Synergetics Dictionary — W
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W
← Vulnerability | wagon Wagons →
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W
wagon Wagons
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Wagon: Wagons:
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- Buggy Industry
Wake (1)
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Wake (2)
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Wake: Wake of a Ship:
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- Wind Stress & Houses, (4)
Waking Up (1)
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Waking Up
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- Subconscious, 20 Feb'77
Walking
Index Entry
Man walks the same before or after the automobile, whether he gets out of the chair on his porch or gets out of the chair in his car. His mobility greatly increases, but his walking distance per year does not decrease.
Walking
Index Entry
Walking:
"If you have one post you have to keep it balanced or it falls. Stand it up and it falls over. . . What happens for instance if you are on stilts. You have got your two legs. You move one. So you lift this leg up over here and you stop yourself. If you have such a power of the momentum of the hinging of the specific direction. But it is very easy to frustrate by putting it over here and out comes a new hinge. . . And so all we're doing when we're walking, we are continually falling on hinges in the specific directions which you can frustrate by turning into a tetrahedron so we have nothing but dynamic tetrahedron. . . "
- Cite RBF tape Chicago, Blackstone Hotel, 31 May '71. p. 30.
Walking
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Walking:
"Nationalization is an act similar to walking through a half-frozen, marshy, unexplored country to mark out a trail that others may eventually follow. It involves not only the familiar one-two progression of shifting the weight and balance from one foot to the other, but an unknown quantity progression of selective testing to avoid treacherous ground before putting full weight upon the forward foot."
- Citation and context at Nationalization Sequence (1), 1938
Walking (1)
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Trail Making
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Walking (2)
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Cross-References
- Inertia, 20 Dec'71
- Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
- Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (2)
- Rationalization Sequence, (1)
- Human Unsettlement, (5)
Walls
Index Entry
Walls:
"In the 1927 Dymaxion House... the walls were shutterable membranes; there were no partitions or space dividers to say: You shall not pass. There were just natural barriers, like a kitchen or a tree....
"Opaque walls are difficult to let light through. There are four kinds of privacy: aural, tactile, visual, olfactory. Occulting-- cutting off the line of vision-- is better than opacity."
- Citation & context at Dymaxion House, 29 Jan'75
Walls
← Walls | Walls vs. Airspace Technology (1) →
Index Entry
Walls:
"You people keep talking about architecture. The future I say will be really invisible. The walls that you're familiar with were very terrible walls. They're walls of bad faith and ignorance-- so you had to have something to stop the bow and arrows. Somebody was trying to come in and kill you. Walls for protection. Walls represent great ignorance, fear and ignorance."
- Cite RBF quoted in San Francisco Oracle, VolI, No.11, 1967
Walls vs. Airspace Technology (1)
← Walls | Walls vs. Airspace Technology (2) →
RBF Definitions
"Allied with ancient Crete and allianced with its sea power, Mycenae was a very successful city-state, so successful as to have developed the additional capability of building ships and going to sea. Its peoples were able to control the line of supply to besiege the walls of Troy. Homer's epic probably represents the first change in the grand strategy of the world from the power of the almost invincible walls of the great city-states to the power of the line of supply at sea.
"The higher and bigger the walls, the more secure had the human insiders felt themselves to be. Economic mastery of the world affairs by the mobile, more-with-lessing, frail wooden ships of the sea gradually overwhelmed the static state's security. Their symbol was the six triangle hexagon, for only triangles are stable. Those ancient water people of the world had the stem ends of their ship's keels curved upwardly to best cope with the waves. The swift changes occurring within my own short life span are undoubtedly related to the swift advancement in the technology of the sea and the sky.
"With the world's comprehensive disarmament occurring possibly within the next decade, the airspace technologies bid fair"
Walls vs. Airspace Technology (2)
← Walls vs. Airspace Technology (1) | Wall: Walls (1) →
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Walls vs. Airspace Technology:
"to take over all the environment-enclosing arts, ergo the architecture of tomorrow. Exciting though such prospects for humanity may be as inherent in the vast more-with-lessing technology of the sea and the sky, all of such development would be meaningless, were not the integrities, thoughts, feelings, loves, and inspirations of all those who have gone before us to prevail and inspire us..."
Wall: Walls (1)
← Walls vs. Airspace Technology (2) | Wall Walls (2) →
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Cross-References
Wall Walls (2)
← Wall: Walls (1) | Wankel Engine →
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Cross-References
- Horizontal vs. Vertical, 1963
- City, 28 Jan'75
- Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (2)
- Invisible Operation of Thousands of Radio Programs, Nov'71
- Building Business, (4)
Wankel Engine
Index Entry
After a careful reading of the article on Wankel engines in the New York Times Magazine of Sunday, 4 October 1971, RBF observed that operation of the Wankel Engine combustion chambers might represent the reciprocal actions of the energy centers of the A and B Modules.
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho Ave., Washington, 4 October 1971.
Want
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War
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War:
"If you have enough to go around war becomes murder.
"Since it is now physically and metaphysically demonstrable that the chemical elements resources of Earth already mined or in recirculation, plus the knowledge we now have, are adequate to the support of all humanity and can be feasibly be redesign-employed by 1985 to support all humanity at a higher standard of living than ever before enjoyed by any human, war is now and henceforth murder. All weapons are invalid. Lying is intolerable. All politics are not only obsolete but lethal."
- Cite RBF to Yale students, 10 Dec'73, as rewritten by RBF, 3200 Idaho, 13 Dec'73.
War
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War:
"If you have enough to go around, war becomes murder."
- Cite RBF to Yale students, New Haven, 10 Dec'73
War
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War:
"War is the physical commandeering and enslavement of the physical."
- Cite RBF Holograph, Delos Conference, 1971.
War
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War:
"Society neither hears nor sees the great changes going on. Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers."
- Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970
War
RBF Definitions
War represents the uniformed hospital and operating room phase of an overall remedial pathology in treatment of man's affairs. In this inherited scheme of life, science and technology are invoked directly by society only at the eleventh hour to arrest the malady fostered by laissez faire, ignorance, opinion, shortsightedness, prejudice and egocentricity. Formally declared war is the final spectacular and open chapter following the prolonged and far more sanguinary private and non-spectacular chapters of strife under the guise of 'Peace.'" - Cite Earth, Inc. (RBF Reader, Ed. J. Meller), p.236. 1947
War
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War:
"That is why we have had to have a war: because we couldn't free ourselves for thinking without the detaching effects of war. Short of war, we just let well enough alone. We were swivel-moored to the rooted-down tonnage of our lugubrious past."
War
← War | War Eliminating the Causes Of (1) →
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War: Eliminating the Causes of War:
"When it becomes commonly known that there is enough to go around, there will be no war."
- Citation and context at Design Science (1), 29 Jun'73
War Eliminating the Causes Of (1)
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Cross-References
War (2)
← War Eliminating the Causes Of (1) | War is Becoming Invisible →
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War: Eliminating the Causes Of:
Cross-References
- Fellowships: Life Fellowships in R & D, 1969 (2)
War is Becoming Invisible
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War is Becoming Invisible:
"In world affairs, you realize, not only that we're spending $200 billion annually for getting ready for war, but it's a war that gets more and more invisible... Electronically, you can't see the wireless... The psychological war... You don't have to have the war if you break down the other man's economy before you get to the war. It's cheaper than fighting."
- Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.17, 28 Jun'72
War
← War is Becoming Invisible | War: Official War and Unofficial War (1) →
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War: Official War and Unofficial War
"Success for all is the only way of overcoming the need to kill, either in the swift death of official war, or in the slow slum death of unofficial war, mistakenly labeled peace-- when the lack of knowledge of how to provide for all includes lethal competition as vast numbers are shunted into poverty and a far more protractedly painful and humiliating slow death. The you will learn in due course that their idealistic compassion and hope to eliminate lethal warfaring cannot be gratified by political action means, for the last resort of politics is always inherently to physical force, be it actively waged with guns or passively provoked by sitdown blockades."
- Cite ARTS AND LETTERS GOLD MEDAL SPEECH, p. 16., May '68
War: Official War and Unofficial War (1)
← War | War: Official War and Unofficial War (2) →
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"There are official wars and unofficial wars. There has never been anything approaching peace. The unofficial wars occur as billions of lives deteriorate prematurely and finally die for lack of vital necessities. They are deprived by economic warfare which is shrewdly and cruelly waged during the preposterously called 'peacetimes' as well as in anticipatory competition for access to the inadequate supplies or in hoarding against feared for scarcity.
"There are no medals given during unofficial warfare. The brotherly excitations occurring amongst each of the opponents' respective peoples during official warfare are almost entirely lacking in unofficial warfare. Though much discomfort exists, the lowest death rate anywhere on Earth is now manifest in the direct combat deaths amongst official warfaring opposed fighting forces in Viet Nam. On the other hand, within the economic struggles and reflexive indulgences of the unofficial warfaring people on the North American continent. . . more lives have been lost in the automobile toing and froing witthin the last century than in the official warfaring of 100 percent of humanity in all history."
War: Official War and Unofficial War (2)
← War: Official War and Unofficial War (1) | War official & unofficial →
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War: Official War and Unofficial War:
"Today's youth will soon learn that success for all is the only way of overcoming the need to kill; either in the swift death of official war or in the slow slum death of unofficial war. Because the lack of knowledge of how to provide for all includes lethal competition as vast numbers are shunted into poverty and a far more protractedly painful and humiliating slow death, today's youth will learn in due course that their idealistic compassion and hope to eliminate lethal warfaring cannot be gratified by political actions, for the last resort of politics is always inherently to physical force, be it actively waged with guns or passively provoked by sitdown blockades. .."
War official & unofficial
← War: Official War and Unofficial War (2) | War as Official Panic →
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Cross-References
War as Official Panic
← War official & unofficial | War as Quick Death →
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Cross-References
- Biosphere, (2)
War as Quick Death
← War as Official Panic | War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death →
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War as Quick Death:
Cross-References
- Resource Inadequacy, May'72
War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death
← War as Quick Death | War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death (1) →
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War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death:
"Death by want, i.e., by metabolic inadequacies is much slower than by the sword or gun and causes much more anguish and pain than that of the swift hero's death. Death by want imposed on many by the successful politicians' warring only with laws and police guns, obscures the identity of their executioner from both the politician and the slow-dying victim."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Indira Gandhi, p.5, 4 Jan'70
War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death (1)
← War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death | War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death (2) →
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Cross-References
War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death (2)
← War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death (1) | War (1) →
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Cross-References
- Politics, 4 Jan'70
- Resource Inadequacy, May'72
- Socialism, Jul'61
War (1)
← War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death (2) | War (2) →
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Balance-of-Power Poker Game
Death: Slow Death by Slums vs War as Quick Death
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- Armament: Armor: Arms
- Civil War
- Cold War
- Detente
- Disarmament
- Fighting
- Military
- Politicians & Defense Budgets
- Weaponry
- Weapons Technology
- World War I
- World War II
- Might Makes Right
War (2)
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Cross-References
- City
- Design Science, (2)
- Leaders Can Yield to the Computer, 4 Mar'69
- Politics, (1)(2)
- Womb Population, (3)(4)
War (3)
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War Official War & Unofficial War
Cross-References
- War: Eliminating the Causes of War
- War is Becoming Invisible
- War as Official Panic
- War as Quick Death
- War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death
Ward, Barbara
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Cross-References
- Spaceship Earth, 23 May'66
- Water, 20 Sep'76
Warehouse
← Ward, Barbara | Washington, George →
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Washington, George
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Waste (1)
← Washington, George | Waste (2) →
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- Excrement, (1)
- Human Food Waste, (1)
- Pollution, (1)
- Resources: Fresh vs. Waste, (1)
Waste (2)
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Water
RBF Definitions
"The fourth resolution" at the 1976 UN Habitat Conference
in Vancouver "was one which Barbara Ward herself had
conceived of and introduced. It recommended that all around
the world--by 1985--it would be made physically and
practically possible for any and all human beings to have
fresh, safe, potable drinking, bathing, and washing
water. It is highly feasible within the present technology
to make such pure, safe water available to everybody
anywhere around the world."
Water
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Water:
"Water is a liquid solid absolutely noncompressible."
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC; 12 Nov'75
Water
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Water:
"By design we are all born naked... Consisting predominantly of water--which freezes, boils, and evaporates within a cosmically minusculc span of temperature limits within the vast spectrum of humanly-measured cosmic temperatures, ranging from absolute zero to those temperatures, for instance, of the star Sun..."
Water
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Water:
"Water is so extraordinarily valuable. We don't know of any other planet with any water on it. And we flush five gallons down the toilet each time we get rid of a pint of waste."
- Citation & context at Wichita House, (2), 31 Jan'75
Water
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Water:
"Water takes on heat and loses it at the slowest rate of all known substances."
- Citation and context at Temperature of the Human Body (1),May'72
Water
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Water:
"I apply the same kind of subjective-objective disciplining to my design-science undertakings. In developing environmental controls, I don't even try to avoid incidents. I don't try to insulate against forces and events. I try to turn each event to advantage. We consist mainly of water. We must inhibit water frequently. But water comes to us in uneven quantities at uneven intervals. When it 'cloudbursts' we can't use it that fast. I must shunt the water into a cistern. Then I am able to valve it into my presence in usable increments when I want it."
- Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 178, May '65
Waterfall
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...The scientist discovers those principles that are operative in nature. He discovers the principles of the lever. Not only the lever but also the electromagnetic principle, and the development of the waterwheel with a series of levers on the hub. . . . and having experienced going under a waterfall, realizing the waterfall had the same kind of power as your body had when you got on the end of a lever, so that by putting under the waterfall, it's going to go around-- and using then this extraordinary discovery of the electromagnetics generating electricity.
Waterfall
← Waterfall | Water Fountain as System →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Relative Asymmetry Sequence, (1)
- Human Unsettlement, (2)
- Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep'76
Water Fountain as System
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Wind Stress & Houses, (9)
Watergate
← Water Fountain as System | Watergate →
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Watergate:
"Watergate is the end of the use of the lie as a weapon in the history-long, you-or-me, yours-or-mine, not-enough-for-all-of-us, mortal struggle. For the first time in history it is now scientifically and practically demonstrable that there is enough for all humanity to be supported at highest standards. Ergo, all weapons are now invalid, including the lie."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to James Coley, Sep'73
Watergate
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Watergate:
"The watergate affair is the beginning of the end of the line for the lie.
"Humanity, starting naked and learning through trial and error, was left with a deep impression that there were not enough resources to go around for all people. As a result war-- and, short of killing, lying-- came to be considered tolerable. Yesterday, you had to have that lie. And now people feel that the lie is no longer necessary.
"We have a young world that is realizing that man can not only go to the Moon, but can do anything. It's highly feasible to take care of humanity with a higher standard of living than anyone has ever known."
- Cite Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, front page, report on RBF Address at Third Annual Recognition Dinner for Donors Presbyterian Medical Center, 26 Jun'73
Watergate
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Watergate:
"Watergate is a fantastically, extraordinary, beautiful moment
in history-- the end of the line in lying and game-playing.
"Man is the only phenomenon in Universe that lies. Hydrogen
doesn't lie to itself that it doesn't join up with oxygen. It
doesn't consider this sexually, something it has to do on the
quiet. Children are born spontaneously truthful. But older
people say, 'Darling, that will get you into trouble.' Or,
'That will get your daddy into trouble.'
"Lies, and how to get on, and justifying means, really begin in
delicate, polite ways and in fear of the mother that their
child is going to get hurt. But young people are now saying
they won't tolerate hypocrisy, and Watergate is the end of
game-playing.
"I think they're all saying, 'We will not think that ends
justify means, we do not think it worthwhile lying to protect
those we love if they have to live in a world where we keep
on lying. Society is well-informed theoretically, but its
conditioned reflexes are half a millennium behind that knowledge.'
- Cite RBF quoted by Marian Bruce in Vancouver SUN, 14 Jun'73
Watergate
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Watergate:
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Waterocean
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Waterspout
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Waterspout:
"A waterspout is . . . a kind of wave. I could take two or three waterspouts-- and this begins to happen-- they curl around each other. What we call rope turns out to be wave phenomena."
- Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 102. 5 July'62
Waterapout
← Waterspout | Water: Trend Toward Living on Water →
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Torus
Cross-References
- Fountain
- Fountain Torus
Water: Trend Toward Living on Water
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Water: Trend Toward Living on Water:
"Now the sails are coming back in great numbers as a new chapter of economic success for many millions has launched an ever-increasing fleet of cruising yachts and recommissioned 'windjammer' vacation cruise vessels. This new trend is part of a general trend of humanity all around the Spaceship Earth's surface to occupy and enter into the three-quarters of the planet's surface covered by water. Men go into the seas by submarines, skin diving and offshore steel-structured 'islands' as well as by surface boats."
- Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.29, 1968
Waterwheel
← Water: Trend Toward Living on Water | Waterworks Water Supply →
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Cross-References
Waterworks Water Supply
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Cross-References
- Artifacts, 28 Apr'74
- Building Industry, (7)
- Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep'76
Water (1)
← Waterworks Water Supply | Water (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship
- Rain
- Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
- Ocean
- Solar Panel Water Heating
- Ice
- Desalinization
Water (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Matter, 3 Oct'72
- Science, (2)
- Trespassing: Not Trespassing, (1)(2)
- Temperature of the Human Body, (1)
- Wichita House, (2)
- India, 12 May'75
- Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 24 Apr'76
- No Energy Crisis, (1)
- Human Tolerance Limits
- Subconscious, 20 Feb'77
- Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (1)
Wave
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Wave:
"Waves require hierarchies."
- Citation & context at Minimum Limit Case, 12 May'75
Wave
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Wave:
"The wave is as abstract as the concept of an angle. Waves are weightless patterns."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/500-conceptuality#section-505.33505.33; RBF galley rewrite 6 Nov'73
Wave
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Wave:
"This is what science has discovered: a world of waves in which waves are interpenetrated by waves in frequency modulation."
- Citation and context at Pulsation, 9 Nov'72
Wave
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Wave:
"Physics has found no straight lines Universe and has found only waves. All lines are wavilinear: high-frequency short waves and low-frequency long waves. Unit energy may be invested in many of the short waves or in a few of the long waves."
- Cite RBF holograph for Herman Wolf, Boston, 1:20 a.m., 8 May '72
Wave
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Waves are inherently curvilinear, that is, they are corkscrew or spiral traceries between covariable events, such as You and Me.
- Citation & context at Rope, Dec'71
Wave
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Waves are not metaphysical. Waves are physical.
Waves
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Physics has found the whole physical Universe to be uniquely differentiated and locally defined as 'waves.'
Wave
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Wave:
"The overall longitudinal length of wavilinear vectorial lines is determined by the number of waves contained."
- Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-240.00240, by RBF 11 Oct. '71, Haverford, Penna.
wave
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wave:
"It is characteristic of waves that they always
make a cycle."
- Cite RBF to SLHS Seminar, U. lass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.
Wave
RBF Definitions
Waves are octave
And one reason why they don't interfere with one another
Is because of the zero.
If we apply the octave wave pattern
To the wave phenomenon or radio waves and other high frequencies,
Waves passing through seeming solids,
Or low frequency waves,
We can imagine that the lack of interference could be explained
Through the crossing of the high frequency waves
Through the much lower frequency waves
At the zero point." - Cite NUMEROLOGY Draft, April '71
Wave
Index Entry
Man's experiences with curvilinear paths suggested that waviness could be reduced to straightness. Physics finds only waves. Some are of exquisitely high frequency, but inherently discontinuous because consisting of separate event packages. They are oscillating to and from negative universe, that is to say, in pulsation.
Wave
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Wave:
"Waves . . . consist of frequencies of directional inflections in respect to duration of experience."
- Cite RBF SYNERGETICS Draft Mar '71.
wave
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wave:
"The remote aspect of a spiral is a wave because there are no planes."
- Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
7 March 1971
Wave
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Wave:
"Because precession imposes angles other than 180° upon all interactions of all moving systems of the Universe there are no straight lines demonstrated in nature. The fundamental wave behavior of all nature is a consequence of the omni-intereffective precession."
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Citation at Precession, 13 Nov'69
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Cite Nothing SEEN, p. 31. 13 Nov'69
Wave
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Wave:
"The cyclicly moduled length of the edge of any triangulated, special case, structural system can represent the basic 'standard' of relative comparison on a recycling basis of subdivision. Each increment is one unit of frequency and each increment is one unit of wave."
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Citation at Cycle, Jun'66
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Cite NoA Speech, p.103, Jun'66
Wave
Cross Reference
"Six great circles can make two spherical tetrahedra, the positive and the negative. So, the fewest great circles can be folded up and made into bow ties and reassociated and then, even though we made them into a local bow tie, they seem to re-establish to all the great circles. These are very typical characteristics of fundamental wave phenomena."
Cross-References
- Illustration # 72
Wave
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The formation of "Bow tie" units from a circular disc (Illustration No. 72) . . . "is an important phenomenon because it is a basic characteristic of wave phenomena which act really like propeller blades. That is, all waves always come back upon themselves. We have then a perfect wave control by dealing in 360 degrees and it comes back on itself and yet we have precessional interferences with itself where it makes itself into little local bow ties." (Adapted.) Citations:- Cite Oregon #7, p.268, 11 Jul'62
Wave
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Wave:
"When radio or television waves pass through the walls of a house, when light waves pass through a window or a lens, there are always some comprehensively relayed local jostlings, some sets of submicroscopic eddies of force, that accommodate the push through. The complementary effect-- what in conversational language is the 'resistance' of the wall, window or lens-- and what" in Synergetics "is called 'the precessionally shunted pattern relay'-- is responsible for reflection, refraction, and filtering."
- Cite MARKS, p. 20, 1960
Wave
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Wave:
"A wave of water moves in integrated principle, schematically only, maintaining its general shape, magnitude, direction, and velocity, but never reemploying any one set of points, particles, or molecules to perform the same function a second time, and only a following wave may approximate the reemployment."
- Cite NOAH'S ARK, p. 6. Summer, 1950
Wave
← Wave | Wave-angle Oscillating Extremes →
Index Entry
Wave:
"It is fascinating to learn that, with the development of the computer, nature uses a Yes-No or binary system. This is the basis of waves. Consequently the Polynesians have been using the most advanced techniques during the period that we have presumed them to be inferior because they only counted to two."
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Cite PATH TO INVISIBLE SKI, p. 6. Undated
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Citation at Binary, p.6, undated
Wave-angle Oscillating Extremes
Cross Reference
Wave-angle Oscillating Extremes: See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring: Hierarchy Of, 18 Nov'65
Cross-References
Waveband
← Wave-angle Oscillating Extremes | Wave Connection →
Cross Reference
Waveband:
Cross-References
- Pattern Strip
Wave Connection
← Waveband | Wave-frequency Aberrations →
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Wave Connection:
Cross-References
- Redundancy: Reduction Of, 22 Apr'71
- Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov'71
Wave-frequency Aberrations
← Wave Connection | Wave-frequency Language of Electromagnetics →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Lag, 11 Oct'73
Wave-frequency Language of Electromagnetics
← Wave-frequency Aberrations | Wave-frequency Relations →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Nature in a Corner, 17 Nov'75
Wave-frequency Relations
← Wave-frequency Language of Electromagnetics | Wave-frequency Relations (1) →
Index Entry
Wave-frequency Relations:
"Wave-frequency relationships have a minimum limit and not an infinite series behavior."
- Citation & context at Equi-interval - Tuned, 30 Dec'73
Wave-frequency Relations (1)
← Wave-frequency Relations | Wave-frequency Relations (2) →
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Cross-References
Wave-frequency Relations (2)
← Wave-frequency Relations (1) | Wavelength, frequency & resonance →
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Cross-References
- Equi-interval = Tuned, 30 Dec'73*
- Isotropic Vector Matrix
- Lag, 11 Oct'73
- Prime Nuclear Structural Systems, 27 Dec'74
- Environment, 29 Mar'77
Wavelength, frequency & resonance
← Wave-frequency Relations (2) | Wavelength (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Tensegrity Masts: Pentagonal Polarity, 27 Dec'76
Wavelength (1)
← Wavelength, frequency & resonance | Wavelength (2) →
Cross Reference
Frequency: Alternate Wavelength Frequency
Radiant Valvability of IVR-defined Wavelength
Cross-References
Wavelength (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov'72
waveless
Index Entry
Waveless:
"...The only metaphysical (ergo, physically unattainable) waveless exactitude of absolute equilibrium."
- Citation and context at Omnisymmetry, 11 Oct'73
Waveless
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Waveless:
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Wave Mechanics
← Waveless | Wave Mechanics: Law Of →
Cross Reference
Wave Mechanics:
See Quantum & Wave Mechanics
Cross-References
- Quantum \& Wave Mechanics
Wave Mechanics: Law Of
← Wave Mechanics | Wave Network Menaurability (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Floating City, Aug'72
Wave Network Menaurability (2)
← Wave Mechanics: Law Of | Wave vs. Particle →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Vector Equilibrium, (2)
Wave vs. Particle
← Wave Network Menaurability (2) | Wave vs. Particle →
Index Entry
Wave vs. Particle:
"Particle is frequency-definable special case and wave is angularly-defined generalization. The numerically-unique condition of special case 5 ≠ 4 of generalizations, identifies the dilemma of physics in reconciling the minimum fourfoldedness of wave definability by angles and the minimum fivefoldedness definability of particle particularization by unique frequencies."
(a1072.32)
- Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. RBF Ms. at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/1000-omnitopology#section-1072.321072.32; 19 Dec'74
Wave vs. Particle
← Wave vs. Particle | Wave vs. Particle →
Index Entry
'While physics is as yet formally puzzling over the paradox of the wave and the particle the apparent contradiction is occasioned only by the superficial misconception of a particle where none exists. We deal only with events in pure principle. The sense of physical textural reality, and awareness itself, which uniquely identifies life and time (in contradistinction to eternal weightless metaphysics), is inherent to the plurality of frequencies and degrees of freedom which in pure principle theoretically provide different interpositionings within given amounts of time.' Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/1000-omnitopology#section-1009.371009.37, 10 Feb'73
Wave vs. Particle
← Wave vs. Particle | Wave & Particle Definability →
Index Entry
Wave vs. Particle:
"One of the things we have to make clear for society is the dilemma of the Max-Planck-descended scientists, the way they do their problems, you can have either a wave or a particle, but not both simultaneously. Heisenberg has the same fault. They make the error of having a wave as a continuity, as a picture-- not as a pulsating frequency. A planar reflex causes them to think of continuous waves,"
Wave & Particle Definability
← Wave vs. Particle | Wave vs. Particle →
Index Entry
Wave & Particle Definability:
"Wave as a constant topological aspect is exclusively defined by angle, conceptually independent of frequency; ergo, frequency is the additional special case fifth characteristic: the generalization realized in time.
"Particle is frequency-definable special case and wave is angularly-defined generalization. The numerically unique condition of special case 5 ≠ 4 of generalizations, identifies the dilemma of physics in reconciling the minimum fourfoldedness of wave definability by angles and the minimum fivefoldedness definability of particle particularization by unique frequencies."
Wave vs. Particle
← Wave & Particle Definability | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
Cross Reference
Wave vs. Particle:
Tepes: Half-spin Tepee Twist, 20 Feb'73
Cross-References
- Corpuscular, 9 Jul'62
- Synergetics, 17 Oct'72
- Pattern, 22 Apr'71*
- Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Gap Closer, 23 May'75
- Powering: Fourth Powering, 9 Sep'75
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave vs. Particle | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
RBF Definitions
"Electromagnetic wave generation is omnidirectional like a
stone dropped in water... If you stop moving the magnet,
everything stops... As a complex of hinged vector equilibria
can be vertex-connected to fill allspace, and you can touch
any one of them anywhere and the spheres become spaces and
the spaces become spheres in an omnidirectional pulsing.
"The model of a stone dropped in water requires tunability
and memory--the succession of images disturbing the set of
images we can tune--colors, or whatever it may be."
Citations
- RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
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Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"When we drop a stone into water, we see a wave emanate outwardly in a plane. We agree that it is not water but that we are seeing a wave in pure principle. It is not simultaneous: therefore to conceptualize we are using our memory and afterimage. We can never have static waves; they have nothing to do with statics. We see a wave operative in time and in pure principle. If we initiate wave-propagating energy action at one point, a complete omnidirectional wave develops."
"When a stone is dropped into a tank of water, the stone does not penetrate the water molecules. The molecules are jostled; they 'accommodate' the stone and in the process jostle their neighboring molecules, which, in turn, jostle their own outwardly surrounding water molecule neighbors. Thus waves of relayed jostling are propagated. Each relayed wave, although a composite of locally forwarded actions, provides a synergetic continuity scenario of those actions. The consequence is a pattern of events that has an integrity of its own, independent of the local displacement accommodations (which are innocent with respect to the overall synergetic pattern)."
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of A Stone Dropped in Liquid →
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Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"The same stone dropped successively in pools of water, milk, or gasoline will generate the same wave patterns. Yet the waves are essences neither of milk nor of water nor of gasoline. The waves are distinct and measurable pattern integrities in their own right, visibly growing and traveling outwardly as each locally involved molecule of the liquids develops a narrow vertical ellipse circuitry returning to where it started, unless a powerful wind operating parallel to and above the liquid blows the top molecules free as bubbles to tumble down the wave side like water on a hillside."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/500-conceptuality#section-505.32505.32, galley rewrite of 6 Nov'73
Wave Pattern of A Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (1) →
Index Entry
...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.
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (1)
← Wave Pattern of A Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid →
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Humans about to die in hospitals have been carefully weighed as life departed. No weight was lost. Whatever life is, it is imponderable. Iam convinced that 'we', the utterly abstract integrities regenerate our own waves and ripples in the physical apparatus and environment which we employ just as stones create waves and ripples in the different liquids into which they are thrown. I am convinced that those waves and ripples are not the liquid milk, kerosene, or water into which the stone happened to be thrown. If we dump milk upon water and quickly drop a stone into the milky area, the waves rippling in the milk roll on from milk into water. The wave is neither milk nor water. The wave is an abstract pattern integrity, just as is the abstract concept of an angle. Waves are weightless patterns. The room we sit in is permeated by thousand of weightless waves, each of unique character. You can tune in hundred of wide frequency range radios within your room and each can bring in a different program from a different part of the world because the individual weightless waves were flowing through trees and house+ walls. That extraordinary world of weightless, invisible waves is governed by mathematical laws and not by the opinions of men. The magnificent orderliness
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (1) | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
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Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"of that ever individually and uniquely patterning weightless wave Universe is not of man's contriving. The infinite variety of evolutionary complexities inherent to the orderliness of complementary principles operative in the Universe is of unending synergetic uniqueness."
- Cite MEXICO Address, 10 Oct'63
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (1) →
Cross Reference
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
When we drop a stone into water we see a wave emanate outwardly in a plane. We agree it isn't water but that we are seeing a wave in pure principle. It is not simultaneous and we are using our memory and after image. We can never have waves static; they have nothing to do with statics. We see a wave in pure principle. If we make a single energy action at one point a complete omnidirectional wave occurs.
This is similar to a steel frame cube with a triangle rotating in it. (See Illustration # 64.)
- Cite Carbondale Draft-
Nature's Coordination, p. VI.55-+56
- Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 260. 11 Jul'62
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (1)
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (2) →
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Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"We drop a stone into the water and everybody is used to something happening. A set of rings appears; we call them waves. There are a set of circular waves that appear. It is a very reliable pattern and it is wonderful that this thing should happen this way... You see the waves, and say, What are the waves? Are they water? The fact is that I am going to drop some popcorn on the water first. I'm going to have a few pieces of red popcorn and the rest are yellow. Now I'm going to drop this stone. You will see the waves go and they are nice yellow waves, but you discover that the red popcorn doesn't go from here to there. It simply went outwardly, inwardly, and outwardly, but stayed in place. All the popcorn stays in place. We begin to discover that the wave is not the popcorn going from here to there; then you discover that the water molecules don't go from to there. They simply accommodate the wave. They go inward and outward from the center of Earth accommodating a pattern that took place, but it really isn't water. The wave isn't water. The wave went on and the water didn't move.
"I can do this now in kerosene and I find it works just as well."
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (2)
← Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (1) | Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (3) →
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Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"And I can do it in milk; and it isn't kerosene, milk, or water. In fact, I could dump some milk fast on top of the water and drop the thing and it goes from the milk into the water. We can then say: it isn't water; it isn't milk; and it isn't necessarily liquid-- and it isn't just something you are looking at, because if it is night you don't see it. You may hear a plop on the dock when the wave hits and you get a kind of aural information, but you don't think of that in quite the same way.
"It is a very still day, and I have begun to discover looking at the water, and I have dropped this stone, and I see the mast of the boat floating out there-- maybe the mast was doing this and the dock was doing that. In other words, there was a temporary set of distortions. What is happening is that light emanating from the Sun, coming through the atmosphere and getting refracted in different wavelengths so there is some blue sky and the radiation is hitting the mast, and so forth, being reflected in different frequencies. I see the yellow frequencies as masked in frond of the blue, which is not distorting. I am getting a set of interferences from different kinds of frequencies. I am getting some frequency information,"
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (3)
← Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (2) | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
Index Entry
wave information. We are saying the wave isn't water; it isn't air. We are beginning to discover that it has some kind of integrity of its own. We see waves from the sea coming into this concrete wall, and we see a new pattern of wave as it hits here and bounces out there, and we find the outgoing wave over the incoming wave. They accommodate each other very nicely. We find they do angle just like the reflecting of light. Every once in a while a peak comes together with a peak and they will send a spurt outwardly. Sometimes two valleys come together exactly and we get an inward swirl. We have gone then from a long set of waves, part of very big circles where they get into, almost into linears. We begin to discover, for instance that a waterspout is just such a kind of wave...
"I am beginning to talk about wave in pure principle. Pure principles are usable. They are reducible from theory to practice."
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid (3) | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
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Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"I had yesterday the stone drop in the water and nobody really explains why it did what it di until you know about precession. Themolecules are all little molecular actions, kinetics, little locals, and all kinds of shuntings. So there is a great deal of motion going on-- atomically enormous. When this stone impinges on the atoms, with everything in motion, immediately at 90 degrees there is a resultant that goes like that. The stone is going like that and goes at 90 degrees precession. The resultant is the wave. The 90 degreeness begets another 90 degreeness; and this 90 degreeness begets another 90 degreeness, and so on until you have a series of 90 degreenesses. The stone falling like this, goes boom, boom, boom. Precession is regenerative and that is why you have the wave. It is very simple then to see why there is a wave. Pure precession."
- Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p.152, 6 Jul'62
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
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Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"Action and interaction of events are accompanied by relative displacements and accommodations of other events. For example, when a stone is dropped into a tank of water, the stone does not penetrate the water molecules. The molecules are jostled; they 'accommodate' the stone; and in the process jostle their neighboring molecules, which, in turn, jostle their own border companions. Thus waves of relayed jostling are propagated. Each relayed wave, although a composite of local actions, provides a synergetic continuity of those actions. The consequence is a pattern of events which has an integrity of its own, independent of the local accommodations (which are innocent with respect to the overall synergetic pattern). The same stone, dropped successively in pools of water, milk, and gasoline, will generate the same wave patterns. Yet the waves are essences neither of milk nor water nor gasoline; the waves are distinct and measurable pattern integrities in their own right. The invariant relationships which govern pattern integrities in nature" are "'pure principle.' The stone thrown into the tank inaugurates a complex of accommodative events operative in pure principle.
Cite MARKS p. 20, 1960
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid →
Index Entry
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Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Phenomenon Inside of a Woman Out →
Cross Reference
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
Cross-References
- Accommodation, 1960
- Particle, (2)
- Push-pull, 22 Feb'73
- Regenerative, 1960
- Tensegrity Sphere, 19 Dec'73
- Tunability, 9 Jul'62
- Two Kinds of Twoness, (8)
- Vector Equilibrium: Spheres & Spaces, (1)
- Nature Has Noarate Departments, Sep
- Metaphysical Wave Patterns, 6 Nov'73
Wave Phenomenon Inside of a Woman Out
← Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid | Wave Propagation Model (1) →
Cross Reference
Wave Phenomenon: Inside of a Woman Out:
Cross-References
- Womb Population, May'65
Wave Propagation Model (1)
← Wave Phenomenon Inside of a Woman Out | Wave Propagation Model (2) →
Cross Reference
Triangular-cammed Model
Cross-References
Wave Propagation Model (2)
← Wave Propagation Model (1) | Wave Propagation (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Vector Equilibrium, 18 Sep'69
- Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model, 12 Nov'75
Wave Propagation (1)
← Wave Propagation Model (2) | Wave Propagation (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wave Propagation (2)
← Wave Propagation (1) | Wave Quantum (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Calculus, Jul'71
- Cheese Polyhedra, Nov'71
- Radial Depth, 20 Dec'74
- Telepathy, 29 Jun'72
- Vector Equilibrium, (2)
- Pattern, 1954
Wave Quantum (1)
← Wave Propagation (2) | Wave Quanta and Indigo Bow Ties →
Cross Reference
Wave Quantum:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence, (1)
Cross-References
- Divide \& Conquer Sequence, (1)
Wave Quanta and Indigo Bow Ties
← Wave Quantum (1) | Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Illus..14A, 1012
Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties (1)
← Wave Quanta and Indigo Bow Ties | Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties (2)
← Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties (1) | Wave System Propagations →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Nine, 16 May'75
Wave System Propagations
← Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties (2) | Wave (1) →
Index Entry
Wave System Propagations:
"Because the unsynchronizable, asymmetric excesses
Are inherently exported
The internal-external events
Propagate both inward- and outward-bound waves.
These unique wave-system propagations
Only infrequently coincide
With the unique symmetry patternings of others,
The orderly patterning energy releases of any one system
Only superficially appear to be disorderly--
Being unsynchronized immediately with other systems,
Though each system is internally orderly
And each is uniquely symmetrical dynamically.
This relatively minor yet true disorder, external to local systems,
Is spoken of by the confused observer as 'diffuse.'
- Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.88 May '72
Wave (1)
← Wave System Propagations | Wave (18) →
Cross Reference
Embracement: Successive Wave Layer Embracements
Quantum Wave Phenomenon: Quantum & Wave
Cross-References
- Carrier Wave
- Corpuscle: Corpuscular
- Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model
- Cycle
- Discontinuous Wave Pattern of Indigs
- Earthquake
- Frequency & Wave
- Interwave Behavior of Number
- Metaphysical Wave Pattern
- Microwave
- Nuclear & Nebular Zonal Waves
- Ocean
- ave Wave, Oct
- Oscillation & Pulsation
- Propagation
- Push-pull: Push Wave & Pull Wave
- Radial Wave Modular Growth
Wave (18)
Cross Reference
Surf
Sound Waves
Ship's Bow Wave
Cross-References
- Six-wave (Sexave) Phenomenon of Number
- Spherical Wave
- Surf Poundings
- Synchronization
- Zerophase
- Zero Wave
- Omniwave
- Harmonic
- Omnidirectional Wave
- Interference Wave
- Hypotenuse = Wave
- Cyclic Experience
Wave (2A)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Binary
- Frequency, 22 Jun'72
- Gears, May'72
- Nucleus, 18 Jun'71
- Order, 10 Oct'63
- Physical Universe, Nov'71*
- Precession, 13 Nov'69
- Principle, 12 Jun'56
- Pulsation, 9 Nov'72
- Radiation, May'72
- Rope, Dec'71*
- Reality, 14 Feb'72
- Superstition, 1938
- Tangible me, 9 Jul'62
- Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov'71
- Tunability, 9 Jul'62
- Trees, 22 Aug'71
- Male & Female, 1 Feb'75
- Step-up, Step-down Transformations, 22 Jan'75
Ways (2B)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Necklace, (1)(2)
- Ball at the Center, 9 Mar'73
- Ellipse, 14 Feb'73
- Initial Frequency, 6 Nov'72
- Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, May'49
- Minimum Limit Case, 12 May'75*
- Error, 30 May'75
- Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (2)
- Remote, Nov'71
- Left & Right, 7 Nov'75
- Verse vs. Prose, 11 Dec'75
Wave (3)
Cross Reference
Wave Connection
Waveband
Wave: Blocked Wave and Continuous Waves
Wave Frequency Aberrations
Wavelength and Frequency Event System
Wavelength
Waveless
Wave Mechanics
Wave Mechanics: Law Of
Wave Network Mensurability
Wave vs. Particle
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Wave Phenomenon: Inside of a Woman Out
Wave Place Where Waves Can Pass Through Each Other
Wave Propagative Inward-outward Tendency
Wave Propagation Model
Wave Quantum
Wave Quanta and Indig Bow Ties
Wave System
Wave-frequency Language of Electromagnetics
Wave Returns Upon Itself
Cross-References
Wavilinear
Index Entry
Wavilinear:
"Time is wavilinear...."
- Citation and context at Now, 7 Nov'73
Wavilinear
Index Entry
Wavilinear:
"Potential lines are only inscrutably nonstraight; all physically realized relationships are geodesic and wavilinear."
- Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-240.29240.29, 28 Oct'73
Wavilinear
Cross Reference
Wavilinear:
"Wavilinear is physical but not structural, since it is not accounted for by tetrahedron, octahedron, vector equilibrium, and icosahedron."
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 30 May'72
Cross-References
- Physical, 9 Jul'62
Wavilinear
Index Entry
Wavilinear:
"The overall longitudinal length of wavilinear vectorial lines is determined by the number of waves contained."
- Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/200-synergetics#section-240.00240, by RBF 11 Oct. '71, Haverford, Penna.
Wavilinarity
← Wavilinear | Wavilinear Wavilinearity (1) →
RBF Definitions
Regenerative precession imposes wavilinearity upon vectors and tensors. Wavilinearity is spiralinear."
Wavilinear Wavilinearity (1)
← Wavilinarity | Wavilinearity Wavilinear (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wavilinearity Wavilinear (2)
← Wavilinear Wavilinearity (1) | We-Me Awareness →
Cross Reference
Omni-asymmetry, 11 Oct'73
Cross-References
- Critical Proximity, 15 Feb'73
- Integer, 15 Oct'72
- Now, 7 Nov'73*
- Physical, 9 Jul'62*
- Rope, Dec'71
- Tetrahedron: Inside-outing Of, 28 Oct'73
- Wave, 8 May'72
- Prime Vector, (3)
- Twoness, 27 May'72
- System, 27 May'72
- Feedback, 7 Nov'75
We-Me Awareness
← Wavilinearity Wavilinear (2) | We-me (1) →
Index Entry
We-Me Awareness:
"Me the observer, Me the awareness
Life is awareness.
No otherness, no awareness.
Environment is all the otherness
Of which the we-me life
Becomes progressively aware
And must progressively complement.
"All the Otherness'
Is a scenario of nonsimultaneous
And only partially overlapping sets
Of physically and metaphysically
Transforming events
Of and by which we-me
Becomes progressively and cumulatively aware
And teleologically inspired
In a succession of sleep and attention spaced
Special case frames
Each integrating a plurality
Of differentially sensed info-concepts..."
We-me (1)
← We-Me Awareness | We-even (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Pronouns: I - We - Us
- Experiment: We Are Not the Only Experiment
We-even (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Time-sizing, 30 Nov'72
- Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (2)
Weak Force
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Gravity, 12 May'75
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Energy is the essence of wealth, wealth being the organized capability to support life."
- Citation & Context at Human Unsettlement, (2); 20 Sep'76
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"With the computers' integrative examination of the physical and metaphysical resources available to human beings it will be discovered that we are incredibly wealthy.
"'Wealth . . . being predicated on the degree of organized competence to nurture, protect, and accommodate today's and tomorrow's human lives. It will be clearly manifest that we have aboard Spaceship Earth four billion billionaires--heirs-apparent who have never been notified of their magnificent inheritance, which have been overlong hidden within the world's probate courts of obsolete laws, customs and fee-hungry fiduciary administrators, whose ignorant divorceMENT of money from wealth has altogether hidden from the fiduciary administrators themselves as well as the rest of the world, the late-20th-century-realized existence of omni-humanity-sustaining, inexhaustible wealth."
- Citation & context at Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep'76
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"I want to stress very much the things that Gerard Field talked about: wealth.... Wealth is--as far as I am concerned--the extent to which human beings have discovered principles that are operating in our Universe and the extent they use the experiences that come before us and the principles that we have learned (of leverage-- or whatever it may be), the extent to which we have organized our life, our environment, to take care of how many lives for how many days-- the capability to protect it, accommodate it, to feed it-- that is wealth.
"We are now in a great deal of confusion in our Western world by what has been done by the digits with which we recorded the wealth and tried to give the people producing it a chance to save it. The gains of that wealth have been plagues with interest charges--lending that wealth out to others when people didn't know whom it was being lent to.... Then there's the money game, where the money is really very remote from the wealth. When we consider that this is so we can begin to look at our cities in a little different kind of a way. We have all kinds of very important resources available when we begin to resurvey the accounting system we are using on our planet."
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Wealth is the measurable degree of established operative advantage locally organized by intellect over the locally occurring differentiable behaviors of universal energy. Wealth is an irreversible advantage: it cannot be expended in preferred reorganization of past events; it can only be expended on organizing forward events in preferential patterns."
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Wealth includes the accommodation of man's proclivities, degrees of freedom, and needs for information."
- Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75
Wealth
RBF Definitions
'Wealth, I would say quite clearly, is our capability to take care of lives. To what extent do we, then, know how to cope with principles to take care of how many lives for how many days? That's what real wealth is. Nothing else really counts. And they can only be articulated forwardly; they can't be articulated backwardly." - Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec'74
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"The big problems that come out are really not being put on the books, because society was not really thinking in big enough ways-- not realizing. Pretty much one-waying. There's a fairy godmother operating here and it's not really being put on the books. Society is going to be kidding itself a whole lot.
"I've had a number of big audiences in university lecture series; and I've said, 'I'm sure everybody in this room has a little different idea of what wealth is. And I'm going to ask if anybody in this room will contradict me in this audience if I say that no matter how much you have of it, no matter what you think it is, but how much you have of what you think as wealth, will you all agree with me that you can't alter one iota of yesterday?' It wouldn't do you any good. They agreed. So then I said, what ever it is, it is irreversible. It's something to be articulated now-- or forwardly
"When we ant to do our thinking about what is wealth, I've eliminated a lot of things I don't have to think about any more.
"Now I'm going to have a man we'll call a millionaire, a billionaire. And he has all his check books and all his stock"
- Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (pp.6-7), New York, 13 Mar'74
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"certificates and his deeds and contracts; the works-- and so he can articulate at any moment. And he's going from here to another country and he's going on a ship and the ship is sinking from fire and all the small boats are burnt. And he holds on to his gold and he sinks a little faster than the other people. So he doesn't have any future either. So whatever that kind of wealth is-- he has all the controls of what we call wealth. We have one man on board who brought along a pneumatic life preserver; and he's floating out there and he says, 'Hey, Mister, I'll give you a billion dollars cash.' And he says, No thank you.
"In other words, I think that what man really means by wealth, then, is its capability to support forward life. I really want to get now to hard accounting when we get to cosmic accounting. As far as human beings go: do you have any more life? And wealth would be: for how many lives, for how many days-- every thing you need to keep life going-- have you already organised? ... The environment is always changing around, transforming. And the resources are there, but how much 'know-how' do you have?
"In the terms of yesterday, up to this century when thermodynamics"
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"was discovered by the scientists and they discovered that local systems always lose energy. And they discovered that because man didn't know that light had a speed-- and he thought of Instant Universe... Everything Einstein introduced as not thinking Instant Universe because Mr. Newton did think Instant Universe. And if that was so, then Universe itself was a system and it too was losing energy, running Down. Therefore we had a basic negative accounting. When I cam to Harvard University before World War I, the intellectuals assumed that the Universe was something being run down. What we used to call a fundamental conservatism was based on the bias that energies were always being exhausted anywhere. And anyone who makes any changes, that just means that it's running down a little faster.
"This was very convenient actually for the early great fortunes who went from the sea onto the land to produce steel steamships and the equipment for them. Suddenly they found they could make money with both-- and up on the land, too! Once they had a factory, they didn't want to change the factory. Up to World War II, anybody who wanted to propose change-- he got fired. And after World War II, suddenly it was an entirely new story: if you didn't propose change, you"
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"didn't get advanced. What a big jump that was... from a basic accounting viewpoint. These are the things I find are not properly discussed by anybody, looking at things sumtotally, and I was thinking that it's your business to understand what really is there and be able to tell management what they have. That is why I think this meeting is possibly one of the most important meetings I've ever had in my life.
"Q.-- 'When you say that you can't change wealth, are you saying that wealth can't be destroyed?'
"I'm first trying to run down what wealth is. And I'm only saying that-- whatever it is-- it won't work backwardly; it only works forwardly, today or tomorrow. And you just add all the things that seem to make a man wealthy, and I find it didn't give him any forward tomorrow. So maybe that's not what we're looking for. I'm trying to find out what it really is. So I find out that whatever it is, it has to be one of two things. One is our Universe. Universe is physical, and, as Einstein said, is all energy. Energy associative as matter; energy disassociative as radiation. And we find it pulsing, going back and forth between-
- Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.7), New York, 13 Mar'74
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"the two. And, as of this century, we come to discover that the energies are not lost. This is a great jump-- where we've had such specializations, with the economists and the philosophers not really being able to listen to what they physicists have been saying.
"So the physical side of wealth, which we will use then to make tools, or whatever it may be, is now inexhaustible.... What we've had on the books up until this century-- these things were always being written off. Very logically. Nature seemed to have a negative accounting of the capital account.
"But I'm saying that the capital account is not going down. So the other variable is metaphysical. What we did, getting those more messages on the same copper. That was our 'know-how.' Learning principles. There is a principle of leverage. There is a principle of refraction. There is a principle of really exponentials that really do become operative. So I said, the difference here is metaphysical.
"Next thing I found out about this metaphysical was that every time we make an experiment, we always learn more; we don't learn less. There are numbers of words in the dictionary to"
Wealth
RBF Definitions
"accommodate all the things we've found out about Universe--they don't get less, they get more. I find then, that the metaphysical side of wealth is always increasing and this is what has brought the words 'know-How' (metaphysical sounds fancier). But know-how always increases. The physical does not decrease. Wealth is very extraordinary and this is what happens with World War I. The great change is that wealth always increases. Now it can increase faster or lesser-- as you use the principles properly. And I've discovered that the negative accounting that we've really been operating in, is no longer valid. The minute we began to pay attention to what Einstein and Max Planck and everybody really found out, that accounting has to change. This is a very, very severe change."
Citations
- RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.80, New York, 13 Mar'74
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"We have no knowledge today of what wealth is. Real wealth is the ability to take care of lives."
- Cite RBF address to Harvard Law School Forum, Cambridge, 10 Dec'73 as quoted in next day's Crimson
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Humanity's productive and distributive
Life-supporting capability-- wealth--
Had been irreversibly amplified."
- Citation and context at Copper (2), May '72
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Wealth is the capability to live."
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.
Wealth
RBF Definitions
"Wealth is the number of forward days for a specific number of people we are physically prepared to sustain at a physically stated time and space liberating level of metabolic and metaphysical regeneration."
Citations
- RBF quoted by Jerry Judelson in LosAngeles underground newspaper, spring 1971, p. 17
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"It is obvious that the real wealth of life aboard our planet is a forwardly operative, metabolic and intellectual regenerating system. Our children and their children are our future days. If we do not comprehend and realize our potential ability to support all life forever we are cosmically bankrupt."
- Cite RBF quoted by Jerry Judelson in Los Angeles underground paper, p. 17, spring, 1971
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Real wealth is knowing what to do with energy."
- Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May '70 (Not in Bantam edition)
UNIVERSE SEC. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/300-universe#section-343.10343.10 REJECTED BY RBF, 11 NOV'74
Wealth
RBF Definitions
"Wealth is as much everybody's as is the air and the sunlight"
- Citation and context at Fellowships: Life Fellowships in Research and Development, 1969
Wealth (1)
Index Entry
Wealth:
"To account our success in terms of gold and various traditional banking practices is irrelevant. Real wealth is organized capability. One of its important characteristics is that it is irreversible-- no matter how much wealth you have, you cannot change one iota of yesterday. Wealth can only be used now and in the future. What we really mean by wealth is how many days forward we have energy available and organized for work to keep the machines running, to keep the foods growing, the refrigeration, transportation, and so on. The basis for our new accounting system will be 'How many forward days of organized capability do we have available to serve how many men?' We will be able to make the working assumption that it is normal not only for man to be successful but also normal for him to be able to move as freely as he wishes without interfering with any other man. Our overall accounting assumption will be based on whatever amount of organized energy capability is required so as to make it possible for any man to travel around and enjoy the whole earth, and be completely supported in doing so. There will be no such thing as deficit accounting. You cannot live on deficit accounting. You cannot eat"
Wealth (2)
Index Entry
Wealth:
"deficitly or drink water deficitly. What is to eat is there-- as the water is there.
"All such negative accounting procedures went along with the need for exploiting others in the 'you or me' phase of man's past struggle for basic survival."
- Citation & context at Economic Accounting System (1)(2), and Population Sequence (7)(8), Feb'67
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"... Wealth cannot alter one iota of yesterday... 'Wealth has an irreversible direction of articulation." - Cite NASA Speech, pp. 26,27 Jun'66
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Real wealth is organized capability. One of its important characteristics is that it is irreversible..."
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Happily realized augmentation of forward capability is all that we mean by wealth."
Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth:
"Energy-- larger and larger blocks of which as inherent principles of inexhaustible Universe become available to man's control account. The impoundment of ever greater blocks of energy within the arrangements of the 92 chemical elements to give higher degrees of performance of structure and mechanics constitutes the actual means of harvesting of universal wealth.
"It is as though the phenomenon which we call raw materials, which are in fact our 92 chemical elements, were a fleet of cargo vessels into which we load ever greater cargoes of energy, and as we load them they give higher degrees of controlled performance, as a result we increase our control over fate and that is the function of wealth."
- Cite Part II, Earth, Inc. Fuller Research Foundation, yellow typescript (pp.13-14), 1947
Wealth
← Wealth | Wealth: Equation of Wealth →
Index Entry
Wealth:
"The measurable degree of forwardly organized environmental control, in terms of quickly convertible energy, capacities and performance ratioed system capabilities per capita, per diem."
- Cite WEALTH (I&I) pp 142 - 145 1947
Wealth: Equation of Wealth
Index Entry
Wealth: Equation of Wealth:
"For we now know scientifically
That wealth consists exclusively
Of physical energy
Which cannot be depleted
Plus intelligence's know-how
Which can only increase..."
Wealth
← Wealth: Equation of Wealth | Wealth: Equation of Wealth →
Index Entry
Equation of Wealth:
"Wealth = 2 Energy + Intellect, with energy as (1) electromagnetic matter; (2) electromagnetic radiation."
Wealth: Equation of Wealth
← Wealth | Wealth: Equation of Wealth →
Index Entry
Wealth: Equation of Wealth:
"Wealth consists of indestructible energy plus intellect's ever-increasing 'know-how' and is the means of sustaining forward life. Wealth can only increase."
- Cite RBF Glossary of Terms (Appendix B), 1967
Wealth: Equation of Wealth
← Wealth: Equation of Wealth | Wealth Equation Of (1) →
Index Entry
Wealth: Equation of Wealth:
"Wealth is the organized and operative Tool and energy capability To sustain man's forward metabolic regeneration;
To physically protect him;
To increase his knowledge And degrees of freedom
While decreasing his interfrustrations.
Solo wealth is to commonwealth As X is to X4.
Wealth is: Energy compounded With intellect's know-how."
Wealth Equation Of (1)
← Wealth: Equation of Wealth | Wealth: Equation Of (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wealth: Equation Of (2)
← Wealth Equation Of (1) | Wealth As Know-How →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Wealth as "Know-how", (3)
Wealth As Know-How
← Wealth: Equation Of (2) | Wealth as "Know-how" (1) →
Index Entry
Wealth As Know-How:
"The accounting system would include a redefinition of wealth with the scarcity model of economics to be made obsolete by the magnitude of man's participation in the irreversible amplification of the inventory of information, i.e., know-how. This eliminates economic competition."
Wealth as "Know-how" (1)
← Wealth As Know-How | Wealth as "Know-how" (2) →
Index Entry
Let us ask ourselves some fundamental questions regarding the meaning of wealth. The biggest question we can formulate proposes that 'no matter what it may be or how we define it, will you agree that wealth cannot alter one iota of yesterday'? The answer is always that we agree to the proposition.
We discover that whatever wealth is, it has an irreversible direction of articulation. We next note that if a reportedly very wealthy man is in a shipwreck in midocean and has all his checkbooks with him for all the monies he has on deposit in the bank plus all his stocks and bonds and physical property deeds-- and there are no physical means of saving himself from drowning-- that his wealth becomes meaningless to him. If he had all of his assumed-to-be-wealth with him in gold coins, he would only sink faster. If, however, he knew how and did convert physical components present in the disaster environment into energy-mastering tools that could keep him from drowning and from perishing from cold and sharks while also propelling safely to land, might we not logically designate wealth as the means of sustaining forward life and the magnitude of the wealth in terms of how many forward days of healthy metabolic regeneration have been provided for in
Wealth as "Know-how" (2)
← Wealth as "Know-how" (1) | Wealth as "Know-how" (3) →
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Wealth as "Know-how":
"tools and energy mastery?
"We will also have to recognize that Robinson Crusoe's wealth was limited due to his enforced imprisonment on an island seemingly devoid of eother humans and with whom he might pro-create further life. If we recognize the built-in drives and selective functioning of humans, we will concede that the more freedom and the greater tooled energy at his command, the further and the more swiftly could the individual travel and the greater the opportunity thereby derived to increase or regenerate both his 'know-how' for dealing with forward evolutionary events and for meeting the individual of opposite sex most favorably and logically suited to marriage and their mutual regeneration and forwarding of human life.
"Thus we begin to discern that wealth may be at least partially defined as our energy-mastering, tool-organized capability to cope effectively and healthfully with our forward life regenerating and protecting and physically advantaging needs and development with ever increasing degrees of freedom and without gaining advantage through the disadvantaging of another human."
Wealth as "Know-how" (3)
← Wealth as "Know-how" (2) | Wealth as Knowhow →
Index Entry
Wealth as "Know-how":
"Because the 20th century physicists have shown that energy is finite and can be neither destroyed nor created, the energy component of wealth cannot be depleted. The other fundamental component of wealth is intellect. Intellect's 'know-how' can only increase. Every time intellect makes an experiment with energy it learns more. Therefore wealth, consisting of indestructible energy plus ever-increasing 'know-how' can only increase. The more we employ the wealth, the more rapidly it increases."
Wealth as Knowhow
← Wealth as "Know-how" (3) | Wealth (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Humane City, (2)(3)
Wealth (1)
← Wealth as Knowhow | Wealth (2) →
Cross Reference
Affluence
Energy Wealth
Rich Man Drowning in a Shipwreck
Cross-References
- Afford
- Commonwealth
- Earning a Living
- Economic Accounting System
- Spending
- Success
- Intellect: Equation Of
Wealth (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Conservatism, Jun'66
- Copper, (2)
- Debt, 1944
- Economic Accounting System, (1)(2)
- Fellowships, 1969
- Ship, (3)
- Intellect: Equation Of
- Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep'76*
- Human Unsettlement, (2)
Weaponry (1)
Cross Reference
Circling Around Earth
Cross World Product Sequence
Cross-References
- Disarmament
- Dollars Bills: $200 Billion One-dollar Bills
- Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence
- Killingry
- Livingry
Weaponry (2)
Cross Reference
Metals: Recirculation Of, (1)
Cross-References
Weapons
← Weaponry (2) | Weapons Technology Sequence →
Index Entry
Weapons:
"All weapons are invalid."
- Citation and context at War, 13 Dec'73
Weapons Technology Sequence
← Weapons | Weapons Technology Sequence →
Index Entry
Weapons Technology Sequence:
"The integration of the new 20th century science and technology during World War I resulted in entirely unprecedented magnitudes of technical advantage gains accomplished in all the fundamental capabilities of the world's industrial networks. As a consequence of this major mobilization of industry, brought about through realizations of the long-suppressed scientific backlog, the industrial advantage subsequently accruing in the domestic economy as by-products of the munitions industry, had so increased that by 1919 six percent of humanity were enjoying the prevalently 'high' standard and ever-advancing physical advantages of the industrial network. By 1940 the percentage of the ever-increasing world population that had now come to enjoy high standard industrial advantage increased to 20 percent. As a consequence of the again extraordinary advantages of technology during World War II, and in the post-World-War II cold wars, we have now increased the numbers of those humans who are participating in the industrial network to 44 percent of the world's total population. The continually accelerating rates of increase in the number being served with ever-higher standards of industrialization has occurred despite the ever-more rapid increase in world population,"
Weapons Technology Sequence
← Weapons Technology Sequence | Weapons Technology (1) →
Index Entry
Weapons Technology Sequence:
"concurrent with a continual decrease in the world metals per capita. The surprising rise in the number of people enjoying higher standards may only be accounted for by the fact that the increased ability of man and the increase in the number being served is an indirect consequence of our constantly doing more with less per given unit of resources, per given function.
"Doing constantly more with less came from the world of seaborne or airborne weapons. To persist as a 'winner' in the game of world armaments a constantly accelerating evolution must be regeneratively initiated in specific improvements in performances per pound of physical resources and per hours of scientific and technical expertise invested in a given task in order to be supreme in carrying the greatest hitting power the greatest distance in the shortest time, with ever-increasing accuracy of aim and at ever-higher degrees of energy efficiency."
- Cite RBF to William Marlin, Architectural Forum, Feb'72
Weapons Technology (1)
← Weapons Technology Sequence | Weapons Technology (2) →
Index Entry
Weapons Technology:
"The high performance technology developed for the production of weapons comes progressively to levels of obsolescence--for instance, the premier type of submarine or airplane finally becomes eclipsed by competition and therefore becomes obsolete. Second grade weapons are worthless. The contractor who has been producing the now obsolete item often finds himself failing to get the next contract for the newer kind of weapon or tool. However, the ex-contractors are tooled up with the powerful high performance technology. They can produce a great deal with very little, i.e., with high performance per pound. For these obvious reasons the ex-government contractors look around in the domestic market to find ways in which to exploit their super technical ability. The ex-government supplier thus brought the dynamo, originally developed exclusively for the battleship, into the city to light man's streets and the electric lights developed for the battleship came thereafter to replace the candles in our domestic candelabras, but the candelabras were not changed. The domestic economy was never made the comprehensive focus of generalized system theory and the prime beneficiary of scientific knowledge."
Weapons Technology (2)
← Weapons Technology (1) | Weapons Technology (1) →
RBF Definitions
The high performance technology items were only progressively substituted for low performance items within the overall low performance, or indifferent performance, of the total structural and mechanical [crossed out] scheme of the forever fortuitous land-borne edifices. Parts became improved without improvement in the total concept of land borne technology. All of our television, or radios, our electronic developments in general, came out of the original weaponry development. We see millions of glistening metallic TV antennae sprouting above the roofs of filth-festering, bathroomless, fire-trap living shacks the world around. Thus we find ourselves continually advancing in domestic technology, but only as the second-hand gadgetry, by-produced by the cast-off segments of the weaponry industry.
"Livingry vs. weaponry" characterizes "the causal pattern and curve of comprehensive improvement and amplification of world technology."
Weapons Technology (1)
← Weapons Technology (2) | Weapons Technology (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Weapons Technology (2)
← Weapons Technology (1) | Weather →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Evolution, May'72
- Money-bee Humans, 12 Jun'73
- Revolution by Inadvertence, 10 Oct'63
- Technology, 13 Mar'73; 22 Jan'75
- War, 13 Dec'73*
- Everybody's Business, (1)
- Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep'76
- Disarmament, (1)(2)
- Universe is Technology, (2)
Weather
← Weapons Technology (2) | Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (1) →
Index Entry
Weather:
"I'll give you in my own words very much the pattern of what we speak about as the weather. In the weather, we have the Sun shining on the atmosphere of our little planet; on the sunny side, heating it up, and making it expand; and on the shadow side-- cold, and it's contracted. Then there's a difference of rate of absorption of the Sun's radiation by the rock and the water and the atmosphere, so that in the shadowed side the waters are still warm. So there are all kinds of turbulences set up. As a consequence, there are low pressure areas and high pressure areas-- that's where we get our weather being reported. And the lows exhaust the highs; they pull on them, tense on them; finally they become the high and there's a new vacuum over here beginning to pull. So there's a pulsing pulsation going on in our Universe of collectings here and disbursements there."
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (1)
← Weather | Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (2) →
Index Entry
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows:
"We discovered that the motion of wind along the surface of the Earth is a turbulent affair, rising here and hitting the Earth's surface there and rising again. We discover that the wind, instead of being considered blown horizontally along the Earth from a god's mouth or by a mysteriously hidden blower, should be recognized as enormous convection columns in the thin atmospheric layer surrounding the Earth and caused by a warm Earth in the presence of a cold outer space, so that Earth continuously heats the atmosphere at its lowest point, thus expanding it, which causes it to be of lesser specific gravity and therefore to be less attractive to gravity, which pulls the top layer of chilled and concentrated air downward and causes the heated air to rise in columns somewhat as water boils upward in expanded bubbles and draws downward in concentrated pinpointed bubbles. There are predominant heat points on Earth caused by less insulation or color variations of surface. There was a strong column here and more of a tendency to have that column go here than there.
"As a net result of these convection column tests it was discovered that the rising winds tend to greater velocity than that of the lowering air moving in from the outer reaches to"
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (2)
← Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (1) | Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (1) →
Index Entry
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows:
"satisfy the concentrated columns, and therefore that the resultant focus of wind stress near the Earth's surface is in an upward direction in the lee of an obstruction-- such as a house at the Earth's surface."
- Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.204), 1946
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (1)
← Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (2) | Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (2) →
Cross Reference
Importing & Exporting
Cross-References
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (2)
← Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (1) | Weather (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Boltzmann Sequence, (1)
- Radiation Sequence, (2)
- Regeneration, 28 Apr'71
- Wind Power Sequence, (4)
- Wow, (3)
- Boltzmann System, 4 Nov'73
Weather (1)
← Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows (2) | Weather (2) →
Cross Reference
Climate
Cross-References
- Atmosphere
- Biosphere
- Hydrosphere
- Photosynthesis
- Wind Power: Effect of Earth's Rotation
- Lightning & Atoms
- Wind
- Hurricane
- Typhoon
Weather (2)
← Weather (1) | Weave: Weaving (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Manifest: Six, 1973
- Photosynthesis, Oct'69
- Radome Sequence, (1)(5)
- Wind Power Sequence, (5)
Weave: Weaving (1)
← Weather (2) | Weave Weaving (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Interweaving
- Tapestry
- Variable Strands Braiding
- Thread
- Strands
- Basketry Interweaving
- Interweave: Interweaving
- Three-way Weaving
- Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross
Weave Weaving (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Female, May'65
- Male & Female, 19 Dec'71
- Scenario, May'72
Web
← Weave Weaving (2) | Wedding →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wedding
Index Entry
Wedding:
"... all closest packing begins with two balls rather than omnidirectionally. Two balls coming together is where thought begins. .. it is a wedding thing. .. and it is very beautiful the way the two balls reoccur at each wave outwardly."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1974.
-
Citation at Omnidirectional, 19 Jun'71
-
Citation & context at Balls Coming Together, 19 Jun'71
Wedding (1)
Cross Reference
riage, Mar
Cross-References
- ry, Mar
Wedding (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Balls Coming Together, 19 Jun'71
Week
Index Entry
Week:
"Nature has no 'weeks.' There is no 'Monday,' 'Tuesday,' 'friday' in nature."
- Cite RBF to Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH!, Dec'72
Week
Index Entry
Week:
"I no longer think in terms of 'weeks' except as
I stumble over their antiquated stop-and-go habits.
Nature has no 'weeks.'"
- Cite OPERATING MANUAL, p. 131, 1969
Week (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Weighable
Index Entry
Weighable:
"The absolute would be weighable... experimentally meaningless."
- Citation and context at Absolute, Oct'66
Weight
Index Entry
Weight:
"Without weight you do not exist physically-- nor without a specific temperature."
-
Citation & context at Temperature of the Human Body, 21 Dec'71
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71
Weight
← Weight | Weighable & Unweighable →
Index Entry
Weight:
"Time and heat and longevity and weight are inherent in every dimension."
-
Citation & context at Dimension, 21 Dec'71
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 P St NW Ave, Washington DC, 21 Dec '71.
Weighable & Unweighable
← Weight | Weighing in at Seven Pounds Then70 Then 170 →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Universe, 1969
Weighing in at Seven Pounds Then70 Then 170
← Weighable & Unweighable | Weight of Buildings (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Automation, 12 Jun'69
- Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes, May'65
- Evolution
- Knot, Dec'67
- Life is not Physical, 11 Sep'73
- Metabolic Flow, (1)
- Pattern Integrity
- Technology, Jun'69
Weight of Buildings (1)
← Weighing in at Seven Pounds Then70 Then 170 | Weight of Buildings (2) →
Cross Reference
See Displacement of Ships & Buildings
Cross-References
- Displacement of Ships \& Buildings
Weight of Buildings (2)
← Weight of Buildings (1) | Weighable Weight (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Architecture, 24 Apr'67
- Design Science, (2)
Weighable Weight (1)
← Weight of Buildings (2) | Weighable Weight (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Death: Weighing of People as they Die
- Ponderable
- Unweighable
- Volume-weight Relationship
- Weighable & Unweighable
- Weightless
- Zero Weight
Weighable Weight (2)
← Weighable Weight (1) | Weightless →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Absolute, Oct'66*
- Air, 26 Sep'68
- Dimension, 21 Dec'71*
- Mass, 14 May'73
- Temperature of the Human Body, 21 Dec'71*
- Four-dimensional Reality, 30 Apr'77
- Fourth Dimension, 22 Jun'77
Weightless
← Weighable Weight (2) | Weightlessness of Thought →
Index Entry
Weightless:
"I speak about the mind and the mind's manifestations as metaphysical or weightless. The physicist speaks about the physical as moving a needle. Everything that's going on between us here in this room. . . as I'm thinking out loud . . . is weightless. I may push a little air, which makes sounds, to communicate to you, but the relative value of the words I'm using is unweighable."
- Cite RBF at SIWS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 13, p. 11.
Weightlessness of Thought
← Weightless | Weightless (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Zero Weight, 1968
Weightless (1)
← Weightlessness of Thought | Weightless (2) →
Cross Reference
Eternal Universe
Cross-References
- Conceptual Integrity
- Conceptuality
- Death: Weighing of People as they Die
- Ephemeral
- Generalized Principles
- Imponderable
- Life
- Metaphysical
- Nonponderable
- Pure Principle
- Unweighable
- Zero Weight
Weightless (2)
← Weightless (1) | Wellspring of Reality →
Cross Reference
See Animate & Inanimate Sequence, (2)
Conceptions, Dec'69
Cross-References
- Animate \& Inanimate Sequence, (2)
- Closed System
- Ephemeral, Oct'66
- Intellection: Intellecting, Oct'66
- Life, 13 Nov'69
- Mind, 13 Nov'69
- Particle, (1)(2)
- Process Relationships, 28 Jan'69
- Principle, 9 Jul'62
- Triangle, (1)
- Wave, 6 Nov'73
- New York City, (6)
- Life is Not Physical, (2)
Wellspring of Reality
← Weightless (2) | Wellspring of Reality →
RBF Definitions
"... This is what the intuition of world-around youth is trying to do. Mind can see that reality is evolving into weightless metaphysics. The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles. It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday..."
Citations
- SYNERGETICS, "Introduction: The Wellspring of Reality," pp. 17-18, 25 Jul'72
Wellspring of Reality
← Wellspring of Reality | Wellspring of Work →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Reality, 13 Nov'69
Wellspring of Work
← Wellspring of Reality | Wellspring →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Energy, 1960
Wellspring
← Wellspring of Work | West-to-East: Prevailing Winds (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
West-to-East: Prevailing Winds (1)
← Wellspring | West-to-East: Prevailing Winds (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
West-to-East: Prevailing Winds (2)
← West-to-East: Prevailing Winds (1) | Whale Sounds →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Most Economical, 15 Jun'74
Whale Sounds
← West-to-East: Prevailing Winds (2) | Whale →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Universal Language, 28 Apr'71
Whale
← Whale Sounds | What I Am Trying To Do →
Cross Reference
Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial Sphere, (4)-(10)
Cross-References
- Stature, 20 Feb'73
- Tetrahedron, 20 Feb'73
- Human Beings at the Center, (1)
What I Am Trying To Do
← Whale | What Needs to Be Done →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
What Needs to Be Done
← What I Am Trying To Do | What →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
What
← What Needs to Be Done | Wheel →
Cross Reference
Verbs: No 'Where's, No 'What's, Only 'When's
Cross-References
Wheel
← What | Wheel: Artillery Wheel →
Index Entry
To say that 'there are no examples of wheels in in nature' . . is an observational error / as is / the assertion that the invention of the wheel required 'abstract thinking at a highly philosophic level.' . . . preposterous in view of the frequent presence about the earth of tree logs which have been used by man as rolling supports or wide tired wheels, probably to the earliest times of man on earth. The log wheel was the fulcrum of man's lever-- probably amongst his earliest discoveries, as he stepped on the long end of a big log lying across another log and found himself lifting yet another log on the other end of the lever, which lifted logs he knew to be beyond his ability to lift alone with his arms, back and legs. Every pebbled beach contains rolling stones which are omni-directional wheels, or 'ball bearings.' Very few squares or cubes occur in nature-- everywhere nature uses the round wheel sectioned form. . . the presence of the wheel principle in nature. Wheels were, however, probably 'a flop' as an invention, for millenniums, becoming successful only after proper lubricants and metals were developed for their axles.
Wheel: Artillery Wheel
← Wheel | Wheel: Artillery Wheel vs Wire Wheel →
Index Entry
Wheel: Artillery Wheel:
"The old fashioned artillery wheel is an interesting thing. It has a roadway like a pole vaulter and you pole vault over and your weight is at the hub. . . By the time you get rid of one pole you get another pole. Therefore the wheel is just a method of having a series of poles to keep moving along with."
- Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 108. 5 Jul'62
Wheel: Artillery Wheel vs Wire Wheel
← Wheel: Artillery Wheel | Wheelbarrow (3) →
Index Entry
Wheel: Artillery Wheel vs Wire Wheel:
"In the high and low-tide cooperative precessional
functionings of tension vs. compression I saw that there
are times when each are at half tide, or equally prominent
in their system relationships. I saw that the exterior of
the equatorial compressional island rim atoll of the
wire-wheel must be cross-sectionally in tension as also
must be its hub-island's girth. I also saw that all
these tension vs. compression patterning relationships are
completely reversible, and are entirely reversed as when
we considered the compressively spoked 'artillery wheel'
vs. the 'tensionally spoked wire wheel.'"
- Cite PORTFOLIO + ART REVIEW, p. 120, Dec '61
Wheelbarrow (3)
← Wheel: Artillery Wheel vs Wire Wheel | Wheeling About of Humans →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wheeling About of Humans
← Wheelbarrow (3) | Wheel (1) →
Cross Reference
Wheeling About of Humans:
Cross-References
- Omnidirectional, 1960
Wheel (1)
← Wheeling About of Humans | Wheel (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wheel (2)
← Wheel (1) | Wheeler, John Archibald →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Industrialization, (1)(2)
- Intellectual Perspective, 1 Jul'62
- Halo, 1938
Wheeler, John Archibald
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar'77
When
← Wheeler, John Archibald | Where →
Cross Reference
Verbs: No 'Where's, No 'What's, Only 'When's
Everywhen
Elsewhen
Cross-References
Where
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Elsewheres
- Manywhere
- Verbs: No 'Where's, No 'What's, Only 'When's
- Always & Everywhere
- Not-everywhere
- Ever & Everywhere
Whip
← Where | Whitehead's Dilemma →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Whitehead's Dilemma
← Whip | Whitehead's Dilemma →
Index Entry
Whitehead's Dilemma:
"I am very much concerned with the uses of power.
"When Alfred North Whithead first came to this country from England, in the early part of this century, he remarked upon the fact that the graduate schools were all turning out specialists. Not that specialists weren't needed. But all the bright ones were becoming specialists. They were the only ones being educated for the graduate schools. As a result, the best brains are highly specialized. Not only that, but along with high intellectual capabilities they developed a high intellectual integrity-- no specialist of integrity would think of going into some other expert's field/ and making quick assumptions as to the significance or lack of significance of the work of a specialist in another field. So communication ceased between them. We have teams of all-stars supposedly designing the system-- and they can't even talk to each other!"
Whitehead's Dilemma
← Whitehead's Dilemma | Whitehead's Dilemma →
Index Entry
Whitehead's Dilemma:
"Then Whitehead said we now come to a surprise because we then will discover that the specialists will not have the capability to integrate the potentials that are accruing to the special information they are finding because they are not able to communicate in this way. Certainly they wouldn't feel they could look into the significance of this as it might impinge on general technology-- they are pure scientists. Therefore, he said, having suddenly discovered that these people would not have the ability to integrate their capabilities, then society's hopes would be frustrated. Somebody would have to put their potential together. He said that inasmuch as they couldn't do it themselves and someone else was going to have to do it-- who would do it? Now we discover that we may have possibly made a mistake, because, having deliberately sifted out the bright ones, we had left over a pile of tailings of the not-so-brights and inasmuch as the bright ones cannot put their work together, we will have to leave it to the not-so-bright's to put these things together. I gave this the name of Whitehead's Dilemma."
- Cite OREGON UNIVERSITY Lecture "2 - p. 40, 2 Jul'62
Whitehead's Dilemma
← Whitehead's Dilemma | Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain →
RBF Definitions
Whitehead's Dilemma: The larger the responsibility, the lower the level of intellectual capability that is brought to bat."
Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain
← Whitehead's Dilemma | Whites →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Computer, (1)
- Diplomats, 5 May'72
- Politics, 10 Jun'71
- Real Estate Development, 10 Jun'71
- Specialization, 2 Jul'62 (1)(2)
Whites
← Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain | Whitman, Walt →
Index Entry
Whites are bleached out colored people who are the normal people.
- Citation and context at Race (2), 7 Aug'70
Whitman, Walt
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Reproducible, 22 Apr'68
Whole
Index Entry
Whole:
"A child plays with balls that are round like the Earth and touches whole things. He touches his mother a lot when he is young... and she is big and sort of round. A child thinks in terms of wholes."
- Cite RBF quoted by Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, Dec'72
Whole
Index Entry
Whole:
"Because I don't talk space, I don't have to have a vacuum. I don't start with a space. I start with nothing. I start with the whole."
- Cite RBF to EJA + BO'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb '72
Wholeness
Index Entry
Wholeness:
"There is only pattern, there is only wholeness to begin and cease: the environment and content of all experience or experiment."
- Citation and context at Parts, 1954-59
Whole Numbers (1)
← Wholeness | Whole to Particular (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Whole to Particular (1)
← Whole Numbers (1) | Wholo to Particular (2) →
Cross Reference
Whole to Particular: See Starting with the whole
Cross-References
Wholo to Particular (2)
← Whole to Particular (1) | Wholes & Parts →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Quantum Mechanics, 23 Jun'75
- Limit, 23 Jun'75
Wholes & Parts
← Wholo to Particular (2) | Wholes & Parts →
Index Entry
Wholes & Parts:
"In modern science-- coming just to the quantum mechanics-- from a lawyer's viewpoint it's really worth realising that in quantum mechanics no part exists except as a part of a whole. You must start with the whole. If we want to be effective we must start with the largest complex."
- Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec'73
Wholes & Parts
← Wholes & Parts | Wholes & Parts →
RBF Definitions
"The Ancient Greeks initiated problem solving
By recourse to cosmology and cosmogony,
By proceeding from the whole to the part
Lest they miss
The exquisite relevance
Of each little part or event."
Citations
- INTUITION, p.74 May '72
Wholes & Parts
← Wholes & Parts | Wholes & Parts (1) →
Index Entry
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Wholes & Parts (1)
← Wholes & Parts | Wholes & Parts (2A) →
Cross Reference
Keys: Fallacy of Keys from which to Predict Wholes
Teleology = Reuniting of Parts
Cross-References
- Bits: Bitting
- Chain Stronger than its Weakest Link
- Experiences as Local Instances
- Infinity & Finity
- Irrelevancies: Dismissal Of
- No Absolutes
- No Sphere Integrity
- Starting with Parts
- Starting with Universe
- Synergetics vs. Model
- Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel
- Generalization & Special Case
- Synergetic
Wholes & Parts (2A)
← Wholes & Parts (1) | Wholes & Parts (2B) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Alloy, 18 Mar'69
- Applied Sciences, 29 Jun'72
- Change, 12 Jul'62
- Child, 16 Jun'72
- Conditioning, 14 Feb'72
- Conceptuality, 22 Jul'71
- Education, 1 Jul'62
- Functions, 1960
- Gestalt, 1960
- Infinity & Finity, Feb'72
- Mechanical Mind, 22 Jul'71
- Plurality, 5 Mar'55
- Science
- Tension & Compression, Dec'71
- Tetrahedron, 7 Mar'73
- Triangle, 18 Dec'74
- Undefinable, Oct'66
- Unity, 6 Jul'62
- Universe, 1960
- Vertex, Jun'66
Wholes & Parts (2B)
← Wholes & Parts (2A) | Whole Systems →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Design Science, 31 Jan'75
- Weapons Technology, (2)
- Large Patterns, 30 May'75
- General Systems Theory, (2)
- Academic Disciplines, 11 Aug'76
- Apple, 24 Sep'76
- Design, 29 Mar'77
- Critical Mass, 12 May'77
- Synergy, 20 Feb'77
- Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1)
Whole Systems
← Wholes & Parts (2B) | Whole System →
Index Entry
Whole Systems:
"I said synergy was behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the parts. A minimum system would be two. We can deal with the whole of the solar system if we want, but minimum system is two. And the behavior which can only be observed when there's the plurality; it's not any of the parts by itself. This makes it also very clear, once you get to the beginnings of things, that out of what we have as an a priori complete mystery... to many of us what Newton had really hypothesized-- that a body ought to keep in a straight line, that it really is deviating and being pulled by another-- is a very strange matter. Nothing could be stranger. The whole integrity of our Universe is here. The very essence of why there is any consciousness, any Universe. And yet it starts with absolute a priori mystery, within which a priori mystery there suddenly is a lucidly apprehendible mathematical behavior."
Whole System
← Whole Systems | Whole Systems →
RBF Definitions
"Instead of starting with parts: points, straight lines, and planes, and then attempting to develop these inadequately definable parts into omnidirectional experience identities, we start with the whole system in which the initial 'point' turned out to self, which inherently embraced all of its parameters wrapped tightly in that initial underdeveloped self focused aspect of self and went on to self develop through successively discovered relative awarenesses whereby the proof of totality and omni-integrity is not only always inherent but all the rules of operational procedure are always totally observed."
Citations
- SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. \href{https://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/400-system#section-488.00}{488.00}, from RBF holograph 28 May'72
Whole Systems
← Whole System | Whole Systems →
Index Entry
Whole Systems:
"I start thinking with a No-Size conceptual model of a whole system."
- For citation and context see Vacuum, 17/19 Feb '72
Whole Systems
← Whole Systems | Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables (1) →
Index Entry
Whole Systems:
"Once you start with whole systems you do not have infinities."
- Cite tape transcript RBF to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, 1 May '71
Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables (1)
← Whole Systems | Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Minimum Twonese
Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables (2)
← Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables (1) | Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Synergy, 31 Jan'75
- Whole Systems, 16 Jun'72
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of
← Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables (2) | Whole System →
Index Entry
A generalized Principle--
Corollary to synergy--
Whose mathematical characteristics are statable as:
The known behavior
Of whole systems
And the known behavior
Of some of its parts
Make possible the discovery
Of other-- if not all--
Of the originally unknown
Component parts
Of the system.
Whole System
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of | Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of →
Index Entry
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
"There is a corollary of synergy which says that the known behavior of the whole and the known behavior of a minimum of known parts often makes possible the discovery of the values of the remaining parts as does the known sum of the angles of a triangle plus the behavior of three of its six parts make possible evaluating the others. Topology provides the synergetic means of ascertaining the values of any system of experiences."
- Cite OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, p.73, 1969
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of
← Whole System | Whole System: Synergetics Principle of the Whole System (1) →
Index Entry
A corollary of synergy discloses that the known behaviors of the whole plus the known behavior of some of the parts may make possible discovery of the presence of other parts and the latter's kinetic behaviors, structural form and relative dimensional characteristics.
Whole System: Synergetics Principle of the Whole System (1)
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of | Whole System: Synergetics Principle of the Whole System (2) →
Index Entry
It is a corollary of synergy that the recognized behaviors of whole systems may disclose discretely required behaviors of their components. Known behaviors of wholes and some of their parts may provide clues to behaviors of unknown parts. The concept of the triangle as a synergetic unity and the assumption of 100 per centum totality of angles independent of asymmetrical variations of the whole triangles constituted the earliest synergetic strategy of scientific exploration. Newton's gravitation was synergetic as it involved behavior of a plurality of bodies. Its assumption required more planets that were then known in the solar system. Its 'known' total behavior required the coexistence of unknown planets of specific dimensions which were later discovered with more powerful telescopes than those of Newton's day. Euler's topology was a successful synergetical stratagem. Gibbs' phase rule was a successful synergetical stratagem. Ohm's law was synergetic.
"Einstein, Planck, and other physicists adopted the working synergetic theory known as the law of conservation of energy, wherein it was posited that energy could neither be created nor lost. By adopting the concept of physical Universe as"
Whole System: Synergetics Principle of the Whole System (2)
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle of the Whole System (1) | Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of →
Index Entry
"the sum of universal energy, they obtained a theoretically finite physical Universe whose component behaviors could be definitely differentiated and progressively accounted E = Mc². The 'Einsteinian' synergetic strategy is responsible for the exploratory success of subsequent nuclear physics. The 100 per centum requirement of their synergetic energy-Universe accounting disclosed progressive increments of nonaccounted behaviors, whose exploratory pursuit progressively unraveled the atomic nucleus.
"Common to all the synergetic and therefore powerful strategies of scientific endeavor has been the fact that their success was local because it was won by excluding other considerations of universal behavior. The results were that awkward complications always arose when the special local advantages were completely interassociated."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Colliers (full text) pp4-4A, July'59
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle of the Whole System (2) | Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of →
Index Entry
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
"There is an important corollary of synergy which postulates that the known behavior of the whole system and the known behavior of at least three of the parts of the system makes possible the discovery of other parts of the system and their respective behaviors."
- Cite Senate Hearings, p.12, 4 Mar'69
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of | The Law of the Whole System →
Index Entry
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
"The synergetics principle of the whole system holds that given a whole system, its components' behavior may be differentially discovered and predictably described as required by the already evidenced behavior implicit in the a priori-definitive experience and conceptioning of any given experience-verified system."
- Cite RBF Glossary of Terms bound with "The Live Book Squad," May'67
The Law of the Whole System
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of | Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of (1) →
Index Entry
The Law of the Whole System: The Synergetic Principle of
"Corollary to synergy is@the law of the whole system. Systems are definite as they return upon themselves in a plurality of directions, ergo have concave inwardness and convex outwardness, ergo inherently subdivide universe into mutually exclusive definitive macro and micro entities. The law of the whole system, states that, given the sum of whole system pattern conception its component behaviors may be differentially discovered and predictably described as required by the already evidenced behavior functions implicit in the a priori-definitive experience and conceptioning of any given experience-verified system. Thus by the law of whole system as corollary of synergy, the component behaviors of systems may be predictably differentiated as primary and secondary componential sub-divisions of whole system and then progressively isolated and locally reconsidered for further dichotomy."
- Cite Introduction toOMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 123 1959
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of (1)
← The Law of the Whole System | Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of (2) →
Cross Reference
(Corollary of Synergy)
Cross-References
Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of (2)
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of (1) | Whole Systems (1) →
Cross Reference
(Corollary of Synergy)
Cross-References
- Ephemeralization, 1 Jun'49
- Parts, 1954
- Synergetic Accounting Advantages, (2)(3)
- Synergetics, 1969
- Generalized Dichotomy, (1)(2)
Whole Systems (1)
← Whole System: Synergetics Principle Of (2) | Whole Systems (2) →
Cross Reference
Sphericity: Laws of Sphericity of Whole Systems
Cross-References
Whole Systems (2)
← Whole Systems (1) | Whole of Universe as Minimum Consideration →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Central Angles & Surface Angles, Aug'71
- Spherical Triangle Sequence
- Synergetica Constant
- Tetrahedron, 7 Mar'73
- Time-energy Economics, 15 Jun'74
- Vacuum, 17 Feb'72*
Whole of Universe as Minimum Consideration
← Whole Systems (2) | Whole Wholeness (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Elementary, 15 Apr'55
Whole Wholeness (1)
← Whole of Universe as Minimum Consideration | Whole Wholeness (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Dome: Rationale for the Geodesic Dome
- Hierarchy of Patterns
- Holistic
- Omniwholeness
- Positive or Negative Set of the Whole
- Parts
- Rational Whole Numbers
- Total: Totality
- Wholes & Parts
- Starting with the Whole
- Fractionating the Whole
Whole Wholeness (2)
← Whole Wholeness (1) | Why For? & How Come? →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Artist, 9 Jul'62
- Child, 1970
- Death, 13 Mar'71
- Gestalt, 1960
- Multiplication by Division, 4 Nov'73
- Omniembracing, 23 Sep'73
- Responsibility, 14 Oct'69
- Utopia or Oblivion, 1938
- Love, 3 Apr'75
- Comprehensive Realizer, May'49
- Fleet of Sailboats, May'49
Why For? & How Come?
← Whole Wholeness (2) | Why_ The Unanswerable Why →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Omniinteraccommodation, May'72
- Synergy of Synergies, 31 May'71
- Cosmic Synergy, Jan'72
Why_ The Unanswerable Why
← Why For? & How Come? | Why →
Index Entry
Whatever nature permits is natural. If nature does not permit it, it cannot occur. Human scientists have learned to a mathematically elegant degree how mass interattraction behaves but the mathematical-principle-discovering scientists have no idea what mass attraction is. An eternal principle is found to exist as a relation between special-case experiences. Out of the a priori cosmic mystery we learn a new principle "How it behaves" only to discover the concomitantly unanswerable "Why does it so behave?" What is it? No answer. Only the eternally unlimited could comprehend and elucidate the eternally unlimited. Humans are temporal, finite, limited, inherently unable to comprehend the incomprehendable. Out of the a priori void of absolute mystery, i.e., out of the unanswerable "Why?" a little how is extracted.
Why
← Why_ The Unanswerable Why | Whyte, L.M: Point System (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Whyte, L.M: Point System (1)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Synergetic Hierarchy, (1)
Wichita House (1)
← Whyte, L.M: Point System (1) | Wichita House (2) →
Index Entry
Wichita House:
"Geodesic domes derive from converting the Wichita House mast to a sphere. This was the origin of the geodesic dome strategy. I decided to commit myself to shells, making a sphere of the Wichita House mast. The great circles of the vector equilibrium are like the first picture of an atom--the squares are a little more open. The 31 great circles of the icosahedron resolve everything that goes into triangulation.
"Geodesic diamonds: there is always an even number of triangles on a sphere so they may be treated in pairs as diamonds, always made with straight lines but the lines are different in length. The fats and thins have equal length.
"Bernouilli Principle: pulling the air through a small hole makes it cold. The Butler grain bin was the first air conditioning dynamic structure.
"The Wichita House parts were stamped out of aircraft forms in a stretch-press, in hollowed out wooden forms of half sections. Two fists could pull the metal down over the" form. We used the aircraft industry tools."
Wichita House (2)
← Wichita House (1) | Wichita House (3) →
Index Entry
Wichita House:
"I decided to pay attention to the equipment needed to keep yourself clean and take care of your processes. And I developed the fog gun. Hydraulics are noncompressible and more effective than gases in the form of a needle-spray. The spray was mixed with compressed air to conserve water and penetrate the pores without the pain of a direct needle spray. In the form of fog it gets closer into the pores than does water. Fog scavenges out the pores and floats the dirt away.
"You've seen people cleaning the outsides of buildings; you might have thought it was steam, but it's compressed air. Our experiments at the Institute of Design in Chicago showed that you had to go over 200 pounds p.s.i.-- more than a simple compressor. The atomized water gives the desirable massage effect on the skin.
"Water is so extraordinarily valuable. We don't know of any other planet with any water on it. And we flush five gallons down the toilet each time we get rid of a pint of waste!
"We package our foods coming inbound: Why don't we package them going outbound? It's just exactly as easy."
- Cite RbF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 31 Jan'75
Wichita House (3)
← Wichita House (2) | Wichita House →
Index Entry
Wichita House:
"When nature takes so much trouble to separate liquids and solids it is preposterous to put them together again.... MIT does no such research at the site.
"The Dymaxion bathroom is now virtually obsolete at just about the time that it is getting into production."
- Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 31 Jan'75
Wichita House
← Wichita House (3) | Wide Width →
Cross Reference
Wind Stress & Houses-, (11)
Dome House Grand Strategy:--, 1977 (3)
Cross-References
- Dwelling Service Industry (B)(C), (B)(C)
Wide Width
Cross Reference
See Local Radius vs. Wide Arc Height, Length & Width
Cross-References
- Local Radius vs. Wide Arc Height, Length \& Width
Width
← Wide Width | Wiener, Norbert →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Time-size, 30 Oct'72
Wiener, Norbert
← Width | Wiener, Norbert (1) →
Index Entry
NASA Speech, p.89, Jun '66
Brain & Mind, pp.142-143, May '72
Wiener, Norbert (1)
← Wiener, Norbert | Wiener, Norbert (2) →
Cross Reference
(1894-1964)
Cross-References
Wiener, Norbert (2)
← Wiener, Norbert (1) | Wilderness Resource →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Computer, 10 Oct'63
- Ruddering Sequence, (4)
- Feedback, 7 Nov'75
Wilderness Resource
← Wiener, Norbert (2) | Will (1) →
Index Entry
Wilderness Resource:
"The Bear Islanders deem themselves to be the temporarily fortunate custodians of an important wilderness resource which, if guarded with thoughtfulness and vision will eventually be laid open to society when newer generations have come to appreciate to adequate extent the inspiration to be had from such wilderness paradise that society will spontaneously refrain from despoiling the regenerative enchantment.
"The inspiring beauty of nature in grand scale such as that of Penobscot Bay transcends human comprehension of its power to invoke the most effective employment and enjoyment of humanity's ever increasing metaphysical mastery of the physical."
Will (1)
← Wilderness Resource | Will (2) →
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Will:
"I think that I tend to avoid using the word will because I spontaneously associate it with the term 'free will' and all the controversies regarding the latter. I have felt all such controversies to lack adequate knowledge of science's generalized laws. To me it is obvious that no amount of individual will can nullify any cosmic law. It is also obvious to me that few know of and comprehend the significance of nature's having six positive and six negative equieconom- ical alternative moves to make with each turn to play in cosmic events.
"It is clear to me that most humans tend to think in linear, go-or-no-go, greenlight-redlight manner. To me will is a control which is optionally exercisable over brain by mind-- by wisdom over conditioned reflex, which becomes realizable when mind is adequately convinced regarding which of the 12 alternatives will produce the most comprehensively considerate vital advantage for all.
"In a lesser way, will becomes operative when the individual finds itself in terminal peril and has only seconds to"
- Cite RBF holograph rewrite of Will; 30 Apr'78.
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Will (2)
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'pull out' of a tailspin--becomes 'cool,' that it discovers swiftly which of the alternative moves can save it, and exercises its will to execute the survival procedures.
"Will determines what we should do in all the special case circumstances. Will is not a muscle thing at all. People say I have a strong will, but what I have is a fairly clear view of the options of humanity and commitments to their realization. It is thus that I determine what course to take in the special cases confronting us."
Will
Index Entry
Will:
"I think I don't tend to use the word will a whole lot because I wasn't thinking in terms of 'free will' with its theological associations.
"'Will' relates not to the individual, but to the main engines of Universe...
"Will is the relationship between mind and brain. Will determines what we should do in all the special case circumstances. Will is not a muscle thing at all. People say I have a strong will, but you just have to determine what course to take in the special cases confronting you."
Will (1)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Freedom: Degrees Of
- Free Will
- Options
- Volitions
- Electable: Elective
- Voluntary & Involuntary
Will of History
← Will (1) | Will of Organizations →
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Cross-References
- Meek Have Inherited the Earth, (1)(2)
Will of Organizations
← Will of History | Will to Structure →
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Cross-References
Will to Structure
← Will of Organizations | will (2) →
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Cross-References
will (2)
← Will to Structure | Williams: Robert →
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Williams: Robert
← will (2) | Williams: Robert →
Index Entry
He's just an intellectual klentomaniac.
(A propos of first seeing Robert Williams' "Natural Structure.")
Williams: Robert
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Mistake, 3 Jun'72
Wind
← Williams: Robert | Wind Always Blows within 100 Miles →
Index Entry
Wind:
"The wind is just Sun power disturbing the atmosphere."
- Citation & context at Wind Power Sequence (a), 13 Mar'74
Wind Always Blows within 100 Miles
← Wind | Winding & Unwinding (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Windworks Windmill, (2)
- Wind Power, 9 Feb'76
Winding & Unwinding (1)
← Wind Always Blows within 100 Miles | Winding →
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Cross-References
Winding
← Winding & Unwinding (1) | Windlass (2) →
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Winding:
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Windlass (2)
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Cross-References
Windmills
Index Entry
Windmills:
"Windmills turn out electrical power which operates on a direct current. The problem has been to adapt that direct current to electric utility systems which operate on alternating currents.... In Wisconsin and 21 other states, utility companies using these converters, are allowing individuals to feed wind power into their electrical lines. The utility companies give these people wholesale credit for the power they feed into the system and charge them retail for what they take out. The public benefits by harvesting windmill power. The young people got busy and used their heads. Instead of having the public utilities fight them, they cut the utilities in on the action."
- Cite RBF to Susan Watters in W (Women's Wear Daily): 13 May'77
Windmills
Index Entry
Windmills:
"In windmills the total frontal area is what counts. Just as that is what counts in designing buildings. We have a penetrating body in a penetrating medium. The bigger it is the more low pressure it builds up.
"A windmill is designed for average wind speeds. In the Greek isles, at Kykonos, they furl them at over 30 m.p.h.; the furling is like the gimballing of an umbrella."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75
Windmill (1)
Index Entry
Windmill:
"I have a project going on windmills. Men began to give up windmills when they began to burn their fossil fuels. Burning up fossil fuels, because those are the energies impounded by the vegetation and buried deeply in the soil. We are part of the Universe, this planet is, where energies are being collected, some day to become a star. And we are only really entitled to use a very little of our savings account energy-- to get things going but not to continually exhaust the savings account. Anybody knows better than that: we've got to live on our energy income. At any rate, once man got rural electrification and began burning up the fossil fuels, the farmers wanted to give up their windmills. Windmills, of course, did not produce very much power. So what can we do about it?
"Of course, wind power is Sun power; it's the effect of the Sun on the atmosphere of the Earth. And of all the energies that are available anywhere in large magnitudes, there is nothing to compare with wind power. But the only thing is, it is intermittent. So we're developing a beautiful new windmill using all the knowledge of arodynamics. Aeronautics started just after the windmill had been given up, so the interim knowledge which has been acquired is phenomenal."
Windmill (2)
← Windmill (1) | Windmill (1) →
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Windmill:
"We have some beautiful new windmills. And we're using the energy harness to generate electricity... and also to make hydrogen. With hydrogen and oxygen we have a circuit and then we make a fuel cell which is going to be 85 percent efficient. Finally we are going to get one windmill which is going to be able to take care of all the energy needs of one family. This is a very different story from when it just produced enough energy to put running water into your house, which the farmer used to do."
- Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.14, 28 Jun'72
Windmill (1)
← Windmill (2) | Windmill (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Sailing Ship Effect
- Windworks Windmill
Windmill (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Industrialization: Successive Halving Time of National Industrialization, (1)
- Precession
- Everybody's Business, (2)
- Now House, (4)
- No Energy Crisis, (2)
- Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens
- Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (5)
Wind-O
← Windmill (2) | Windowing the Nothingness →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- House, 1938
Windowing the Nothingness
← Wind-O | Windows of Nothingness (1) →
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Windowing the Nothingness:
"I've just come to the most extraordinary discovery of the meanings of the words outline, inline, and insight... all in our language of ins and outs...those words, all this time, have been windowing the nothingness."
- Cite RBF by telephone from Windsor Castle, England, to EJA, Wash. DC; 25 Mar'76
Windows of Nothingness (1)
← Windowing the Nothingness | Windows of Nothingness (2) →
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Windows of Nothingness:
"What Euler and all professional topologists called 'areas' are only windows in polyhedrally conceptual systems. You look out the window at the nothingness of undimensional night--or of fog. The windows packaged the undimensionable nothingness into arbitrary somethingness which thus misassigns the dimensions of the windows and their closed-circuit edges to constitute dimensional attributes of the undimensional nothingness so framed. It is just like going to the blackboard and drawing a 'square' and saying to the students, 'A square is an area bound by a closed line of four equal-length edges and four equiangled corners,' without paying any attention to the inherently existent complementations of Universe. To start off with, the phenomenon 'square' is dependent on the phenomenon 'blackboard,' whose structural matrix alone maintained the symmetrical shape of the non-structurally-stabilized pattern of the square. The closed-line pattern of the square inadvertently subdivides the whole surface of the polyhedral blackboard into two areas, both bound by the closed line of four equal edges and four equal angles. The four equal edges of the large complementary square are the same length as those of the small square; the big square's corners are 270° each while the small square's corners are 90° each. Moreover, the drawing of the square also inadvertently subdivided the insideness and outsideness of"
Windows of Nothingness (2)
← Windows of Nothingness (1) | Windows of Nothingness →
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Windows of Nothingness:
"the blackboard into concave and convex big and little squares, and also deposited part of the Universe as 'chalk' atoms onto the blackboard's agglomeration of atoms, which inadvertently rearranged the chemical element resources of Scenario Universe."
Windows of Nothingness
← Windows of Nothingness (2) | Window (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Somethingness & Nothingness, 7 Oct'75
- Nature in a Corner, 17 Nov'75
Window (1)
← Windows of Nothingness | Window (2) →
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Cross-References
Window (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway, (3)
- Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics, (1)
- Infratunable & Ultratunable, 8 Feb'76
Wind Power
Index Entry
Wind Power:
"Anywhere on Earth within 100 miles the wind is always blowing."
- Cite RBF to EJA, Wash, DC; 9 Feb'76
Wind Power
← Wind Power | Wind Power Sequence →
RBF Definitions
"Sun radiation effect precesses Earth's atmosphere in 90-degree circumferential direction as wind power, which wind power in turn precesses the windmills into 90-degree rotating."
- Citation & context at Precession, (II), 19 Nov'74
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power | Wind Power Sequence →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"Your power companies like to get things going over wires and pipes so that can put a meter on it. To make money. The sailor learned to go from here to there just by the wind, which is just Sun power disturbing the atmosphere. The Navy Department agrees that there is no power on Earth such as the wind power. In one minute of one hurricane there is more power being released than in the joint atomic stockpiles of the United States and Russia. But this is not something that the company can make money out of.
"Now Mrs. Rockefeller has gotten very interested in my windmills. Windmills went out just as aeronautics began. And I've got a very fine young aeronautical engineer working with me, really we're doing very well with windmills. Mrs. Rockefeller wants to start something in Maine-- going to get the people in Maine-- in the windmill business.
"And I said that what you've got to do is get in on a service business-- where you don't sell windmills. What you want to do is to have a truck-- a platform-- it has the windmill and all the generators and everything and you rent it to people while they're going to use it. Because the Maine people are going to go to Florida in the winter and they're not going to be around"
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"when it might be vandalized. This equipment should not be anywhere except where it's working. So you have a service industry here which can rent such equipment.
"So I can see the big power companies being jealous about sending something over their wire. They don't want man to really hook on to energy directly."
- Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.23), New York, 13 Mar'74
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"Although five percent of the Earth's surface can impound Sun energy by vegetational photosynthesis, only one percent of the Sun's locally impinging energy is actually converted by the vegetation because the vegetation cannot impound the infrared and other radiation energy in the electromagnetic spectrum.
Among the vegetation Sun-energy impounders, no others can match the performance of corn. Corn converts and stores as recoverable energy 25 percent of the received ultraviolet radiation in contrast to wheat and rice-- which average only an 18 - 20 percent efficiency.
These considerations underscore the conclusion that wind power is in a class by itself as the greatest terrestrial Sunenergy harvesting, harnessing, and conserving medium."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May'73
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence →
RBF Definitions
Present experiments show that flywheels-- as energy accumulators-- can be employed efficiently in connection with variable winds to drive generators. The water and air waves circulating around our planet are also energy accumulators whose captured energy may be used to generate electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic power systems." - Cite Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May'73
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence →
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All biological life on Planet Earth is regenerated by star energy-- and overwhelmingly by the star Sun's radiation. The Sun radiates omnidirectionally 92 million miles away from Earth, with only one 2-billionth of its total radiation impinging upon Earth. The radiation arrives at a rate of two calories of energy per each square centimeter of Earth's sunside hemispherical surface per each minute of time. About half of that is reflected back omnidirectionally to Universe. The other half, i.e., one calorie-per-minute-square-centimeter, is impounded by our planet's biosphere in ways known to humans and in ways making them available to human use granted humanity's permitted comprehensive, ecologically considerate, employment of its inventive capabilities and spontaneously cooperative potentials.
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence (1) →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"No matter how dubious one may be of such hugage realizations of our potentials, the fact remains that our net receipt and impoundment of cosmic energy amounts to 168 quintillion horsepower-per-minute, which is also statable as 125 quintillion kilowatts per minute which, with 525,600 minutes per year amounts to 66 septillion kilowatts per year ( 66 x 10^24 KW), which is eleven-billionfold the world's present 5 x 10^6 KW production of electric energy power.
"If all humanity enjoyed 1973's 'highest' living standards, each human on Earth would consume 200,000 (2 x 10^5) calories per day. Assuming 5 billion ( 5 x 10^9) humans by 2000 A.D, each consuming 2 x 10^5 calories daily, we will need 1 x 10^15 calories per day. Our actual daily terrestrial income of cosmic energy is 72 x 10^20 calories. Our planet's usable daily energy income is therefore 72 x 10^5 = seven-millionfold, our daily requirements of 2000 A.D."
- Cite RBF Ltr to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May'73
Wind Power Sequence (1)
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence (2) →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"About wind power, I am glad we pioneered in such experiments on Little Spruce Head Island 'early on.' I have been pursuing the subject in varying degrees of intensity since 1927 when I included windmills, air compressors, liquid oxygen, liquefaction equipment, and air turbines in the design of the first Dymaxion house.
"At Little Spruce Head Island in Maine in the summer, and on a Wisconsin farm throughout the remainder of the year, our program is well under way to develop windmill-generated electricity to electrolytically convert pure Sun-stilled water into hydrogen and oxygen, thereafter to use the hydrogen directly for power purposes, or to reassociate the hydrogen and oxygen through the now well-developed and much reduced-in-cost fuel cell to produce electric current at an overall 85 percent efficiency....
"Concurrent with rural electrification a third of a century ago, I saw that windmills went out just as modern aerodynamic research began. In order to take advantage of this potential scientific harvest, four years ago, I took on Hans Meyer, a brilliant aerodynamics scientist. 'We have had great success'"
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May'73
Wind Power Sequence (2)
← Wind Power Sequence (1) | Wind Power Sequence (3) →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"in propeller blade development. We have not only developed much better blades, but with an accompanying 90 percent reduction in aerospace industry's cost of advanced propeller manufacture. In addition to Hans' new blades and aerodynamic cowlings, we have developed low-cost methods of mechanical linkage from the mills to the generator and have also developed new octahedral windmill mast structures employing some of my geodesic principles-- which are transportable, powerful, economical, and swiftly erectable.
"In addition to our own windmills, we are installing on Little Spruce Head some of the Greek-island-type windmills with self-furling sails. They are very efficient.
"I have some interesting and comprehensively considerate figures in relation to wind power. Whereas three-quarters of the Earth is covered with water, the 25 percent that is not covered with water is covered in major percentage by ice, snow, deserts, rocky mountains, et. al. The percentage of our planet's surface whereon vegetation is impounding Sun (star) radiation by photosynthesis amounts to approximately 10 percent."
Wind Power Sequence (3)
← Wind Power Sequence (2) | Wind Power Sequence →
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Half of that 10 percent is always in the shadow or night side, which reduces to 5 percent the working area of the Earth's surface where vegetation is impounding Sun energy from which humans can produce commercial alcohol or leave to nature's further-ages-requiring fossil fuels production and storage in Earth's crust. Though solar energy impoundment inventions are fascinating to the imagination, as we shall discover, the amount of energy that can be captured by any local Sun-reflecting or lensing devices is relatively insignificant. Even though one-half of Arizona were turned into a direct sunlight energy-converting mechanism, that source would be negligible in productivity as compared to other sources. The local solar power-capturing devices will not work at night or when there are clouds. In fact, they work only during a few hours daily when The Sun is at a favorable angle.
The area of the surface of a sphere is exactly four times the area of the sphere's great-circle disc (as produced by a plane. cutting through the center of the sphere). The surface of a hemisphere is then, twice the area of the sphere's great-circle plane. When we look at the full Moon, we are looking at a surface twice the area of the seemingly flat circular disc in the sky.
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence (3) | Wind Power Sequence →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"All of the energy of our Earth comes from the stars, but primarily from the Sun (star) as radiation or as inter-astro gravitational pull.
"Twenty-four hours a day the Sun is drenching the outside of the hemisphere of the cloud-islanded atmosphere's 100 million-square-mile surface area which is twice that of the disc of the Earth's profile.
"This gives us one billion cubic miles on the sunny side and one billion cubic miles on the shadow side. The atmospheric mass is kinetically accelerated in the constantly Sun-energy-saturated hemisphere, while simultaneously the atmospheric kinetics in the night hemisphere are decelerated.
"All around Earth, yesterday's Sun-impoundings perturbate the atmosphere by thermal columns rising from the oceans and lands. The shadow side consists of one billion cubic miles of contracting atmosphere, while the one billion cubic miles of atmosphere on the sunny side is sum-totally expanding. This brings about a myriad of high-low atmospheric differentials and world-around"
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"semi-vacuumized drafts, which altogether produce the terrestrial turbulence we speak of as the weather. The combined two billion cubic miles of continual atmospheric kinetics converts the solar energy into 'wind power.' Wind power is Sun power-- the greatest, by better than 99 to 1.
"All the winds around Earth together with all the force they use to produce the 150 million square miles of ocean waves, and to bend, twirl, twist, and to sometimes uproot the world's trees, bushes, grasses, dust storms-- and to form and scud around the Earth the 150 (sic) billion cubic miles of clouds and their many violent storms-- as well as all the billions of tons of water raised hourly into the sky to rain back upon Earth to maintain the vegetation-- this, and its many side-effect tasks, altogether constitute a 100-mile thick, 20 billion cubic mile spherical mantle which is indeed a Sun Energy Accumulator or SUN ENERGY STORAGE BATTERY whose power capacity is adequate to accommodate and eternally regenerate all of humanity's and all of its all-time-to-come needs and pleasures with a safety factor coefficient to 10,000 to 1."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May'73
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Sequence →
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Wind Power Sequence:
"As the U.S. Navy reckons it, one minute of one hurricane releases more energy than that of the combined atomic bomb arsenals of the United States and Russia. Design-science-wise it is simply a matter of coping with the calm zephyr, gale, or hurricane variabilities of wind power.
"Great corporations have not as yet ventured into this field because wind energy has not seemed to be monopolizable over a pipe or wire. However, enterprise can be rewarded, in greater magnitude than ever before, by producing and renting world-around wind-harnessing apparatus-- as they already do in the computer, telephone, car rental, and hoteling service industries.
"Hydrogen, harvested in the manner I described can be used immediately to operate all the world's piston or turbine-driven engines now driven by gasified petroleum products. The National Science Foundation spokesman has recently and publicly confirmed my statement that wind power can take care of all of our Earth's energy needs, and this can be accomplished in short order. The National Science Foundation's development strategy, however, is aimed exclusively at producing large,"
Wind Power Sequence
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power →
Index Entry
offshore, ship-mounted windmill batteries to supply large cities. In contradistinction, my windmill development work is aimed at supplying individual consumer families....
"Wind power permits humanity to participate in cosmic economics and evolutionary accommodation without in any way depleting or offending the great ecological regeneration of life on Earth."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, May'73
Wind Power
← Wind Power Sequence | Wind Power Harnessing Equipment (1) →
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Wind Power:
"Wind power is Sun power; it is the effect of the Sun on the atmosphere of the Earth. And of all of the energies that are available anywhere in large magnitudes, there is nothing to compare with wind power. But the only thing is, it is intermittent."
Wind Power Harnessing Equipment (1)
← Wind Power | Wind Power: Effect Of Earth's Rotation →
Cross Reference
Wind Power Harnessing Equipment:
Cross-References
Wind Power: Effect Of Earth's Rotation
← Wind Power Harnessing Equipment (1) | Wind Power: Effect of Earth's Rotation →
RBF Definitions
What is the effect of Earth's rotation on wind power?"
A: "Rotation is the heating-cooling pressure differential input. Rotation does not cause the wind. In fact, the wind goes faster from west to east than the Earth turns in the same direction. The rotation of the Earth changes sunlight and shadow, causing changes in temperature, causing changes in the weather, causing the wind."
Wind Power: Effect of Earth's Rotation
← Wind Power: Effect Of Earth's Rotation | Wind Power Feeding into Electric Utility Grid →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (2)(3)
- Wind Power Sequence, (2)
- In, Out & Around Experiences, (2)
Wind Power Feeding into Electric Utility Grid
← Wind Power: Effect of Earth's Rotation | Wind Power = Sun Power →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Windworks Windmill, (1)(2)
- Windmills, 13 May'77
Wind Power = Sun Power
← Wind Power Feeding into Electric Utility Grid | Wind Power (1) →
Index Entry
Wind Power = Sun Power:
(a533.12)
Wind Power (1)
← Wind Power = Sun Power | Wind Power (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wind Power (2)
← Wind Power (1) | Wind Stress & Houses (1) →
Cross Reference
Precession b; II*
Cross-References
- Energy Crisis, 14 Jun'73
Wind Stress & Houses (1)
← Wind Power (2) | Wind Stress & Houses (2) →
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Wind Stress & Houses:
"Then we discover additional mutual advantage to our house inherent in combination of the geometry of circle and the curving of sheet, not by virtue of the respective unique properties but by their interactive virtues when associated for purposes of housing. This new advantage is discovered as we consider the second major stress applied to house by nature. Second to gravity is wind stress.
"The average wind speed over the United States is computed by widely reported recordings is approximately 12 miles an hour. Houses may be considered aerodynamically as little ships whose standard cruising speed is 12 miles an hour, but which suddenly are accelerated to 30 miles an hour, then suddenly again have to go 50 miles an hour, and sometimes suddenly they have to go to 70 miles an hour and then the flat planking begins to fly off as flat boards develop lift in parallel with the wind, which lift is opposed only by the friction of the nails amounting to but a few pounds in tension as nail pulling experience confirms.
"Designed to look secure by guess and by prayer to the gods of inertia, conventional houses are not engineered from measured"
Wind Stress & Houses (2)
← Wind Stress & Houses (1) | Wind Stress & Houses (3) →
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"data to cope with the greater wind speeds which they sometimes encounter.
"Looking for chances to take advantage of high tensile ability of the new sheet, I became interested in the effects of wind stresses on houses and discovered in wind tunnel tests that a cube and hemisphere of equal volume indicate a drag advantage of 10 to one in favor of the hemisphere, that is the drag is 10 times greater on the cube. That indicates that we might either cut down the size and weight of our original structural members in the hemisphere to maintain equivalent wind strength to that of the cube or we might take part of the increment and turn it to greater strength advantage. Thus we might build a hemisphere structure that could take enormous wind stresses many fold those which a cube of an equal weight of structural members could withstand.
"Another interesting discovery in the wind tunnel was that the heat losses were in direct proportion to the drag. It was indicated that you might be able to reduce your amount of heat necessary to heat the building, to a very high degree, by employing efficient aerodynamic shape. Shape factors are used very little"
Wind Stress & Houses (3)
← Wind Stress & Houses (2) | Wind Stress & Houses →
Index Entry
today in heating and ventilating, they have been toyed with to date only by higher mathematics, which concludes that there are great potential deficiencies to be had by measured evolution of shape control. In our own tests we had discovered the relative degree of that shape importance to heat savings in the coincidence of drag and heat loss curves.
"Having been in the building business in the 20s, I was particularly interested in heat losses because my material... was a very good insulating material.... We discovered that heat losses in buildings of comparable tolerance of joint fittings was directly proportional to the drag. Houses represented very large obstacles, and the low-pressure tails on buildings are very long. They stream out to 200 to 300-yards in relatively mild winds. Houses are usually surrounded by trees and other houses and those tails get mixed up with each other, but if you discover a house out in the open you can observe this 300-yard pattern in the snow shaping as seen from an airplane.
"Air being highly compressible as it goes around large objects like houses you get a fairly high degree of compression at the widest beam of the obstacle to the wind. The result is a very" - Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.203), 1946
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses (3) | Wind Stress & Houses →
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Wind Stress & Houses:
"long low pressure tail because the pressured air shoulders
dissipate their pressure outwardly as well as into the wake.
You have a long lag in the rate of re-establishment of pressure
equilibrium in the wake, and much energy is required from some-
where in the form of high pressure to satisfy the long low-
pressure streamer. This wind wake is mildly dissimilar in
behavior to the water wake of ships in that water is approxi-
mately noncompressible and such low pressure as enters a ship's
wake must take place in the form of air bubble expansions
which whiten the ship's wake for great distances.
"The heating energy inside buildings is converted in the air
of rooms into the work of expanding air, and expanding it
within enclosed chambers necessarily develops an increase in
pressure. So you have a high pressure in this side of your
house wall and an enormous low-pressure tail on the outside to
be satisfied, and your high pressure inside the house simply
is extracted by successive energy conversions right through a
masonry wall to satisfy the low pressure as does gravity pull
the water down Niagara Falls. The high pressure is drafted
directly through chinks or cracks, ergo the fine showing of
weather stripping.
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.202), 1946
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses →
RBF Definitions
"...People still say that cold comes into their houses... they would say 'the cold is coming in and chilling the radiators upstairs on the northwest side so rapidly that we can't keep any heat in.' I'd go up and the radiators were cold. I went aroun the front of the building and even with a fairly good wind on that northwest side, it was almost still air; it was just the ideal place to light your cigarette. I had learned in the Navy that when we wanted to light a cigarette on board ship, you would go up in front of the nearest housing to discover almost still air. If you followed the radiator pipes down through the wal' and floors you found that they were cold all the way down to the cellar. In fact no heat was going up on the northwest side, and the pipes going to the southeast side were very hot, even when you shut off the valves. The heat seemed to be working toward the lee side and creating high pressure there to satisfv the low pressure. The balancing between high pressure and low pressure was using up all your fuel. 've cha ged the pipes around from the furnace down in the cellar so that the pipes that started northwest were turned around and led southeast, but the heat still went out into the lee side so it was very clear that the chain of"
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses →
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Wind Stress & Houses:
"energy exchange events worked to provide a high pressure in closest proximity to the low-pressure side of the house and employed further energy to effect the energy release through the wall by various energy conversion principles to stabilize energy balance in the wake of the house....
"One way you ought to talk about the phenomena house and cold is that cold and vacuum are in physics almost identical-- that is you have energy in the presence of cold and in the presence of vacuum and when your energy-- either as heat of kinetically accelerated gas molecules or as radiation-- is eliminated, cold or vacuum alone remain. That is the best way for you to look at it. You see, when they say 'cold is coming in,' it is because energy as heat is dissipating so fast as to leave cold gases in your presence. Air that is cold because low in energy content moves to you so that you seem to feel cold draft but there is no physical entity 'cold'. Temperature should be thought of as relative heat concentrations or dissipations....
"The large low-pressure area in the lee of the house, of course, tends to float upward thus adding to the upward angle."
- Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Header, p. 204), 1946
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses →
Index Entry
Trees are also aerodynamic design structures to permit a large frontal area necessary to the functioning of the trees.
Trees tend to avoid destruction by the wind by rounding their lower frontal branches to the approaching air and by coning their upper branches to point in the direction of the leeward and upward draft, thus reducing drag to a vital degree.
In the same way it became evident that a large ventilator could be designed to rotate upon the top of the house in such a manner as to focus the low pressure-- caused by the air passage about the building-- at a point about 45 degrees leeward and upward from the center of the house. The ventilator was developed... until a successful design was arrived at which reduces drag to a minimum and prevents oscillation of the ventilator, while at the same time putting the focused low pressure to work in pulling the draft out of the building through a duct system that induces the draft to create an air conditioning circuit, as well as to remove dust from sweeping traps in the floor and odors from the kitchen and bathroom.
Certainly air conditioning is a requirement of housing which
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses →
Index Entry
Wind Stress & Houses:
"attempts to raise the standard of living and to serve men over wide geographical ranges. It makes possible comfortable conditions for man in the atmospheric extremes of arctic and tropical zones from which he has been previously excluded by the inability of housing to provide atmospheric-- thermal and humidity-- balances with man's precise requirements; to complement, for instance, his unique temperature of 98.6°F., whether white, black, or yellow, whether at pole or equator.
"Another effect served by the large, rotating, 18-foot diameter ventilator... is that of proofing the house against the explosion effect... of tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoon, and major explosions.... It is mounted not only rotatively but on a splined shaft which allows it to rise three feet above the house thus to release the pressure and then fall back into place as does the safety valve on a steam boiler....
"This conversion of advantage is entirely an engineering responsibility to society.... So it becomes profitable to explore the advantage of the circle in terms of the efficient placement of energy units for the service it is desirable to provide."
"Placement of the energy units at the center of the circular"
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses →
Index Entry
area at once affords the shortest possible service distances in all directions and the greatest possible isolation... for conservation of energy potential. The energy loss is very great... so that a circle advantage is very important. It... indicates a maximum of service for least weight.
With the central vantage point for generating air, light, sound, and work services, we discover that those services when in operation describe fountain-like flows upward, outward, downward in all directions with concentric flow for recycling below.... This fountain flow can be reversed, but in either case, maximum coverage with least distance is effected.
The fountain flow is important for maintaining relatively warm atmospheric flow in winter, and rverse fountain... is most efficient in summer.
As a fountain of water is seen to operate freely in space as a system, or as a light outdoors in the night creates a hemi- spherical system of illuminated space by atmospheric refraction of light, so also do these other dynamic functions of heat, light, air, sound, and smell constitute natural systems of
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses →
RBF Definitions
"physical phenomena.... as does a lamp chimney protect the flame or an electronic tube protect the free functioning of its central element. The principle demonstrated by the boomerang is only a tracer device to demonstrate the boomerang refractions in all directions...
"Complementary handling of dynamic flows teaches that... in effect the principles of push and pull and their unique characteristics of distinctly limited compression behavior and almost unlimited tension behavior hold true also in, hydraulics, pneumatics, sonics, and electronics. You can pull or draft air over vast distances but you can push it only a few feet by blowing.... In the same way visible light is a pushed phase of radiation and is limited to relatively short distances through atmosphere and required enormous power to push it, while what we call electricity is tensed or pulled radiation and the distances over which radiation can be drawn by wire is very great compared to searchlight beaming....
"Even as a tension-controled lasso can be gyrated and thrown and wave impulses can be sent out controllably over it, as a snake whip may receive a wave by the wrist to hit an object and"
Wind Stress & Houses
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses (1) →
Index Entry
Wind Stress & Houses:
"return the wave as a tension circuit again to the sender, so does radio and radar tensively induce circuits to pull radiation phenomena over almost unlimited distances.
"By simple attention to this phenomena of push-pull, enormous advantages can be gained by man over his environment through ... our dwelling machine.... Now with our ventilator employing outside air motion to accelerate interior dynamic fountain motion it becomes an inexoronsive feat to provide excellent air conditioning. The aluminum duct subfloor makes a very good energy exchanger and recirculates enough warm air through it to keep your energy poised at the ankle level by the counter convection fountain motion, thus to retain the heat units in the house and to run the air through them using very little heat."
- Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.208), 1946
Wind Stress & Houses (1)
← Wind Stress & Houses | Wind Stress & Houses (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wind Stress & Houses (2)
← Wind Stress & Houses (1) | Wind Sucking Sequence (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows, (2)
- House, (5)
Wind Sucking Sequence (1)
← Wind Stress & Houses (2) | Wind Sucking Sequence (2) →
Index Entry
Wind Sucking Sequence:
The Earth "is then, very clearly to us, a place in the Universe where energies are being collected and impounded and put away. Apparently, then, as we would have in our weather, there are low pressures and high pressures. We have discovered of course that the high pressures don't blow the wind from here to there. It's the low pressures that suck the air from here to there.
"You know, I've found that you can't push air any distance at all. The minute you push it it turns right around-- and stuff like this. But you can pull it over enormous distances. You can't push the air through the house, but you can pull the air through the house. Open the front door and open all the windows and all the doors inside and have a fan exhausting. . . Anybody got a piece of fabric? Just hand me quick a piece of fabric. Because you can just take a handkerchief and put your fingers like that and find out how you can pull it. It pulls around corners. You can pull it around the windows and the doors. You can't push it around those corners at all, but tension will pull it. So tension can pull the air over enormous distances."
- Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
Wind Sucking Sequence (2)
← Wind Sucking Sequence (1) | Wind Sucking →
Index Entry
Wind Sucking Sequence:
"So when they tell you the wind is blowing, it's always sucking. If there's a low pressure to the southeast, it's sucking it that way though it seems to be blowing off west. So you tend to like to face into the wind, but the fact is that what's bringing it about is the suction to the southeast.
"Having learned that there are atmospheric highs and lows, you can really begin to think about the way in which the Universe itself ought to be able to have Suns that are giving off energy in enormous ways; there must be some place where energy is being concentrated to become a new Sun."
- Cite RBF to World Game at NY studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69, Saturn Film transcript, #327, pp.12-13.
Wind Sucking
← Wind Sucking Sequence (2) | Windworks Windmill (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Hammering Sheet Metal, (2)
- No Energy Crisis, (1)
Windworks Windmill (1)
← Wind Sucking | Windworks Windmill (2) →
Index Entry
Windworks Windmill:
"The windmill from Kedco of Inglewood, California, was equipped with a synchronous inverter from Windworks of Mukwanago, Wisconsin, which embodies the latter's new, much advanced in efficiency, electronic circuitry for converting the direct current inherently produced by the windmill into the 110-volt alternating current required by most electrical equipment.
Windwork's new high sensitivity electrical meters permit them to feed their alternating current directly into the public utility's power lines. When windpower-generated electricity is fed into batteries and that electric charge is later taken from the batteries for final light or power use, a loss of approximately 50 percent of the energy occurs. Feeding the unscheduled wind energy harvest directly into the power grid avoids this 50-percent, in-and-out storage loss. This innovation of windworks has now been accepted by the public utilities in 20 of the 50 United States. The utilities pay the local windmill owner at wholesale rates for the energy he puts into the system and charge him at retail rates for the energy he takes out. This increases the economic advantage of both the private windmill owner and the public utilities."
Windworks Windmill (2)
← Windworks Windmill (1) | Wind →
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Windworks Windmill:
"It is a fundamental energy-income gain by humanity over and above dollar consideration.
"It is found that somewhere within a 100-mile radius the wind is always blowing: i.e., within a 200-mile-diameter circle of 31,000 square miles. With proliferation of such local windmills, the public utilities can progressively retire significant amounts of their standby generators while also reducing their fossil fuel burning."
- Cite ACCOMMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.13; 20 Sep'76
Wind
← Windworks Windmill (2) | Wind (1) →
Text Citations
TEXT CITATIONS
Wind:
"Designing A New Industry," (RBF Reader), 1946 : p. 204
Wind (1)
Cross Reference
Jet Stream
Cross-References
- Head Winds
- Hurricane
- Sailing with the Wind: Sailing into the Wind
- Typhoon
- West-to-East: Prevailing Winds
- Beating to Windward
- Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows
Wind (2)
← Wind (1) | Wind Wind Power (3) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Ecological Pattern, 19 Sep'64
- Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (2)(3)
- Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Wind Wind Power (3)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Wind Always Blows within 100 Miles
- Windmills
- Wind Power
- Wind Power Harnessing Equipment
- Wind Power: Effect of Earth's Rotation
- Wind Power = Sun Power
- Wind Stress & Houses
- Wind Sucking
- Windworks Windmill
Window
← Wind Wind Power (3) | Window →
Index Entry
As we have partially noted elsewhere (secs 536 and 604) Euler's three primitive topological characteristics of vertexes, faces, and lines are structurally identifiable as joints, windows, and push-pull struts respectively. When you cannot see through the windows (faces) it is because the window consists of vast numbers of subvisible windows, each subvisible-magnitude window being strut-mullion-framed by a complex of substructural systems, each with its own primitive topological and structural components. - Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. \hrefhttps://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/900-modelability#section-986.053986.053; 22 Nov'77
Window
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wing
Cross Reference
Wing:
Cross-References
Winter
← Wing | Wirable by Conductors →
Index Entry
Winter:
"I had hoped you could bring the book out this winter
... so it could be received during the metaphysical
umbrella of the cold months."
- Cite RBF to Bill Whitehead of Doubleday re "Intuition," 14 Sept. 1971.
Wirable by Conductors
← Winter | Wires: Closest Packing Of →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Focus = Beamable = Wirable, 1 Apr'72
Wires: Closest Packing Of
← Wirable by Conductors | Wire Wheel →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wire Wheel
← Wires: Closest Packing Of | Wire Wheel →
Index Entry
Nature coordinates in twelve alternatively equi-economical degrees of freedom-- six positive and six negative. For this reason twelve is the minimum number of spokes you have to have in a wire wheel in order to make (comprehensive*) a structural integrity of that tool. You have to have six positive and six negative spokes to offset all polar or equatorial diaphragming and torque.
Wire Wheel
RBF Definitions
". . . How many restraints do we have to have in order to make a really satisfactory wire wheel that is not going to be oscillating and getting into trouble? We find that we have to have a hub-- there has to be some dimension to it, carrying the load, and three restraints as in the drumhead. . . . We discover that the three restraints make six altogether coming in tangent to the hub so the hub can rotate in place. Therefore we have to split each one into two, and each one becomes tangent to the wheel on one side or the other. We discover that it takes a total of 12 spokes to make stability. The minimum wire wheel has 12 spokes. We are beginning to get into something interesting here-- some basic information of fundamental degrees of freedom of equal and alternate. . . and the first set of really predictable structural relationships."
Citations
- Oregon Lecture #3, p. 108. 5 Jul'62
Wire Wheel
Index Entry
Wire Wheel:
"In the wire wheel man had made an island of compression which was the hub at a center of an atoll of compression which was the rim and the whole thing cohered tensionally. The integrity of the whole was invested in the tension so there was discontinuous compression, continuous tension."
- Cite OREGON Lecture #5 - p. 159, 9 Jul'62
Wire Wheel
← Wire Wheel | Wire Wheel (1) →
Index Entry
In regard to your degrees of freedom, these are at minimum twelve for the wire wheel which requires twelve spokes, which are the six edges of the combined positive and negative tetrahedra whose vertexes are inherently turbinal-- and there can be the explosive wheel and the contractive wheel, by which all the tensions and compressions are reversed. Then it is to be noted that we need twelve double-rim increments between the external terminals of the spokes. This makes 24....
Wire Wheel (1)
← Wire Wheel | Wire Wheel (2) →
Cross Reference
Wheel: Artillery Wheel & Wire Wheel
Cross-References
Wire Wheel (2)
← Wire Wheel (1) | Wire to Wireless (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wire to Wireless (1)
← Wire Wheel (2) | Wire to Wireless (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wire to Wireless (2)
← Wire to Wireless (1) | Wire Wiring (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Economic Accounting System
- Invisible Architecture, (1)
- Pirates: Great Pirates, (3)
- Extrasensoriality, (1)
- Humans as Machines, (2)
Wire Wiring (1)
← Wire to Wireless (2) | Wire (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wire (2)
← Wire Wiring (1) | Wisdom (2) →
Cross Reference
Wire:
Cross-References
- Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec'73 (2)
- Visible Light vs. Electricity, 1946 (2)
Wisdom (2)
Index Entry
Wisdom:
"In due course the individual mind may comprehend
The cosmically ranging magnificence
Which synergizes of transforming the totality
Of already mind harvested knowledge
Thus compounding its unselfish considerations
And expanding its tolerance
Into appreciative awe
As all these synergize to generate wisdom.
Wisdom is evolved only by synergy
Which is the behavior of whole aggregates
Not predicted by the separate behaviors or characteristics
Of any one integral part.
Argo synergy is non-occurrent cerebrally
During monofocus upon self
In preoccupations
Essentially exclusive of others."
- Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan. '72, pp. 5-6.
Wisdom
Index Entry
Wisdom:
"Wisdom is
Experientially discovered
Synergetic awareness
Inherently transcendental
To separate informational data.
Wisdom contemplates
with wholistic advantage
And eschews lesser magnitude opining."
- Cite RBF Dictation
for INTUITION
Sarasota, Fla.
8 Feb '71
(Compare with INTUITION Feb, '71 Draft, Insert A, p. 8.)
Wisdom
Index Entry
Wisdom:
"The synergetic effect produced by the interaction of the known family of generalized principles is probably what is spoken of as Wisdom."
-
Cite Nehru Speech, pp. 34-35. 13 Nov'69
-
Citation & context at Synergy of Synergies, 13 Nov'69
Wisdom
← Wisdom | Wisdom of Wisdoms →
Index Entry
Wisdom:
"Intellections are cumulative pattern apprehensions and are synergetically integrative as wisdom and wisdom initiates new mathematical hypotheses."
- For citation and context see Intellecrtions, 1960
Wisdom of Wisdoms
Index Entry
Wisdom of Wisdoms:
"Knowledge is of the brain
Wisdom is of the mind
And there is herewith implicit
An a priori wisdom of wisdoms."
- Cite INTUITION p.43, May '72
Wisdom (1)
← Wisdom of Wisdoms | Wisdom (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wisdom (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Intellections, 1960
- Synergy of Synergies, 13 Nov'69*
- Wizard, 18 Jul'72
- Words & Coping, 7 Nov'75
- Confession, 7 Jan'76
Wish
← Wisdom (2) | Withinness & Withoutness →
Index Entry
Q. Do you wish to continue this communications mode? A. "I do not wish anything. I am grateful for 'what happens.'" Citation and context at Questions: Answering Questions, Sep'73
Withinness & Withoutness
← Wish | Withinness and Withoutness →
Index Entry
Withinness & Withoutness:
"Three planes can never have a system because it takes four planes to have a withinness and withoutness."
- Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 14 Sep'71
Withinness and Withoutness
← Withinness & Withoutness | Withinness & Withoutness →
Index Entry
Withinness and Withoutness:
"... The minimum zonally defined withinness conformation is tetrahedral and the minimum zonally defined withoutness is spherical."
- Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 142, 1960
Withinness & Withoutness
← Withinness and Withoutness | Withinness and Withoutness →
RBF Definitions
Withinness & Withoutness
"... The most extensive lucidly conceptual and definable recollected-experience zone range lies between a tetrahedronal 'withinness' twilight and a spherical 'withoutness' twilight, beyond which are the non-tuneable (1) outwardness and (2) inwardness-- the subtracted Euler's twoness from nonconceptual finiteness which permits conceptual de-finiteness or definition of cognition."
Citations
- COMPREHENSIONAL HALO, p. 142, 1960 - Citation at Cognition, 1960
Withinness and Withoutness
← Withinness & Withoutness | Withinness and Withoutness →
Index Entry
Withinness and Withoutness:
"... A locally definitive system... has an inherent withinness and withoutness, which two... differentiable functions inherently subdivide all universe into the two unique extremes of macro and micro frequencies."
-
Cite INTRO. to COMBINATIONAL HALO, p. 129, 1959
-
Citation and context at Considerable Set, 1959
Withinness and Withoutness
← Withinness and Withoutness | Within-ness & Withoutness (1) →
Index Entry
There are a minimum of three inherent 'awareness' aspects of all experience: withinness, withoutness, and the hemispherical reflexive... pulse pattern.
- Citation and context at Experience, Feb'50
Within-ness & Withoutness (1)
← Withinness and Withoutness | Withinness & Withoutness (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Considerable Set, (1)
- Insideness & Outsideness, (1)
- Reciprocals of Permissible Viewpoints, (1)
- System, (1)
- System vs. Withoutness, (1)
- Internal & External, (1)
Withinness & Withoutness (2)
← Within-ness & Withoutness (1) | Wizard →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Cognition, 1960
- Cosmic Synergy, Jan'72
- Critical Proximity, 15 Feb'73
- Experience, Feb'50*
- Model of Nonbeing, 11 Sep'75
- Omnitopology, 19 Dec'73
- System, 27 May'72
- XYZ Coordinate System, 14 Feb'71
Wizard
← Withinness & Withoutness (2) | Woe →
Index Entry
Wizard:
"... The functions of the Grand Vizer to the ruler was that of the mathematical wizard, the wiz of wiz-dom; and the wiz-ards kept their mathematical navigational ability to go to faraway strange places and to bring back strange miracle objects..."
- Citation and context at Scheherazade Number, 18 Jul'72
Woe
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wolf, William
Index Entry
Transcript of RBF tape with Verner Smythe, New York, tape 1, pp. 1-3, 25 Feb'69
Wolf Wolves
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Sweapout, 17 Oct'72
Womb
← Wolf Wolves | Womb of Total Human Consciousness →
Index Entry
Womb:
"...At first we were just the inside. In the womb. In the womb we had tactile sensorial awareness of volumetric surroundment by the otherness, but no visual, aural, or olfactoral awareness of the otherness-surroundment. The child develops otherness awareness only as outside volumetric surroundment within which he finally discovers Me the Observer."
- Citation and context at System Awareness, 20 Feb'73
Womb of Total Human Consciousness
← Womb | Amount of permitted Absolute Helplessness →
Index Entry
Womb of Total Human Consciousness:
"Each child emerging from its mother's womb is entering a larger womb of total human consciousness, which is continually modified and expanded by subjective experiences and objective experiments. As each successive child is born it comes into a cosmic consciousness in which it is confronted with less misinformation than yesterday. Each child is born into a much larger womb of more intellectually competent consciousness."
- Cite RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA, p.31, Oct'70
Amount of permitted Absolute Helplessness
← Womb of Total Human Consciousness | Womb Humanity Cannot Return into the Womb →
Cross Reference
Amount of permitted Absolute Helplessness:
Cross-References
- Synergetics, 6 Nov'72
Womb Humanity Cannot Return into the Womb
← Amount of permitted Absolute Helplessness | Womb of Ignorance →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Womb of Ignorance
← Womb Humanity Cannot Return into the Womb | Womb of Permitted Ignorance (1) →
Index Entry
"The young world. . . is intuitively skeptical of the older world's customary ways of coping. That doesn't mean the young don't like their elders. It doesn't mean they disrespect all humanity born before them, but they realize intuitively that humanity is emerging from a womb of ignorance. The kids really feel this. And this is the most encouraging thing I know."
- Cite RBF quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview by Beverly Russel, p. 202, May '72
Womb of Permitted Ignorance (1)
← Womb of Ignorance | Womb of Permitted Ignorance (2) →
Index Entry
Q. "How do you cope with human suffering from craving and want and ignorance... from preoccupation with the body and things?"
RBF: "You and I are life and not the organisms we employ. Cravings and wants do come from ignorance--as agitated by advertising. The answer lies in increased knowledge and gradual freedom from the conditioned reflexes of our elders.
"The physical is purely a complex of events--not things--in pure principle. The environment has everything to do with the way I behave. Here I am composed of 65 percent water which freezes or boils within very narrow limits. We had nothing to do with our design. We are here to employ our minds on a planet where gears and muscle are still in control. We are at the point of our final examination--emerging from the womb of permitted ignorance to function as a local monitor in relation to the regenerative integrity of Universe. We first came out of the orifice with muscle in control."
- Cite RBF to 'World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77
Womb of Permitted Ignorance (2)
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance (1) | Womb of Permitted Ignorance →
Index Entry
"But the physical is nothing! Now that we have so many words to communicate with one another... it is all part of the great gestation process... we have maybe around eight more years to go... truth is emerging from an unprecedented acceleration of events. We have the option: we may stop burning up the ship. While the numbers who are not thinking, the numbers in the system and in the bureaucracies is enormous, but we have the options. But options do not mean the same thing as optimism. Birth is a very extraordinary and dangerous time."
Womb of Permitted Ignorance
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance (2) | Womb of Permitted Ignorance →
Index Entry
The group womb of permitted ignorance is the resonance rich cushion for trial-and-error discovery of the mind by the mind, at which point of discovery of permitted universal survival by mind-discovered principles-- in contradistinction to the inefficient power struggle of unilateral survival-- all the 'cream rich' initial discoveries of original resource geography lodes become exhausted and humanity must operate with resources as M in E = Mc²-- that is in pure principle.
The group womb metabolic sustenance of naked, helpless, and ignorantly born humans and its progressive exhausting is cosmic gestation of Universe functioning local syntropy.
- Cite RBF to Yale students at Berkely College breakfast, '73 New Haven, 10 Dec'73; as rewritten by RBF at 3200 Idaho, 13 Dec
Womb of Permitted Ignorance
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance | Womb of Permitted Ignorance →
Index Entry
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
"The group womb of permitted ignorance is the cushion for trial and error."
- Cite RBF to Yale students at Berkely College breakfast, New Haven, 10 Dec'73
Womb of Permitted Ignorance
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance | Womb of Permitted Ignorance →
Index Entry
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
"Playboy: And you say that man is on the point of discovering his role?
"RBF: I think he's just discovering himself in his full significance. The child in the womb is absolutely innocent and completely looked out for. Then he comes out and has to do his own breathing. Then he gets to his feet and has to do a little more. He takes on a little more responsibility and gains in self-discovery. Well, man is just now coming out of the womb of what I call permitted ignorance. . . . I find that we are in a moment of fantastic self-discovery and are approaching an entirely new relationship with our Universe."
Womb of Permitted Ignorance
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance | Womb of Permitted Ignorance (1) →
Index Entry
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
"Humanity as a whole is indeed being emitted from a two-
million year gestation within the womb of permitted ignorance,
for which infantile period cosmic mechanics have been making
ample provision not only to offset ignorance and waste abut
also to permit humanity's gradual trial-and-error experimental
discovery of the relatively negligible effectiveness of its
muscle-- which it had at first employed not only exclusively
but savagely-- and the concomitant discovery of the infinite
appreheddeing and comprehending effectiveness of the human
mind, which alone can discover and employ the universal
verities-- and therby realize comprehensively the potential,
progressive, non-wasteful, competent, considerate mastery of
the physical environment by the metaphysical intellect."
- Cite RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood' EXPANDED CINEMA, p.23.
Oct'70
Womb of Permitted Ignorance (1)
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance | Womb of Permitted Ignorance (2) →
Cross Reference
Metabolical Cord
Cross-References
Womb of Permitted Ignorance (2)
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance (1) | Womb Population (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Womb Population (1)
← Womb of Permitted Ignorance (2) | Womb Population (2) →
Index Entry
Womb Population:
"At all times nowadays there are approximately 66 million human beings around Earth who are living comfortably inside their mothers' wombs. The country called Nigeria embraces one-fourth of the human beings of the great continent of Africa. There are 66 million Nigerians. We can say that the number of people living in Wombland is about the same as one-fourth of the population of Africa. This 66 million Womblanders tops the total population of either West Germany's 58 million, the United Kingdom's 55 million, Italy's 52 million, France's 50 million, or Mexico's 47 million. Only nine of the world's so-called countries (China, India, Soviet Union, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Japan, and Brazil) have individual populations greater than our luxuriously-living, under-nine-months-old Womblanders.
"Seemingly switching our subject, but only for a moment, we note that for the last two decades scientists probing with electrodes have learned a great deal about the human brain. The brain gives off measurable energy and discrete wave patterns disclosed by the oscillograph. Specific, repetitive" dreams have been identified by these wave patterns."
Womb Population (2)
← Womb Population (1) | Womb Population (3) →
Index Entry
Womb Population:
"The neurological and physiological explorers do not find it extravagant to speculate that we may learn that what humanity has thus far spoken of mystifiedly as telepathy, science will have discovered, within decades, to be ultra-ultra high-frequency electromagnetic wave propagations.
"All good science fiction develops realistically that which scientific data suggest to be imminent. It is good science fiction to suppose that a superb telepathic communications system is interlinking all those young citizens of worldaround Wombland. We intercept one of the conversations: 'How are things over there with you?' Answer: 'My mother is planning to call me either Joe or Mary. She doesn't know that my call frequency is already 7567-00-3821.' Other: 'My mother had better apply to those characters Watson, Crick, and Wilkerson for my call numbers!' And another of their 66 million Womblanders comes in with, 'I'm getting very apprehensive about having to go outside.' We have been hearing from some of the kids who just got out-- they say we're going to be cut off from the main supply. We are going to have to shovel fuel and pour liquids into our systems. We are going to have to make our own blood. We are going to have to start pumping"
Womb Population (3)
← Womb Population (2) | Womb Population →
Index Entry
Womb Population:
"some kind of gas into our lungs to purify our own blood. We are going to have to make ourselves into giants 15 times our present size. Worst of all, we are going to have to learn to lie about everything. It's going to be a lot of work, very dangerous, and very discouraging." Answer: 'Why don't we strike?? We are in an excellent posture for a "sit-down."' Other: 'Wow! What an idea. We will have the whole population of worldaround wombland refuse to go out at graduation day. Our cosmic population will enter more and more human women's wombs, each refusing to graduate at nine months. More and more Earthian wome will get more and more burdened. Worldaround consternation-- agony. We will notify the outsiders that, until they stop lying to themselves and to each other and give up their stupid sovereignties and exclusive holier-than-thou ideologies, pollutions, and mayhem, we are going to refuse to come out. Only surgery fatal to both the mothers and ourselves could evacuate us.'
"Another: 'Great! We had might as well do it. If we do come out we will be faced with the proliferation of Cold War's guerrilleralized killing of babies for psycho-shock demoraliz-ation of world around innocent communities inadvertently" - Cite RBF Intro, to "Expanded Cinema," p.16, Oct'70
Womb Population
← Womb Population (3) | Womb Population →
Index Entry
"involved in the abstruse ideological warfare waged by diametrically opposed, equally stubborn would-be do-gooder, bureaucratic leaders and their partisans who control all of the world's means of production and killing, whose numbers (including all the politically preoccupied individuals around Earth) represent less than one percent of humanity, to whose human minds and hearts the politicos and their guns give neither satisfaction nor hope. Like the women in Lysistrata who refused intercourse with their men until they stopped fighting, we Womblanders would win."
- Cite RBF Intro. to "Expanded Cinema," p.16, Oct'70
Womb Population
← Womb Population | Womb Wombland (1) →
Index Entry
Womb Population:
"I think man is about to be born into an entirely new relationship with the Universe. To comprehend the utter surprise, I will give you an analogy. Let us assume that there are at this moment more than a hundred million babies living in the wombs of women around the Earth. What an utter surprise to be born and to be brought out into what we call 'life.' What an extraordinary experience for 100 million lives to emerge suddenly into external oxidation! Life coming from the inside of a woman out, in a wave phenomenon. Total man may be going through a total wave of transformation, into an entirely new relationship with the Universe."
- Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 178, May '65
Womb Wombland (1)
← Womb Population | Womb Wombland (2) →
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Pregnant Mother
Cross-References
Womb Wombland (2)
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Cross-References
- A Priori Environment, 20 Feb'73
- Bird's Nest as a Tool
- Four, 27 Dec'73
- Omnidirectional, 2 Jul'62
- Race, (4)
- System Awareness, 20 Feb'73*
- Tactile Sequence, (1)
- Child, 1 May'77
- Woman is Continuous, 11 Aug'77
Women
Index Entry
Women:
"I find women are tensive.... Women know how to reel people in-- how to play them on a tension line."
Women
← Women | Woman is Continuous →
Index Entry
Women:
"Women are going to accomplish world-merging and stability..."
- Citation & context at Child: A Little Child Shall Lead Them, May'65
Woman is Continuous
← Women | Women As Mathematicians →
Index Entry
Woman is Continuous:
"Woman is continuous. Women like to hear that. The male is discontinuous, but in the woman there is always a womb in a womb in a womb like the picture on the can of pet milk. That's why awareness and identity begin, not with conception, but with the cutting of the umbilical cord. Baptism can only come after that."
- Cite RBF to EJA in discussion of abortion and astrology at La Potiniere Restaurant, Phila. PA; 11 Aug'77
Women As Mathematicians
← Woman is Continuous | Woman Women (1) →
Index Entry
Women As Mathematicians:
"In mathematics women are not very great explorers but they are great understanders and consolidators."
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, re Michele Cuevas of Montreal, 14 Oct'72
Woman Women (1)
← Women As Mathematicians | Women Woman (2) →
Cross Reference
Inside-of-a-Woman-Out
Cross-References
- Baby-making Machines
- Female
- Mother
- Trained Nurses
Women Woman (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Women
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Wood
Index Entry
Wood:
"The most creative woodworking I know of is a tree. It can grow its branches straight out...And each limb can support tons of weight.
"We should do things to wood that the wood likes. There are certain things it likes to be used for. When I use wood I make sure it likes what I'm doing to it."
- Cite RBF quoted by Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, DEC'72
Wood
← Wood | Wood Technology (1) →
Index Entry
Wood:
"Building houses of wood will within a few decades sound as peculiar as building houses with slabs of human flesh."
- Cite RBF holograph on program of N.Y. State Institute of Housing meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, NY, 3 Jun'48
Wood Technology (1)
← Wood | Wood Technology (2) →
Index Entry
...Housing, as you have known it up to now, used the wood or stone or clay which was at hand. These component materials were not understood scientifically to any important degree. Wood might be considered pretty as oak, or pretty as maple. One was a little harder or softer to work and suited a man better than another. But it was little understood what a tree was. Despite academic study, man's understanding of trees was popularly vague. Then trees began to be used industrially by the chemical industry. It began to develop wood pulps and other by-products of wood. To some extent this began to affect the 'scarcity' or 'quantity' of wood relative to its availability for house building. These new industries, particularly newsprint pulp, exhausted a lot of it. Builders had to take greener and greener lumber as stockpiling dwindled.
"During World War II one of the most extraordinary things that happened, in its broad effects on technology and on economics, is what the Germans were forced to accomplish in wood chemistry in order to plan on how to survive during this extraordinary industrial warfare, which they introduced and in which energy played such an important role. The Germans had to plan in"
Wood Technology (2)
← Wood Technology (1) | Wood Technology (3) →
Index Entry
Wood Technology:
"advance on being bombed out of their oil fields. It was obvious that they could plan to use oil to a certain extent but that eventually their most vulnerable position was their oil supply. This was an 'oil warfare' in a big way. Therefore the Germans set about finding other important sources of energy. They went to wood technology. The chemistry of wood developed in many directions in Germany. They suddenly discovered that here was nature's most important trick in impounding Sun energy-- and in a most useful way, for therefrom you could release energy in many useful directions.
"They immediately brought it to the one great "Grand Central Station " of energy, in its most stable storage form, which was alcohol. From alcohol of various kinds you could make foods-- first for cattle, then for people. You could make high octane gas or synthetic rubber or plastics. The chemistry of wood began playing such an important part that the scientists in Washington were talking about it constantly and there was a book published called 'The Nigger in the Woodpile' which was what Germany had."
- Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.215), 1946
Wood Technology (3)
← Wood Technology (2) | Wood Technology →
Index Entry
Wood Technology:
"Wood technology has advanced the basic economic case for wood to such an important position in the advancing technical world that we can no longer afford to use wood in the careless way we have in the past-- to put it in houses for termites to eat up, or a possible fire to consume. Even if we could, worldwide technology forces our technical hand as it never has before, the rest of the world is now industrializing and is starting the most advanced World War II levels of technology and not at our 1861 or 1890 or 1917 level. Industrial technology is born of latent knowledge and is not an inventory of obsolete machinery, so wood is in a very new historical position. How does that affect the historical wooden house picture?
"As children of the pioneers also came along to build a house-- or their grandchildren wanted to-- there was no longer much wood on the farm. They had to go increasing distances for it. Finally they went out of the state for it. Today they hate to send 1,000 to 5,000 miles for most of their building wood."
"They were using it simply by habit because it was originally handy and suddenly they had exhausted that supply. Long ago"
Wood Technology
← Wood Technology (3) | Wood (1) →
Index Entry
Wood Technology:
"wood boxes disappeared from our cellars. In the war's great motion, packing cases went all over the world. That broke the wood supply equilibrium altogether. World increased paper needs and the new chemistry of wood-energy conversion makes it unthinkable that wood will ever again be available in any large way for building it into houses, even into prefabs which average 70 percent wood. Wood is suddenly going from 'for free' as it sat stacked on the farm because it had to be cleared away, to a rapidly inflating price structure-- owing not so much to its scarcity, as to its newly recognized inherent wealth.
"On the other hand there are now many by-products of the soil and by-products of the wood, which chemistry is developing, whether it is cellulose as plastics, or the metals developed from the clay, etc., which were just kicking around unrecognized on the early farm. These by-products, however, were very expensive to extract in the beginning and called for a large energy expenditure and fancy and complicated mammoth plants with giant stills and ovens such as required millions of dollars to install and develop. Few industries could afford to buy the original speciality by-products of high performance characteristic.'
- Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, ( RBF READER, p.216), 1946
Wood (1)
← Wood Technology | Wood (2) →
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Cross-References
Wood (2)
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Cross-References
- Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr'77 (2)
Woof
Index Entry
What we call life is a complex of multidimensional oscillations and palpitations between various degrees of positive and negative asymmetries, whose multi-variant lags in conceptioning bring about what seems to be temporal substance. The complex WOOF of a plurality of lag rates-- of after-images and recalls-- produces pure weightless metaphysical images-- produces the awareness we speak of as life.
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"Words are descriptions of mutually acknowledged experiences."
- Cite RBF to EJA & Roger Stoller, 3200 Idaho, Wash.DC; 12 Nov'75
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"Know-how is always increasing. As know-how builds up irreversibly it is essential that words get better so we can compound our information. As we continually learn ways to compound our experiences they are mounting exponentially. I would think that there's probably a fourth-power exponential rate of information gain."
- Cite Tape transcript #4, p.8; RBF to W.Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun'74
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"We've got enough experience now to have been able to develop an Oxford Dictionary of 100,000 words. We discovered 100,000 nuances of experiences, each so unique that it required its own word. And you and I know how difficult a thing it is for human beings to agree on anything but we have agreed on 100,000 words to identify those 100,000 unique experiences. What an extraordinary inventory we have!"
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"...Understanding and meaning has nothing to do with the length or the size of the words I am using, or the sound-wave disturbance I am making in the air, or the language I am employing.... each of us is communicating to one another in spoken words, gestures, postures, and flashes of the eye. We can't see one another; we can see only our respective communications devices."
- Citation and context at Communicating (1), 11 Sep'73
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"We have learned a little from the cumulative experience of all human beings who have inhabited our planet. We have invented words so that we can accumulate human experiences, and we have invented successively sign language; pictographs; phonetics; television; video; video-cassette; around-the-world satellite to relay any program; and world-around computerization with which to recall any information anywhere, any time, by anybody, in order to make man's cumulative experience available to ensuing generations."
- Cite THINKING OUT LOUD (2): WE ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE PROGRAM, World Mag., 17 Jul'73
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"I hope that I have been successful in communicating this to you conceptually without recourse to pictures. No man has ever seen outside of himself. He always sees in his brain. I think it is easy to stimulate the brain conceptioning by words as it is by graphics. I often find in lectures that I don't have to show the slides-- which I had been prepared to do-- because I found as intuitive or telepathic feedback from the audience that people had conjured up in their own brains from my words the very picture which I had intended to show but had gone on spontaneously to describe in advance. It is my intuitive surmise that the pictures thus conjured up are more powerfully planted in the other man's brain than those resulting from the beams of light bounced off a photograph back to the human eye lenses, retina, and nerve connections and after to be scanned and image-ed (imagined) in the brain."
(Underlined clause added by RBF in 1972- eja.)
- Cite Ltr to Dr. Urmston, p.2, 8 Oct'64
Word
Index Entry
Word:
"You cannot invent a word without two people-- the identification of experience."
- Cite RBF at Catholic University Address, Washington DC, 24 Feb '72
Words
RBF Definitions
Time and again I find our vocabulary the most extraordinary phenomenon. . . that human beings before us have contrived these words and the thought that required these words. I see our vocabulary which would include all the words of all the languages as all the attempts of all men to communicate all their experiences and I am amazed at how many experiences must have gone before us and how many there must have been of them to generalize them to the point where you have a generalized word for experience. When I recollect I reconsider the significance of the collection and reconsider is a beautiful word because "consider" is putting together of stars. "Sider" is from the Latin "sedes" for star and "consider" is stars that stand together, as when we look at constellations. If we reconsider I review stars that seem to stand out in my experience. You are amazed at the poetic lucidity and eloquence of the thinking that went on before us that could invent the word "reconsider." At times I am appalled with the velocity at which we use these tools without understanding the beauty and significance of their buildup."
Words
Index Entry
Words:
". . .The dictionary is a finite collection of finite word entities each in turn consisting of collections of finite letter symbol entities."
- Cite OMNIDIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 132, 1960
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"Encyclopedias and dictionaries inventory man's progressively invented words for communicable identification of all his evolving experience cognitions."
- Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 131, 1960
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"... I decided that the way I had acquired bad rules and conflicting thoughts was through words-- when somebody told me these things. Therefore I became very suspicious of words. I said, 'Words seem to be one of the most extraordinary tool acquisitions of men; I don't think men were born with words, but rather from what I have learned in education and of the educational system I suspect that men have evolved words... They are obviously tools and I'm enough of a mechanic to know that you can use tools in the wrong way...' It was very tough on my wife, but I decided I was going to hold a moratorium on speech for myself... I thought I would see if by doing that I could force myself back to the point where I would really understand what it was I was thinking and be sure that when I made a sound that I really meant to make that sound-- that it wasn't something I was parroting and that was just coming off my tongue."
- Cite RBF quoted in Times Literary Supplement review 19 Mar'70, from LATER INFLUENCES ON MY WORK, p.47, Jun'58.
Word
Index Entry
Word:
"Principles of physical Universe may be treated of in words, which themselves were developed in principle out of dawning comprehension of implicit significance in the relative identities of complex bundles of principles. Relativity treats with concepts in principle; therefore, it can be treated in words as well as in mathematical phrasing. Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement, and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship."
- Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.233, May'49
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"Poets manage to advance without employing the lethal tactics of intolerance. Poets, in distinct contrast to jinglers and rhymesters, also apply exquisite precision in the selection of each word. The honor of words is appreciated. That honor is inherent in the service function of words to man. As homo sapiens, the poet recognizes that words are his unique and first tools of external action and contain his highest potential of environment control if, and only when, intelligently employed. Words, like tools, often and carelessly repeated, become dull and ultimately useless. Thus new words must be invented to take their place, or the old words resharp nouned."
- Cite Motion Economics, p.23; May'44
Words
Index Entry
Words:
"Words, words! -- symbols in sound to carry a diminutive degree of understanding into the limbo of goo-goo, broad designators of general categories of discussion."
- Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.10, 1938
Words & Coping
← Words | Word as Industrial Tool →
Index Entry
Words & Coping:
"...Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial-and-error experiences. Humans have learned only through mistakes. The billions of humans in history have had to make quadrillions of mistakes to have arrived at the state where we now have 150,000 common words to differentially identify that many unique and only-metaphysically-comprehensible nuances of experience. The number of words in the dictionary will always multiply as the progressive complex of cosmic episodes of Scenario Universe are subjectively experienced and thoughtfully considered by each of us.
"The whole complex of omniinteraccommodative generalized principles... altogether manifest an infallible wisdom's inter-considerate, unified design, and an a priori, intellectual-integrity conceivability as well as a human-intellect discoverability. By wisdom of the great design humans have the capability to formulate and communicate from generation to generation through words and thus to progressively accumulate knowledge through sharing the exclusively self-discovered significant nuances of experience. The quadrillions of mistakes were the price paid by humanity for it presently accrued competence to cope with both survival and growth problems."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Bro. Jos. Chuala, p.2; 7 Nov'75
Word as Industrial Tool
← Words & Coping | Word As Industrial Tool →
RBF Definitions
The first industrial tool is really a very interesting one. We have the description: In the Beginning was the Word. So in the beginning of industrialization was the word. Because one man could not invent a word... he'd have no reason to invent it. And it would take a great deal of identification of experience and the sounds for it for him to begin to realize that you'd have something called a 'word.' "This was, then, the beginning of the intercommunication of experiences, compounding the experience of the individual. And with the written word you had it from generation to generation. This cumulative experience is a very extraordinary matter "The craft tool was inherently local in time and geography. But the industrial tool was for the total experience of all of humanity that had ever been communicated with one to the other, covering the total sweepout of humans." Forum
Word As Industrial Tool
← Word as Industrial Tool | Word As Industrial Tool →
Index Entry
The first industrial tool was the spoken word. You can't invent a word without two people. So, as the Bible says: 'In the beginning was the Word.' I'll say: 'In the beginning of industrialization was the word.' This is the beginning of relaying information and experiences from one man to another. Because men were able to relay information both in terms of overlapping lives and also travel, they began to consolidate all kinds of information.
Word As Industrial Tool
← Word As Industrial Tool | Word as Industrial Tool (1) →
RBF Definitions
"...The very first industrial tool was the spoken word. Without another man to employ it with him one man would have no reason to invent a spoken word. The meaning of a word had to be cooperatively arrived at between at least two human beings. We read in the Scriptures: 'In the beginning was the Word.' We may modify that now to say, 'In the beginning of industrialization was the word,' and with the word came the eventuated increasingly swift compounding of man's experiences and the integration of knowledge of everyone everywhere and from one generation to another."
Citations
- BEIRUT ADDRESS, p.10, 1967
Word as Industrial Tool (1)
← Word As Industrial Tool | Word as an Industrial Tool (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
Word as an Industrial Tool (2)
← Word as Industrial Tool (1) | Word Trends →
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Word as an Industrial Tool: Word Tools:
Cross-References
- Limit Case, 10 Dec'73
- Industrialization, 20 Jun'66
- Words, May'44
- Sleeping & Thinking, (2)
Word Trends
← Word as an Industrial Tool (2) | Words (1) →
Index Entry
Word Trends:
"Key words and catch phrases trend by composite into cliche . Cliches trend by composite into rulesof thumb. Rules of thumb trend by composite into fables. At this point of most solid compression a trend to segregation supplants the trend of concentration--but along new lines.
"Scripture trends by first division into 'Religious' and 'Civilized' law. Thence these two formalized trends double back to common man as dogma, which is the official interpretation of the meaning of the laws by the professional authorities.
"The dogma manifolds into canons and statutes. Thence by vulgar proclivity the laws trend to ultimate disintegration--as dynamic man resents and fractures his self-entrapment."
- Cite Motion Economics, Ch. 1; May'44
Words (1)
Cross Reference
Communication Tool
Names: "Named" Phenomena
Cross-References
- Behaviorist Word vs. Static Word
- Definitions
- Dictionary
- Energetic Words
- Etymology
- Games of Words
- Generalizations Reduced to One Word
- Invented Words
- Logos
- Meaning
- Meaningless: Inventory of Meaningless Concepts
- Obsolete: Inventory of Obsolete Concepts
- Old Words
- Packaged Word
- Figures & Words
Words (1B)
Cross Reference
Static Word
Unitary Communications Tools
Label
Cliche
Cross-References
- Scientific Words
- Semantics
- Slides: Graphics vs. Words
- Sound Word
- Time Word
- Verbs
- Vocabulary
- World-around Language
- Sound Name
- Disapproved Words
- Thing Word
- Categoryitis
- Countercliche
Words (2)
← Words (1B) | Wordless Wordlessness (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Consideration, 1965
- Experience, Oct'71
- Communicating, (1)
- Industrialization, 20 Jun'66
- Logistics, 10 Dec'73
- Responsible, Feb'73
- Visual Symphony, (1)
- Epistemology, Oct'66
- Weightless, 22 Jul'71
- Windowing the Nothingness, 25 Mar'76
- Teleology, (2)
- Awareness, 28 Apr'77
- Universe is Technology, (2)
- Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (2)
Wordless Wordlessness (1)
← Words (2) | Wordless Wordlessness (2) →
Cross Reference
Ineffable
Cross-References
Wordless Wordlessness (2)
← Wordless Wordlessness (1) | Work →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Conversation Sequence, (2)
- Nature Permits It Sequence, (2)
- Self-communicate, 9 Jan'75; 8 Apr'75
- Primitive, 19 Jul'76
Work
← Wordless Wordlessness (2) | Work →
Index Entry
Work:
"Work and the right-to-live must be divorced. Work must be considered the greatest human privilege."
- Citation and context at Earning a Living, Dec'72
Work
Index Entry
Work:
"All objective work must be spontaneously inspired and cooperatively initiated as with children's games. Participation on all 'varsity' production and service playing teams must be attained through demonstrated competence."
- Cite RBF revisions of "Ten Proposals for Improving the World," for Earth, Inc, New Delhi, December'72.
Work
Index Entry
Work:
"On impact, mass at velocity transforms into heat and work. These energy factors can be translated not only into work, but into heat, or into time as well."
- Citation and context at Vector, 27/2 May'72
Workability
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Copper, 15 Aug'70
Work (1)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Doing What Needs to be Done
- Earning a Living
- Industrial Hypocrisy
- Labor: American Labor
- Make-work
- Making the World Work
- Wellspring of Work
Work (2)
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Earning a Living, Dec'72*
- Efficiency, 22 Jan'75
- Energy Slave, (1)
- Vector, 27 May'72*
World
Index Entry
World:
"I do not tend to use the word 'world.' I use 'Universe' or 'Earth'. When people say world they mean our life on this planet."
- Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia, 22 Jan'75
World
← World | World Accounting System →
Index Entry
World is a bad word for system. I use 'world' for the life of humans on Planet Earth, but it's just a bad word for 'system'-- that's all.
- Cite RBF to EJA, Penn Bell Studios, Philadelphia, PA, 24 Jan'75
World Accounting System
← World | World-around Communication Transcends Politics (1) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
World-around Communication Transcends Politics (1)
← World Accounting System | World-around Communication Transcends Politics (2) →
RBF Definitions
Dr. Fuller, you state, and I quote, 'Whether the world survives birth into an entirely new world and Universe relationship depends on our individual integrity, not on that of political representative.' This is a very powerful and provocative statement, with particular interest to the political representatives right here. Would you care to expand on that very briefly?"
A: (RBF) "You speak of m phenomena of which we know little, the as-yet mystifying phenomenon that transpires as that unspoken communication between humans which occurs when human beings are, within themselves, highly convinced of the integrity of their decisions having been made only on behalf of the many. I am quite confident that we will have scientifically reproducible proof within the next decade that what humans experience as telepathy is ultra-ultra-high frequency electromagnetic wave communication to transceive which all humans are innately equippped.
"Humanity has been asking too much of its political representatives. It has asked them to be responsible for thinking."
World-around Communication Transcends Politics (2)
← World-around Communication Transcends Politics (1) | World-around Communication Transcends Politics (3) →
Index Entry
"Now, for the first time in history, all of humanity is
literate and all of humanity knows everybody else. For the
first time in the history of humanity we have the capability
of safely implementing direct democratic expression.
"I meet very large numbers of audiences-- this last year an
average of 1,500 people on 150 occasions. The majority of my
audiences are young. I established a self-discipline a half
century ago whereby I was never to ask anybody to listen to me.
I was to talk to others only when I was asked to do so-- and
then I must give them my best. More and more people everywhere
ask me to come talk to them. I am telling them about our
'final exam' and that I feel that whether humanity can 'pass'
is to be answered entirely within the mind of the individual.
Do we really have the integrity? Do we really understand that
each of us is only here for all the others? If the answer is,
'I am here for me,' then I think humanity is going to fail its
exam.
"I think that extraordinary individual courage-- which dares
to listen to its own cognition of the truth-- is going to have"
- Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May'75
World-around Communication Transcends Politics (3)
← World-around Communication Transcends Politics (2) | World-around Communication Transcends Politics →
Index Entry
World-around Communication Transcends Politics:
"to be manifest. I feel the knowledge that this is so is now emerging into prominence in human thought everywhere around the world. I have been around the world 37 times now; not as a tourist, but incidental to my work. I do not have any agency or sales staff who solicit employment of whatever my potential functioning may be. I do not compete with others. Whatever I do with other humans must be spontaneously initiated by others. In this way a stay attuned to Nature's evolutionary wave front. I have been invited to speak or take an appointment at 421 universities and colleges around the world. From direct spontaneous talk with people around the world, I find arising a spirit of truthfulness, comprehension, and tolerance as most powerfully manifest in the young world which transcends all political biases."
- Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May'75
World-around Communication Transcends Politics
← World-around Communication Transcends Politics (3) | World-Around Language →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
World-Around Language
← World-around Communication Transcends Politics | World-Around Language →
Index Entry
World-Around Language:
"The trend to world integration by world-around service industries, operating with the most advanced electronic techniques including those of the swiftly multiplying computer technology, promise an ever swifter evolvement of a world-around language common to all human experience."
- Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning." 28 April 1971, p. 18
World-Around Language
← World-Around Language | World-Around Language (1) →
Index Entry
"Advertising's progressive squandering and ultimately lethal abuse and misuse of the rich word tools of the second millenium, Anno Domini's language wealth may be surprisingly one of these evolutionary 'blessings in disguise'. . . . The assassination of meanings in the twentieth centnuy word wealth of humanity by corporate-businesslm advertising may be Tennyson's fulfillment of Himself by God 'in many ways, Lest one good custom . . . should corrupt the world.'
"The decease of meaning in the old tools of communication makes room for the new World Humans Language."
World-Around Language (1)
← World-Around Language | World-Around language (2) →
Index Entry
World-Around Language:
"In marked contrast to the accelerating increase in organized misunderstanding, combatively led by political representatives of world peoples employing over two hundred different language tools to identify single meanings, and no individual capable of cross-translating in more than ten percent of those languages, there is an accelerated emergence of a world language within the supra-national network-integrated world industrialization. World industrialization stripped of its thin garment of political expediency thrown upon it by its would-be masters for purposes of exploitation, discloses a naked organism integrated entirely of precise functions derived only from the findings of the full gamut of the exact sciences. The increasing precision of function is accompanied by increasing precision of behaviors and an increasing commonality of word-taggings for those efforts and accomplishments transcendental to national or ethnic boundaries. Led by the world-around radio-hamming's international electronic and communication language, and followed closely by the identities of the totalities of the evolving apparatus of the world Airocean, technicians from any part of the world can communicate with other technicians regarding Airocean technology apparatus."
World-Around language (2)
← World-Around Language (1) | World-Around Language (3) →
Index Entry
World nut-bolt-and-screw standards now trend towards world interchangeability through events such as swiftly shifting world orientations implemented by lend-lease apparatus, successful operation of which is dependent upon comprehensive interchangeability. These trends towards interchangeability, gaining swiftly in the last decades, are counter to the many exclusive international policies of commercial exploitation adopted in the first century of industrial revolution which sought anarchistically for unique standards representative of the industrialization originating in the respective economies to be superimposed upon the respective competitive colonization with hope of insurance of perpetuated dependence of the colonies through lack of interchangeability of their maintenance requirements with out-nation sources. The net of the world integrating events is that wherever generalized physical principles exist these generalized principles tend to persistent re-emergence while false clues dwindle and fade, and as all the while the scientific and technical leadership identifying generalized principles, seeks clarifying communicatable identity of the underlying phenomena.
World-Around Language (3)
← World-Around language (2) | World-around Language →
Index Entry
World-Around Language:
"The strength of the emerging supra-national unitary communication tools gains and the meanings become ever sharper, whereas the dubious meanings for untenable superstition and propaganda first become ragged, foggy, and then deteriorate into obsolescence."
Cite typescript, Synergetics Notes, circa 1955
World-around Language
← World-Around Language (3) | World-around Service Industry →
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Cross-References
World-around Service Industry
← World-around Language | World-around Tool Networks →
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World-around Service Industry:
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World-around Tool Networks
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World-around Tool Networks:
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World-around
← World-around Tool Networks | World Citizen (1) →
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One World
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- One-town World
- Service Industry
- Tool Networks
- Universal Language
- Dwelling Service Industry
- Unsettling vs. Settlements
World Citizen (1)
← World-around | World Citizen (2) →
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Earthian
World Man
Home: At Home in the Universe
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World Citizen (2)
← World Citizen (1) | World Corporations →
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Cross-References
- Private Property, 28 Apr'71
- Property, 29 Jun'72
- Humane City, (1)
- Human Unsettlement, (5)(6)
World Corporations
← World Citizen (2) | World Corporations →
Index Entry
World Corporations:
"World corporations' ownership shares are so worldwide in distribution pattern that soon all big corporations will no longer be known by prefixes, such as American, German or English. They will be known simply as world corporations. .... While this hatching of a World breed of chickens out of nationally laid eggs is an economic trend as yet popularly undiscernible, it is unquestionably one of the most important of present world history's developments. Corporations need no passport. They do not need to give up one brand of citizenship to take up another..... Many had thought that the development of 'world man' would be a uniquely political phenomenon. I do not think so. I think that the phasing out of all sovereignties and emergence of a one world society and its governing system will come about uniquely through the economic development of world industrialization economic systems-- i.e., world corporations. The latter inanimate legal entities will ultimately require world passports for their personnel. 'World' citizenry will finally be recognized politically after a majority of humanity become involved in the world-around industrial activity as consumers and share-owners, physical workers having been progressively displaced by automation."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to D.N. Robertson, 24 Feb '65, Pp. 3-4.
World Corporations
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World Corporations:
"In regard to a territorially exclusive license, geography is an absolute category as 'territory,' and exclusivity is far more quickly reached and maintained by uniquely advanced service within areas of unique functioning. This is the new world coming up when local town, county, state and national identifications are absurd other than as APO foci for communications between a world-around circulating and integrating humanity.
"This is a powerful trend. Private enterprise is taking the initiative entirely away from politics. Politics lingers in the twilight of geographical islands. Enterprise operates transcendentally to such limits. Major enterprise is inherently bound by Universe alone. The limits are the physio-chemical-mathematical economies of nature's multi-freedomed equi-economies. You can't be in the enterprise frontiers unless you are ready to operate transcendentally to yesterday's politically-fortified, Maginot-circumscribed, earthworm islands...."
World Corporations (1)
← World Corporations | World Corporations (2) →
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See Automation of World Production & Services Corporation
Industrial Network Functions
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- Automation of World Production \& Services Corporation
- Service Industry
- Transnational
World Corporations (2)
← World Corporations (1) | World Democracy (1) →
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Cross-References
- Canada, 15 Jun'74
World Democracy (1)
← World Corporations (2) | World Democracy (2) →
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World Democracy (2)
← World Democracy (1) | World Design Science Decade →
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Cross-References
- Electronic Referendum, 29 Jun'72 (2)(3)
- News & Evolution, (2)(3)
World Design Science Decade
← World Democracy (2) | World Game →
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World Design Science Decade:
"Quite clearly our undertaking will be looked at, if looked at at all, as an innocuous diversion of an inconsequential profession of interior and exterior house and building decorators. This will be all to the good. The project will be left alone to do its hard work."
- Cite RBF quoted in "Observations: Fuller's Earth," NewSociety, London, 13 Aug '64
World Game
← World Design Science Decade | World Game →
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World Game:
"I object to the idea of World Game as an 'education medium' as if it's something like a book that you can use in the schools if you want to, or not.
"The biggest problem of humanity right now-- and Martin Meyerson agreed with me-- is how to get all of humanity to learn what it's all about in the shortest possible time.
"That is educational, but my idea of education is really highly inductive. The child must experience gravity many, many ways before you give him the word-- gravity. He doesn't need the word-- gravity-- he's really learning how the thing works....
"The point is that World Game can make visible what is not visible in statistics, or in curves."
- Cite Tape #3, pp.5,6 & 8; RBF to W. Wolf, Phila. PA, 15 Jun'74
World Game
Index Entry
World Game:
"The World Game is a scientific means for exploring expeditious ways of employing the world's resources so efficiently and omni-considerately as to be able to provide a higher standard of living for all of humanity-- higher than has heretofore been experienced by any humans-- and on a continually sustainable basis for all generations to come, while enabling all of humanity to enjoy the whole planet Earth without any individual profiting at the expense of another and without interference with one another, while also rediverting the valuable chemistries known as pollution to effective uses elsewhere, conserving the wild resources and antiquities."
- Quoted by Rasa Gustaitis in WHOLLY ROUND, p. 124, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY 1973 - Feb'73
World Game
Index Entry
... He says he wants "to computerize World Game and develop large mechanical devices, great miniature Earths where society could see things happening. I find that unless people see things move they don't pay much attention to them...
"Not only do we have a very limited color spectrum-- of red, orange, green, blue, violet, which are less than a millionth of all frequencies operative in physical Universe, but we have a very limited motion spectrum. You don't even see the hands of the clock move. We do have afterimage enough to remember that the hands were over there.
"You don't see the trees grow and you don't see the child grow. So I've learned that when you do see things move you change. And it is possible to take a moving picture and accelerate the picture. In one of the pictures Bob Snyder /his son-in-law who makes films of Bucky and his work_/ has, you see-- the Kaiser dome in Hawaii I believe it was-- you see it all put together in one minute or a half-minute. So it is possible to accelerate in such a way that people will understand what they're seeing."
World Game
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World Game:
"Or you decelerate. Like those atoms that are moving at such speed that you don't see them in motion at all so it looks like a solid. It is possible to slow that whole thing down so that you can comprehend it. In my population movie, every second is a hundred years. You see it growing around the world like a bonfire... Being a sailor, mechanic, a scientist, I can visualize my boat in motion. I find lots of people don't do that. I can think of the different angles of keel. I can look at trends, I can look at figures..."
World Game
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World Game:
"The energy of Universe is eternally regenerative and inexhaustible. The metaphysical resource always increases. The game is 'How to make humanity a successful member of succesful Universe?'
- Cite RBF revision of "Ten Proposals for Improving the World," for EARTH, Inc., New Delhi, Dec'72
World Game
Index Entry
World Game:
"Theoretical Exploration Through World Game: World War gaming considers total use of total resources only for the maintenance of killingry in support of unilateral survival, on the mistaken a priori assumption of fundamental inadequacy of planetary life support. World Gaming discovers the inventory of meta-physical capabilities can amplify the life support effectiveness of the inventors of physical resources to accommodate all humanity.
"The 92 regenerative chemical elements themselves are only non-dissipatable and are only re-circulatable."
- Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, NY. Times, 29 Jun'72
World Game
RBF Definitions
In the world game do you think it's the word 'game' that leads people into false preoccupation with game theory and so on?"
RBF: "Very definitely. Some of my advisors and friends have been worried about that word. They think it will get people off on the wrong idea; and it may do so. I chose it because of war games, because I was really converting the negative playing of total data logistics into the positive; and in a sense it might be a unique phrase. I am sure the word 'game' introduces a hazard, but it never bothers me because it may act as a weeding process for people who oughtn't to be in it. Maybe their children will; but they may not be ripe. "
World Game
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The objective is to explore for ways to make it possible for anybody and everybody in the human family to enjoy the total Earth without any human interfering with any human and without any human gaining advantage at the expense of another. The programs that the computers will select as being most favorable for all humanity will go far beyond man's ignorant ways of assessing what he 'can afford.' The computers will demonstrate that he can afford nothing short of the best, which is to make spaceship Earth a successful environment for man. If anyone playing the game employs ideological biases and attempts to enforce the dominance of one by another, that player will be disqualified. The game must be won by peaceful means, by the use of intelligence and proper use of our resources. The players will not compete. They will engage in cooperative exploration to see how all humanity can win a successful, pollution-free life.
World Game (1)
← World Game | World Game (2) →
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World Game:
"I'm going to try to give the best definition I can today of world game. We've discovered that while you can't be exact, you can progressively reduce error, and that's exactly what mechanics and technology are doing . . .
"At any event I'd like then to try to be as exact as we can in talking about world game. We will make the best definition we can, to start off with, and then we'll keep refining it, making the first sorties at what we're talking about.
"World game is an attempt to ascertain the most effective way of complementing man's functioning in the Universe, in evolution. We're seeking to discover what the options are, if any, and then we're seeking to measure what the effects of our employment of various options are. Our resource is synergetic capability. Our strategy starts with the whole and works toward the particular. We've already ourselves learned that there is a phenomenon synergy and the very simplest case was that one single massive sphere hung up in no way indicates that there would be mass attraction if"
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- Tolerance Sequence, Jun
World Game (2)
← World Game (1) | World Game (3) →
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World Game:
"there were another sphere . . .
"This is simply saying that taking our statistics and starting with parts is never going to give us the kind of results we get when we start with wholes and and find out what behaviors as a whole are. To begin with, that gives us clues as to ways of exploring the behaviors of the parts. We find that we deal in a Universe in which unity is plural and at minimum two. We find that this is what we really mean by fundamental complementarity-- what the physicists are trying to get society to realize. . .
"So we find that complementarity is even more complex, that there had to be not only the keyhole, but the keyhole had to be in something, and the keyhole that was in something had to be related to the rest of the Universe. . .
- Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
Keyhole Sequence, Jun-Jul'69
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World Game (3)
← World Game (2) | World Game →
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'World Game:
"We have discovered that man has a function in Universe. If we know that he has a function, which man had not tended to think of before. . . I think that generally society looks on experience the way Shakespeare did: that man may be a theatergoer to be pleased or displeased.
"And I have not read anyone else finding or asking the question: Does man have a function in Universe? We have found one, which is a good tentative one, which is found in the same synergetic manner, looking at things in the biggest possible way. Observing that there is a fundamental complementarity, and that the complementations are rarely mirror images of one another, we find that the physical Universe is always locally entropic--that is, it is always giving off energy in one way or another. Because each local system has its own orbiting, and its own frequencies, and so forth, the ways in which they give them off are not synchronized with the others. Therefore, as they're given off, they're relatively disorderly.
- Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
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World Game
← World Game (3) | World Game →
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World Game:
"There seem to be phases when you and I automatically check in and say, 'That's a man.' 'I can see that's a living organism.' And another might say, 'I can see that's a crystal.' But we've learned now there's no threshold between these two. They used to be called animate and inanimate, and then we found that that is not true. . .
"Man is so specialized that he didn't notify society that he had found no threshold between animate and inanimate. This is simply to say, then, that whatever we really are, whatever life is, there is no identity of any threshold between or within the physical. And I'm saying to you very powerfully that I'm confident that our communication, everything you and I do, is absolutely weightless. The only thing that counts between you and me is thinking. The difference between human and other physical organisms is always the metaphysical, the thought."
- Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
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World Game
Index Entry
World Game:
"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 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 those touching things. Only in the past hundred years 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.
"These are a lot of reviews and I want to review with you our looking for man's function in Universe. We have our observation that every local physical system in the Universe"
World Game
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World Game:
"is entropic and becoming increasingly disorderly, taking up much more room. Because we've found out a fundamental complementarity-- that when the wave goes positive it also goes negative later on-- then we say there must be some phase of Universe where Universe is contracting and becoming increasingly orderly.
"And so this enormous energy is being collected here. Radiation is atomizing the ocean, and it gets dropped back again, pulled back by gravity as rain. We find vegetation operating on the dry land and the algae in the sea impounding the energy of the Sun by photosynthesis.
"Having learned that there are atmospheric highs and lows, you can really think about the way in which the Universe itself ought to be able to have Suns that are giving off energy"
Fossil Fuel Sequence, Jun-Jul'69
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- Radiation Sequence, Jun
- Wind Sucking Sequence, Jun
World Game
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World Game:
"in enormous ways and there must be some place where energy is being concentrated to become a new Sun.
"All the biologicals are antientropic. A baby couldn't grow to be entropic; the child would shrink, get smaller and smaller. But a child gets bigger, so it's antientropic. And it's absolutely orderly-- the most beautiful pair of two eyes doing whatever. Everything about it is antientropic. And everything about a human being that makes you sit where you're sitting in a quiet way is because we're seeking to understand and put in order. Understanding is finding order.
"There's no drive we have quite so great as the sense of order and the urge to employ the sense of order. The best I can see of man's function is the one of the mind. The mind has the ability to generalize. We don't have any experimental suggestion that the physical would be able to generalize. The physical is always special case."
- Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
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World Game
Index Entry
World Game:
"The great scientists and artist-scientists finding these life principles find them all never contradictory one of the other. They are intercomplementary; they are interaccommodating. There can't be a principle that has a 'beginning' and an 'ending.' We cannot suggest that an abstraction could have a beginning and an end. The words 'beginning' and 'end' have to do with the physical. . . ."
"All of this has to do with summarizing the why of the world game and what we're trying to do in the world game. I've come to my own working conclusion that the human does have a function; and that he is to be the most effective metaphysical orderer, comprehender, employer of information to be employed in different ways to make the world even more orderly-- and to do so without undue wasting of energy. Energy is supposed to be collected here. Therefore man can learn how to employ the energy patterns of Universe to do work. His job as metaphysical orderer has antientropic force or capability. His job is to rearrange the scenery continually-- to rearrange the somewhat random receipts of the stardust, and so forth, and to keep rearranging them in more effective ways and certainly for the regeneration of life itself."
- Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
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World Game:
"Part of this great orderliness is to try to understand that there is this function of understanding in the Universe. Man seems to be the prime, the only, manifestation we have of it; other than the a priori Greater Understanding, and I would think that our functioning is in every way to make that functioning successful aboard this spaceship Earth."
- Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69, Saturn Film transcript #327, pp.1-17.
World Game
Index Entry
World Game:
"All that you see here, it's very amateur-- as we've all said before-- but it's amateur in a field where there are no professionals, really. . . This kind of thinking."
- Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 15 Jun-31 Jul'69, Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, p.72.
World Game
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World Game:
"What we're proposing here is that the computerized world game become, really, world acceptable, because it is not in terms of bias. It's going to come out with answers all the time that don't correspond to any of the political theories of any of the countries. But what is important is assimilation by our society, and particularly by the young world that is finding the older world locally preoccupied. A young world that's suddenly informed by television and thinks about total spaceship Earth for the first time. But the older generation doesn't. The younger generation has the same compassion old generations and young generations have always had, but now it's for all of humanity, and the young generation is extraordinarily well apprised of all kind of new technical capabilities. They feel they're just going in the wrong negative directions. So they feel very intuitively that the older people are asleep at the switch and that something needs to be done. This is the first public witnessing of this group playing the world game. You are going to be confronted with finding out what are the potentials and actually mastering them."
- Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69, Saturn Film transcript, Sound 1, Reel 1, pp. 109-111.
World Game
← World Game | World Game (1) →
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World Game:
"...Most important of all we can't see the abstract weightless thoughts in the minds of other men. When we survey the total inventory of the motions and informations which we can sense, we find it to be very limited. The significance of all the foregoing is appreciated when we realize that it is only by such phenomena as can be seen to be moving or changing by the public that are politically recognized and heeded. That is why public opinion and vote sampling has come into ever more reliable use.
"Our computerized world game is designed to accelerate the too slow and decelerate the too fast of all the known vital trendings and thereby to bring them dramatically within popular consideration and our world game's solution. The game will show clearly how the trends will affect everybody's lives everywhere around Earth and how they could be taken advantage of in ways favorable to all humanity."
World Game (1)
← World Game | World Game (2) →
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World Game:
"The World Game I proposed for an exhibit in my dome in Montreal for the U.S. but the U.S. did not accept it as an exhibit but they did take my dome. I propose the World Game which would be played in the same comprehensive way that the navy has played war games-- through the ages, dealing totally with all resources.
"But with the computer comes a new capability. I have proposed that the United States have an enormous setup with miniature lights and have my map spread out flat so you see it as a football field. And there is an enormous bank of data in the inventory of world resources. You would then with the computer play the game which is the opposite of Von Neumann's game theory, where it is assumed that one side has to lose. It is assumed that there's nowhere near enough to go around, so one side has to die. He just plays off the dead and that's all you have. Sum zero.
"There is another game which is not really played in any general way, except it's sort of a lovely way, which is: 'How can both of us win?' Is it possible for both to be successful? Is it possible for all sides to be successful?"
World Game (2)
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World Game:
"That, of course, looms as possible in terms of science. But the trouble is all the international setups; you see the bureaucracy of politics everywhere. We are not educatable fast enough to realize that scientists could bring us enough to go around. But you can't do it if you have the protective barriers because the resources must be able to flow very evenly around. You would have to make all these alloys, and so forth. Have to be equal. You don't judge people in terms of where they live. They are simply world men. You must produce the world man. Science says you could make the world successful if you do that.
"So in my World Game I have proposed that we play the computer game and with this very dramatic setup, electronic capability, to see we might say: 'Where is all the copper?' and here's where it is. Which is low grade? How much is in buildings? How do we re-use our copper in such a way that we can improve the performance per pound, which lots of people haven't realized you could do. The game would be played by anybody. We would like the Russians to play this game. And everybody."
- Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, New York, tape 1, pp.2-3, 25 Feb'69
World Game (3)
← World Game (2) | World Game →
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"And quite clearly the game would come out in a way to be very contradictory not only to United States policy but to Russian policy and every policy. And it would be so dramatic-- what is going on-- that it would have to be published by all the magazines and television. It is so photogenic because everybody is so concerned. So we keep on playing the game and finally we find we could make it work, but it would take a thousand years to work out. So you play it safe. How do you reduce those years to get it down to 10 years? On top of this publicity, hand in hand with all the bad the world knows, we would get the world pushing on with: 'Why don't we follow the computer instead of following the old politicians and our reflexes. . . "
- Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, New York, tape 1, pp.2-3, 25 Feb'69
World Game
← World Game (3) | World Game: as Football Game →
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World Game:
"How may we organize our self-disciplining to deal comprehensively and capably with the maximum and minimum of limiting factors of the combined and complementary physical and metaphysical prime subdivisions of universe?"
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Citation at General Systems Theory, Jun'66
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Cite No.34 Speech, p. 24, Jun'66
World Game: as Football Game
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"I've been making a fantastic error in saying that World Game was not played against anybody and had no opposition. You play it against a fantastic number of things. For instance, inertia--unfamiliarity, fear. We worked out a football team. We have 11 very important players, life fear, and so forth. Who was the quarterback? Ignorance! He plays center. One of the guards is Inertia..."
"So we do have great opposition,"
World Game: Grand Strategy
← World Game: as Football Game | World Game Men Landing on Moon →
RBF Definitions
What is the grand strategy of World Game?"
RBF: "I start with the Universe and everything in the Universe counts. So there's a theory of first things first. So you do have critical paths, overlappings, and the scenarios, of course.
BB: "What are the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of your strategy?"
RBF: "The support of life on our planet."
BB: "So what in Particular?"
RBF: "Actually you get down to two things: metaphysical and physical. So there's the physical regeneration and the metaphysical know-how of how to employ all the resources, all the patterns, that are operating in Universe.... These are the criteria of what you need to keep a human being going."
World Game Men Landing on Moon
← World Game: Grand Strategy | World Game World Peace Game →
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World Game: Men Landing on Moon:
"Well, I might just also say that at the same time we were playing the world game was the first time that a man landed on the Moon. And I don't think it's coincidental. I mean I think that the consciousness of the world manifests itself in several different ways, and I think it was just absolutely vital that we were playing world game at the same time, and we could get the idea that there was a man, one of us, standing on the Moon looking back and seeing the whole Earth for the first time. It's really quite astonishing that we've never been able to see the whole Earth before, and we've never been able to play, not as politicians, but as world men.
"So I think the basic assumption that there are going to be political problems that will exist for a long time, but now for the first time we can really see the whole Earth, we can begin to work with the whole Earth in mind. . . There's been an enormous amount of attention paid to politics, and not much attention paid to understanding the whole of the world at one time."
- Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69, Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp.78-79.
World Game World Peace Game
← World Game Men Landing on Moon | World Game (1) →
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Cross-References
- Peace, 19 Oct'71
World Game (1)
← World Game World Peace Game | World Game (1B) →
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Dwelling: World-around Network Dwelling Service
Cross World Product Sequence
Options: Discovering What the Options Are
Cross-References
- Automation of World Production & Services
- Bare Maximum
- Club of Rome: Limits to Growth
- Design Science & World Game
- Economic Accounting System
- Energy Capital Sequence
- Energy Income Sequence
- Energy Slave
- Exponential Model vs. Limits to Growth
- General Systems Theory
- High Voltage Power Transmission
- Leaders Can Yield to the Computer
- Metals: Recirculation of Metals
- Pollution Control
- Population: Population Stabilization
- Geoscope
- Politics vs. World Game
World Game (1B)
← World Game (1) | World Game (2) →
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Spaceship Earth Sequence
Cross-References
- Resource Inventorying
- Service Industry
- Starting with Universe
- Tools of Reorientation
- Wind Power Sequence
- World Power Grid
World Game (2)
← World Game (1B) | World as Idea in the Mind of God →
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Cross-References
- Politicians, Mar'70
- Scenery: Rearrange the Scenery, (2)
- World Power Grid, (3)
- General Systems Theory, Jun'66*
- Inventory, 28 Apr'74
- Local vs. Comprehensive, (2)
- Visual Symphony, (1)(2)
- Navy Sequence, (7)
- Economics, 1 Feb'75
- Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens
World as Idea in the Mind of God
← World Game (2) | World Language →
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Cross-References
- Eccles, Sir John. C., 14 Feb'72
World Language
← World as Idea in the Mind of God | World Looks at Itself →
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Cross-References
World Looks at Itself
← World Language | World Man →
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Cross-References
- Geoscope = World Looks at Itself
- Universe Considers Itself
- Seeing the Whole World at Once
- Geoview
World Man
← World Looks at Itself | World Man Curve (1) →
Index Entry
World Man:
"The definition of a town as a place where you work and sleep will become realistically that of a one-town world. The whole historical pattern is going to be completely altered where men are inherently intimate with one another. Instead of being inherently remote we are inherently intimate. Everything we have done in all of our economic organization, the whole past history of man has been on the basis that we are remote. We are just going to have to reorientate ourselves to the fact that we are inherently intimate. This is going to bring about an entirely new set of circumstances. We are not separate countries or separate nations. We will be just as intimate as we are on the subway: you don't really know where anybody comes from. There will be no national or continental distinctions whatsoever."
- Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 117. 6 Jul'62
World Man Curve (1)
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Cross-References
World Man (1)
← World Man Curve (1) | World Man: Worldians (2) →
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Earthian
Cross-References
- Crossbreeding World Man
- North-south Mobility of World Man
- One-town World
- Sovereignty: Elimination Of
- Universe Citizenship
- Water: Trend Toward living on Water
- World Citizen
- Young World
- Homogenizing of Nations
- Unsettling vs. Settlements
- Human Unsettlement
- Home: At Home in the Universe
World Man: Worldians (2)
Cross Reference
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom: General
Systems, (IV)
Cross-References
- China
- Economic Accounting System
- Production, (1)(2)
- Philosophers, 22 Aug'70
- Planet Earth, 10 Nov'72
- Private Property, 28 Apr'71
- Property, 29 Jun'72
- Soleri, Paolo, 10 Sep'75
- Television: Third Parent, 14 Oct'69
- Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom: General Systems
- World Game
- Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine, (2)
World Map
← World Man: Worldians (2) | World Measurement →
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Transformational Projection
Cross-References
- Dymaxion Airocean World Map
- Dymaxion Airocean World Map Transformational Projection
World Measurement
← World Map | World Passports →
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Cross-References
World Passports
← World Measurement | World Pattern vs. Local Pattern →
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World Corporation, 24 Feb'65
Cross-References
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern
← World Passports | World Pattern vs. Local Pattern (1) →
Index Entry
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern:
"Ideologies and passport-- we don't need them. They were originated by people locked into their national identities. Passport regulations are no longer appropriate.... The whole world is still locked into its petro-pap-pipelines.... The great silence is the thorough intuitive awareness that world pattern will replace local pattern and that know-how accounting will supersede physical accounting."
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern (1)
← World Pattern vs. Local Pattern | World Pattern vs. Local Pattern (2) →
Cross Reference
Cross-References
- Cosmic & Local
- Human Unsettlement
- Proximity & remoteness
- Privacy vs. Community
- Unsettling vs. Settlements
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern (2)
← World Pattern vs. Local Pattern (1) | World Power Grid →
Cross Reference
20 Sep'76
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- Human Unsettlement, (6)
- Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, 20 Sep'76
- Dymaxion Car, (1)(2)
World Power Grid
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World Power Grid:
"This now feasible intercontinental network would integrate America, Asia, and Europe and integrate the night and day, spherically cycling, shadow-and-light zones of Planet Earth and would occasion the 24-hour use of the now only 50 percent of the time used world-around standby generator capacity whose 50 percent unused capacities heretofore were mandatorily required only for peak load servicing of local interconnected energy users. Such continental network integration would overnight double the already-installed and in-use electric power generating capacity of our Planet."
- Cite RBF quoted from his writings by Jm. Harlin, Architectural Forum, p. 76, Feb'72
World Power Grid (1)
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World Power Grid:
"The problem is always the electrical power. It's always the necessity of processing the food and getting the food to the people. It's fine to grow it in this area, but if you can't store it, you can't feed the people who are living in the other area.
"So, using all the information we've gotten about power and generating stations, and realizing that really the most efficient thing would be to overlap day and night and seasonal changes, we developed a way of . . . in a sense, cycling all the information toward one central scenario . . . which was to set up a major power grid over the face of the Earth. . .
"The first thing we find out is that if we do this, if we incorporate all the total potential, we gain about 15 trillion kilowatt hours, which is about a fifteenth of the total required. We begin to see that all over the globe we're able by 1980 to bring everybody to the bare minimum, which is about 2000 kilowatt hours per capita. . . Based on this information we draw one continous network which is essentially a closed system with existing transmission technology."
- Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69, Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 53-56.
World Power Grid (2)
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World Power Grid:
"Due to the fluctuations in local systems where peak demands occur at different times, you can use the same amount of generating capacity more efficiently, with no increase in terms of more plants.
"Another efficiency factor comes when we begin to cross the continent and we see that we begin to change seasons, so there are different amounts being used-- seasonal changes like day and night.
"This network allows you to bring in the income energy sources. One of the problems with wind power or solar power is that they are not dependable. For instance, if this city depended on solar power-- for the last two weeks it's been cloudy-- and we would have been in a lot of trouble. If you can tie into a network though, then it can feed in at times when the Sun is shining, but you don't worry about it, because you have other sources that you can get through your network.
"All these lines represent an enormous quantity of metal tied up in shipping, which could be scrapped and cycled into the power network. . . The synergetic effects of new technologies"
World Power Grid (3)
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World Power Grid:
"would probably reduce or eliminate the need for the actual metals to be invested in the system. But we are not investing anything new. What we're trying to do, and what world game is really always trying to do, is just to show what can be done with present efficiencies."
- Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69, Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp.57-65.
World Power Grid
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Utopia or Oblivion: Geosocial revolution. p/198
World Power Grid (1)
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World Power Grid (2)
← World Power Grid (1) | World & System →
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World & System
← World Power Grid (2) | World ≠ Universe →
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- World, 24 Jan'75
World ≠ Universe
← World & System | World War I →
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World War I
← World ≠ Universe | World War II →
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Metals: Recirculation Of, (a)(b)
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- Copper
- Copper Sequence
- Daddy, (1)
- Electromagnetic Spectrum, 22 Apr'61
- Extrasensoriality, (1)
- Inhibit, 9 Apr'40
- Locomtion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
- More With Less, May'70
- More with Less: Sea Technology, (1)(4)
- Navy Sequence, (3)
- Pure Principle, 6 Jul'62
- Transnationalism vs. Colonialism, (3)
- Wealth
- Weapons Technology Sequence
- Building Business, (2)
- Human Unsettlement, (1)(2)(4)
- Fortress Mentality, 12 May'77
World War II
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Cross-References
- Copper Sequence
- Daddy, (1)
- Dome: Rationale For
- Dwelling Service Industry
- Extrasensoriality, (2)
- Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
- Solid State, 13 May'73
- Wealth
- Wood Technology, (1)
- Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative, (1)
- Mutual Survival Principles, (1)
- Human Unsettlement, (3)(4)
- Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep'76
- Culture, 27 Jan'77
- Fortress Mentality, 12 May'77
- No Energy Crisis
World One
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Prior to 1975 the Dymaxion Airocean World: Waterocean was known as "World One." RBF has now redesignated this as "World Two."
World Two
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World Three
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Prior to 1975 the Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean was known as "World Two." RBF has now redesignated this as "World Three."
World Three (1)
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World Three (2)
← World Three (1) | World (1) →
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- Invisible Masters, Jun'56
World (1)
← World Three (2) | World (3) →
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Population: Center of World Population
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- Conscious World
- Earth
- Gross World Product Sequence
- Halfway-round-the-Worlding
- Making the World Work
- Satellite: World Satellite Sensing
- Trees: World-around Colors of Trees
- Not Out of This World
- Old World
- Real World
- One-world Management
- One-town World
- Seeing the Whole World at Once
- Third World
- City Management Concept of World Government
World (3)
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World as an Idea in the Mind of God
World Map: Dymaxion Airocean World Map
World One: World Two
World War I: World War II
World ≠ System
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- World Accounting System
- World-around Language
- World Service Industry
- World-around Tool Networks
- World Citizen
- World Corporations
- World Democracy
- World Design Scienceade, Dec
- World Game
- World Language
- World Man
- World Measurement
- World Power Grid
- World Passports
- World ≠ Universe
World
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Worm
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The almighty might decide to invest mind in a worm, but the worm wouldn't get enough information to make it worthwhile. Man is unique in being in the middle of the animal kingdom.
Norm
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Norm:
". . . And then the male birds fly off to sweep out areas of maximum anticipated metabolic advantage. . . . Worms."
- Cite RBF quoted by Reyner Banham in "The Dymaxicrat," Arts Magazine, Oct '63. (RBF speaking at University College, London.
Worm
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Worm:
"The other day I was complaining that [redacted] was acting like a worm and was destroying the assets of the company, to which Bucky aptly retorted, "Well, what do you expect a worm to do, start building apples?"
Worm
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- Bird's Nest as a Tool
- Boltzmann Sequence, (6)
- Ecological Pattern, 19 Sep'64
- Mind, 2 Apr'71*
- Organic Model, Oct'66
Wow (1)
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Wow:
"Energy is being given off by the local systems, then when the gears are not meshing-- though each gear is in orderly matter in its own right. When the gears don't mesh they're just tangent, as they take up much more room than when they mesh. And these are omnidirectional gears, more or less spikes. So that when they don't mesh they take up much more room. So the local physical world is continually more disorderly and nonsynchronized and taking up more room and therefore expansive. So the physical is increasingly disorderly. . . I would point out, however, that there are times when the disynchronous systems do synchronize. Most of you have had the experience of hearing maybe an airplane with two engines that are not synchronized, a boat with two engines that are not synchronized, but every so often they synchronize accidentally in a sense and so you hear it go ...WAUU-WAOU--WAUW as they come into synchronization.
"So while the locals are giving off energies that are not synchronizing, every so often they do. Some of the WAA.OU's are fairly high frequency. Some of the WIROU'S are very slow."
Wow (2)
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Some of them take over hundreds of millions of years for each wow. And if you haven't been around long enough to come to the next wow, you don't realize that it is orderly, that in due course it is matching, but on a very slow frequency basis. So because all of us have relatively very short lives, there seems to be a great deal of disorder to us, which would not seem disorderly to us if we had longer spans of observation. . . . We have very significant information coming to us from those who are doing the largest measuring and the most minute measuring. We do have entropy and the physical is expanding and temporarily, locally, very disorderly. It seems very clearly demonstrated in all our experience that the physical assumes a complementary oscillating phenomenon often when we have not been able to discover it. He suspects the positron to be possibly demonstrable sometimes when he's only found the electron. And he has this theoretical existence which may in due course make experimental demonstrations of the actual occurrence of that which he had held to be operational theoretically. In this kind of assuming it would seem to be absolutely logical that we have a physically expanding Universe, which is getting more and more crowded, and therefore,
- Cite SINS, 22 July '71, Talk 13, p. 10 (Cont)
Now (3)
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the expansion is in acceleration. That there must be some phase of the Universe where the physical energies are contracting and increasingly orderly. In order to sustain a regenerative Universe, it could not just be all expansive. There have to be collections to balance it, very much as we think of our experiences with the weather. We have low prrssures and high pressures in the atmosphere, and the low pressures are exhausting it by vacuumizing, pulling the energies out of the highs until that low pressure itself forms a high pressure. There is a great pulsative exchange of highs and lows. An I felt that what our physical Universe sumtotally might have is just such a pulsating. I'd be very interested if we could discover some phase of the Universe where the energies are contracting and becoming increasingly orderly.
- Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 13, pp. 10-11
Wow
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Wow:
"A wow is an interference phase where, for just a second, it is not in interference."
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.
Wow
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Wow:
"The game of Universe is like chess. . . The vector equilibrium becomes the checkerboard and you can change the frequency to suit anybody. . . Wow-Wow, synchronizations . . . A Wow is an interference. . . Adding to it the complexity of mass attraction . . . "
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Cite RBF to EJA, Washington, DC, 7 Oct.'71.
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Citation & context at Chess: Game of Universe, 7 Oct'71
Wow: The Last Wow (1)
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The energies that fit into our local system here on Earth are energies given off by other systems. Every chemical element has its unique frequencies, and those frequencies can be thought of as the teeth of a gear. . . In synchronization you have two engines of an airplane or boat and they don't turn over at exactly the same rate, so you hear rrhooOWW, rrhooOWW, rrhooOWW. They come into phase and go out of phase. Universe is doing just that with these constantly associating and disassociating energies. Some take millions and millions of years before they rrhooOWW. But in any case we can observe that these energies appear disorderly merely because they are temporarily not meshing with something else.
When the gears and the teeth don't mesh, they take up more room. You get an omnidirectional crowding, things moved faster and faster around the periphery to accommodate the continual expansion of crowding and disorderliness. But the limit of that velocity is what Einstein called the speed of light, the speed of radiation of all kinds, 186,-000 miles-a-second. This is top speed because when you get to where everything is in phase, all the crowding stops.
Wow: The Last Wow (2)
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Wow: The Last Wow:
"In other words, energy in disassociation expands outwardly until it reaches the last cycle in the total regenerative system. We know about total regeneration because physics has demonstrated that energy is never created nor lost. So we know that as men alive in the Universe, we're dealing in a finite system of overlapping scenarios in which finally the whole scenario tape gets melted down and reprinted and we get a new show."
- Cite RBF to Barry Farrell, Playboy Interview, 1972. Draft. p. 12.
Now: The Last Now
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The speeds of all the known different phases of measured radiation are apparently identical despite vast differences in wavelength and frequency. Einstein's adoption of electromagnetic radiation expansion-- omnidirectionally in vacuo-- as normal speed suggests a top speed of omnidirectional entropic disorder increase accommodation at which radiant speed reaches highest velocity. This highest velocity is reached when the last of the eternally regenerative Universe cyclic frequencies of multi-billions of years have been accommodated, all of which complex of nonsimultaneous transforming multivariateied frequency synchronizations is complementarily balanced to equate as zero by the sum totality of locally converging orderly and synchronously concentrating energy phases of scenario Universe's eternally pulsative, and only sum totally synchronous, disintegrative, divergent, omnidirectionally exporting and only sum totally synchronous, integrative, convergent and discretely directional individual importings.
Tension and Compression
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Wow: The last Wow (1)
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Wow: The last Wow:
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"Finding a Universe in which energy is not being lost, Einstein assumed a finitely regenerative physical Universe. Some of the regenerative transformations occur rapidly; others very slowly. As energies which were in smooth coordination within a system are given off entropically they do not immediately synchronise with energies given off by other systems, due to the fact that every chemical element has its unique frequencies. Toothed gears correspond with wave frequency cycles. Waves are cyclic. Whatever the number of teeth might be, we can call the wave frequency. Two gears that do not mesh can only be brought into tangent proximity and take up more room than do meshing gears. Frequencies given off entropically that don't mesh with energies given off by other systems take up more room in Universe. Therefore we have a physically entropic Universe that is everywhere locally taking more room, ergo expanding, and increasingly disorderly, from the short time-span local viewpoint. However, from time to time you will have frequencies synchronized. You may be familiar with the sound of an airplane's engines when they are not synchronized. You hear them go, periodically . . wow . wow .. wow .. wow .. wow .. because every so often they do
- Cite Museum Keynote Address, Denver, pp.12-13, 2 Jun'71
Wow: The Last Wow
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"synchronize. Amongst all the various energies being given off locally and entropically in scenario Universe-- some of them wowowowowowowowowowowwow, very fast-- and some of the periodic wows may not occur for multi-year spans; and some of the periodic wows don't repeat in less than 100 million years and greater spans. The significance of Einstein's assumption of a maximum 186,000 miles per second velocity of radiation of the energies being given off in a disorderly omnidirectional way, is thatthere is a top speed. And while 700 million miles an hour, or 186,000 miles per second is very fast, it is very slow in comparison to no time at all. And this 700 million miles an hour top speed of Einstein has utter significance because it means that when we come to the last periodic wow-- necessary to accommodate all frequencies-- Universe doesn't have to expand any more and relative disorder ceases.
"The significance of Einstein's radiational top speed is that there is a point of complete regeneration by which our Universe is the only and minimum perpetually self-regenerative system, a self-regenerative Universe of fantastic complexities and design of great integrity, of which then the sum-total of"
Wow: The Last Wow
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Wow: The Last Wow:
"running through the total film takes hundreds of billions of years before it accomplishes its remotest re-wow."
- Cite Museaum Keynote Address, Denver, pp.12-13, 2 Jun'71
Wow: The Last Wow
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Wow: The Last Wow:
"The significance of the top speed of radiation is just waiting for the last 'wow!""
Wow: The Last Wow
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Wow: The Last Wow:
"Eddington's Proof of Irreversibility: A box of wooden matches dumped on the table. Each one splinters the other a little; therefore there are little hairs sticking out. They could never be put back in the box in the same way without pressing, i.e., without investing more energy. (Here operates the law of the increase of the random element.) The cycle keeps on, time and again, from dust to atoms to proton to neutron... This is what nature is doing: pulsating ;.. highs and low pressures... maximal dispersal, and then reassociation, because of regeneration: 100 million years later they'll all be back in the box again... at the last Wow!"
Wow: The Last Wow: Re-wow (1)
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- Asymmetry
- Black Hole
- Comet: Around Comes the Comet Again
- Cycle: If You Wait Long Enough the Cycles All Reoccur
- Expanding Universe
- Meshing
- Meshing & Nonmeshing
- Negative Universe
- Oscillation
- Synchronization
Wow The Last Wow Re-wow (2)
← Wow: The Last Wow: Re-wow (1) | Wrapability →
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- Chess: Game of Universe, 7 Oct'71*
- Degrees of Freedom, 13 Dec'73
- Entropy, 16 May'72
- Self-regenerative, 2 Jun'71
Wrapability
← Wow The Last Wow Re-wow (2) | Frank Lloyd Wright →
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- Omnidirectional Typewriter
- Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities
- Unwrap
- Tetrascroll
- Winding & Unwinding
- Unbandage the Sphere
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright:
"The last time I visited Frank, he introduced me to his fellows, saying, 'I am an architect interested in science. Buckminster is a scientist interested in architecture.' His name will be known through the centuries for reasons that are entirely mystical, because he understood, as does every great scientist, that the more we learn the more we realize how little we know. He saw science supplying things for art to work with. He was the last of that era of great composers. I was the instrument man."
Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright on R. Buckminster Fuller:
"Buckminster Fuller-- you are the most sensible man in New York, truly sensitive. Nature gave you antennae, long-range finders you have learned to use. I find almost all your prognosticating nearly right-- much of it dead right, and I love you for the way you prognosticate. To address you directly will be a hell of a way of reviewing your book-- I know. I should write all around you, take you apart, and put you together again to show-- between the lines-- how much bigger my own mind is than yours and how much smarter than you I can be with it and leave the essence of your thoughts untouched.
"But I couldn't do it if I would and I wouldn't do it if I could. To say that you have now a good style of your own in saying very important things is only admitting something unexpected. To say you are the most sensible man in New York isn't saying much for you-- in that pack of caged fools. And everybody who knows you knows you are extraordinarily sensitive. .. Faithfully, your admirer and friend, more power to you-- you valuable 'unit.'"
Wright, Frank Lloyd
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McLuhan, Marshall, (1)
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- Artist, 24 Jan'72
Wright Brothers
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Wright Brothers:
"It is possible for us now to take the design initiative, not waiting for patrons to tell us to go to work and thereby freeing ourselves for the scientific designing of a successful livingry system for man in Universe. .. There are no patrons with free capital initiative who are concerned exclusively with world problems. However, there was nothing fundamental to stop the Wright Brothers from considering the use of all the sky surrounding the Earth and all the technical knowledge accrued to mankind and all the developed resources of the Earth in their invention and development of the airplane. Their province was inherently transcendental to sovereign nations and political theories. Their victory affected all men everywhere. Within ten short years the two Wright brothers did more for mankind-- by bringing men to their collective senses, and by bringing men together around the world to witness one another's ways of life, and one another's individual integrity, thereby to understand each other-- than all the politicians have been able to do in all the millenniums of history."
- Cite MEXICO '63, pp.15-16, 10 Oct '63
Wright Brothers Airplane
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- Invention, May'70
- Periodic Experience, (6)(7)
Wrist
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Wrist:
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- Axis: Finger-wrist Axis
Writing
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Writing:
"I work on different books at the same time-- like a painter."
- Citation & context at Naga to Eden, 17 Oct'74
Writing
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Writing:
"Once you get into writing you find suddenly that you're tapping a much larger audience and that they really will support it."
- Cite RBF address at MYC, Dubuque, IA, 15 Dec. '71, p. 14
Writing (1)
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Writing (2)
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Fuller, H.B: The Thinking Me, a8 Dec'76
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- Naga to Eden, 17 Oct'74*
- Pole Vaulter, 2 Jul'75
- Communications Hierarchy, (2)
Wrong Door
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Wrong
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Wrong: See Doing Right Things for Wrong Reasons
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