinus Takeouts
• Conceptual System Takeout
• Tetrahedral Tuck in Universe
• Tuck
• Tuck in the Universe
• Tuck in a Plane
• Static

Takeouts (2)

← Takeouts (1) | Tale: Taling →

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Cross-References

• Central Angles & Surface Angles, 21 Dec'71
• Conceptuality, 17 Oct'72
• Conditioning, 14 Feb'72
• Infinity & Finity, Jun'66; Dec'61
• Vacuum, 19 Feb'72
• Space, 9 Feb'76
• Scenario Universe, 18 Jul'76; 19 Jul'76

Tale: Taling

← Takeouts (2) | Talent (1) →

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Cross-References

• Story Telling, 18 Jul'72

Talent (1)

← Tale: Taling | Talent (2) →

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Talent:

"...In the talented individual there is relatively no tug-of-war for dominance on the part of the life cells, for talent has been found to be born of two parents of almost similar life cell characteristics. This talent in human beings is similar to a specific trait on which, and for which, breeders of horses or dogs continually concentrate and inbreed; for instance, 'speed' in the horse, a special head in the dog, which requires parenthood as closely identical as possible. The product, 'colt,' may be said to have a talent for speed. The word talent as applied to persons is derived from talentum, the name for a coin of varying value, or a measure of money. Its application to persons was intended to indicate, in a rate sense, persons of a special measure, not persons of a generally inclusive, average rate ability of performance.

"In contrast to genius, talent has not the two or more viewpoints of genius, but has a 'single track' visualization. The absence of a time-and-space measuring ability limits the sight to a single nonworldly view-- 'non-worldly' because, as we pointed out in our interpretation of Einstein's formula, the conscious 'world' is in fact energy radiantly manifest"

Talent (2)

← Talent (1) | Talent (1) →

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Talent:

"at relative rates of retarded speed, rate being the inseparable relationship of time and space.

"The harmonious concord inherent in this characteristic of the solitary talented personality of genius enables the talented individual calmly to preoccupy himself with the exquisite refinement of, or better rendition of, the compositions of genius, in all special articulation fields.

"There is no implication in this discussion of talent and genius of a greater importance for either proclivity.

"The function of genius is to provide new instruments and the process-means for the progressive growth of man; talent's function is the precise and harmonious popularization of the otherwise popularly undetectable, and therefore otherwise non-useful products of genius. What is often mistermed as 'plagiarism' is more precisely 'talent.' 'Plagiarism' is an ethical offshoot label of the false property illusion..."

• Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, pp.97-98, 1938

Talent (1)

← Talent (2) | Talent (2) →

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Cross-References

• Capability
• Genius

Talent (2)

← Talent (1) | Tall →

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Talent:

Cross-References

• Longing

Tall

← Talent (2) | Tallying →

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Cross-References

• Humans are One-Thousandth of a Mile Tall

Tallying

← Tall | Tangent →

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Cross-References

• Story-telling, 18 Jul'72

Tangent

← Tallying | Tangency →

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Tangent:

"Tangent is the 'closest' that spheres may come to one another."

• Cite Numerology draft August 1971, p. 26.

Tangency

← Tangent | Tangency →

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Tangency:

"In your closest packing you have the spheres which are just high-tide aspects of vectors. . . Because the lines are now hidden between the points of tangency. It is very easy to be greatly misled when you see two spheres in tangency. There is only one line between the two. This is where you see that unity is two because the line breaks itself into radii of the two spheres."

• Cite RBF Tape Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971, p. 78

• Citation & context at Closest Packing of Spheres, 31 May'71

Tangency

← Tangency | Tangential Avoidance (1) →

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Tangency:

"A point on a sphere is never an infinitesimal tangency with a plane."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.

• Citation & context at Sphere, 31 May'71

POINT. SEC. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/500-conceptuality#section-519.21519.21

Tangential Avoidance (1)

← Tangency | Tangential Avoidance (2) →

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Tangential Avoidance:

Cross-References

• Vectorial Near-miss
• Vertexial Connections

Tangential Avoidance (2)

← Tangential Avoidance (1) | Tangency Tangential (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Interference, Nov'71 (2)

Tangency Tangential (1)

← Tangential Avoidance (2) | Tangency Tangential (2) →

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Omniintertangency

Tangible

Cross-References

• Centrifugal
• Crossing Tangency
• Intertangency
• Internuclear Vector Modulus
• Sphere Tangent with a Plane
• Tactile
• Touch

Tangency Tangential (2)

← Tangency Tangential (1) | Tangible Me →

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Cross-References

• Closest Packing of Spheres, 31 May'71*
• Compression, 22 Jun'72
• Gravity
• Nucleus, (1)
• Omnidirectional, (1)
• Spheres, 31 May'71*
• Macro-Micro, 12 Nov'75

Tangible Me

← Tangency Tangential (2) | Tank →

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Tangible Me:

"...The tangible me is like the water that told me that a wave went by."

• Citation and context at Metabolic Flow (1), 9 Jul'62

Tank

← Tangible Me | Tape: Tape Recorder (1) →

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Tank:

"A tank was just a submarine come up on the land."

• Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia, 23 Jan'75

Tape: Tape Recorder (1)

← Tank | Tape Recorder (2) →

Cross Reference

(To) Save Time, Tape, & Type

Cross-References

• Reel of Tape Recorder

Tape Recorder (2)

← Tape: Tape Recorder (1) | Tapestry →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi, 15 Jun'74

Tapestry

← Tape Recorder (2) | Tapestry →

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Tapestry:

"The inventory of all our experiences is a tapestry. It takes me 51 hours to describe all the experiences I work in."

• Cite RBF to Paul Ronder, Summer Morning Films, Inc. Beverly Hotel, NYC, 14 May '72

Tapestry

← Tapestry | Tapestry (2) →

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Cross-References

• Kinetic Tapestry
• Multidimensional Tapestry
• Variable Strands Braiding
• Weave

Tapestry (2)

← Tapestry | Task: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain →

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Cross-References

• Scenario, May'72

Task: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain

← Tapestry (2) | Taste buds of Sound →

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Cross-References

• Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain

Taste buds of Sound

← Task: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain | Taste Tasting →

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Cross-References

• Poets, 1970

Taste Tasting

← Taste buds of Sound | Teachable vs. Unteachable →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Principle, 6 Apr'75

Teachable vs. Unteachable

← Taste Tasting | Teacher →

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Teachable vs. Unteachable:

"Everything that constitutes science

Is unteachable....

"Scientific routines for specialized technicians

And scientific formulas for their reference

Alone are teachable."

• Citation & context at Science, Oct'66

Teacher

← Teachable vs. Unteachable | Teacher →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Principle, 22 Feb'72

Teacher

← Teacher | Teaching →

Index Entry

Teacher:

"The teacher. . . a skilled re-dispenser of what other teachers had successively taught other teachers to teach."

• Cite RBF Ltr. to Robt. W. Marks, p.10; 13 Mar'65

Teaching

← Teacher | Teaching (1) →

Index Entry

Linus Pauling said 'I'm not going to teach my whole freshman class all the things that were wrong--the whole evolution of the subject. Just start with what has been learned in the past 24 hours. It's much simpler.'

Teaching (1)

← Teaching | Teaching (2) →

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Cross-References

• Self-teaching

Teaching (2)

← Teaching (1) | Tear Tearing →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Psychiatry, (2)(3)

Tear Tearing

← Teaching (2) | Tears in the Evening →

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Cross-References

• Angular Sinus Cutout
• Child Tearing Paper

Tears in the Evening

← Tear Tearing | Technocracy →

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Tears in the Evening:

Cross-References

• Superstition, 1938

Technocracy

← Tears in the Evening | Technocracy →

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Technocracy:

"I am not talking about the engineers or scientists becoming politicians. That was tried in 1930 in Technocracy wherein the engineer-scientists were to muster a host of disgruntled engineers and, taking guns, seize the post offices. They proposed gaining their ends by reverting to the physical power tactics of the pirates and their politicians. But the scientists and engineers enlisted were too honest to be good politicians. Technocracy failed before it got going. So the prospect is that we are going to have to follow the medical scientists' successful precedent of minding everybody's physical success business while avoiding any interference whatsoever from the clients or [redacted]; interference with the clients' metaphysical freedoms. We are going to have to do so by holding ourselves exclusively to reforming the inanimate environment, to make it able to support all men without ever resorting to the politicians' policy of would-be reformation of the human beings-- their thought processes, their initiatives, and their wills,"

Technocracy

← Technocracy | Technocracy →

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The "natural evolution of intellectual accomplishment for the many by the few is the antithesis of such reverse gear schemes as Technocracy which sought to establish an autocracy of engineers schematically similar in aim to national socialism. Technocracy sought to convert the engineer to the role of politician. But the engineer proved no more effective than the most ignorant and slothful in the ballot box game, and much too forthright by training to be a good politician. Superficially saleable as an inviting scheme Technocracy failed as an 'out' for society primarily because the engineer must vacate his creative and causal function for a negative and restraining function.

• Cite Part II., Earth, Inc. Fuller Research Foundation Yellow typescript, p. 9, 1947

Technocracy

← Technocracy | Technocracy →

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Technocracy:

"Technocracy? No. Technocracy failed because it made no allowance for passion, fashion, chance, change, intuition, the mysticism of harmony, and, most important of all, for-- 'it happens.'

Technocracy called for an autocracy of engineers to fulfill its scheme. Political movements that call for an autocracy of a special viewpoint are ever doomed to failure as the trend indicates segregation of issues and a recomposed balance of all-time forces. Speculation and initiative in the acceleration of change, are all-time forces, and are as essential in a scheme of realism as suffrage and socialization of essentials and plenitudes."

Technocracy

← Technocracy | Technology →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Capability, 20 Apr'72
• Superstition, 1938

Technology

← Technocracy | Technology →

Index Entry

Technology:

"I told them at Drexel that the reason that 90 percent of the people want to give up on technology is that they are all so totally out of touch now with the experimental evidence that is the basis for science. To give up technology... just means giving up Universe."

• Cite RBF to EJA, on telephone from Philadelphia; 22 Feb'77

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"Technology was not brought into our life on this planet by humans.

"The first used technology to convert vegetables and animals into eatability. But as we can see in our anthropology museums much of the best new technology goes into weapons."

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"Human beings think of technology as something new. They think of it as something negative that's used for killing people. The way human beings misuse technology has been fearful. But you never will go back to pre-technology.

"The only question about technology is how do we employ it. And are we trespassing? Are we using the lever or burning the lever up? Just because we don't know what makes our fingernails grow doesn't mean that it's not technology. That's all that nature is."

Technology

← Technology | Technology (1) →

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Technology:

"Technology is the integrity of interoperativeness of principles which make possible an eternally regenerative Universe."

• Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia, 20 Jan'75

Technology (1)

← Technology | Technology (2) →

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Technology:

"I want you to think of yourself-- as a grand strategy-- saying: I just have this one life and I really have to do my own thinking. One of the things that impresses me very much is that we are operating in an era where there is a great deal of technology that has arrived. The phenomenon industry is operative.

"We were trying to account all the new technology in the terms of the agricultural accounting. I saw then that in the industrial equation, where you're really dealing with the cumulative know-how of all of humanity, there is no such annual accounting season and this is forcing man to be shortsighted. Society was now dealing in new kinds of magnitudes of undertakings that should be thought of in very much larger blocks of years.

"In the industrial equation you might be at a machine making bolts but you couldn't put bolts in your pocket and go and swap them for hamburgers. You found then that what really happened was that you came to a river that yesterday you couldn't cross. There was a very great current; but suddenly there's a bridge there-- and there were some of your bolts. I saw that the payoffs were very different and indirect in the new kind of technology that was coming upon us."

Technology (2)

← Technology (1) | Technology →

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Technology:

"And I thought that technology itself was, even back in 1927, being identified with exploitation, with ways of making money, rather than being thought of as some evolutionary event of humanity-- some increases in artifacts and transformations of artifacts.

"So I'll give you quite quickly my way in which I came to identify industrialization and you'll find it quite different from the business viewpoint, or from the legal viewpoint. I said: Alterations of the environment produce artifacts-- like bird's nests-- that are essential to the survival of the species. You can call it an extracorporeal artifact; but it is a tool. I saw these in terms of solving functions. Human beings were not at all the only tool makers."

Technology

← Technology (2) | Technology →

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Technology:

"Not a single stage of our technology has ever been predicted."

• Cite 'THINKING OUT LOUD (2): WE ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE PROGRAM, World Mag., 17 Jul'73

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"Man evolved technology is thus far amateurish compared to the elegance of nonhumanly-contrived eternal regeneration. Man does not recognize technology other than his own so he speaks of the rest as something he ignorantly calls nature. Most of man's technology is of meager endurance being comprised at the outset of destructive invention such as that of weaponry, or for something in support of the quick-profit, man-invented game of selfishly manipulative game-playing and rule inventing for the playing of his only-ignorantly-preoccupying value systems."

• Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in SYNERGETICS text at \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/100-synergy#section-173.00173, 13 Mar'73

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"In its complexities of design integrity the Universe is technology."

• Citation and context at Biological Design, 13 Mar'73

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"There is nothing wrong with technology. The Universe is technology-- The most comprehensively complex technology.

....

Human organisms are Universe's Most complex local technologies.

....

"Technologies may be used To "kill" technologies; That is, to smash Or degenerate other organisms-- machines."

• Cite Dreyfus Preface, "Decease of Meaning 28 April '71, pp. 1 - 3.

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"The Universe is regeneratively transformative technology."

• Cite ARCHITECTURE AS ULTRA INVISIBLE REALITY, p. 158, Dec '69

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"We must realize that technology was not put into the universe by man. The universe is the comprehensive system of technology. .. These generalized principles were all found to be operating a priori to man. Man simply finds and employs. He does not put anything into the universe."

• Cite WORLD GAME (3) Oct'69

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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We hear a great deal about technology as something very threatening-- something new. I'm going to try to define automation. By automation I would mean any regulatory pattern or control operative independent of man's controlling it: that would be automated. I'll point out to you that the orbiting about the Earth and all the pulsing of the Sun ... this is all automated. I point out that none of you know what you're doing with your lunch right now. .. this is all automated. You're not consciously saying, 'I'm going to send this off to make hair for tomorrow, and I'm going to have curly hair, or whatever it is. You don't have the slightest idea why you were born at seven pounds and why you went to 170 and why you stopped. Wherever it is, it's all automated. People learned accidentally that they pushed some buttons and made some babies, but all the rest is automated. They haven't the slightest idea why. I point out to you that we have never had anything but automation.

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"What we call technology is the externalization and amplification of our original integral functions and capabilities. In our technology we have not invented and developed any new functions."

• Cite SENATE HEARINGS, p.13, 4 Mar '69

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"Many of the large scientific breakthroughs in our recent history are fundamentally unheeded by society. Society employs the technology which accrues to the scientific breakthrough but keeps on thinking in the prebreakthrough ways. Society is, therefore, continually surprised, puzzled, and disturbed by the overall effects of the technology which are comprehensible only through an understanding of the fundamental physical principles governing the phenomena."

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"Technology paces industry by progressively increasing

the range and velocity inventory of technical capabilities."

• Cite NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, Preface, p. ix. 1960

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

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Technology:

"Technology represents philosophy resolved to the most cogent argument. . . If man did this, such would result. In technology man is empowered to explore and develop his own "if" without reference to the limiting response of other preoccupied egos. Through technology alone the creative & individual can of free will arrange for the continuing preservation of mankind despite individual man's frustrating propensities. Mechanisms are the antithesis of the Frankenstein concept. They represent the direct and only means of articulation of free will. Mechanisms can only be operated by man."

Cite EARTH, p. 11, 1947

• Cite RBF Reader (Ed. James Meller) pp.213-232.

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

Index Entry

Technology:

"Technology-- instrumented and documented intellect-- improves with every reemployment because experience is consolidated in increasing degrees of precision, behavior and dimensional data."

• Cite Part II., Earth, Inc. Fuller Research Foundation Yellow typescript, p. 13. 1947

• Cite also "Cumulative Nature of Wealth," Chapter 7 of IDEAS & INTEGRITIES, p.144

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

Index Entry

In terms of absolute principles, the more you use technology the more it improves instead of wearing out; thus balancing other factors of thermodynamics where there is some possible question as to the ultimate conservation of matter. Cite: Ephemera - Wichita, Kansas 1946 (Coll. EJA.)

Technology

← Technology | Technology →

Index Entry

Scientific laws are statements of observation of consistently observed characteristics and behavior patterns. Technology applies science by composing the phenomena of the individual laws in reciprocal arrangement,

• Cite ARCHITECTURE FROM THE SCIENTIFIC VIEWPOINT NYU Symposium 12 May '39, p.2

Technology

← Technology | Technology Assessment →

Index Entry

Technology:

"One of the best ways to get new technological advantages at work in society is to make them tantalizing enough so people will steal them."

(RBF, recapitulating an assertion he has made many times in the past.)

• Cite RBF to EJA, New York, 14 Sept. 1971.

Technology Assessment

← Technology | Technology: Computers →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Invention Sequence, (2)
• Technology, 17 Jul'73; Jun'66

Technology: Computers

← Technology Assessment | Technology & Culture →

Cross Reference

Technology: Computers:

"The computer has given man physical hardware without his understanding how he arrived there. This has brought about a general disenchantment with technology. Enchantment can only be sustained in those who have it, or regained by those who have lost it, through conceptual inspiration. Nothing could be more exciting than the dawning awareness of the discovery of the presence of another of the eloquently significant eternal reliabilities of Universe."

• Cite RBF dictation to EJA for SYNERGETICS, Beverly Hotel, New York, 28 Feb. '71. Re-drafted by RBF 7 Oct. '71. See "Synergetics," \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-204.00204. 8 Oct. '71.

Cross-References

• Synergetics, 8 Oct

Technology & Culture

← Technology: Computers | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (1) →

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Technology & Culture:

"Technology is the wellspring of culture which must evolve as technology includes and refines and makes obsolete many of our local tribal customs.

"The culture is in the design; the components, the materials and the metals are universal. Technology is immaculate.

"Culture is the capability to take advantage of energy design with the technology available. . . . How to behave appropriately to the technology, how to work its multiplying advantages to the enhancement of the many is what distinguishes the really cultivated human."

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (1)

← Technology & Culture | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (2) →

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Q. "How do we cope with the acquisitive and competitive factors in our society to avoid the misuse of resources... and in a way that our artifacts must be responsive to our values?"

RBF: "I don't accept any must-be-so about anything. There are six moves with every turn of the play. We are designed to make mistakes. Parents don't want children to get in trouble with the system. We punish everybody for making mistakes. I exult in all the bad news of the mistakes being made because that's how we get something done about it.

"Universe is nothing but technology. You can pick up a stone and throw it at someone's head--a horrible mistake, killing explicitly... but it's not the fault of technology. Using the faculties of Universe is what it's all about.

"We are not going to get there by talk... or by electing somebody over here. We are going to get there by knowledge and competence."

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (2)

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (1) | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (3) →

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Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:

"When I wrote NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON I started the book out with a tentative cosmic inventory: What do we know? I had designed my book from the whole to the particular. And I wrote in there, in the chapter about E=mc² and Mrs. Murphy..., and about Einstein's 'Cosmic Religious Sense,' the article he had done for the New York Times Magazine on the nonanthropomorphic idea of God, about how Johannes Kepler, though a heretic had such faith and inspiration alone with the stars... Fear and longing... I got permission to run that piece. What I wrote in the book was that in due course Einstein would affect all our everyday life.

"Christopher Morley had persuaded Lippincott, here in Philadelphia to publish my book, but they balked at the chapter on Einstein. They said there is a list of only 12 people who understand Einstein and you're not on that list: in fact, you're not on any list! So I asked Lippincott if they would send the chapter to Einstein in Princeton and after he had read it he agreed to meet with me one evening at the apartment of Dr. Fishbein on Riverside Drive in New York. That was"

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (3)

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (2) | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment →

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Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:

"when Einstein said to me, 'young man, you amahsse me... I can't imagine any of my ideas having, even the slightest practical application.' He wrote his theories for a small audience of astrophysicists and cosmogonists. But it was his original idea of getting energy out of matter that led the scientists to seek his authority in warning President Roosevelt about the heavy water research the Germans were up to... and that led eventually to the bomb at Hiroshima.

"And since then the scientists have just laid eggs while the financial and political exploitation system hatches them. The scientists' specialization gives them no control over such matters; they have nothing to cope with--they just stay in their laboratories and lay eggs.

"But the question was about competition and acquisitiveness... all of which was okay when there was not enough to go around. I can understand selfishness being rationalized as it has been in history: exploitation of colonies in the nameof God and the King... Cortez in Mexico and so on: 'I'y people are a little holier than yours so we've got to have a fight about it."

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (3) | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment →

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We now have a new lawyer-kind of capitalism where wealth no longer consists of property and they are beginning to put the control of know-how in the books, into the accounting... And the multinational corporations are getting out from under all of the sovereignties. And the managers don't seem to have much to do with it. The lawyers saw that the purpose of the corporation was to cut down the responsibility of the individual--limited liability. The bankers have had no more control than the postmasters handling the mail, but they end up with more of the peoples' money than they have kept to themselves... the banks and the government.

The $80 billion spent for the first A-bomb project would cost out at worth about $3 trillion now. And the banks all persuaded President Eisenhower to turn it all over to private industry as a present. Now while it is true that freedom of initiative is essential to human progress, here it was just being selfishly exploited in the name of 'free enterprise,' an example of a really noble idea being selfishly corrupted.

And we're also up against $53 billion a year of advertising,

• Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment →

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trying to persuade us to buy things we don't need. The big

companies don't even want the little individuals to latch on

to the wind with windmills. But Hans Kieyer persuaded the

public utilities to accept excess wind power into the main

grid. He did it by more efficient conversion from DC to AC

and by introducing more sensitive meters. There is a 50

percent loss of efficiency if you feed direct current into

storage batteries; therefore the solution was to feed it into

the power grid--selling it at wholesale and buying it back at

retail prices. This is how you can impound Sun radiation for

society without going against the system....

Making sense and making money are mutually exclusive. I

have nothing against regenerative economic sustenance; I'm

just against the people who want to get in on the right stocks

to make a killing.

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (1) →

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Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:

"I'm confident of bringing science and the humanities together with another book. I hope to make science comprehensible to mankind. My lifelong work is 'Synergetics.' This describes the comprehensive, mathematical, rational coordinate system apparently employed by nature.

"Much of the dilemma of our time is that 99 percent of the people who are not scientists have no sense of what is going on. The teaching of science is playing such a part in life today that you can say we have reached the point of a new revolution when man defeats himself by his own knowledge."

• Cite RBF to Australian journalist, Jane Ram; Hongkong, 17 Dec'74

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (1)

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment | Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Frankenstein Concept
• Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (2)

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (1) | Technology (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Technology: Computers, 7 Oct'71
• Free Will, 1947
• Universe is Technology, (1)(2)

Technology (1)

← Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment (2) | Technology (1B) →

Cross Reference

Domestic Technology

Inventability

Landborne Technology

More with Less: Sea & Air Technologies

Cross-References

• Airplane Technology
• Airspace Technology
• Automation
• Autonomous Living Technology Packet
• Capability
• Design vs. Technology
• Fallout Technology
• Humanity-considerate Technological Accommodation
• Invention
• Know-how

Technology (1B)

← Technology (1) | Technology (2) →

Cross Reference

Science as Tool

Cross-References

• Nature's Technology vs. Humans' Technology
• Prototype
• Pyramid Technology
• Research & Development
• Sea Technology
• Science-technology-industry-economics-politics Sequence
• Secondhand Gadgetry
• Space Technology
• Standby Technology
• Technocracy
• Universe is Technology
• Weapons Technology
• Wood Technology

Technology (2)

← Technology (1B) | Teeth →

Cross Reference

Outlaw Area, 8 Jan'66

Cross-References

• Automation, Jun'69*
• Biological Design, 13 Mar'73*
• City, (2)
• Cultural Life, 1 Jul'62
• Nature, May'70
• Tree, Feb'73
• Robin Hood Sequence, (2)
• Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative, (1)
• Doing What Needs to Be Done, (3)
• Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep'76
• Buddha: Christ: Mohamed, (1)(2)
• Dymaxion Car, 13 May'77

Teeth

← Technology (2) | Telefacture →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Gears

Telefacture

← Teeth | Telegraph →

Index Entry

'Telefacture' may well supplant 'manufacture.'

Telegraph

← Telefacture | Telegraph: Telegraphy →

Index Entry

Telegraph:

"When the telegraph came in then the one-to-one correspondence of democracy went out. The news used to travel by word of mouth. But with the telegraph the news could travel faster than the reaction: you could have the stimulus, but no response."

• Cite RBF to Hugh Kenner, Phila. PA, transcript p.10, 8 Jun'75

Telegraph: Telegraphy

← Telegraph | Telemation Satellite-relayed →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Sovereignty, (1)(2)
• Planetary Democracy, (4)
• Teleology, (1)(2)

Telemation Satellite-relayed

← Telegraph: Telegraphy | Teleologic Conversion of Information →

Cross Reference

Telemation: Satellite-relayed:

Cross-References

• Mines Above Grade, 30 Jan'75

Teleologic Conversion of Information

← Telemation Satellite-relayed | Teleologic Quanta Series →

Index Entry

..."The apprehending-comprehending teleologic conversion of information from subjective awareness to objective use in the ever developing capability to adjust and cope with environmental events."

Teleologic Quanta Series

← Teleologic Conversion of Information | Teleology →

Index Entry

Teleologic Quanta Series: ∞ ∞ ∞

"Teleologica quanta series produce basic wave systems which always return cyclically back upon themselves."

• Cite RBF holograph for Herman Wolf, Boston, 1:20 a/m/, 8 May '72

Teleology

← Teleologic Quanta Series | Teleological Schedule of Universal Design Requirements →

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Teleology:

"Teleology is where you go through a subconscious awareness as a wave formula from experience to intuition."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 26 Jan '72

Teleological Schedule of Universal Design Requirements

← Teleology | Teleology →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Environment Events Hierarchy
• Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage

Teleology

← Teleological Schedule of Universal Design Requirements | Teleology →

Index Entry

“One of the things I never ask myself is how are people going to like it. I would say: What is the Universe trying to do? How and why are we here? I am assuming that we do not know. I am not assuming that we have the competence to judge. I do not look at things in terms of being an elite with Universe disclosing to us some of her recirculatory capabilities, particularly in eternally regenerative Universe. When I ask what are we here for I get into the function of man as the local monitor of problem-solving with reference to capabilities of a generalized sort that no other phenomenon has. We are here then for that function and not for our personal satisfaction-- or the satisfaction of local political bodies-- or proving any ideological system to be great. Those are transitory and unnecessary to the development of man. But we are coming out of this shell-- and this is all in the metabolic cord. The trick is not knowing that it is going to break our legs. You never know who is going to be using those legs. I think that all of humanity is in exactly that position today. We are going to have a very different orientation of humanity to Universe. The younger they are the more they feel it.”

• Rbf tape transcript #4 to W. Wolf, Phila., PA., pp.2-3, 15 Jun'74

Teleology

← Teleology | Teleology →

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Teleology:

"Teleology-- as part

Of communications theory

Relates to the pursuit of truth

As entropy and antientropy.

It may be that

Communications theory

May be mathematically equated

With electrical

Transmission theory

Whereby the higher

The meaning or voltage

The more efficient

And longer distance

Communication attainable."

• Cite HOW LITTEE, p. 32. Oct'66

Teleology

← Teleology | Teleology →

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Teleology:

"Teleology embraces

The theory of communication,

Though as yet having special-case limitations.

It is an hypothetical

Approach to a pure, abstract generalization

To say that teleology

Is only intuitively initiated by humans."

• Cite HOW LITTLE, p. 30. Oct'66

Teleology

← Teleology | Teleology →

RBF Definitions

Teleology means the intuitive conversion by brain and mind of special-case subjective experiences into generalized principles and their subsequent objective employment in special-case undertakings.

"The discovered principles governing the inter-transformative structuring of universe permit the sub-consciously teleological and conscious design-initiating individual to reform the environment in such a manner as to provide ultimately higher advantage for men and in such a manner as to regenerate in other individuals the drive to further transform the environment to even higher advantage for all. The design may increase the degrees of freedom of individuals by reducing environmental interferences or it may decrease freedoms as with traps and prisons."

Teleology

← Teleology | Teleology (1) →

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Teleology:

"A name for the process of observing consciously, or absorbing subconsciously, from the outside inward so that one may do from the inside outward is teleology. When finally solving from the inside out, the teleologic perspective will be universal, and the equation of performance will be:

'Degree of Satisfaction = Degree of Factor Encompassment Inclusion.'"

Teleology (1)

← Teleology | Teleology (2) →

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Teleology:

"The words 'telegraph' and 'telephone' have quite naturally been derived from teleology. The process they represent mechanically abstracts the original, with the minds of operators interpolating at abstract stages to produce an ultimately sensorial result. ('Telefacture' may well supplant 'manufacture.')

"To illustrate the process in 'telegraph,' let us suppose an original phenomenon such as death of Uncle John.

"A telegram is sent to a florist by someone, the message being transmitted as a dot-and-dash interruption on an electrical circuit. The dot-and-dash symbols are converted at the receiving end of the wire into ink symbols, codified with the dot-and-dash system, on a piece of yellow paper. This piece of paper is transmitted to a florist who sends flowers to 37 Bond Street--flowers but that morning growing in a field only to be suddenly severed from their roots, covered with waxed paper, packed in a receptacle of water standing next to a black box in which in which has been deposited a discarded human machine. The telegram sender, rueful of"

• Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON; p.46, 1938

Teleology (2)

← Teleology (1) | Teleology (3) →

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Teleology:

"death, caused further death to be a paying business, an odd result from the original cause.

"The means of provoking the effect by the cause was not merely a mechanico-electrical process; more important were the phantom captains who performed the function of 'interpolation' at the various receiving instruments by transforming the dots and dashes not only into ink symbols but into further botanical death.

"The essence of this phenomenon is that the interpolating function is one that no machine will ever perform. The art of teleologic design is, then, one of delicacy of attunement in the interpolation of every seemingly casual event of life into non-haphazard objective instruments--whether written words, medical prescriptions, or pencils, the function of the instrument being, in turn, the harmonic abetment of the trends intuitively to be detected by the teleologist through the keyhole of his 'own' phantom captain's study. Teleology will have more and more significance as the teleologist carries on the vast task of exploring and including all factors making up man's "

• Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON; pp.46-47, 1938

Teleology (3)

← Teleology (2) | Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol →

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Teleology:

"universal status quo.

"The consumption and digestion of facts and statistics is somewhat like eating and chewing hay and thistles. Their is nourishment in them in their raw state, to be sure, but a cow is needed to convert them into milk. Likewise the average human mind needs an intermediary--a teleologist--to convert vital factors into digestibles for his objective use.

"To the student of teleologic design, particularly as applied to shelter service, we offer a 'cowing' of the vital factors of man's estate at this moment of ken. Only by awareness of this estate can the teleologist interpolate therefrom an adequate industrial design of world-encompassing shelter service, which will be so utilitarianly adequate and harmonic as to insure man's irrepressible appetence for such shelter service's industrial reproduction."

• Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.47, 1938

Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol

← Teleology (3) | Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol →

Index Entry

My original 4-D, convergent-divergent, vector equilibrium conceptualizing of 1927-28 was primitive Bow Tie: the symbol of intertransformative equivalence as well as of complementarity: convergence Also the symbol of syntropy-entropy and of wave and octave -4, -3, -2, -1, +1, +2, +3, +4.

Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol

← Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol | Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol →

Index Entry

There really is no equality. That's why I use the bow tie symbol.

• Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 26 Jan '72

Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol

← Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol | Teleology →

Index Entry

Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol:

"Did you ever see my 'Nine Chains to the Moon' book, Lippincott, 1938. I had the press produce a little bowtie symbol for teleology. I use the word many times. I also felt that the equation symbol was false as I felt that parallel lines were inadequate to the exquisite transforming balances of inside-outing involved in equations. I substituted my bowtie symbol for the equation marks leaving the parallel lines symbol for statement of analogy."

• Cite RBF Ltr. to Gene Fowler, 9 May '60.

Teleology

← Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol | Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol (1) →

Index Entry

Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol: (◇◁)

"Let us symbolize teleology as ▷◁, like a bow tie. This is a neat and specific equation mark, combining the symbol of symmetrical expansion (the "x", multiplication, or 'times' mark) with the equation mark(=). It is currently more fitting as an equation symbol than the old equation mark because we now know that parallel lines, or conditions, are impossible. Moreover, quasi-parallel lines, never coming in contact, are procreatively sterile. The "=" is, then, inaccurate as a sign to link integrators and product:

(2 x 3 = 6 theoretical)

(2 x 3 ▷◁ 6 factual)

"Our teleologic symbol ▷◁ represents, by its loose-ended "x" inclusion and by the conjunction of its ends, a finite radial limit of the segment of inclusion and the segment of conclusion, like an hourglass on its side. It is offered, then, as the logical successor of the familiar equation symbol for use in any consideration of the now apparently expanding Universe."

• Cite NINE CHAINS, p. 42,1938

Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol (1)

← Teleology | Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol (2) →

Cross Reference

Equals Sign

Cross-References

• Nonequals: Nonequality
• Now Hourglass: Cross Section of Teleological Bow Tie
• Bow Tie
• Equation Symbol
• Parallel: Quasi-parallel Lines

Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol (2)

← Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol (1) | Teleology - Reuniting of Parts →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Equality, 26 Jan'72
• Equals, 24 Apr'76

Teleology - Reuniting of Parts

← Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol (2) | Teleology: Spontaneous vs. Emergency →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Algebra, 1938

Teleology: Spontaneous vs. Emergency

← Teleology - Reuniting of Parts | Teleology Teleological (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Artist, 13 Feb'72

Teleology Teleological (1)

← Teleology: Spontaneous vs. Emergency | Teleology: Teleological →

Cross Reference

Emergency Teleology

Spontaneous Teleology

Ends

Cross-References

• Cause, (1)
• Design Science
• Determinism
• No End in Itself
• Mathematical Explanation of Life
• Meaning
• Evolution: Man as Evolution Modifier
• Man's Conscious Participation in Evolution
• Man as a Function of Universe
• Man as Local Problem Solver
• Man as Local Universe Technology
• Amused: We Are Not Here to Be

Teleology: Teleological

← Teleology Teleological (1) | Telepathy →

Cross Reference

Pattern: Hierarchy Of, 1954

Cross-References

• Algebra, 1938 (1)
• Brain's TV Studio, (1)
• Creativity, 10 Apr'73
• Design, 4 Aug'74
• Environmental Events Hierarchy, 1954
• Feedback Lags, 1954
• Industrial Theory, 1971
• Intellect, 1972
• Meaning, 29 Jun'72
• Performance: Equation Of, 1938
• Principle, 1 Feb'75 (1)(2)
• Rearrange the Scenery, May'72
• Simplicity, 1954
• Unanswerable, 20 Jun'66

Telepathy

← Teleology: Teleological | Telepathy →

Index Entry

Telepathy:

"... Subconsciously telepathic ultra-ultra-high frequency electromagnetic wave propagation, signalling subconsciously reflexed feedback attitudes..."

Telepathy

← Telepathy | Telepathy →

Index Entry

Telepathy:

"Telepathy is a standby capability that everyone has, one of nature's fail-safes."

• Cite RBF quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview by Beverly Russel, p. 198, May '72

Telepathy

← Telepathy | Telepathy →

RBF Definitions

Almost everyone has had

The strange sensation of telepathy

Occurring as various kinds of awareness,

Anticipations or sensing

Of the imminent presence of other persons."

Telepathy

← Telepathy | Telepathy →

Index Entry

This experience * persuaded me that telepathy Might well be very short-range, Very high-frequency Electromagnetic-wave propagation. Assuming this to be so We arrive at some new vistas of thought. (* Alexandra theme)

• Cite BARTIN & MIND, p.161 May '72

Telepathy

← Telepathy | Telepathy →

Index Entry

". . . Time and again my wife and I, or the trained nurse and my wife, had a sentence formulated and about to be spoken when she [Alexandra] would say our words before we could do so, though those words often were phrased in a vocabulary other than her own. Clearly telepathy was being demonstrated as a commonly innate capability. We all have experiences which can only be explained as telepathy, which lacks scientific proof and remains indefinable, implying magic. Our child clearly demonstrated that it was an innate capability and not a supernatural aberration." - Cite Museum Keynote Address Denver, pp. 1-2. 2 Jun'71

Telepathy

← Telepathy | Telepathy →

Index Entry

Telepathy:

"In the great overall evolutionary trending of humanity's gradually learning to produce ever more with ever less, it is implicit that the present discoveries of the electromagnetic behaviors of the brain and its local nerve system controls by mind will eventuate in telepathy's being graduated from society's assessment of it as a mystical-magical phenomenon to an everyday communication facility."

• Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning." 28 April 1971, p.

Telepathy

← Telepathy | Telepathic Tunability →

Index Entry

Telepathy:

"For humans to have within their cerebral mechanism the proper atomic radio transceivers to carry on telepathetic communication is no more incredible than the transistors which were invented only two decades ago, and far less incredible than the containment of the bat's radar and range-finding computer within its pin-point sized brain."

• Cite RBF Intro. to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA, p. 27. Oct'70

Telepathic Tunability

← Telepathy | Telepathy (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Eye-beamed Thoughts

Telepathy (1)

← Telepathic Tunability | Telepathy (2) →

Cross Reference

Fuller, R.B: Alexandra Theme

Jury: Trial by Jury

Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities

Subconscious

Electromagnetic Transmission: Subjective & Conscious

Extraorganic Travel

Cross-References

• Eye-beamed Thoughts

Telepathy (2)

← Telepathy (1) | Telephone →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Discovery, 11 Jul'62
• Electronic Referendum, 29 Jun'72*
• Lecturing, Oct'70
• Rationalization Sequence, (5)
• World-around Communication Transcends Politics, (1)
• Womb Population, (2)

Telephone

← Telepathy (2) | Telephone (1) →

Index Entry

The Bell System could have focused on the instrument instead of the service. They could have had telephone architects like so much napalm and voodoo.

Telephone (1)

← Telephone | Telephone (2) →

Index Entry

The design scientist deals in comprehensive artifacts to alter the environment; he also deals in how do you produce the artifacts, what are the relative efficiencies, what are the alternates, and what are the options, of how it mixes the structural and mechanical, the electrical and the chemical. The design scientist has to know about all these aspects and be responsible for not only designing the end product, but How do you produce it? Having produced it, How do you get it where it needs to be? And he designs the economics of it; so he shows that it will be working much better being rented as a service industry like the telephone than being sold. If you sold all the telephones then people would hang on to their old ones. (They have brought in some classical modern designs or a modern rock designed telephone instrument; and they're really no good.)

The most extraordinary thing is that the telephone makes its money by frequence of use of the telephone. They've found that everyti the phones away and given them back a better telephone that's clearer or easier to talk over, people use it much more. So they have found that by improving and

Telephone (2)

← Telephone (1) | Telephone is Not the Information (1) →

Index Entry

Telephone:

"owning the technology, not selling it to the people, their earnings have gone up. This working towards service industries is making obsolete one of the great political problems of all history, which is ownership. As man begins to live in much bigger patterns-- much bigger sweepouts and going around-the world-- you find people beginning to rent cars instead of owning them."

• Tape transcript, p.20; RBF to B. Brooks, Phila. Pa., 30 Apr'74

Telephone is Not the Information (1)

← Telephone (2) | Telephone is Not the Information (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Radio Set is Not the Music, (1)

Telephone is Not the Information (2)

← Telephone is Not the Information (1) | Telephone (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Communication, Oct'70
• Information, 12 Feb'72
• Democritus, 6 Jun'69
• Human Beings & Complex Universe, (13)(14)

Telephone (1)

← Telephone is Not the Information (2) | Telephone (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Service Industry
• Service vs. Instrument
• Self-rebuilding Telephones

Telephone (2)

← Telephone (1) | Telephotograph to the Brain →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Brain's TV Studio, (3)
• Communication, Oct'70
• Copper Sequence
• Economic Accounting System
• Information, 12 Feb'72
• House, 1971
• Self, 1971
• Service Industry, 29 Aug'74
• Tactile Sequence, (4)
• Tools: Craft & Industrial, (2)
• Trespassing: Not Trespassing
• Distribution, 25 Jan'75
• Everybody's Business, (1)
• Teleology, (1)
• Mobile Homes, (1)(2)
• Human Unsettlement, (1)
• Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing, 20 Sep'76

Telephotograph to the Brain

← Telephone (2) | Teleportation →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Reflection Sequence, (1)(2)

Teleportation

← Telephotograph to the Brain | Telescope (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities, 22 Jun'77

Telescope (1)

← Teleportation | Telescope (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Satellite: Telescopes Mounted on Satellites
• Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout
• Infoscope

Telescope (2)

← Telescope (1) | Television →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Sweepout in Scientific Exploration, 6 Jul'62
• Synergetica, 22 Apr'71

Television

← Telescope (2) | Television: Third Parent →

Index Entry

Television:

"Television is important, not that it has a name, but because it is a way in which man individually has been able-- as a young child-- to get information from around the whole world. The parents used to bring home all the news, Daddy and Mommy. They don't bring home the news now. They come home and the kids tell them what the news is because television is giving it from around the world. And the people who get their jobs in television-- like yourself-- get it by virtue of your diction and your vocabulary and your versatility in using it. So that the authority for the news-- what's going on-- is coming to the young world over the television or the radio, and coming with better diction and vocabulary than the parents usually have. So the child then emulates the communication pattern of those who give him the most reliable information. So it's not a matter of the parents not loving their children or children not loving their parents, but children are now really peeling off and saying intuitively: I see that man can do anything he needs to do; our parents are locally preoccupied, they have apologies and say we can't afford to do that. We see that man can't afford to do anything else but make his world work. That's the spirit of the young people."

• Cite RBF in Edward Newman TV Interview, transcript pp. 38-39, 73

Television: Third Parent

← Television | Television: Third Parent →

RBF Definitions

"... Even the seemingly most steady population is not steady at all, it is all drifting. We have mobilizing world man, he is not vagrant at all, and the degrees of freedom of man have been increasing and his capabilities have been increasing-- he knows about his whole world and each child that is born is born in the presence of less misinformation and in the presence of more reliable information. Particularly the young world with the television, are told about the whole world on the hour, right in their own home. And they hear much more from their third parent (which is what I call the television) than they do from their own parents. Their parents talk about the local things-- local and visual-- and the third parent tells them about the whole world and all the problems of all the world, and is the first to tell them about the inventions, what man can do. Everything extraordinary that man can do, the third parent tells them about that. So they go the the third parent and they find that he has good diction, so we find the young world thinking 'world,' it is the first generation of man to think 'world.'"

Citations

1. RBF Address THE HABITABLE CITY, 14 Oct. '69

Television: Third Parent

← Television: Third Parent | Television →

Index Entry

Approximately everything man thought he understood will be useless within the next decade. We are going to develop an environment in which the new generation is so protected from the lovingly administered nonsense of grownups that it can develop naturally just in time to save man from self-annihilation. What I call the third parent, TV, brings the babies half-hourly world news as well as much grownup-authored and discredited nonsense. The student in revolt in California are the first generation of TV-reared babies. They insist on social justice the world around. Imminent change is inexorable.

Television

← Television: Third Parent | Television: TV (1) →

Index Entry

Children looking at TV today see it quite differently from the way we do. It begins to be very much a part of their lives and they accredit it the way we accredit what we get out of our eyes regularly. I am sure that when they are looking at a baseball game, if they are interested in baseball, they are right there in the field. I am now giving you an omnidirectional TV set and there is no way for you to escape it. That is all we have ever lived in. You have been in an omnidirectional TV set all this time and you have gotten so use to the reliability of the information that you now have projected yourself into the field. You insist that you see me out here but you don't. We are all working back here in TV sets.

Television: TV (1)

← Television | Television (2) →

Cross Reference

TV: The TV Generation

Cross-References

• Brain's TV Studio
• Broadcast
• Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities

Television (2)

← Television: TV (1) | Temperature →

Cross Reference

TV:

Sat, 5 Jul'62

Cross-References

• Communicating, (1)
• Daddy, (1)(2)
• Newspaper, 16 Oct'72
• Weapons Technology, (2)
• Club of Rome: Limits to Growth, (2)
• Seeing vs. Hearing, 22 Jan'75
• Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep'76

Temperature

← Television (2) | Temperature of the Human Body →

RBF Definitions

Temperature should be thought of as relative heat concentrations or dissipations."

• Citation and context at Cold & Vacuum, (6), 1946

Temperature of the Human Body

← Temperature | Temperature of the Human Body →

Index Entry

Temperature of the Human Body:

"For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere

Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it

At the slowest known rate of all substances.

As a consequence the temperature of the watery mantle

Covering three-quarters of Earth

Vary between such close limits

That the world average temperatures throughout the years

Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit

Over all the years in which temperatures

Have been recorded around the world.

Within these exquisitely stable electro, thermal, chemical limits

The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained

As the apparently ultimate focal formulation

Of the metabolic interchangings and intertransformings

Of the total evolution of bio-ecological intercomplementation."

• Cite RBF rewrite of BRAIN & MIND AT p. 113, July'72

Temperature of the Human Body

← Temperature of the Human Body | Temperature of the Human Body (1) →

Index Entry

So delicate are the microclimatic-ecological balances That, humans at all times manifest An internally permeative organic operating temperature Of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit No matter what their age, Their geographical location, Or their clothing may be. Manifest Number Seven Of Earth's cosmic functioning Is its progressive geological submerging Of the hydrocarbon energy residue concentrates Buried ever more deeply and at increasing pressures either within the Earth's crust, or its hydrosphere, Whereby those biological residues are chemically transformed Into rigid, liquid, or gaseous fossil fuels.

• Cite RBF rewrite of BRAIN & MIND at p.114, July'72

Temperature of the Human Body (1)

← Temperature of the Human Body | Temperature of the Human Body (2) →

Index Entry

"A Sixth Manifest of Earth's Unique celestial scheme functioning Is discoverable as the impoundment Of star energy radiation In both the Earth's atmosphere And in its hydrosphere, Which provides the weather and ocean currents And which maintains the critical temperatures Within which the biological proliferation of metabolic formulations And feedback chemical process exchanges must occur. For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it At the slowest rate of all known substances. The water temperatures of the Earth Vary between such close limits That the average temperatures throughout the years Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit Over all the years in which temperatures Have been recorded."

• Cite BRAIN & MIND, pp.113-114, May'72

Temperature of the Human Body (2)

← Temperature of the Human Body (1) | Temperature of the Human Body →

Index Entry

Within these exquisitely stable limits

The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained

As an ultimate focus of the metabolic interchange

And transformations of the total biological ecology complementation.

So delicate are the thermal balances involved

That healthy humans, for instance,

At all times manifest a temperature

Of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit

No matter what their age,

Their geographical location,

Or their clothing may be.

Temperature of the Human Body

← Temperature of the Human Body (2) | Temperature of the Human Body →

Index Entry

"The only difference between ourselves and hard cold machinery is that we also have these metabolic processes processing energy to be regenerated and these have a by-product heat of 98.6 . . . "

• Citation and context at Human Beings and Hard Machinery, 20Apr'72

Temperature of the Human Body

← Temperature of the Human Body | Temperature of the Human Body (1) →

Index Entry

Temperature of the Human Body:

"Without weight you do not exist physically-- nor without a specific temperature. You can convert the velocity x mass into heat."

• Cite RDF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.

Temperature of the Human Body (1)

← Temperature of the Human Body | Temperature of the Human Body (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Degrees: 98.6°

Temperature of the Human Body (2)

← Temperature of the Human Body (1) | Temperature (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Human Beings & Hard Machinery, 20 Apr'72*
• Man as an Invention, 1 Aug'72
• Trees
• Wind Stress & Houses, (8)

Temperature (1)

← Temperature of the Human Body (2) | Temperature (1) →

Cross Reference

Thermal Limits

Cross-References

• Heat

Temperature (1)

← Temperature (1) | Temple (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Quantum Sequence, (3)
• Cold & Vacuum, 1946
• Four-dimensional Reality, 30 Apr'77

Temple (1)

← Temperature (1) | Templ Legislation (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Permanent Symbolic Communication Devices

Templ Legislation (2)

← Temple (1) | Temporality →

Cross Reference

Templ: Templa:

Cross-References

• Domes, 12 May'77

Temporality

← Templ Legislation (2) | Temporality = Tempo-reality = Time-reality →

Index Entry

Temporality:

"... In our temporal life there will always be some degree of lag or asymmetry which misses the exactitude of the ideal. .. "

• For citation and context see Ideal, 1 Apr '72

Temporality = Tempo-reality = Time-reality

← Temporality | Temporal Temporality →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Truth, 22 Jun'75

Temporal Temporality

← Temporality = Tempo-reality = Time-reality | Temporal Temporality (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Eternal & Temporal
• Residual Ignorance of Temporality

Temporal Temporality (2)

← Temporal Temporality | Temporary →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Humans, 8 Mar'73
• Ideal, 1 Apr'72*
• Life, 13 Mar'71
• Truth, Jan'72
• Finite Event Scenario, (2)

Temporary

← Temporal Temporality (2) | Temporary →

Index Entry

Temporary:

"Experience is all temporary."

• Citation and context at Absolute Integrity, 4 Nov'73

Temporary

← Temporary | Temporary Realizations →

Index Entry

Temporary:

"The chemical compounds are temporary and have limited associabilities."

• Citation and context at Compound, 13 Mar'73

Temporary Realizations

← Temporary | Temporary (1) →

Cross Reference

Temporary Realizations:

Cross-References

• Things, 19 Feb'72

Temporary (1)

← Temporary Realizations | Temporary (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Special Case
• Terminal
• Life's Temporary Vehicles
• Limited Associabilities

Temporary (2)

← Temporary (1) | Ten →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Eternal, 13 Mar'73
• Computers as Specialists, 13 Aug'64
• Absolute Integrity, 4 Nov'73*
• Compound, 13 Mar'73*

Ten

← Temporary (2) | Ten: Modulo 10 →

Index Entry

Ten:

"The ten in 10F^2+2 comes from the 92, 162, 252, 362, etc. sphere shells of the vector equilibrium. Three is nine to the second power; 16 is four to the second power; 25 is five to the second power-- but the second powering has to be times 10, that's the point. And the Plus Two is a constant also."

• Cite RBF to EJA, World Game Workshop, Phila., PA, 22 Jun'75

Ten: Modulo 10

← Ten | Ten Ten-ness (1) →

Index Entry

They happened to be enumerating with congruence in modulo 10, which does not include any prime numbers other than 1, 2, and 5. The rational three-ness of the cube in relation to the tetrahedron is not accommodated by the decimal system; nor is the prime seven inherent in modulo 10.

Ten Ten-ness (1)

← Ten: Modulo 10 | Ten: Ten-ness (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• imal & Duodecimal, Dec (1)
• Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-packed Spheres, (1)

Ten: Ten-ness (2)

← Ten Ten-ness (1) | Tendril Curve (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Synergetics, 29 Nov'72

Tendril Curve (1)

← Ten: Ten-ness (2) | Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)

Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth (1)

← Tendril Curve (1) | Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth (2) →

Cross Reference

No Local Change

Cross-References

• Step

Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth (2)

← Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth (1) | Tennyson, Alfred Lord →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Intereference, (1)
• Step, 22 Jul'71
• Vectorial Model of Interference, Apr'71

Tennyson, Alfred Lord

← Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth (2) | Tensed String →

Cross Reference

Tennyson, Alfred Lord:

Cross-References

• Advertising, 28 Apr'71
• Custom: Lest One Good Custom Do Corrupt the World, (1)

Tensed String

← Tennyson, Alfred Lord | Tensegrity →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Pythagoras, (1)(2)
• Quarks, 22 Jun'77
• Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (2)(3)

Tensegrity

← Tensed String | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"Engineers agree that tensegrity is operative but they are only permitted by their art to calculate the compression components. We will have to get hydraulic and pneumatics engineers to develop tensegrity accounting. There probably are compression limits in liquids but we don't know what they are as yet; but there are no limits to tension structuring. The functions are limit and limitless: the hard compression of a stone vs. the low pressure of truck tires which are low pressure because the loads are evenly distributed."

• Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"Synergetics identifies tensegrity with high-tension alloys, pneumatics, hydraulics, and load distribution."

• Citation and context at Apple, 10 Nov'73

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"It is also not surprising, therefore, that Universe islands its spherical compression aggregates and coheres the whole exclusively with tension; discontinuous compression and continuous tension: I call this tensional integrity of Universe tensegrity."

• Cite RBF marginalis on SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-640.22640.22, 9 Nov'73

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

The kinetically interbalanced behaviors of tensegrity systems manifest discretely and elucidate the energy-interference-event patternings that integrate to form and cohere all atoms. The tensegrity system is always the equilibrious-balance phase, i.e., the omnipotential-energy phase visually articulate of the push-pull, in-and-out-and-around, pulsating and orbiting, precessionally shunted reangulations, synergetically integrated.

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

"The word tensegrity is an invention: it is a contraction of tensional integrity. Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder."

• Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/700-tensegrity#section-700.011700.011; 14 Oct'72

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"Tensegrity is a confluence of optimum factors."

• Cite RBF to HUD Engineers, Washington, 26 Jan '72

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

Synergetics has discovered "the identification of tensegrity with pneumatics and hydraulics-- it's load distribution, that's the point."

• Cite RBF to EJA re SYNERGETICS Draft. Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-251.19251.19, 20 Dec. '71.

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Cross Reference

Tensegrity:

"The increasing ability to give without breaking."

CORRECTED by RBF, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971

to read as follows, (See Synergetics draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-615.01615.01)

"Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly

without ultimately breaking or coming asunder."

• Observation to E.J.A. in Mayflower Hotel

some time in 1969.

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"The 12-spoke wire wheel. . . opposes turbining or torque members. Universal joints of two axes or three axes are analagous to the wire wheel as a basic system relying on the differentiation of tension and compression for its effectiveness. These all may be considered basic tensegrity systems."

(Adapted.)

• Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS- caption #10 1967

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"'Tension,' 'integrity,' discontinuous-compression,

discontinuous-tension system."

• Cite RBF Glossary of Terms

bound with "The Live Book Squad"

1967

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"Tensegrity. The word is an invention: it is a contraction of a tensional integrity, a structure the shape of which is guaranteed by the tensional behaviors of the system, and not by the compressional behaviors."

• Cite MEXICO 63 p. 28; 10 Oct'63

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity (1) →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"Now we come to the first structures that we call tensegrity structures-- discontinuous compression, continuous tension-- in which the coherence of the whole is explained by the tension, and the compressions are local islands."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 176. 9 Jul'62

Tensegrity (1)

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity (2) →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"Then I had also one day gone into the faithfulness of our experience where I said you could not have two actions going through the same point at the same time and we had come to the discovery of the tensegrity structures which had not been the kind of structures that men had tended to think of in the early days. We saw that they had come to a concept of a solid Earth, a solid brick and brick on brick as apriori-- an d from time to time they might help hold things together by throwing in a little tension, maybe bind the things together in tension as a barrel is a tensional thing and they put some hoops around it to hold it together, but primarily you start with the compressional interrelationship, compressional mass helped by the staves in tension-- tension is secondary. Then we found when we tried to differentiate tension and compression in thinking of structures in Universe that apparently the macrocosm and microcosm were something that you might call tensionally cohered. They were at least discontinuous compression. The compression members did not touch one another and the Earth did not ball-bearing around on Mars and this was true in the nucleus. We came to a really different kind of a structure in which the tensegrity principles seemed to coincide with the structuring of Universe--"

Tensegrity (2)

← Tensegrity (1) | Tensegrity (3) →

RBF Definitions

-- both macrocosmically and microcosmically, and we find that whereas man seemed to be blind in employing it at his everyday level, we found that we could make the tensegrity stuructures which did make it possible to operate that way in the everyday level and we found the tensegrity structures satisfied our conception that we could not have the two events going through the same point at the same time because we had divergences of these vectors but they never actually got together. They get in critical proximities, twist by each other, but go on. We found that the tensegrity structures also occurred at certain levels. You can't make anything in tensegrity but there are certain geometries which appeared ... and they were all fashionable methodically in tensegrity." - Cite Oregon Lecture #8, pp. 279-280. 12 Oct '62

Tensegrity (3)

← Tensegrity (2) | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

" I have given you some of these measurements where we looked at tetrahedra and octahedraand so forth as if the edges were coming discretely together at one point in the Platonic way of looking at a solid. We have also realized that if we looked at any of these micrscopically that the ends are pretty well twisted and we discovered that we could make all the same figures with the tensegrities and we realize that the gap in thetensegrities can be visual. As I began to show by further experiment we get to the point where they go below resolution by the ever remembering human eye which can only go down to resolving distances to about one-hudredth of an inch and below that we don't see the distances between them. We don't see the distances between the points any more. We see a set of black points on a white field, and when they get below a certain point they run together. That is what the printers learned with the Benday screen-- you can develop what seemed to be continuous form, continuous surface, and so the colors, grays and various colors we speak of as color, but we can't see the intervals between the waves or the occurrence of frequency of their components. I saw then that the tensegrity structures did go down into nonvisible gaps. . ."

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity (3) | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"I saw then that the tensegrity structures did go down into nonvisible gaps. . . simply down to where I don't see the space between the critical proximity of the converging lines--but every time I magnify it. . . I find they really are not coming together. We get into bubble experiments and every kind of physics experiments and we find that every time we get lines tending to converge they always seem to do some kind of twisting around each other and they don't come through the same point."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p.280. 12 Oct '62

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"All structures are tensegrity structures from the solar system to the atom."

• Cite OREGON Lecture #6 - p. 197, 10 Jul'62

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity:

"Tensegrity structures are pure pneumatic structures and pneumatic structures are doing what they do at the subvisible range." (Adapted.)

• CITE OREGON Lecture #5 - p. 189, 9 Jul'62

TENSEGRITY - SEC. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-650.10650.10

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity →

RBF Definitions

"In a tensegrity system . . . if you just tauten one point all the parts of it tune the same. Every part is a non-redundant system. If you tighten it, it tunes up. The tension goes up and the frequency goes up-- but it goes up uniformly all over. It gets to be an extremely rigid structure but it is a nonredundant structure. Anything that we would really call rigid such as one of the atoms of very high integrity pattern is explained by this type tensegrity patterning."

Citations

1. Oregon Lecture #5, p. 178. 9 Jul'62

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity Basic Tensegrity Structures Three and Only →

Index Entry

Tensegrity: Basic Tensegrity Structures: Three and Only:

"Now you see these same six members as they transform in relation to each other. They go from the tensegrity icosahedron through the tensegrity octahedron phase and finally become the tensegrity tetrahedron. The same six members can transform from containing one volume to containing 18.51 volumes. The same six members transform through the full range of the three and only fundamental structures of nature. What I am showing you here are the principles actively operative in atomic nucleus behavior in visual intertransformations. There are very extraordinary qualities in these structures. The tensegrity tetrahedron and tensegrity octahedron are volumetrically complementary and together will fill all space, but the tensegrity icosahedron refuses to complement the tetrahedron or octahedron but isolates itself in space or goes on to make up triple-bondedly into large octahedra which may then complement tetrahedra to fill all space,"

• MEXICO Address, 10 Oct '63, p. 35 (Illustration D-1-123)

TENSEGRITY- \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-652.20652.20+21

Tensegrity Basic Tensegrity Structures Three and Only

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity Clothesline (1) →

Cross Reference

Tensegrity: Basic Tensegrity Structures: Three and Only:

Cross-References

• Prime Structural Systems

Tensegrity Clothesline (1)

← Tensegrity Basic Tensegrity Structures Three and Only | Tensegrity Clothesline (2) →

RBF Definitions

Surprising behaviors are found in tensegrity structures. The illustration shows a house and a tree and a clothesline. The line hangs low between the house and the tree. To raise the line so that the clothes to be dried will not sweep the ground, the line is elevated by a pole that has one end thrust against the ground and the other end pushed outwardly against the line. The line tightens with the pole's outer end at the vertex of an angle stretched into the line. The line's angle shows that the line is yielding in the direction away from the thrusting pole. "As the clothesline tightens and bends, it always yields away from the pushing strut. In spherical tensegrity structures the islanded compression struts pull the tension lines to angle toward the strut ends. "When we release a compression member from a tensegrity sphere, one end does not thrust by the tension member to which it was fastened in a circumferential direction. It was not fastened in thrust or shear. It was not pushing circumferentially. It was resisting being compressed, and like a cork in"

Tensegrity Clothesline (2)

← Tensegrity Clothesline (1) | Tensegrity →

Index Entry

Tensegrity Clothesline:

"a bottle, it was employing its frictional contact with the tension net at both its ends to resist its only tendency, which was to exit radially outward from the system's center."

• Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/700-tensegrity#section-712.03712.03, 19 Oct'72

Tensegrity

← Tensegrity Clothesline (2) | Tensegrity Clothesline (1) →

Index Entry

Tensegrity: Clothesline:

"Here we are looking down from the air onto a house

and there is a tree by the house and here is the clothes-

line. And in order to keep the clothes line off the ground,

you put a couple of struts against the clothes line sag.

So you put a strut this way and one that way. That is the

natural shape it takes. That is what you expect it to

take. It can't take anything else, but the tensegrity

structure here is a red strut, and you think it ought to

push the line the way this one does. Not at all; it

pulls on the line and the one coming the other way pulls

on the line so in a tensegrity structure tension members

yield to the compression members. The compression

members were trying to fly apart like bricks, they are

pulling the tension members and not pushing them. This is

one of the most interesting characteristics of a tensegrity

structure."

(RBF Comment on SLIDE 4:1-3)

• Cite OREGON Lecture #5 - pp. 184-185,9 Jul'62

TENSEGRITY - (EXTRACT) SEL \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/700-tensegrity#section-712.01712.01-63

Tensegrity Clothesline (1)

← Tensegrity | Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron Universal Joint (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Tension, (1)

Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron Universal Joint (1)

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Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron Universal Joint:

"I had been ransacking the tensegrity concepts using the multiple-rimmed, parallel or concentric wire-wheel phases of tensegrity since 1927, in the multi-decked 4-D mast structures and the Dymaxion house. . . Despite the fact that I called it the 4-D house-- for fourth dimensionality-- was a polarized, i.e., single-axis system of three dimensionality, with equatorial and latitudinal compressional atolls, isolated from one another in parallel in the comprehensive triangulated tensional network." But "I had been unable to integrate" synergetic geometry "and three-dimensional tensegrity.. . thus to discover multi-dimensional four, five, and six axes symmetrical tensegrity. I had realized that the two-axis universal joint, long known to man and often employed by mechanics as a flexible membrane-- sandwiched between two diametrically opposed yoke-ended shafts, with yoke planes symmetrically oriented at ninety degrees to one another-- constituted an octahedral tensegrity, but its shafted axes tended to make it appear as a single axis system similar to the hexagonal-wheeled Dymaxion house."

• Cite "Tensegrity," FOzfFOLIld + nkT nkiSS, p.121, Dec '61

Tensegrity (2)

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Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron Universal Joint:

"In 1948 Kenneth Snelson showed me a sculptural construct embodying a cantilevered strut of octahedra, accomplished with tensegrity applied to the mechanics' universal joint octahedra, reoriented from their shaft axes to a parallel plane alignment. Though Snelson thought of this only as a unique art form and was apprehensive to my aversion to artistic exploitation of energetic geometry (I have shunned the daily recurrent opportunities to exploit the energetic-synergetic geometry either as toys or objets d'art), he was eager for me to witness his discovery of a novel and exciting structure. His depolarized orientation of the tensegrity-octahedron universal joint catalyzed my comprehensive integration of the whole hierarchy of mathematical interrelationships of my tensegrity structures with my energetic-synergetic geometry and its multi-dimensional, multi-axial symmetry."

Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 121, Dec. '61

Tensegrity (3)

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Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron Universal Joint:

"My initial harvest of mathematical structures produced by this new conceptual tool was a family of four tensegrity masts characterized by vertical side-faces of three, four, five, and six each, respectively. The three and four sided masts consisted of discontinuous compression islands of tetrahedral strut groups mounted only in tension one above the other, while the five and six sided masts consisted of local islands of icosahedral and octahedral strut groups mounted vertically above one another, again only by tensional connectors."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, pp. 121-122, Dec. '61

Tensegrity Geodesic Grid: Three-Way Grid

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"That is also exactly what happens in a three-way grid tensegrity geodesic spherical grid. In the balloon we get paths of these positively and negatively paired, kinetic molecules reacting from one another in a random set of directions. If they went into one path only they would make a single circle which would push the balloon outwardly only at its equator making a disc and allowing the poles to collapse. If they made a two-way stack of parallel lesser circles as a cylinder, the cylinder would contract axially into a disc. A two-way grid would make only unstable squares and diamonds which would elongate into a tubular snake. But once we have three or more sets of angularly independent circularly continued push-pull paths, they must inherently triangulate by push-pull stabilization of opposite angles. Triangulation means self-stabilizing; which creates omnidirectional symmetry; which makes an inherent three-way spherical symmetry grid; which is the geodesic structure."

Tensegrity Geodesic Grid Three-way Grid

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Cross-References

• Omnirational Control Matrix
• Spherical Grid
• Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid

Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities (1)

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RBF Definitions

Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities: (1)

"We have in the geodesic tensegrity the ability to assemble

unprecedentedly large clear-span structures whose overall

diameter dimensions are limited only by the relative alloyed

coherence of the associated metallic atoms therein involved,

whose improving coherences are in swiftly multiplying

metallurgical evolution augmentation. We can go therefore

into the same magnitudes of clear-spanning dimensions as

our largest suspension bridges. As these bridges demonstrate

the continually improving tensile capabilities of constantly

improving alloys, one could now be made twice the size of

the Golden Gate Bridge. We may, therefore, consider clear-span geodesic tensegrity spheres in the magnitude of two

miles diameter as now realizable for use as satellite environment controls; or as hemispherical, or other spherical segment,

Earth contacting enclosures (in which the Earth completes

the sphere) e.g., for arctic city environment controls or

as water floatable enclosures."[LABORATORY APPEARS IN I & II, p. 170]

Citations

1. "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.123, Dec. '61

Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities (2)

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RBF Definitions

Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities: (2)

"Suspension bridge cables are parallel to one another, and therefore give one another no more anti-rhombic structural stability aid than do the parallel tension wires of a barrel. In geodesic tensegrities all the tension members cross one another in great-circle chorded triangulations, thus providing highest possible dimensional stability. For several well-known reasons there are ways in which geodesic tensegrity spheres can be made to provide diameters way in excess of the currently greatest suspension bridge span:

(1) We know that the progressive subdivision of a given metal fiber into a plurality of fibers, provides tensile capabilities of the smaller fibers at increased magnitudes up to hundreds and thousandsfold that of the unit section. This is because of the increased surface-to-mass ratios and because all tensile capability is apparently invested in the surfaces.

(2) The geodesic tensegrity spheres are capable of mathematical treatment in such a manner as to multiply the frequency of triangular modular subdivision in an orderly second power progression and formulaic control."

Tensegrity (3)

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"We now have the ability to introduce the above orderly mathematics into the computer, which permits of practical calculation and engineering feasibility previously non-existent. This ability, combined with the fact that the higher the frequency the smaller the tensional sectional area (yet the higher the tensional capability, and the smaller the local islands of compression) allows us to state that the higher the frequency, the more ephemeral the tensegrity complex becomes. Also, then, the total weight of the structure required per given level of performance grows smaller, and the whole structure becomes less vulnerable to total violations by any, or many, inwardly or outwardly originating impinging forces."

[This rep't was 1st typ'd 172]

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.123, Dec '61

Tensegrity

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Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:

"When we introduce the tensegrity structure and its many surprises, we see that we have broken through to a structural knowledge and technique which permits a progressively decreasing relative weight of structure as proportioned to the linear gain. This is to say, the gain of weight in structures, as ratioed to basic linear dimensions, is as one is to one minus1/x weight ratio as the same structure is multiplied in relative size.

In the above progression, as frequencies go up, the sizes of the islands of compression diminish. Islands of compression are the only residual 'solids' and their diminishing size diminishes their relative weights at a cube root progression of advantage. Halving the size of a solid spar reduces its *** relative weight by eight. Halving the size of a hollow spar reduces weight by a factor of approximately four."

[This term in 1-I ,pp 171-172]

Tensegrity

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"The higher the frequency the greater the proportion of the structure which is invested in tensional components. Tensional components are unlimited in length as proportioned to section ratios. As we increase the frequency, each tension member is parted into a plurality of fibers, each of whose strength is multiplied many-fold per unit of weight and section. If we increase the frequency many times, the relative overall weight of structures rapidly diminishes, as ratioed to any given linear increase, or even to any fixed linear increase, in overall dimension of structure. The only limit to frequency increase is the logistic practicality of more functions to be serviced, but the bigger the structure, the easier the local treatability of high-frequency components. In contrast to all previous structural experience, the law of diminishing return is operative in the direction of decreasing size of geodesic tensegrity structures and increasing return in the direction of their increasing dimensions."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PukTFO110 + ART NEWS, p.124, Dec. '61

Tensegrity

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"If the frequency is high enough the size of the interstices of the tensegrity net may become so relatively small as to arrest the passage of any phenomena larger than the holes. If frequency is high enough, neither water nor air molecules can pass through. They may be made to keep out the weather complex while admitting radar's microwaves and light, etc. If we 'up' the frequency sufficiently we will decrease the residual compressional islands to the microcosmic magnitude of atoms, which only serves to disclose that the atoms and their nuclei are themselves geodesic tensegrity structures, ergo compatible with this ultimate frequency limit-- a fact that is now swiftly looming into the nuclear physicist's ken.

"We now comprehend that the tensegrity geodesic structuring provides the first true and visualizable model of pneumatic structures in which the relative thickness of the enclosing films, in proportion to diameter, rapidly decreases with the increasing size of the balloons."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 124, Dec. '61

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Tensegrity Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities

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Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities: (7) "In the case of geodesic tensegrity structures no overcrowding of interior gas molecules, imprisoned within a submolecular mesh net, is necessary to thrust the net's structure outward from its spherical geometric center, because the compressional struts, locally islanded, as outward thrusting struts at both their ends, push the spherical net outwardly at every vertexial advantage of network convergence. Geodesic tensegrities are then 'hollowed-out' balloons, discarding their redundantly 'solid' air core. "The geodesic tensegrity is a hollowed out balloon in which those specific molecules of gas which happen to be impinging from within against the skin at any one moment (thus pushing it outwardly) are replaced by the islanded geodesic struts. It is possible then to sew pockets on the inside surface of a balloon skin corresponding in pattern to the islanded geodesic struts, and to insert stiff battens into those pockets which cause the otherwise limp balloon bag to take spherical shape as it would if filled with a pressured-in gas.

Tensegrity

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Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:

"Local stiffeners of skin suitable to preferred activities, at any structural focus, can be had by increasing the inward-outward angular strut depths and the local surface frequency patternings as well as by multi-layerings of surface truss frequency-- thus thickening the truss depth without weight penalties. Here we have nature's own trick of local stiffening as accomplished by the higher frequency 'closest packing' pattern of isotropically moduled, local cartilages and even higher frequency local bone structuring, as ratioed to the frequency of tissue cells of animal flesh.

"If we employ hydraulic pressure within the local islands of compression for dimensional stability, and gas molecules between the liquid molecules for local compressibility, ergo, flexibility, we will find that our geodesic tensegrity structures will, in every way, have taken advantage of the same structural strategy principles employed by nature in all her sizes of biological formulations."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO+ART NEWS, p. 125, Dec. '61

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Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities

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"Geodesic tensegrities are true pneumatic structures in purest designed frequency principle without the disadvantage of the randomness and redundancy accruing to the inherit (sic) designer-ignorances (which have only just happened to be successful), when depending on subvisible chemical structure' behaviors, through the separation of all the components into two majorly opposed magnitude classes, of all the outward bound things that are too large to pass through all the inward-bound net holes that are in the class that are too small. This is the same kind of redundancy that occurs in reinforced concrete which, if drilled out wherever redundant components exist, would disclose an orderly four-prime magnitude-complex, octa-hedron-tetrahedron truss network disencumbered of more than 50 percent of weight. Tensegrity geodesic spheroids have none of the portal pressurelock problems of 'solid-oozing' pneumatic balloons. The pressure is discretely localized and locked in place by the tension net, ergo cannot escape. Tensegrity geodesic spheroids may have several frequencies simultaneously-- a low frequency major web and a high frequency minor local web. If they are of sufficiently high frequency of secondary or minor webbing to exclude atmospheric molecules, they may be partially vacuumized, ergo made air-floatable."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 125, Dec. '61

Tensegrity Icosahedron (1)

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Tensegrity Icosahedron:

"The six-strut tensegrity icosahedron consists of three sets of parallels with their ends held together in tension. If a pair of three-strut tensegrity octahedra are mildly reorganized in asymmetrical form, they may be combined in two sets of three struts each to form the tensegrity icosahedron. There are 12 terminals of the six struts (the two octahedra combines-- each with three struts of six ends) and when 12 terminals are connected up, the 12 vertexes of the icosahedron appear. There are 20 equilateral triangles of the icosahedron clearly described by the tension members connecting the 12 vertexes in the most economical omnitriangulated pattern."

Tensegrity Icosahedron (2)

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Tensegrity Icosahedron:

"There are six tension members which join parallel struts to each other. If these tension members are removed from the icosahedron, only eight triangles remain from the original 20. These eight triangles are the eight transforming triangles of the 'jitterbug.' Consequently this 'incomplete' icosahedron demonstrates an expansion-contraction behavior similar to the 'jitterbug' although more restricted.

"If two opposite and parallel struts are pushed or pulled upon, all six members will move inwardly or outwardly causing the icosahedron to contract or expand in a symmetrical fashion. When this structure is fully expanded it is the regular icosahedron and it becomes, in its contracted state, an icosahedron bounded by eight equilateral triangles and 12 isosceles triangles (when the missing six tension members are replaced). All the 12 vertexes may recede from the common center in perfect symmetry of expansion, or, if a concentrated load is applied from without, the whole system contracts symmetrically, i.e., all the vertexes move toward their common center at the same rate."

Tensegrity_Icosahedron (3)

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(3)

"This is not the behavior we are used to in structures of

our previous experiences. These compression members do not

behave like conventional engineering beams. Ordinary beams

deflect locally or, if fastened terminally in tension to

their building, tend to contract their buildings in axial

asymmetry. The tensegrity 'beam' does not act independently

but acts only in concert with 'the whole building,' which

contracts only symmetrically when beam is loaded. The

tensegrity system is synergetic: a behavior of the whole

unpredicted by the behavior of the parts. Old stone-age

columns and lintels are energetic and only interact locally

with whole buildings. The whole tensegrity icosahedron

system, when loaded, contracts symmetrically, and because

of this its parts get symmetrically closer to one another;

therefore gravity increases as of the second power and

the whole system gets uniformly stronger. This is the way

atoms behave."

Citations

1. Synergetics Illustration "82, caption. 1967 TENSEGRITY SECS \href{https://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-652.54}{652.54} + 55

Tensegrity Icosahedron

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"A six-strut tensegrity tetrahedron can be transformed by changing the distribution and relative lengths of its tension members to the six-strut icosahedron.

"A theoretical three-way coordinate expansion can be envisioned with three parallel pairs of constant length struts in which a stretching of tension members is permitted as the struts move outwardly from a common center. Starting with a six-strut octahedron the structure expands outwardly going through the icosahedron phase to the vector equilibrium phase. When the structure expands beyond the vector equilibrium, the six struts become the edges of the figure; they consequently lose their structural function (assuming the original distribution of tension and compression members remains unchanged). As the tension members become substantially longer than the struts, the struts tend to approach relative zero and the overall shape of the structure approaches a super octahedron."

• Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION # 83, caption. 1967

Tensegrity Icosahedron Tensegrity

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Tensegrity: Icosahedron Tensegrity:

"The six-islanded strut icosahedron tensegrity and its all-space-filling, closest-packing capability provides omni-equi-optimum economy tensegrity universe structuring."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, P. 122, Dec. '61

Tensegrity Icosahedron

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Tensegrity Icosahedron: Volumetric Comparison With Tetra + Octa:

"In the first of the fairly large geodesic spheres which were built by the tensegrity principle we used the spherical icosahedrons because they provide by far the most volume with the least structural effort of the three basic structural systems. The tetrahedron has the least volume with the most surface; the octahedron is in the middle; and the icosahedron gives the most with the least.

"Six vector struts make one unit of quantum corresponding to the six edges of the tetrahedron.

"In the icosahedron five units of quanta give 20 units of enclosed volume which means four units of volume for each unit of energy quantum invested in the enclosing structure, whereas in the tetrahedron one unit of quantum will structurally enclose only one unit of volume. The octahedron gives you two units of volume for each quantum unit. The icosahedron gives four units of volume for each unit of quantum enclosing the structure. Therefore, the icosahedron gives you the most for the least effort."

• Cite Tel Aviv Address, Dec '67

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Tensegrity

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Tensegrity: Interstabilization of Local Stiffeners:

"Of first interest to engineers and artist-conceivers is the fact that my potential prototypes of satellite- and moon-structures are tensional integrity, omnitriangulated, high-tensile-cabled, spherical nets in which local islands of compression act only as local sprit-stiffeners. The local stiffeners are so oriented that they angle inwardly and outwardly between comprehensively finite, exterior and interior, tensional, spherical nets thus producing positive and negative waves of action and reaction in interstabilized dynamic equilibrium."

• Cite "Tensegrity, PORTFOLIO AND ART NEWS, Dec '61, p.117

Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts

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The tensegrity masts can be substituted for the individual (so called solid) struts in the tensegrity spheres. In each one of the separate tensegrity masts, acting as struts, in the tensegrity spheres it can be seen that there are little (so called 'solid struts.' A miniature tensegrity mast may be substituted for each of those 'solid struts.' The sub-miniature tensegrity masts within the tensegrity struts of the tensegrity sphere and a sub-sub-miniature tensegrity mast may be substituted for each of these 'solid' struts, and so on, to sub-sub-sub-subminiature tensegrities until we finally get down to the size of the atom and this becomes completely compatible with the atom for the atom is tensegrity and there are no 'solids' left in the entire structural system. There are no solids in structures; ergo, no solids in Universe. There is nothing incompatible with what we may see as structure at the visual level and what we are finding out to be the structural relationships in nuclear physics.

Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts

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Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts:

"Going back to these spheres of the 270 struts and the 90 struts, looking at any of those struts you can see that you could substitute for it one of the tensegrity masts. There is nothing to keep you from doing that. It is simply that each of the members are smaller, each of the struts get smaller. Then as you look at each strut in the tensegrity mast you can make a little miniature tensegrity mast to replace it. So now it is going to be getting pretty small with these struts but you look at it and you make a very beautiful miniature miniature. Every time you see a strut you make a miniature tensegrity mast and substitute it for the previous one. Finally by substitution you get down to the size of the atom and this is perfectly compatible, because this is the discontinuity; this is the structuring of the atoms. There you are in the discontinuous compression, continuous tensions where you are simply in the energy islands in high concentration of tensional coherences. Finally this kind of structuring becomes completely explicable by the atom and yet we have

Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts

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Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts:

"It was obvious that each of the seemingly 'solid' compression struts in these island complexes could be replaced by miniature tensegrity masts (of any of these four types) and for the miniature struts in the miniature tensegrity masts, subminiature tensegrity masts could also be substituted. By such process of progressive substitutions in diminishing order of sizes, a final sub-subminiature stage of tensegrity mast would be substituted for the last stage of seemingly 'solid' struts, i.e., at a size magnitude of a single atom's structural diameter. At this stage of local miniaturization, the inherent discontinuous-compression, tensional integrity of the non-solid atomic structures themselves would coincide with the overall structuring principle of the whole series of masts-within-masts complex. This eliminates any further requirement of the now utterly obsolete conception of 'solid' anything-- as intervening in the man-tuned sensorial ranges between macro- and micro world of ultra- and infra-sensorial tensegrity. My demonstration of the stable structural supporting capability of such man-witnessable tensegrity masts thus eliminated any further requirement of any 'solid' conception whatsoever."

Tensegrity: Miniature Masts: Positive and Negative

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These were now demonstrable as consisting of both positive and negative tensegrities, simultaneously employed. Whereas either the positive or the negative tensegrity mast would independently provide the same overall compressional strut capability as did the two together, obviously either the positive or the negative tensegrity within the 'solid' combination must be doing all the 'strut' work at any one time-- the other is entirely superfluous, ergo redundant. Their alternate capabilities, being approximately equal, would alternately tend to exchange the loading task, thus generating an oscillating interaction of positive vs. negative load transferral which would expend the energies of their respective structural integrities, thus tending to self-interdeterioration (crystallization) of their combined alternating strut functioning longevity of structural capability.

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + Art NEWS, p.122, Dec '61

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Tensgrity Masts: Pentagonal Polarity

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Tensgrity Masts: Pentagonal Polarity:

"The crossed-spiral, vector-strut, tubular-shaped structures occurring when the pentagonal poles of the spherical form (hex-pent sphere) are released, consist of five-edged spirals countering each other--with one turbinedly dominant.

"This structure corresponds to one which is produced as a tensegrity mast. Since we are dealing with nature's maximum limit number of equilength vector struts, the same wavelength, frequency, and resonance conditions obtain."

"We are comprehending here the spherical geodesic protein shells of the DNA-RNA tetrahelix tubular-shaped, internal structuring logic."

• Cite RBF Ltr. to Glenn Dewar, 27 Dec'76

Tensegrity Mast

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Cross-References

• Geodesic Spiral Tube

Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy

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Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy:

"In working out this business of the octahedron as an

annihilation model I've just come to realize that this relates

very closely to what we have in the chapter on tensegrity

about the reciprocal behaviors of pneumatics and hydraulics.

"The molecules find their own great circles and then develop

their own intertriangulation. Here we have an interference

pattern where energy can interfere with itself. It is a

tensegrity pattern, a making of knots. Tensegrity is a model

of how energy-as-radiation can shunt itself inwardly to make

matter."

Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy

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Cross-References

• ahedron as Annihilation Model, Oct
• Pattern Integrity: Atomic Knots

Tensegrity: Octa-Tensegrity

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Tensegrity: Octa-Tensegrity:

"The three-islanded octa-tensegrity, in positive and negative phases, is fundamental to all tensegrity structures."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 122, Dec '61

Tensegrity Octahedron (2)

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Tensegrity Octahedron:

Cross-References

• Geodesic Spinnaker, (2)

Tensegrity Sphere

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Tensegrity Sphere:

"Pushing on one individual pole of a tensegrity geodesic sphere is the same as pushing on two poles, because you only have to push at one point for the inertia of the system to react against your pushing. This point produces a spherical wave set that if uninterfered with, will travel encirclingly around the sphere from any one starting point to its 180-degree antipodes. It is like dropping a pebble into the water: the crest is the expanded phase of Universe, and the trough is the contracted phase of Universe. Looking at the ripples, we see that they are the locally initiated, expanding-contracting of whole Universe as a consequence of local energy-event inputs. This is why tensegrity and pneumatic balls bounce. Contracting as they contact, their equally violent expansion impels them away from the-- relative to them-- inert body of contact."

• Cite SYNERGETICS galley at \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/1000-omnitopology#section-1005.141005.14, as rewritten by RBF, 19 Dec'73

Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals (1)

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Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals:

"A basic tensegrity sphere can be constituted of six equatorial plane pentagons, each of which consists of five independent and nonintertouching compression struts, totaling 30 separate nonintertouching compression struts in all. This six-pentagon equatored tensegrity sphere inter@cs in a self-balanced system resulting in six polar axes each perpendicular to one of its six equatorial pentagonal planes. It also results in 20 triangular interweavings, which structuring stabilizes the system.

"Instead of having cables connecting the ends of the struts to the ends of the next adjacent struts in the six-axes-of-symmetry tensegrity structure, 60 short cables lead from the ends of each prestressed strut either to the midpoint of the next adjacent strut or to the midpoint of tension lines running from one end to the other of each compression strut. Each of the two ends of the 30 spherical chord compression struts emerges as an energy action, out over the center of action-and-reaction effort vectors of the next adjacent strut, at which midpoint the impimgimg strut's effort is angularly precessed to its adjacent struts. Thus each strut precessionally transfers its effort and relayed interloadings to the next two"

Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals (2)

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Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals:

"adjacent struts. This produces a dynamically regenerative self-interweaving basketry in which each compression strut is precessed symmetrically outwardly from the others while simultaneously precessing the force efforts of all the tensional network inwardly.

"In this pattern of six separate, five-strut-membered pentagons, the six pentagonal unsubstanted but imaginable, planes cut across each other equiangularly at the spheric center. In such a structure we witness the cosmic principles enabling the recurrence of locally regenerative structural patterns. We are witnessing here the principles and regenerating the atoms. The struts are simple, dynamic, energy-event vectors which derive their regenerative energies by an eternally symmetrical interplay of inbound-outbound forces of systems which interfere with one another to maintain critical fall-in, shunt-out, proximities to one another."

Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals

← Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals (2) | Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonal →

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Tony Pugh at S.I.U. tells me that the version of the tensegrity sphere on which I based my exposition-- same one you have on your office floor-- is, in fact, degenerate because it imposes loads on the struts: as it does. In the pure tensegrities the tension network is continuous and the struts merely float in it, holding its nodes apart and undergoing no stress except axial (end-to-end).

Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonal

← Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals | Tensegrity Sphere →

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Instead of having these cables going from end to end and the struts impinging on those cables, we have, from the end of the strut, a single cable going to the middle of the member. Here we have a very interesting pattern of the atom. You see a pattern here of a pentagon: five members. . . . six planes of pentagons cutting across each other. One energy action as it emerges here comes over the middle of the center of mass of energy there and it is angularly precessed. Then its own middle becomes the precessor for the next two. You find this weaving around; this basketry, in which each one is precessing the other ones inwardly. You begin to see how there is a regenerative local pattern in Universe. I am quite confident that we are witnessing the principle by which the atoms cohere. These are dynamic events. These are vectors and they are strictly a tremendous energy event. . . as it comes over the other end it gets its maximum concentration of energy at its center of energy, and then we get the precessional effect, and get into the critical proximities.

Tensegrity Sphere

← Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonal | Tensegrity Sphere (1) →

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Tensegrity Sphere (1)

← Tensegrity Sphere | Tensegrity Sphere (2) →

Cross Reference

Sky-island City

Cross-References

• Geodesic Sphere

Tensegrity Sphere (2)

← Tensegrity Sphere (1) | Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Gravitational Field, 8 Mar'73
• Sphericity of Whole Systems, 26 Sep'73
• Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid, 17 Feb'72

Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts

← Tensegrity Sphere (2) | Tensegrity Structures →

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Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts:

"It is a synergetic characteristic of minimum structural systems (tetra) that the system is not stable until the last strut is introduced. Redundancy cannot be determined by energetic observation of behaviors of single struts (beams or columns) or any chain-linkage of same which are less than six in number, or less than tetrahedron."

• Cite RBF undated holograph on M.I.T. memo pad. (1950's)

Tensegrity Structures

← Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts | Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons →

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Tensegrity Structures:

"... From the end of a compression member there is a little tension member going to the mid-part of the next compressional strut unit. The end tension members from two adjacent struts make a V-shape. We are used to fastening things into buildings in shear where structural members push. The members in tensegrity structures pull apart as the V of tension shows. Tensegrity structures are not fastened in shear. If I tighten up a turnbuckle it will tighten up the whole tension V-shape and therefore the structure will get bigger and not smaller when tensed more tightly. Each of the tension V's get a little flatter. These structural behaviors are very typical of the energy interference patterns which structurally cohere all atoms. A strut is comparable to a vector energy action and its end is pulled by the center of mass of the next vector strut. Pulling the end of the vector strut changes its direction toward the center of the whole system. Thus each of the vectors is continually steered to encircle the same center. In the same way energy self-interference patterns result in locally regenerative structural systems as atoms."

• Cite RBF in Tel Aviv Address, December 1967. (Zodiac 19).

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Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons

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Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons:

"The aggregate of all the inter-great-circlings resolve themselves typically into a regular pattern of 12 pentagons and 20 triangles; or sometimes more complexedly, into 12 pentagons, 30 hexagons, and 80 triangles described by 240 great circle chords.

"This is the pattern of the geodesic tensegrity sphere. The numbers of hexagons and triangles and chords can be multiplied in regular arithmetical-geometrical series, but the 12 pentagons, and only 12, will persist as constants; as will also the number of triangles occur in multiples of 20; and the number of edges will always be multiples of six."

• Cite SET X, p.15, Aug'72

Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons

← Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons | Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium →

Cross Reference

Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons:

Cross-References

• Hex-pent Sphere

Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium

← Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons | Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections (1) →

Index Entry

Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium:

"The tensegrity vector equilibrium could not be a better proof of the modelability of a complete abstraction: the sizeless tetrahedron."

• Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections (1)

← Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium | Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections (2) →

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"The turbining, tensionally interlaced joints of the tensegrity geodesic spheroids decrease the star-like vertexial interference patterns.

"When a photostat is made of a plurality of lines crossing through approximately one point, it is seen that there is a blurring or running together of the lines near the point, causing a web-like shadow between the converging lines even though the lines had been clearly drawn. This is caused by a refractive light-wave bending. When the masses of the physically consisted lines converge to critical proximity, the relative impedance of light-wave passage in the neighborhood of the point increases as of the second power of the relative proximities as multiplied by a factor of the relative mass-density. The tensegrity geodesic spherical structures eliminate the heavy sections of compression members in direct contact at their terminals, ergo keep the heavy mass of respective compressions beyond critical proximities."

Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections (2)

← Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections (1) | Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections: Locked Kiss →

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Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections:

"As the vertexial connections are entirely tensional, the section mass is reduced to a minimum, and frequency increase provides a cube-root rate of reduction of section in respect to each doubling frequency. Thus very large or small tensegrity geodesic spheroids may be designed with approximate elimination of all microwave interferences-- without in any way impairing the structural dimensional stability."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.128, Dec, '61

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Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections: Locked Kiss

← Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections (2) | Tensegrity Vertexial Connections →

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Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections: Locked Kiss:

"As we increase the frequency of triangular module subdivisions of the sphere, and thus increase the numbers of compression struts, the struts get progressively halved in length, while their volumes and weights shrink eightfold. At the same time the arc altitude between the smaller arcs and chords of the sphere decreases, and finally we get to the condition where the compression members get closer and closer to the adjacent compression members which they cross. Finally we get to the point where the space between them is the same dimension as the girth diameter of the struts. We can then let them 'kiss' touch. We may then lock them tensionally together in their 'kiss,' but when we do so remember that they were not pushing one another when they kissed and we locked them in that position of nonstructural coincidence. They are therefore not fastened in shear even though their 'locked kiss' gives a superficially 'solid' appearance."

• Cite Mexico '63, p. 44

Tensegrity Vertexial Connections

← Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections: Locked Kiss | Tensegrity: Wire Wheel →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Vertexial Connections

Tensegrity: Wire Wheel

← Tensegrity Vertexial Connections | Tensegrity Geodesic Tensegrity Structures (1) →

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I found that nature was not using that primarily structural logic. In our solar system the Earth is not touching and ball-bearing around on the Moon's surface. They cohere gravitationally and remotely. And in the atoms the energy components are equally remote from one another. I found that nature is using what I call continuous tension and discontinuous, islanded compression. Man's first discovery of that was when he made the wire wheel with a compressional hub as the counterpart of Earth with rim corresponding to the Moon's encirclement of the Earth with the spokes corresponding to the gravity which coheres the two islands of compression only by tension.

I find then that it is possible to make structural units which are only held together by tension. I call these clearly differentiated tension-compression structural tensional integrities, or tensegrity structures.

• Cite Tel Aviv Address, Dec '67

Tensegrity Geodesic Tensegrity Structures (1)

← Tensegrity: Wire Wheel | Tensegrity Geodesic Tensegrity Structures (2) →

Cross Reference

Aspension

Clothes Line

Cross-References

• Balloons
• Domes
• Geodesic Structures
• Pneumatic Structures
• Rigidity
• Snow Mound
• Geodesics & Tensegrities
• Four-triangular Circuits Tensegrity

Tensegrity Geodesic Tensegrity Structures (2)

← Tensegrity Geodesic Tensegrity Structures (1) | Tensegrity (2) →

Cross Reference

Vectors & Tensegrons, 19 Oct'72

Cross-References

• Apple, 10 Nov'73
• Cosmic Structuring, (3)
• Engineering, 3 Oct'72
• General Case, 16 Feb'73
• Kite, 28 Jan'75

Tensegrity (2)

← Tensegrity Geodesic Tensegrity Structures (2) | Tensegrity (3) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Push-pull Members, 28 Oct'72

Tensegrity (3)

← Tensegrity (2) | Tensile Blueprint →

Cross Reference

See Tensegrity: Basic Tensegrity Structures: Three & Only

Cross-References

• Tensegrity: Basic Tensegrity Structures: Three \& Only
• Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-ahedron Universal Joint, Oct
• Tensegrity Geodesic Grid: Three-way Grid
• Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities
• Tensegrity Icosahedron
• Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts
• Tensegrity:a-tensegrity, Oct
• Tensegrityahedron, Oct
• Tensegrity Sphere
• Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts
• Tensegrity Structures
• Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons
• Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium
• Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections
• Tensegrity: Wire Wheel
• Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy
• Tensegrity Clothesline

Tensile Blueprint

← Tensegrity (3) | Tensile Blueprints →

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... The tree having to have its own young out from under its shadow... Laughing all those seeds... She sends only the tensile blueprint in the seed. And part of this is crystals and the crystals will grow.

Tensile Blueprints

← Tensile Blueprint | Tensile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel →

Cross Reference

Tensile Blueprints: See Prestressed Concrete Sequence, (3)

Cross-References

• Prestressed Concrete Sequence, 1965 (3)
• Seed, 1965
• Tree

Tensile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel

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Tensile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel:

"Here is another synergy confirming instance: the tensile strength of chrom-nickel-steel is 350,000 pounds per square inch. This is 100,000 pounds stronger than 250,000 pounds per square inch which is the sum of the tensile strengths of each and all of chrom-nickel-steel's constituent metals; which are, nickel 80,000 p.s.i., chromium, 70,000, iron, 60,000, while the sum of their minor ingredients-- carbon, manganese, et.al., is 40,000 p.s.i. The augmented coherence of the whole chrome-nickel-steel alloy is accounted for only by the complex inter-mass attractions of the crowded together atoms. That is synergy."

-Cite NEHRU SPEECH. P. 34, 13 Nov'69

Tengile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel

← Tensile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel | Tensile Strength of Chrome Steel →

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Tengile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel:

"The synergy is predicated upon my definition of Universe as the aggregate of all men's consciously apprehended and communicated (to self or others) experiences. Synergy means behavior of aggregates unpredicted by the behavior of their components or any subassemblies of their components.. Chrome-nickle-steel may have a tensile strength of 350,000 psi, whereas its three strongest alloy constituents have only 60,000 psi, 70,000 psi, and 80,000 psi respectively. Unlike the chain whose strength is no stronger than its weakest link, chrome-nickel-steel is six times stronger that its weakest link and stronger than the sum of strengths of all its individual links. Chrome-nickel steel is synergetic. All alloys are synergetic. All compounds are synergetic. Atoms are synergetic. Universe is synergetic."

• Cite RBF Ltr. to Colliers (full text), Pp. 3-4, July'59

Tensile Strength of Chrome Steel

← Tengile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel | Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel (1) →

Index Entry

Mexico '63, p. 14, 10 Oct '63 (In this case, aluminum alloys)

Intuition, pp.51-52, May '72

Univ. of Alaska, pp. 13-16, 20 Apr '72

Mexico '63, pp.21-24, 10 Oct '63

Later Development of My Work, I&I, pp.64-65, 5 Jun '58

Kepes, p.85, 1965

**How to Maintain Man As A Success, Utop or Obliv., p.226, 18 Mar '65

Doxiadis Ltr, Utop. or Obliv., p.313, 20 Jun '66

**Oregon Lecture #1, pp.31-32, 1 Jul '62

Ltr to James Fitzgibbon (?), Raleigh, NC, undated, p.4. (1954-59)

*Senate Hearings, p.11, 4 Mar'69

Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel (1)

← Tensile Strength of Chrome Steel | Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Alloy
• Chain Stronger than its Weakest Link
• Jet Engine
• Steel

Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel (2)

← Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel (1) | Tension →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Cube: Diagonal Of, (2)
• Industrial Lag, (1)
• Synergy, Jul'59
• Tools: Craft & Industrial, (2)

Tension

← Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel (2) | Tension →

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"...If tension is secondary and local in all men's structural projections, tension must also be secondary in man's philosophic reasoning." - Citation & context at Airplane Flight as Lift, 4 Oct'72

Tension

← Tension | Tension →

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Tension:

"Tension is unit: universally cohering and comprehensively finite."

• Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-640.70640.70, Dec'71

Tension

← Tension | Tension (1) →

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Tension:

"Tension is an unlimited structural principle and inherently comprehensive and eternal."

• Cite RBF Holograph, Beverly Hotel stationery, Spring, 1971.

Tension (1)

← Tension | Tension (2) →

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Tension:

"Now I am going to give you an analogy. It's actually a model in our processes of thinking. Say your were a kid and your mother said, 'I would like you to go out and hang something on the clothesline'-- so you had a clothesline. Later on you are getting on a boat and somebody says, You have never been in a boat before. Now this is called a "sheet." It's like the sheet on your bed. I want you to pull in on this jib sheet.' And then you find that there are halyards and other kinds of lines, then you pull on those and you get used to all kinds of lines. Then you are pulling on the anchor rope.

"So then the clothesline and the different pieces of line you have handled on your boat rotted and you get in someone else's boat and you see ropes again. They have ropes nowadays with better cordage, of nylon, and dacron, and mylar. In the sum total you have a great many experiences with tension, but every one is a special case. Then you begin to draw from all those special cases certain generalized principles about tension. When you pull on a rope it tends to straighten out."

Tension (2)

← Tension (1) | Tension (3) →

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Tension:

"When you push the two ends it begins to coil; the radius gets shorter, the radius gets longer. You begin to generalize.

"Now let's get out to a very high-frequency radius from a given sphere center of a great matrix of the closest-packed spheres. I will go out to the one-hundredth layer and at the one hundredth layer I would have-- we know our frequency is 100-- so our frequency to the second power, 100 x 100 is 10,000. to the second power times 10, so it makes it now 1,000,000, plus 2. So it's 1,000,002. I know the number of balls now in the one hundredth layer is 1,000,002. Very interesting.

"Now you and I and all the people who have had any rope experiences have had 1,000,002 experiences. More than enough to remember all the special experiences, and out of that we generalize certain experiences of tension. We call it 'tension.' We don't just call it a different piece of rope-- it's now no longer the main sheet, and so forth, it's just tension. And this generalization works in to some layers"

Tension (3)

← Tension (2) | Tension →

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Tension:

"inside. In other words, we have special-case experiences originally and out of those special-case experiences we resolve generalized principles. And I find what I call a generalization of a generalization, so that brings us into a layer further still. It could be that our generalizations come again close toward center and we finally get to the center one which is called the Universe and that involves them all. This is pretty much the way our thought processes work. We begin to have a whole lot of experiences with tears and so forth, and gradually with experiences we get wiser and we see generalized principles. You really resolve something out of that and as you get older and older you resolve more and more generalized principles. And the reason you get quite full of equanimity and confidence is because you have generalized so many that you can handle any special case. I think these balls schematically are really the way our thought processes work. We are trying to identify what we do here. It is like the brain. This is the way the brain handles... We have discovered that the difference between the brain and the mind is that the brain "

• Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, pp.10-11, 11 Mar'69

Tension

← Tension (3) | Tension →

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Tension:

"is simply a storing and retrieving system for all the special-case experiences. But once you and I have resolved it, and the mind resolves the generalized principle... but once the mind has discovered the generalized principle, then it deposits it in the brain as another kind of special case. Generalization becomes storable in the special case words, because we do it in words, we do it in concepts-- that gets to be storable. It's quite a different kind of storage from the original special case. I think there are a great many people who just really live in the special case and don't really tend to generalize as much. What they have are some rules. Those are special cases because they remeber that their minister told them always to do this-- Raise your hat going by church.. Those are conditioned reflexes.

"I think we really have given you the prime entry here."

• Cite RBF to VERNER Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, p.11, 11 Mar'69

Tension

← Tension | Tension →

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The generalized principle of tension

Holds true in all cases

Be the tensed phenomenon a silken cord,

A wrought-iron chain,

Or the invisible gravity cohering

The Earth and Moon

Which rotate synchronously

As they 'fly twin-spin formation'

Around the Sun

At one thousand miles a minute

Which is four times

The additional acceleration

At which our Christmas Eve

Moon orbiting

Manned capsule

Averagely enroute

Its successful round trip.

Tension

← Tension | Tension →

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Tension:

"... Tension members work towards arcs of greater radius but never completely straighten out. ... The tensions are not in a plane, anyway. Tension tends to do the big things in universe, do the big action, and compression is towards the little action. Furthermore, compression member has a limit ratio of length to section, we call it a slenderness ratio, it very readily busts because it is too long. ... But there is no limit of cross-section to length in a tension member, no inherent ratio. If you make a better alloy, you make it very much longer."

• Cite LEDGEMONT, pp. 30-31, 15 Oct'64

Tension

← Tension | Tension →

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Tension:

"Tension is shown experientially to be nondimensional, omnipresent, finitely accountable, continuous, comprehensive, ergo timeless, ergo eternal."

(Ed. Note: Date of RBF rewrite not determined in this file.)

• RBF SYNERGETICS draft, 'Tension and Compression' revision of Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 157-158. 9 Jul'62

Tension

← Tension | Tension →

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Tension:

"I pull on the rope and all its curls begin to go out and they begin to be arcs of greater radius. But we find that it is never operating in a plane or in a line and therefore it is consisting of spirals. And spirals get to be arcs and a plurality of arcs of ever greater radius but it never gets to be straight. Tension mebers keep doing bigger and bigger tasks. The big patterns of universe are done by the large radius patterns and to account for the large pattern integrities."

• Cite OREGON Lecture #5 - pp. 157,158, 9 Jul'62

Tension

← Tension | Tension →

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Tension:

"The big jobs are done in tension and the small jobs in compression. We find that the tensions, because they are always curved, never can get straight. There is no meaning to the word 'straight' in Universe. Therefore the tension memebers spiraling around must always come back into themselves. They are inherently self-closing, maybe not with simultaneous experiences-- obviously not in simultaneous experiences-- but around comes the Halley's Comet. Every 70 years around she comes again. It is not a simultaneous experience at all. Several life times may be involved, and some of them may be coming around more slowly, but there is an integrity of the tensions as around they come again. We find an idea about some kind of closed circuit."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 111-112. 5 Jul'62

Tension

← Tension | Tension (1) →

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Tension:

"All tensile capability is apparently invested in the surfaces."

• Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 123, Dec. '61

Tension (1)

← Tension | Tension →

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Tension:

"As structural systems are omni-directionally coherent, tensile factors were unwittingly taken advantage of to cohere man's compressive structures. Comprehensive tensile coherence provided by nature was atomic, the enormous amount of which induced into action was manifested by the weight of the structural masses. The invisible structure was E = mc²....

"Throughout the universe, compression and tension are energetically juxtaposed. Their juxtaposition provides dimension--the basic of awareness of life itself. Tension is comprehensive. Universe tensionally coheres non-simultaneous events.

"Man's structuring ability is by principle distinctly limited in the proportional ratios of width and length of compression members. The tensile principle has no such ratioed limit of length to section. Tension members, no matter how elongated, tend to pull true. Tension is limited only to the initial cohesiveness of the chemical elements. As man's knowledge of chemical - Cite Previews, I&I, pp.211-212, 1 Apr '49

Tension

← Tension (1) | Tension →

RBF Definitions

"interaction improves the length of tensile members, relative to given section diameter or given stress, trends are to increasing amplification-- to infinite length with no section. Incredible? No. Every use of gravity is a use of such sectionless tensioning. The electrical tension first employed by man to pull energy through the nonferrous conductors, and later to close the wireless circuit, was none other than such universally available sectionless tension.

"In the phenomena tension man is in principle given access to unlimited performance. It seems fantastic, but there it is!"

Citations

1. Previews, I&I, p.212, 1 Apr'49

Tension

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"Tension is both internal and external to the octave and is harmonic to the unit octave or to octave pluralities. Tension is comprehensive, attractive, and gravitational. Tension is infinitely extensible."

". . . Tension is radial and is electromagnetic."

• Cite DYAXION COMP. SYSTEM, 1944 Table 4, caption.

• Citation & context at Tension & Compression, 1944

Tension & Compression

← Tension | Tension & Compression →

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Tension & Compression:

"In 1851 tension came to parity with compression."

• Citation and context at Civil War (1), 20 Apr'72

Tension & Compression

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Tension & Compression:

"Compression is inherently partial. Tension is inherently total."

• Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-640.70640.70, Dec'71

Tension & Compression

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Tension & Compression:

"Compression is time. Tension is eternity."

• Cite Synergetics Draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-640.70640.70, Dec. '71.

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Tension & Compression:

"Compression is higher frequency tension."

• Cite RBF to Speech Class (per Mike Mitchell notes), SIU Edwardsville, 14 Feb'74

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Tension & Compression:

"We find that nature employs discontinuous compressions and continuous tension. For this reason compressions are plural and tension is singular."

• Cite Goddesses, Sat Review 2 Mar 68

Tension & Compression

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Tension & Compression:

"Tension tends towards arcs of increasing radius; Compression tends towards arcs of decreasing radius."

Tension & Compression

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Tension & Compression:

"Compression behaviors are disassociative while tension behaviors are inherently associative and spontaneously cohering."

• Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, ed., Kepes, p.85, 1965

Tension & Compression

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Tension & Compression:

"Tension and compression are only coexistent.

when you tense a rope its girth contracts-- ergo compressaes."

• Cite MUSIC OF THE NEW LIFE, U. or O, p.14, 10 Dec'64

Tension & Compression

← Tension & Compression | Tension & Compression →

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"... One thing very clear about compression and nad tension, in the first place they are never innocent of each other. If I pull a rope,its girth contracts, it is going under compression at 90 degrees. If I load a cigar, it tries to bow outwardly ... as I load it. So .. this girth is expanding; therefore it is getting higher tension. Tension and compression always operate at precision of right angles to one another and we simply have one at high tide and one at low tide of aspects of conceptuality."

• Cite LEDGEMONT, p. 30, 15 Oct'64

HIGH TIDE - SEC \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-641.01641.01

Tension & Compression

← Tension & Compression | Tension & Compression →

RBF Definitions

Compression tends to be local and separate and divisible while tension tends to be unit and cohering and finite and very large." - Cite OREGON LECTURE #5 - p. 159, 9 Jul'62

Tension & Compression

← Tension & Compression | Tension & Compression →

Index Entry

Tension & Compression:

"Functions are never independent of one another. No tension member is innocent of compression and no compression member innocent of tension."

• Citation and context at Function, 9 Jul'62

• Pitts Oregon Lectures #5, p. 157. 9 Jul'62

Tension & Compression

← Tension & Compression | Tension & Compression →

Index Entry

Tension & Compression:

"Compression tends to be local and separable and divisible while tension tends to be unit and cohering and finite and very large."

• Cite OREGON Lecture '5 - p. 159, 9 Jul'62

Tension & Compression

← Tension & Compression | Tension & Compression →

Index Entry

Tension & Compression:

"Compression is micro and tension is macro."

• Citation and context at Macro-Macro, 1955

Tension & Compression

← Tension & Compression | Tension & Compression →

Index Entry

Compression is lateral or circumferential and is electrostatic; tension is radial and is electromagnetic. Compression is expressive internal to the octave and is limited to the mathematical properties and harmonic laws internal to the octave. It builds up potential. As demonstrated in the arch, compression is limited to absolute phenomena and fixed relationships of one spherical system.

"Tension is both internal and external to the octave or to octave pluralities. Tension is comprehensive, attractive, and gravitational. Tension is infinitely extensible."

Tension & Compression

← Tension & Compression | Tension ≠ Compression (1) →

Index Entry

Throughout the universe, compression and tension are energetically juxtaposed. . . Compression is limited to dimensionally minuscule tasks in the universe, to the spherical convergencies of energy in elemental systems.

"Man's structuring ability is by principle distinctly limited in the proportional ratios of width and length of compression members. Elongated compression tends to deflect and fail. The best compression abilities are in the planetary form of the sphere, whose neutral axis is dynamic through omni-directional symmetry. Ball bearings are man's best accomplishment in compressive structuring."

Tension ≠ Compression (1)

← Tension & Compression | Tension & Compression (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, (1)

Tension & Compression (1)

← Tension ≠ Compression (1) | Tension & Compression (2A) →

Cross Reference

Dog Pulling on a Belt

Generalization: Second Degree

Rope

Spherical Barrel: Radial Compression vs. Circumferential Tension

Structural Functions

Radial Compression vs. Circumferential Tension

Fit: Pressured or Tensed Fit

Push-pull

Tidal

Cross-References

• Discontinuity & Continuity

Tension & Compression (2A)

← Tension & Compression (1) | Tension & Compression (2B) →

Cross Reference

Implosion, Explosion, Dec'70

Cross-References

• Civil War, (1)
• Colloidal Chemistry, 1938
• Coherence, 1 Apr'49
• Comet, 5 Jul'62
• Convergence & Divergence, 8 Sep'75
• Domains of Actions, 21 Dec'71
• Function, 9 Jul'62
• Geodesic Domes, 24 Jan'58; 12 May'77
• Hydraulics, 20 Apr'72
• Instant Universe, (2)
• Male & Female, 20 Apr'72
• Macro-micro, 1955
• Nature Ships Tension, 29 Jul'76
• ahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, Oct
• Pattern Generalization, (2)
• Quantum: Event-paired Quanta, Jul'66
• Spiralinearity, Nov'71
• Tensegrity, 1967

Tension & Compression (2B)

← Tension & Compression (2A) | Tensional Constancy →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Tidal, Dec'61; 9 Nov'73
• Universal Integrity, 7 Nov'73
• Wind Stress & Houses, (10)(11)
• Wire Wheel, 4 May'57

Tensional Constancy

← Tension & Compression (2B) | Tension Diamonds →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Islanded Radiation & Tensional Constancy

Tension Diamonds

← Tensional Constancy | Tensional Integrity →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Cork: Triangular Corks in Spherical Barrels, 15 Feb'66

Tensional Integrity

← Tension Diamonds | Tensional Integrity (1) →

Index Entry

Tensional Integrity:

"Man can approximate the magnificent efficiencies and economies of the macro-micro tensional integrities of nature."

• Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970

Tensional Integrity (1)

← Tensional Integrity | Tensional Integrity (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Tensegrity

Tensional Integrity (2)

← Tensional Integrity (1) | Tension Structures →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Interpositioning, 4 Oct'72

Tension Structures

← Tensional Integrity (2) | Tension Structure →

Index Entry

Tension Structures:

"The essence of the essence of historical surprise in general reorientations is the discovery that tension structure is not a linked, or chain, phenomenon. Tension members represent 'milky-way-like' arrangements of atoms, the atomic or inter-stellar spaces of which are relatively infinite. The tension members may no longer be thought of as chains, no stronger than their weakest link. Tension structures arranged by man depend upon his relative knowledge in purest principle-- in purest initial volition of interpretation-- of pure intellect. Universe is tensional integrity."

• Cite PREVIEWS, I&I, Pp. 212, 213

Tension Structure

← Tension Structures | Tensive →

Index Entry

Tension Structure:

"A tension structure is nature's fundamental pattern cohering principle."

• Cite ITEM "O", p. 196 May'55

Tensive

← Tension Structure | Tensive vs. Pushive →

Index Entry

Tensive:

"Gravity is tensive, ergo tends to decrease its overall curvature. The ultimate reduction of curvature is no curvature.... The tensive tends to arcs of ever greater radius."

• Citation and context at Curvature, 23 Sep'73

Tensive vs. Pushive

← Tensive | Tensive vs. Pushive →

Index Entry

Tensive vs. Pushive:

"'Impel' and 'repel' are both pushive; I need something tensive to work with precession."

• Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 12 Nov'74

Tensive vs. Pushive

← Tensive vs. Pushive | Tension Tensile Tenaive (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Push vs. Attraction

Tension Tensile Tenaive (1)

← Tensive vs. Pushive | Tension Tensile Tensive (2) →

Cross Reference

Length-to-girthRatio

Supradiractional

Precession = Tension

Cross-References

• Electrical Tension
• Fish: Playing the Fish on a Reel
• Intellect as Tensile
• Omnitensional
• Pull
• Rope
• Sectionless Tensioning
• Tidal
• Wind Sucking Sequence
• Tensegrity
• Nature Ships Tension
• Intertension

Tension Tensile Tensive (2)

← Tension Tensile Tenaive (1) | Tension Tensile Tensive (3) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Airplane Flight as Lift, 4 Oct'72
• Chord, 20 Feb'73
• Crystallines, 9 Dec'73; Aug'71
• Curvature, 23 Sep'73
• Engineering, 3 Oct'72
• Ephemeralization, 1938
• Eternity, Dec'71
• Formless, 10 Oct'63
• ave, Oct
• Precession, May'72
• Seed, 30 Oct'72
• Universe, 1 Apr'49
• Female, May'65
• Measurement Trends, 1938
• Prehending, 19 Dec'74
• Inward Explosion, 8 Apr'75
• Knot, 7 Nov'73
• Lasso, 1946

Tension Tensile Tensive (3)

← Tension Tensile Tensive (2) | Tensor (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Tensile Blueprint
• Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel
• Tension & Compression
• Tension Diamonds
• Tensional Integrity
• Tension Structures
• Tensive vs. Pushive
• Tensional Constancy

Tensor (1)

← Tension Tensile Tensive (3) | Tensor (2) →

Cross Reference

Vector-tensor

Cross-References

• Vectors
• Vectors & Tensors

Tensor (2)

← Tensor (1) | Tentative →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• ahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, Oct
• Push-pull Members, 28 Oct'72

Tentative

← Tensor (2) | Tentative →

RBF Definitions

Tentative is a time word which, with frequency of redefining gets more and more exact."

• Citation & context at Time, 1971

Tentative

← Tentative | Tent; Tents (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Definitions, Oct'69
• Time, 1971

Tent; Tents (1)

← Tentative | Tent Tents (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Back Pack
• North Face Domes

Tent Tents (2)

← Tent; Tents (1) | Tenuous →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Grow-a-dome, 1 Dec'76 (6)
• Space Technology, (6)

Tenuous

← Tent Tents (2) | Tenuous: Tenuousness →

Index Entry

Tenuous:

"Because of indeterminism, discontinuity, the exclusive tenuous nature of integrity, means that no exact hard particulate models may ever be fashioned by man."

Tenuous: Tenuousness

← Tenuous | Tenuous →

Cross Reference

EJA to RBF: "Tenuous-- doesn't that sound too tentative?"

RBF to EJA: "But it holds together, doesn't it?"

Cross-References

• SYNERGETICS draft at Sec..34, 1009

Tenuous

← Tenuous: Tenuousness | Tenure →

Cross Reference

Vertexial Connections: Rules of Never-quite-touching

Cross-References

• Particulate Model

Tenure

← Tenuous | Tenure: Academic Tenure →

Index Entry

"The education revolution requires the elimination of all academic tenure." - Citation at Education Revolution (1), 29 Jun'72

Tenure: Academic Tenure

← Tenure | Tenure Academic Tenure (1) →

Index Entry

We could have a man who is really a very bright professor, but he was really not sticking enough and the king was bothered about him. So he said, Mister, you're getting off base a little over there. I'm going to really tie you up. I want to really tie you up: I'm going to give you tenure. Now how do you like that! Don't do anything for anybody else. You're set for life! Nobody can ever take it away from you. But I want you to be an absolutely pure scientist. None of that nonsense about applied science. Pure scientist. You just lay eggs and I'll take them away from you.... Today, this is just the way our university is.

Tenure Academic Tenure (1)

← Tenure: Academic Tenure | Tenure Academic Tenure (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Fellowships
• Life Fellowships in R & D
• Professors
• Specialization Tollgate

Tenure Academic Tenure (2)

← Tenure Academic Tenure (1) | Tepee: Half-Spin Tepee Twist →

Cross Reference

See Divide & Conquer Sequence, (5)*

Cross-References

• Divide \& Conquer Sequence*, (5)
• Specialization, 1970
• Education Revolution, (1)
• Education, 1 Feb'75

Tepee: Half-Spin Tepee Twist

← Tenure Academic Tenure (2) | Tepee-Tripod →

RBF Definitions

"... We make further discovery of the utter interrelatedness of synergistic accommodation as we find the half-spin 'tepee' twist also turning the tetrahedron inside-out. Here we find that the vector equilibrium, or the vector equilibrium's eight tetrahedra's external vertexes all converged toward one another only to suddenly describe four half-great-circle spins as they each turned themselves inside-out just before the convergence: thus accomplishing sizeless invisibility without ever coming into contact. Eternal interval is conserved. Thus the paradox of particle discontinuity and wave continuity is conceptually reconciled."

Citations

1. SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \href{https://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/1000-omnitopology#section-1012.38}{1012.38}, 20 Feb'73

Tepee-Tripod

← Tepee: Half-Spin Tepee Twist | Tepee (1) →

Index Entry

Tepee-Tripod:

"Best picture of what happens locally is the following: The three sides of a tepee-tripod, composed first of three vertical triangles rising from a fourth ground triangle and subsequently rocking toward one another until their respective apexes and edges are congruent and the three triangles plus the one on the ground constitute am minimum system, for it has minimum 'withinness.' Any one edge of our tepee, acting alone, as a pole with an universal joint base, would fall over into a horizontal position, two edges of the tepee acting alone form a triangle with the ground and act as a hinge with no way to oppose rotation toward horizontal position, except when prevented from falling by interference with a third edge pole, falling toward and into congruence with the two other poles' common vertex."

Tepee (1)

← Tepee-Tripod | Terminable →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Now House, (1)

Terminable

← Tepee (1) | Terminal →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Definitive, 1959

Terminal

← Terminable | Terminals →

Index Entry

Terminal:

"...special cases are all inherently terminal; that is, in temporary employment of the principles."

• Citation and context at Special Case, 13 Mar'73

Terminals

← Terminal | Terminal Condition →

Index Entry

Terminals:

"If your world was in a plane, then all the perpendiculars to that plane would be parallel to one another. One way you went up; the other way you went down; and you could have terminals like Heaven and Hell."

• Cite THIS IS YOUR GRAND STRATEGY, 4 Feb. '68, p.1.

Terminal Condition

← Terminals | Terminal Condition →

Index Entry

Terminal Condition:

"The center ball of a vector equilibrium is zero. The frequency is zero just as in the first layer the frequency was one. So zero times 10 is zero; to the second power is zero; plus two is two. So the center ball has a value of two. The significance is that it has its concavity and its convexity. It has both insideness and outsideness. Its center is as far as you can go inwards. You turn yourself inside-out and come out in the outside direction. Its inbound shell and its outbound shell are equally valid, and though you see them as congruent and as one, they are two. This central sphere center is a terminal condition."

• Cite SYNERGETICS draft, Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/400-system#section-441.03441.03, 9 Jun'72

Terminal Condition

← Terminal Condition | Terminal Condition →

Index Entry

Terminal Condition:

"... I give you then a tetrahedron which has an external and an internal: a terminal condition. ... You get to the outside and you turn yourself inside out and come the other way. This is why radiation then does not go off into a higher velocity. Radiation gets to a maximum and then turns itself inwardly again--becomes gravity. Then gravity comes to its maximum concentration and turns itself and goes outwardly--becomes radiation."

• Cite RBF Tape to EdA - 804k, Blackstone, Chicago. 31 May 1971, pp. 17-18.

• Citation & context at Zero, 31 May'71

Terminal Condition

← Terminal Condition | Terminal Intertransformabilities (2) →

Index Entry

Terminal Condition:

"The center ball of the vector equilibrium has a value of two for outside-inside, convex-concave: terminal condition."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel Chicago, 31 May 1971

Pp. 17-19

Terminal Intertransformabilities (2)

← Terminal Condition | Terminal Rate →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Stardust, (2)

Terminal Rate

← Terminal Intertransformabilities (2) | Terminal Rate →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Universal Integrity: Second-power Congruence of Gravitational & Radiational Constants, 9 Jan'74

Terminal Rate

← Terminal Rate | Terminal Speed (1) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Rate & Terminal

Terminal Speed (1)

← Terminal Rate | Terminal Speed (2) →

Cross Reference

Terminal Speed:

Top Speed

Cross-References

• Absolute Speed

Terminal Speed (2)

← Terminal Speed (1) | Terminating →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Limit Reach, 17 Jan'74 (2)

Terminating

← Terminal Speed (2) | Terminal Terminal Condition Terminable (1) →

Index Entry

Terminating:

"... initiating and terminating are most often of different duration."

(In the context of: "Experiences are all finite because each begins and ends.")

• Cite RBF marginalia Universe draft 28 Feb '71

Terminal Terminal Condition Terminable (1)

← Terminating | Terminal: Terminal Condition: Terminating (2) →

Cross Reference

Terminal: Terminal Condition: Terminable:

Cross-References

• Beginnings & Endings
• Biterminal
• Endings
• Finite
• House as Terminal of Community Mechanism
• Interterminal
• Limit
• Omnidirectional Terminal Case Corner
• Rate & Terminal
• Service Terminal Installation
• Zero

Terminal: Terminal Condition: Terminating (2)

← Terminal Terminal Condition Terminable (1) | Terrestrial →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Change, 9 Nov'72
• Entropy, Jan'72*
• Experience, 12 Sep'71
• Finite, 1960
• Gravity, 31 May'71
• Rate, 9 Nov'72
• Special Case, 13 Mar'73*
• Stardust, (2)
• Two, (2)
• Nuclear Sphere, 16 Dec'73
• Zero, 31 May'71*
• Atom, 30 May'75
• Line, 1938
• Events &ents, Nov
• Doing What Needs to Be Done, (1)(2)
• Multidimensional Accommodation, 11 Dec'75
• Dymaxion Airocean World Map
• Height, Length & Width, 19 Jul'76
• Subconscious, 20 Feb'77

Terrestrial

← Terminal: Terminal Condition: Terminating (2) | Testicles →

Cross Reference

Terrestrial:

Cross-References

• Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting

Testicles

← Terrestrial | Text Testing →

Cross Reference

Testicles:

Cross-References

• Gonads

Text Testing

← Testicles | Tether Ball →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Fluidity, 15 Oct'72

Tether Ball

← Text Testing | Tether Ball →

Index Entry

Synergetics, draft, Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/400-system#section-401.02401.02, 28 May'72

Tether Ball

← Tether Ball | Tether Tethers →

Cross Reference

Tether Ball: See Me Ball Restraints

Cross-References

• Me Ball
• Restraints

Tether Tethers

← Tether Ball | Tetra-arc →

Cross Reference

Tether: Tethers:

Cross-References

• Sweepout, May'72

Tetra-arc

← Tether Tethers | Tatra-cone →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Gap Closer, 23 May'75
• ahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, Oct (4)

Tatra-cone

← Tetra-arc | Tetra, Octa & Icosa (1) →

Cross Reference

Tatra-cone:

Cross-References

• Trees, (v)(vi)

Tetra, Octa & Icosa (1)

← Tatra-cone | Tetra, Octa & Icosa (2) →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Domains of Tetraa & Icosa, Oct
• Prime Structural Systems

Tetra, Octa & Icosa (2)

← Tetra, Octa & Icosa (1) | Tetra, Octa & VE →

Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Geodesic Sphere, (2)
• Twelve Pentagons, Aug'71
• Stable & Unstable Structures, 7 Jun'72
• Structural Quanta, 9 Nov'73
• Dimpling, (1)

Tetra, Octa & VE

← Tetra, Octa & Icosa (2) | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

"The three primes are really tetra, octa and VE. The icosa is not prime as it only appears at special case frequency²."

Tetrahedron

← Tetra, Octa & VE | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"A tetrahedron is defined topologically by four conceptually locatable microsystems interconnected by six interrelationship lines whose 12 ends are oriented to corner-converge in four groups of three lines each, whose lines terminate in one of four infratunable microsystem corners, whose at-minimum-of-three-other corner-defining microsystems lie outside the tune-in-able tetrahedron defined by the six lines."

• Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/1000-omnitopology#section-1052.3531052.353; RBF rewrite

8 Aug'77

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Q. "What's so great about the tetrahedron?"

RBF: "It's nothing to do with being great, darling. . . it's just the 'simplest something.' It is the minimum configuration with insideness and outsideness. Nature structures in tetrahedra: they cannot be piled up like building blocks, but they do join."

• Cite RBF to Sue Liberman at WAMU taping Wash. DC; 26 Apr'77

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"You say I am in homage to the tetrahedron. I am not in homage to anything, certainly not the tetrahedron as an object, merely as the minimum structural system in Universe."

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"A tetrahedron consists topologically of four microsystems or of six lines converging into four critical proximity corner-defining groups of three lines each, whose lines terminate in four microsystem groups of three microsystems each lying outside the tetrahedron defined by the six lines."

• Citation & context at Microsystems, 22 Mar'76

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is a system and not anything in its own right."

• Citation & context at Nucleus, 22 Jun'75

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedra always have a square central section on which they may be precessed."

• Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedron is the accommodation of all the aberrations of Universe."

• Cite RBF to Earth Metabolic Design, Inc., New Haven, 10 Dec'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"Interconnect the ends of any two lines in Universe-- and there's your tetrahedron!"

• Cite RBF to Earth Metabolic Design, Inc. New Haven, 10 Dec'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron can handle all couplings because one edge is precessed to the other edges."

• Citation at Couplings, 10 Dec'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"Synergetics shows that the tetrahedron can be extrapolated into life in all its experience phases, thus permitting humanity's entry into a new era of cosmic awareness."

• Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-232.03232.03, 28 Oct'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"Of all the regular polyhedra, the sphere (i.e., the high-frequency, omnitriangulated, geodesic spheroidal polyhedron) encloses the most volume with the least surface. Whereas the tetrahedron encloses the least volume with the most surface. The contained energy is at minimum in the tetrahedron. The structure capability is at maximum in the tetrahedron."

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"There are many transformation patterns, but tetrahedron is the absolute minimum limit case of structural system interself-stabilising. A tetrahedron is an omnitriangulated, four-entity, six-vector interrelationship with system-defining insideness and outsideness independant of size; it is not a rigid frame and can be any size."

• Citation and context at Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"Radiation is tetrahedral. A tetrahedron is a tetrahedron independent of size. There are points and no-points. They are both tetrahedral."

• Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/500-conceptuality#section-541.09541.09. 23 Sep'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron can be considered as a whole system or as a constituent of systems in particular. It is the particulate."

• Citation and context at System Totality, 7 Mar'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is the smallest omnisymmetrical structural system in Universe."

• Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/1000-omnitopology#section-1053.611053.61, 7 Mar'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"This primitive fourness identifies exactly with one quantum of energy and with the fourness of the tetrahedron's primitive structuring as constituting the 'prime structural system of Universe,' i.e., as the minimum omnitriangulated differentiator of Universe into insideness and outsideness, which alone, of all macro-micro Universe differentiators pulsates inside-outingly and vice versa as instigated by only one force vector impinging upon it."

• Citation and context at Number: Cosmically Absolute Number, 5 Mar'73

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron (1) →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"We relinquish the word 'polyhedra' to re-employ our new term systematic enclosure which can be generalized to serve creatures of any size; i.e., a tetrahedron big enough for a mosquito or big enough for a whale. Faces are spaces, openings. The four vertexes plus four faces plus six lines of the tetrahedron has to become four somethings plus four nothings plus six relations. We add convergence to something and divergence to nothing-- completely independent of size. Since there are no 'things' there is no 'something.' We are talking about an event in pure principle. We have events and no-events. Events: novents: and relationships. These are the epistemological stepping stones."

Tetrahedron (1)

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron (2) →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron, which is the minimum system consists of four structural triangles and is therefore the minimum, ergo fundamental structural system in Universe.

"The minimum structural system's defining four points are those of the four vertexes of the tetrahedron which, being omnitri-angulated, are self-interstabilizing.

"The tetrahedron is at once both the minimum system, having both insideness and outsideness, but also consisting inherently of four triangles which are the only structures, the tetrahedron is the minimum structural system of Universe. The tetrahedron is the basic energy quantum. It is the minimum self-stabilizing energy integrity.

"All tetrahedra always have six great circle chord edges.

"When all of their nontriangular facets are triangularly stabilized to structuralize them, all structurally stabilized polyhedra will always have great circle edge chords whose number will always be an even multiple of six. The sum of the angles around all the facet corners of every tetrahedron,"

• Cite SET X, pp.13-14, Aug'72

Tetrahedron (2)

← Tetrahedron (1) | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

regular or irregular, is always 720°. When circular unity is taken as 360°, every tetrahedron is angularly quantized as constituting two cyclic units.

"The great circle chords of all polyhedra are always found to be systematically developed out of sets of exactly six great circle chords, never more nor less. These six vectors are the six vectors of one quantum unit of energy. V° = 1 quantum.

"The octahedron's 12 vector edge chords are equal energywise to two sets of six-chord vectors, i.e., to two quanta."

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron (2) | Tetrahedron →

RBF Definitions

"The simplest sphere which is concave and convex is the tetrahedron."

Citations

1. Univ. of Alaska Address, p.30, 20 Apr '72

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Four balls are closest packed when a fourth ball is nested in the triangular valley formed atop the closest packed first three, which fourth ball addition occasions each of the four balls becoming tangent to all three of the other balls as altogether they form a tetrahedron; which is an omnidirectional symmetrical array with no ball at its center but with one ball at each of its four corners.

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

Index Entry

Tetrahedron:

"Mathematically, there are some very important concepts about the tetrahedron. It is made up of four triangles. The angles of each are interstabilized. Each of the separate angles, originally amorphous, becomes stable. The triangle is the fundamental structure, but it takes two functions--the positive and the negative--to make a structure. The tetrahedron is the simplest known structure."

Tetrahedron

← Tetrahedron | Tetrahedron →

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Tetrahedron:

"In the conceptual process of developing the disciplines for carrying on the process of consideration, the process of temporarily putting aside the irrelevancies and working more closely for the relationships between the components that are considered relevant, we find that a geometry of configuration emerges from our awareness of the minimum considered components.

"A minimum constellation emerges from our preoccupation with getting rid of the irrelevancies. The geometry appears out of pure conceptuality. We dismiss the irrelevancies in the search for understanding, and we finally come down to the minimum set that may form a system to divide Universe into macrocosm and microcosm, which is a set of four items of consideration. The minimum consideration is a four-star affair that is tetrahedral. Between the four stars that form the vertexes of the tetrahedron, which is the simplest system in Universe, there are six edges that constitute all the possible relationships between those four stars."

• Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-620.01620.01, Nov'71

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is the supreme conceptual synergy of Universe."

• Cite RBF holograph, "Cheese Polyhedra," New Delhi, Nov. '71

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Tetrahedrons occur conceptually independent of events and relative size. - Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-240.00240, by RBF 11 Oct. '71, Haverford, Penna.

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Tetrahedron:

"A six-trajectory isolation of insideness and outsideness has four interweaving vertexes or prime convergences of the trajectories, and four areal subdivisions of its isolation system and constitute tetrahedra."

• Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-240.00240, by RBF 11 Oct. '71, Haverford, Penna.

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Tetrahedron:

"Six unique vectors constitute a tetrahedral event."

• Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-240.00240, by RBF 11 Oct. 51., Haverford, Penna.

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Tetrahedron:

"We cannot produce constructively and operationally, a real experience-augmenting operational system, with less than four points, i.e., a fourth point not in the plane of the first three points. It takes three points to define a plane. The fourth point not in the plane of the first three produces a tetrahedron having insideness and outsideness corresponding with the reality of operational experience."

• Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antitetrahedron," 7 Oct. '71. p. 1.(Dictated to EJA.)

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Tetrahedron:

"Sixth powering is all the perpendiculars to the rhombic

dodecahedron which is all the internal truncations of

the tetrahedron."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 August 1971.

• Citation at Powering: Sixth Powering, 25 Aug'71

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Tetrahedron:

"A cone is simply a tetrahedron being rotated. Omnidirectional growth-- which means all life-- can only be accommodated by tetrahedron."

Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 Aug'71

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Tetrahedron:

"We have used the tetrahedron as tripods for cameras and many such devices, but we have not used it as a volumetric concept."

• Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Mass, Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 12, p. 26

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Tetrahedron:

"For every tetrahedron there is one convex and one concave. Because the tetrahedron is inherently the minimum structural system, it provides the minimum omni-coexisting convexity and concavity condition in universe.

"For every tetrahedron there is an inside tetrahedron and an outside tetrahedron. . . Spherical arrays and compound curvature begin with the tetrahedron."

• Cite Synergetics draft Secs. 810.2 and 810.3, 22 July 1971.

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron accepts further closest packing of spheres.

The icosahedron refuses further closest packing. .."

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron relate to physics, the internal affairs of the atom."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971

• Citation & Context at Physics: Difference Between Physics and Chemistry, 31 May '71

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Tetrahedron:

"Compound curvature begins with the tetrahedron. . . .

/je get this high frequency. . .The number of points

you want look like a sphere. . . Pl (π̄) is irrelevant

because the mnimum sphere is tetrahedron."

• Cite RPF tape to EJA and BO'R, Blackstone, Chicago.

31 May 1971, p. 18

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Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedron is the minimum sphere."

• Citation and context at Sphere, 31 May'71

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Tetrahedron:

"A tetrahedron is a form of energy package."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 14 March 1971.

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is the basic structural system of Universe. All polyhedra may be subdivided into component tetrahedra, but no tetrahedron may be subdivided into component polyhedra of less than the tetrahedron's four faces."

• Cite Synergetics draft at \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/500-conceptuality#section-506.00506, March '71 as rewritten by RBF. (Originally from I & I, p. 166.)

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is a vectorial model of one quantum of energy. The tetrahedron is the basic structural system of Universe."

• Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 14, 13 Nov'69

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Tetrahedron:

"A tetrahedron is a triangularly faceted polyhedron of four faces. It is unique as a system for it is the minimum possible system. . .

"A triangle is a triangle independent of its edge-sizing; as is the tetrahedron independent of edge lengths or its relative volume. In tetrahedrons of any size the angles are always sum-totally 720 degrees. Tetrahedrons always have six edges, four faces, and four vertices."

"We can say that the difference between any conceptual system and total but non-simultaneously conceptual-- and of course non-simultaneously sensorial-- scenario Universe is always one tetrahedron of whatever size may be necessary to account for the balance of all the finite quanta thus far accounted for in scenario Universe, outside the conceptual system considered."

-Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 14, 13 Nov'69

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Tetrahedron:

"As an appendix to my discourse, I am presenting a chart of the [Synergetic] hierarchy of rational vectorial-geometric relationships which characterize general systems discovery of the tetrahedron as the basic structural unit of physical Universe quantation."

• Cite Nehru Speech, p. 29. 13 Nov'69

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Tetrahedron:

"Thus we see both the rational energy quantum of physics and the topological tetrahedron of the isotropic vector matrix rationally accounting all physical and metaphysical systems."

• Citation at Isotropic Vector Matrix, 13 Nov'69

• Cite Nehru Speech, p. 31. 13 Nov'69

TETRAHEDRON - SEC. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-620.82620.82 + \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/400-system#section-424.82424.82.

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is the minimum structural system for we cannot find an enclosure of less than four sides-- which is to say-- of less than 720° of interior (or exterior) angle interaction."

• Cite Nehru Speech, p. 14. 13 Nov'69

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Tetrahedron:

"... Now I have a fourth ball that comes around in there and it nests on top of the first three. ... This makes a tetrahedron. This is where stability begins. The tetrahedron is where the triangle gives what we call a 'structure,' or something that doesn't change its pattern any more. It was dynamic up to that time."

• Citation and context at Structure, 25 Feb'69

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Tetrahedron:

"A tetrahedron is the simplest subdivision of universe."

• Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967

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Tetrahedron:

"The volume of a tetrahedron is one-third the base area times the altitude. Any arbitrary tetrahedron will have a volume equal to any other tetrahedron so long as they have common base areas and common altitudes.

"As the tetrahedron is pulled out from the cube the circumference around the tetrahedron remains equal when taken at the points where cube and tetrahedron edges cross, i.e., any rectangular plane taken through the regular tetrahedron will have a circumference equal to any other rectangular plane taken through the same tetrahedron and this circumference will be twice the length of the tetrahedron edge."

1967

(See Illustration #20.) - Cite SYNERGETIC ILLUSTRATIONS, caption 2(

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Tetrahedron:

"The stable structural behavior of a whole triangle, which consists of three edges and three individually and independently unstable angles or a total of six components, is not predicted by any one or two of its angles or edges taken by themselves. The six edges of the two triangles can and frequently do associate with one another, one as left helix and the other as right helix, to form the six-edged tetrahedron which having four triangular faces gives synergetic demonstration of four triangles occurring as the result of associating only two triangles. Incidentally, the right and left helixes formed of the two triangles' respective sets of three edged each constitute the vectorial modelling in conceptual array of the positive and negative 'half spins' or 'half quanta' corresponding respectively to the proton set and the neutron set consisting neutron, positron and neutrino on the left hand and the proton, electron, and antineutrino on the right hand. Together these six make one quantum unit-- which is identified as the tetrahedron."

• Cite DOXIADIS p. 312, 313, 20 Jun'66

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Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedra have a fundamental prime number: oneness."

--0400-Carbondale-Draft

Return-to-Modelability,-p.-4-7

• Cite NASA Speech, p. 72. Jun'66

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Tetrahedron:

"When we use the term 'regular' tetrahedron we mean all six of its edges are approximately equal in length."

"The tetrahedron is one of Plato's 'solids.' The Greeks tried hard to employ the regular, i.e., equi-edged, tetrahedra to 'fill all space' but failed to find a way and gave it up."

• Cite Carbondale Draft

Return to Modellability, p. V.2

• Cite NASA Speech, Jun'66

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When we try to fill all space with tetrahedra, we are frustrated because the tetrahedra won't fill in all the voids above the triangular based grid pattern." - Cite NASA Speech, p.68. Jun'66

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Tetrahedron:

". . . The cube requires threefold the energy to structure it as compared with the tetrahedron. We thus understand why nature uses the tetrahedron as the unity of energy, as its energy quantum, because it is three times as efficient."

• Cite Nasa Speech, p. 72. Jun'66

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron with three positive edges and three negative edges consists of two half quanta. These add to exactly one quantum unit. The tetrahedral quantum unit constitutes the basic structural system of universe. It is transformable, but its topological and quantum identity persists in whole units throughout all experiments with physical universe. It is the only polyhedron that can be turned inside-out and vice versa by one energy event."

• Cite NASA Speech, p. 56, Jun'66

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Tetrahedron:

"The twelve degrees of freedom are also then identified as the push-pull directions of the tetrahedron's six edges."

• Cite RBF Ltr. to Prof. Theodore Caplow, 18 Feb. '66.

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Tetrahedron:

"The minimum set that may form a system to divide universe into micro and macro cosms is a set of four items of consideration. Between four stars that form the vertexes of the tetrahedron, which is the simplest system in universe, there are six edges that constitute all the possible relationships between those four stars."

• Citation & context at Star Events, Oct'65

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is a six-edged pyramidal frame.... We may link tetrahedra in six different directions."

• Citation and context at Pauling, Linus, 1965

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Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedra . . . are the volumes bound by the planes of four edge-joined triangles."

• Citation and context at Fourth Dimension, 1965

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Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedrons are inherently 'comfortable' and do not tend to transform into other shapes while cubes tend to collapse."

• Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes, 1965. p. 82.

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Tetrahedron:

"Of the three fundamental structures the tetrahedron contains the least volume with the most surface and is therefore the strongest structure per unit of volume."

• Cite Mexico '63, p. 28. 10 Oct'63

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Tetrahedron:

"I am just going to give you tetrahedron. Around any one vertex in the tetrahedron there are three planes. You can see them going around. Looking down on the top of a tetrahedron you see three planes and three edges. You see three faces and three edges around any one vertex. That seems very symmetrical and nice. You say that is logical. How can it be anything else. If you think about it any more it is rather strange because it is three edges and three faces out of an inventory of four faces and six edges. They are not the same inventories. It is interesting that you could come out with symmetry around each of these points out of a dissimilar inventory."

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Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedron is an indestructible, conceivable phenomenon independent of size."

• Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron (3), 11 Jul'62

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Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron will not fill all space. . . But we can fill all space with tetrahedra and octahedra."

-Cite-Carbondale-Draft

--Natures-Coordination,-p.-VI.13

• Atto-Oregon-Lecture #6, p. 216, 10 Jul'62

• Citation & context at Allspace Filling, 10 Jul'62

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Tetrahedron:

". . . My definition of tetrahedron as a first subdivision of universe, the simplest subdivision of universe. It could not have an insideness and an outsideness unless it had four vertexes and six edges."

Cite OREGON LECTURE # 5 - p. 175. 9 Jul'62

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Tetrahedron:

"There is nothing at all polarized about tetrahedron or icosaheIron..."

Citation at Icosahedron, 9 Jul'62

Cross-References

• Icosahedron, 8 Apr'75

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Tetrahedron:

"By tetrahedron . . I mean the minimum thinkable set that would subdivide Universe and have interconnectedness where it comes back upon itself. The four points have six inter-relatednesses. You might say that four is a minimum system. . . . There are two kindsof number systems here: four being prime number two and six being prime number three, that are involved. So there are two very important kinds of oscillating quantities number-wise and they begin to generate all kinds of fundamentally useful mathematics."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 90. 5 Jul'62

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Tetrahedron:

"At all times we are seeking how it can be that nature can develop a virus and billions of beautiful bubbles in the wake of the ship. How does she formulate these lowvely geometries so rapidly. She must have some fundamental pure simple way of developing these extraordinary life cells at the rate she develops them. When we get down to something as simple as finding the tetrahedron was the minimum thinkable set that subdivided the Universe, and had relatedness that we could really establish-- and to find that the organic chemist from an entirely different viewpoint came down to tetrahedron as apparently controlling-- the tetrahedron in this case would join vertex to vertex-- and then the metallurgist half a century later discovering the tetrahedron, but they were not interrelated vertex to vertex but they were interlinked edge to edge. So all the chemists found all the structuring of nature to be tetrahedrally contrived, the minimum system, and we find our thought going that way and it is again a comfortable experience."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp.90-91, 5 Jul'62

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Tetrahedron:

"Organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry are both tetrahedrally coordinate. This relates to the thinking process where the fundamental configuration came out = a tetrahedron. Nature's formulations here are a very, very high frequency thing-- nature makes viruses and things in split seconds. Whatever she does has very high frequency and certain simultaneous acts, sort of fundamental relationships, occur. We come to tetrahedron as the first spontaneous aggregate of the experiences. We discover that nature is using tetrahedron in her fundamental formulation of the organic and inorganic chemistry. All structures are tetrahedrally based and we find our thoughts resolving themselves spontaneously into the tetrahedron so it should come to us as something very interesting when we begin to get what we might call generalization of these special cases which are the physics or the chemistry."

• Cite OREGON UNIVERSITY Lectures, 1962

Second Lecture, p. 75

2 Jul'62

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Tetrahedron:

"So we have come to structure and we have come to pattern. Pattern has emerged first from our preoccupation with getting rid of the irrelevancies and out of it has emerged a minimum constellation, a minimum consideration and it is a four star affair. It is tetrahedral. It is very amazing to have a geometry just appear out of our just considering what is thought. We have come to some conceptuality and this conceptuality is essential to this thinking process. When we say, 'I understand,' there is some conceptuality finally developed."

• Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 69. 2 Jul'62

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Tetrahedron:

"A polyhedron having four equal equilateral triangular plane faces or sides. Like the octahedron, it may be skeletal, continuous, or a combination of the skeletal and continuous forms."

• Cite Patent I'o. 2,986,241. I'ay 30, 1961 SYNERGETIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

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"If we combine, first, the fact of van't Hoff's discovery that all the organic chemical compounds are structurally cohered in the terms of the tetrahedra's four vertexes and, secondly, the fact of Linus Pauling's X-ray diffraction implemented discovery that all the metallic elements thus far experimentally analyzed combine in nonvertexially interlinked tetrahedronal structures, and thirdly, the facts which I have disclosed in this and the preceding pages, we may well conclude that it is reasonable to adopt the working assumption that: all of the definable structuring of Universe is tetrahedrally coordinate in rational number increments of the tetrahedron."

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"Substituting the tetrahedron for the number two completes my long attempt to convert all the residual heretofore unidentifiable integers of topology into geometrical conceptability."

• Citation at Unity as Two, 1960

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Tetrahedron:

"All of the definable structuring of universe is tetrahedrally coordinate in rational number increments of the tetrahedron."

• Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 151, 1960

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"The minimum set affording macro-micro separation of Universe is a set of four local event foci. These four stars have an inherent sixness of relationships. This four-foci, six-relationship set is definable as the tetrahedron." (Adapted)

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Tetrahedron:

"In a consideration four is the minimum number of stars having an inherent arrangement of withinness and withoutness. Therefore we discover next that the minimum conceptually-considerable generalized-experiences-set, affording macro-micro separation of universe, is a set of four local event foci. These four stars have and inherent sixness of interrelationships. This four-foci, six-relationship set is definable as the tetrahedron. This minimum fourness of relevant-frequency, ergo thinkable 'stars' coincides with quantum mathematics requirement of four unique quanta numbers per each uniquely considerable 'particle' quanta are inherently tetrahedral."

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Tetrahedron:

"Among geometrical systems a tetrahedron encloses the minimum volume with the most surface and a sphere the most volume with the least surface."

• Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 141, 1960

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Tetrahedron:

"In structural systems the tetrahedron uniquely articulates the prime number 1, and is therefore logically to be identified as the most economic quantation unit in universal energy accounting."

• Cite "Dymaxion World of RBF," Marks, Ed., p. 48, 1960

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The tetrahedron is the lowest common rational denominator of universe. The four unique quanta numbers of each and every fundamental 'particle' are the four unique and minimum 'stars' of every tetrahedron.

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Tetrahedron:

"All polyhedra may be subdivided into component tetrahedra, but no tetrahedron may be subdivided into component polyhedra of less than four faces."

• Cite PENNA. TRIANGLE, p. 10, Nov '52

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Tetrahedron:

"It is a synergetic characteristic of minimum structural systems (tetra) that the system is not stable until the last strut is introduced. Redundancy cannot be determined by energetic observation of behaviors of single struts (beams or columns) or any chain-linkage of same which are less than six in number, or less than tetrahedron."

• Cite RBF undated holograph on M.I.T. memo pad. (1950's)

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Tetrahedron:

"All polyhedra may be subdivided into component tetrahedra, but no tetrahedron may be subdivided into component polyhedra of less than four faces."

• Cite I&I, p. 166

• Cite DOMES, Their Long History,etc. Date undetermined

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Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model:

"I do not recognize lines or planes as nonsponaneously reflexed.

"Primitive geometric conceptuality occurs independently of time-size dimensioning. A tetrahedron is conceptual independently of relative size consideration. It is conceptual as a self-bounding system of six most-economical interrelationship directions induced by any thinkable constellation of four only-separately-discernible, concurrent-event 'stars.'"

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Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model:

"Organic and inorganic chemistry are both tetrahedrally coordinate. This relates to the thinking process where the fundamental configuration came out a tetrahedron.... We come to the tetrahedron as the first spontaneous aggregate of the experiences.... All structures are tetrahedrally based and we find our thoughts resolving themselves spontaneously into the tetrahedron as it comes to the generalization of the special cases that are the physics or the chemistry."

• Citation & context at Organic & Inorganic, Nov'71

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Cross Reference

Cross-References

• Cognition, 1960

Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature

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Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature:

"Now combining van't Hoff and Pauling and our own experimental explorations, we may dare to guess that because experimental chemistry has as yet found no contradiction to tetrahedral linkage, despite vast probing, all the structuring of nature is probably done by rational tetrahedral increment coordination in which the XYZ coordinates also may be employed to describe the arrangements but only in awkward irrationality because of the cube edges' inherent irrationality in respect to their cubic face diagonals' hypotenuse values, which hypotenuses are the edges of the tetrahedra in the omnidirectional matrix of vectors in the natural structuring itself. The contemporary development of giant electronic computers makes the handling of the XYZ awkwardness a practical matter but serves to obscure the significance of my discovery of nature's own rational, nonsimultaneous, vectorial coordinate system oriented to the tetrahedron-octahedron lattice and its importance to fundamental clarity of thinking in a democratically-coagulating world bewildered by a 'foreign-hieroglyphicking' science."

• Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes),p.76, 1965

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"Tetrahedra are geometrically unique in that they may be added to on any one of their four surfaces while increasing symmetrically in size. The tetrahedron may grow symmetrically by adding to any one of its faces .... without changing overall shape."

• Cite PLAYBOY, P. 12, Feb'72

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"The production of motion and spiral and wave by alteration of face couples:

"All apparent motion and growth and variable time frequencies of local occurrences of Universe are permitted by tetrahedron's local asymmetrical alterability without ever altering absolute integrity of symmetry of the whole system. The tetrahedron is the supreme conceptual synergy of Universe."

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

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The tetrahedron in contradistinction to any other Platonic symmetrical solid, can be sliced (like a cheese) parallel to any one of its faces and retain its original symmetry and identity. It gets smaller but never loses its coordinate symmetry. The tetrahedron can be altered in respect to any one of its four faces asymmetrically. As we press any one face towards its opposite vertex, the tetrahedron gets smaller and smaller.

So there are three different aspects of size: linear, areal and volumetric and each one has a different velocity. Now as you move one of the tetrahedron's faces towards its opposite vertex, you get smaller and smaller with these three different velocities operative. But it always remains a tetrahedron so it always has six edges, four vertexes and four faces. So the symmetry is not lost and these fundamental topological aspects, the 60-degreeness, never changes. As they move in finally, when they become congruent to the opposite vertex, all these velocities come to zero at the same time. But because the 60-degreeness, the six edges, and the four faces and symmetry were never being altered,

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"they were not variables. The only variable was size. So size and size alone can come to zero. The conceptuality of these aspects never changes."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, transcript pp. 25-26, 31 May'71

Tetrahedron

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Coordinate Symmetry:

"The tetrahedron is uniquely indestructible. A plane passed through the figure parallel to any one face does not alter its regularity.

"When an equilateral triangle is divided into four identical smaller triangles it will fold into a tetrahedron.

"When any arbitrary triangle is divided into four congruent triangles by bisecting its edges and joining them with new edges, it will also fold into a tetrahedron-- an irregular tetrahedron bounded by four congruent faces."

• Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION, caption #19. May'67

Cross-References

• Illustration #19

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"Only the tetrahedron can be altered asymmetrically in respect to one of its faces and still remain completely symmetrical. This seems to be one of the very important properties of the tetrahedron. . . .

"The tetrahedron is a very extraordinary phenomenon in that its symmetry, its size, is not violated by accommodating two completely disparate rates of change. . . it would stay on as a volume. . . a kind of gas . . . moving around the universe, being accredited locally and accommodating all kinds of local transactions.

"The symmetry, the sixness, and the fourness are all constant."

• Cite LEDGEMONT LAB LECTURE, 15 Oct. '64, pp23-25

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

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Of "all the .. symmetrical figures I find only the tetrahedron has an integrity of symmetry independent of local alterations. It is possible to receive changes in respect to one part or direction of the universe and not in the direction of the others and still have the symmetry of the whole. A tetrahedron has a strange property of coordinate symmetry that permits alterations locally without hurting the symmetrical coordination of the whole."

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry (1)

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"Let me then take a tetrahedron of cheese and I am going to press in on one of the faces instead of slicing it. It remains symmetrical all right. But I am going to pull out on a second face at the same rate that I pushed in on the first face; so now it remains the same size. It is still symmetrical but the pushing of the first face made it get a little smaller, but pulling out on the second face made it get larger. By pushing and pulling at the same rate it remains the same size, but its center of gravity has to change because the tetrahedron moves. As a consequence, then, of the tetrahedron moving it receives a couple of alterations. It receives one positive and one negative alteration, remains symmetrical and the same size, and apparently moves. I have only used up two of the four faces, so I am going to push in on the third face at a rate different from the couple that are already operating, and I am going to pull out on the fourth face at the rate I was pushing in on the third face. I am making another completely different rate of change: one being very fast and the other slow; one very hard and the other quite soft. These completely different rates are coupled, and so it remains symmetrical and the same size, but now it has to change its position to satisfy two alterations to the center of gravity and so it is moving in a kind of helix. It is one of our precessional results."

• Cite OREGON Lecture #6, pp. 208-9. 10 Jul'62

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry (2)

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"Tetrahedron has a very extraordinary capability, then, of remaining symmetrically coordinate and entertaining a pair of completely disparate rates of change in respect to the rest of universeand not changing its size and then it becomes a universal joint to couple up disparate actions in universe. I am not at all surprised that we began to find such a property and that nature was using it in the coordination of the organic chemistry or the metals. In fact, when I began to posit for you all the coordinating of nature that is done by the tetrehedron, we find that this is an extraordinary quality and it begins to be quite exciting."

• Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 209. 10 Jul'62

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"Only the tetrahedron has an integrity of symmetry independent of local alterations. It is possible then to receive changes in respect to one part or direction of the universe and not in the direction of the others and still have the symmetry of the whole. A tetrahedron then has a strange property of coordinate symmetry that permits alteration locally without hurting the symmetrical coordination of the whole."

• Cite OREGON Lecture #6 - p. 208, 10 Jul'62

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• COORDINATE SYMMETRY

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

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Of "all the . . . symmetrical figures I find only the tetrahedron has an integrity of symmetry independent of local alterations. . . . A tetrahedron has a strange property of coordinate symmetry that permits alterations locally without hurting the symmetrical coordination of the whole." - Cite OREGON Lecture #£ - p. 208, 10 Jul'62 - Cite Carbondale Draft Nature's Coordination, p. VI.5

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"I am going to have a cheese tetrahedron and I am going to slice parallel to one of its faces, and what is left is still a regular tetrahedron and all the edges are equal. I can now slice parallel to one of its other four faces, and it is a smaller tetrahedron but it is still regular and symmetrical. I slice parallel to the third face and it is smaller still but still symmetrical. I slice parallel to the fourth face and what remains is still symmetrical. Then we take any other symmetrical geometry, such as a cube, and I am going to slice parallel to one of its faces, and what is left over is no longer symmetrical. I try it with an octahedron and slice parallel to one of its faces, and what is left over is not symmetrical. In fact, if you try all the other symmetrical geometries, only the tetrahedron has an integrity of symmetry independent of local alterations...."

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

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Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:

"The tetrahedron has a very extraordinary capability of remaining symmetrically coordinate and entertaining a pair of completely disparate rates of change in respect to the rest of universe and not changing its size, so it becomes a universal joint to couple up disparate actions in the universe. I am not at all surprised that we find such a property which nature uses in the coordination of the organic chemistry or of the metals demonstrable. (?)"

• Cite O'EGON Lecture #6 - p. 209, 10 Jul'62

• Cite Carbondale Draft Nature's Coordination, p. VI.6

Tetrahedron Coordinate Symmetry (1)

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Tetrahedron: The Transmitting Differential

Tetrahedron Displacement

Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change

Cross-References

• Cheese Tetrahedron
• Accommodation

Tetrahedron Coordinate Symmetry (2)

← Tetrahedron Coordinate Symmetry (1) | Tetrahedron Discovers Itself and the Universe →

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Cross-References

• Universal Joint: Tetrahedron, 9 Nov'73

Tetrahedron Discovers Itself and the Universe

← Tetrahedron Coordinate Symmetry (2) | Tetrahedron →

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Cross-References

• Universe Considers Itself

Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation:

"The tetrahedron's four faces may be identified as A, B, C, and D. Any two of these four faces can be coupled and can be paired with the other two to provide the dissimilar energy rate-of-exchange accommodation. . . .

". . . Any one tetrahedron can accommodate 15 different amplitude (A) and, or frequency (F) of interexchanging without altering the tetrahedron's size while, however, always changing the tetrahedron's apparent occurrence local; therefore the number of possible alternative exchanges are three; i.e., AA, AF, FF; therefore 3 x 15 = 45 different combinations of interface couplings and message contents ## can be accommodated by the same apparent unit-size tetrahedron, the only resultants of which are the 15 relocations of the tetrahedrons and the 45 different message accommodations."

• Cite excerpts from new section added by RBF to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-623.12623.12, 9 Nov'73

Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation (1)

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Cross-References

• Information Transaction & Valving Models
• Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

Tetrahedron Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation (2)

← Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation (1) | Tetrahedral Dynamics (1) →

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Cross-References

• Universal Joint, 10 Jul'62
• Hyperbolic Paraboloid: Four-frequency, 14 May'75

Tetrahedral Dynamics (1)

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Tetrahedral Dynamics:

"... I am averse to the word 'immobilize'. It belongs to the 'static norm' of Newton's 'persistence... in a state of rest'. This is a way of thinking threatened by relativity and annihilated by contemporary physical science. I have attempted a new generalized statement of a 'First Law of Acceleration,' which goes as follows:

All local event systems (Newton's 'bodies') are in relevant continuity of frequency accelerations with a plurality of local and comprehensive patterning consequences, and all other local systems of macro and micro degrees affect all other local systems of Universe in varying degrees of angle and frequency modulation; and the effect of all the local systems of events upon any and all other systems of local events is precessional.

"The word 'immobility' tends to induce a phobia of imprisonment. When we consider the experience of positioning an object by balancing it upon the end of a pole, thrust outwardly toward the sky, the other end of which pole we can balance on our"

Tetrahedral Dynamics (2)

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Tetrahedral Dynamics:

"finger's end as we progressively adjust the pole's bottom position in such a manner as to keep its center of gravity in the position of the apex of a tetrahedron, the three lower vertexes of which we alternately reoccupy by our progression of finger accelerations in directions approximately circumferential to Earth-- the higher the frequency of adjustment acceleration, the smaller the base of the tetrahedron need be to correct for the plurality of precessional forces comprehensively operative ( as for instance wind motion, Earth rotational moment, etc.) This is then tetrahedral dynamics. When we come to the high frequency of atomic events we witness angular modulation in regenerative patterns of self interference of positive and negative action and reaction precessionally resultant in local holding patterns wherein we realize the micro limit integrities of the local event dynamics.

"I think your words 'right' and 'left' should be replaced by the nonequal and opposite words 'positive' and 'negative'. The present dilemma of science in respect to 'parity' of right and left image amuses me because I had rejected right and left concepts in energetic-synergetic geometry. Right and left implied a two-dimensional reality, of infinite thinness. I had"

Tetrahedral Dynamics (3)

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Tetrahedral Dynamics:

"long ago discovered that systems had inherent convexity and concavity and required irreversible turbining of their omni-geared Universe event relationships. Inasmuch as all systems could be turned inside-out, having inherent insideness and outsideness, I discovered that mirror reversal of the rubber glove from one hand to the other could be accomplished without reversal of the finger-wrist axis. I think your words 'up' and 'down' are meaningless. Which direction is up? Which is down? Are people in China upside down? Which star should one's head be pointing at to be identified as 'up'? What you mean is what you say in your next phrase, i.e., in and out. Aviators come in for a landing and go out for altitude. In and out refer to focal centers of systems of local events of Universe only. 'In' is unique to individual systems. One 'out' is common to all systems and is omnidirectional in respect to any one system and Universe, being a plurality of continuities of local dynamical experiences, the direction out of Universe is not integrative as geometrically identifiable as it is permeative and comprehensive of experience. The outness permeates the nuclear event remoteness. I think what you mean by 'unitary linear vertical supports' refers to my altitudinally exaggerated tetrahedral dynamic equilibrium."

• Cite RBF Ltr. to Lewis E. Lloyd, 4 May'57

Tetra Edge

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Tetra Edge:

"Nature uses the tetra edge as mensural unity."

• Citation & context at Mensural Unity, 21 Sep'71

Tetra Edge (1)

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See Constant Volume of A & B Quanta Modules

Cross-References

• Constant Volume of A \& B Quanta Modules
• Control Line of Nature
• Control Quantum
• Cube: Diagonal of Cube
• Deliberately Nonstraight Line
• Mensural Unity
• Photon: Tetrahedron Edge as Unit Radius
• Prime Vector
• Radial Line as Tetra Edge
• Precession of Tetra Edges

Tetra Edge (2)

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Cross-References

• Synergetics Constant
• Unit Radius, 17 Jan'74

Tetrahedron: Four Unique Planes

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Tetrahedron: Four Unique Planes:

"...The four unique, symmetrically interdisposed planes of the regular tetrahedron."

• Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium (1), 1965

Tetrahedron: Four Unique Planes

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Tetrahedron: Four Unique Planes:

"There is a maximum set of four planes nonparallel to one another but omnisymmetrically mutually intercepting. These are the four sets of the unique planes always comprising the isotropic vector matrix. The four planes of the tetrahedron can never be parallel to one another."

• Cite RBF rewrite of 30 Oct'72 of SYNERGETICS draft Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/900-modelability#section-971.03971.03 of Jan'72. Reinserted at \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/900-modelability#section-962.04962.04, 17 Nov'72

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Tetrahedron: Four Unique Planes:

"There are a minimum of four unique planes nonparallel to one another. The four planes of the tetrahedron can never be parallel to one another."

• Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, 14 Sept. 1971.

Tetrahedral Growth

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Tetrahedral Growth:

"With each row greater than the next, three automatically goes into two in a convergent, planarly-arrayed, nonstructurally-stable system and two automatically goes into three in a divergent, planarly-arrayed, nonstructurally-stable system. Tetrahedral expansion or contraction produces a structurally stable systematic model of universal behavior. In tetrahedral growth one goes to three and three goes to six and six goes to 10. Tetrahedral growth from unity is special case angularly directional. Vector equilibrium growth from unity is nuclear: 1 → 12, 12 → 42, 42 → 92, etc."

• Cite m SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-260.52260.52; 13 Nov'75

Tetrahedron: Hierarchy of Pulsating Tetrahedral Arrays

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Tetrahedron: Hierarchy of Pulsating Tetrahedral Arrays:

"This completes the polyhedral progression of the omni-phase-bond-integrated hierarchies of 1-2-3-4,8-- symmetrically expanded and symmetrically subdivided tetrahedra; from the 1/24th tetrahedron (12 positive and 12 negative A Quanta Modules); through its octavalent 8-in-1 superficial volume-1; expanded progressively through the quadrivalent tetrahedron; to the quadrivalent octahedron; to the bivalent vector equilibrium; to the univalent, 28-volume, radiant, symmetrical, nucleus-embracing stage; and thence exploded through the volumeless, flatout outfolded, double-bonded (edge-bonded), 120 A Quanta Module-triangular array remotely and symmetrically surrounding the nuclear volumetric group; to final dichotomizing into two such flatout half (positive triangular) film and half (negative triangular) void arrays, single-bonded (corner-bonded), icosahedrally shaped, symmetrically nuclear- surrounding systems."

• Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/900-modelability#section-905.48905.48, 16 Dec'73

Tetrahedron: Hierarchy of Pulsating Tetrahedral Arrays

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Cross-References

• Cosmic Hierarchy

Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron:

"Both the coexisting concave and convex aspects of the icosahedron-- like those of the octahedron, but unlike those of the unique case of the tetrahedron-- are always visually obvious on the inside and outside of the only locally dimpled-in, or nested-in, vertex. In both the octahedron and the icosahedron, the concave-convex, only inwardly pulsative self-transforming always produces visually asymmetrical transforming; whereas the tetrahedron's permitted inside-outing pulsatively results only in a visible symmetry, the quasi-asymmetry being invisibly polarized with the remainder of Universe outside the tetrahedron which, being omniradially outward, is inferentially-- but not visually-- symmetrical; the only asymmetrical consideration of the tetrahedron's inside-outing being that of an initial direction of vertexial exiting. Once exited, the visible remaining symmetrical tetrahedron is in verity the inside-outness of its previously visible aspects."

• Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/900-modelability#section-905.17905.17, 16 Dec'73

Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron:

"In either of the two sets of four each as alternatively described, one of the polar states is always visible and the other complementarily invisible. This is a dynamic relationship. Dynamically, all four of each of the two sets of the tetrahedral potential are co-occurrently permitted and are required by the omni-action-reaction-resultant synergetics. The seeming significance of the separately considered asymmetries are cancelled by the omnidirectional symmetry."

• Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/900-modelability#section-905.18905.18, 10 Dec'73

Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron:

"Whereas the tetrahedron has four symmetrically interarrayed poles in which the polar opposites are four vertexes vs. four faces; and whereas the polar axes of all other symmetrical structural systems consist of vertex vs. vertex, or mid-edge vs. mid-edge, or face vs. face; it is seen that only in the case of vertex vs. face-- the four poles of the tetrahedron-- do the four vertexial "points" have polar face vacancies or "space" into which the wavelinear coil spring legs of the tetrahedron will permit those four vertexes to travel. The tetrahedron is the only omnisymmetrical structural system that can be turned inside out."

• Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-232.01232.01, 28 Oct'73

Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:

"...Not until we turn a tetrahedron inside-out do we have microcosmic awareness. Not until we swallow the otherness do we have microcosmic volumetric awareness. We become the outside. At first we were just the inside."

• Citation and context at System Awareness, 20 Feb'73

Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-outing Of:

"The tetrahedron extended through its base is pumpingly or diaphragmatically inside-outable in contradistinction to the vertexially extended tetrahedron."

• Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antitetrahedron," 8 Oct. '71. p. 6.

Tetrahedron

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Inside-Outing Tetrahedron:

"Tetrahedron is the minimum compound curve, ergo, minimum sphere....

"We discover that the additive twoness of the two polar (and a priori awareness) spheres at most economical minimum are two tetrahedra and that the insideness and outsideness complementary tetrahedra altogether represent the two invisible complementary twoness that balances the visible twoness of the polar pair."

• Cite RBF manuscript on Beverly Hotel paper, 19 June 1971.

Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:

"Only the tetrahedron is insideoutable."

"The tetrahedron is the only structural system that can be turned inside out."

"The octahedron is infoldable, or innestable-- hemi-hedrally."

"The icosahedron dimples locally."

• Cite RBF holographs and sketches on "Annihilation" Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971

Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:

"It is the only polyhedron that can be turned inside-out and vice versa by one energy event."

• Cite NASA Speech, p. 56., Jun'66

Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron

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Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:

"The tetrahedron is the only system that may be turned inside out-- to be antitetrahedron."

• Cite RBF marginalis in "The Scientific Lndeavor," 1963. page, 12 dated 5 Sept. 1965