
D

RBF DEFINITIONS
Daddy:
Daddy came
"All through the years Daddy was the authority.
home, brought home the food, brought home the killings; he
was the hunter and the soldier; he was the farmer protecting
the family.
(1)
"And Daddy saw the other people, the Roher soldiers and farmers;
he saw the king and he was able to tell the kids what the
authority says outside his authority and what the rules are.
This is what his Pa taught him; this is how you handle the tools.
Daddy is an authority about everything. This is the way Dad says
it is and that's the way you emulate the way he says it is.
"So that was how language evolved.
"When I was 32, in 1927, suddenly Daddy came home and the kids
said, Daddy, a man's just flown across the Atlantic. Lindbergh.'
And Daddy says: 'How do you know that?" 'It's coming over the
radio, Daddy.' Daddy didn't bring that news home and he hasn't
brought it since.
"So a completely new thing happened as a consequence of World
War I. And World War II brought us to the point where television"
-
Cite tape transcript, pp.21-22; RBF to W. Wolf, Gloucester,
Mass, 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Daddy:
"came in.
"Most important of all we had to invent languages. All those
languages are so different; but sight is a universal language,
what you see. What this did was to bring the world together in
a way it had never been put together before.
(2)
"It's not really what the ne caster is saying; it's what the
kids are really seeing out there anywhere. Kids look at the
way things work. They see everbody around the world now. They
are being educated together; nobody's going to put some tricks
over them politically.. Now this wasn't predicted. But the
kids see that Dad and Mum are absolutely a minor authority.
They can tell you what's going on in the shoe stores, tell you
a little bit of local news, but it's all absolutely irrelevant.
Dad's not telling us about Man's getting to the Moon. Kan's
been her for three and a half million years and Daddy's been the
authority all that time. Suddenly nature has gotten enough
information and the tools for communication and there's a young
world here. She's cut the metaphysical cord, the metabilical cord."
-
Cite tape transcript, p.23; RBF to W. Wolf, Gloucester, Mass.,
2 Jun 74

Dali, Salvador:
See Artist, 24 Jan'72
Artist:
Histrionics, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dalton: John Dalton: (1766-1844)
"Dalton was then at the mental stage of the interpretation
where he thought that they really had found the smallest
thing, the atom. He thought all the atoms were made up of
the hydrogen atom. There was no nucleus, just atoms.
They
were not broken up into protons or anything else. it was
just atoms and they thought they had actually found what
Democritus had talked about. He thought that they had found
the smallest hard core thing. It was invisible, below
sight, but there it was-- if you could get a fine enough
microscope you could find a hard core thing."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 123. 6 Jul162

Dalton, John:
See Building Blocks, (1)
Darwin, (A)
Twenty Questions, (1)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (6)

Dam:
See Hydroelectric Dan
(1)

Dam:
See Rearranging the Environment, 9 Apr'71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dance:
"Dance is the language of Universe."
-
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, Intro. (C), 30 May$75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dancing:
"We learn that we can orbit and spin at the same
time. We call that dancing."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 143. 6 Jul*62

Dance: Dancing:
See Conversation Sequence, (1)(2)
Communications Hierarchy, (2)

Dangerous Condition:
See Equilibrium, 1965

TEXT CITATIONS
Dare To Be Naive:
Synergetics: Front matter: "Moral of the Work," First line.

Dare to Be Naive:
See World-around Communication Transcends Politics,
(2)(3)
Repetition, 2 Jul 75
Self-discipline, 28 Mar '77

Darling:
See Outlaw, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Darwin: Charles Robert:
(1809-1882)
"Since experience is finite it can be stored, studied,
directed and turned with conscious effort to human
advantage. This means that evolution pivots on the
conscious selective use of cumulative human experience
and not on Darwin's hypothesis of chance adaptation to
survival nor on his assumption of evolution independent
of individual will and design."
Cite MARKS
by RBF. 1971
10 as re-written for SYNERGETICS (Secc 502.23)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Darwin:
Evolution May Be Going the Other Way:
" .There is no breeding experience of Earthians which
suggests that the limited inventory of different chemical
elements constituting amoebas could be progressively amplified
and complexed to produce the wide variety of chemical elements
constituting the unique information-harvesting organisms
employed by metaphysical humanity.... It is implicit that
amoebas and other simple organisms can be progressively, sub-
divisionally isolated out of complex organisms such as those
of humans and introduced into an intercomplementary environ-
ment-sustaining complex, but not vice versa.... Darwin's
evolutionary sequence was brilliantly conceived, but its
occurrence programming was in reverse of reality."
-
Citation & context at Human Mind & Physical Evolution, (2)(3),
5 Jun 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Darwin:
Evolution May Be Going the Other Way:
"I've been recently supported by scientific developments
which suggest that I may prove to be correct in assuming
that Darwin's theory of evolution is in reverse. Darwin
assumed evolution proceeding from the simplex to the
complex. I am
cofident that the Universe works the other
way, developing simplexes to accommodate the a priori of a
Universe in which there are 92 regenerative chemical
elements. There are too many chemical elements involved
in humans to be able to go from amoeba to man. Man is not
born a specialist. He can't fly or swim very far, or
anything. But he can use his mind to discover and employ
the principle of negative pressure, which is called 'lift';
and he accomplishes flight and flies ten times as fast as
the bird, then takes off his wings when he's not using
them and lets others use them. So humans have the capability
to understand abstract 'weightless' eternal principles and
we have the maximum number of sensitivities with which to
gain information and employ in principle. You can't come to
this maximum complex of human sensitivities and information
handling from just a hydrogen atom. There's a lot of
hydrogen in us but at the time of Darwin, Dalton was the
great physicist and he thought all atoms of higher number"
(A)
Cite RBF quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview, p. 202, May *$2

RBF DEFINITIONS
Darwin:
Evolution May Be Going the Other Way:
(B)
"Were comprised of hydrogen atoms. So with this building-
block idea Darwin built a science of evolution. Now it's
very easy to inbreed by concentrating parental genes and a
special type-- that is to
breed a faster running
horse by mating two fast runners. Inbreeding is always
accomplished by breeding out general adaptability. It is
easy to go from a man to a monkey by inbreeding but, there's
no indication, nothing in the history of breeding aywhere,
that suggests being able to ge the other way."
-
Cite RBF quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview by Beverly
Russel, p. 202, May 1972

RBF DEFINITIONS
Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way:
"The notion that starting out with unity as one (such as
Darwin's single cell) will provide simple and reliable,
arithmetic compounding (such as Darwin's theory of evolution:
going from simple to complex ameoba monkeyman) is an
illusion that pervades the elementary educational concept.'
-
Citation
& context at Synergetic Advantage:
Principle UK, 44 PHY 7T

RBF DEFINITIONS
Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way:
Man may
"It is possible that Charles Darwin was wrong.
have come to Earth from another Planet. In Darwin's time
all the sciences were unsophisticated and Darwin had to base
his theory of evolution on available information,
Now there is different information, gained from nuclear
physics, genetics, molecular chemistry. Archaeologists
keep finding examples of man having lived on Earth as long
as four million years ago, but the evidence does not always
indicate a more ape-like structure. Evolution may be going
the other way-- Niwrad-- and it is possible that we may be
making monkeys of ourselves."
-
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, Queen, May 170 (Not in Bantam edition)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way:
"We will probably learn that Darwin was wrong and that man
came to Earth from another planet and monkeys are hybrids
degenerated by overlong inbreeding of isolated humans."
- Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, WDSD Doc 3, p. 65, Aug '64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way:
"So began to see that so-called evolution had been really
inversed. About 1935 I had the advantage of Meeting Henry
Fairfield Osborne who was at that timehead of the Natural
History Museum in New York and author of three volumes
updating Darwin. I asked him if there was anything in
Darwin's data that said that the patterning could not have
been in reverse. There was no question about the integrity
of the interrelatedness of the
patterning-- that this
one is very close to that one and that there is an evolution
between them-- but could the evolution not have been that
of separating out, rather than associating? Might you not
then have had one way the Universe came out which would have
been like us . . . I am talking about
defining man as
one way the Universe could have come out.
•
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 173. 9 Jul'62

Darwin: Evolution May be Going the Other Way:
See Building Blocks, (1)
Evolution, 1960
Free Will, 1960
Hetaphysical Independent of Inbreeding, (1)
Synergetic Advantage:
Principle of, 24 Mar 71*
Human Mind & Physical Evolution, (2)(3)*

412
Darwin's Evolutionary Trenda;
See Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way

TEXT CITATIONS
Darwin:
(For a systematic exposition of Darwin see THIS IS YOUR
GRAND STRATEGY, 4 Feb 168, pp. 8-9.
Barry Farrel tape transcript; Bear Island; 14 Aug 70 -
Tape #4; Side B; p. 22, 21 24.
229.02
502.23

Darvin:
See Determinism
Early Man
Evolution
Free Will vs. Darwin's Determinism
(1)

Darwin:
(2)
See Building Blocks, 9 Jul'62
Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom UP (1) (2) (8)
Free Will, 1960
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer, 4 Mar'69
Marx, Karl, 7 Aug170
Pirates: Great Pirates (5)
Twenty Questions (1) (2)
Synergetic Advantage:
Principle of, 24 Mar 71
Human Beings & Complex Univerze, (6)

Data:
See Vitalistics

DATES IN THIS FILE
Dates in this File:
See Census of 1810
Fuller, R.B: Discoveries of 1913
Fuller, R.B: Energetic Geometry: I Began the
Search in 1917
Fuller, R.B:
Crisis of 1927
Fuller, R.B: Ecological Predictions of 1927
Shelter Magasine: Publication of in 1930's
Fuller, R.B: Commitment to Humanity of
Depression: Great Depression of 1930's
Energetic/Synergetic Geometry: Original
Publication in 1944
Geophysical Year: IGY:
1965
Nineteen Seventy-two: 1972: History's Most
Critical Year
Social Economics: Majority Control of Social
Economics by World Man by 1975
Year 2000
International Cooperation Year:
Dwelling Service Industry:
One-town World of 1927
Dome House Grand Strategy:
Trial-balance Cut-off Year:
1965
1977 Birth of
1927-1977
1977
1927-1932

da Vinci:
See Leonardo

Dawning Awareness:
See Intuition, 26 Dec 74

Dawn: Dawning:
See Awareness, 27 Dec 73
Now, 25 Apr 71
Second, May'72

Day:
See Diurnal Cyclic Experience
(1)

Day:
See Invented Periodicities, May'49
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Dead Animal:
"Live animals' brains sense only that
The 'dead'animal is inactive.
Animals do not think.
They have only brains.
Man alone has mind.
Man alone can think.
Only thought can discover
The hierarchy of generalized principles."
-
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.7, 28 Jan'69

Dead Animal:
See Animate & Inanimate
Burial of the Dead

Dead Center of Universe:
See Experience, 12 Sep 71
Vector Equilibrium, 1 May'71

Dead Center:
See Alterbate Dead Centers

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"Employing the scientifically accurate words IN and Out
in the place of DOWN and UP synchronizes our everyday
reflexing with the 20th century-emerged electromagnetic
Universe behaviors. What we once thought of only statically
as solid things' vs. empty space' becomes that unique
program which we have tuned into our tunable set vs. all
the millions of now-being-broadcast programs which we did
not have tuned in (i.e., are tuned-out, but may be tuned-in.)
"Death is all the cosmic programs we haven't as yet tuned in."
Cite RBF rewrite of 28 Mar 77 citation; 3200 Idaho Ave.,
Wash, DC; 29 Mar' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"Death is just something we haven't tuned in yet."
-Cite RBF to White House Fellows, Watergate Hotel, Wash.,
DC; 28 Mar' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"I am not the physical. Life is immortal. I have no feeling
of death. I know you may not be able to see me again....
"I write to Jack and his wife said I'm sorry but he died. But
I'm still writing the same Jack; I'm not writing a dead Jack.
Jack can't die; it's really so.'
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

RAF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"Comprehending and knowing are eternal. Little children know
this fact intuitively. The child can play 'shoot grandmother, '
because he knows that her love is eternal. You can't kill
granother. Grandma, grandpa, and everyone else are eternal.
A true story: Father, mother, and little boy are driving along
the freeway en route to grandmother's house. Little boy keeps
talking about grandpa and how he is going to play with grandpa.
Finally his mother says, 'Darling, you have forgotten that
grandpa is dead.' Little boy: What! Again?' Only residual
ignorance of temporality dulls the growing comprehension and
allows fear to corrupt the child's innately absolute trust in
love."
-
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD (3): PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY AND ETERNAL
PRINCIPLES, World Mag., 11 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"Where syntropy is gaining over entropy life prevails
Where entropy is gaining over syntropy death prevails."
->
Citation & context at Feedback, May171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"So he spoke about then the fact that if a man is born then
he grows up, he has children, has grandchildren, then he
dies; he overlaps these children. He is an energy
aggregation that grew and waxed and then he disassociated."
Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, P. 26

AbFFINITIONS
Death:
"Ey body, 140 pounds ... when I die it will be
unimportant-- yesterday's cereals."
Cite RBF in Robert Snyder film (140-minute version.), 4 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"Only life's temporary vehicles
Can be destroyed.
"Life is inherently immortal."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning." p.4,
28 April 1971,

RBF JEFINITIONS
Death:
"With death the individual loses nothing, but gains the
insight and knowledge of all others as well."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS
"Conceptuality: Life"
RBF
Marginalia, Somerset Club, Boston
25 April 1971

REF DEFINITIONS
Death:
"Our individual life is a special case. Death reverts
to the whole. It may not seem satisfactory but the
individuals survive in awareness because they are
potential to the whole-- like the averse of plus (+)
and minus (-) weights."
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
13-Karch 1971
Citation and context at Life, 13 Mar' # 71

RBF DAFINITIONS
Death:
"When early navigating aan was separated from his group by
a storm, he would rarely find them again. He would discover
unfamiliar places. Out of this sprung a fatalistic philosophy--
I see you now but soon I may never see you again. Thus
death itself was not to be abhorred. God became the prevailing
winds and currents which seemed to be leading you away.
He
carried you forward. One learned to release the old and take
on the new. There was no basis for grief or nostalgia
because you never touched upon the past again. This is the
reason that the oriental feels so differently about death."
-
Cite AG TO THE INVISIBLE SEA, p. 14. 1970

RBF DEFINTIONS
Death:
"The concept of life
Is unique to the mind.
Brain apprehends
Only the physical.
Brain does not differentiate life and death."
"
Citation at Brain & Mind, 28 Jan'6y
HISED PRINCIPINO, P7RY

RAP DEFINITIONS
Death:
"Normal speed is 46,000 times man's rocket speed. Therefore,
man is-- relatively speaking- almost as immobile as death."
Citation & context at All-acceleration Universe, 20 Jun'66

RBP DEFINITIONS
Death:
"I begin to realize the dimension of the thinkable you
are phenomenal when I hear the radio and hear Mozart.
In these kinds of dimensions there is quite a different
relationship to what we call dead, which is strictly a
tactile thing. I put the touchable thing in the ground
but I can't put the thinkable you in the ground."
Citation and context at Thinkable You 5 Jul 62

Death: Apparent. Discontinuity of:
See Evolution: Man as Evolution Modifieer, May'49

Death: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death:
See War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death

Death by Want:
See War: Slow Death by Slume vs. War as Quick Death,
4 Jan'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death:
Weighing of People as They Die:
"Communication is weightless. In the weighing of people
as they die, science has found that no weight is lost, only
electromagnetic frequency is lost...."
Citation & context at Communication, 21 Jun 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death: Weishing People As They Die:
"Humans dying in hospitals have often been weighed as they
crossed the threshold between life and death. No weight is
lost. Life is weightless, imponderable. When life has departed,
the radiant heat, the brain-propagated energy waves, and the
radiance of being are alike gone. The full physical inventory
of the corpse remains-- useless, reminscent, but that is all.
That is the way I read the data of man's significant exploring."
•
Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 3 Oct164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Death: Weighing of People As They Die:
"Humans about to die in hospitals have been carefully
weighed as life departed. No weight was lost. Whatever
life is, it is imponderable."
"Then in good health and 'good form' the total myriad component
functions of our physical organic being are entirely subordinated
to subconscious coordinate functioning, commanded by the
integrity of the individual life. When life has departed, the
full physical inventory remains-- useless, reminiscent, but
that is all."
my
Citation and context at Subconscious Coordinate Functioning,
10 Oct 163

Death: Weighing of People as they Die
See Automation, Jun'69
Life, 13 Nov 69; May 72
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning, 10 Oct '63*
Twenty Questions, (3) (4)
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid, (A)
Communication, 21 Jun 77*

Death:
(1A)
See Afterlife
Birth-death Interplay
Burial of the Dead
Dead Animal
Discontinuity of Death
Dust of Death
Game: Dying as a Game
Grandfather Dead:
Inanimate
Immortality
Life & Death
What Again
Life Is Not Physical
Local Dying
Mortal
Pyramid Technology
Quick & the Dead
Threshold of Life
Yesterday's Concept of "Into the Next World"
Stone Falling and It's Going to Hit You on the Head
War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death

Death:
See Complementarity of Growth and Aging
Yesterday's Concept of 'Into the Next World'
Between & Beyond
(1B)

Death:
See All acceleration Universe, 20 Jun'66*
Artifacts, 1963
Brain & Mind, 28 Jan'69*
Feedback, May'71*
Life, May 49; 13 Mar'71*
Norm of Einstein as Absolute Speed, Jun'56
Phantom Captain, 1938
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning, 10 Oct 63
Syntropy & Entropy, Feb 71
Thinkable You, 5 Jul 62*
Teleology, (1)(2)
(2)

Debiasing:
See Self-debiasing

10
RBF DEFINITIONS
Debt:
"Debt indicates depletion
and borrowing from diminishing resources.
Debt was a necessary item in accounting for
agricultural failures of the isolated periods.
There is no possibility of absolute debt occurring
in the new economics made available through the
accomplishments of science.
This is because the basic constituents of the wealth
can no longer be depleted."
Cite Part II., Earth Inc.
Fuller Research Foundation
Yellow typescript, p. 13. 1944

Debt:
See Deficit
No Absolute Debt

RBF DEFINITIONS
Decaxial:
"Offhand I don't know of any pentaxial system.
But the
ten axes connecting the mid-faces of the icosahedron
would, of course, make up a decaxial system."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC, 25 Feb '72

Decay:
See Growth & Decay

Decease of Meaning:
See Meaning: Decease of

Peceleration:
See Eternal Slowdown
Acceleration & Deceleration
(1)

Deceleration:
See Scenario Universe, 22 Apr'68
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Decentralize va. Centralize:
"I have listened with great interest to discussions regarding
decentralisation and centralisation and I have thought that the
question of whether it is valid to decentralise or centralize
is unanswerable because it deals with one one-way sign in
two-way traffic. It is a static question in a dynamic Universe."
Cite PREVIEW OF BUIDING, I&I, p.199, 1 Apr 49

Deceptiveness of Topology:
See Quanta Loss by Congruence

Deception: Deceit:
See Self-deception

RBF DEFINITIONS
Decimal and Duodecimal:
"Pictured at [Synergetics Illus. #697 are the 15 great
circles developing from rotation of the icosahedron in respect
to the 15 axes interconnecting opposite midpoints of the
icosahedron's 30 edges. The 120 resulting right spherical
triangles represent the maximum unitary subdivision of a
one-radius system. This fact was long known in mathematics.
Since 120 is 10 times 12... this geometric relationship may
underlie both the decimal and duodecimal systems of modular
accounting; and may have been derived by subdividing a
finite system into its lowest common denominator... We inher-
ited the combined decimal and duodecimal systems from this
fundamental thinking in early Babylonian science and in the
mathematical invention of the Sino-Indian navigators."
Cite MARKS, p.138, Fig.1,7, caption. 1960

Decimal & Duodecimal:
See Prime Number, 16 Oct'71
Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr 43

Decondition My Subconscious Reflexing:
See Twelve-inch Steel World Globe, (1)

Decoration: Decorating:
See Exterior Decorators

Decreasing Confusion: Law of:
See Conservation of Finite Universe: Principle of, 20 Jun'66

Decreation:
See Destructuring
(1)

See Structural Sequence, (B)
Decreation:
(2)
13

Deed:
(Property Deed):
See Real, 20 Apr '72
Squatters, (1)

Defense:
See Politicians & Defense Budgets

Deficient: Deficiency:
See Antipathy, 15 May' 72
Diet, 11 Feb 73
Heredity, 15 May 172
Norm: Tetrahedron as Norm, 15 May' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deficit Accounting:
"There will be no such thing as deficit accounting. You
cannot live on deficit accounting. You cannot eat deficitly
or drink water deficitly. What is to eat is there-- as the
water is there."
Citation and context at Economic Accounting System (1), Feb'67

Deficit Accounting:
See Afford
Debt
Resource Inadequacy
No Absolute Debt

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definable:
"The locally definable entity is not complete for it does
not exist by itself. All experiments show that local
entities are inherently both entropic and antientropic, 1.e.,
all local systems are always intimately linked with the rest
of Universe by measurable import and export pattern trans-
actions. Definable entities are uniquely functioning
components of Universe.
"
- Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO,p.135, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definable:
"Definable thought patterning deals only progressively
(by rescanning) with the local event foci of experienced
patternings of Universe. Definable thought, though
constituting systematin consideration and orderly recon-
sideration which returns omnidirectionally upon i talef in
local conceptual relationships, is only a subdivision of
finite, which is Universe, which is inherently inconceivable
unitarily."
Cite ONIDIRECTIONAL HALO, P.134, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
11
Definable:
The universe is finite, and all its com-
ponents definable."
Cite INTRO. to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 122, 1959

Definable: Definability:
See Generalized Topological Definability
Wave & Particle Definability
Angle & Frequency Kodulation
Nondefinable
Local Definiability
(1)

Definable: Definability: Defining:
See Closed System, 1968
Up & Down Sequence, (4)
Visibility & Invisibility of Systems, (1)
Omnirational Control Matrix, 12 May175
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definite:
"I assume that the physical universe is definite
And the metaphysical universe is finite.
What men have called infinite
I call finite
And what men called finite
I call definite
1,,, definitive.
Finite is not conceptual.
Definite is conceptual.
Therefore, the combined
Physical and metaphysical universe is finite."
-
Cite HOW LITTLE, p. 58, Oct166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definite:
"Einstein's intellect
Defined energy as E =
MC2
Energy cannot define intellect.
Intellect the metaphysical
Is comprehensive to
Energy the physical
While Universe is finite
Energy is definite
Because definable.'
Cite HOW LITTLE, P. 35, Oct'66

IF DEFINITIONS
Definite:
"What man used to call infinite, I call finite what
man used to call finite, I call definite; i.e. definable--
conceptually definable. The differences are all finitely
and rationally calculable."
- Cito NASA Speech, p. 87, Jun166
Citation and context at Comprehensive Universe (1), Jun'66

RBF JEFINITIONS
De-finite:
"Different shapes, ergo different abstractions, are
nonsimultaneous; but all shapes are de-finite components
of integral though nonsimultaneous, ergo shapeless,
Universe."
Citation & context at Abstraction, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
De Finite:
"De finite is a sub-set of finite."
-
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE, 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
De-Finite:
"I assume that the physical, universe is definite
And the metaphysical universe is finite.
What men have called infinite
I call finite
And what men called finite
I call definite-- i.e., definitive.
By my philosophy
The finite, but imponderable
Metaphysical universe
Embraces the definit,
Ponderable, physical universe.
Finite is not conceptual.
Definite is conceptual.
I have mathematical proof
That the difference between the sums
Of all the angles around all the surface vertexes
Of any conceptual definitive physical system
And the finite but nonconceptual metaphysical universe
Is always 7200
Or a difference of only one
Definitive tetrahedron,
Therefore, the combined
Physical and metaphysical universe is finite."
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, p.58, Oct166

RBF DEFINITIONS
De-finite:
"De-finite equals finite minus outwardness
and inwardness. "
-
Cite UANIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 142, Caption Fig. #4,
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
De-finite:
"It is in evidence that Universe as the coordinate integral
of all experience is finite yet nonsimultaneously recollect-
able-- ergo, unitarily unpatternable-- ergo, conceptually
unthinkable-- ergo, undefinable. This is to say undefinable
does not mean infinite or un-finite. It means that definability--
de-finite is a subset of finite-- ergo pattern definition is
a subset of finite-yet-unitarily-undefinable Universe. The
definable conception is therefore the first thinkable subset
functioning of Universe."
-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, Pp. 133-134, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
De-finite:
"Universe is finite.
Local systems are de-finite."
-
Cite COLLIER'S
Oct 59
, p. 113

Definite: De-finite:
Finity & Definity
See Finite & Definite:
Finite Minus Definite
Locally Conceptual
Local Definability
Nondefinable
Local Systems
(1)

Definite: De-finite:
See Abstraction, 1971*
Bias on One Side of the Line, May'65
Comprehensive Universe, (1)*"
Shape, Oct 59
Tools of Geometry, (2)
Universe, (1) (2)"
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definition:
"Vectors and tensors constitute all elementary definition."
Citation at Vectors & Tonsors, 11 Oct'73

noF JEFINITIONS
Definition:
"Physics has found the whole physical Universe to be
uniquely differentiated and locally defined as 'waves. **
-
Citation at Physical Univeras, Nov*71
Give Kit marginalis at SYNERGETICS.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definition:
"The frequency and magnitude of event occurrences of
any system are comprehensively and discretely controllable
by valving, that is, by angle and frequency modulation.
Angle and frequency modulation exclusively define all
experiences which events altogether constitute Universe.
"
-
Citation at Angle & Frequency Modulation, Oct 71

RBFD DEFINITIONS
Definitions:
"Synergetics predicates all its relationship explorations
on the most accurately and comprehensively statable
observations.
of direct experiences."
* Citation & context at Synergetics, 9 Dec '70
K. marginal notations on
fthe cards in Beverly Hotel, New York,
9 December 1970.

RBF DEFINIT ONS
Definitions:
"We may assume that all definitions are tentative."
Citation & context at Indeterminism, Oct16y

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definitions:
"Angle and frequency modulations
discretely define
all events or experiences
which altogether constitute universe."
Citation at Angle & Frequency Modulation, Jun'66
Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definitions:
"Unless we have experimentally demonstrable and
scientifically definable meaning in our words, we cannot
communicate effectively with words.
"
•
The degree of effectiveness of communication
is proportional to the degree of exactness of commonly
accepted definition of meanings of the words used. This
statement is a corollary of my long-held working assumption
that a problem adequately stated is a problem fundamentally
ripe and potential of solution."
-
City DOXDADIS
307, 20 Jun±óó
Citation & context at Communications Theory, 20 Jun '66

Definitions: Defining:
See Angle & Frequency Modulation, Oct'71*; Jun'66*
Communications Theory, 20 Jun'66*
Conceptuality, 24 Apri71
Eternal Slowdown, (1)
Indeterminism, Oct'69*
Omnitopology, 19 Dec' 73
Physical Universe, Nov' 71*
Synergetics, 9 Dec 70*
Tenetative, 1971
Thinking, 2 Jul 62
Time, 1970
Truth, 30 Jun*75
Structure, 23 Jan 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definitive:
"Physical science . . . restricted its comprehen-
sive accounting strategy to the special case of definitive
isolations within the physical portion of Universe. This
left the remainder of all experiences, no matter how
earnestly and meticulously reconsidered, outside the
definitive portion of comprehended experiences of Universse,
i.e., the physicists said that all that is not physically
encompassed as E = mc2 is metaphysical."
CIT INTRO
1999
-
Citation and context at Physical Sciences, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Definitive:
"Each life as we know it is definitive, i.e., consists of
a plurality of terminable, ergo definite, experiences
beginning with each awakening and terminating with each
surrender to sleep (no man can prove upon awakening that he
is the man who he thinks went earlier to sleep, or that aught
else which he thinks he recollects is other than a convincing
dream). The intermittent beginnings and endings of conscious
experience constitute an aggregate of definitive experiences--
and the aggregate is therefore finite."
- Citation and context at Universe (1)(2), 1959

Definitions:
See Communication
Dictionary
Meaning
Prime Definition
Self-definition
Undefinable
Verb
Word
Definable:
Definability
(1)

Deflection:
See Hammerthrow
Pea Shooter
(1)

Deflecting: Deflection:
See Visual, 22 Feb 77
(2)

Degenerative Negative Limita:
See Radiation, 1959

HBF DEFINITIONS
Degenius:
"I became convinced then that all life is born as genius
but gets to be degenius-ed very rapidly. I wondered whether
it may not be possible then to develop an environment for
a new-born life where it would not get degeniuse-ed. This
18 why I became preoccupied with environment.
I felt that
a little child had what laharishi is able to regain as
human beings: how to break through to those fundamental
faculties with which we are all endowed. I had hoped that
I might be able to protect what we find in that new-born
child, its purity and its brilliant conceptuality, its
contact with eternity."
at SIAS, U. lass., Amherst, 22 July 71,
Cite RBF
Talk 12, p. 12.

RF DEFINITIONS
Degenius:
"It is my conviction, from having watched a great many babies
grow up, that all of humanity is born a genius and then
becomes dereniused very rapidly by unfavorable circumstances
and by the frustration of all their extraordinary built-in
capabilities. Everybody's specialized now. We couldn't be
getting ourselves into worse trouble since we also learn that
all the biological species became extinct because they over-
specialized. So overspecialization's the way to extinction,
and society's all tied up with specialization. Everbody is
born to be a comprehensivist. If nature wants to develop a
specialist, she does, and if nature wanted you to be as
specialist, she'd have you born with one eye and a microscope
fastened on to it."
Cite RBF in "The Listener" transcript by John Donat, 26 Sep*68

MBP DEFINITIONS
Degenius:
"Every child is born a genius but is quickly degeniused
either by unwitting humans or by physically unfavorable
factors of the environment. The bright ones are those who
are less damaged than the others."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 19, Jun'66

Degenius:
See Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses
Unlearning
(1)

Degenius: Degeniused:
See Education, Jun'66
Environment, 22 Jul 71
How Little I know, 1968
(2)

DEGREES IN THIS FILE
Degrees in this File:
See Ninety Degreeness
Sixty Degreeness

RBF DEFINITIONS
Decrees: 5° 16' :
See Pulse Patter, 2 May'71
Twinkle Angle
Equimagnitude Phases, 18 Nov'65; 19 Dec*73
Vextorial & Vertexial Geometry, (4)
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 6°
See Equimagnitude Phases, 18 Nov 65; 19 Dec 173.
Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle
Spherical Excess
Neutral Angle, 16 Dec'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Darrees: 6° 16' :
See Pulse Pattern, 2 May'71

FILE INDICATORS
Degrees: 7° :
See Aberration Limit, 22 Jun '72

Degrees: 7° 20' :
See Quantum Sequence, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees:
7° 20° :
See Unsipping Angle: Tetrahelix,
Equimagnitude Phases

ARBF EDEINITIONS
Degrees: 10° 32' :
See Pulse Pattern, 2 May171
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec$73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 15° :
See Aberration Limit, 22 Jun'72

Degrees: 20° 54' 18.57"
See Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle
Synergetics text at Sec. 902.21
+ Table 905.65

Degrees: 31° 43' 02.9"
See Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle
Synergetics text at Sec. 902.21
+ Table 905.65

Degrees: 36°
See Tetrahelix, 10 Jul'62

Degrees:
37° 22' 38.53"
See Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Triangle
Synergetics text at Sec. 902.21
+ Table 905.65

RHF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 40° 36' :
See Protective Transformation (IV)

FILE INDIVATORS
Degrees: 45°
See Octant: Octantation
Trigonometric Limit
XYZ Quadrant at Center of Octahedron
(1)

FILE INDICATORS
Degrees: 45° :
See Aberration Limit, 22 Jun 72
Numbers System is Inherently Octave, 3 Mar* 73
Octahedron, 3 Mar' 73
Octant, 20 Jul 73
(2)

Degrees: 54° 54' : 54° 44' :
See Icosahedron: Great Circles of, Oct172
Pulse Pattern, 2 Kay171
Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (4)
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec '73

Degrees: 59° 02' :
See Icosahedron: Great Circles of,
Oct 72

Degrees: 60° 23'
See Dymaxion Airocoan World Kap:
27 Jan 75
Icosahedral Version,

TEXT CITATIONS
Degrees: 63° 26' :
Synergetics text Sec. 1120.01, footnote.

kb DEFINITIONS
Degrees:
63° 26'
See Projective Transformation (V)
Projective Transformation: Raleigh Edition (1)

Degrees:
70° 32° :
See Unzipping Angle:
Tetrahelix, 1955
Cosmic Neutral, 16 Dec 73
Pulse Pattern, 2 Fay'71
Coupler, 27 Jan '75
Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, 140
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 72° :
See Protective Transformation (V) (VI

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 72° 32' :
See Projective Transformation (IV)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 84° 44' :
See Twinkle Angle, 1955

HBF DEFINITIONS
Degreen: 98.6° :
See Temperature of the Human Body
(1)

Degrees: 98.6° :
See Human Beings and Hard Machinery, 20 Apr 172
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 109° 28° :
See Sphere, Nov'52
Cosmic Neutral, 16 Dec'73
Tetrahedron: Regular Tetrahedron, 29 Nov 72
Coupler, 27 Jan '75
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees:
120° :
See Symmetry, 31 May'71
Dynamic Symmetry, 31 May' 71
Sphere, Nov 152

Degrees: 168° 50' :
See Icosahedron: Great Circles of, Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 180° :
See Trisection of an Angle, 22 Nov'73
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy of (1)
Straight Line, 180-degree Thinking
Side Effects, 10 Dec'73
Synergetics, 1969
Geodesic Line, 20 Dec 73
Precession (a)(b)

FILE INDICATORS
Degrees: 180° :
See Precession & Degrees of Freedom, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 221° 36' :
See Projective Transformation (IV)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 360°:
See Circular Unity
Babylonian Mathematica
Number System is Inherently Octave, 3 Mar 73
Octahedron, 3 Mar 73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Degrees: 720° :
See Tetrahedron (2)
De-finite, Oct '66
Descartes, 19 Jun 71
Triangle, Jun'71

Degrees:
1080° :
See Triangle, Jun' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees of Freedom:
"There are six positive and six negative degrees of freedom.
It's not ever an either/or linear, go, no-go, condition.
anything'
"So much freedom is permitted by the rules of Universe and at
such high frequency of re-employability as to make
possible, though some things will take longer than others--
some in split seconds, some in billiqlight-year increments."
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec'73,
as amplified by RBF at 3200 Idaho, 13 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees of Freedom:
"There are aix positive and six negative degrees of freedom.
It's not an either/or condition ever-- so much is permitted
by the rules of Universe.'
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees of Freedom:
"The conceptuality of different degrees of apartness is
fundamental to a plurality of degrees of freedom, which
induces the real-ization of time."
Citation & context at Time, 1 Apr172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees of Freedom:
"The different degrees of freedom are equally free, but they
are all of minimum Effort."
Citation and context at Economical, 9 Jul'62

Degree-of-freedom Rate:
See Change, 9 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Degrees of Freedom & Bonding:
"Willard Gibbs' degrees of freedom are the complementary
of bonding."
-
Cite RBF to EJA,
3200 Idaho, Wash.DC.; 24 Jan'76

Degrees of Freedom & Bonding:
See Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms, 2 Nov' 73

Degrees of Freedom:
(1A)
See Four Degrees of Freedom
Six Degrees of Freedom
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom
Alternate:
Alternative
Chess: Game of Universe
Electable
Energetic Freedoms
Free Will
Inventions that Decrease the Degrees of Freedom
Inventions that Increase the Degrees of Freedom
Loss: Discovery Through Loss
Man's Degrees of Freedom of Action
Options: Optional
Rate: Degreen of Freedom Phenomena Rate
Restraints
Precession & Degrees of Freedom
Ke Ball
Nature Modulates Probability
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom
Copotentials of Initial Freedoms

Deprees of Freedom:
See Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms
Six Positive & Negative
Motions:
Energetic Functions
Structural Functions
(1B)

Degrees of Freedom:
See Awareness, 10 Feb173
Design Science, (1)
Economical, 9 Jul*62*
Fourth Dimension, 1969
Change, 9 Nov 72
Gibbs:
Phase Rule, 1960
Most Economical, 9 Jul'62
Parts, 1954
Reality, 26 Sep'73
Time, 1 Apr 72*
Pole Vaulter, 2 Jul 75
Individual Life as One Way Universe Could Have
Turned Out, 5 Jun'75
Freedom, Jan'77
(2)

De-grown:
See Destructures: Destructuring
(1)

De-grown:
See Organic & Inorganic, May'49
(2)

Deity:
See Early Words, 1960

Deja Vu:
See Game: Synergetics as a Game, (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deliberately Non-Straight Line:
(A)
"My deliberately non-straight line gets straighter and
straighter by having less and less diameter whereas your
attempted straight line gets worse and worse.
With my
deliberate non-straighter of very high frequency, you can
carry on all the geometrical proofs of the Creeks and
Egyptians and all the geometries since that time with
confidence that my deliberately non-continuous high frequency
event tracery is much straighter than any of the lines
employed by the geometers up till now. I said my deliberately
non-straight line was also discontinuous as each of the
thousands of fibers overlapping each other in my dacron
rope consisted of molecules which consisted of myriads of
atoms and each atom consisted of a plurality of separate
electrons and nuclear components, the electrons being as
remote from the nucleus as the Moon from our Earth,
therefore discontinuous and cohered only by the mass
attraction and electromagnetic laws. In a fundamental
way my deliberately non-straight line, when viewed through
a field emission microscope, looks like the milky way as
a tracery of stars in critical proximity to one another,
that is affecting one another and each holding the others
as part of a system, the galactic nebula. You can think of
my circlet of rope as the same fundamental pattern as the
Cite BF dictation to Alexandra Snyder, Ashoka Hotel, Nov 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deliberately Ron-Straight Line:
"great Milky Way circlet of our island Universe."
-
Cite RBF dictation to Alexandra Snyder, Ashoka Hotel,
New Delhi, India, November 1971
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deliberately Non-Straight Lines:
Quasi 'straight' lines are deliberately non-straight
lines. See Illustration #13,
"As we double the frequency and halve the wave length
of positive and negative waves we approach relative
straightness.
Proof that two deliberately non-straight
lines between points A C approach relative straightness
to more effective degree than attainable by an assumed
straight construction."
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS, caption #13, May'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
DELIBERATELY
Deliberate Non-Straight Lines
(1)
"Pure mathematics' axiomatic concepts of straight
lines are completely invalid. The pure mathematicians'
straight line must be infinitely, instantly and all its
parts simultaneously existent. It must avoid being progressively
generated or drawn as an experimentally-produced action-
trajectory of one system modifying another. Any action-
trajectory's trail-width would not bear microscopuc
inspection without disclosing gross irregularities. Pro-
gressively closer inspections of experimentally attempted
demonstrations by the pure mathematicians of their alleg-
edly straight lines always disclose increasing angular
digressions from straightness.
"While the mathematicians' 'straight' lines get less
straight, with ever closer inspections, the 'Quasi straight
line as a deliberately non-straight line does et pro-
gressively straighter. It does provide all the finite
geometric functions heretofore served by the mathematicians'
alleged but unprovable straight line.
"Progressively doubled frequency of modular subdivision
of deliberately non-straight line swiftly approaches an
NON-STRAICHT LINE SEC. 522.] Cite NASA Speech, p.44, Jun'66
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deliberately Nonstraight Line:
(2)
"Approaches an 'apparently' straight, but known-to-be-non-
straight line. Each V is converted into an equilinear
distance W.' This single wave 'W' becomes an equal-energy
value 'W' or two half-size waves. As the frequency of the wave
subdivisions are multiplied, the quasistraight line swiftly
approaches 'straight' behaviors.
"Lines of sight' taken with transita are truer than string
lines or pencil lines. Sight approaches 'staright' behaviors.
Lines of sight are high-frequency energy wave interactions.
Because the truest lines of sight are energetic wave quanta,
they are always finite.
"Light reaching us from the Sun... is geodesic."
-
Cite NASA Speech, pp.44-45, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deliberately Non-Straight Line:
"What the mathematician thought was a straight line
is not a straight line but is an ultra-visible high
frequency, linearly articulated event. This binary math-
ematics methodology of halving, or cybernetic 'bitting'
not only explains linear wave phenomena but also identifies
Pythagoras's halving of a music string to gain an exact
musical octave. The computer programmed to employ the
cybernetic bits of binary mathematics progressively sub-
divides until one of its peak or valley parts gets into
congruence with the size and position of the unit we seek.
This identification process is accounted for in the terms
of how many bits it takes to locate the answer, that is,
to tune in.'"
-
Citation at Bits:
Bitting, Jun'66
-
City NASA S
REDUCTION
BY BITS -
SECS, 52236, + 527.31/

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deliberate Non-Straight Line:
"Nature abhors an equilibrium as much as she abhors
a perfect vacuum or a perfect anything. For instance,
when an airplane in flight comes to equilibrium, we call
it a stall, and the plane become unmanageable and goes
swiftly out of equilibrium and into a plunging field of
gravity. But I saw that we could approach or employ an
almost perfect equilibrium as we employed a crooked line
which swiftly approached but never reached the perfect or
exact. I saw that a comprehensive structural system would
have to involve all the positive and negative tendencies
either side of equilibrium. The comprensive system would
have also to involve all the topological pattern components
and as a quasi-equilibrial structure would have to be
approximately the same length; therefore, all the angulation
would have to be in inerements of sixty degrees."
AYAGADRO
Citation at Equilibrium, Jun166,
-
Cite CARBONDALE DRAFT, IV St
Jun66

TEXT CITATIONS
Deliberately Non-Straight Line:
251.36
420.041
See SIFS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 12,
p. 30, et seq.
463.04-403.05
502.41
522: 522.01-522.23
5540.13
5540.14

Deliberately Nonstraight Line:
See Basic Raft
Circuit
Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model
Hyperbolic Paraboloid
Hypotenuse
Line: Imaginary Straight Line
No Straight Lines
Prime Vector
Rope
Wavilinear
Halving the Halves
Zigzag:
Right-left:
Halfway Averaging
(1)

Deliberately Nonstraight Line:
See Bits: Bitting, Jun166*
Equilibrium, Jun'66*
Reductio ad Absurdum, Nov' 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Deliberate:
"Science identifies as... objective... the deliberately
initiated and experimentally instituted responses to the
subjective stimulations. "
- Citation and context at Subjective & Objective, 14 Sep*71

Deliberate:
A Priori vs. Deliberate Design
See Design:
Experiment
Inadvertent
Voluntary & Involuntary
(1)

Deliberate:
See Subjective & Objective, 14 Sep' 71*
Tunability, Deciby
Design, 8 Sep 75; 29 Mar' 77
(2)

Delimit:
See Population of Cities, 10 Sept 75

Delta:
DA 6:
See Division, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democracy:
"At the time of 1776 democracy worked very well for the U.S.
when America was geographically isolated. But now, with
48-hour world-around travel, and one-minute world-around
speech, the most powerfully spoken free speech is not always
the voice of the people, it's just the voice of the CIA or
the KGB staging demonstrations in the cold war opponents'
And
countries where 100 people are made to look like 1,000.
all the sides are now using this psychological warfare while
they are competing groups. Once communication can be seen as
within a single planetary community undivided by individual
sovereignties, then democracy can work perfectly again."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC., rewrite of 10 Sep175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democracy:
"Democracy worked well with the initial one-to-one corres-
pondence. Today, democracy is not working. It is not the
fault of the concept of democracy. Democracy is unable to
express itself.... Particularly amongst the young there is
a feeling of absolute futility. The system is not working."
-
Citation & context at Planetary Democracy, (4)(5), 15 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democracy:
"Democracy's right-left pulsations are imposed by nature's
wave behaviors."
"
-
Citation & context at Social Sciences:
Analogue to Physical
Sciences, (1); 13 Nov'69

nisF DEFINITIONS
Democracy:
P
There are no invisible masters of World Two.
Visible masters are anathema in World Two. World Two is
inherently governable only by the complementary
integrities of initiative of the individuals of democracy."
-
Citation & context at Invisible Masters, Jun' 56
Cite RBF June 1956, Caption №2"
Llarks book
ABF.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democracy:
..Democracy, and science, and technology make a complex
assembly into industrialization.'
Citation at Industrialization, 28 Apr'48

Democratically Coagulating:
See Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature, 1965

Democracy:
See Closed-sphere-system Democracy
Cosmic Democracy
Planetary Democracy
World Democracy
(1)

Democracy:
(2)
See Communications, 1967
Electronic Referendum, 29 Jun172
Industrialisation, 28 Apr*48*
Initiative, 10. Aug170
Invisible Masters, Jun' 56*
Revolution, Jan' 72
Thinking 10 Dec 73
Patent, 22 Aug 70
Sovereignty (1)(2)
Telegraph, 8 Jun'75
Social Sciences:
Analogue to Physical Sciences, (2)*
Mutual Survival Principles, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democritus:
"Thus also synergetically did Democritus
Starting with the totally known complex
Of visible Universe behaviors,
Come to conceive shematically
Of the logically necessary existence
Of primary yet invisible components
Of the physical Universe
which he named 'atoms,
More than two millenia in advance
Of nonsynergetically plodding science's
Physical verification
Of the microcosmic stardom role
Played by those atoms."
-
Cite INTUITION, pp. 74-75 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democritus:
Though "Democritus did not and does not own any atoms... he is
irrevocably identifiable with their conceptioning and naming."
-
Cite RBF quoted by Stephen Mullin, in Introduction to UK
Edition of UTOPIA OR OBLIVION; 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democritus:
"
... When we hear the word 'atom' we are hearing Democritus,
for it was he who evolved the sound word 'atom' to identify
his unique metaphysical conslusions in regard to the nature
of the physical world. Democritus is as large and as
persistent in time dimension as may the word 'atom' persist
in man's communicable thought. Because concept 'atom"
provides our cogntion of metaphysically immortal Democritus,
the more we think of it the more astonishing it is that we
identify man only as the clothes-bedecked chemistry complex
through which metaphysical subconsciousness communicates to
consciousness of self or others. The error of our spontaneous
behavior and cognition is equivalent to our identifying those
with whom we communicate via the telephone as being the
telephone itself."
Citation and context at Brain's TV Studio (2) + (3), 6 Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Democritus:
(5th Century B.C.)
"Democritus considering experience invented the word 'atom.'
He invented a very different kind of a concept. It is true
that the atom they thought of turned out not to be the atom
of our present exploration, but it was invisible and that
he dared to think of invisible entities was very, very
Whenever you and 1 hear the word atom we hear
Democritus. That is how big he is and that is pretty big
daring.
and completely independent of the years."
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 99. 5 Jul 62

Democritus:
See Dalton, 6 Jul'62
Lavoisier, 1 Oct'71
Thinkable You, (1)

Demonstrable vs. Thinkable:
See Geometrical Functions of Mine, (4)(5)
81013.51-1013.52

Demonstrable:
See Experieght
Experimental Demonstrability
Experimentally Founded Mathematics: EFM
Nondemonstrable
Proofs: Mathematical Proofs
Redemonstrable
(1)

Demonstrable:
Demonstrability:
See Minimum Limit Case, 9 Jun'75
(p)

Denominator:
See Largest Common Denominator

Density High Frequency:
See Spherical Field, 9 Jan '74.

Density: Densification:
See Chemical Bonds, May172
Spherical Field, 9 Jan'74
Chemical Bonds: Quadruple Bond, 19 Dec*73

Denucleated Phase:
See VE & Icosa, 26 Aug '75

Department:
Departments:
See Nature Has No Separate Departments
(1)

Department: Departmenta:
See Individual Universes, (2)
(2)

Dependent:
See Independent
Locally Dependent

Deployment: Man's Increasing Deployment Pattern:
See Backyard: My Backyard is Just Getting Bigger
Radius of Man's Locomotion
Locomotion:
Outreach
Sweepout
Travel
Travel in a Human Lifetime
North-south Mobility of World Man
Mobility
Unsettling vs. Settlements
(1)

Deployment: Man's Increasing Deployment Pattern:
See Acceleration of Change (1)
City, 1971
Humane City, (1) (2)
Human Unsettlemnt, (4)-(6)
Old Man River Project, 20 Sep' 76
Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine, (1)(2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Depreciation:
"We're setting up our books all the time on the invalid
basis of depreciation, which was just on the basis that our
food was always spoiling. But the values are really cumulative,
and irrelevant to the agricultural cycle."
Cite RBF to Henry Liberman, NY Times, 22 Jun 172

Depreciation:
Depreciative:
See Appreciative vs. Depreciative
(1)

Depreciation:
See Building Industry, (1)
123
(2)

Deprefixing:
See Search vs. Research, 14 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Depression:
Q.
RBF:
Great Depression of 1930's:
Is the recession of 1975 at all like the great
depression of the 1930's?
(1)
"Not at all. It is quite different. Ky book 4-D
was written two years before the crash but its content predicted
what was coming. It's funny that not that many people owned
stocks and bonds anyway.... Society was just naive.... It was
depressing: people stopped being communicative... they were
just sitting in rooms. There were no protests down the street
and the politicians-- like Nixon-- were just saying: There's
nothing wrong here.
"But there has now been much more education. And the issues
are different. The Forgotten Kan is very much in today.
In
1929 there was an enormous respect for power per se. The old
people were supposed to know everything. And when the working
man did get money he wanted to see things like the older
people. But in 1975 the young people are purged. The base is
different.
"You hear that
be nicer in Engangs, are awful in England, but it really couldn't
-
Cite RBF at videotaping Session Philadelphia, PA., 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Depression:
Great Depression of 1930's:
"In 1929 people wanted a leader. but politics are not
essential. You don't have to have a government. It's like
the crew of a ship: everyone knows exactly what to do in
spontaneous coordination. Ships rescue each other but people
pass you up on the street. If there is anything anathema to
the sailor it is a sea-going politician.
(2)
"It's been the money-makers vs. labor. Look at the way the
b.cDonald's liamburger stands exploit the young people who work
for them. But in England people still love their jobs.
Our
businessmen are too hard and it takes all the joy out of work.
And so we just disconnect. Once we get out of the clutches of
the money-makers people are going to want to work. It can be
very informative to wait on tables. Now we have all these
big office buildings half-empty. In the 1930's the churches
paid no attention.
Cite RBF in videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb 75

Depression: Great Depression of 1930's:
See Intuition, 1971
Airspace Technology Environment Controls, (1)
Building Business, (2)(3)
Buil
ilding Industry, (1)
Domes, 12 Hay' 77
Fuller, R.B:
On Drinking Liquor, 22 Jun177

Deproject:
See Dynamic Symmetry, (1)

Depth:
See Radial Depth
Thickness
(1)

Depth: Deepness:
See Fortress Mentality, 12 May' 77
223
(2)

Deputy:
See Spontaneous Deputies

Desalinization:
See No Energy Crisis, (1)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Descartes: (1596-1650.)
"Descartes is the first of record to have discovered
that the sums of the angles of a polyhedron is always
720 less than the number of vertexes times 360°.
Descartes did not equate the 720° with the tetrahedron,
nor with the one unit of energy quantum which it
vectorially constitutes. He did not recognize the
difference between the visibly definite system and the
invisibly finite universe, which is one finite
invisible tetrahedron outwardly and one finite
invisible tetrahedron inwardly."
[0]
Cite RBF on Synergetica draft, Sec. 224.083 - 19 June 1971.
(In response to direct query from EJA.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Descartes:
"Certainly, Descartes discovered the 720° all right,
but he didn't realize it was the tetrahedron. . . .
and that it could be turned inside and outside."
(RBF Comment on reading letter from H.S.M.
Coxeter to Barry Farrell dated 28 Sept. 1971,
in which Coxeter says: "The theorem about
720° , so charmingly described on page 9
[Nehru Speech] in terms of flattening out a
tiger skin, was discovered by Descartes
(see my Regular Polytopes, Macmillan, New
York, 1963, p.23).")
The tetrahedron can become invisible; it has an
internal invisible tetrahedron of concave angles 720° or less."
Cite RBF to EJA in Chicago, Blackstone Hotel, 31 May 1971

Descartes:
See Calculus

Described Universe:
See Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (E)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Description:
*Edges and vertexes do not come together as the same
number system.
You can describe the world both ways and
not be redundant. The world as seen by a child and the
world as seen by an old man
descriptions."
could not be redundant
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 August 1971.
VERTELES CRUSSINGS SEC. 523.03
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Description:
"To describe that of which we are aware we employ
comparison to previous experience. That which we
are aware of is hotter, or bigger or sharper than
the other experience or experiences. "
Citation at Comparison, 19 Jun'71

HEF DEFINITIONS
Description: Descripting:
"when man employs nature's basic designing tools he need
employ only generalized angles and special-case frequencies
to describe any and all omnidirectional patterning experience
conceptually subjective or objectively realized.
"For how many cycles of relative experience timing shall we
go in each angular direction before we change the angle of
direction of any unique system descripting operation?"
-
Cite NASA Speech, p.103, Jun'66

Describing: Description:
See Definition
Scribing
(1)

Describing: Description:
See Angle & Frequency Design Control, Jul*71
Comparison, 19 Jun 71*
Words, 12 Nov 75
Awareness, 28 Apr 77
(2)

Desalfed Thought:
See Man as Local Problem-solver, 2 Jun'71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Design is always a function of intellect, the capability to
arrange parts interaccommodative consideration of the
deliberate intellectual arrangement of all the other parts
of the
intellectual composition."
Cite RBF to Robert Halesky at NPR taping, Wash.DC; 28 Mar 77
as rewritten at 3200 Idaho, 29 Mar' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Design is always related to intellect, the capability to
arrange.
"
cite RBF to Robert Malesky at NPR taping, Wash.DC; 28 Mar' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"The word design is used in contradistinction to random
happenstance. Design is intellectually deliberate. Design
means that all the components of the composition are intercon-
siderately arranged; i.e., the component behaviors, procliv-
ities, and mathematical integrities are interaccommodatively
arranged. Ergo, the family of thus-far-discovered scientific-
ally generalised principles which are omniinteraccommodative and
omniconcurrent inherently constitute a design, an eternal
cosmic design whose eternal interrelationships are expressible
only in abstract mathematical terms. Being exclusively mathema-
tical, they are inherently metaphysical, weightless, abstract-
ions, which metaphysics can only be conceived of and dealt
with by intellect, and being thus far apparently eternal and
discoverable only by human intellect, they altogether manifest
an a priori cosmic intellect of absolute integrity."
-
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.10, 8 Sep 75

RBF DEFI.ITIONS
Design:
.The meaning of design
Is that all the parts are purposely interarranged
In respect to one another...
Cite WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO, p.4, 4 Aug'74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Desim:
*Design: that's what we mean by design-- when each of the
interaccommodatively ordered in respect to one
parts are
another. "
Cite HBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec*73;
as revised by RBF, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 13 Dec 173

ABF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Design: that's what we mean by a design-- when each of the
parts are in view of the others."
Cite RRF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, y Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"There are no other designs than that of the great cosmic
intellect's designing."
-
Citation and context at Phantom Captain, Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"When we humans find a pattern of omniorderly, intellectually
immaculate, weightless interaccommodative, measurably manifest,
pure principle, we call it a design. The word design involves
an intellectual-pattern integrity."
-
Cite GEOVIEW, "No Title," (Part
World Mag., p.34, 22 May 73
I

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"The orderly interaccommodation of all the generalized
principles constitutes a design. Design is exclusively
intellectually apprehendable and comprehendable."
Citation and context at Cosmic integrity, 13 May 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"The discovery by human mind, i.e., intellect, of eternally
generalised principles which are only intellectually compre-
hendable and only intuitively apprehended, and only
intellectually comprehended principles being further discovered
to be interaccommodative, altogether discloses what can only
be complexedly defined as a design, design being a complex
of interaccommodation and of orderly interaccommodation whose
omni-integrity of interaccommodation order can only be itself
described as intellectually immaculate. Human mind (intellect)
has experimentally demonstrated at least limited access to
the eternal design intellectually governing eternally
regenerative Universe."
-
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in SYNERGETICS
text at Sec. 164, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Interaccommodation is design."
Cite RBF to Arthur Clarke at Norman Cousins World party
on SS FRANCE, 21 Jun 72
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Congruence is allowable only in the vector equilibrium
because we can talk about vectors or about circuitry as a
design."
-
200 daire, Washington DC,-25-Jan-172
Citation & context at Congruence, 25 Jan*72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"We say that Universe is design and that design is governed
exclusively by frequency and angular modulations, wherefore
the 'angle' and 'frequency' must be discretely equatable with
quantum mechanics which deals always synergetically with the
totality of Universe's finite energy.'
P
Citation and context at Quantum Ware Phenomena Sequence (1),
23 Sep'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"You can design anything by taking any circuit a certain
number of frequencies and then changing the angle.
angular modulations of lines is circuitry.
The
There is no
half-profile of you.
All conceptuality has to have both
frequency and angle.
The angle part has to do with
circuitry design.
Sculpture.
You cannot design lines
which do not have full circuitry."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 23 Jan '72
* Partially incorporated in SYNERGE draft at Sec. 501.06, 1 Mar 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"A complex of interaccommodative principles is what
I call a design."
-
Citation & context at Interaccommodative, 22 Jul'71
RBF at Students International Meditation Seminar -
22 Jody 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"To me the word design can mean either a weightless
metaphysical conception or a physical pattern. I tand
to differentiate between design as a subjective experience,
1.e., designs which affect me and produce involuntary and
often subconscious reactions, in contradistinction to the
designs which I undertake objectively in response to
stimuli. What I elect to do consciously is objective
design. When we say there is a design, it indicates that
an intellect has organized events into discrete and
conceptual interpatternings. Snowflakes are design;
crystals are design; music is design; and the electromagnetic
spectrum of which the rainbow colors are but one-millionth
of its range, is design; planets, stars, galaxies, and their
contained behaviors, such as the periodic regularities of
the chemical elements are all design-accomplishments.
If a DNA-RNA genetic code programs the design of roses,
elephants and bees, we will have to ask what intellect'
designed the DNA-RNA code, as well as the atoms and molecules
which implement the coded programs.
"The opposite of design is chaos. Design is intelligent
(1)
or intelligible. Most of the design subjectively experienced*
-
Cite RBF Introduction to V. Papanek's book, p.2, 9 Apr 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
(2)
"by humans is a priori-- the design of sea waves, winds,
birds, animals, grasses, flowers, rocks, mosquitoes,
spiders, salmon, crabs, and flying fish. Humans are
confronted with an a priori comprehensive designing intellect
which, for instance, has designed the sustenance of life on
the planet we call Earth by the photosynthetic functioning
of vegetation during which process all the by-product
gases given off by the vegetationare designed to be the
specific chemical gases essential to sustaining all mammalian
life on Earth, and when these gases are consumed by the
mammals, they in turn are transformed, again by chemical
combinings and disassociations, to produce the by-product
gases essential to the regeneration of the vegetation, thus
completing a totally regenerative ecological design cycle."
Cite RBF Inroduction to Victo Papanek's "Design for the
Real World," p.2-3, 9 Apr 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"The intellectual integrity and infinite order of the
Universe cbviously are vastly greater than man. Man is
an invention within it. What one did about this
understanding would have to be through design. I decided
I must not be a persuader, but a doer."
-
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Our overall use of our energy, our design, is very bad.
Citation and context at Energy Slave (3), Jun-Bul*69
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Design (considered both subjectively and objectively,
metaphysically or physically): Contiguous angle and frequency
modulation of event interactions in respect to the axis of
any two specific event foci.*
Cite "Word Meanings, EKISTICS, Vol. 28, '69

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"All the designs of any conceptually comprehendible
phenomena are subjectively (metaphysically) definable
or objectively (physically) articulatable in the terms
of angle and frequency modulations as these two are
referred, respectively, the first to the axis of any two
given event foci and the second to any one given cyclic
experience."
Cite Generalized Laws of Design, p. 1. 22 Apr 68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"There are no generalized designs--
only special case applications.
Design is physical - brain function;
Generalization is metaphysical
Applied science is physical;
mind function.
Theoretical science is metaphysical.
we cannot design metaphysical;
We can only invent physical;
We can only discover metaphysical."
-
Cite Peter Pearce Checklist for RB
- Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, May'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Jesign:
"I look for what needs to be done and then try to work
out how to do it best.
After all, that's how the
Universe designs itself."
->
Cite RBF quoted by R.C. Nelson in Interview in Christian
Science Monitor, "Nature's Extraordinary Order," 3 Nov 164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"Competent design is predicated upon frequency modulation
by application of the precessional shunting principle."
Citation and context at Frequency Modulation, 1955

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
"It is a law of evolution and design that designs, whether by
man or nature,' are reproduced in direct proportion to their
mechanical adequacy of satisfaction of universal requirements,
whether it be a book, a rose, a pencil, or a baby."
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, pp. 37-38, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design:
Design: Apriori Design vs. Deliberate
"All the fundamental nuclear simplexes of the 92 inherently
self-regenerative physical Universe elements are apriori to
human mind formulation and invention and are only discoverable
by mind. Many myriads of complex associability of chemical
compounding of the nuclear simplexes can be experimentally
discovered,or, after comprehending the order of the principles
involved, deliberately invented by human mind. The chemical
compounds are temporary and have limited associabilities.
Human minds can then invent by deliberate design, momentarily
appropriate complex associative events, as for instance hydrau-
lics, crystallines, and plasmics, in turn involving mechanics
of a complex nature and longevity. Omniautomated self parts
replacing sensingly fedback industrial complexes can be
comprehensively designed by human mind, the mass reproducibility
and service longevity of which will always be fundamental to
the design laws, both primary and corollary."
->
Cite RBF drafg Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in SYNERGETICS
at Sec. 171, 13 Mar'73

Design: A Priori Design vs. Deliberate Design:
See Octet Truss as an Invention, Jan'72

Design Capability:
See God, May '72

Design vs. Chaos:
See Chaos, 9 Apr' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Jesign Covariables: Principle of:
"The principle of design covariables states that
angle and frequency modulation, either subjective or
objective in respect to man's consciousness, discretely
defines all events or experiences which altogether
constitute Universe."
-Cite SYNERGETICS Draft, March 1971
Section 225.01, Jun'71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Design Covariables: Principle Of:
"The principle of design covariables says that 'local
structure is a set of frequency associable (spontaneously
tunable) recollectable experience relationships having
a regenerative constellar patterning as the precessional
resultants of concentrically shunted periodic self-interfer-
ences, or coincidences of its systematic plurality of
definitive vectorial frequency, wavelength, and angle
interrelationships."
SYNERGETICS
-
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALU, pp. 125-6, 1959;
the above passage was described as "The Law of Structure,
the same title given to a second law on the same page.
To anticipate SYNERGETICS the caption was changed to
"Principle of Design Covariables" in the 1971 Doubleday
Edition of NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD with approval of RBF.
SEC 225.03
EJA

Design Cycle:
See Design, (2)

Design Evolution:
See Nucleated Systems: Idealistic Vectorial Geometry Of,
14 Feb 72

Design va Generalization:
See Generalisation vs. Special Case
Invention vs. Discovery
Generalized Boat
Design:
A Priori Design vs. Deliberate Design
(1)

Design vs. Generalization:
See Metaphysical & Physical, 1967
(2)

Design vs, Happenstance:
See Design, 8 Sep 75

Design Initiative:
See Wright Brothers, 10 Oct*63

Design Law:
See Universe, 22 Apr 68
Design, 1938

Design Programming:
See Ecology Sequence, (2)

Design Reciprocity:
See Boltzmann Sequence, (6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution:
"All the world's political ideologies assume that our planet's
Assuming
resources are inadequate to support all of humanity.
either yours or mine, not both, the great nations of the Earth
sumtotally appropriate 200 billion dollars annualy preparing
for Armageddon. Nothing politics per se can do can make the
resources adequate to support all of humanity. Adequacy can
only be attained by competent design which advances the overall
efficiency of humanity's technology from its present five
percent to an overall 10 percent. At 10 percent all of
humanity can be taken care of for all time to come at a higher
standard of living than any human has yet experienced.
If it is a
If it
"World revolution is ahead for all of humanity.
bloody revolution led by might all of humanity is lost.
is a design revolution led by right, all of humanity will cross
the threshold into an utterly new, omnisuccessful relationship
to Universe."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to John Dreyfuss, Santa Monica, CA, 6 Mar'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
"
.
Design Revolution:
The kind of revolution that pulls the bottom up
instead of pulling the top down."
-Cite RBF in Barry Farrell Playboy Interview, 1972
Draft. p. 23.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution:
"The young will soon discover, hopefully before humanity
has bungled its way into the irreversible clutches of ex-
tinction, that their ideals can be realized only by a
design revolution-- that is to say, by undertaking to reform
the environment so that man's technically advantaged
circumstances will permit his omnisuccess and eliminate the
causes of war rather than undertaking to reform man by laws
and propaganda, hoping unrealistically that he will forsake
warring despite and environment which is, as yet, so ill
organized as to be able to keep only a minority alive."
-->
Cite WOOD DESIGN IN A DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGY, P. 46, 7 Nov '67

RBP DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
"The changes taking place are very unfamiliar to everybody,
even those who expect change. And these elderly people have--
all of them probably given themselves in very big ways, very
generous and very dedicated ways; but they are baffled and
afraid. And I think it's unnecessary. That's one of the
things I'm absolutely convinced of.
"In terms of yesterday's misconceptions there wasn't enough
to go around and somebody had to go down: you really did pull
the top down. I'm now absolutely convinced we must pull the
bottom up and not lower standards.
(1)
"One of the most interesting fundamental discoveries I've made
relates to that. When Malthus, as an economist, received his
data he was the first economist receiving total data from the
total Earth as a closed system. And he found that apparently
people were reproducing themselves more rapidly than they were
producing goods. And then Darwin followed with his explanation
of evolution as survival of only the fittest. These two compounded.
Not only did the masses of these men agree that all this was
correct, but they said that they were the fittest."
-Cite transcript of HBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #3, Side A,
p.1; Bear Island, 12 Aug170

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
"We have Karl Marx then running the same jargon, agreeing with
the Darwinist argument-- survival of the fittest-- and saying
that the fittest was the worker because the worker knew how to
cope with nature. He knew how to cultivate, and handle the
chisel, and so forth; and the other people were parasites.
had an absolutely firm conviction that this was logical; he was
assuming that there was no where nearly enough to go around.
(2)
Marx
"I'm going to jump back now to the earliest days of humans on
our planet and I'm going to note that amongst the mammals, or
advanced mammals such as horses, we can see a stallion born
amongst other stallions and he's a little bigger and tougher and
he is a challenge to the speediest and most powerful. There's
a fight between these two great stallions and the one who wina
inseminates the others. And nature seems to have picked this
way of having fights between the leading males to see which will
inseminate the group. The other males can just go hump.
And
the big one doesn't ask for it-- he just suddenly finds himself
in that position. He fights and if he is the superior one, he
carries on.
"Imagine this happening with men, men in very great ignorance,"
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #3, Side A,
pp. 1-2; Bear Island, 12 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution:
Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence;
(3)
"hungry, born with hunger, born with the need to regenerate,
not knowing whether he will survive at all, very ignorant of
what will really support him. And he began observing people
who ate roots and berries and very often got killed by them--
poisoned. And he saw that the animals who didn't eat all those
things didn't get poisoned. So he killed them and their flesh
was very safe and gave him a whole lot of food in a great hurry.
The most powerful men tended to group together and control that
meat. And we find that tendency very powerfully organized in
what we call the nobles-- when all the hunting and the animals
belonged to the nobles. As late as 1815 in England a commoner
caught killing a rabbit could be hung on the spot without a
trial. Those animals belonged to the nobles and the king. So
we have these most powerful men eating meat and the other people
having to make do with what was left over: and eating what they
could find, in great ignorance about what they should eat and
what is good norishment, and having no real knowledge of this.
We have a few, then, who are powerful and eat well and can rule
by the sword. Their proportion of the total number of people
was so small that everybody assumed there was some mystical
reason that god had chosen these people specially.
And we have"
Cite RBF tape transcript with Barry Farrell, Tape \#3, Side A.
p.2; Bear Island, 12 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution:
Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
(4)
"the kings then having their sons and daughters having to
marry a king's son or daughter, even though they were enemies,
just so long as it was a special strain. It was recognized or
thought of as hereditary; there was something hereditarily
powerful and it was ordained by god and had to be protected by
god and everybody respected it. The common people and everybody
agreed about this. And the nobility, who were often bastards
(so there was a sort of smile spread on this blood), were
absolutely astonished at this good fortune and had to protect
their position with the sword.
"So there was an assumption of a hereditary thing and it's still
absolutely operative. The fact is that there is still a heredi-
tary group; still a hereditary Queen of England; still there.
Karl Marx quite clearly recognized this as a cause of what he
called class warfare. There was this class of parasites who
were genetically wrong%3B and if there was no where near enough
to go around, the workers were the fittest and they would have
to be sure to kill off this special breed of trouble-makers.
Therefore the Russian Revolution was exactly what you had: the
attempt to kill off this special breed."
-Cite transcript of RUF tape to Barry Farrel, Tape #3, side A,
pp. 2-3; Bear Island, 12 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
(5)
"how it's very evident to everybody that not only were the poor
people illiterate and ill-clothed, and so forth, but they were
also quite dumb. They seemed to be dumb. That was one thing
that hurt me very much when I was a kid: I was brought up with
this class thing, this hereditary supremacy. And I didn't
think it was so but I couldn't get over this thing that confronted
me: that poor people seemed to be dumb. I worked with them and
loved them; but they were dumb. I was trying to help them
because they seemed to be so dumb. I think Karl Marx accepted
this very much; so he gave you class warfare.
These people,
while they were the fittest in their dumbness, it didn't bother
them to give in to the nobles. They simply had an innate
capability with the seed, as they had an innate capability to
make babies. So he didn't discount their capability because
they were dumb. So here was class warfare: where they were dumb
You had to have
and you had to work out something to save them.
a very powerful party and powerful rules so the dogma of
communism was made very powerful. People absolutely had to
follow the rules. Never mind about thinking, because they don't
think. Every once in a while there was a genius born among these
poor people and he does some good thinking; and he codifies what
That really was the"
you ought to do to look out for the people.
Cite Transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrel, Tape #3, Side A,
p.4; Bear Island, 12 Aug'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution:
Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
(6)
"way it was happening. It was very fundamental after the revo-
lution that the leaders of the communist party must be followed
automatically because you're going to pull the top down; and
your people are dumb and there have to be standards and you stick
to those standards. Therefore you wear very baggy and stupid
clothes; and that's really an accoutrement to these people
because they also are unaesthetic,
and coarse.
And if you wear coarse clothes and are unaesthetic,
you don't put on any nonsense. A great many young people were
feeling tremendously simpatico with this ideal-- as I did at
Harvard. They'd like to join up with the underdog and therefore
they'd wear his clothes. They wanted to be coarse and give up
their good standard of living, or whatever it might be.
"Well, it is just in the past 10 years that we've had the first
scientific proof that malnutrition during the child's time in
the womb-- his gestation period, and during the first four years
of life causes permanent brain damage. And so this dumbness
is purely the damaged brain of malnutrition. Now this is a very
important matter; what I'm saying. It has an enormous amount to
do with the proliferation of new methods-- new methods of not
just gaining energy impoundment by agriculture and by nature's own"
-
Cite RBF tape to Barry Farrel, Side A, Tape 3, p.5; 12 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution:
Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
(7)
processes, like the fish, and so forth, but being able to
increase enormously the energy reserves, and learning our
chemistry, and how you really have proper nutrition-- and also
with adding energy by harnessing our water power. And the result
of it all is that there are very large numbers of people who
are properly nourished today and the brightness is very general.
So you see a whole lot of kids who are very intelligent and who
are very simpatico; and not feeling smart or better-- they hate
the idea of class. They think it's all wrong; and they're really
going into low standards because they think it's unfair to do
anything else. So you still have the idea of lowering standards.
"I'm saying that the real changes come about by increasing the
standards. What I'm really confident of here is that now I
know that it really is feasible to take care of everybody and that
makes the whole socialist dogma invalid. Obviously, there is no
such thing as class. This is clear as hell. And I find that a
very exciting, fundamental difference to realize this. But how
many know that? I think very few know that. How quickly can we
disseminate that idea? How quickly can we get people to realize
that it is a matter of pulling the bottom up, very truly, and not"
Cite transcript of REF tape to Barry Farrel, Tape #3, Side A,
p.5; Bear Island, 12 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
"pulling the top down. This really changes the whole strategy
of socialism-- the whole attitude that begins with larx's
acceptance of Darwin's notion of the survival of the fittest.
This is the truth; this is the great potential.
I see no
reason for pulling the top down.
"There are those who are obsolete or who have been the victims
of the specialization of yesterday, victims of all the things
that nature had to do. Evolution had to do things her own
way, I guess, because man didn't know enough in the beginning.
Now he's
gotten
to the
point where he does know better. The
amount of information you all have is just magnificent, a
fantastic thing. It could no have been available to you
yesterday, but you do have it now.
(8)
"Therefore I can still understand yesterday's rampant feeling
that the people who are not in gear ought to be done away with--
the idea of pulling the top down in order to have enough to go
around. And someone always needs punishing... and others feel
they are the deservers. But I don't think any of us know nearly
enough to do that. I don't believe anybody should be punished."
Cite RBF tape transcript with Barry Farrel, Tape #3, Side A,
p.6; Bear Idland, 12 Aug'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Revolution:
Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence:
(9)
"I don't think our ideas are even mildly valid about what is
wrong, what is a crime. I don't think there are any bad people.
I see a great many people who have been fantastic victims of
circumstances, twisted into knots, and that's totally society's
responsibility, not theirs. I don't agree with the young's
intolerance for older people. The contributions made by people
in the past are marvelous, even when they don't remember what
they've done. The most important things people do they don't
remember. Almost everybody who seems to be on the shelf and
obsolete has probably done something extraordinary and wonderful
for his fellow men and given a very great deal."
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #3, Side A,
p.6; Bear Island, 12 Aug'70

Design Revolution:
See Doing What Needs to be Done
Faking the World Work
Revolution: Design Science Revolution vs. Global
Political Revolution
(1)

Design Revolution:
See Dome:
Montreal Expo'67 Dome Sequence, (3)
Fellowships: Life Fellowships in R & D, 1969
Trees, (I)
Invention, (b)
Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens, (A)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Design science employs the method of accounting employed by
nature..... Design science and our very way of thinking deals
in terms of limit cases."
Citation & context at Quantum Sequence, (1)(2), 23 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"I seek
Through comprehensively anticipatory
Design science
And its reductions
To physical practices
In the forms of inanimate artifacts
To reform the environment
Instead of trying to reform
Human behaviors and opinions
Which latter is what
All history's political powers
Have always done
For I am intent
Exclusively through artifact inventions
To accomplish prototyped capabilities
Of doing ever more with ever less
thereby in turn
The wealth augmenting prospecta
Of such design regenerations
Will induce their spontaneous"
- Cite WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO, p.3, 4 Aug'74
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"And economically successful
Industrial proliferation
By world-around
Exclusively service oriented industries
As the regeneratively escalating effectiveness
Of the latter's resource reinvestments
Per each unit of resource reinvestments
Render comprehensively obsolete
Any and all economic necessity
To own anything
While obsoleting as well
The economically degenerative practices
Of selling off the world's resources
All of which chain reactions
To ever higher performance attainments
Of the improving artifact service events
Will both permit and induce
All humanity
To realize full lasting"
-
Cite WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO, p.3, 4 Aug'74
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Economic and physical success
Plus enjoyment of all the Earth
Without one individual interfering with
Or being advantaged
At the expense of another..."
-
Cite WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO, pp. 3-4, 4 Aug'74
(C)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Design science is more than the application of engineering
and technology. It is more than a plan or a design. Design
science means the total responsibility and capability for
development, production, and distribution-- of not just a
product but a total service system on a worldwide basis."
-
(This was RBF's comment on 15 Jan'74 citation,
which he regards as valid as far is it goes but
should include the above considerations
de w
EJA.)
Cite RBF to EJA, National Airport, Wash, DC, 6 Feb 74

RBF/EA DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"That branch of general systems science devoted to the
application of engineering and technology in the more
effective employment of world physical resources for
objectives validated by general systems theory."
-Cite EJA proposal to Newa Kaiser, 15 Jan174

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
(1)
"I am committed" to the "theory... of competent participation
in evolution's inexorable transformings and the employment of
the multiple degrees of freedoms and options governing the
inexorable transformings. My discipline is to reform the environ-
ment in ways favorable to the success of all of humanity with
confidence that propitious environmental circumstances induce
spontaneously pro-social behaviors. The most propitious environ-
mental circumstances would be those which make it universally
obvious that there is enough at hand of everything essential to
support all humanity for all the foreseeable future. When it
becomes commonly known that there is enough to go around, there
will be no war. There is so much air for man to breathe that it
has always been socialized.
"My whole life is committed to comprehensive anticipatory design
science exploration which seeks to learn appropriate ways to
employ the principles of nature to do so much more for ever more
people with ever less investment in ounces of materials, kilo-
watts of energy and seconds of time per each unit of realised,
desirable
functional performance, that the old ways become
obsolete.
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dayton Young, House Springs, MO, 29 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Scence:
"I am confident that no political actions, no matter how well
thought out, can eliminate war when the resources of the Earth
are so ill employed as to fail to take care of all of humanity.
"So long as many are going to die due to poverty, disease, and
general inadequacy, while others prosper, there will always be
cause for the have-nots to displace the haves. Under conditions
of general inadequacy and dying prematurely either by poverty-
induced ill health or by weapons, the have-nots have everything
to win and nothing to lose in undertaking war.
(2)
"I now know by experimental evidence that it is technically and
economically feasible to take care of all of humanity without
anyone prospering at the expense of others, while only employing
the world resources already mined and employing only the know-
ledge already acquired by humanity, all of which universal
prosperity can be accomplished by 1985. For example, humanity
does not even think of its buildings in terms of weight, but I
have found it possible to reduce the wight of buildings to only
one percent of the weight now employed, and I have now over
100,000 domes in half the countries around the world to prove the
point.*
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dayton Young, House Springs, MO, 29 Jun 173

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
(3)
"This is a new option of humanity, of which it is now 99 percent
unaware, but its youth is discovering what I say to be valid. My
hopes then are not founded on acts of political wisdom or adoption
of altruistic conventions. They are predicated exclusively an
an informed and experienced competence adequate to the task of
physically accomplishing fundamental cosmic success of humanity.
Appropriate political actions must be sequitur to actual
actions without knowledge of
how to attain universal success are inherently wishful and even
specious, ergo doomed to failure, or to only momentary advan-
tage gains of an exclusive nature."
capability.
Political
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dayton Young, House Springs, MO, 29 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
This
"Generalized design science exploration is concerned with
discovery and use by human mind of complex aggregates of
generalized principles in specific longevity, special-case
innovations designed to induce humanity's consciously
competent participation in local evolutionary transformation
events invoking the conscious comprehension by ever-increasing
proportions of humanity of the cosmically unique functioning
of humans in the generalized design scheme of Universe.
conscious comprehension must in turn realize ever-improving
implementations of the unique human functioning as well as an
ever-increasingly effective concern for the relevant ecological
intercomplementation involved in local Universe support of
humanity's functioning as subjective discoverer of local order
and thereafter as objective design science inventor of local
Universe solutions of otherwise unsolvable problems, design-
science solutions of which will provide special-case, local-
Universe supports of eternally regenerative generalized Universe."
Cite RBF Ltr to Karan Singh (draft) incorporated in
SYNERGETICS at Sec. 165, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"How to continually employ the total context of known generalized
principles and resource inventory in realizing ever higher
magnitudes of performance satisfaction loaded into each recircu-
lation of the imperishable chemical element associations and
reassociations. How to do so much with so little in support of
total ecology as to render all humanity economically and physio-
logically successful."
-
Cite RBF revision of "Ten Proposals for Improving the World,"
for EARTH, INC., New Delhi, Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Realization of De: ign Science Competence:
How to
continually employ the total context of known generalized
principles in realizing ever higher magnitudes of
performance satisfaction loaded into each recirculation of
the imperishable chemical element associations and reassoci-
ations.' "
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS
DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, NY Times, 29 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"And this greatly augmented
Humanity's competence
To heed anticipatorily
The lessons of past negative experiences,
And with enlightened logic
To alter the environment
In ways permitted by nature,
Which would protect humanity
Against external and internal
While aslo increasing the sustenance
Of increasing numbers of humans
For increasing numbers of days
Of their potential life spans."
deprivations
Cite INTUITION, pp.16-17, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Playboy: What was different about your technique that
made you call it design science?'
"Fuller: 'The whole thing was finding out what was first-
things-first in Universe, and to do that you have to get
away from any ideas of specialization. You've got to
develop your comprehensive literacy and find out what your
problem is. It takes a long time to get to know anything
that way, but once you do, you know it so clearly and
cleanly that anybody who'll really sit down and work it out
absolutely can't go wrong on it.'"
Cite RBF on tape transcript of Barry Farrel PLAYBOY
Interview, February, 1972, p. 37.

F FINITIONS
Design Science:
"Pure science seeks to find mathematical order permeating
the subjectively acquired data, and applied science employs
objectively the mathematical orders discovered in formulating
them into special design uses.
Give RF Holograph, Beverly
New York, 14 Sep 1994.
-
Citation & context at Science:
Pure & Applied, 14 Sep'71

RBF DLFINITIONS
Design Science:
". If you are interested in what your thought discloses
to you in the way of principles which seem to be operative
in our Universe which do not seem to be properly heeded by
man, then you can undertake to learn how to employ those
principles and reduce them into some kind of rearrangement
of the physical environment that will induce evolutionarily
positive and universally considerate behaviors of humans."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, pp. 2-3. 2 Jun³ 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"I can prove to young people that it's completely possible
to take care of all humanity at a higher standard of living
than anybody ever thought of; that the war which they
deplore is the same as other wars, which have been based on
the assumption that there's not enough to go around so that
somebody is going to have to die. But that is no longer
true.
•
If you can go to the Moon and under the Arctic ice,
you can make the world work."
-
Cite RBF as quoted in Sister Mary Corita poster: "International
Walk For Development", 8-9 May 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"What I am trying to do. As a conscious means of hopefully
competent participation by humanity in its own evolutionary
trending while employing only the unique advantages inhering
exclusively to the individual who takes and maintains the
economic initiative in the face of the formidable physical
capital and credit advantages of the massive corporations and
political states I seek through comprehensively anticipatory
design science and it reduction to physical practice to
reform the environment instead of trying to reform man also
to intend thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of
doing more with less whereby in turn the wealth-regenerating
prospects of such design-science augmentations will induce
their spontaneous and economically succesful production by
world-around industrialization's managers all of which chain-
reaction-provoking
events will both permit and
induce all humanity to realize full lasting economic and
physical success plus enjoyment of all the Earth without
one individual interfering with or being davantaged at the
expense of another."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Now 1 would like to think about developing a grand
strategy for swiftly multiplying humanity's effectiveness
in mastering his spaceship Earth's life regenerating
principles."
-Cite KBF in ENVIRONMENT AND CHANGE, Ed. W.H. Ewald, p. 361 (1968)
Umitted from OPERATING FANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, p. 57

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
The ability of man to use his highest faculties
to cope with his environment is more favorably affected by
design science reformation of the inanimate environment
than by direct, legalistic, punitive, physiological, or
psychological attempts to reform human beings.
percent of humanity's problems can be solved only by
comprehensively anticipatory design science reformations
of the environment."
Ninety
-
Cite HAT QUALITY ENVIRONMENT
22 Apr'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Only a politically transcendental design science
revolution can provide enough for all."
Cite HAT QUALITY ENVIRONMENT, 22 Apr
167

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"How may we organise 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?"
MASA Speech,
-
Citation at General Systems Theory, Jun*66

RBF JEFINITIONS
Design Science:
If the local metaphysical/physical event
patterns could be realistically cenceived. then they
can be brought under control by design science to an ever
increasingly satisfactory extent. This would permit the
new life growing and developing within a foavorably
organized environment to do so without having its faculties
damaged, its drives frustrated, its information storage
system overloaded with false information and its reflexes
and subconscious coordination illogically coupled."
Gite NASA Spasch
(Adapted.)
166
Citation & context at Environmental Events Hierarchy (6), Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"What are the resources? What are the tasks necessary to make
100 per cent of humanity a success? How can we ever do so
without ever advantaging one human at the expense of another?
How may we render all the world and all its treasures
enjoyably available to all men without having one inter-
fering with or trespassing upon the other? How may we reform
the environment so that the integrity of all society is not
violated by the free initiatives of the individual nor the
integrity of the individual violated by the developing
welfaring advantage and happiness of the many?
The reason
"Fan is born a potentially complete success.
humanity loves its children is that they start off in such
perfection of potential.
It is
"Man, as designed, is obviously intended to be a success
just as the hydrogen atom is intended to be a success,
obly the fabulous ignorance of man and his long and wrongly
conditioned reflexes that has continually allowed the new
life to be impaired, albeit lovingly and unwittingly."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 18. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"Because the forward transformation of the resources
from their going functions into other functions of higher
performance represents a continual revolution in design,
it is a pattern that could be anticipatorily mastered by
man as a designer, particularly mastered by a comprehension
of the architect as the integrating designer in the era of
great specialization. . .
The ratio of world copper, mined or unmined, or of iron,
mined or unmined, per capita, has been continually
decreasing. Therefore the increase in numbers served has not
been the result of the addition of more resources, but the
consequence of the scientifically designed multiplication
of the performance per unit of invested resource. Trans-
ferring communication from wire to wireless is a typical means
of doing more with less. At present we are engages in
converting the two-ton American automobiles into twice as
many one-ton automobiles.'
100
Cite ARCHITECT AS WORLD PLANNER. July 61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science
"Because the forward transformation of the resources
from their going low efficiency functions into other
functions of higher performance representa a continual
revolution in design,it is a pattern that could be
mastered by man as a comprehensive anticipatory
design scientist.
It is directed at "command of the total world
resources investment and total world technical
evolution,
"It is an objective employment of general systems
theory."
P.78
P.78
P.70
"
•
all concerned with the concept of making the
world work through competent design."
P.80
Cite EDUCATION AUTOMATION
22 Apr'61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"The possibility of the good life for any man depends
en the possibility of realizing it for all men. And
this is a function of society's ability to turn the
energies of the Universe to human advantage. The
problem of a comprehensive design science is to isolate
specific instances of the behavior pattern of a general
cosmic energy system, and to turn these to human use."
-
-
Cite quotation on back flap of paper jacket of
Marks Book, 1960.
See also arks text in 2nd and 4th paras of p. 63.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
"The specialist in comprehensive design is an emerging
synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist
and evolutionary strategist. He bears the same reationship
to society in the new interactive continuities of worldwide
industrialization that the architect bore to the respective
remote independencies of feudal society."
-
Cite COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNER, p.1
1 Jun 4Q

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science:
Q.
RBF:
Education For:
Is there an education system for design science?
"I don't know of one. That's why we're doing what
we've been doing. We can only add to the experience inventory
of the little individual-- like teaching the skier the
scientific definition of what he is doing: the angular valving
of gravity. But Experience is the base.
-
Cite RBF at videotaping session, Philadelphia, PA,, 1 Feb 75

REF DEFINITIONS
Design Science: Grand Strategy:
"The grand strategy of design science consists of going from
the whole to the particular: How de we treat all of the
parameters while being sure of not leaving anything out?
Conceptuality is geometrical independent of size. Size
brings in frequency: Vector equilibrium: Radiation-gravita-
Unified field theory: The absolute interconnectedness
tion:
of everything."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 31 Jan 75

Design Science Institute:
See Promote, 6 Oct 72

TEXT CITATIONS
Design Science Revolution:
World-Around Problems that Have to be Solved by
Bloodless Design Science Revolution, 29 June172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science & World Game:
(A)
"Life number one-- is awareness; and I've discovered through
the angles that an angle is independent of size. A triangle is
a triangle independent of size. An angle is cyclic, a fraction
of a cycle. A tetrahedron is a tetrahedron independent of size:
thus we have conceptuality independent of sise and time.
"This is what, then, gave me the clue that I could really look,
for instance at a nuclear arrangement independent of size and
that there would be data from experimental evidence that would
give me a completely different way of looking at everything with
experience as the base. And experience is always sensorial and
so I can always get a sensorial base or model.
"And then I've gone on to get the best kind of miniature Earth
model to show the resources as a function of the regeneration
of life trying to see it that way... That's how I play my
design science game: how do you employ the principles objectively
to interexchange advantage so that you really can maintain all
life? And how do you run the cosmic accounting in terms of the
energies that have caused nature to have us on board of this
planet, and at what rate does she replenish, and how can we stay"
RBF to W. Wolf and B. Brooks, DSI Project, p.11, 28 Apr174

HBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science & World Game:
"within our energy income? It seems to me to be a very clear
kind of model there.
"It would follow that the same sort of interrelationships, the
orderliness that we find in nature would apply to social values
and social interrelationships, political groups and subsets, and
things of that nature. Through my formula of frequency to the
second power times 10 plus 2 I have come to really identifying
this exponential
interrelationship which I haven't
found in any of the data by itself. I feel this is very import-
ant because complete abstraction is a formidable force.
"Also here in relation to human behaviors, I did get to the
precession, ecology, circulatory or orbital, and this might be
one of the social behaviors we have to take into account. We
noted that the social sciences and economics had not found any
generalized principles, but this may be the way of really
beginning to find some.
"So what we're really doing with World Game is going back to
where people can see things holistically, synergetically,"
Cite HBF to W. Wolf, DSI Project, pp.12-13, 28 Apri74
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Science & World Game:
"knowing what it's all about as the behavior of the whole
unpredicted by the behavior of the parts.'
Cite RBF to W.Wolf, DSI Project, p.13, 28 Apr174
(C)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Design Scientist:
"The design scientist must be a responsible participant
in nature's own evolution."
-Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 30 Jan'75

Design Scientist:
See Fuller, R.B: What I Am Trying To Do
Trespassing: Not Trespassing
Inventions which Increase the Degrees of Freedom
Environment Controls
(1)

Design Scientist:
See Telephone (1)
Design Science, 1 Jun'49
(2)

Design Science:
See Artifacts
Design Revolution
Dymaxion
Ephemeralization
Fuller, R.B:
More With Less
What I Am Trying To Do
Performance Per Pound
Regenerative Design:
Law Of
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politics-
Sequence
Service Industry
Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advantage
(1)

Design Science:
See All acceleration Universe, 20 Jun'66
Environment, Jun'66
Hierarchy of Patterns, 1964
Radome Sequence (4)
Responsible, Feb 73
Water, May 65
Science: Pure & Applied, 14 Sep171*
Environmental Events Hierarchy (6)*
Air Delivery & Submarine Cities (2)
Halfway-round-the-Worlding, 26 Jan 75
Distribution, 25 Jan '75
Economics, 1 Feb 75
Human Tolerance Limits, (2)
Quantum Sequence, (1) (2)*
Fail-safe, 13 Sep*77
(2)

Design vs. Technology:
See Technology & Culture, 25 Oct'77

Design:
See Angle-frequency Design Control
A Priori Great Design
Biological Design
Checklist of Universal Design Requirements
Eternal Designing Capability
Environmental Designing
Fourth-dimensional Design
Generalized Design
Man Designs Himself
Model
Industrial Design
Inventory of Designs
Nature's Basic Designing Tools
Prime Design
Regenerative Design:
Law Of
Science: The Great Design
Teleology
Cosmic Design
(1A)

Design:
(18)
See Teleological Schedule of Universal Design Requirements
Universe Designs Itself
Group Design
Redesign Cycle
Human Design
Energy Design

Design:
See Athletic, 6 Jun 74
Congruence, 25 Jan'72*
Cosmic Integrity, 13 May' 73
Dome: Rational For (I) (II)
Energy, 1960
Energy Slave (3)*
Frequency Modulation, 1955*
General System Theory, Jun'66*
Interaccommodative, 22 Jul 71*
Logistics, 10 Dec 173
Metaphysical & Physical, Nay'67*; 13 Nov' 75
Phantom Captain, Sep'73*
Quantum Wave Phenomenon Sequence (1)*
Rearrange the Scenery (2)
Comprehensive Realizer, May'49
Periodic Experience, (6)
Angle & Frequency Modulation, 7 Nov 75
God, 7 Nov'75
Psychiatry, (5)
Greater Intellect, (1)
(2)

Design:
See Design: A Priori Design vs. Deliberate Design
Design Capability
Design vs. Chaos
Design Covariables: Principle of
Design Cycle
Design Evolution
Design vs. Generalization
Design vs. Happenstance
Design Initiative
Design Law
Design Programming
Design Reciprocity
Design Revolution
Design Revolution:
Design Science
Design Science:
Pulling the Bottom Up
Grand Strategy
(3)
Design Science Institite
Design Science & World Game
Design Scientist
Design vs. Technology

RBF DEFINITIONS
Desovereignisation Sequence:
*Because our highest priority of all political systems is
the preparation for Armageddon, the opposed major nations of
the Earth together have been spending an average of $200
billion each year for the last 20 years ( a total of four
trillion dollars) getting ready for the great showdown.
Highest priority of use of the highest performance material
resources and highest performance tools and highest technology
are all committed to preparation for war.
(1)
"Not only does every action have a reaction, as engineering
recognizes, but so too does all priority have equal and opposite
antipriority. The great historical antipriority has
to be the home front. Science has never been asked to look at
the home front. No scientist has ever looked scientifically
at the plumbing.
"It was for this reason that I committed myself in 1927 to
just such scientific consideration of the home problems and
their scientifically arrived solutions and scientific industry
production distribution, and maintenance of the scientific
results. I know now exactly what is needed and how to
provide environment controls under all relevant conditions on
our planet."
RBF
-Cite in Committee transcript, US Senate, pp.326-7, 15 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Desovereignization Sequence:
(2)
"I can state and prove that it is technically feasible to take
care of all of humanity at higher standards of living than any
have ever experienced and do so by 1985 while employing only
proven methods and resources. Not only does this statement
include all environment-controling services for humanity but
also the energies required to produce and maintain those life
support, protection, travel, and communication accommodating
services. Our World Game energy income studies make it
perfectly clear that it is feasible to take care of all humanity
with that higher standard of living than anybody has ever known,
and do so by 1985 while concurrently phasing out all human use
of fossil fuels and atomic energy.'
"Therefore I know the fundamental vital life support inadequacy
which is assumed by all the great political organizations on
Earth is invalid and that there is indeed enough life support,
protection, and freedom of communications accommodating to go
around for all. That humanity has been committed for ages to
a false premise is only because humanity had not as yet acquired
enough experience to occasion its correction of its premises.
"Now that I really know all this, I realize that it does not
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May175

RBF DEFINITIONS
-
De sovereignization Sequence:
"have to be you-or-me and that Nature is quite clearly trying
to make all humanity a success instead of a failure and that
Nature is trying to integrate all humanity and integrate all
its interests and thereby to provide universal recognition of
the success for all that can only be realized by using all
resources only for everyone.
(3)
"The whole of present socioeconomic direction which seeks to
define even more sharply the separate interests of 150 sover-
eign nations in the United Nations, is a trend exactly opposing
what evolution is trying to do. All the world's great corpora-
tions have found sovereign nations geographical confinement
to be absolutely untenable; wherefore they have all become
supranational operations. So, too, have all the great
political ideologies become supranational. Only the people are
left locked into 150 national pens. They are locked in by
their passports. They are subject to conscription, taxation,
and exploitation in an age of omnimobilization. Humans are
experiencing exactly the opposite of political freedom.
free
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Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
De sovereignization Sequence:
"integrate humanity; (2) she has humanity here in Universe and
aboard our Spaceship Earth for a very important purpose; (3)
that humans are not here just to be pleased or displeased with
the experience; we know of a billion galaxies of a hundred
billion stars each; Universe is not just a decorative array of
stars to please the eyes of little people aboard our planet;
we are here for the Universe, not the other way; and (4) I am
sure we are here to use our minds.
(4)
"Humans have an extraordinary capability which is able to discover
so far that there are a billion galaxies of a hundred billion
stars each, and to take inventory of the relative abundances of
all the chemical elements within a radius of 11-billion-light-
years distance of Earth. Only the minds of humans have such
capabilities. Human muscle is cosmically negligible, yet human
muscle is still as yet in the saddle of world affairs. Therefore,
I say, humanity is now entered into its final cosmic examination.
"The great intellectual integrity and wisdom manifest in the
omniinteraccommodative inventory of generalized scientific prin-
ciples discovered thus far by human mind to be eternally opera-
tive and responsible for the integrity of eternally regenerative"
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
De sovereignization Sequence:
(5)
physical Universe, deliberately designed us to be born naked,
helpless, and ignorant, yet hungry, thirsty, curious, and
procreatively excitable; ergo, we were forced to find our way
only by trial and error in order ultimately to discover the
scientific principles; and thereafter to use those principles,
such as 'leverage or metallic alloys' in the development of
artifacts which would so alter the environment of accomplished
know-what and know-how as to permit us to graduate into function-
ing in the main affairs of regenerative Universe operating
directly on cosmic principles.
"So I say we are here for problem-solving, for using our minds.
But humans are not in the command saddle of human affairs.
Mindless, exclusively brain-centered muscle is still in the
saddle. Mind is trying to master muscle. That is why you are
having such a hearing as this one. I think we have no more th an
the next 10 years within which to nass our final exam by
mounting mind into the cormand saddle of human affairs. Only
mind can accomplish integration of all human affairs-- which
integration involves the dissolving of 150 sovereign nations
and all their respective me-first-or-else attitudes.' 17
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 Kay 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Desovereignisation Sequence:
(6)
"No sovereignty relinquisment could be more difficult than that
of the United States in which the President and all others are
elected on the basis of supporting, above all, our national
sovereignty. The President's oath of office com its him to
looking out for his side above all others. In dictatorships,
a dictator can agree with another dictator; that's up to them;
or the controlling political party can commit its country to
surrendering its sovereignty to others. But it is impossible
for a whole democracy to agree unanimously on relinquisihing any
of its freedoms or its armaments. If any U.S. President said
publicly that he advocated termination and renouncement of our
sovereignty, he would soon be impeached or precipitate a civil
war waged with the opposing political party of the nation.
"So the most difficult conditions for effecting desovereigni-
zation and world integration exist in the U.S.A. That is why
this could not be a more important occasion for a senatorial
foreign policy committee hearing. I think universal desover-
eignization is at the crux of whether humanity is goin to
continue on our planet. With desovereignization comes omni-
disarmament, which must be accomplished if mind is to take the"
-T
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Desovereignization Sequence:
"saddle from muscle and we are to operate on the basis that
there is ample life support to sustain support of all humanity
for all forseeable time. If we are to successfully pass our
cosmic exam, all humanity must discover why we are here in
Universe.
(7)
"All humanity is now coming out of the common womb of permitted
ignorance, which gestation period was given an enormous cushion
of resources to be squandered only while learning through trial
and error. But now humanity has acquired all the knowledge of
scientific principles and technical know-how to render all
humanity continuingly successful. Humanity is now being born
into a new relationship with Universe-- a relationship in which
99 percent of the information resources necessary to sustain
all humanity are only available within the invisible-to-human
frequency ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum; ergo, are
available only through mind's organized exploration, discovery,
and use of the abstract generalized principles governing eter-
nally regenerative Universe.
"This comprehensive unitary birth of all humanity as a single
organism into the new world of inherent physical success for"
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
De sovereignization Sequence:
(8)
"all individuals may well be a stillbirth. Birth is life's
most critical moment. It will be a stillbirth if humanity does
not emerge with mind in permanent control of physical power.
"I hope you realize how really critical I think your particular
hearing is... this particular subject is. I wish there were
more senators behind that bench."
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May 175

De sovereignisation:
See Sovereignty: Elimination of

HBF DEINITIONS
Desperate:
"
•
Not 'desperate,' but redundant to frequency integrity."
-
Citation and context at Triangular Topology Integrity, 15 May172

Destiny of Humanity:
See Man as a Function of Universe
Prognostication About Future of Man
Success
Suicide of Humanity

RHF DEFINITIONS
Destructural Associability:
"Only number can self-communicate as structural or
destructural associabilities."
Citation at Self-communicate, 15 May' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Destructuring:
"...All the interpermutations of all atomic structuring
(stable integration) or destructuring (unstable disintegration).*
-
Citation and context at Scheherazade Number, 18 Jul 72

De-structures - Inside-out:
"All the Universe's nonselfinterfering complexes... diffusing
patterns resulting in... dissociabilities as negative (inside-out)
de-structures."
Citation & context at Radiation, (p.126) 1959

De-structures: De-structuring:
See Degenerative Negative Limits
De-structures Inside-out
Unstructurings & Restructurings
Decreation
De-grown
(1)

De-structures: De-structuring: Destruction:
See Gravity, (A)
Physical, circa 1970
Radiation, 1959
Scheherazade Number, 18 Jul 72*
Science as a Tool, Sep*72
Self-communicate, 15 Kay'72
(2)

Desynergize:
(1)
See Antisynergetic

Desynergise:
See Conditioning, 14 Feb'72
Education, 6 Mar'60
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Detente:
"John Paul Jones continually engaged battleship of the US
revolutionary times cost less than $100, A modern aircraft
carrier costs some 30,000 times that amount, i.e.,
$3 billion; and it becomes obsolete before being used for
anything except a lethal 'threat' in the world's
political-balance-of-power poker game known for the moment
as 'detente.'
-
Citation & context at Building Industry, (4)(5); 20 Sep*76

Detente:
See Disarmament
Politicians & Defense Budgets

Deteriorate:
See Interdeterioration
Regenerative

Determinability: Optimum Degree Or:
See Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences, 1959

RBF DAFINITIONS
Determinism:
"Very little that men do consciously of all their functions
renders their lives successful in the Universe."
Cite NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, preface, p. viii. 9 May'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Determinism:
"Since experience is finite it can be stored, studied,
directed and turned, with conscious effort, to human
advantage. This means that evolution pivots on the
conscious selective use of cumulaive human experience
. . . on inherent freedoms of action . . . and not on
Darwin's hypothesis of chance adaptation to survival
and assumption of evolution independent of individual
will and design."
(Adapted and rearranged)
Cite MARKS, p. 10, 1960

Determinism:
See Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes
Behaving
Cause
Darwin:
Evolution May be Going the Other Way
Exempt: We Are not Exempt from Universe
Experiment: We Are Not the Only Experiment
Free Will
Free Will vs Darwin's Determinism
Happenability
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
Inadvertence
Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens
Inexorability
Irreversibility
Man's Conscious Participation in Evolution
l'an as a Function of Universe
Need: Necessity
Precession of Side Effects & Primary Effects
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning
Voluntary Involuntary

Determinism:
See Adam & Eve, 2 Jun' 74
Evolution, 23 Jan 72
Great Intellect, May172
Rationalization Sequence, (3)
Success, (1)(2)
Technology, Oct.69
Thought, 1971
Wealth, 1947
Evolution, 15 May'75
Technology:
Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (1)
(2)

De-vacuumizing the Wake:
See Least Effort, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Development:
"Development is programable;
Discovery is not programable.
Since the behaviors to be sought
Are unknown,
Computers cannot be instructed
To watch out for them."
Citation and context at Computer, May '72

Development: Developmental:
See Design Science
Prototype
Reduction to Practice
Research & Development
(1)

Development: Developmental:
See Inventability Sequence, (1)-(3)
Line, 28 Jan*69
(2)

Device:
See Artifacts
Inventory of Devices
Mechanism
Sensing, Storing & Intuiting Device
Autonomous Living Technology Packet
Dwelling Device
(1)

Device:
See Invention, 9Feb'64
Man as an Invention, 1 Apr*49
(2)

DEW Line Radar Domes:
See Air Delivery & Submarine Cities (3)

Dew:
See Energy Magnitudes: Order Of, Jun'66

Diagonal:
See Cube: Diagonal Of
Cube: Diagonal of as Wave Propagation Model
Hypotenuse
Daimond: Geodesic Diamonds
Square: Diagonal or
(1)

Diagonal:
See Cube & VE as Wave Propagtion Model, 23 Feb'72
Omnitriangulation, 11 Jul'62
Square, 1967
Stabilized Vector Equilibrium, 23 Feb'72
Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron,
13 Apr* 77
(2)

DIAGRAMS IN THIS FILE
See Force Diagram

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Basic Raft, Feb'50
(B)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Cheese Polyhedra, Nov '71
Closest Packing of Rods, 27 Sep'72
Cosmic Inherency, 11 Dec 74
Critical Convergence & Flying Huddle, Nov'71
Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Fodel,
29 Jun 72
Curvature: Simple & Compound, 2 May'56
Cycle, 10 Feb'73
(C)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in this File:
See Distaff, 22 Jul'71
(D)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Fuller, R.B:
His Hearing, 19 Feb 72
(F)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Geometry of Thinking, 16 Dec'73
(G)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Hexagon, 6 May*48
Height, Length & Width, 19 Jul*76
(H)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Indigs, Apr' 72
(I)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See King's Sign, 22 Jul 71
(K)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
(L)
See Lever, 10 Feb*73
Limit Structural Transformative Tendencics, 1 Apr 72

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Magic Numbers: Isotopal Magic Numbers, Apr 72
Module: A Module, 1955; (2); 18 Nov 65
Modules:
A & B Quanta Modules: Eighth Octahedron,
Jun' 51
Middle, 12 Nov 75
(M)

PILE INDICATORS
Diagrams on This File:
See Observer & Otherness:
Between, 10 Jan'74
Tetrahedral Relationship
Octahedron: Eighth octahedra, (2)
(0)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This Pile:
See Point: Outbound Paint, (1)
Primitive, 19 Jul'76
(P)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Rhombic Dodecahedron #1:
Rhombic Dodecahedron #2:
24 Feb 72
Rotate, 6 May' 48
United Sphere, 24 Feb'72
Fractionated Sphere,
(R)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See Simplest Knot, 1 Jan 75
Spherical Triangle, 4 May'67 Sequence
Sphinx, 28 Sep 73.
Symmetry: Seven Axes Of, 25 Aug'71
Synergy, 1954
Sin: Angle of Error, 7 Nov* 75
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects, 8 Feb' 76
(S)

PILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
(T)
See Teleological Quanta Series, 8 May '72
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov. 71
Tetrahedron: Transmitting Differential Tetrahedron
Displacement, 2 Hay156
Tetrahedron: Vertical Planes of Cleavage, 21 Feb'72
Tetrakaidecahedron, 18 Feb 72
Triangle as A Priori Two, Feb 72
Two, (2)
Twinkle Angle, 1955
Tetrahedron:
1952
Visible or Invisible Chordal Arca,

FILE INDICATCHS
Diagrams in This File:
See Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (4); 27 Jan'75
(V)

FILE INDICATORS
Diagrams in This File:
See X Configuration with One Ball at the Center, (1)
(x)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dia-logue:
"Dia-logue means two-way feedback, logos-communication
as always referenced to an a priori complex integrity of
abstract weightless, mathematically ordered equatability
of generalized, and only scientifically discovered,
eternal principles."
-
For context and citation see Genetic, 14 Feb '72

Dial: Dialing:
See Push Button & Dial Systems

RBF DEFINITIONS
Diameter:
...The diameter of the little circle is always a small
arc of a vastly greater circle passing through it."
-
Citation and context at Acceleration, 14 Feb 73

Diametric Limit Functions:
See Ellipse
(1)

Diametric Limit Functions:
See Integration & Differentiation, 10 Dec'64
(2)

Diametric:
See Ellipse
Multidiametric
Omnidiametric
Orbits Are Elliptical
(1)

Diametric: Diametrics: Diameter:
See Geometry of Reality, May'49
Line Between Two Sphere Centers, 22 Jun 75
(2)

Diamond:
See Geodesic Diamonds
Tension Diamonds
Domain of an Edge
(1)

Diamond:
See Chemical Bonds: Quadruple Bond, 19 Dec 73.
Cork: Triangular Corks in Spherical Barrels,
15 Feb166
Discovery of Generalised Principles, 20 Dec171
Domains of Lines, 18 Jun 71
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 22 Mar 73
Stabilized Vector Equilibrium, 23 Feb 72
(2)

Diaphanous:
See Process Relationships, 28 Jan'6y

Diaphragming:
See Reciprocity, (1)

Dice: Dig:
See Prime Number, 16 Oct 171

Dichotomy: Dichotomising:
See Biological Cell Dichotomy
Generalized Dichotomy:
Half Visible:
Local Dichotomy
Grand Strategy
Half Invisible
Minimum Dichotomy
Otherness
Prime Dichotomy
Self-dichotomising
Spin-halving
Surface Dichotomy
Universe Considers Itself
Universe Differentiator
World Looks at Itself
System-halving
Halving
Fractionation
Subdividion: Subdivisibility
(1)

Dichotomy: Dichotomizing:
(2)
See Compression, 9 Jul162
Experience, 2 Jul'62
Infinity & Finity, (1)
Macro-micro, 1960
Tetrahedron: Hierarchy of Pulsating Arrays, 16 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"Considering how hard it is for people to get together and
agree on anything, and considering the fact that they have
agreed in the dictionary to 200,000 descriptions of nuances
of experience. is a kind of testimony that represents
a very great victory for humanity."
Cite RBF to luncheon of White House Fellows, Watergate
Hotel, Washington, DC, 19 Jul*76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"All the words of all the vocabularies could be said to
represent all the formalised attempts of men to communicate
all their experiences. So we could set out to examine all the
dictionaries of the world. We can pick up any one dictionary
and discover that it is a nice finite package. We can open
If we
one page, but we cannot look at all the words at once.
cannot look at all the words even on one page, we certainly
cannot look at all the words of a whole dictionary at once.
It does not make the dictionary infinite because we cannot
look at all the wordd at once or think about all the words at
once. The inability to think about everything at once does
not mean that experience or consideration of experience is
infinite.
(1)
"It is perplexing that one of the most persistent contemplations
of human beings has been predicated on a static concept of
Universe, the kind of Universe that went out with classic
Newtonian mechanics. We cannot think of Universe as a fixed,
static picture, which we try to do when people ask where the
outwardness of Universe ends. Humans try to get a finite
unit package.. We have a monological propensity for the thing,
the key, the building block of Universe. What we discover"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 530.02%; galley rewrite 7 Nov*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"here is that it is not possible to think about all Universe
at once. It is nonsimultaneously conceptual. This in no way
mitigates against its finiteness and thinkableness."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 530.02; 7 Nov' 73
(2)

BF JEFTINS
Dictionary:
"The words of the dictionary identify nuances of
experiences.
1
-Cite RBF at Catholic University Address, ¡ashington C,
24 Feb 72

KBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"In the dictionary human beings have found 100,000
nuances of meaning-- an extraordinary penorial of
agreements."
--
Cite RBF at Corcoran Gallery Address, Washington DC,
23 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"All words in the dictionary do not make one sentence; all
the words cannot be simultaneously considered, yet each of the
words is valid as a tool of communication; and some of the
words combine in a structure of meaning. All words are
memoranda of all humanity's attempts to communicate to self
to others their understanding of the unique evolve-
ment of their separately viewed experiences. The dictionary
is the inventory of unique aspects of the totally composited
experiences known as Universe."
or
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 510.10, May 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"All the words are memoranda of humanity's attempts
to communicate to self or others their understanding
of the unique evolvement of their separately viewed
experiences. The dictionary is the inventory of
unique aspects of the totally composited experiences
known as universe. "
Cite RBF marginalia on SYNERGETICS Draft, 26 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"So long as man is alive and has more days, he is going to
be acquiring more information regarding those factors which
are a priori existing. So the dictionary is going to continually
increase in sise. That is absolutely inexorable. "
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 42, 19 Oct170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"Words accumulate to form the dictionary as men discover
shared aspects of their total experience that are unique
and that require identification."
-
Cite RBF: Preface for Francis WARNER, p.-3, circa 1968:
Citation and context at Eternal Slowdown (1), 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"All the words,
In all the dictionaries, as noted before,
Represent all of humanity's attempts
To express Universe.
And while the dictionaries are finite
All the words
In all the dictionaries
Cannot be read simultaneously
And there is not one simultaneous sentence
Inherent and readable
In all the words."
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, Oct. 166, p. 60

RBF JEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"Encyclopedias and dictionaries inventory man's
progressively invented words for communicable identifif
cation of all his evolving experience cognitions.
Dictionary is a collective concept. Universe is the
ultimate collective concept.
"Universe, like the dictionary, though integral is
ipso facto nonsimultaneously recollectable and, therefore,
as with the set of all the words of the dictionary, 18
nonsimultaneously considerable and therefore is also am
nonsimultaneously reviewable, ergo is synergetically
incomprehensible, yet progressively revealing."
STNERE !S-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL MALO, pp. 131 + 132,
UN VEPR
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dictionary:
"We cannot read simultaneously all the words in the dictionary;
yet the dictionary is a finite collection of finite word
entities each in turn consisting of collections of finite
letter symbol entries."
-
Citation & context at Experience, 1960

Dictionary:
See Meaning
Words
Thinktionary
(1)

Dictionary:
See Consideration, 1965
Eternal Slowdown, (1)*
Experience, 1960*
Thinking, (a)
Universe, 16 Jun' 72
Words, 2 Jun'74
Culture, 1 Feb 75
Words & Coping, 7 Nov' 75
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (8)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Diesel Ship At Sea:
"In the event called 'diesel ship-at-sea'
The action of the ship's propeller
Has a thrust pattern
To which the ship reacts by moving forward,
Which also results, secondarily,
In the ship's bow elevated wave
Which wave disturbances of the water
Are separate from the propeller's thrust wave.
Ships appear to be so solid
That they negate human perception
Of their minute longitudinal contraction,
Which occurs initially as a consequence
Vf the interaction of the ship's inertia
With the propeller's thrust.
This contraction
And its subsequent expansion
Could be observed in yesterday's
Loosely coupled railway trains,
As they jerkingly accelerated or stopped."
-
Cite INTUITION, pp. 13-14, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Diet:
"The word diet makes for great confusion. It's not
undernourishment, it's just getting the right deficiency
chemistry into the brain which may be lacking certain
gears."
Citation and context at Spinach, 11 Feb'73

Diet:
See Spinach, 11 Feb'73
Undernourishment, 7 Aug'70

Differential Inscrutability:
See Hedra, 10 Apr* 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differential Lag:
"The eternality of the generalised principles brings about
differential lags, the aberrations in the rates of recall.
Differential lags are inherent in the mathematics of the
twelve Universal degrees of freedom of the vector equilibrium
which characterizes an event in pure principle."
-
Citation and context at Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom,
29 May 72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Differential Lag:
"Differential lags are generated by the inexorable interaction
of the 12 fundamental degrees of freedom with both the specific
frequency characteristics of the dominat system's respective
separate components and the system's synergetically integrated,
mutual interference structured, triangular grid topology and
the latter's great-circle interference event frequency
resultants."
Cite HBF 19 Feb re-write of Lag, 17 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differential lag:
"We generate the differential laga from the 12 fundamental
degrees of freedom."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 17 Feb'72

Differential lag:
See Omnidifferential Lag Rates
(1)

Differential Lag:
See Lag, 17 Feb 72*
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 24 May172*
(2)

Differential:
Bee Single Integer Differentials
Positional Differentiala

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
"Interval and differentiation are introduced with two."
-
Citation and context at Prine, 17 Feb*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
"Differentiation of functions is inherently eternal and
implicit to the plurality of generalized principles which
are everywhere nonredundant, redundancy being a temporal
consequence of brain lagged dullness of comprehension and
ignorance."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 27 May'72, as rewritten
CONCEPTUALITY
. TIME
M
529,34)
by RBF.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
"Differentiation functions in eternity through the
nonredundant plurality of generalized principles."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 27 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
"Differentiation functions in eternity through the
nonredundant plurality of generalized principles."
Cisation and context at Eternal Instantaneity, 22 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
"To perceive of and say 'truth' invokes the concept of
non-truth, ergo differentiation."
Cite RBF marginalia, 20 Dec. '71, at SYNERBETICS Draft,
Sec. 529.07.

ab FINITIONS
Differentiation:
"Physics has found the whole physical Universe to be
uniquely differentiated and locally defined as "waves".
Citation at Physical Universe, Nov 71
Cite Hof marginalis at SINERGETICS,

KBF JEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
"Universe expands through progressively
differentiating out or multiplying discrete
considerations."
-
Cite UMNI HALO, p. 134 as amplified by RBF in Synergetica
draft Sec. 614.01 19 June 1971.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
"Starting with whole universe we quickly reach any
local system within the totality by differentiating it
out temporarily from the whole for intimate consideration.
We do so by the process of 'reduction by bits.'
Citu MASK Speech, p. 98, Jun 66
Citation & context at Bits (1), Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation:
The great intellectual capability of
differentiating discernment probably originated in the
same conceptual logic as did 'divide' out of 'di-vision'--
to see the whole as functionally differentiable yet
only locally and progressively conceptual. In the
differential calculus this becomes the delta--AS D
of fundamental differentiation."
-
-
Cite ONNIDIDRECTION CHAD
Citation & context at Division, 1960
_1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Differentiation: Differentiability:
"The concept of being alive may be inherent only in
the eternal principle of differentiability, and of a
theoretical number system, and of complexes of different
numbers. Seeming consciousness and life may well be
inherent in only mind conceivable theories of differentiations."
--
erte RBE marginalia
Citation at Consciousness, 20 Dec' 71
07 Dec. 7L

Differentiation & Integration:
See Everyday, May'49

Differentiable & Nondifferentiable:
See Truth & Love, 16 Feb'73

Differentiated Proclivities:
See Proclivities:
Differentiated vs. Synergetic

Differentiation: Differentiable:
See Bits:
Bitting
Covariant Differentiations
Differmatiable & Nondifferentiable
Division
General System Theory
Integration & differentiation
Multiplication by Division
Omnidifferentiated
Proclivities: Differentiated vs. Synergetic
Resolution
Subdivision
Undifferentiated
Withinness & Withoutness
Nuclear Geometrical Limit of Rational Differentiation
Subdifferentiable
Supradifferentiable
Separating Out
Time Differentiable
(1)

Differentiation: Differentiable:
(2A)
See Additive Twoness, 17 Feb'72
Artificial, (2)
Awareness, 24 Apr 72
Bits, (1)*
Comprehension, 10 Jan'74
Consciousness 20 Dec 71*
Division 1960*
Eternal Instantaneity, 22 Jun'72*
Experience, 12 Sep'71
Female, 19 Dec 71
Love, 29 Dec'73
Physical Universe, Nov'71*
Point, 1 Apr 72
Prime, 17 Feb'73*
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles, 1963
Time, 23 May 72
Truth, 29 Dec 73
Vector Equilibrium, 10 Nov 74
System, 26 Dec 74
System: Equation Of, 27 Dec'74

Differentiation: Differentiable:
See Virgin, 27 Dec*74
Fertilization, 27 Dec'74
Thinkable Set, 1 Feb'75
Visibility & Invisibility of Systems, (1)
Events & Novents, Nov171
General Systems Theory, (2)
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro Resolutions, (1)
Proofs, 8 Aug177
(2B)

Differentiator:
See Minimum Omnitriangulated Differentiator
Universe Differentiator
(1)

Differentiator:
See Female, May'65
(2)

Diffraction:
See Chemical Bonds: Ketals, Jun'66
Pauling, Linus, 1965

Diffusion:
See Wave System Propagations
Bquidiffusion
(1)

Diffusion: Diffusers:
See Radiation, (p.126) 1959
Trinity: Equation of, 1938
Vertexial Spheres, 8 Apr 75
(2)

Digiti
See Indig
Integration of Digits

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa:
"The Earth crust-fault angles, steel plate fractionation
angles, and ship's bow waves are all roughly the same, reading
approximately 70-degree and 110-degree complementation.
Dihedral angle of octahedron = 109° 28' = 2 x 54°
Dihedral angle of tetrahedron= 70° 32'
54° 44'
+54° 44'
109° 28'
60°00*
-54044
5016
180° 00
5° 16'
70° 32°
100*321
-60° 00'
10° 32'
If 5° 16' unity; 54° 44* = 600 - 1 quantum; and 70° 32'
= 60° + 2 quanta.
Obviously, the 70° 32' and 109° 28' relate to the
'twinkle angle differential from 60° (cosmic neutral) and
to the 109° 28' central angle of the spherical tetrahedron."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.66; RBF galley insert of
16 Dec 173

KoF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"Dimension is unique frequency information.'
- Citation & context at Energy & Information, 27 Dec 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"All dimensions are simulataneously considerable."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.06, 29 Nov*72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"All dimensions are definitively and intercoordinatably
manifest in the isotropic vector matrix."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.07, 29 Nov'72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"The limit number of experimentally demonstrable powering
involves an isotropic vector matrix whose omnisymmetrically
interparalleled planes and electable omni-uniform frequency
occurrences accommodate everywhere and anywhere regenerative
rebirth of a unit angle and line structural system of
convergent gravitation and divergent radiation resonatability,
whose frequencies are the dimensions."
-
Cite SYNEREGTICS draft at Sec. 960.04, 16 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"The only dimension is time; the time dimension being the
radial dimension in respect to any regenerative center, which
may always be anywhere, yet characterized by always being at
the center of system regeneration. The time dime@pion is
frequency."
"
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft at Sec. 960.07, 16 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"Time and heat and longevity and weight are inherent in
every dimension. Ergo, time is no more the fourth dimension
than it is the first, second, or third dimensions.
No time: no dimension."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension: Dimensioning:
"Time is in our dimensioning because our geometry
Every vector = mass x velocity, and
is vectorial.
time is a function of velocity."
-
421
Site RBP to LA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC; 21-Dec-171
Citation & context at Time, 21 Dec 71

REF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"There is no dimension without time. 17
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corollaries," Sec 240.48 by RBF
at Haverford, Penna., 1 Oct. 1971.
DIMENSION SEC. 527.01)

RBF JEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"What we call length is always measured in time.
Citation at Length, 12 Mar 71
DIMENSION
SEC. 527.031
Lectura
New-York
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"The word 'space' is conceptually meaningless and
dimensions may only be expressed in magnitudes of time,
energy, frequency concentrations and
modulations."
angular
CITE HASA
Citation & context at Space, Jun'66
DIMENSION
-
SEC. 527 031

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"Doubling or halving dimension
Increases or decreases respectively
The magnitude of volume or force
By expansive or contractive
Increments of Eight,
Tabt is, by octave values.
--
Cite SYNERGETIC Corollaries
Collier's Ltr, Oct'59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"Dimension may be universally and infinitely altered
without altering the absolute relationship of the system.'
"
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corollaries," Sec. 240.47.
From Collier's Ltr, Oct 59
DIMENSION SEC. 527.05
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"No sphere is large enough to be flat.'
"
NOAHI
Summar 1950
Citation & context at Dynamic, 1950

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
In comprehensive Universe, dimension drops out and
conceptual principle remains."
-
Citation and context at Reciprocity (3), May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"Synergetics originates in the assumption that
dimension must be physical. It follows that, inasmuch as
physical universe is entirely energetic, all dimension
Vectors and tensors constitute all
must be energetic.
elementary dimension."
CIVO PREVIEWS, I&I, P. 213, 1 Apr 49
Citation & context at Synergetics, 1 Apr149
DIMENSION - SEC. 527.82) SEC. 521.10)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimension:
"Throughout the universe, compression and tension
are energetically juxtaposed. Their juxtaposition
provides dimension-- the basis of awareness of life itself."
- TILE PREVIEWS, 1&1, p. 212, 1 Apr 19
Citation & context at Tension & Compression, 1 Apr'49
DIRENSIIN
SEC. 527.041

Dimensionability:
See Generalised Topological Definability, (1)

100
RBF DEFINATIONS
Dimensional Growth:
"Dimensional growth is not occasioned by an increase in expo-
nential powers. It is brought about by increasing subdivision
of the constant whole of Universe to isglate a locally consid-
erable increment. For instance, E = Mc says that the amount
of energy involved in the isolated 'mass' as a local event
complex of Universe under consideration in this particular
instance 18 to be determined by reference to the constant
amount of cosmic energy involved in the constant rate of growth
of a spherical, electromagnetic, wave surface, which constant
18 c?.
Because the potential energy is in vector equilibrium
packages, the centers of energy rebirth are accommodated by
the 18otropic yector matrix. The constant power is the
frequency, 10F< + 2, which accommodates all the exportive-
importive, entropic-syntropic, regeneration patterning of
Universe.
"The only dimension is time, the time dimension being the radial
dimension outward from or inward toward any regenerative center,
which may always be anywhere, yet characterized by always being
at the center of system regeneration.
"The time dimension is frequency."
-
20 Dec 73
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 960.05-07,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimensionality:
"In a radiational (eccentric) or gravitational (concentric)
wave system:
"Arithmetical three-dimensionality is identified with volumetric
space growth rates.
(1)
"Arithmetical four-dimensionality is unidentifiable geometrically.
"Synergetical second-powering is identified with the point
population of the progressively embracing, closest-packed
point arrays at any given radius stated in terms of frequency
of modular subdivisions of the circumferential array's
radially-read concentricity layering.
"Synergetical third-powering is identified with the cumulative
total point population of all the successive wave layer
embracements of the system.
"Synergetical fourth-powering is identified with the interpointal
domain volumes.
"Synergetical fifth- and sixth-powerings are identified as
products of multiplication by frequency doublings and treblings,"
Cite RBF at SYNERGETICS galley Sec. 240.44, 28 Oct 73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Dimensionality:
"and are geometrically identifiable.
"Synergetical six-dimensionality is identified geometrically
with vectorial system modular frequency relationship.
"Synergetical sise dimensionality is identified geometrically
with relative frequency modulation."
-
Cite RBF correctionsto SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 240.44,
240.45, and 240.46, 28 Oct 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimensionality:
"Arithmetic one dimensionality is identified
LINEAR
geometrically with _ Y pointal frequency.
Arithmetical two dimensionality is identified
with areal pointal frequency.
Arithmetical
Six
Adimensionality is identified geometrically
with vectorial system modular frequency
relationship.
Arithmetical size dimensionality is identified
geometrically with relative frequency modulation."
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 114, Oct*59

Dimensionality Radial Depth Frequency:
See Radial Depth, 20 Dec 74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Dimensional Reference Frame:
"Synergetics' six positive and six negative dimensional
reference frames are reinitiated and regenerated in
respect to specific local developments and interrelationships
of Universe."
Context at Powering: Six Dimensions, Jan' 72
- Cite COLLIER's as written in SYNERGETICS "Corollaries,"
Sec. 240.41 and "Modelability, " Sec. 770.04. 1972

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimensional Supremacy:
"Dimensional supremacy is not an increase in powers but
the reduction of powers. For instance, E Mc is significant
not for the fourth dimension but for the increasing simplicity
of c² as the radiational. Because the energy is in packages
and the packages are always spherical the centers of energy
rebirth are polyhedronal and accommodated by the isotropic
vector matrix. The real power is the frequency: 10 F + 2,
which accommodates all the exportive-importive, entropic-
syntropic regeneration patterning of Universe."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 960.05, 16 Nov 172

Dimension: Dimensionality:
See Two-dimensionality
Three-dimensional
Fourth Dimension
Multidimensional: Multidimensionality
Multidimensional Connectibility
Nondimensionality
Powering
Size Dimensionality
Time-size
Time-size Dimensioning.
Two-way Rectilinear Grid
Dimensionality
Dimensionless
One-dimensional
Tetramension
Eight-dimensional
-
Radial Depth Frequency
Multidimensional Accommodation
Primitive Dimensionality
Fifth Dimension
Orientability
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimensionality:
"I explained to Charles Panati [of Newsweek] last Friday
that we do not arrive at dimensionality by virtue of perpen-
dicular or rallel assembly. In synergetics dimensionality
provides for assembly by convergence and divergence.
"
"I showed him the convergence and divergence of the 2 tetra
of four frequency like the quarter-octahedra...'
(See Figs.
415.55 and 417.01-- EJA.)
(For later version of above see Convergence &
Divergence, 9 Apr' 75.)
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from lithographing studios,
West Islip, L.I., Easter Day, 30 Mar'75

Dimension: Dimensionality:
(2)
See Conceptuality, May'49
Dynamic, 1950*
Length, 12 Mar 71*
Reciprocity (3)*
Size (1) (2)
Space, Jun'66*
Tension & 6ompression, 1 Apr'49*
Time, 16 Nov 72
Science: Pure & Applied, 14 Sep'71
Synergetics, 1 Apr*49*
Energy & Information, 27 Dec*74*
Energy & Number, Oct 71
Fix, 25 Mar' 71
Convergence & Divergence, 9 Apr 75
Six Motion Freedoms à Degrees of Freedom, 11 Aug'77

Dimensionless:
See Twilight Zone, 22 Jun 75

Diminishing Chaos: Law Of:
See Conservation of Finite Universe:
20 Jun166
Principle of,

Diminishing: Diminution:
See Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual Error

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling:
"Any and all of the icosahedron's vertexes pulsate individually
and independently from the convex to concave state only in the
form of local dimpling, because each only-from-outward-motion
restrained vertex-- being free to articulate inwardly toward its
system center, and having done so-- becomes abruptly five-vector
restrained by its immediate neighboring vertexial event
convergences; and the abrupt halting of its inward travel occurs
before it reaches the system center. This means that one
vertex cannot pulse imwardly more deeply than a local dimple
similar to the popping in of a derby hat."
905.17
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905, 16 Dec '73

RbF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling Effect:
(A)
"When a concentrated load is applied (toward the center) of any
vertex of any triangulated system, it tends to cause a dimpling
effect. As the frequency or complexity of successive struc-
tures increase, the dimpling becomes progressively more localised,
and proportionately less force is required to bring it about.
"To illustrate dimpling in various structures, we can visualize
the tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron made out of steel
rods with rubber joints. Being thin and flexible, they will
bend and yield under pressure.
"Tetra: Beginning with the tetrahedron as the minimum system,
it clearly will require proportioantely greater foce to create
a 'dent.' In order to dimple, the tetrahedron will have to
turn itself completely inside out with no localized effect in
evidence. Thus the dimpling forces a complete change in the
entire structure. The tetrahedron has the greatest resistanc
of any structure to externally applied concentrated load. It
is the only system that can turn itself inside out. Other
systems can have very large dimples, but they are still local.
Even a hemispherical dimple is still a dimple and still local."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 618.01;.02;10; Aug' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling Effect:
"Octa: If we apply pressure to any one of the six vertexes
of the octahedron, we will find that one half will fit into
the other half of the octahedron, each being the shape of a
square-based Egyptian pyramid. It will nest inside like a
football being deflated, with one half nested in the other.
Although the octahedron dimples locally, it reduces its
volume considerably in doing so, implying that it still has
a good resistance to concentrated load.
(B)
"Icosa: "When we press on the vertex of an icosahedron, five
legs out of the 30 yield in dimpling locally. There remains
a major part of the space in the icosahedron that is not pushed
in.
If we go into higher and higher triangulation--into
geodesics--the dimpling becomes more local; there will be a
pentagon or hexagon of five or six vectors that will refuse
to yield in tension and will pop inwardly in compression, and
not necessarily at the point where the pressure is applied."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec,s 618.20-.30; Aug171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling:
Dimpling Effect:
"When a concentrated load is applied to any vertex (towards
the center) of any triangulated system it tends to cause
a dimpling effect. Beginning with the tetrahedron as the
minimum system, as the complexity (frequency) of successive
structures increases, the dimpling become progressively more CALIZE
As the dimpling becomes more localised proportionately less
force is required to bring it about, i.e., in successively
higher frequency systems it takes progressively less and
less effort to create a 'dent.' The tetrahedron would have
to turh itself completely inside out, and as this constututes
a complete change in the entire structure (with no localized
effect in evidence) the terahedron clearly has the greatest
resistance of any structuré to externally applied concen-
trated load. The octahedron dimples in on itself, and the
icosahedron, although dimpling locally, does reduce its
volume considerably when doing so, implying that it still
has a good resistance to concentrated load. The geodesic
spheres exhibit 'very local' dimpling as the frequency
increases, suggesting much less resistance to concentrated
loads but a very high resistance to distributed loads."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Illustration #97 "Dimpling Effect:
Distribution of Load Increases with Frequency." 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling Effect:
Tetrahedron:
"Now I am going to press for the first time on the
tetrahedron's vertex. It turns inside out. The dimple
turns it inside out. Now it is the only one that turns
inside out. The tetrahedron has two things: it can be
asymmetrically altered and it is the only system that
can turn itself inside out. The others have to be still
positive with a local dimple. It can be a hemispherical
dimple, but it is still a dimple.
This
(1)
"The ability to turn inside out in physics is really what
is misidentified with something called annihilation.
Suddenly in the Universe it has appeared as another thing.
when the physicist has annihilation, he doesn't really
look for it-- he wants to see the direct connection.
makes it really become temporarily invisible. Now we have
something that suddenly becomes visible and so he says,
well i just found something that I didn't know existed
before. He doesn't find necessarily the connection--
it's just suddenly there is something over here. The
point is, it didn't leave the Universe. It wasn't annihilated,
It simply was literally inside out. Now what we kall"
Cite RBF tape transcript to BO'R, Carbondale, pp.9-11, 1 May171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling Effect: Tetrahedron:
"thinkable is always inside out. What we call space is just
exactly as real, but it is inside out. There is no such
thing right and left!"
Cite RBF tape transcript to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, pp.9-11,
1 May'71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling:
Dimpling Effect:
Octahedron:
"I am going to make a tetrahedron, octahedron and an
icosahedron. You can visualize those you know. I am
going to make them out of steel rods with rubber joints.
Steel rods have some flexibility in them. They are thin
and if you press them hard they will bend, yield.
"I am going to press on the vertex, any one vertex of an
octahedron-- it has six vertexes. Andits legs being of
steel are springy and will yield and the rubber joints
will permit it, so it dimples. So if I dimple the octahedron,
one-half the octahedron. If you look at the octahedron
with a point we might call elevated, and a point lower,
then we have four points around its equator.
So I press
in on this top one, the North Pole, and it now turns in,
dimples in, and one-half of the octahedron fits into the
other half of the octahedron, each being the shape of
an Egyptian pyramid, a square-based pyramid. But it nests
inside itself like a football being deflated, with one-half
nested in the other half."
-
Cite RBF tape transcript to B'OR, Carbondale Dome, 1 May 1971
Pp. 6-7.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dimpling:
Dimpling Effect: (C) Icosahedron:
•
"An icosahedron, it now has a North and South Pole
and we have the two equinoxial limits of what we call
the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. So I
press on one of its vertexes, five legs out of thirty
locally dimple. So it literally is dimpled then and there
is a lot of space inside the icosahedron not filled in.
As I get higher and highertriangulation. as I get into
the geodesics, the higher the frequency of the geodesic-
modular subdivision of the icosahedron-- and the more local
the dimpling. The legs are spread out. There is a
hexagon or a pentagon that refuses to yield in tension,
so that the legs have to yield in compression, bending,
and she pops inwardly. So the higher the frequency, the
more local the dimple."
Cite RBF tape transcript to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, 1 May 1971
Pp. 7-8.

Dimpling:
See Rigidty vs. Resilience, 20 Dec174

Dinosaur:
See Artificial, (2)
Berry Picking, (D) (E)
Generalized Principle, (4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Diplomate:
"So I find the larger the undertaking to accommodate the
specialization, the lower level of mental capability comes
to bear. I don't have anything against anybody I assure
you. We don't have good and bad people. We don't really
have brights and dulls, because I think everybody is really
born with extraordinary capabilities but we get them shut off.
The valves get closed off by the older peoples' fear that the
children are going to get into trouble doing this or that.
Here then is the pattern of specialization really not
working; and how it happens that as we get into the larger
responsibilities, really the lower the order of capability
being brought to bear. And when we get to international
affairs you can see where we are. He could really just not
have any lower kind of capability."
Cite Univ. of Chicago Address, pp. 10-11, 5 May'72

Diplomats:
See Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larger the Task the Duller
The Brain
Anbassador
(1)

Diplomats:
See Politics, 10 Jun 71
(2)

Dirac, P.A.M:
See Fuller, R.B: Meeting with Fernandes-Moran, (1)

Direct vs. Indirect:
See Acceleration: Direct vs.
Indirect
(1)

Direct vs. Indirect:
See Precession (b)
(2)

RbF DEFINITIONS
Direction:
"In, out and around are all the directions there are.*
Citation and context at In, Out, and Around, 10 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Direction:
"If there were only one entity in Universe there would
be no direction."
-
Cite RBF insert at Synergetics Sec 412.), Bear Island, 23 Aug. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Direction:
"A line is a leading, the description of man's continual
discovery of the directional sequences of events."
-
Citation at Line, 22 Apr '71
Bust

RBF DEFINITIONS
Direction:
"All lines, except when abstractly considered as direction,'
are somewhat curved..."
Citation & context at Ling, 1938

HBF DEFINITION
Direction:
"By controlling direction it becomes possible, scientifically,
to increase the probability that specific events will 'happen.
Citation and context at Society: Control uf, 1938

Directional Sense:
See In, Out & Around, 1968
Relativity, May 49

Directional Experience:
See Line, 7 Nov'72

Directional Field Pulla;
See Orbiting, 6 Mar' 73

Direction:
See Anydirectional
In
In, Out, & Around
Least Resistance
Multidirectional
Omnidirectional
Out
Preferred Directions
Radial-circumferential
Supradirectional
Up & Down Sequence
Perfect Direction
Unidirectional
Unique Direction
In & Out: Go In to Go Out
Point-toable
No Up & Down
(1)

Direction:
See Inflection, Mart 71
Least Resistance, 1938
Line, 7 Nov 72; 6 Nov 73; 22 Apr'71*; 1938*
Orbiting, 6 Mar 73
Otherness 28 May 72
Perfect, 1938; Jun 66
Society: Control of, 1938*
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, 10 Jul'62
Time, 16 Dec 73
Truth, 1967
Vector, 26 May 172
Left & Right, 7 Nov 75
Out-lining, 22 Mar' 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Directionless:
Out' is directionless and timeless.
Instead of 'omnidirectional,' say directionless.”
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.

Disagreement:
See Angle of Disagreement

RBF DEFINITIONS
Disappearance:
the disappearance, or isolating aspect of our
Universe. . . is always present.
-
Citation and context at Tetrahedron: Invisible Tetrahedron,
1 May171

Disapproved Words: Inventory Of:
See Meaningless: Inventory of Meaningless Concepts
Obsolete: Inventory of Obsolete Concepts
(1)

Disapproved Words: Inventory of:
See Culture
Fundamental
Infinite
1 Feb 75; 19 Feb 76
(See Endless, 22 Apr'68)
Man or Mankind
Psychological, (See Psychology, 15 Jun '73)
World, 24 Jan 75
Package 1 Feb 75
House, Feb 75
Disciple, (See Average Human Being, 5 Kar'74)
Negative, 2 Mar'68
English, 28 Jan'75
Peace, 19 Oct 71
Create: Creativity
Pressure
Three-dimensional, 19 Feb'76
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Disarmament:
(1)
"Eventual and probably imminent world-around disarmament
will release the vast weapons industries to production of
air-deliverable dwelling machines. This disarmament will
occur as the ma jor world enterprise corporations who have
become supranational, find that they do not need armaments
to protect their know-how selling and the latter's service
industries; and the Russian leaders, long exasperated by
the USA-paced armaments race, and now attaining military
supremacy over the US and realizing that further delay in
world disarmament could easily permit the integration and
acceleration of an Arab armaments-buting program that might
well challenge Russia's supremacy, ergo, Russia will hasten
to impose disarmament in order also to fulfill their long-
overdue promise to their people to turn the industrial
advantage to the improvement of their citizens' living
standards and in direct support of communism's long-pronoun-
ced claims of inherent overall superiority as a social
economic system."
"With the general world disarmament and the release to life-
promoting account of the fabulous production capacity of"
-
Citation & context at Building Industry, (9) (10); 20 Sep' 76

RHF DEFINITIONS
Disarmament:
(2)
"the world's industrial complexes will come the one-day
air-delivery of whole cities similar to the Old Man River
Project wherein the operating efficiencies will be signifi-
cantly multiplied and the social conditions... omnivisible."
Citation & context at Building Industry, (10); 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Disarmament:
Disarmament is inevitable because the Russians will soon
impose it. They will never cave in under pressure in any
negotiating; they've always told me that. But they have
now too long deferred the benefits of communism, and though
they won't go so far as giving every man a car, they are
going to start to reinvest their energies in a more logical
way. And there is nothing more illogical than nuclear
arms.
"The capitalists, the west, the selfish profit-makers--they'll
never do it first."
-
Cite RBF to BJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC; 11 Aug 76

Disarmament:
See Detente
Politicians & Defense Budgets
(1)

Disarmament:
See Building Business,
Computer, (1)
(5)
Walis vs. Airspace Technology, (1)
Building Industry, (9) (10)*
(2)

Disassociability:
See Associability & Disassociability

Disassociative: Disassociation:
See Association & Disassociation
Entropy
Gravity
(1)
Kadiation

Disassociative: Disassociation:
See Death, 22 Jul 71
(2)

Disbursement: Disbursings:
See Collecting
Dispersing
(1)

Disbursement:
Disbursings:
See Weather, Feb 73
(2)

Disciple:
See Average Human Being, 5 Mar 74

Discipline:
See Academic Disciplines
Cross-discipline
Inventory of Disciplines
Inventory of Proclivities, Phases & Disciplines
Nondisciplining
Self-discipline
Slave Profession:
Slave Discipline
Teleologic Design Discipline
(1)

Discipline:
See Education: Evolutionary Touchdowns, May'65
Water, May 65
Absolute Network, 10 Nov 74
Communications Hierarchy, (2)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Disconnect:
"Scientists have been forced to disconnect from our senses
due to the errors of our senses which we are now able to
rectify. As we reconnect our senses with the reality of
Universe, we begin to regain competent thinking by humans."
-x
Citation and context at Spherical Triangle (1), 13 Nov 169

Disconnect:
See Break
Icosahedral Disconnect
Metaphysical Disconnect
Sense Disconnection
Zero-disconnectedness
(1)

Disconnect:
See Law, May'65
Spherical Triangle,
(1)*
Thinking, (3)
Vecto Equilibrium as Empty Set Tetrahedron, 2 Nov' 73
Repetition, (1)(2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discontinuity:
"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."
-
Citation & context at Wave, 22 Apri71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discontinuity:
"There are no experimentally demonstrated continuums.
All that has been found is discontinuity as in star con-
stellations or atomic nuclear arrays. 'Areas are
discontinuous by
constructional definition."
Citation & context at Area, Jun'66

REF DEFINITIONS
Discontinuous:
They may fly wavilinear patterns but the atoms are
found to be as discontinuous as the wavilinear sky trails
of the jet airplane."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.37, 10 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITION
Discontinuity Accommodation Model:
"The octahedron as the conservation and annihilation model
also provides for the accommodation of discontuity. It is
not a discontinuity model but rather a model of the accommo-
dation of discontinuity.
"
Cite RBF to EJA enroute Union Station, Wash., DC., 9 Apr'75

KBF DEFINITIONS
Discontinuity & Continuity:
"e find that nature employs discontinuous com-
pressions and continuous tension. For this reason
compressions are plural and tension is singular."
-
Site GO DEES, Sat. Review 2 Mar 68
->>
Citation at Cension & Compression, 2 Mar'68

Discontinuity & Continuity:
See Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity
Tension & Compression
Fixes, Discontinuities & Continuities
(1)

Discontinuity & Continuity:
See Continuous Man, (1)
Corpuscular, y Jul 62
In & Out, 13 Nov'69
Male & Female, 20 Apr 72
Tensegrity, 1967; 14 Oct*72
Necklace, (1)(2)
Coherence, 10 Feb'73
Quantum, 17 Feb 73
Tioman is Continuous, 11 Aug 77
NE
(2)

Discontinuous Man:
See Local Reality, 1963

TEXT CITATION
Discontinuous Wave Pattern of Indize:
See Synergetics Illus. 1012.14B

Discontinuity:
See Death: Apparent Discontinuity of
Discontinuity & Continuity
Earth Fault: Society Is Living In a Sort of
Earth Fault
Energy Flow & Discontinuity
Interval Integrity
Islanded
Package
Periodic Experience
Physical Discontinuity
Quantum
Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections
Wave vs. Particle
Subvisible Discontinuity
(1)

Discontinuity:
See Area, Jun'66*
Evolution: Man as Evolution Modifier, May' 49
Experience, 1960
Interference:
19 Dec 73
Man, 19 Dec' 71
You Really Can't Get There from Here,
Otherness Point, 24 Sep'73
Packaged, 1969
(B)
Pattern Integrity,
Radiation Speed Of, (C)
Solids, Nov³ 71
Tension Strcutures, 1 Apr*49
Tenuous, 10 Feb 73
Wave, 22 Apr '71*
Vector Equilibrium as Empty Set Tetrahedron,
2 Nov 73
Scenario, 1 Feb 75
Progressions, Fay 49
Annihilation, 22 Jun '75
Radiation, 11 Feb*76
(2)

Discounting:
See Anticipatory Discounting

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"Development is programable
Discovery is not programable.
Since the behaviors to be sought
Are unknown,
Computers cannot be instructed
To watch out for them."
-
Citation and context at Computer, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
• "Certain it is on my own part
That I have made several mathematical discoveries
Of fundamentally unexpected and unpublished nature.
As I realized my discovery
I always have had
The same strange sensation
That this newly realized conception,
Previously unknown to terrestrial humans,
Had been known
To the human mind
Sometime vastly long ago."
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.170 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"Discoveries are inherently unpredictable."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971, p. 7

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"We cannot design metaphysical; we can only discover
metaphysical.
it is a priori."
Citation at Metaphysical, May'67
-P

RAF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"True, men have been endowed with very extraordinary faculties.
The Universe is endowed with vary extraordinary principles.
The principles are discoverable. When man fulfills his extra-
ordinary abilities and does discover, or really un-cover
the mysteries of the ordered Univers, some very strong inter-
actions become available to society. Humanity is constantly
being surprised by the interactions. But, as for the discovery,
it was always there, waiting to be uncovered.
"
Citation and context at Creativity (1) + (2) Spring'66

KBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"In respect to the words 'Science: A creative Discipline, '
I am convinced that the word 'creation'belongs to God and
nobody else. We are all endowed with extraordinary faculties.
The universe is endowed with extraordinary generalized
principles. The principles are progressively discoverable
only by man's faculties. Man may interrelate them to
produce unique results. The individual at times fulfills
high potentials with which he is endowed. When he does
seem to be creative, however, the men who are spoken of as
creative always refer to what they have done as discovery.
They do not claim creativity. Through exploration and
experiment they acquire sublime conviction of the a priori
eternality of the verities. I cannot accredit 'disciplined
creativity."
Citation at Creation, May165

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"I have to recognize something much bigger than my
The orderliness of the universe
capabilities in creativity.
and all the potential N2 N relationships are by experience
a priori to man's exploration and discovery of them. Often
two remote persons discover their existence independently."
Cite AAUW JOURNAL, May 1965, P. 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"Thanks for the data-- I may be wrong about my checking--
check me back! I'm intuitively confident that some such
rationality does exist and have a lot of calculations
tucked away myself. So let us pay attention to experience
which shows us that even though we may have made errors
and were not entitiled to entry into a big discovery by
virtue of our erroneous sortie that it is often a fact
that the next or the next sortie after that-- in the
same area will come up with proff that we have been
intuitively right all the time."
-
Cite RBF Letter to Mr. Alfred to Forbes, Auklnad, 18 Nov 165

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery:
"I have always been confident as I explored synergetica
looking for nature's own coordinate system, that inasmuch
as I was not inventing a coordinate system, but was trying
to find one that nature had, nature had this all the
time and it seemed to me very logical that men long before
us might really have discovered some of nature's
coordinating, might have run into the same kind of phenomena.
There it was, and it was not going to change through the ages
at all because we are dealing with fundamental principles
of Universe that are utterly timeless and independent of
size, shape and time. I have often felt a strage curious
feeling as I made a discovery that some one had known this
before. Going around the world I watched for some kind of
manifestation in the design of some object that would tell
me that people in that part of the world had at some time
known the things that I was discovering. You can see that
I have a very definite kind of a pattern of world which I
could recognize and I did begin to find some of the pattern
in Burma and Thailand and 1 have been able to trace the
relationshipsof these patterns into the world of navigation
and building ships.'
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 250-251. 11 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery of Generalized Principles:
"Once in very rare moments
Individuals amongst using their minds
Progressively discover
Metaphysical and mathematically equatable
Generalized principles
Which are constantly operative
Amongst the behaviors
Of comprehensive special-case experience-aggregates
while being utterly unpredicted by the characteristics
Of any of the individual parts."
-
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan 172, p. 9.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery of Generalized Principles:
"Discoveries are regenerative stimulation of the explorer.
They occur whenever he discovers a generalized principle.
When his mind discovers a generalized principle permeating
whole fields of special-case experiences, the discovery of
such a new relationship is not only excitingly new to him as
an explorer, but to the best of his knowledge it is heretofore
unknown by any others. The stimulation is not that of the
discoverer of a diamond-- a physical entity which may be
monopolized or exploited to the individual's advantage--
rather it is an elation over the realization that the newly
discovered principle will increase the understandings of
humanity and provide spontaneous logic for cooperation where
confusion adn controversy had hitherto prevailed."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idabo, Washin: ton DC. 20 Dec. 171.
Incorporated at SYNERGETICS
text,
Sec. 250.Ct.
[02]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery of Generalized Principles:
"Men have been endowed with very extraordinary
faculties. The universe is endowed with very extraordinary
principles. These principles are discoverable. When man
fulfills his extraordinary abilities and does discover or really
uncover the mysteries of the ordered universe, some very
strong interactions become available to society. Humanity is
constantly being surprised by these interactions.
But as
for the 'discover, it was always there, waiting to be
uncovered."
-
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, Vol.1., No. 3. Pp. 43
Spring 1966.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discovery of Genralized Principles:
"I would say that there is going to be a general discovery
of the general orderliness and the significance of the general
orderliness which is a complex of abstract principles. It
is a concept of intellectual conceptions. Everyone of them
are intellectual conceptions. They are what the scientist
calls elegant as he begins to discover it. As any one of
these principles are discovered, the men discovering it are
moved I am sure as no other human beings are moved. There
is a very extraordinary sensation as you discover that
Universe is operating on this principle and it has been
there all the time. It is much more than discovering a
brook when you are a child, and that is pretty exciting when
you are a child to discover a brook, or to see the dew on
the grass for the first time, but it is much more still
when a scientist discovers an operating principle of
Universe. They are complex and of very enormous intellectual
conceptions. What we are discovering also is that these
principles are anticipatory. There is nothing we can do
which nature is not ready for us."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 128. 6 Jul'62

Discovery of Generalized Principles:
The metaphysical might continually improve the scenario
by conceptual discoveries of new generalised principles."
Citation and concept at Pendulum Model vs. Scenario Model,
23 Dec'68

Discovery of Generalized Principles:
See Human Beings & Complex Universe, (5)

Dicovery:
See Creation vs. Discovery
Cul de Sac: Intuitively Inadvertent
Fisherman Theme
Formulations
Glimpse-discovery
Invention
Invention vs. Discovery
Intuition: Eye-beamed Thoughts
Intuition: Second Intuition
Loss: Discovery Through Loss
Ninety-two Elements:
Self-discovery
Chart of Rate of Acquisition
Tetrahedron Discovers Itself
Smell-discover
Non-empirically-discoverable
(1)

Discovery:
Discoverability:
See Computer, May' 72*
Creation, Hay'65*; 29 Mar' 77
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (1)
Error, 5 Feb'77
Eternal Orderliness, 15 May: 72
Generalization Sequence, (2) (3)
God, 7 Nov* 75
Human Event, Feb'71
Individual System Formation, 15 Kay' 72
Irreversible, 6 Nov' 73
Ketaphysical, Kay 67*
Overlapping, 5 Jul 62
Words & Coping, 7 Nov' 75
Cosmic Fishing (A)-(C)
Subconscious, 20 Feb 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Discrete:
"Physics has found no infinity.
discrete packages.
Physics has found
That's all she has ever experienced--
discrete packages.
•
It is an entirely new system.
We don't have to teach infinity in mathematics."
Cite Tape transcript RBF to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, 1 May 1971.

Discrete vs. Probability:
See Scheherazade Numbers: Declining Powers Of,
17 Mar 75

Discrete:
See Indiscrete
Package
Quantum Wave Phenomena
Time-somethingness
Discrete vs. Probability
Periodic Experience
(1)

Discrete:
Differentiation, 19 Jun'71
See Environment: Altering The, 1970
Frequency, 1960; Jun171
Genetic, 14 Feb 72
Geometry of Vectors, 15 Jun'74
Omnifinite, 11 Feb 71
Omniradial, 23 Sep173
Otherness Point, 24 Sep*73
Packaged, 1969
Powering: Second Powering, 21 Dec171
Precession (a)
Prime Otherness, 24 Sep*73
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 24 Feb'72
Rope, Dec 71
Tensegrity, 20 Oct 72
Vector, 15 Oct164; May'67
Industrialization, (A)
Geometry of Vectors, 27 Jan '75
Mites Make All Regular Polyhedra, 27 May'72
(2)

Discretion:
See Electable:
Elective
Lifetime: Personal Lifetime Experience for Elective
Investment
Options
Voluntary
(1)

Discretion:
See Earning A Living, 10 Apr '73
(2)

Disease:
See Doorknobs as Disease Carriers
Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative
(1)

Disease:
See Conformity, 10 Oct 63
Reverse Optimism, Aug'64
(2)

Disenchantment:
See Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment

Disequilibrium:
Disequilibrious:
See Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD
Triangle
Equilibrious & Disequilibrious
(1)

Disequilibrium:
Disequilibrious:
See Spheres & Spaces, 14 Oct'72
Spherical Interstices, 18 Nov'72
(2)

RBF DEFINITONS
Disintegration:
"Compressions are disintegratable because they are not
solid and can permit energy penetration between their
invisibly amassed separate energy entities. The
mentration brings about precessional dispersal at
90 degrees."
Citation at Compression, 19 Jun'71
ese RBP to EVA, Byarly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.
Synergetics-Sec. 615-021
Inserted

Disintegrative 'Here's':
See Hores & Therea, 4 Jun' 72

Disintegration: Disintegrative:
See Entropy: Entropic
Integration & Disintegration
Unstable Disintegration
(1)

Disintegration: Disintegrative:
See Compression, 19 Jun'71
Linear Programming, 5 Jun*73
Specialized Boat, (p.21) May 72
Syntropy, (p.143) May 72
Universal Integrity:
Principle of, Dec' 72; 8 May'72
(2)

Dismay:
See Trap of Dismay

Dismissal:
See Inward vs. Outward Disimissal of Error
Irrelevancies: Dismissal of

RBF DEFINITIONS
Disorder:
"We cannot have disorder
Because Universe is not monological..."
Citation and context at Universe, pp.156-157 May '172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Disorder:
"Primordial does not exist.
There could not be
anything prior to order. Man is disorderly only
in his ignorance. "
Auberet.
1971
Citation at Primordial, 22 Jul 71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Disorder:
"Disorder attains and passes through maximum asymmetry."
Give Panduan Model VS Scenario Bodel. 23 Dec168
-
Citation at Maximum Asymmetry, 23 Dec'68

Disorder:
See Chaos
Entropic Disorder
Entropy
Entropy as Lack of Information
Hell
Order & Disorder
Point of No Return
Primordial
Randomness
Relative Asymmetry
No Absolute Disorder
(1)

Disorder:
See Equilibrium, 25 Feb 69
Gears, May 72
Maximum Asymmetry, 23 Dec'68*
Modules: A & B Quanta, 18 Oct'72
Primordial, 22 Jul 71*
Universe, May'72*
Wave System Propagations, May' 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Disparate:
"The basic complementarity of our octahedron and tetrahedron,
which always share the disparate
numbers 1 and 4 in our
topological analysis (despite its being double or 4 in relation
to tetra 1), is explained by the uniquely asymmetrical
octahedron which is always constituted by the many different
admixtures of AAB Quanta Modules..."
- Citation and context at Coupler (1), 22 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Disparity:
"The complementary of parity is disparity and not a reflective
image.
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 507.06, 6 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Disparity:
"When we missed the moon in our first attempt to shoot
a rocket to it, the tetrahedral tuck in Universe may have
represented that discrete error. It was directly related
to our lack of awareness of the disparity of the calculus.
This disparity is corollary to the same mathematical
disparity that was physically discovered in atomic behavior,
which brought its discoverers' the 1957 Nobel prize and
which discovery physics' long-held law of conservation of
parity which held the obverse and reverse to be identical,
ergo, redundant. A further corollary to the tetrahedral
disparity of systems invalidates the functioning significance
of the transcendental irrational constant Pi."
Cite UNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, 1960, Pp. 153-156.

Disparity: Coupling of Disparate Actions:
See Universal Joint: Tetrahedron, 9 Nov'73

Disparity:
See Parity & Disparity
(1)

Disparity:
See Multiplicative Twoness, Jun'71
Octant Zone, 27 May 72
Operational Procedure, 22 Nov 73
Vector Equilibrium: Eight-pointed Star System,
16 Dec 173
(2)

Dispersing:
See Disbursement
(1)

Dispersing:
See Black Hole, (1)
Rain, 11 Feb 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Displacements of Ships and Buildings:
"Building technology on the dry land was never predicated
upon a total weight limitation. Buildings did not seem to
sink into the Earth to 'displacement' depths.
.
In recent
years engineers have observed that the amount of rock
displaced to get firm foundations often approximates the
ratios of ships' displacements as demonstrated between
skyscraper weights and weight of excavation removals for
those skyscrapers."
Cite MEXICO 163, p.6, 10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Displacements of Ships & Buildings:
"You will find that a cruise ship weighs 1/15th as much
per passenger as does the hotel Bellevue Stratford. You find
you really get a much more charming life on board the cruise
ship than you do at the hotel, and it only takes 1/15th as
much material... when you jest get down to thinking about the
materials per person and developing a proper shelter."
Tape transcript, p.11; RBF toB. Brooks, 30 Apr 74

Displacement:
See Weight of Buildings
(1)

Displacement:
See Archimedes, (p.21) May 72
Generalised Boat, 28 Jan'69
Metaphysical Wave Patterns, 6 Nov'73
(2)

Displeased:
See Pleased or Displeased

Disquietudes
See Odd Ball, 27 Sep'72; 10 Nov'74

Dissimilar: Dissimilar Complementarity:
See Nonidentical
Prime Otherness
Similar & Dissimilar
Tetrahedron:
Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation
(1)

Dissimilar: Dissimilar Complementarity:
See Non-mirror Image, 22 May 73
Thinkability, 26 Kay'72
Male & Female, 21 Jan'75
(2)

Dissociability:
See Associability & Disassociability
De-structures: De-structuring

Dissociability:
See Radiation, (p.126) 1959
(2)

Dissynchronous:
See Synchronous & Dissynchronous

RBF DEFINITIONS
Distaff:
"This was the sign displayed in the womens' quarters of
the Falace at Knossos, Crete. It signified 90° degree
accounting
which was deemed adequate for domestic purposes.
- Cite RNF to SIMS Seminar, U.Mass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Distaff Geometry:
With the invasion of Knossos we have our enemy
sailors coming there and sacking the place and finding
the distaff geometry. With the distaff geometry they
opened up the Ionian Greek Geometry which follows
immediately afterwards with the ninety-degree angle
study
Introduced into the public domain, including
quadratic equations and mathematics of a very high order."
-
Cite tape transcript RBF to EJA, Chez Wolf, 18 June 1971. p. 35

RBF DEFINITIONS
Distaff Geometry:
In the palace at Knossos "over in the area where the
goods are stored, where the women were, this was called
the distaff sign. The distaff sign you will find on the
walls is always a ninety-degree cross. You have a ninety
degree and a forty-five; it begins to look like the
British flag: the cross of St. Andrew and the cross of
St. George. And this is called distaff."
Cite tape transcript RBF to EJA, Chez Wolf, 18 June 1971. p. 34

Distaff:
(1)
See King's Sign

Distaff:
See Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross, (2) (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Distance:
"Distance is time.
Distance is only frequency-accountable."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 960.11, 16 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Distance:
"You need two othernesses with an interval between them
in order to have a sense of distance; otherwise you might
just be looking at yourself in the mirror.
"
Citation and context at Magnitude Awareness, 20 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Distance:
"Length is distance. Distance is measured in time.
Time increments are calculated in respect to a variety of
cyclic regularities manifest in our environmental exper-
iences."
-
Citation at Ting, Jun'66

Distance:
See Slower & Closer vs. Faster & Far Apart
(1)

Distance:
See Magnitude Awareness, 20 Feb'73*
Time, Jun'66*
Vector, 26 May 172
Time & Sise, Nov' 71
(2)

Distortion:
See Internal Control of Distortion

RbF DEFINITIONS.
Distribution:
It
"Distribution is an integral part of design science.
involves all the unconscious aesthetics of maintenance and
attractiveness. The Bell telephone system is the best
industrial example of selling the service instead of the
instrument. "
Cite RBF at Penn Bell studios videotaping, Philadelphia, PA.,
25 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Distributive:
"Radiation is omni-outwardly and omnidiametrically distributive;
its fractionally packaged radiations are angularly and
pulsatively precessed by the universal otherness frequency
effects, ergo, in wavilinearly-edged tetrahedral packages.
Radiation is wavilinearly amplifying and radially distributive
and is defined by the central-angle-partitioning into
discontinuous, not-everywhere entities."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 541.02, 23 Sep' 73

Distribution: Distributive:
See Force Distribution
Force Lines
Inhpit vs. Distribute
Load Distribution
(1)

Distribution: Distributive:
See Central Angle, 23 Sep'73
Octave Wave, 5 Far'73
Radiation, 23 Sep 73; 11 Feb 76
Halfway-round-the-Worlding, 26 Jan' 75
(2)

Disturbance Initiating Point:
See Synergetics Calculation, 1970

Disturbance:
See Equilibrium Disturbing
Resultant as Disturbance Diminishing

Diurnal Cyclic Experience:
See Motion, (2)
Time Vector, 24 Sep 73
Sleeping & Thinking, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divergence:
"Whereas none of the geodesic lines, 'trajectories," of
Universe touch one another the lines, 'trajectories,'
approach one another, passing successively through regions
of most critical proximity, and diverge from one another,
passing succesively through regions of most innocuous
remoteness."
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240. 1971

Divergence:
See Avoidance
Convergence & Divergence
Fourth Dimension
Starting with Divergence
Omnidivergent
(1)

Divergence:
See Radiation, 23 Jun'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer:
The Principle of Universal Integrity is "an inverse
corollary of the age-old instinct to Divide and Conquer."
NON
Citation and context at Universal Integrity: Principle of,
5 Jan 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
(1)
"By getting out from under the world of specialization, which
I feel was very clearly imposed on man due to the fact that
every child manifests spontaneous interest in totality, and
wants to be comprehensive.. despite our scientific information in
biology that all the biological species that have become extinct
have become extinct as a consequence of overspecialization.
Because specialization, biologically, means you can inbreed;
but you inbreed at the cost of general adaptability. And with
the general adaptability loss you can get along for a while,
but it happens that the energy investment of nature on a wave
quantum basis, that we have large waves with very large
amounts of energy investments, but at low frequency,
and very
small amounts of energy, but at high frequency. So the big
energy events, such as an earthquake, for instance, do not
take place with a frequency of waves or ripples in the water...
or mosquitoes. So in developing special capability you may
get on very nicely for a period, but then suddenly along comes
one of the big ones, with the result that, having lost the
general adaptability: out goes the species!
"I'd say then that mano coordinate, and to understand,
having quite clearly been
designed to
be a comprehensivist,
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.4, 28 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
-
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
"liow did it happen that he became a specialist?
623
(2)
"It becomes perfectly clear that in the early phases of man
discovering himself, to be sure that he would regenerate
himself, he's given the instinct to be hungry. If he says
to breed, these are all built into him, so that there will
be children.. keep on regenerating himself, so that he has
a functioning, and in doing that, he discovers quite early
that the biggest guy can knock down the little guy. And that
there's only enough for one to eat. And maybe the big man
isn't too selfish, but he's got these kids over here and
they're going to have to eat.. To look out for My People.
So the Big lan began to answer who was going to eat. And it's
still that way.
That's still the basis of our power structure.
We think about the simple matter of a big man, like a big
stallion in a herd of wild horses. There's a big young
stallion born. He didn't have to be, but he's bigger than
any of the others. And there's an older, gret big stallion,
and he immediately challenges this young big stallion to
battle, and the one that wins then disseminates the herd.
And that's the way that nature arranged to keep the most
powerful of the breed going.
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.5, 28 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
(3)
"I'm sure that with early physical man there was a young human
born and the old king said... Young man, you're getting too
big for yourself. And then they'd have it out. But the big
young man learns instinctively: I can beat these other people,
but don't let two of them come at me at once. Now this is what
we call Divide and Conquer. Nothing could be more obvious.
And so the big powerful man wanted some of these big men
around to fight with him; so he said, I'll make you the Duke
of this, and I'll make you the Duke of that. Now you Dukes
stay good and far apart, and I'm going to watch to make sure that
you really do stay good and far apart.
And
"And then there were the intellectuals, who really bothered
them. They wouldn't fight him with their muscle and they were
always sneaking around and stealing his things. So he'd catch
hold of one and say, I'm going to cut your head off!.
the man would say, fr. King, you'd make a great mistake to cut
my head off. And the king would say, why?" "I understand the
language of your enemy over the hill and you don't. Well,
you've got a pretty good idea, youngmay you report to me
every day what my enemy is saying over the hill, and you can
stay on. Futhermore, you're going to do something you never
did before. You're going to eat; you don't have to steal"
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, 28 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
(4)
"any more. And then the king said to someone else, I'm
going to cut your headoff! Ir. King, big mistake. And the
king said whay. I know how to make-- I know metallurgy and
I know how to make better swords than anybody in the world.
Can you prove it?... And you make me a beautiful sword,
absolutely lovely. Then the king says, You just make swords,
you understand? So this man: you just keep the accounts, you
know how the mathematics goes. But you mind your business.
You mind your business. And you mind your business.
good and clear? I'm the only one who minds everybody's
business. This is simply how it went to divide and conquer
the intellectuals. And it really became such a powerful matter,
with the control of the big powerful men who would go and hunt
with him, and then the intellectuals giving him all this
information and producing beautiful tools.
Is that
"And then his kingdom got bigger and bigger. And he wanted to
project that and let his son carry on. So he said, I see
you're getting very old. Now I want you to teach something
about that metallurgy; and I want you to teach something about
that language.... And this is the foundation of Oxford University."
-
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.5, 28 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
"(I was made an honorary fellow of Oxford University about
three years ago. And I had to give my first lecture there.
And I said that, and I got a very large applause, I'll tell
you. The students were in agreement..
"Now I think this is all fairly evident.... We could have a
man who was really a very bright professor, but he was really
not sticking enough and the king was bothered about him.
So he said, Mister, you're getting off base a little over
there. I'm going to really tie you up. I want to really tie
you up: I'm going to give you tenure. Now, how do you like
that! Don't do anything for anybody else." You're set for
life! Nobody can ever take it away from you. But I want you
to be an absolutely pure scientist. None of that nonsense
about applied science. Pure scientist. You just lay eggs
and I'll take them away from you... Today, this is just the
way our University is...
"But now we have for the first time in history a condition
where everybody is literate. Yesterday was just the king, who
was mildly literate. And he had a literate Grand Vizier, and
nobody else had to do anything but just be a librarian or use"
- Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, p.6, 28 Jun 72
(5)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
"their muscle machine. And now it's not that way any more.
And this great transition that is going on here, with all of
humanity literate and aware of total Earth and aware of
one another. And all of these young people are just in, and
they're not going to be put out..."
-
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, p.6, 28 Jun'72
(6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
(A)
"Long ago we have the big man being born. He didn't ask to
be bigger. And he becomes the king. And for obvious
reasons, too, because he has the longest reach.
As you
know, many people are dying of starvation. The one who has the
best reach can live. It is a very tough survival game.
"We have a number of other big young men saying,
'I think though I'm not quite as big as that young man, I
think I'm brighter and I think I can lick him.'
"And they'd like to lick him because being king
means you are going to eat. But they don't come at him two
at a time, because then they wouldn't know which one is
going to be king. They come at him one at a time. And he
licks each one of them. Finally they are all fairly well
convinced that he is the best fighter.
"So now he says, 'We all are pretty hungry after
all this fighting. And one thing for certain I know is that
I don't want two of you to come at me at once.'
"And they say, 'Well we aren't going to, because
each one of us wants to be the king.'
"Everyone was very frank about it.
"So instinctively, this man who is the big one, finds
himself being challenged by other big ones. He didn't invent
Cite Univ. of Chicago Lecture, pp.1-2, 5 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
"that either. Instinctively the he said: Divide and Conquer.
Very fundamental.
"now he says, "We would like to go hunting and these
animals are big and ferocious and I can't handle that animal
all by myself. But what we can do is reverse divide-and-
conquer and we'll gang up on the animal. See, the animal
does not know how to divide us.'
"And that's what hunting was.
So they all gang up
on the animal and were able to kill him and then they had a
great feast. They said, 'There is just enough for us big
guys here. You other people eat roots.'
"This is history and you will find that the king
(B)
and all the great nobles were always hunting and fighting.
They claimed all the animals belonged to the king and the nobles.
Other people were not allowed to touch them. Even up to 1810
in England, we find a man could still be hung without trial
for killing a rabbit because it belonged to the king. This is
true up until very recently. The animals belong to the strong.
"So we have this big man, and now they have had some
good hunting, and he is a young king, and they say to him,
Very frequently we have invaders trying to chisel in on our
animals and our food here.'
Cite Univ. of Chicago Lecture, pp.1-2, 5 May '72

10
RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
"He says, 'I would like to have you around to help
fight with me, and I would like to have you around to go
hunting with me, and you are a pretty good guy so I am going
to make you Duke of Hill 'A,' and you Duke of Hill 'B.' But
I'm going to watch you two to make sure that you don't get
together and gang up on me. And you have to pay me tribute
because, naturally, there'll be a lot of stuff coming in here."
"They found he had a pretty good system going but
then he found that there were a lot of little people around
who were not fighters at all, who began to steal his animals
and make a lot of trouble for him. They began telling Duke
A about Duke B and plotting aginst the king.
"So the king brings in these characters and tells
one of them, 'You're making a lot of trouble around here.
You are much too bright. I am going to cut your head off.
"The man says,
'You had better not cut my head off,'
and the king said why?'
"Because I happen to understand the language your
enemy is talking over the hill, and you don't.'
You report
"you have a pretty good idea there.
to me everyday what my enemy is saying over the hill and your
head is going to stay on and you are going to do something
you never did before-- you are going to eat every day, How
do you like that?'
BF Univ. of Chicago. etc.
(C)

(D)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
That's great, he tells the king.
**So you report to me pretty regularly.'
"Then the king says, I'm going to cut this other
man's head off because he has been a troublemaker. But the
man answered, 'You'd better not do that, Mister, because I
know how to make swords better than anyone else. I understand
metallurgy.'
says,
"The king says, 'All right, prove it to me.'
"He does and it's a beautiful sword. So the king
'All right, you just make swords."
"And then he says to another one, 'I'm going to cut
your head off because I understand youhave been stealing all
my stuff.
So this little guy says, 'I understand numbers
and know how to do calculations and you don't and I could keep
track of all the things you own and I could keep people from
stealing your things.
You
"Well, says the king, 'That's a great idea.
just do that now. But you mind your business. But you mind
your business, and you mind your business, and you mind your
business. I'm the only one who minds everybody's business.
Is that clear?'
-
"This, then, is how specialization began.
Cite Univ of Chicago Lecture, pp.4-5, 5 Kay'72
The king"

RBP DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
"now has all the strong, hunting, fighting men around him,
and he has the information about his cnemies over the hill,
and he's got the best swords, and he has a good accounting
system, and he has good logistics. So he overcomes the people
on the other side of the hill and he has a big kingdom and he
feels very great about his kingdom because he has everybody
specialized. So he says,
'I have a beautiful son coming along
here, I'm getting a little old and I see you all are getting
a little old, and I want you to teach somebody about that
language, and I want you to teach somebody about that metal-
lurgy, and I want you to teach somebody about that mathematics
of accounting.'
"I am now giving you the foundations of Oxford
(E)
University.
"I am simply saying to you that specialization is the
divide and conquer of the intellectuals by the muscle men.
That's all. This is really very important for us to discover.
"So then the king said, 'I'm not really sure whether
you are all really going to stick. I am going to give you
something I've given nobody else in the kingdom. I am going
to give you tenure. How do you like that? And I want you to
be really great scientists. I don't want any of that cheap
applied science. I want you to be pure scientists. You just"
-
Cite Univ. of Chicago Lecture, pp.5-6. etc/

RBF DEFINITIONS
Divide and Conquer Sequence:
(F)
"lay eggs and then give them to me and never mind what I'm going
to do with them.
"So this is where we are today. So the question
is: Is there any other way to carry on. Because I think
society really thinks that specialization has such fantastic
virtues."
Cite Univ. of Chicago Lecture, p.6, 5 May' 72

TEXT CITATIONS
Divide and Conquer:
"Specialization is the Divide and Conquer of Intellectuals
by Musclemen," Chicago address, 5 l'ay'72 (Student Lawyer)
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, pp. 27-28
Oregon Lecture #1, PP. 26-27
"Wood Design in a Dynamic Technology," p.9

Divide & Conquer:
See Nation, Oct 70
Universal Integrity: Principle of, 5 Jan172*
(2)

Dividend:
See Cyclic Dividend
SSRCS: Scheherazade Sublimely Rememberable
Comprehensive Dividend

Dividers:
See Tools of Geometry
Universe Dividers

Divine: Divinity:
See God
Eternal Designing Capability
(1)

Divine:
Divinity:
See laivete, 23 Jan 72
Old Words, 1960
(2)
11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Division:
"There are metaphysical yet cogent early words emergent from
the limbo of prehistory's quasi-logical accounting continu-
ities which show that intellect has long been aware of the
DEfunction. For instance DI-vine, DI-, DE, of (Di-chotomy
-cell division-- regenerate through bi-multiplication).
The concept of a Devining DEity, i.e., the defining deity,
the great intellectual capability of differentiating discern-
ment probably originated in the same conceptual logic as
did Divide out of Division-- to see the whole as functionally
differentiable yet only locally and progressively conceptual.
in the differential calculus this becomes the delta-- A (D--
of fundamental differentiation...
"Multiplication accomplished only by division. Universe
expanding through progressively differentiating considerations."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, P.134., 1960

Division:
See Multiplication by Division
Subdivision
Two: Universe Divisible by Two
Omni-equi-dividisble
Nondivisive
Self-divisioning

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA-RNA:
"These cosmically originated, electromagnetic-photosynthetic
programmings are exactly the same morphological control codings
as those of the complexedly and uniquely intervariable sequences
of the guanine-cytosine, thymine-adenine of the DNA-RNA
tetrahelix assemblage programming codes and their subsequent
operational proclivities, which structural and behavioral
programmings... were recently discovered to be governing the
unique design not only of all the biological species, but of
all individuals within the species-- all the requisite chemical
constituents for exactly complying with the coded design
instructions are or were present on planet Earth at the time
of the original electromagnetic wave reception at the terres-
trial loci of species' inceptions, which are predetermined by
the unique electromagnetic environment's complex tunability
existing only at those loci."
500
Citation & context at Man:
9 Jun 75
Interstellar Transmission of Man,

KBF DEFINITIONS
DNA:
"One of the main characteristics of DNA is that we have in its
helix a structural patterning instruction, all four-dimensional
patterning being controlled only by frequency and angle
modulatability."
19
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 932.02, Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA-RNA:
"DNA-RNA genetica programing is precessionally helical with
only a net axial linear resultant. The atoms and molecules
are always polarized and their total interprecessional effects
eften produce overall linear resultants such as the stem of
a plant. All the genetic drives of all the creatures on our
Earth all interact through chemistry which, as with DNA-RNA,
is linearly programable as a code, all of which is character-
ized by sequence and intervals which altogether are realized
at various levels of intercomplexity. On the scale of
complexity of ecology, for instance, we observe spherically
orbiting relay systems of local discontinuities as one takes
the pattern of regenerativity from the other to produce an
omni-embracing, symmetrically interfunctioning, synergetic
order. The basic nuclear symmetries and intertransforma-
bilities of synergetics omni-accommodates the omnidirectional,
omni frequencied, precessional integrity."
->
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1005., 16 Feb 73
[40]

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA-RNA:
"Waddington identified this external modification
of living morphology as Epigentics--
In contradistinction to the corporeal morphology
Of all living organism growth
Whose angle and frequency designing
Is governed by the internal DNA-RNA genetic codes."
- Citation at Epigenetics, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA-RNA:
"ONA RNA angle and frequency modulated designs are
composed exclusively of four unique chemical
constituents which operate as guanadine and cytosine;
and as thiamine and adenine: inseperable but reversible
tandem pairs. The first pair occur as GC or as CG.
TA or as AT. The DNA-RNA codes may be read in any
sequence of those constituents, for instance, as:
CG - CG - CG -
AT - CG CG CG
GC TA - AT
- GC
-
GC - TATA - TA -
etc."
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. 822, August 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA:
"The DNA and RNA tell the spontaneous crystallographic
process controlling how to build a flower's petal. It
programs the angle and frequency modulating to build the
different biological parts. It doesn't necessarily tell
you how to build the whole that is accomplished synergetically
as a behavior beyond that of the sum of its parts. Codes
do not necessarily read out into linguistic messages. The
synergetic complementarities are not in the code at all."
-
Cite RBF re-write 7 Oct. 71 of Tape Transcript,
31 May 1971.
Chico,

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA:
"The DNA and RNA tell you how to build a petal.
It shows you
how to build the different parts. It doesn't tell you how to
build the whole, necessarily. The code doesn't really tell you
what the message is, or how you do the totality: the
Bynergetics are not there. The complementarities are not
there at all... the raison d'etre..
Cite tape transcript of RBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, 31 May'71

EBP DEFINITIONS
DNA-RNA:
"If a DNA-RNA genetic code programs the design of roses,
elephants and bees, we will have to ask what intellect
design the DNA-RNA code, as well as the atoms and molecules
which implement the coded programs.
"
Citation and context Cat Design (1), 9 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA:
*In recent years chemistry and physics together have been
able to run down the variables in the design of nature down
into as far as biology goes, life down into a very
important area, DNA, what we call deoxyribonucleic acids
insidethe protein shell. Whatever goes on in there
apparently controls all the design of nature and all the
life formulations. It is the area where the chemistry
could be called crystallography, it could be called metals
or it
could be called animate. It is the complete
threshold of the two. Because it is the threshold, people
who like to be prosaic and like to make man feel so small
can say everything is just going to turn out to be
inanimate chemistry and you are all the consequence of
probabilities and you might as well jump in the river.
This area then of the threshold is where the DNA is found
and the controls of the patterning of life are down to
four compounds of chemistry which, somehow or other,
develop a code and out of this code these four letters
and all the designs occur."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 135.6 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
DNA-RNA: Twenty-Sphere Eodels of DNA-RNA Compounds:
closeat-packed, non-
"Furthermore the 20-sphere (aton have basic (because
nucleared tetrahedron consists of
minimum limit), four-ball tetrahedra which, unlike their
planar-faceted polyhedronal counterpart tetrahedra, can be
closest packingly assembled without octahedronal complement-
ation and because the octahedra are internal to the four-
ball basic tetrahedra. It is further relevant to these
considerations that the JNA-RNA code consists always and only
of the four chemical compounds: guanidine, cytosine, adenine,
and thiamine; and that the helix which they generate
consists entirely of tetrahedra whose four constituents in
all vast variety of combinations will always be the same
tetrahelixes.'
"
-Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1055.08, 2 Uct172

DNA-RNA:
See Amino Acids
Animate & Inanimate
Enzymes
Genetic
Tetrahelix
Unzipping Angle
Viral Steerability
Virus
Biogenetic Experimentation
(1)

DNA-RNA:
See Design (1)*
Epigenetics, May'72*
Heredity, 15 May 72
Twenty Questions (2)
Human Tolerance Limits, (1)
Angle & Frequency Modulation, 7 Nov' 75
Tensegrity Masts: Pentagonal Polarity, 27 Dec'76
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (12)
(2)

Doctor:
See Mars: No Country Doctor on Mars
Medical Man
Pink Stuff

Documentary Recall Playbacks:
See Brain's TV Studio, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dodecahedron:
"The dodecahedron is not a structure; it is only a
domain: Platonic.' "
Cite RBF at Penn Bell Studios videotaping marathon question
period, Philadelphia, PA., 1 Feb 75'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dodecahedron:
"In short, structurally stabilized (and otherwise unstable)
cubes are always and only the most simply compact aggregation
of one symmetrical and four asymmetrical tetrahedra.
Likewed'e considered, a dodecahedron may not be a cognizable
entity-integrity, or may be rememberable or recognizable as a
regenerative
entity, unless it is omnistabilized by
omnitriangulation of its systematic subdivision of all Universe
into either and both insideness and outsideness, with a small
remainder of Universe to be discretely invested into the
system-entity's structural integrity. No energy action in
Universe would bring about a blackboard-suggested pentagonal
necklace, let alone 12 pentagons collected edge to edge to super-
ficially outline a dodecahedron. The dodecahedron is a demon-
strable entity only hwen its 12
pentagonal faces are
subdivided into five triangles, each of which is formed by
introducing into each pentagon five struts radiating unitedly
from the pentagons centers into their five corner vertexes, of
which vertexes the dodecahedron has 20 in all, to whose numbeer
when structurally stabilized must be added the 12 new pentagonal
corner vertexes. This gives the minimally, nonredundantly
structural dodecahedron 32 vertexes, 60 faces, and 90 strut
lines. In the same way a structural cube has 12 triangular
vertexes, 8 faces, and 18 linear struts."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 615.05; 23 Feb172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dodecahedron:
"If a dodecahedron is an entity, it has 32 vertexes, 60 faces,
and yo structural
lines."
-
Citation & context at Cube (1), 22 Feb 72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Dodecahedron:
"The vector equilibrium displays omnidirectional closest
packing. The icosahedron and the dodecahedron display
only circumferential closest packing."
Cite RBF to EJA Fairfield, Conn., Ches Wolf, 18 Jun*71;
Rewritten by RAF, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 29 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dodecahedron:
"The icosahedron and dodecahedron are inherently non-nuclear
at all frequencies."
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 28 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dodecahedron:
"The dodecahedron defines the domains of the vertexes
of the
icosahedron-- in fact, that is the
only function of the dodecahedron."
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
13 March 1971

Dodecahedron:
See Rhombic Dodecahedron
Pentagonal Dodecahedron
(1)

Dodecahedron:
See Cube, (1)*
(2)

Do-gooders are Futile:
See Population Explosion, (1)

Dog Has grains but not Mind:
See Generalization Sequence, Jun'6y
Dreams, May' 72

MBF DEFINITIONS
Dog Pulling on a Belt:
"How we can take off our belt and dangle it in front of a
little dog and the little dog wall seize the belt in his
mouth and will start pulling and you play a game with him.
He plays beautifully. He'll play tension and compression
with you.
And his teeth with convex and concave surfaces
get into play, his action and his reaction are going on
without his knowing it. And his protons and his neutrons
are all coordinating without his knowing it. There's
nothing in our experience with the little dog that suggests
What we
he would ever develop the theory of functions.
are able to say is that brain is always and only dealing
with special case experiences.
"
• Cite RBF at Students international Meditation Seminar,
U. ass., Amherst, 22 July 171, P. 11

Dogs Play "Fetch It!":
See Nature Permits It Sequence (1)

Dogma:
See Belief, Oct 71
Religion: Related to 'Reglio', Feb 72
Word Trends, May'44

Doing More with Less:
See More with Less

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to be Done:
"I felt then... that it could be that instead of trying to
think about: How do I earn a living?... how do I survive?
...that we ought to be looking around saying, 'what is it
that my experience teaches me that needs to be attended to,
which, if properly attended to, could bring advantage to all
humanity, and which, if not attended to properly, could find
humanity at a great disadvantage?'
"If you have had anything in your experience say that to you
insistently, you ought to do something about it... and pay no
attention to the earning of a living. But people would say:
How are you possibly going to earn a living? And I would say
that it seems to me also then that the little individual,
using his own mind and doing his own thinking can observe
that the honey bee cross-pollenizes
the flowers
and other vegetation inadvertently bumbling with his tail
knocking off the pollen... that the flowers don't pay the
bumble bee and the bumble bee doesn't refuse to pellenize for
not being paid! In fact, I couldn't see any money being
exchanged by all the great ecological interactions.'
-
M
Cite RBF talk at Am. Hus. of Natural History, NYC, 1 May'77;
EJA transcript pp. 1-2.
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to be Done:
"So it seemed to me that if nature then seemed to be quite
clearly trying to make human beings a success...That's
why we've been given the mind to discover those principles,
to develop advantage...and we have increased our advantage
enormously... therefore, if I committed myself to trying to
abet what evolution is trying to do--using the experience I
had and the equipment I have been given--it could be that if
I was doing what nature wanted to be done, I'd find myself
and my wife and my little child, getting on."
"
Cite RBF talk at A. Mus. of Natural History, NYC: 1 May177;
EJA transcript, p.2.
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to Be Done:
Q. How is it that so little can be done to reverse many of
the major problems of the day? Housing or the cities, for
example.
(1)
A. "Well, everything that goes on is done either by govern-
ment or money making businesses. Both the money-makers and
the politicos have to show something for a profit, either the
political profit or the money profit in a short run of a couple
of years or they lose their jobs. So all the things that need
to be done don't get done. Politicians are merchants of woe,
they get elected to do something about all the things that are
bothering people and so the more woe they have the more issues.
So they take up housing as an issue rather than as a problem."
Q. The situation is not being met with problem-solving tech-
niques?
A. "The building arts are 5,000 years behind the engineering
and technology of the aerospace sciences. If you go to the
island of Crete you will find water still running through the
plumbing and we have the same system 3,400 years later. No
improvements have been made with the exception of a few"
- Cite RbF to Kathryn Elliott, Wash. Star; 9 Nov 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to Be Done:
"terminals. No scientist has ever been engaged to look at
plumbing, to see how you take the human wastes which are full
of energy and turn it to the energy account. Absolutely
nothing's been done about it."
Q. But couldn't the government do something on this, in the
face of the energy situation and all?
A.
(2)
"No congressman knows anything about it. I think someone
new is just going to have to go out and invent the apparatus
and go ahead and do it. None of the people in the horse and
buggy industry could ever possibly have invented the automobile."
Q. But why is there not more action?
A.
"It remains so because of society's world-around conviction
that there's not nearly enough life support for everyone,
therefore it has to be for you and me. Therefore we have
politics and ideologies which say, 'You might not like my
system but I have the fairest, most logical way of dealing with
fundamental inadequacies.' Politically, we have the last
resort thinking of the survival of the fittest. And the last"
Cite RBF to Kathryn Elliott, Wash. Star; 9 Nov' 75

REF DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to Be Done:
(3)
"recourse of that is that we have to have guns so that the
fittest will survive. We have the major nations of the Earth
spending on an average a total of $200 billion a year on weapons
and means of destruction. Under those conditions we also have
the working assumption that because there's not enough for
everyone therefore it's never said, 'What can we do to make
life successful for people through technology just as we can
make war more successful through technology. There's a
priority for access to the best resources, the best tools, the
best people, the best brains. The antipriority has always
been the home front, it had to make do with the materials that
nobody else wanted for a battleship or an airplane or everything
else.'
Cite RBF to Kathryn Elliott, Washintin Star-News; 9 Nov 75

RB DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to be Done:
"When I decided, in 1927, to make my precessional peel-off...
with only
nature to support you... and nobody to pay you or
nark your
paper, my theory was that if you were doing what
nature
wantel you to do, nature would support you.
But you
had to be very sensitive to follow nature, and not just to
this
particular job for that particular return."
Cite RBF at Bell studios videotaping, Phila. PA, 26 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doing That Needs to be Done:
"I don't see myself as other than a fortunate, healthy
human being. saw a lot of things
that had to be done.
I committed
myself to doing what nature was trying to do,
being less wasteful of resources-- using less to do more.
"You have to be on the qui vive to spot the things that need
to be done. I have survived, although many times I was not
doing very well financially. Large amounts of money do flow
back to me,
but I put them back immediately into new projects.
"All children are full of ideas, It's a terribly exciting
life for a
child. I've retained that approach. Life is still
exciting. When I gave up earning a living formally I found
I could regain my childhood sensitivity. I started absolute-
ly penniless and I have been able to get a whole lot done.
Cite RBF to Australian journalist, Jane Ram; Hongkong, 17 Dec '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to be Done:
"When I think of all the things I have experienced, the fact
that all of my contemporaries-- and at that time it was really
absolutely universal to my contemporaries-- everybody had as
the highest priority, absolutely number one: You have to earn a
living! And they all seemed to think that
this was absolutely
logical and nobody even seemed to question the idea. And I
said I think this is preposterous!
"I think we all ought to be looking around saying: What does
my experience teach me to see that needs attention... that
nobody's attending to... which my experience tells me that, if
attended to, could be turned to everybody's advantage and
which, if not attended to, would leave society at a very great
disadvantage?
"Also, what more would you need to know from the kind of
experience you have had to be able to be effective, to do something
effective about that problem."
Forum
Cite RBF to Harvard Law School, 10 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doing What Needs to be Done:
"Work: the greatest privilege is work. Labor is just pure
muscle. The difference between doing what a custom-- or
other people-- tell you to do, is the difference between
labor and doing what needs to be done, which is locical
and gratifying-- work.
"We need an Interdependence Hall here in Philadelphia as well
as an Independence Hall. And the two are not even mildly in
conflict.
"There are the things that you can only do as an individual.
Like the two kinds of tools: (1) all the tools that can be
produced by one man and then, (2) all the industrial tools
which cannot be produced by one man-- these are the tasks
that need to be done that cannot be done by one individual."
-
Cite HBF to EJA holograph, 200 Locust, Phila., 22 Jan'73

Doing What Needs to be Done:
See Capability
City Management Concept of World Government
Earning A Living
Improve the Scenario
Individual Economic Initiative
Making the World Work
Nature: What Nature Needs to be Done
World Design Science Decade
Success
Everybody's Business
Design Revolution
Coping
Resource & Principle
(1)

Doing that Needs to be Done:
See Change, 2 Nov' 73
Competition: Elimination of, 2 Jun'74
Design, 3 Nov'64
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927, 26 Sep'68
Man as a Function of Universe, 22 Jul 71
Pollution, Feb 73
Rearrange the Scenery, (1)
Self-debiasing, Nay'65
Television, Feb 73
Electronic Referendum, 9 Jan '75
Invention, (a)(b)
New York, 30 Jul 75; 31 Jul*75
Technology & Culture, 25 Oct 77
(2)

Doing Right Things for Wrong Reasons:
See Bee:
Honey-seeking Bee
Inadvertence
(1)

Doing Right Things for Wrong Reasons:
See Inadvertence, 22 Jun' 75
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Dollar Bills: $200 Billion On-Dollar Bills Circling Around Earth:
(1)
"Human beings' faulty number sense is being further confused
by meaningless money magnitudes-- for instance, the combined
war budgets of the United States, NATO, China, and Russia,
which annually average about $200 billion. People talk about
these cost magnitudes without any sensorial identity of
relative significances. Dollar bills are approximately seven
inches long by three inches wide. If we stack them and glue
their edges together as with a pad of paper, we get approxi-
mately $200 in each one inch of stacking. if we keep adding
to the pile it forms a column whose cross section is approxi-
mately three inches by seven inches. As we keep on adding to
it, it gets too high to be stable so we rotate it from the
vertical to horizontal. It will begin to look like a beam:
a seven-inch-by-three-inch beam. The lumber business has
beam framings called four-by-eights. Finished by planing, this
prime
lumber size dresses out at three inches by seven inches,
but it is still called four-by-eight, So our structural four-
by-eight of laminated dollar bills, when extended to ten feet
in length has the shape of a beam, such as you may see in"
Cite Heartbeats and Illions, World. Mag., 13 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dollar Bills: $200 Billion One-Dollar Bills Circling Around
Earth
"short ceiling spans of any wood-framed house. So we have now
a floor beam of solidly laminated dollar bills. We keep adding
more bills to both ends of this four-by-eight until it consists
of 200 billion one-dollar bills. Such a four-by-eight of 200
billion one-dollar bills will circle right around the Earth at
approximately 40 degrees north latitude running due east and
west through New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Kansas City, San
Francisco, Tokyo, Peking, Istanbul, Madrid, the Azores, and
-
back to New York.
"That we are spending $200 billion annually to get ready to
destroy one another gives you an idea of how 'magnitude ignorant'
and 'sense-disconnected' humanity is when it says 'we cannot
afford to take proper care of the majority of the world people,'
while plowing food back to raise prices to make money, and
simultaneously raising tariffs to discourage production by
other peoples around the Earth. We humans need to find a means
of cerebrating a little more realistically about number sig-
nificance and about what we have learned about the principles
governing the eternally regenerative Universe-- and our tiny
planet and its ecologically regenerative system, which has no"
Cite Heartbeats and Illions, World Mag., 13 Mar 73

REF DEFINITIONS
Dollar Bills: $200 Billion One-Dollar Bills Circling Around
Earth (3)
"sovereign boundaries nor rent bills due to our planetary
landlord, the Sun, who might shut off our life support because
we say we can't afford to pay that cosmic bill.
"
Cite Heartbeats and Illions, World Mag., 13 Mar'73

Dollars:
See Money Metaphors

RDF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"The edge has a domain that goes up to the center of area of
the two faces it divides.
"The domains of vertexes connect the centers of area of the
three, four, or five surrounding faces.
"The domain of the face is the face itself."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"The domain of a nucleus is an ineffable point; it is
only a zone.
"The domain of a line is the axis of a system; everything
around it.
"There are no domains of areas because the areas are the
domains. Maybe there is area and nonarea.
"A convergence has its domain in; and a divergence has
its domain out. "
Cite RBF to EJA, Pepper Tree Inn, Santa Barbara, 11 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"Domains go beyond the vertexes. The vertexes have to
have a little space film, or space shoulder-- a boundary
layer around the topologically identifiable vertex."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Pepper Tree Inn, Santa Barbara, 11 Feb'73

REF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"Considering vector equilibrium as initial unity, twenty
in respect to tetrahedronal unity of one, it constututes
the total volumetric domain unique to any universal focus
or point."
Cite RBF rewrite at SYNERGETICS Sec. 445.04 22 Jun 72
[05]

FF
Jomains:
"Une difference between a domain and a volume is that
a volume cannot have an interior point, because if it
aid it would be subject to more economical subdivisions.
The vector equilibrium breaks down into eight
tetrahedra and six half octahedra: those being the
volumes which are really involved."
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec.000.5, August 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains:
"Domains are the
minimum volumes topologically
enclosable by the fewest points. (Minimum: four.)"
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Faiffield, Conn., Ches Wolf, 18 June 1971.
INTERFERENCE
DOMAINS SEC. 536.051

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains:
*Systems are domains of volumes."
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Ches Wolf, 18 June, 1971
INTERFERENCE DOMAINS - SEC. 536.051 400.52

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"The tetrahedron as a domain appears only as the volume
defined by the interconnection of the centers of gravity
of all the volumes surrounding it."
Cite HBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn, Ches Wolf, 18 June 1971.
INTERFERENCE
DOMAINS
SEC. 536.071

HBF DEFINITIONS
Domains:
"Domains are systems but not structures."
Cite RBF tape, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971, p. 39.
INTERFERENCE DOMAINS SEC. 536.05

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains:
"The domains of vertexes are spheres.
This is all the
symmetries around the exquisite point. .
Areas do not
have omnidirectional domains at all. An area's domain
is the area itself; it is a superficial one that man
has looked at all these years."
Cite RBF tape Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971, p. 37.
INTERFERENCE DOMAINS SEC. 536.01+ 536.201

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains:
"Critical proximity interference domains are defined
by interconnecting the centers of gravity of all the
separate 'external areas' or 'facets' or 'openings'
of the polyhedregal system. . . .
"The domains of the vector edges are defined by
interconnecting the two centers of gravity-- of the
two surface areas divided by the line-- with the ends of
the line."
INTERFERENCE
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft - "Conceptuality: Interferece Domains"
RBF marginalia - 25 April 1971
DOMAINS"
SEC. 536.30)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"In distinction from all other mathematics synergetics
provides domains of interferences and domains of
crossings."
-
Cite RBF Marginalia on SYNERGETICS Draft, "Interference
Domains, Boston, Somerset 25 April 1971.
"
INTERFERENCE DOMAINS SEC. 536.01,
Club

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"Where every vertex is the domain of a sphere we have
closest packing."
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 289. 12 Jul*62
INTERFERENCE DOMAINE - SEC. 536.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains:
"There are domains of the tetrahedron alongside of the
octahedron. There is a center of gravity of the tetrahedron
and a center of gravity of the octahedron and the
volumetric relationship around that center of gravity came
out as a neat integer whole number. I can then speak of
these domains even though the cork is not in the bottle.
I can talk about the content of the bottle so each of them
are domains even though the edges are open so we don't have
any trouble now thinking about our mensuration in terms of
tensegrity."
"There really is a difference because the icosahedron is in
a magnitude of 20 volumes and the tetrahedron of one volume
so you really are amplifying a domain with this transformation,
but the numbers are still coming out whole numbers and even
though you went through transformations, the domains at any
one time seem to be identifiable in whole numbers."
INTERFERENCE
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, pp. 280-281. 12 Jul162
DOMAINS
-
SEC. 536.107

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains:
"The domain of a face is the face itself....
"The domain of an edge is a diamond....
"The domain of a vertex is a hexagon or a pentagon
and the domain of a face is a triangle in the simplest
possible statement.
"
Cite OREGON Lecture #7
-
p. 273, 11 Jul162
INTERFERENCE DOMAINS SEC. 536.
03)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain:
"
•
•
The coordinate system employed by nature uses
60 degrees instead : 90 degrees and also the lines don't
go through a point. But they are 60-degree convergences,
even though the lines don't ever get together. They get
into critical proximities and there are domains of the
convergences . . . even though they are open as you get
to the non-closed convergences."
INTERFERENCE
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 133.
DOMAINS- SEC. 536.027
6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Actions:
"There are critical prosimities tensionally and critical
proximities compressionally--that is, the are attractive
fields and repelling fields, as we learn from gravity and
electromagnetics. There are domains or fields of actions.
In gases under pressure, the individual molecules have unique
atomic component behaviors that, when compressed, do not allow
enough room for the accelerated speeds of their behavior; the
crowded and accelerating force impinges upon the containing
membrane to stretch that membrane into maximum volume commen-
surate with the restraints of its patterned dimensions."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 536.51;
21 Dec 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domaira of Action:
"There are critical proximities tensionally and critical
proxémities
compressionally, that is, there are
repellings, as we would find out in electromagnetics so
there are domains of actions and these molecules want
certain sizes and when you pressure too many of these
patterns into the same area there is not enough room
so they develop a very high speed and speed makes up for
the crowding."
-
Cite OREGON Lecture #5 - P.
18., 9 Jul'62
INTERFERENCE
DOMAINS- SEC. 536.51)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of an Area:
"Areas do not have omnidirectional domains. The domain of
an area is the area itself: it is the superficial one that
man has looked at all these centuries. The domain of a
face is a triangle in the simplest possible statement. Thus
the domain of each face of the icosahedron is the triangular
face itself."
40
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 536.21; Dec171

Domain of an Area:
See No Domain of a Face
(1)

Domain of an Area:
See Domain, 11 Feb 73; 31 May 71; 11 Jul162
Domains of Lines, 1y Dec173
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Convergences:
There
"The coordinate system employed by nature uses 60 degrees
instead of 90 degrees, and no lines go through points.
are 60-degree convergences even though the lines do not go
through a point. The lines get into critical proximities,
then twist-pass one another and there are domains of the
convergences."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 536.02; galley rewrite 7 Nov' 73

Domains of Convergences:
See Domain, 11 Feb 73; 6 Jul162

Domains of Crossings:
See Domains of Interferences, 7 Nov* 73
Domain, 25 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of an Edge:
"The domain of each edge of the icosahedron is a diamond
formed by connecting the vertexes of two adjacent icosahedron-
face triangles with their centers of area."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 536.33; Dec' 71

RBF JEFINITIONS
Domain of an Edge:
"The edge affects an area on either side of it up to
the centers of gravity of the areas it divides.
they become diamonds."
Therefore
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 273. 11 Jul'62
DEMAINS - SEC. 536.30)
IN TEFERENCE
(Adapted.)

Domain of an Edge:
See Domain, 29 Jan 75; 25 Apr 71; 11 Jul'62

KBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of Icosahedron:
"The dodecahedron defines the domains of the vertexes
of the icosahedren-- in fact, that is the only function
of the dodecahedron."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 13 March 1971.
INTERFERENCE DOMAINS - SEC. 536.04)

RUF DEFINITIONS
Domain of Icosahedron:
"The icosahedron's twelve vertexes control a domain up
to the center of gravity the faces which surround it."
Cite Oregon Lecture, #7, p. 273. 11 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Interferences:
"As distinct from other mathematics, synergetics provides
domains of interferences and domains of crossings. In the
isotropic vector matrix, the domains of vertexes are spheres,
These
and the domains of spheres are rhombic dodecahedra.
are all the symmetries around points. Where every vertex is
the domain of a sphere we have closest-rhombic-dodecahedral-
packing."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 536.01; galley rewrite 7 Nov'73

Domains of Interferences:
See Domains of Polyhedra, 7 Nov' 73

Domain Limits:
See Concentric Hierarchy Limits, 30 Dec*73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Lines:
"The respective volumetric domains of all the lines-- internal
or external- of all polyhedra are defined by the most
economical interconnectings of all adjacent centers of volume
and centers of area with both ends of all their respectively
adjacent lines.
RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1006.27,
BBC, 5gwrite
Cifs Dec
¶ Card C04152 Domains of Lines

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Lines:
"The respective areal domains of external polyhedral lines
are defined as all the area on either surface side of the
lines lying within perimeters formed by most economically
interconnecting the centers of area of the polyhedron's
facets and the ends of all the lines dividing those facets
from one another. Surface domains of external lines of
polyhedra are inherently four-sided."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1006.26,
19 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of a Line:
"The domains of the vector edges are defined by interconnecting
the two centers of area of the two surface areas divided by
the line with the ends of the line. The edge dominates an area
on either side of it up to the centers of area of the areas it
divides. Therefore, they become diamonds, or, omnidirectionally,
octahedra. The domains of lines are two tetrahedra, not one
octahedron.
You
"The domains of lines must be two triple-bonded (face-bonded)
tetrahedra or one octahedron. There could be two tetrahedra
base-to-base, but they would no longer be omnisymmetrical.
can get two large spheres like Earth and Moon tangent to one
another and they would seem superficially to yield to their
mass attractiveness dimpling inward of themselves locally to
have two cones base to base. But since spheres are really
geodesics, and the simplest sphere is a tetrahedron, we would
have two triangles base to base--ergo, two tetrahedra face-bond-
ed and defined by their respective central angles around their
two gravity centers."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 536.31-.32; galley rewrite
7 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Lines:
"I've given you the domains of the lines must be
tetrahedral or octahedral. No, they could be two
tetrahedra, base-to-base, but they would no longer
be omnisymmetrical. You can get two spheres tangent
to one another, and it would seem to have two cones
base-to-base. But since spheres are really geodesics
we would have two triangles base-to-base."
Cite HBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Chez Wolf.
18 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Lines:
"The domains of lines are diamonds, or, omnidirectionally,
octahedra."
INTERFERENCE
Cite RBP to EJA, Fairfied Conn., Ches Wolf.
18 June 1971.
DOMAINS
SEC. 536.301

HBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Lines:
"The domains of lines are two tetrahedra, not one
octahedron."
INTERFERENCE
Cite HBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Ches Wolf.
18 June 1971.
DOMAINS - SEC. 53L30)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Lines:
"I've given you the domains of the lines must be tetrahedral
or octahedraal; no, there could be two tetrahedra base to
base, but they would no longer be omnisymmetrical, would they?
You can get two spheres tangent to one another, and it
would seem to have two cones base-to-base
•
but since
spheres are really geodesics, we would have two triangles
base-to-base
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn.,
18 June 1971.
INTERFERENCE DOMAIns SEC, 536.31)
Chez Wolf.

Domain of a Nucleus:
See Nuclear Domain
Spheric Domain vs. Nuclear Domain

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of Octahedron:
"The cube defines the domains of the vertexes of the
octahedron. The octahedron is the structural system.
the cube exists only as the total pattern of the
domains of the vertexes of the octahedron."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft
RBF Marginalia
-
"Conceptuality: Interference Domains"
25 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of a Point:
*The domains of points as vertexes of systems are tetrahedra,
octahedra, or triangulated cubes. Or they could be the A and
B Modules formed around the respective polyhedra.
"The most complete description of the domain of a point is not
a vector equilibrium but a rhombic dodecahedron, because it
would have to be allspace filling and because it has the most
omnidirectional symmetry. The nearest thing you can get to
a sphere in relation to a point, and which would fill all
space, is the rhombid dodecahedron.
"A bubble is only a spherical bubble by itself. The minute
you get two bubbles together, they develop a plane between
them." "
->
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 536.42.44; galley rewrite,
7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of a Point:
"The domains of points are tetrahedra, octahedra, or
triangulated cubes. Or they could be the A and B Modules
formed around the respective polyhedra."
Cite RBF marinalia at SYNERGETICS draft, Sec. 536.41,
20 Dec. 171 (Actually dictated to EJA.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of a Point:
"The domain of a point in a plane is a hexagon or a
pentagon. The domain of a point at a vertex is a sphere."
-Cite HBF to EJA 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, in clarification
of SYNERGETICS Sec. 519.50. May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of a Point:
*Looking at a vector equilibrium as unity, it is all the domain
of a point with a volume of 480."
Cite Synergetics text at Sec. 536.41; Dec171

RHF DEFINITIONS
Domain of a Point:
"The domain of a point is a tetrakaidecahedron. They are
omnidirectional and allspace filling... could be the center
of a cube, i.e., a system but not a structure."
-
INTERFERENCE
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May' 71
Domains
SEC. 536.41)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain of a Point:
"So looking at vector equilibrium as unity, as all the
we find that it has a volume of 480."
domain of a point
-
Cite OREGON Lecture 18, p. 286, 12 Jul 62
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium, 12 Jul162
INTERFERENCE
Domains
SEC. 536.411

Jomain of a Point:
See Tetrakaidecahedron, 31 May 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Polyhedra:
"In a polyhedral system, critical-proximity-interference
domains are defined by interconnecting the adjacent centers
of area of all the
separate superficial faces, i.e,
'external areas' or 'openings,' surrounding the vertex, or
*crossing.'
The surface domain of a surface vertex is a
complex of its surrounding triangles: a hexagon, pentagon,
or other triangulated polygon."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS taxt at Sec. 536.03; galley rewrite 7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain & Quantum:
"The unique insideness domain of a prime system is, in turn,
a prime volumetric domain, which is always conceptually
defined by the system's topological vertex-interconnecting
lines and the areas finitely enclosed by those lines (V + F =
L+ 2.) Prime volumetric domain provides space definition
independent of size.
"Prize volumetric domain and prime areal domain together
provide space conceptuality independent of size, just as the
tetrahedron provides prime structural system conceptuality
independent of size.
(1)
"Complex bubble aggregates are partitioned into prime volumetric
domains by interiorly subdividing prime areal domains as flat
drawn membranes.
"A prime volumetric domain has no volumetric nucleus.
A prime
areal domain has no planar nucleus. So we have prime system
volumetric domains and prime system areal domains and linear
interconnections of all vertexes-- all with complete topologi-
cal conceptuall interpatterning integrity utterly independent
of size.'
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec.s 1010.10, 11, 12 & 13, 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domain & Quantum:
(2)
"This frees conceptual-integrity comprehending and all the
prime constituents of prime-pattern integrity, such as
volume,' 'area, and 'line, from any special-case quantation.
All the prime conceptuality of omnitopology is manifest as
being a priori and eternally generalized phenomena. Thus
quantum as prime-structural-system volume is eternally
generalized, ergo, transcends any particulate, special-case,
physical-energy quantation. Cheralized quanta are finitely
independent because their prime volumetric-domain-defining
lines do not intertouch.
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1010.14, 17 Feb'73

Domain of Sphere:
See Spheric

RDF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Tetrahedron, Octahedron, and Icosahedron:
"The domain of the tetrahedron is the tetrahedron as defined
by four spheres in tetrahedrononal, omni-embracing, closest-
packed tangency network. The domain of an octahedron is an
octahedronas defined by six spheres closest packed octahedron-
ally. The domain of an icosahedron is an icosahedron as
defined by 12 spheres closest packed without a nucleus.
All
of the three foregoing non-nuclear-containing domains of the
tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron are defined by
superficially omnitriangulated closest packing of the four
spheres, six spheres, and 12 spheres, respectively, which
we have defined elesewhere as omnitriangulated systems or
as prime structural systems.
"
-
Cite RBF marginalia at Synergetics draft "Omnitopology," July 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Tetra, Octa & Icosa:
"The terahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron are prime
structural systems: there are no other symmetrical nonnuclear
domains in closest packed agglomerations.
Their domains are
defined by superficial omnitriangulation of 4, 6, and 12.
The domain of the tetrahedron is the tetrahedron. The domain
of the octahedron is six spheres closest packed octahedrally.
The domain of an icosahedron is an icosahedron and is defined
by the closest packing of 12 spheres without a nucleus."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Ches Wolf, 18 Jun'71

Domain of Vector Equilibrium:
See VE Involvedit Domain

Domains of Vertexes:
See Coupler as Domain of IVM Vertexes
Spheric Domains
(1)

Domains of Vertexes:
See Domains of Interferences, 7 Nov '73
Domain, 29 Jan' 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Volumes:
"Systems are domains of volumes. One difference between a
domain and a volume is that a domain carnot have an interior
point, because if it did, it would be subject to more economical
subdivision."
-
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium, 26 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Volumes:
"There are domains of the tetrahedron interfaced (triple
bonded) with domains of the octahedron. The domains of
both are rationally subdivided into either A or B Modules.
There is the center of volume (or gravity) of the tetrahedron
and the center of volume (or gravity) of the octahedron and
the volumetric relationship around these centers of gravity
is subdivisible rationally by A and B Modules in neat integer
whole numbers. I can then speak of these domains quantitatively
without consideration of now obsolete (superfical) face
surfaces, i.e., polyhedra. Even though the cork is not in
the bottle I can speak quantitatively about the content of
the bottle as it is a domain even though the edge opening is
uncorked. So we have no trouble considering tensegrity
mensuration. It is all open work but its topological
domains are clearly defined in terms of the certers of the
systems involved having unique centrally angled insideness
and surface angle defined outsideness."
-Cite RBF re-write of SYNERGETICS Sec. 356.10, 20 Jec. 171.

RBF JFI
Domains of Volumes:
"in omnitopology the domains of volumes are the minimum.
volumes topologically enclosable by the fewest points."
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. 880.2, August 1971.
INTERFERENCE DOMAINS - SEC. 536.05)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Volumes:
"We didn't talk about the domains of volumes, just surfaces.
This is the difference between synergetics and Euler,"
Cite RBF to EJA, Ches Wolf, Fairfield, Conn., 18 Jun*71

RBF DEFINATIONS
Domains of Volumes:
"Systems are domains of volumes.
->>>
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Ches Wolf, 18 June =1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domains of Volumes:
There
"There are domains of the tetrahedron interfaced (triple-
bonded) with domains of the octahedron. The domains of both
are rationally subdivided into either A or B Modules.
is the center of volume (or gravity) of the tetrahedron and
the center of volume (or gravity) of the octahedron, and the
volumetric relationship around those centers of gravity is
subdivisible rationally by the A and B Quanta Modules in neat
integer whole numbers. I can then speak of these domains
quantitatively without consideration of now obsolete (super-
ficial) face surfaces, i.e., polyhedra. Even though the
cork is not in the bottle, I can speak quantitatively about
the contents of the bottle. This is because it is a domain
even though the edge-surrounded opening is uncorked.
So we
have no trouble topologically considering tensegrity mensura-
tion. It is all open work, but its topological domains are
clearly defined in terms of the centers of the systems involved
having unique, centrally angled insideness and surface-angle-
defined outsideness."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 536.11; galley rewrite 7 Nov'73

Domains of Volumes:
See Prime Rational Integers, 28 May' 72

Domains:
See Center
Coupler as Domain of IVM Vertexes
Prime Domains
Spheric Domains
Spherica
Topological Aspects:
Inventory Of
Omnitopological Domains
Bottle as Domain
Concave-in-between-ness Domains
Interpointal Domain Volumes
Nuclear Domain
Spheric Domain vs. Nuclear Domain
No Domain of a Face
Isotropic-vector-matrix Domain
Involvement Domain
Volumetric Domain Unity
(1)

Domain:
See Area, 11 Feb 73
Dodecahedron, 13 Mar' 71; 1 Feb'75
Invisible Circuitry, (1)
Prime Structural Systems, (1)
Vector Equilibrium, 12 Jul 62*; 26 Dec' 73*
(2)

Domain: Domains:
See Domains of Actions
Domain of an Edge
Domain of Icosahedron
Domain Limits
Domains of Lines
Domain of Octahedron
Domain of a Point
Domains of Tetra, Octa & Icosa
Domain & Quantum
Domains of Volumes
Domains of Interferences
Domains of Vertexes
Domains of Convergences
Domains of Polyhedra
Domain of an Area
Domain of Cube
Domain of a Nucleus
Domain of Sphere
Domain of Tetrahedron
Domain of Vector Equilibrium
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domes:
Q.
"You say that we are in a stage of architectural
transition from the cube to the dome. Well, what'E
the next evolutionary stage after the dome?"
•
RBF:
"Nothing. .
an electromagnetic field."
-
Cite RBF to Dep. Director, Foreign Bisaster Assistance,
State Dept, Wash. DC; 12 May' 77

RF DEFINITIONS
Domes:
"You say people with rising social aspirations prefer the
square architecture of conventional houses. Certainly the
people who lived through the depression wanted to do just that,
but now I think the young people don't feel that way at all.
"And remember that throughout history we didn't use domes for
houses because we couldn't afford them--we saved them for our
temples, churches, and state capitols.'
Cite RBF to USAID conference, Foreign Disaster Assistance
Conference Room, State Dept, Wash. DC; 12 May'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome:
"Domes leak: boats leak."
Cite RBF to EJA, Boar's Head Inn, Charlottesville, Va..
while
drafting leater to Hugh Kenner. 3 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome:
"Environment controlling through domes affords the
enormous advantages of the extraversion of privacy
and the introversion of community."
Cite RBF to EJA on telephone from Los Angeles, 3 Jan 171.
Re: 'Old Man River Project.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome:
"Domes... combine both horizontal and vertical behaviors
progressively translated into mutual synergetical aid and
integrated success."
Citation & context at Horizontal va, Vertical, 1963

HBF DEFINITIONS
Dome: Aerodynamic Stress of Dome:
"The worst stresses you get in a dome are the aerodynamic
stresses. That is because a dome is an airplane.
The worst
stress is the lift-off tendency-- like a tumbleweed.
a question of how you put the skin on and of how you
anchor it.'
"
It's
-
RBF to Dome East People, Royal Scots Grill, N.Y., 27 Jan 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Domed Cities:
"Domed cities can be illuminated by daylight without direct
Sun. That part of the dome through which the Sun doesn't
shine directly would be transparent. In summer the dome
would be protected by polarized glass; during the sunny
hours it would not hold heat. In winter the Sun would
penetrate the dome.
"The domed city will be not only practicable, but pretty.
Covered streets-- like the delightful arcaded Italian variety--
will have outdoor restaurants and exhibits. Windows may_be
open year round. There'll be a dust-free atmosphere.
domed city will indeed be nothing to sneeze at."
The
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170 (Not in Bantam edition)

Domed Cities:
See Dome Over Manhattan
Old Man River Project

RBF DLFINITIONS
Dome House Grand Strategy: 1927-1977:
"As seen in the... Harvard Society of Contemporary Arts
catalogue and the Harvard Crimson editorial of 1929, the
structural mast of the 1928 Dymaxion House contained all
its service mechanics--as did also the first full-scale
prototype produced at Beech Aircraft, Wichita, Kansas,
in 1944-45. Following general news publication of the
latter... over 37, 000 orders for the house were received
by mail, many with checks, all of which had to be returned
because there was as yet no industry to manufacture and
install these air-deliverable dwelling machines.
(1)
"any distibutors applied for sales franchises, but the
electricians and plumbers who are everywhere exclusively
licensed to connect houses to the water and electricity
mains, said that in order to survive they would have to take
apart all the Dymaxion Houses' pressembled plumbing and
electricity manifolds, which work would triple the cost of
the mass-produced units and would be as illogical as would
local electricians and plumbers being able to impose their
taking each purchased automobile apart in the owner's front
yard and reassembling it before finally permitting its use
by the owner."
Cite ACCOMODATING HUTAN UNSETTLEIENT, p.14; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DLFINITIONS
Dome House Grand Strategy:
1927-1977:
(2)
"For this reason, in 1947, my 50-year grand strategy
adjusted itself to that which had been learned by altogether
dividing all further research, development, production, and
distribution activities governing the interior livingry
mechanics from all further research, development, product-
ion, and distribution governing the environment-controlling
shell structures.
"I found that the electricians and plumbers were willing to
bring their services to metered, outdoor, concrete box
receptacles as already used to implement and power vegetable
farming sprayers. Over these service terminal installations
the domes could be subsequently installed. Into these
electricity-and-water-supplied domes, platform mounted and
interconnected assemblies of livingry
equipment could be rolled with no objections from organized
labor.
factory
"It was evident that air, sea, and mobile home industries
were going to swiftly advance the livingry mechanics packages.
Therefor in 1947 I focussed on the swift improvement of the"
- Cite ACCOMODATING HUTAN UNSETTLET, p.14; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome House Grand Strategy:
1927-1977:
(3)
"shell structures themselves. This produced the geodesic
domes.
"The 30-years' interim development in mechanics and electro-
nics since that 1947 decision has been vast.
"The 2 Now House will be ready for exhibit by 28 August
1977, and will soon thereafter become publicly available as
the air-deliverable, only-rentable, world-around dwelling
machine service right on its own scheduled 50th birthday."
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN INSETTLEMENT, p.14; 20 Sep' 76

Dome House: Separation of Mechanical Service Core &
Structural Shell
See Dome House Grand Strategy:
1927-1977, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome Over Manhattan:
"A geodesic dome extended over Manhattan would drastically
cut the city's energy bill.... But I knew New York landowners
wouldn't ever take it. Think of the kicking on air rights
alone, and on helicopter hooping. It was sociologically
infeasible."
Cite RBF to Susan Watters in W (Women's Wear Daily); 13 May' 77

RbF DEFINITIONS
Dome Over Manhattan:
Q.
"Is it really feasible to put up that geodesic dome
over Manhattan?"
.
R.B.F: "Well. it would be technically feasible, but it
is certainly sociologically unfeasible. . . just
think of everyone insisting on their property rights,
and air rights, and all that sort of thing.
might just as well forget it."
• .we
Cite RBF to Susan Waters of Women's Wear Daily, 3200 Idaho
Ave. NW, Wash. DC: 26 Apr' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome Over Manhattan:
"When the artist made an airbrush picture of the big dome
over Manhattan I saw that the Queen Mary was clearly visible
at her dock in the North River but the masts of the Queen
Mary were not visible at that distance. So I figured that
if each compression member in the big dome spanning the
island at 42nd street were just the size of the Queen Mary's
mast, then all the struts would be approximately invisible
from the ground and there would be enough steel in the
Queen Mary to provide all the steel needed for the big
dome.'
"
Cite RBF at Penn Bell Videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

RBF JEFITIONS
Jome: nationale for the Big Home:
"in many of our cities and big centers-- the way the
consumption curves are going-- we are running out of energy.
Therefore it is important for our government to know if there
are better ways of enclosing space in terms of materials,
time and energy. if there are better ways, society needs to
know it. •
"The behavior of the geodesic dome was simply not predicted
by engineering. The beam and column formulas coul not
possibly anticipate it.
"We are still making geodesic domes on compression formulas
and thus they are ten times as strong as they need to be."
-
Cite to Shoji Sauao, Chez .rs. Leva kaiser, ambridge,
1355.,
10 Feb 12.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome: Rationale for the Dome:
"Getting to the Moon without losing a single human being--
there's never been anything like that. And all by really
getting
first things first with really the highest intelligence
operating from the beginning. Never a compromise about money.
(III)
We are making
"Let's get to how people get killed in tornadoes.
houses square because the Earth seems to be flat. When we're
making houses square and cubical, it's easy then to take a log
that is straight and just lay it down that way... All these
squares and cubicals are the critera. When we have a tornado
the atmosphere drops incfedibly down. This means that the
atmosphere trapped inside is much higher due to the vacuum on
the outside; so much so that it explodes the buildings. What
happens is that the walls are literally thrown into the sky;
it really acts as though something has hit it like an
explosion.
"So I find that all you have to do is to have the right shape,
which is spherical, such as my Wichita House which had a safety
valve on the boiler so the pressure can blow off. I had an
18-foot-
diameter ventilator inthe top-- the whole thing lifted
like a safety valve and came right back on."
->
Cite tape transcript, p.29; RBF to W. Wolf, 28 Apr* 74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Dome: Rationale for the Dome:
"But as an omnitriangulated tensegrity geodesic dome, earth-
quakes don't bother it. Earthquakes shake buildings apart if
they have no tensile strength. And they're now in cubical
shapes that are not most comfortable. Once you use geodesic
lines you have the shape that it most wants to be in: just like
a bell buoy it floats and an earthquake can't bother it.
(These things Forrester didn't know.)
Not
"I'll give you 300 buildings for one with omnitriangulated
spheres as againstall the other engineering strategies.
ohly in terms of material but the other costs would come down
thesame. The time comes way down. I can deliver it by air
instead of having people put things up in rain and snow and
dust."
(IV)
->
Cite tape transcipt, p.30; RBF to W. Wolf, 28 Apr'&4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome: Rationale for the Biz Dome:
(A)
"I do not talk about innovations until I have reduced them to
practice and am certain that the principles involved are eternal
and reliable. If I have proved a structural principle to be
safe and effectively realizable, I can consider larger and as-
yet unrealised ones because I also have experimentally
proven my comprehension of the principles governing structural
magnitudes. For instance, I know that the bigger geodesic
domes become, the more efficient they are.
"There are several principles that integrate synergetically to
produce the increasing efficiency with size-growth. When we
double the size of a geometric object symmetrically, a cube
for instance, we increase the edge measurment from one to two,
this means that the surface area increases as two to the
second power, which equals eight. This means that every
time we double the size of a geodesic dome, the volume of
atmosphere inside increases by eight, while the surface
increases by only four. This means that with each size doubling
we have eight times the number of molecules inside but only
four time the amount of enclosing surface or roof and side
walls through which any given molecules of air, inside or
outside, can gain or lose heat."
wh
- Cite RBF in Michael Ben-Eli Interview, AD, Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome:
Rationale for the Big Dome:
(B)
"This is why an iceberg melts so slowly. Its surface is so
negligible in
relation to its enormous volumetric mass and it
can melt only as fast as it can get heat inside the iceberg,
through its surface from the outside Universe, to do the
interior melting. But as the iceberg melts its volume gets
smaller at
a velocity of the second power. Therefore as it
gets ever smaller by melting, it melts faster and faster,
can see the little ice cube accelerating its rate of size
diminution and finally disappearing-- zip!
You
"While there are other chemical phenomena involved, this surf-
ace-volume
ratio also explains why it is that the Sun, being
of such extraordinary size that, despite its giving off
radiation at a fantastic rate, its volumetric mass is so great
and its
surface, through which it loses its heat, is so
negligible, that it, the Sun, has already lasted ten billions
of years and will go on lasting for hundreds of millions of
years more.
"This is, then, one of the generalised principles of Universe
entering into my statement that the bigger the geodesic dome
the more
efficiently it conserves energy. This principle
Cite RBF in Michael Ben-Eli Interview, AD, Dec 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome: Rationale for the Big Dome:
"leads us to appreciate why Universe stores its energy s0
massively in the great stars, some of which are ten millions
of times the size of the Sun and all of which are light years
apart.
-
Cite RBF ir Michael Ben-Eli Interview, AD, Dec172
(c)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome:
Rationale for the Dome:
of differ
Just forests
"When we got to World War II everyone knew alloys were very
important. All the aircraft plants had incredible vertical
bins of different kinds of alloys of different metals,
ent sizes, all extruded of different sections.
of them and designers then designed in terms of what was in
the book. Really more than 50 percent of the metals shipped
to the aircraft companies went into scrap. They cut out the
heart of the sheet; they said it was weak along the edges.
"This is the theory of Donald Douglas. I met him right after
World War II and he was thinking about going into producing my
Wichita house. Just as he had said of the DC-3: 'I'm never
again going to have a design engineer design anything if he
hasn't also been a production engineer because the production
He would
engineer had to understand how to design airplanes.
dare to change the design so it could be made with the most
appropriate tools.
(I)
"Setting up the new critical paths for the space program... all
We actually
the things that had to be done before a blast-off!
got into designing alloys. We began to design a part with such
a unique function in relation to others that it had to have"
-
Cite tape transcript, pp.27a-28; Rbf to W. Wolf, 28 Apr'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dome:
Rationale for the Dome:
(II)
"its own alloy. We began designing the alloys with our final
part and making just enough of that metal in the shape of the
part as the end product. No machining was necessary.
(These are the kinds of things I know and I know Forrester doesn't
know.)
"And so we have been make thousands and thousands of different
kinds of alloys with absolutely unique functions: you couldn't
get man into space if you didn't. The program at Cape Kennedy--
one of the worst problems they had there for months and months
was very conscientious scientists and engineers saying, 'I'm
not going to leave this; I'm going to do this myself. They
were so excited about it, the risk to the human beings out
there. And they found those men could not do it as well as the
instruments. So what they should do is to make the instruments
themselves approximately infallible-- and have a number of
standbys to check those instruments. They finally got to make
the instruments so well that they were able to control the
process all the way through."
-
Cite tape transcript p. 28; RBF to W. Wolf, 28 Apr* 74

Dome: Rationale for the Big Dome:
See Sky-island City
Sky Dwelling
Floating City
(1)

Doma:
Rationale for the Big Dome:
See Aesthetics, 24 Apr*67
Invisible Architecture (2)
Iceberg, 26 Sep*65
(2)

Domea:
Domical:
See Bubble
Butler Grain Bin
DEW Line Radar Domes
Ford Motor Company Rotunda
Geodesic Dome
Gonads
Grow-a-dome
North Face Domes
Montreal Expo'67 Dome
Omnidirectional Shutterable Sieve
Prestressed Concrete Sequence
Radome
Scaffolding
Shell Ratio
Skybreak Bubble
Sphere
Tooling of Domes
Triacon
Turtle Dome
Vessel
Wichita House
Zeiss Dome
Now House
Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine
(1A)

Domes:
Domical:
See Fly's-eye Domes
(1B)

Dome: Domical:
See Horisontal vs. Vertical, 1963
Plastics, 10 Aug170
Pneumatic Structures, (3)
Safety Factor, 25 Sep 72
Public Relations, 28 Jan '75
Turtle Hex-pent, 12 May'75
(2)

Dome:
See Dome:
Aerodynamic Stress of Dome
Domed Cities
Dome Over Kanhattan
Dome: Rationale for the Dome
Dome:
Rationale for the Big Dome
(3)

Dominoes: Tumbling a Set of Dominoes to the Generating Station:
See Circuitry: Thermionic & Political Analogy,
23 Jan 72

Doorknobs as Disease Carriers:
See Dymaxion House, 29 Jan*75

Door:
See Science Opened the Wrong Door

RBF DEFINITIONS
Doppler Effect:
"There is a phenomenon known as the Doppler effect,
of which humans took much note in the early days of the
locomotive. The high tone of the locomotive's whistle as
it approached changed to an increasingly low pitch as the
locomotive went by. This is because the sound waves of the
air coming toward us from the approaching locomotive at about
700 miles per hour are crowded together by the cocomotive's
approaching speed of 60 miles per hour. Similarly, the waves
are thinned by the locomotive's speeding away.
Doppler effect may be operating in our history so that the
relative frequency and wavelengths of approaching events
are compacted, and receding ones thinned. It could be that by
travelling mentally backward in history, as far as we have
any information about humans could-- like drawing a bowstring--
impel our thoughts effectively into the future.' "
The
Cite GODDESSES, Sat Review 2 Mar68
SYNERGETICS
Sec. 534.01 +42)

Doppler:
See Halo Concept

Dot-dash-dot-dash:
See Binary
Pulse Pattern
(1)

Dot-dash-dot-dash:
See Resolvability Limits, 30 Apr'77
(2)

Double Axe:
See King's Sign

RBF DEFINITIONS
Double Take:
"Asymmetry is a consequence of the phenomenon time and time
a consequence of the phenomenon we call afterimage, or 'double
take, or reconsideration, with inherent lags of recallability
rates in respect to various types of special-case experiences."
Citation & context at Time, 27 Dec 73

Doubleness of Unity:
See Octahedron Model of Doubleness of Unity
Unity as Two

Doubling Up of Vectors:
See Congruence of Vectors
Omnicongruence
Congruent Unity
Bivalent
Quadrivalent
Octavlent
(1)

Doubling Up of Vectors:
See Geometry of Vectors, 11 Jul 62; 15 Oct164
Sphere: Volume-surface Ratios, 10 Dec'75
(2)

Doubleness: Doubling:
See Bivalent
(1)

Doubleness:
Doubling:
See Potential vs. Primitive, 12 May'77
(2)

Doughnut:
See Coring
Fountain Pattern
Ring
Torus
(1)

Doughnut:
See Macro-Micro, 12 Nov*75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Down:
"There are no specific directions or localities in Universe
which may be opposingly designated as UP or DCM. In
their place we must use the words OUT and I.."
-
Cite Nehru Speech, p. 11. 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Down:
"If there is no inherent down in Universe, man cannot sink.
-
Context and citation at Dynamic Frame of Reference (2), May'49

Down:
See Dynamic Reference Frame
Earth: Let's Get Down to Earth
Up-and-down Language
Up-and-sown Sequence
No Up & Down

Draft: Draught:
See Vacuumizing
Wind Sucking
(1)

Draft:
See Wind Power Sequence, (5)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Drama:
Earthian Drama "Life":
"Having set out to discover... whether human have an
essential function-- despite misassumption of exclusively
self-eminent roles only as audiences or actors in the
Earthian drama 'Life'."
* Citation and context at Manifesta: First Five, 1973

Drapability:
See Necklace

RBF DEFINITIONS
Drawing:
"Drawing or scribing is an operational term. It is
impossible to draw without an object upon which to draw.
The drawing may be by depositing on, or by carving away,
that is by creating a trajectory or tracery of the
operational event. All the objects upon which drawing may
be operationally accomplished are structural systems having
insideness and outsideness. The drawn upon object may
A piece of paper or
be symmetrical or asymmetrical.
blackboard are systems having insideness and outsideness.'
"
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Operational Mathematics, One Spherical
Triangle Considered as Four." 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dreams:
"For the written record of two milleniums
Discloses human minds forver rediscovering
The great dream concept
A
While the brains of the dog and cat
Sleeping at my feet
Have never given evidence
Of being concerned with such thoughts.
Either the brain tells them to go hunting
Because their bellies are hungry
Or they bark in reflex to a strange noise
Or they wag their tails in response
To brain-recalled propitious circumstances.'
- Cite BRAIN & MIND, pp.97-98 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dreams:
• • •
"One of the dreams I have is that while asleep I dream that
I'm awake. And I have to wake up to find out that I was asleep.
I do know that when you have problems you can't solve, you
wake up in the morning with the solution. That's happened to
me very frequently, to such an extent that I state my problems
to myself before I go to sleep.'
-
Cite RBF tape transcript to Barry Farrell, Tape #2, p.2;
Bear Island, 10 Aug'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dream:
"As they last awaken none can prove that they are the same
beings that they seemed to think they were before they went to
sleep. There may be thousands of ourselves, each awakening
to different experiences. None can prove that life is not a
dream. To support that provoking thought, it is also to be
remembered that the physicists have discovered that every_
fundamental component of the Universe has its opposite. Nega-
tive weights and positive weights altogether cancel each other,
and the average weight of all physical phenomena of the Universe
is zero- as is also the weight of thought 'zero.'
"Furthermore, because Heisenberg's indeterminism makes it
impossible for us to be exact, we can at best give only a sketchy
tracery of the dream called reality."
-
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.9, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dreams:
"My definition of universe
•
includes the fact that
we dream, our dreams are certainly included. This doesn't
have to be strictly reality. The furniture of the dreams
are the realities of your experience.
Cite OREGON Lecture #2
-
'
P. 58 2 Jul 162

RF DEFINITIONS
Dream:
"y definition [of Universe ] became important because I
included the dreaming and not just the other good disciplines,
but some of the nondisciplining.'
Citation and context at Hetaphysica, 2 Jul*62

Dream: Dreaming:
See Awakeness & Asleepness
Awakening
Sleep
Subconscious Sorting
(1)

Dream: Dreaming:
See Comedy & Tragedy of Errors, May' 72
Experience, 2 Jul 62
Identity, 1959; May170
Individual Universes, (1)
Life, May 72
Metaphysics, 2 Jul'62*
Perfect, 1938
Universe, 16 Jun'72
Planetary Democracy, (6)
Womb Population, (1)
(2)

CAL
Dress:
See Clothes
Invisible Man

Drinking: Alcoholic Drinka:
See Poe: Edgar Allen, 30 Jan'75

Drink:
See Fluidity
Hibit
Indrinking

Dropout:
See Ego Dropout

Drowning:
See Piano Top
Rich Man Drowning in Shipwreck
Sink: Man Cannot Sink

Dualism of Self:
See Sensorial Identification of Reality, (1)

Quality of Shapes:
See Magnetic Field, May'49

Duality Twoness:
See Multiplicative Twoness
Spin Twoness & Duality Twoness
(1)

Duality Troness:
See Cosmic Inherency, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Duality of Universe:
"The cyclic wave accretions-- unique to parents and parent's
parent make overlapping internal impressions of the
periodic and cyclic interferences-structuring-by-accretion,
prarranging thereby internal angles of the original turbining
tendency of unfoldment, upon the gestating seed of periodic
secretion of outside-in then inside-out pulsation-inversion
which we call regenerative birth. This is, of course, a
union of the infinite inwardness with the infinite outwardness
to fulfill the comprehensive duality principle of uni-verse.
Human egos are multiconcentric frequency 'halo' systems.'
-
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (11), May'49

Duality of Universe:
See A Priori Environment, May' 72

Dual Personality:
See Split Personality
(1)

Dual Personality:
See Range Finder, 1938
Self-now, 1938
(2)

Duck: Duck Flying:
See Jet Stilts: Jet Stilting, 24 Jan'75

Duck Shooting:
See Geodesic, 5 Jul'62

Dumbbell:
See Balls Coming Together, (1)
Yin-yang, (1)

Duodecimal:
See Decimal & Duodecimal

Duo-Tet Cube:
See Quantum Jump, 26 Aug' 76

HEF JEFINITIONS
Duration:
"Overlapping because every event has duration
and their initiating and terminating are
most often of different duration.
- Cite RBF marginalia
Universe draft
28 Feb 171
- Citation at Overlapping, 28 Feb'71

Duration:
See Frame of Reference, 4 Oct 72
Generalized Boat, May 72
Herea & Theres, 4 Jun 72
Inflection, Mar 71
Overlapping, 28 Feb'71*
Time, circa 1970

Dust of Death:
See Statistics, 1938

Dust:
See Stardust
Stone vs. Dust

Darf Stars:
See Oniequilibrium, (2)

Dwelling Advantage:
See Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage

Dwelling Device:
See North Face Domes, 20 Sep 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Machines:
"You have heard about the possibility or using the aircraft
plants. Last year the president of your company delivered
an excelant address to the national convention of the
International Association of Machinists... It covers the
subject of the aircraft industry's inclusion of the manufact-
ure of airframe dwellings, the name we have given to that
portion of dwelling machines to be manufactured by the air-
frame industry. Wright Field calls our dwelling machines
'stationary airplanes.' The power plant and electrical
manufacturing and many other areas of the older industry's
components parts manufacturers will provide the organic
apparatus of our dwelling service."
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, D.214), 1946

Dwelling Machines:
Dwelling:
See Airframe Dwelling
Autonomous Living Technology Packet
Dymaxion House
Energy Environment-harvesting Machines
Environment Controls
Environment-modifying Machines
House
Semi-autonomous Dwelling Facilities
Energy-harvesting Dwelling-machine Devices
(1)

Dwelling Machines: Dwelling:
See Space Technology, (2)
Wind Stress & Houses, (11)
Dome House Grand Strategy: 1927-1977, (1)
(2)
Human Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing, 20 Sep' 76
Old Man River Project, 20 Sep' 76

RAF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
(1)
"Science, having been employed almost exclusively in weapons
development, will find itself progressively unemployed. The
weapons-producing companies and the weapons-support industries,
having high capabilities but dwindling contracts, are going to
struggle ruthlessly to find other profitable enterprises.
They
will move overnight into the living as opposed to the killing
arts. We have already noted their probably move into education.
Another probably move is onto the arts and services usually
mistakenly spoken of housing.
"All you have to do is have a meeting with advanced industrial
technology management to realize their inherent ineptitude in
respect to the art and science governing the living service
industry. Talk about a 'house' and the industrialists immedi-
ately think about stamping out an aluminum or plastic replica
of a Cotswold cottage, or they think about stamping out curtain
walls or partitions: 'You have to stamp out something.' That
is as far as their brains, conditioned by advertsiements and
traditions, permit them to go in the byways of categoryitis."
*The scientists' 'house'-catalyzed concepts are even less
imaginative and useful. The carriage, railway, and steamship*
Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
"industries of 1904, and their financial backers, directors,
and top industrial managements, did not invent the airplane;
nor did the university professors or the scientific societies.
There is nothing in the present pattern of building that gives
a clue to the ramifications of the upcoming world-habitat
service industry.
(2)
"Just as prototype inventions were the keys to the establishment
of the aeronautical industry, so will prototype inventions be
the key to this vast new industry. Many of the prototype
inventions are already on hand. Others are developing in the
U.S. and Russian man-in-space programs. What is most needed
now is a clear definition of the functions of the world service
industry that must be established to accommodate the forthcoming
world citizen, requiring, at some times, living facilities in
culture centers around the world and, at others, rest in remote
places all the way from the tropics to the poles, which permit
man to be intimate with nature's every phase without being
punished by the intimacy.
"If the professional architects of the world are too slow to
support their architectural students' intiative in undertaking"
Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
(3)
"scientific redesign, then both industry and science will
begin to stumble into the living field and it will become a
fiasco. That could easily happen within the next five years.
"The world architectural profession has just about five years
to start the architectural students and design-science students
developing the capabilities to take, hold, and develop the
world's design science initiative. Architects are going to
have to give themselves powerful mathematical abilities.
Fortunately, our research discovery of the omnirational arith-
metic of the tetrahedrally coordinate mathematical system
employed by nature in all her transformative interaccommoda-
tions, has now become confirmed by many scientific events.
provides a mathematical means adequate to the historical
design-science task of redesigning the world's tools and
services.
"
It
We must now consider other powerfully favorable histori-
cal factors affecting establishment of the world-around living
service. Between Russia and the United States, $6 billion
has been appropriated to develop the little scientific house in
which man will dwell in space or upon the Moon. But we note"
Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
"that though architects profess to be master solvers of space
problems, thus far they have not been called into any part of
the U.S. space program. The professionals who have been called
in are space medicine specialists, physicists, mathematicians,
geologists, psychologists, chemists, engineers, biologists;
but there are no architects.
(4)
"I am confident, from my experiments, that architects can be
trained quickly enough and in such a way as to be much more
effective in the space program than are those scientists and
businessmen who are now handling the program. The architectural
scientists will be especially effective in defining the ecological
problem and its solution, thus forestalling the fiasco implicit
in the scientists,' technologists', and industrialists'
ceptions.
esthetically-weighted, market-analysis miscon-
"I have familiarity with the space program in the United States
and I have found that the big contracts given out so far have
gone only to large corporations that have dressed themselves up
with large staffs of scientists in order to substantiate their
lobbying
competitiveness with the universities.
Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
(5)
"The space scientists, of the successful bidders for space
contracts, are given the problem of how to develop the space
dwelling. They are not design sdientists-- they are subjective
scientists. Design science must be objective.
"Scientists are inherently subjective operators. They are
trained to make faithful observations and to theorise about the
schemes of nature into which their data may fit, but not to
consider the significance of their findings as objectively
employable. They are too specialized to comprehend complex
integration potentials and industrial realizations.. Alone
among scientists, the medical man is objective. Chemical
engineers but not chemists are objective. I have been amazed
when I have been called in by the big corporations as a
consultant to discover how little they understand of what seems
to me to be proper statement of the scientific, structural,
chemical, and mechanical, aspects of the scientific sky-dwelling
problem and its implications for man on Earth. The problem is
to reduce the dimensions of the ecological pattern from a vast
tree-air-Earth-worm-bird-bee-rain-wind relay system to a
three-foot diameter, closed-circuit system by which man is able"
-Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
"to sustain high health for 12 months without sewer disposal
or further input supply beside Sun radiation. . .
"
161
(6)
Industrial corporations are too nearsighted while
scientists are usually infinitely too farsighted. Industrial
corporations tend toward a plastic-flowered heaven with sexy-
scented, plastic, call-girl angels. The scientists tend
toward test-tube babies and the deflation of the reproductive
urge on the psychiatrist's couch. On the other hand,
architecture students are realistically idealistic and have
well-coordinated vision and a running start on what is needed.
Industrial corporations are preoccupied with immediate profita
and not wit man's total success. They are interested in making
money while architectural students are primarily interested in
making man a total physical, cultural, and moral success.
"Architectural-science students will in due course realize that
they are designing an entire family of complementary instru-
ments of livingry-- similar in comprehensive functioning to
the whole family of musical instruments. They will be willing
to allow man the privilege of playing his own instruments and
of composing not only one-instrument music but of composing
-
Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
"symphonies for the whole family of livingry instruments.
The new architect will be wise enough to confine his design
science to augmentation of the integral organic functioning
of man so well that the external organics may be coordinated
to operate as unselfconsciously as do healthy men's internal
organisms. The design-science artists will leave mand free to
articulate the promptings of his soul in such a manner that
each individual may enjoy his newly won and ever increasing
degrees of exploratory and creative freedoms without tres-
passing on one another and thus frustrating one another.'
"
(7)
-
Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
(A)
"It is a general dymaxion-concept-trend-history observation
that in 1927, at dymaxion outset, the industrial logistics
tool-up for realization of the inception of the mass production
of industrially-reproducible, scientifically-prototyped,
intermittently-autonomous, ever-higher-standards-of-performance-
and-satisfaction-regenerating, evolution-augmenting, individual's-
integrity-safeguarding, understanding-promoting, intellect-
serving, sensorially-adjustable, harmonically-controllable, and
universally-economically-feasible, structure and mechanics of
a dwelling service industry at the 1927 level of (a) integrated
industrial technology and (b) state of advance of the general
dymaxion art and experience in comprehensive designing, was
indicated by painstaking estimate to be in the billion-dollar
magnitude for the development of the then nonexistent, standard,
new, tooling network coordination, et. al.
"By 1932 this figure had been reduced to 100-million dollars.
"By 1946 World-War-II- technological-standards-upping had been
so great and general and the whole reproducible-scientific-
dwelling-facility concept had also so advanced that both (a) and"
-
Cite NOAH'S ARK, p.16, Summer' 50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
(B)
"(b) factors had integrated into the social complex to the
extent that the firm industrial quotation for tooling up for
inauguration of the new industrial preoccupation in advance-
ment of the packaged advance of worldwide living standards
inherent in the Dymaxion concept had reduce to 10 million
dollars; this was not because the overall cost was less but
because so large a part of the originally estimated technological
requirements and public education had been paid for in the
interim at costs running a hundred fold what it would have cost
to arrive at the same potential proximity to full realization
had the project been originally undertaken at the date of
conception....
"And in 1946, after the standoff in inauguration of the new
industry at Wichita (and the host of runaway tangential attempts
to expolit the now clearly looming, but little understood and
way underestimated, new major industrial preoocupation had
spent the interim powerhead momentum in ineffective but highly
educational experiments, and had left an expectant and needful
world disrayed and frustrating revertible to political con-
triving in negatives) it was deemed wise to assume that no
further trial balances should or need be taken of the gestating"
Cite NOAH'S ARK, pp.16-17, Summer'50
-

REF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
"new industry and that its arrival would be marked by a set of
events and fulfillment of conditions which would obviate any
tool-up expense whatsoever; and that while conditions grouped
under (a) above would be advancing to the new integration
inherent in the general accelerated aeronautical and energy
industry evolution; that the advancement of the conditions to
be met under group (b) must be individually initiated with
renewed vigor and that they must be far in advance of the '44-
46 trial-balance-taking in Wichita, and must be taken in the
light
of
all the vast accrued experience and processing of the
general concept.
(C)
"It was clear that the conditions would only be met when the
design calculations and realizations would make it possible for
the individual to go spontaneously to the five-and-ten-cents-
stores-purchase-for-himself components which going industry
could now be readily convinced to turn the going facilities to
the production of, and which components would provide such
untutored ease of employment as to allow overnight establishment
of individual man-generated mushrooming of the industry, its
mechanical service standards being mass purchased, assembled-
packaged-unfoldingly by the already mass-producing industry of
auto manufacturers who had come to the necessary components of"
Cite NOAH'S ARK, p.17, Summer'50
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dwelling Service Industry:
"the new package.
(D)
Generally speaking these conditions have now
all been met in the designer's complex and need the most thought-
ful introduction into going commerce, industry, and government."
Cite NOAH'S ARK, p. 17, Summer' 50

Dwelling Service Industry: 1977 Birth Of:
See Dymaxion Artifacts, (1)
Dome Bouse Grand Strategy,
1927-1977, (1)-(3)

Dwelling Service Industry:
See Dymaxion House
Housing
Shelter
Service Industry
Repro-shelter Industry
Dome House Grand Strategy
Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing
(1)

Dwelling Service Industry:
Rationale For (IV)
(2)
13
House, 1971
Private Property, undated
Teleology, (3)
Now House, (5)
Energy Environment-harvesting Machines, 27 Jan' 77
See Dome:

Dwelling Sieve:
See Coral Reef, May165

Dwelling:
See Dwelling Advantage
Dwelling Device
Dwelling Machines
Dwelling Service Industry
Dwelling Sieve
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion:
(1)
"The word 'dymaxion' was invented at a time when Chicago was
very much caught up in the dilemma of its commercial and
artistic rivalry with New York. It was made up by the public
relations and advertising people at Farshall Field & Co.
Once in a while Marshall Field did some cultural projects:
Putting an old Chinese Urn on display, or whatever it might be.
Anyway they had arranged to display a model of my first house
on a mast and they asked me what the name of it was. I said
it doesn't have a name.
"karshall Field had some very talented 'wordsmiths' as consul-
tants-- they were the men who invented the word 'radio'. We had
lunch and they asked me the philosophy of the house. After the
lunch they compiled the main things they remembered.
They
took no notes while I was talking; it was mainly an exercize
in what they could recall. They tried to remember the most
prominent sentence; and then what were the most prominent words;
and then what were the most prominet syllables. They kept at
this for a week or so. What they were seeking was the most
harmonic and graphic ways of bringing the pertinent syllables
together. They explained that syllables were the pepper and
salt of my speech.
->
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

ROF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion:
(2)
"They said I was a four-syllable man. The name for the house
had to have four syllables. They had a list of many words
and syllables as sort of a portrait of Fuller. They confronted
me with different ones: a pair at a time; I could reject the
one I liked least from each of many pairs but the alternate
had to survive. (This was at the time I was meeting
Gurdieff?-- Koryzoski?-- in Chicago). when the exercise
was completed 'dymaxion was the word that survived.
"Marshall Field copyrighted 'dymaxion' and presented the
copyright to me as a present. But, of course, I had been
giving a little talk beside that model I guess five or six
times a day."
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion:
"That's what Dymaxion means: the most effective service
per units of invested resource."
Cite RBF to graduating class, U. Va. School of Architecture,
Boar's Head Inn, Charlottesville, 3 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynaxion:
"Dymaxion:
The comprehensively anticipatory Design
N
Science of producing humanity advataging rearrangement
of the constituents the physical environment to obtain
optimum overall performance of the economically
available and deliberately invested pounds of material,
matts of energy and hours of time as undertaken at any
given stage of evolutionary events while avoiding
negative contingencies."
-
Cite THE WIND IN THE WOLLOWS
7 Oct '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion:
dynamic,' 'maximum,' 'tension,' embraces the
concept that rational action in a rational world, in every
social and industrial operation, demands the most efficient
overall performance per units of input."
Cite RBF Glossary of Terms
bound in "The Live Book Squad" 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynaxion:
"Your rods and hubs, though they are certainly unpatentable,
are beautifully made. The hubs are what I call the vector
equilibrium. In 1927 I called the twelve vector interaction
This seemed to me, in due course, to be
The Dymaxion.'
presumptuous as it is nature's most fundamental of all
energy interactions, i.e., the vector equilibrium."
Cite May 1966 addendum to RBF letter to Steve Baer
of 19 April 1966.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion:
the term "Dymaxion" is a synthesis of dynamic
and maximum, and may be defined as maximum output
with minimum input, in terms of technology available."
Cite TWO URBANISTS
Dec 164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion:
"The dynaxion concept is that rational action in a rational
world, in every social and industrial operation, demands the
most efficient overall performance per units of input. A
dymaxion structure, thus, would be one whose performance
yielded the greatest possible efficiency in terms of the
available technology."
- Cite Marks, DYMAXION WORLD OF REF, p.9, 1960

ROBERT MARKS DEFINITION
Dymaxion:
(Used as term for Vector Equilibrium.)
"Fuller once called this equilibrium-pattern figure
the Dymaxion.' He later concluded that it was a gesture
of conceit to apply Dymaxion,' a term that for him had
become a kind of personal brand name, to a recognized figure
in non-vectorial [ sic 7 geometry and sometimes listed in
crystallographic geometry as the 'cubo-octahedron.' He then
substituted the descriptive term based on the figure's force
properties."
-
Cite MARKS, p. 41,
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion:
"The term dymaxion that he applies to many of his ventures
is simply a personal trade-name for a philosophy which
'aims to harness on a non-profit basis the maximum techno-
logical resources for the greatest number of people.""
dep
Cite Elaine de Kooning, in Art News, Sept. '52

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World:
"You notice there is the cold pole of the Northern Hemisphere.
The colors here are the mean low temperatures of the Earth.
The mean highs are about all the same everywhere. It is the
mean lows that are different. This is the cold pole of the
Northern Hemisphere: you see those dark greens, lighter greens,
yellows, and finally the reds. We see that is actually a
bull's eye and we get into the Sothern Hemisphere temperate
zene... Ninety-eight percent of humanity are in the northern
temperate zones. It is quite extraordinary; these really very,
very odd, out-of-the-way conditions.... I have seven percent of
the world's population in North America. I can go from any
place in North America and reach 86 percent of humanity
without going near the Atlantic or Pacific. These are the
shortest great-circle routes. This is the great stip map of the
new air age and the old Mercator projection is practically
meaningless."
Cite Ledgemont Laboratory Address, pp.41-42, 15 Oct*64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World:
"I made a chart using the vector equilibrium. I found
it possible to see our world, all the data of the Earth's
durface at once, only a quarter of the Earth's surface
being dry land. This is simply a point set transformation
from the spherical to the planar. It does a very nice job.
You cannot detect any visual distortion in the relative
shape or size of these components. We were able to do it
in such a way that the sinuses all occur in the ocean, s0
you have one world island and one world ocean."
-Cite Ledgement Laboratory Address, p. 41. 15 Oct164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World:
11
(I)
The industrial revolution's railroads and trucks
were the beginning of the disappearance of the age-long
dominance of the water borne traffic. Railroads and trucks
represented shiploads 'sailing' over a new Landocean. With
man's penetration to the North Pole, discovery of wireless
communication and invention of trackless, omnidirectional,
heavier-than-air air flights at the beginning of the
twentieth century, the swift obsolescence of World One's
Waterocean was certified. World War I and World War II and
their 22-year interim represent the transitional period from
a predominantly aterocean World to an Airocean World. All
the pain of this historic transition is inherent in the
momentum of ignorance of man in general concerning the
inexorableness of the fundamental reorientation of his life's
experience. The operational principles of physical Universe
persist throughout man's approximately ignorant endurance of
the transition. But as man learns more of the persistent
verities and integrities of Universe, they discover the
fundamental necessity of reorientation of knowledge in
respect to those verities.
•
- Cite RBF, June 1956, Caption J25, to R.W. Marks book on RBF.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World:
"Einstein's relativity, born at twentieth century's opening,
and its security in comprehended dynamic equilibrium
becomes the newly acquired norm of the Airocean World,
replacing the no longer tenable static norm of 'at rest'
and 'death' and its invalidated securities of mass and
inertia. Lincoln's industrially catalyzed awareness that
'right' had come to ascendancy over 'might' is of the
essence despite all ignorantly detoured chaos of transition.
There are no invisible masters of World Two. Visible
masters are anathema in World Two. World Two is inherently
governable only by the complementary integrities of
initiative of the individuals of democracy."
(II)
Cite RBF, June 1956, Caption J25, to R.W. Farks book on RBF.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World:
"The much simplified spherical trigonometry, plus a
permeative topology, plus quanta and wave mechanics,
plus thermodynamics, plus chemical structure, integrate
as synergetic geometry, which sumtotally is no more
difficult than is the visible reading of the Dymaxion
Airocean Map, which is visible synergetics."
Cite Undated Sheets THE DORTION ATROCIAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE TRANSFORMATION
Citation at Synergetica, undated

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World:
Dymaxion Equator:
(1)
"The Dymaxion Equator is a great circle running approx-
imately due east and west through a point on the Pacific
coast of the U.S.A. about 200 miles north of San Francisco.
The dymaxion great circle through this point has '50-50'
as it North Pole, i.e., 50 degrees East longitude by 50
degrees North latitude, and 130 degrees West longitude by
50 degrees South latitude as its South Pole. This Dymaxion
Equator runs from Cape Canaveral, Florida, through the
U.S.A. to Cape Mendocina, California, then due west through
a point 130 degrees West longitude by 40 degrees North
latitude, north of Midway Island (far north of Hawaii,
north of Wake Island, passing over the 75-mile northern neck
of the island of New Guinea, thence through the Malay
Straits north of Australia, thence across the Indian Ocean
running due west through a point 50 degrees East longitude
by 40 degrees South latitude, and thence just south of Cape
of Good Hope, South Africa, and thence through the South
Atlantic just north of Brazil and thence returning to U.S.A.
at Cape Canaveral, Florida, having gone completely around
the world on one great circle course without touching any
other continent than North America and having passed over
21,000 statute miles of open ocean waters. In the Southern

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World: Dymaxion Equator:
Hemisphere of the Dymaxion Equator lie only 'Greater
Texas, Central and South America, Australia and Antarctica.
In the Northern Dymaxion Hemisphere dwell 93 per cent of
the human family.'
Cite undated sheet; THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION.
(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
THREE
Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean: (World ):
"There is a great circle through America that doesn't touch
any other continent. This must have been how they picked
Cape Canaveral. The circle takes off from Cape Canaveral
and just misses South Africa and Australia; it just touches
the neck of New Guinea and then re-enters the United States
at Cape Mendocina in California.
"Only South America, Australia and Antarctica are south of
that great circle line: four percent of humanity. Therefore,
there is a population north pole that would be nearest to
all the population centers of the northern hemisphere, which
just happens to be Volgagrad, which is where the Russians
launch all their space tests from."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
23 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
THREE)
Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean: (World 2):
"When we look at the airocean world map with the continents
oriented around the North Pole we realize that the Atlantic,
Pacific, and Indian Oceans are now obsolete.'
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session Philadelphia, PA.,
20 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean forld:
Airochan:
THREE)
(World ):
"In the east-west sailing and steamship days of man when the
frozen Arctic seemed an absolute barrier, the North American
continent and the North Asian, as seen on the Mercator map
seemed to be 5,000 miles apart. Now the sky ocean traffic over
the Arctic as seen on the Dymaxion projection will bring them
into intimacy and ultimate integration of all peoples' interests."
-
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.7, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean:
THREE)
(World):
"World arrangement of Dymaxion map showing the "Airocean.'
This is the fundamental arrangement of inherently integrated
lands and their respective people's energies, economics,
mores, dreams and volitions. This pattern dominates ali
post-World War II history. It centers about the North Pole,
around which, counterclockwise, west-to-eastward races the
Northern Hemisphere's jet stream at 200 to 400 miles per
hour.
Eight-eight percent of the world's people dwell in
the Asia-Europe-Africa quadrangle on one side of the pole.
The remaining 12 percent dwell in the Americas on the
other side of the pole.
"Approximately all shortest routes between the people in
North America to the 88 percent on the other side of the
pole lie over the Arctic. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
on either side of North America are routes to nowhere.
Shortest distances from North America to South America is
over Central America and the West Indies-- not over the
Atlantic or Pacific."
-Caption to Figure 182. Synergetics chapter, Dymaxion Airocean
1967
World.

RBF DEFINITIONS
THREE)
Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean: (World ):
"The Airocean World Map. . contains within its
continentally unsinused surface all the major, shortest
air routes between the most people. . . It is the least
distorted means of studying at one glance the total
synergetic significance of Airocean economics and the
alternate strategies for integrating all phases and states
of energy behavior resources toward the highest operative
advantage of all world people."
Cite Undated sheet: THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION.

Dymaxion Airocean World: Waterocean: (World Two):
See Navy Sequence, (3)

THREE)
Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean: (World )
See Canada, 15 Jun 74
City, undated
Democracy, Jun' 56
Invisible Masters, Jun' 56
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
(1)
"I developed the map so that I could see the whole world at
once without any visible distortion of the relative shape or
size of any of the data; and also as a method of being able to
see the whole world at once without any break in the continent-
al contours.
"I first tried to do this in the early 30s by employing the
Mercator projection, by using the 90th meridian instead of the
equator as the base line. This provided the One-world Island
and the one-world ocean, as hoped for. This is the
basis for the projection I made in the end pages of NINE CHAINS
TO THE MOON, published in 1938-- and as modeled for me by the
puppeteer Bil Baird in 1936.
"When Life magazine decided to go with my map, their art editor
insisted on orienting it around the north-south polar axis. My
friend Ricky Harrison was given the task of producing the
cartographic work and he did not understand that I had discov-
ered a new mathematical method of projecting from a sphere to a
planar surface. He used a conventional projection which produc-
ed a non-uniform boundary scale around the square and triangular
components of which the Life Magazine edition of my map consists.'
->
Cite RBF Ltr. to Martin Gardner, 26 Aug175
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
(2)
"In my projection method I hold uniform boundary scale, and all
variation is internally symmetrical within the uniformly-edged-
bound pieces....Alteration consists of identical and symmetrical
angular contraction in respect to each of the corners of the
pieces as the spherical excess subsides. My topological trans-
formation method can use any symmetrical geometry, whether it is
tetrahedral, cubical, octahedral, icosahedral, et.al. What you
speak about as the cubo-octahedron I speak of as the vector
equilibrium, its radial and chordal vectors being of equal mag-
nitude and abundance.... The vector equilibrium has the virtue
of having a boundary scale of 60 degrees for each of the pieces,
and its spherical excess is slightly less than that of the
icosahedron; ergo, the distortion is mildly less than that of
the icosahedron (72°-60°-12° spherical excess).
"It took me two years after the Life Magasine presentation to
find a way in which all the 12 sinuses involved in unpeeling a
sphere and laying it flat would occur in one ocean.
If you
will look at what I call the Dymaxion Airocean World Edition
you will find that I have one triangle spanning between the
unitaryEurope-Asia-Africa land mass, the triangle's three edges
reaching between the Atlantic Ocean (off Norway), the Indian
Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. This required agreater than 60-
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Martin Gardner, 26 Aug 75
"

RBP DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"degree-arc reach. The icosahedron's edge is 63° 26' 09.5",
which is just enough to provide water-to-water reach between
the three great oceans. The icosahedron and its 12 vertices
represents the denucleated phase of the nucleated vector
equilibrium with its 12 vertices....
(3)
"Having found the frame which permitted showing the one-world
ocaan and the one-world island without any distortions or breaks
in the continental contours, I settled upon this as being the
most satisfactory means of humanity's seeing the whole Airocean
World at once. The Waterocean World was an east-west world; the
Airocean World is a north-south world; and it is going to
change human relations altogether. On my one-world island in
one-world ocean arrangement, 90 percent of humanity can reach
each other on the shortest great-circle air routes without
going near the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Oceans.... I have
used this Airocean World Map as a background for all world
resource-and-population-distribution expositions for the simple
reason that uniform scale percentum graphics always displays
on a uniform scale background, which no other projection
provides.
Cite RBF Ltr to Martin Gardner, 26 Aug 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"Just as the Life Magazine publication of my map came off the
press in 1943 and the first copies were distributed, Ricky
Harrison told me he had a telephone call from Professor Irving
Fischer at Yale who, excited by my map, had asked Ricky to do
the same kind of projecting for him on the icosahedron. Ricky
did so and Professor Fischer published it in Look Magazine in
competition with Life Magasine, Look being glad to parry the
Life edition.
"Life told me at the time that they were able to sell more
advertising space because of my map than they had ever sold
before. It was the largest single edition of the magazine up
to that time. I assure you that Professor Fischer was in no
way responsible for any of the work I have done.
(4)
"In 1944, Science Magazine made the statement that my projection
was the first and only projection to be granted a patent from
the United States Patent Office. How this patent happened to
be granted is an interesting story. When Life Magazine conten-
plated publishing my map (which they contemplated for over two
years before the actual publication), they wanted to be sure
that they were indeed publishing something that was new and
valid. They consulted with Dr. Boggs, chief cartographer for"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Martin Garbder, 26 Aug '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airoceen World Map:
(5)
"the U.S. Department of State and the chief cartographer for
the American Geographical Society, and with two mathematicians
who later became the authors of Mr. Mits.
All three experts
stated that my presentation was 'pure invention,' using the
term in a derogatory manner. They did so because it did not
conform to any of the known methods of projection. My method
of projection is based on a three-way grid of great circles
which, as the patent shows, does occur with a 60-degree-edge-
angle vector equilibrium. The mathematicians said a three-way
grid of great circles was unknown, and in fact was impossible.
I was able to make graphic demonstration of my three-way grid,
finely etched on a 12-inch-diameter copper hemisphere using
the great circle edge of a fine tolerance enclosing hemisphere
as the great circle scribe guide. The three-way great circle
grid sprang from a uniform boundary scale of one-degree incre-
ments. Because of my demonstration Life Magazine went ahedd
with the publishing. My patent attorney then informed me that
the patent examiner had ruled circa 1900 that no new cartographic
projections could be patented because all the mathematical
variations had been ramified. My patent attorney confronted the
patent examiner with the three authority's statements that what"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Martin Gardner, 26 Aug 75

REF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"I had done was 'pure invention.' As a consequence the patent
examiner allowed his office to reconsider and I was allowed
patent number 2,393,676.
(6)
"The airocean map has never been marketed by any of the map
companies. They have too much of an investment in plates for
other presentations. It has, however, been used in a large way.
Almost every one of the major national corporations has asked
permission to use it as, for instance, the cover of their annual
reports to stockholders. It has been used very frequently in
general advertising and the maps are obtainable by the public
from my office in Philadelphia.
"Subscribing to the evolutionary checks and balances of nature's
own gestation rates, I have never promoted the map nor solicited
sales, but the world-around demand for them is rapidly increas-
ing.
Cite RBF Ltr. to Martin Gardner, 26 Aug 75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"The Dymaxion airocean world map is only one of many devices
that could provide man with a total information-integrating
medium. We are going to have to find effective ways for all
of humanity to see total Earth. Nothing could be more
prominent in all the trending of all humanity today than the
fact that we are soon to become world humans; yet we are
greatly frustrated by all our local, static organizations of
an obsolete yesterday."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 537.34
8 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
(a)
"I am attaching a copy of the world map published by LIFE on
my new universal-hinging projection. I have taken off the
global map onto this new projection in several other ways, for
instance, with the North Pole and again the magnetic North
Pole, and the pole of the ecliptic as centers of triangles
instead of squares. And another takeoff, particularly useful
for navigational purposes, is that in which the vertexes of
squares and triangles coincide at the poles.
This is
"The new projection method is also extremely useful in relating
the astronomical map to the land map of the world.
because the spherical angles are all proportionately or
symmetrically reduced when translated to plane geometry and
vice versa; furthermore, every point on my plane geometry
projection is vertically above the universally deployed center
of the earth. All interior points retain their symmetrical
positioning whether graphed in spherical or plane geometry.
Therefore points in the astronomical projections may be made
to occur vertically above points on the earth when they are
actually in zenith, with the triangulation of astronomical
positions usefully related by direct graphical method to the
terrestrial map.'
Cite RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvenor, Wash., DC; 29 Apr' 43

RbF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion kirocean World Map:
.
(b)
"The article in LIFE did not describe any of the mathematical
properties of my projection method. I am sure that you would
be interested to have it pointed out that the triangular sect-
ions of my projection method represent those unique spherical
triangles whose several vertexes are each coincident with a
vertex of another identical triangle of a system of eight
triangles, altogether forming a spherical triangular lattice
of great circle arcs of 60° completely enclosing the sphere.
This spherical triangular lattice (with equilateral spherical
quadrangle interstices) represents the surface coincidence with
a sphere of a unique system of tetrahedral segments of a sphere,
all of whose apexes coincide at the center of the sphere. It
happens that these particular equiangular spherical triangles
of the infinite number between 180° and 60° are the only
spherical triangles whose chords together with their interior
vertexial radii form a united system of lines describing,
uniform, unit size, equilateral 60° triangles whose interior
apexes coincide with the center of the sphere.
"There is no set of spherical triangles which uniformly subdiv-
ides all the surface of a sphere (as with the eight 90° equi-
angular triangles or the faces of an icosahedron) whose central"
-
Cite HBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvener, Wash., DC; 29 Apr143

HBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Nap:
The
"60° apexes also coincide at the center of the sphere.
apexes of all other spherical segment tetrahedra either fall
beyond the center or fall short of the spherical center.
This particular spherical triangle and tetrahedral unit which
I have used is the only exception.
(c)
"It happens, however, that this symmetrical subdivision of
the surface of the sphere by my eight spherical tetrahedra
leaves a void of six spherical squares whose chords and radii
form spherical pyramids whose apexes also coincide with the
center of the sphere. Thus this system provides uniform and
symetrical chords and radii, any right angle or diagonal
subdivision of which on the spherical surface must be the
intersection of a plane passing through the center of the
sphere and is therefore a great circle. Thus it is possible
by employing these unique spherical equiangular triangles
and 'squares' (quadrangles) to provide a quadrangular grid of
great circles in the square and unique symmetrical triangular
grid of great circles in the triangle (great circle phenomena
not found in any other symmetrical spherical triangle) both
symmetrically and uniformly subdividing the enclosing
boundaries that allows of universal plane geometry projection"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvener, Wash. DC; 29 Apr' 43

RBF DEFI.ITIONS
Dynaxion Airocean World Map:
(d)
"in the terms of the same uniform and symmetrical subdivisions
without defractions of angles of transferred data along the
hinges of the necessarily sectional projections, required for
universal direction of unwrapping of the spherical map.
"All the interior structural geometry of the model thus devised
consists of universally symmetrical equilateral and equiangular
inside truss structure, united individually at their external
vertexes and all joined internally at a universal vertex
center, represents the unique stabilized, nonredundant
four-dimensional force diagram of any dynamically radiant or
convergent spherical organization. It provides a mathematical
module system 'tri-' and 'bi-'secting central angular unity
an graphic model of the decimal twelve, or duodecimal
system, essential to mathematical facility in radionics.
relates simple geometry to dynamic graphical requirements of
electronics.
It
"The respective interior triangular and quadrangular great
circle grids which terminally intercept the enclosing sides
of the eight spherical triangles and six spherical squares in
mutually uniform linear intervals may be collapsed to plane'
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvener, Wash. DC; 29 Apr 43

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
(8)
"surface grids uniformly subdivided by interior triangles and
squares. This collapsing may be accomplished by 'loosing' the
unit apex centers of the tetrahedrons and quadrahedrons while
holding the vertex positions of the squares or triangles and
allowing the radii to 'dangle' parallel to one another with
their loosed terminals in one place.
"Uniform subsidence of the spherical arc segments of the major
spherical triangles and squares of the spherical projection
lattice into plane geometry sections of squares and triangles
is accomplished by concentric shrinking to the chordal plane
in such a manner that the right-angle relationship of all
interior points in respect to the enclosing sides remains
intact. It is the retention of the interior perpendicularity
of points to enclosing sides that makes the hinging of the
triangles and squares possible in a manner that, at the same
time, does not disproportionate or refract the contours of
areas partially occurring on adjacent triangles or squares.
"It is also this method of uniformly progressive concentric
correction by subsidence from spherical segment to plane
geometry which provides the unique characteristic of this"
-Cite RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvenor, Wash. DC: 29 Apr 43

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
(f)
"method of projection which distinguishes it from all other
methods. The unique characteristic referred to is that the
projected diagram retains true measurement, shape, direction,
and distance throughout all of the enclosing boundaries of
the segments with mathematically controlled distortion
'massaged to the center of the projection areas. All other
projections are true in measure, shaping, and direction only
at an interior point or along one side or along one or several
separated lines or arcs crossing the projection with progress-
ive distortion articulated outwards towards one or more of
the enclosing edges of the projected diagram. In other words,
my new projection is uniformly corrected by internalization
while all other projections are corrected by some systematic
externalization of error. This allows of true external assoc-
iation of my projection units, which is impossible in all
other methods demonstrated to date.
"Only in the case of the azimuthal or gnomonic projections
where correction is radiantly distributed does this exterlaiza-
tion of correction allow of uniform relationship of one
portion of the spherical projection to another; but in the
cases of the azimuthal or gnomonic hemispheres, there is only"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvenor, Wash., DC; 29 Apr'43

REF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"the tangent contact point of the circles and no hinging line
of contact as is provided by my internally corrected triangle
and square projection, which latter allows several sectional
units of continental areas of the world map to be reunited as
a whole within a symmetrically representative contour.
"This triangle and square system may be thought of as one in
which a special set of spherical 180-degree gores have been
subdivided so that each gore is symmetrically separated into
three parts, tgo triangular ends and one square center, of
equilateral 60' great circle boundary arc dimensions.
(p)
"Thus the two irreconcilable geometrical conditions of (1)
central parallelism and (2) terminal convergence, demonstrated
by spherical gore segments are
formally segregateed
and resolved, each to its symmetrical unity of plane geometry
square and triangles respectively.
"This resolution into triangles and squares allows of the
formalized sections of gore surfaces being reunited on a plan
in such a manner as to unbandage the sphere in perpendicular,
diagonal or triangular direction or any developed synthesis
thereof. This potential translation is indicated by the"
Cite RF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosnevor, Wash., DC; 29 Apr143
3

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"graphic fact that the spherical gcres are doubly interwoven
across their girths and triply interwoven at their ends.
(h)
"This system takes joint advantage of (1) the centrally satis-
factory characteristic of the Mercator projection's tropical
area and (2) the azimuthal or gnomonic projection's polar areas.
It also combines the unit strip-diagram of the former with the
inherently-separate circle diagrams of the latter into a
universally joined synthesis of the preferable aspects of
both.
"Ky system thus accomplishes the synthesis of merit of equator-
ial and polar systems which the polyconic accomplishes in highly
specialized and compromised manner, prohibiting universal
synthesis in any direction. The 60-arc triangle and square
system accomplishes this long-desired synthesis of merit while
requcing the unit limit of percentage of distortion growth
below that of any unit world map projection system previously
demonstrated.
"Despite the notion which had developed by custom of thought
almost to the inflexible extent of becoming an assumed "
-
Cite R3F Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvenor, Wash., DC: 29 Apr143

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
(1)
"universal law; i.e., 'that no new invention of a spherical
projection could be made and therefore that no patent could
be issued for projection inventions as all mapping was a design
synthesis within the already demonstrated mathematical arts,
--this now discovered random element set of great circles,
hitherto undetected by mathematicians permigs of constructing
and graphing a three-way great circle triangular systematically
and infinitely subdividing the internal area while always
symmetrically subdividing the enclosing arcs occurring within
this particular equi-sixty-degree-great-circle-arc spherical
triangle and within this triangle only.
"True surprise discovery of principle and useful means of
interpolating its employment, which combination of initiative
we call invention, has thus occurred, which therefore permits
of allowable patent claimage on my projection system.
"I thought you ought to have this information even though you
may not contemplate any immediate employment of the principles.
....Your continual, up-to-date, re-editing of geographical
data represents a factor of progress of incalculable proportion--
the kind of factor that can determine the degree of happy issue
of these epochal
Cite RbF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvenor, Wash, C.;
29 Apr 43
days."

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World kap: Icosahedral Version:
"That's how I arrived at the icosahedral version of my
Dymaxion airocean world map. Its edge is an arc of 60°23*
with symmetrical subsidence locally. All the changes are
internal rather than outwardly. If you dismiss error
outwardly in a circle-- or circumferentially-- you end up
with three times as much error as if you dismiss them
imwardly. The only way to improve on the isosceles version
would be to have the 120 triangles of spherical unity, but
that would mean breaking up the continents which I didn't
want to do. It took me two years to find the airocean array."
Citation & context at Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (1),
27 Jan 75

TEXT CITATIONS
Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
Fuseums Keynote Address, Denver, pp. 14-23, 2 Jun 71
Fortune Fagazine, February 1940, Vol. XXI, No.2. p. 57
Fortune Magazine, Dec' 43 (Vol. XXVII, No.6): Figure on cover.
(Uncredited to RBF.)
Synergetics: Sec. 537.34

Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
See Cartography: Cartographic Projections
Constant Zenith Projection
Flat-out World Map Projection
Grid Basis
Skinning:
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid
Transformational Projection
Trees: World-around Color of Trees
Projective Transformation: Dymaxion Airocean
World Kap
Dymaxion Equator
(1)

Dymaxion Airocean World Nap:
See Energy Slave, (4)
Large Patterns, (1)-(3)
Omnidirectional Typewriter, (1) (2)
Skinning, Feb 72
Spherical Tetrahedron, 10 Sep'74
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
Systems, (IV)
World Game, (I)
General
(2)

RoF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Artifacts:
(1)
"The United Nations' May 27 to June 12, 1976, Vancoouver,
E.C. Habitat'--World Conference on Human Settlements,
occurred in the 49th anniversary year of my 1927 conception-
ing of, and all-out commitment to (what at that time I'
carefully estimated to be a 50-year gestation period of)
economic initiatives, philosophic formulations, testing,
practical proving, progressive development, and their
integration with general evolutionary events, all to
culminate in the 1977 birth of a new world-around industry--
that of an air-deliverable, air-serviceable, and air-removable,
large-and-small environment-controlling devices, including
dwelling machine mass manufacturing and renting industry
which will employ humanity's maximumly informed and performing
sciences and technologies and most advanced production
techniques, to comprehensively and adequately accommodate
all human living and development needs--with the dwelling
machines also serving as effective harvesters and conservers
of all local income energies of the vegetation, Sun, and wind
as well as of the energies human and food wastes--and, most
importantly of all--to serve as spontaneous, comprehensively
effective, self-teaching devices of both the young and the"
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLLIENT, p.1; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Artifacts:
"old children therein dwelling (see 1928, 129, 130 press
accounts of the Dymaxion House).
(2)
"All of the Dymaxion artifacts which I have developed have
come into socio-economic use only in emergencies when
all
known customary means of solving various problems were either
physically inadequate or prohibitively expensive
and there
were no alternatives but to use my so much
more specifically
satisfactory performance for so much less material, energy
,
labor, and overhead input costs."
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.1; 20 Sep' 76

Dymaxion Bathroom:
See Wichita House, (2)(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Car:
"The Dymaxion Car was not a car. It was a people mover.
It was only my testing of the ground-taxi-ing capability
of my omnimedium-transport, wingless-airplane with twin-
orientable jet-stilting.
"There are two kinds of birds... the cantilevered wing-spans
are the most difficult part of flying. Jets can give an
orientable thrust. Airplanes tend to head up into the wind
as a result of their streamlining. I knew that the most
dangerous tendency of the Dymaxion car was the ground loops
brought on by the beautiful fairine of the shape of the body.
"The reason I built an advanced design car rather than an
advanced design house was simply because I knew I could draw
on the already available inventory of marts from the
automotive world. There was nothing like that available
for housing.
"Because it was running around on the ground, people called
it a car. Cur new vertol aircraft are at an intermediate"
-0
Cite RF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA; 2? Jun'77
(1)

RBF DLFINITIONS
Dymaxion Car:
stage. In the transportation future we will have very large
airplanes for great distances personal kinds of jet harnesses
with dialable controls that we can put on for local jumps...
just out of the window... something you could put on.
Cite RBF to World Game Workshon; Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77
(2)

RoF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Car:
"The car is still on display in the Chicago museum....
Walter Chrysler tried to market the idea. But banks with
large amounts of capital tied up in financing used cars,
bucked it. In the 1930s banks figured you had to sell
five old cars to finance loans on each new
one. The
banks argued that if you advanced the technogy of a new
model too fast, you reduced the value of secondhand cars.
The whole banking system would go bust. It wasn't a conspir-
Walter Chrysler found he had to make very slow
advances. He just couldn't do it."
acy.
-
Cite RBF to Susan Watter in W (Women's Wear Daily); 13 May'77

Dymaxion Car:
See Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (2)(3)(4)

Dymaxion-concept-trend-history:
See Dymaxion Outset, summer' 50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Equator:
"The Dymaxion Equator is the one single great circle of the
Earth which, starting at Cape Kennedy, goes entriely around
the Earth without touching any continent but North America."
(See Original Synergetics Illustration #118)
* Cite RBF rewrite of caption to Syn. Illus. #118, sent by
Shoji, 30 May'75

KBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion House:
"The 1927 Dymaxion House was my first tensegrity. The hub
of the wire bicycle just becomes the mast. And the bicycle
wheel itself was a transfer of sea technology.
"The ceiling was translucent reflecting light from the
central mast which was perforated to draw heat down over
the warm lights. 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.
"Light cells replaced door knobs because I found that door
knobs were a major contact point for the transfer of disease.
"Opaque walls are difficult to let light through. There are
four kinds of privacy: aural, tactile, visual, and olfactory.
Occulting cutting off the line of vision-- is better than
opacity.
"Snelson gave me all the key, he gave me my great appreciation
of how so much of tensegrity behaves; there is no thought of
his stealing' my ideas."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion House:
"Back in 1929 Vilhjalmur Stefansson arranged for me to have a
dinner meeting with an engineer from the Soviet Amtorg office
in New York. The Soviet engineer was in this country to arrange
for a party of some 50 of his colleagues from Russia to visit
the Ford Plant at River Rouge.
"The engineers told me that the soviet managers thought very well
of my Dymaxion House. He said they were very familiar with it,
but they had concluded that it must be kept secret from the
Russian people for 50 years. The sacrifices of the people for
the
Five Year Plans were so great that the people must not know
of the house as they would like it intuitively and they would
all want it.
•
"At this time there was a world competition for the architectural
design of the Palace of the Soviets. Corbusier would have won it
but he would have introduced untenable standards for the use of
new materials-- as would the Dymaxion House. Ergo, the managers
decreed that the Palace of Soviets and all Russian Architecture
must be classical in style and be made of wood or stone. They
had to use metals for more critical purposes than housing. No
information would be allowed to come in and disturb this strategy.
"
- Cite RBF to Design Science Institute Mtg., Aspen, Colorado, 13 Jul'
74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion House:
What would a mass-produced Dymaxion house cost, allowing
for inflation
?
A. "If mass-produced, which means at a minimum of 500 per day,
per factory, Dymaxion houses should cost today about $10,000
completely ready to occupy and live with at highest standards
with all technical necessities included, needing only food
supplies to be added. They would not be sold, but could be
air-delivered and rented locally at $100 monthly, with all
maintenance guaranteed at no further costs-- as with telephones."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Lames Coley, Sep'73

Dymaxion House:
See Starting with Universe, 15 Aug' 74
Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-
Octahedron Universal Joint, (1)
Wind Power Sequence, (1)
Dymaxion Artifacts, (1) (2)
Dome House Grand Strategy: 1927-1977, (1)

REF DEFINITIONS
Dymaxion Outset:
"It is a general dymaxion-concept-trend-history observation
that, in 1927, at dymaxion outset, the industrial logistics
tool-up for realization of the inception of the mass produc-
tion of an industrially reproducible... dwelling service
industry... required development of the then nonexistent,
standard, new, tooling network coordination."
Citation & context at Dwelling Service Industry (A), Summer'50

Dymaxion Outset:
See Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927

Dymaxion Vector Constant:
See Synergetic Constant

Dymaxion:
See Vector Equilibrium
(1)

Dypaxion:
See Dymaxion Airocean World
Dymaxion Airocean World Map
Dymaxion Artifacts
Dymaxion Bathroom
Dymaxion Car
Dymaxion-concept-tren-history
Dymaxion Equator
Dymaxion House
Dymaxion Outset
Dymaxion Vector Constant
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic:
"And while no sphere large enough for a flat surface to
occur is imaginable, the projective transformation model
seems to indicate that finite minima and
finite maxima
do
exist because flat is a confined triangle phenomenon.
The flat occurs at the inflection point between inside-
outings and vice versa. As has already been seen, at the
sphere's minima size and at its maxima the momentum to
flatness goes beyond approximate flatness, as at the
minima phase to satisfy the four triangle minima momentum
of transformation; thus inherently eliminating the paradox
of static equilibrium concept-- of all the Universe
subdivided into two parts, that inside of a sphere and that
outside of it; the first being finite and the latter
infinite, and the continually transforming from inside-
out to outisde-in, finitely, is consistent with dynamic
experience."
-
Cite ROAH'S ARK, F. 3.
1950

Dynamic Air Conditioning:
See Bernouilli Principle, 31 Jan'75

Dynamic Apprehension:
See Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
Systems, (III)
General

RBF DEFLATIONS
Dynamic Balance:
"The three perpendicular bisectors of an equilateral
triangle cross each other at the triangle's center of
gravity, dividing the total triangle into six right
triangles, of which three are positive and three are
negative. So there are six fundamentals of the triangle
which make possible dynamic symmetry.
Each corner
•
is balanced by its positive and negative-- like a street
corner. This is called dynamic balance. Literally all
machinery is dynamically balanced in this manner.
"
-
Citation & context at Dynamic Symmetry, 31 May'71
tite tape transcript RBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, 31 Fay*71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Equilibrium:
"Static does not mean static. Equilibrium is the nothing-
ness complementarity of dynamic. Static is never static:
it is equilibrium.
*Equilibrium elucidates the difference between the unrealiyy
of status quo, parallel, at rest economics and motion
economics which evolves the reality of Universe."
Cite RBF rewrite of 24 Apr' 76

Dynamic Equilibrium:
See Absolute Velocity
Charts: We Need Only Rotate Our Charts 90 Degrees
So the Upward Curves Level Off Into Dynamic
Equilibrium
Eternity: Equation of
(1)

Dynamic Equilibrium:
See Free Will, May149
Norm of Einstein as Absolute Speed, Jun' 56
Tensegrity:
Dec 61
Interstabilization of Local Stiifeners:
Tetrahedral Dynamics, (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
(1)
"Education has now led us out and into a degree of meager
awareness of Universe, somewhat as though we had been given
spectators' seats commanding an improved view of the game-f-
games called 'Universe.' It is, however, not as though we
had been given better seats in the same old static stadium,
within which the sports of extension of personal facility
are tried, but more as though we had been given seats in a
relay of refueled airplanes to command a view of a new kind
of ocean race, a continuous around-and-around-the-world
race of relay teams of deep sea craft. Both the frame of
reference and the observed are in obvious continual motion
and persist as individually composite dynamic continuities,
though the separate men (invisible but implicit) and planes
and boats and their component parts and sub-parts progress-
ively shuttle or drop out and are eventually substituted
for by inconsequentially increasing or decreasing numbers.
"The whole dynamic assemblage of race and observer relays are
invisible evento an observer at a 30,000-foot altitiude, let
alone to an observer on Kars, or on another planet of another
star who could only observe the motion of Earth relative to
Sun, or the Sun relative to galaxy, etc."
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.231, Fay'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
(2)
"This schematically kinetic tapestry is the advanced concept
of relativity- now, at last, popularly significant,
because pivotal to the everywhere severe worldwide reorientation
of all men's everyday affairs from a static to an a priori
dynamic
frame of reference. The reorientation is
severe because it is more than an uprooting. Realization of
relativity spontaneously evokes a springing, to dive from a
then vanishing springboard into an infinite dynamic sea where
man must learn to swim tirelessly, naturally, before he sinks,
but only because what he used to think was that he ought
to 'sink' rather than be attracted by dominant neighbors.
"As man learns to eliminate his preposterous one-, or two-
or three-dimensional a priori references to a fixed level
planar breadth and its inherent upwardness or downwardness
of Universe and substitutes therefor the now reliable
sensation of an inwardness and outwardness relative to
plural centers, he will come naturally to his new sustaining
awareness of the impossibility of his doing aught but
sustain his equilibrious and navigable position. If there
is no inherent 'down' in Universe, man cannot sink.
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.232, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
(3)
"This is not a semantic abstraction. What did man mean when
he said, 'Up'? He meant two or more vertical and parallel
lines perpendicular to the respective spots of a supposedly
common plane whereon supposedly stood-- fixedly in Universe--
both himself and his addressee, with whom he would, avowedly,
communicate meaningfully.
"But he is, in fact, employing non-sense. Unless one is
standing on the other's shoulders, the direction of 'up' for
any two men on the curved face of Earth is always geometric-
ally different. They are respectively nonidentical radii
of their commonly predominant energetic center, the Earth
ball. It makes no difference what the local curvature of
the Earth may be; they each balance, perpendicularly'
independent, as 'radii' of the perfect sphere.
"By the time one man explains to the other by directional
indication what he had meant by 'up' of a moment ago, the
direction 'up' as registered in direction to the stars in
Universe the other energy centers-- has shifted angularly
to absurd non-identity. In the clocktime course of a
sentence, his succession of complex 'ups' at Earth's level
-
Cite TOTAL THINOING, I&I, p.232, May 149

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
(4)
"has moved angularly thousands of miles; and the beam of his
continuous, up-pointing in the heavens, relative to the Sun
and galaxy, has swept billions of miles. As he soon rockets
toward the Moon he will find his feet pointing gradually and
comfortably toward the Moon which he had just previously
pointed to as 'up.'
"If he persists in the up-and-down language man may never
communicate accurately with other men for they do not
employ the same meanings, either from moment to moment, or
in respect to their individual 'ups' and 'downs.'
"Only when man learns to say in and out relative to
designated common centers (for example, of Earth) is the
meaning constantly relaible. The sky is 'outward' to all
men, at all places, at all times, on any planet. While
enjoying an infinity of individual ins,' we, anywhere in
the Universe, also enjoy one common nonsimultaneous,
omnidirectional aggregate called 'out.'
"As the constantly relaible replaces the interrupted inaccu-
racy of the past moment, the yesterdays of inaccuracy dissolve
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, pp.232, 233, May'49

kbr JarlITIONS
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
(5)
"in the presence of the finite dynamic constants of discovered
energetic Universe of now; the inherent continuity of
understanding (of overlapping-periodic interruptions) becomes
increasingly available.
"The everywhere-relative velocities and momentums of interactions,
of energetic phenomena of Universe, are central to the pre-
occupations and realizations of the comprehensive designer.
The concept of relativity involves high frequency of re-
established awareness, and progressively integrating consid-
eration of the respective, and also integrated, dynamic
complexities of the moving and transforming frame of reference
and of the integrated dynamic complexities of the observed,
as well as of the series of integrated sub-dynamic complexities,
in respect to each of the major categories of the relatively
moving frames of reference of the observer and the observed.
It also involves constant reference of all the reciprocating
sub-sets to the comprehensive totality of nonsimultaneous
Universe, from which naught may be lost.
"We have on the one hand the multiplicity-of-the-component-
structures-and-moving-parts-of-the-airplane-carrying-the-
observer, as an integrated whole, as he observes the set-of-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, Ial, p.234, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
(6)
"all-the-boats called the race, headed for the next marker--
for instance, for Bernuda-- maintaining their relative
continuity with respect to each other externally, as the
individual boats persist as a continuity of internal sets
and sub-sets (to the power of any number) of synchronized
interactions.
"We have on the other hand the concepts of both the observer
and the observed relative to their respective moving frames
of environment reference and then both moving frames merging
into one with the Universe, but at two extremes of maxima
and minima, that is, in the macrocosm and the microcosm. Both
inwardly and outwardly and diametrically all eventuate in
the same Universe of fundamental principles governing energy
as atom or galaxy aggregates of nonsimultaneous yet related
events.
"Returning to the concept of the moving observer in the
airplane, we discover that, despite the numerically astronom-
ical complexity of the total moving picture of his life at
the moment,
it is to be noted that he may gain immediate
advantage over the total concept; because he can first resolve
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.235, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Frame of Reference:
(7)
"all phenomena into two prime subdivisions-- he can treat
each moving frame of reference, in the terms of their compo-
site scene of their internal and external aspects respectively.
"Internal to the observer's moving advantage, we have the
concept of the supporting industry that produces the airplane
and keeps it serviced for re-flight and the sub-sets of
atomic interactions and the sub-sub-sub-sets of all the
atomic interactions comprising planet Earth, and the even
greater population of sub-sets of atomic interaction of the
solar system, and the greater still population of the galaxy
accumulation, and, finally, all atoms of the Universe.
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.235, May'49

Dynamic Frame of Reference:
See Epigenetic Landscape, May'49

Dynamic vs. Kinetic:
See Eistemology of Quantum Mechanics, 16 Dec'73

Dynamic Opposition:
See Energy, 16 Sep'67

Dynamic vs. Stable:
See Structure, 25 Feb 69; 3 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic vs. Static:
"Cosmos--cosmogony--is pre-Scenario: it has no meaning in
a static sense. We are only interested in the dynamic
intertransforming available to and instrumentally relayed
in our integral sensing circuitry."
Cite RBF to EJA & Roger Stoller, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 12 Nov' 75

Dynamic vs. Static:
See Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Proagation Model
Dynamic vs. Kinetic
Dynamic va. Stable
Articulated & Unarticulated
Unsettling vs. Settlements
Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing
(1)

Dynamic ra, Static:
See Decentralise vs. Centralise, 1 Apr' 49
Environment Jun'66
Vector Equilibrium,
Air Space, Hay'65
(1)
Industrial Man, 10 Oct163
Thought, May'49
Periodic Experience, (6) (7)
Module: A Quanta Module:
22 Feb 77
Introduction of,
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Symmetry:
(1)
"When we make the geodesic subdivisions of symmetrically
omnitriangulated sytems, the three corner angles increase to
add up to more than 180 degrees because they are on a sphere.
If we deproject them back to the icosahedron, they become
symmetrical again, adding to exactly 180 degrees. They are
asymmetrical only because they are projected out onto the
sphere. We know that each corner of a two-frequency spherical
icosahedron has an isosceles triangle with an equilateral
triangle in the center. In a four-frequency spherical
icosahedron there are also six scalenes: three positive and three
That is,
negative sets of scalenes, so they balance each other.
they are dynamically symmetrical. By themselves, the scalenes
are asymmetrical. This is synergy. This is the very essence
of our Universe. Everything that you and I can observe or
sense is an asymmetrical aspect of only sun-totally and only
nonunitarily conceptual, Omnisymetrical Universe.
You cannot
"Geodesic sphere triangulation is the high-frequency subdivision
of the surface of a sphere beyond the icosahedron.
have omnisymmetrical, equiangle and equiedged, triangular,
system subdivisioning in greater degree than that of the
icosahedron's 20 similar triangles,
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 1031.11 &, 12, 27 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Symmetry:
(2)
"As we have learned, there are only three prime structural
systems of Universe: tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron.
When these are projected on to a sphere, they produce the
spherical tetrahedron, the spherical octahedron, and the
spherical icosahedron, all of whose corner angles are much
larger than their chordal, flat-faceted, polyhedral counter-
part corners. In all cases, the corners are isosceles triangles,
and, in the even frequencies, the central triangles are
equilateral, and are surrounded by further symmetrically
But since
balanced sets of positive and negative scalenes.
the positive and negative scalenes always appear in equal
abundance, they always cancel one another out as dynamically
complementarily equilateral. This is all due to the fact that
they are projections outwardly onto a sphere of the original
tetrahedron, octahedron, or icosahedron, which as planar
surfaces could be subdivided into high-frequency triangles
without losing any of their fundamental similarity and
symmetry.
"In other words, the planar symmetrical is projected outwardly
on the sphere. The sphere is simply a palpitation of what was
the symmetrical vector equilibrium, an oscillatioy pulsation,'
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 1031.13 & .14, 27 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Symmetry:
(3)
"inwardly and outwardly-- an extension onto an asymmetrical
surface of what is inherently symmetrical, with the symmetricals
going into higher frequency.
"What we are talking about as apparent asymmetry is typical
of all life. Nature refuses to stop at the vector-equilibrium
phase and always is caught in one of its asymmetric aspects:
the positive and negative, inward and outward, or circumferen-
tially askew alterations.
"Asymmetry is a consequence of the phenomenon time and time
a consequence of the phenomenon we call afterimage, or
doube-take,' or reconsideration, with inherent lags of
recallability rates in respect to various types of special-case
experiences. Infrequently used names take longer to recall
than do familiar actions. So the very consequence of only
dawning' and evolving (never instanta(enous) awareness is to
impose the phenomenon time upon an otherwise timeless, ergo
eternal Universe. Awareness itself is in all thre asymmetries,
and the pulsations are all the consequences of just thought
itself: the ability of Universe to consider itself, and to
reconsider itself.
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec.a 1031.14,.15.16, 27 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
17 NOX '731
GALLET
REGRITE
Dynamic Symmetry:
"Within every equilateral triangle we can inscribe a three-
bladed propeller going into the three corners and those
propeller blades could be pear-shaped. Each of the blades is
the same shape as the others. The pear shape is asymmetrical.
We call this dynamic symmetry.
revolvable omnibalanced asymmetry>
"We have three pears at 120 from one another... The three
perpendicular bisectors of an equilateral triangle cross each
other at the triangle's center of gravity, dividing the total
triangle into six right triangles, of which three are positive
and three are negative. So there are six fundamentals of the
triangle which make possible dynamic symmetry. One part may
look like a scalene but it doesn't matter because it is always
in balance. Each corner is balanced by its positive and
negative-- like a street corner. This is called dynamic
balance. Literally all machinery is dynamically balanced in
this manner."
YMMETRY-
->
Cite RBF to EJA & BO'R, tape transcript, Chicago, 31 May'71
SEC. 532.201

RBF DEFINITIONS
Dynamic Symmetry:
•
"The difference between what I mean by symmetrical and
omnisymmetrical is that in symmetrical I have no local
asymmetries which I did have in any one of these propeller
blades by itself. Let me take one propeller blade by
itself. I'm going to split it logitudinally and gets an
'S' curve, of which no power of the curve is the same
changing rates. So it's asymmetrical by itself: it's
repeated six times; positive, negative, positive, negative
. . . and it
comes around to dynamic symmetry.
So the
energy forces involved are in beautiful
absolute balance. So we get energetic balnce.
asymmetry. And that's a vector equilibrium in the middle
of all this. Not only is the propeller revolving on one
axis only, but we have six axes with everyting revolving
in the vector equilibrium. "
This is
Cite Tape transcript
RBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, 31 May '71.
SYMMETRY SECS, $32.20 537.361

Dynamic Symmetry: Dynamics of Symmetry:
See Spherical Octahedron, Aug172
Structure, 29 Dec'58'
Tetrahedron Polarization Of, 7 Oct'71
Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron, (2)
Propeller, Dec 71
Module: A Quanta Module:
22 Feb 77
Introduction of,

Dynamic Velocity:
See Human Sense Ranging & Information Gathering, (1)

Dynamic:
(1)
See Compound Dynamic System
Dymaxion
Dynamic vs. Kinetic
Dynamic & Static
Frame of Total Dynamic Reference
Hierarchy of Dynamically Symmetrical Constellation
Phases
Omnidynamic
Self-triangulation: Dynamical
Dynamic Symmetry
Static
Tetrahedral Dynamics
Twoness of Dynamic Reciprocities
Dynamic vs. Stable
Meaning as a Dynamic Patterning Verb
Electrodynamics
Biodynamic
Swim: Dynamic Sea where Man Must Swim
Energetic Functions

Dynamic:
See All-acceleration Universe (1)
Balls Coming Together (2)
Calculus, Jul'71
Closest Packing of Spheres Sequence (1)
Environment Valve, circa 1955
Epigenetic Landscape, May 49
Energetic Functions, 1964; 8 Aug*77
Energy, 5 Jul162
Flat: Almost Flat, 26 Jan173
Geometry: Plane, 10 Dec'64
Geometry of Vectors, Aug171
Inertia, 24 Apr 71; 20 Dec'71; 6 Nov* 73
Interpositioninf, 4 Oct172
Modelability (2)(3)
Industrialization, 10 Oct'63
Pauling, Linus, 1965
Prime Structural Systems, 29 Dec 58
Potential, 1963
(2A)

Dypanic:
See Reciprocity (2)
Stability, 25 Feb'69
Stardust, May165
Syte, 31 May 171
Structure Sequence (2)
Synergetics, 10 Jan 50
Tetrahedron:
Unity
Universe, 1965
Inside-outing of, 16 Dec*73
Walking, 31 May '71
is Plural, 28 Apr'48
Wave System Propagations, May'72
Star Events, 15 Mar 71
Harmonic Interval, May'49
Future: Man Backs Into his Future, May 49
Wind Stress & Houses, (9)(10)
Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr* 43
Abstractions, 1964
(2B)

Dynamic:
See Dynamic Air Conditioning
Dynamic Apprehension
Dynamic Balance
Dynamic Equilibrium
Dynamic Frame of Reference
Dynamic vs. Kinetic
Dynamic Opposition
Dyanmic & Static
Dynamic Symmetry
Dynamic Velocity
(3)

Duracoi
See Electric Motor
(1)

Dynamo:
See Civil War, (2)
Copper, (f)
Weapons Technology, (1)
(2)