
F

Fabric:
See Universal Fabric Joint

RBF DEFINITIONS
Face:
"Faces are spaces, openings.
there is no 'something'
Since there are no 'things'
Citation and context at Tetrahedron, 20 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Face:
"The faces are the bounding of nothingness."
Citation and context at Nothingness of Areal and Volumetric
Spaces, 20 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Face:
"Solids are high tide aspects of faces."
-
Citation & context at Tidal, 31 May 171
-
Cite RBE LO-EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Face:
"A vertex is in convergence and a face is in divergence."
Citation and context at Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan '55

RBF DEFINITIONS
Face:
"Facus are finite sections of infinite open-angle
divergent tendencies."
Citation and context at Convergence and Divergence, 1955

REF DEFINITIONS
Facial Asymmetry:
"The vector equilibrium is always facially asymmetrical, but
vectorially symmetrical."
-
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium, 19 Feb 72

3
Facial Asymmetry:
See Picasso Duo-face Painting
Profile: There is No Half-profile
(1)

Facial Asymmetry:
See Vector Equilibrium, 1y Feb*72*
(2)

Face Congruence with Opposite Vertex
Zero Empty:

Face: Facial:
See Area:
Areal
Interface
Opening
Picasso Duo-face Painting
Plane
Profile
Slaps in the Face
Surface
Vertex vs. Face
Alteration of Face Couples
Vertexes, Faces &
No Domain of a Face
Obverse & Reverse
No Faces
Edges
(1)

Face: Faces:
(2)
See Convergence & Divergence, 1955*
Gravitational Zone System, 14 Jan' 55*
Nothingness of Areal & Volumetric Spaces, 20 Feb'73*
Polyhedron, 20 Feb '73
Tetrahedron, 20 Feb '73*
Tidal, 31 May'71*
Chemical Bonds: Triple Bond, ly Dec173
Middle, 12 Nov 75
Triclinic, 31 Aug' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Facet:
"You cannot have a plane except as a facet."
Citation & context at Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian, 2 Jun 74

Facet:
See Diamond Facet
Local Facet Aspect
Plane as Facet
Hedra Facets
(1)

Facet:
See Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian (2)*
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics, (1)
(2)

Fact:
Facts:
See Min-max-fam-fax
Proofs
Vitalistica
(1)

Fact: Facts:
See Belief, 14 Feb'74
(2)

Factors of Ships:
See Periodic Experience, (6)

Factor: Factorial:
See Chord Factor
Prime Numbers Factorial
Power Factoring

Faculty: Conceptual & Reasoning Faculties:
See IVM Fields of Thought
Primary Faculties
(1)

Faculty: Conceptual & Reasoning Faculties:
See Imagination, Sep'71
Sensing, Storing & Intuiting Device, 9 Jun '75
Psychiatry, (3)95)
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (1)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Fail-Safe:
"The people getting together in Bali in July were able to
demonstrate that there is another way of carrying on--neither
the capitalist way nor the communist way--where everyone is
in on the information.
"That's why all the great corporate executives should have
their fail-safe projects where all the information comes in
and they don't have to wait for correction of their
erroneous atomic energy programs to be frustrated by society
or accidents--that's too slow a way to get improvement.
"Getting everyone in on the information--as in Bali--is what
the design science and fail-safe strategies are all about."
Cite RbF to EJA, from Philadelphia, PA; 13 Sep'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fail-Safe:
"Only the whole big system works. Like all well designed,
complexly intercomplementary, evolutionary systems, the self-
regenerating terrestrial ecology has a plurality of alternate
circuits, i.e., of fail-safe mechanisms with a plurality of
newly developing alternates and an equal number of
progressively phasing-out components. Of all the biologicals,
only humans are able consciously to discover this omhiregenera-
tive pattern in pure principle.'
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (E), 5 Jun '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fail-Safe:
"We have so many fail-safes. We're given all sorts of
alternate circuits. I used to know people by their smell;
and I've just gotten over it a few years ago."
-
Cite RBF address to Dag Hammerskjold College, Columbia,
Md. 17 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fail-Safe:
"There are many capabilities we have that we don't use.
Nature has given us fail-safes, you know. If somebody
is born blind, nature has ways to help them get along."
Cite RBF quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview by Everly
Russel, p. 117, May '72

Fail-safe: Fail-safe Advantage:
See Alternate Circuits
Redundancy
Safety Factor
Safety Valve
Spherical Barrel: Fail-safe Advantage
(1)

Fail-safe: Fail-safe Advantage:
See Dome: Rationale For, (II) (III)
Ecology Sequence, (E)*
Game of Cosmic History, 27 Dec'73
Telepathy, Kay 72
Human Tolerance Limita, (2)(3)
(2)

Fail-safe Alternate Circuits:
See Anger, (1)
Human Tolerance Limits, (C) (D)

Failure:
"Failure is a word invented by man when he just didn't
know what nature was going to do. Nature never fails."
R:F to EJA, NASA, Hampton, Va, 13 Nov'78

RBF DEFINITIONS
Failure:
"The words 'artificial' and 'failure'
Are all meaningless."
- Give HOT LITTL I KNOW, Oct. 66, p. 54.
Citation and context at Meaningless, Oct 66

RBP DEFINITIONS
Failure:
"If man seems frequently frustrated in his attempts at
evolutionary modifications, all his failures and success
may be truly evaluated in the scientific frame of total
dynamic reference."
Citation and context at Epigenetic Landscape, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Failure as an Invention:
"Nan has invented the word 'failure.' Nature never
fails; nature never goes backward."
MBP quoted by bee Demabart, New York Post, 26 April 1971
-
Citation at Nature, 26 Apr'71

Failure as an Invention:
"Buildings have been so heavy that if anything fails everybody
Nature
gets killed. But we've invented the word failure.
doesn't fail. What you really want to know is the critical
point where nature folds up. We made our first geodesic dome
I called it
at Black Mountain deliberately well beyond that.
the supine geodesic."
-
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #1, p.4;
Bear Island, 10 Aug170

Failure: Annual Profit & Failure System:
See Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour
Production, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Failure As Norm of All Yesteryears:
"For the norm of all yesteryears
Was failure
As unwillingly conceded
By a sometimes
Vainly boastful
But most often abjectly prayerful
Poverty and disease-bewildered people
Living out only one third
Of their potential years
In utter ignorance
Of the invisibly boutneous life-support system
Hidden in the superficial landscape,
And consisting only
Of instrumentally gleanable information,
Abstract and weightless generalized principles,
Unique electromagnetic frequencies
And exclusively mathematical realizabilities..."
-
Cite INTUITION, pp.64-65 May 172

Failure:
See Inventions: Inventory of
Meaningless Concepts: Inventory of
Success
Success as Norm of Today & Tomorrow
Profit: Annual Profit & Failure System
(1)

Failure:
(2)
See Buckle, 10 Nov 73
Epigenetic Landscape, May'49*
Gambling, undated
Natural, Oct166
Nature, 26 Apr 71*
Meaningless, Oct'66*
Tragedy, Feb'72
Loss: Discovery Through Loss, 14 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fairchild Camera:
"Multiple personality provides... two or more viewpoints--
equivalent to... the multiple eyes of the Fairchild aerial
camera.
"
Citation and context at Genius, 1938

Faith:
See Cosmic Synergy
Kepler Alone With the Stars
Guess vs. Believe
(1)

Faith:
See Belief, 6 Jul 75
(2)
223

Fallacy:
See Tradition:
In Tradition Lies Fallacy
(1)

Fallacy:
See Truth, May 28
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fall-in: Falling-in Effect:
"All the creatures on board Planet Earth are in such critical
proximity that the falling-in effect of the apple hitting the
grass, the rain dropping on the sidewalk, the hammer dropping
to the floor, or the child bottoming to the deck of the crib,
are all typical of the critical proximity programability of a
design- even of design science. All of the creatures of
Planet Earth are in a 'fall-in' with a critical proximity
guarantee.'
[66]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.67, 15 Feb 73

Fall in Love:
See Precession:
May 72
Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior,

Fall-in Proclivity:
See Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (1)

Fall-in, Shunt-out Proximities:
See Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals, (1)(2)

Fall-in: Fall-in-ability:
See Adhere
Child Pushes Spoon Off Edge of Table
Critical Proximity
Rockabye Baby
Coming Towardness:
Coming Together Phase
(1)

Fall-in: Fall-in-ability:
(2)
See Ecology, 15 Feb'73
Intereffects, 25 Feb173
Module: A Quanta Module & Basic Triangle, 20 Dec'73
Radiation-gravitation Sequence (3)
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe (A)-(C)
Tensegrity Sphere:
Six Pentagonals (1) (2)
Critical Proximity, Jun'71
Rain, 11 Feb176

Falling Sticks:
See Sticks:
Falling Sticks

Fallout Technology:
See Automation, Jun'66

Fallout from Weapons Support System:
See Automation, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
False Property Illusion:
"Plagiarism is an ethical offshoot label of the false
property illusion..."
Citation and context at Plagiarism, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
False Property Illusion:
(1)
"Inevitably, the phantom captain's habitual association of
his infinite self with his subconsciously subservient mechanisms
has inclined him to a dual presumption: (1) that this mecha-
nism is an actual (by extension) part of his phantom self,
whereas it is purely an electrochemical combination of inanimate
energy molecules that are intrinsically the ship the phantom
captain commands, and (2) an attitude of ownership: the
mechanism of ordination for his will is 'his' permanent
'possession,' whereas in reality it is only temporarily in
his custody. This illusion of possession of the mechanism
has been further extended, through accustomed relationship,
to include possession' of one's clothes, pencils, house in
general, land, friends, wife, and children, business, state,
nation, world, and finally 'god'-- the last named quite
naturally being 'pictured in the exclusively original form
of his 'own' egotistically important, special mechanistic and
chemical process arrangement.
"As the 'possessor' of all has extensions, the phantom captain
automatically evolves a myriad of illusory necessities for
which he assumes a vain egotistical responsibility. This false-
possession and always innocuous myth (which is consumptive of
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.21, 1938
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
False Property Illusion:
"the complete lifetime, from four years onward, of the vast
majority of people) stone-blinds the possessor to the simple
delightful truth-trends that are everywhere and at all times
about us. "
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.21, 1938
(2)

False Proprty Illusion:
See Property
Private Property
(1)

False Property Illusion:
See Plagiarism, 1938*
Talent, (2)
(2)

Family of Chemical Elements:
See Pattern Conservation, 3 Oct 72

Family of Unique Frequencies:
See Repetitive 28 May' 75
Identity, 2 Jul 75

Family of Generalized Principles:
See Athletics, 6 Jun'74
Generalized Principle, (3); 13 Nov169
Spherical Structures, 14 Mar 72
Periodic Experience, (6)
Design, 8 Sep 75

Familiarity vs. Evolution:
See Poeta, circa 1970

Family:
See Cosmic Law Family
Motion Freedoms:
Family Of
Family of Unique Frequencies
Family of Generalized Principles
Family of Chemical Elements

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fantastic:
"The fantastic, being of purely superficial magnitude,
Vanishes in the face of principle."
-
Citation at Principle, May'49
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&l, p. 226, May'49

Fantasy vs. Principle:
See Fantastic, May'49

Fantastic: Fantasy:
See Impossible
Never-never Land

Farmer Brown:
See Yesterday, May'70

Fashion:
See Technocracy, 1938

Fast & Slow:
See Energy Magnitudes: Order Of
Frequency: High Frequency & Low Frequency
Slower & Closer vs Faster & Far Apart
Big & Little
Rates & Magnitudes
Local Change
Local Events

Fast:
See Change
Fast & Slow
Speed
Velocity
(1)

Fast:
See Physical, circa 1970
(2)

Fat-thin Diamonds:
See Geodesic Diamonds

Pate:
See Destiny of Humanity

Fault:
See Discontinuity
Earth Fault

Favorites:
See No Favorites

Federal Reserve Bank:
See Photosynthesis, 9 Jun$75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fear:
"Society is full of this horrible thing, fear. And when
society is fearful, it gets panicky and does stupid things.
So don't do things just to defy or make people fearful. Do
things to give them confidence. Don't do things which invite
opposition. Do things which invite support. Try to think
clearly, and you will find answers for your problems.
Very
shortly, society will be in enough trouble to want them."
Cite RBF to Wm. Marlin, Architectural Forum, p.81, Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fear:
"Fear makes people linear."
RBF quoted by Mercedes Matter in her letter to him
received by RBF 23 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fear:
"Fear is not innate. The fear reaction of the new born
infant is
brought about
only by extraordinary noise
or falling. If falling does not occur early, fear does not
develop as dominant. it is fostered, however, by the
exquisite stupidity and cruelty of singing 'Rockabye, baby--
baby will
fall, cradle and all, and for the child who has
experienced falling this is by way of being an ultimate
lullaby into lunacy....
"
"Fear is instilled through the repetition of traditionally
honored falsehoods, or by the invention of a lie, a moral,
a code, or
statute to suit the circumstance."
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE LOOM, p.13, 1938
(slightly rearranged)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fear and Longing:
"I think every human being is born an artist, scientist,
inventor, or explorer, but his innate capabilities do get
so frustrated, discouraged and paralyzed. Einstein found
two fundamental
forces operative in human beings. These
are fear and longing. Fear is almost always present.
Unfamiliarity may be compounded with the built-in drives
of hunger, thirst and procreative urges together with an
urge to understand and be understood. Those are very,
very powerful. And when the circumstances seem so caotic
there is fear-- a congealing fear. Fear has been very
powerful in humanity. But I find that there are times
when one get out from under it and cheers up again and
longing begins to carry on. I began to try to weigh the
fear versus longing of humanity and I began to feel that
longing was more powerful and would win in the end."
Cite RBF Address at National Conference for Philosophy
of Creativity at SIU, Carbondale, Ill, 16 Oct. 169
p.22.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fear and Longing:
"Assuming Einstein's postulate of fear and longing
as the prime motivators to be correct, let us analyze the
implication further, and utilize fear and longing as yardsticks
in a general tracery of the history of creative design and
the latter's effect on economics and social movements.
"While neither fear nor longing is experienced in pure form,
nevertheless one or the other is always dominant for every
specific moment. A person may be at one instant 90 percent
dominated by longing and 10 percent by fear, at the next vice
versa, and tomorrow 50-50. When, however, the person's
life span has terminated, he may be analyzed sumtotally as
having demonstrated for instance a 60 percent fear motivation
and 40 percent longing. So, in terms of indicated sumtotal of
a personality, one may say that a person is dominantly to date
a fear or a longing type. The genius and the talented person
are specific members of the longing dominated group, although
manifesting greatly diversified performance characteristics."
- Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.96, 1938

12
RBF DEFINITIONS
Fear & Longing:
In consideration of the contribution to the study of
radiation and the degrees of its scientific authority by the
currently most eminent mathematician, Mr. Einstein, and his
thoughtful nomination of longing andfear as the two primary
motivating forces of human activity in the bi-polar world; and
in consideration of our tracery of the effects of longing and
fear, the longing into a general inspiriting of the creative
and telented types of artists, the abstractionists, the
scientists, and teleologic philosophers in general, and fear
into the contracting and 'conserving' of the materially
minded, either driver or driven;...
It
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, pp.323-324, 1938

Fear & Longing:
See Biosphere, (2)
Comprehension, Sep'72
Inventory of Push-pulling Alternations, May 49
Science as a Tool, Sep'72
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (2)

Fear & Political Bias:
See Synergetics, 6 Nov'72

Fear:
Weenighaghugs
See Inertia of Fear
Raison d'etre of Boast & Fear
Phobia of Imprisonment
Trap of Dismay, Fear & Negativism
(1)

Fear: Fears:
221
(2)
See Change, 2 Nov 73
Death, 11 Sep'73
Epigenetic Landscape, Jun'69
Evolution, May 72
Individual Economic Initiative, 13 Jul174
Inflation, Sep'73
Limit, 1938
Mind as Verb, May' 72
Self-seeking, 8 Nov 172
Society: Control Of, 1938
Superstition, May'491
Walls, 1967
World Game as Football Game, 23 Aug'70
Synergetics, 6 Nov 172
New York City, (7)
News & Evolution, (3)
No Energy Crisis, (A)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Feed:
"Feed is a word people use just as a game they're playing.
What it really means is: taking on energy.
In 1946,
when the new post-War cars campinto Wichita they had the
first hydromatic transmission. Jake Butts would buy them
for all his kids and one of the Beech workmen said, 'All
you have to do is tromp on the foot feed.'"
(This was in the context of RBF talking to EJA
about 'feed' vs 'feed in' at p. 110, 9th line
of BRAIN & MIND.)
Cite HBF to EJA Royal Scots Grill, NY breakfast, 16 May 172

Feed:
See Eating
Meals

Feedback Circuitry:
See Building, 10 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Feedback Comprehensivity: Computers vs. Humans:
"A prime distinction between humans and computers as
intelligence machines is that the computers can easily
excel as specialists, whereas the unique characteristic
of the human intellect which may never be approached is
that of the Universe-long complexity of feedback
comprehensivity which could only be matched by a complex
computer which had been building up its regeneratively
introduced variable strands braiding for a period of
several billion Earth years. This temporary human advantage
of a few billion years' lead is about to be widely
discovered and will be one of the prime strategic considera-
tionsof man's meager conscious contributuion to forward
events of universal evolution."
for citation and context see Computers as Specialists,
13 Aug '64

Feedback by Eye:
See Eye-beamed Thoughts

RBF DEFINITIONS
Feedback Lags:
"Universe is the sum total of all men's progressively
sensed, imaginable, and teleologically translated experience
by inherency of man's available circuit tuning limits and
relative feedback lags.... "
Citation at Tunability: Intra & Ultra, 1954

Feedback Lage:
See Thinking, 6 Nov' 73

Feeding & Flock of Sea Gulls:
See Cosmic Fish
Fisherman Theme
Mental Mouthfuls
(1)

Feeding a Flock of Sea Gulla:
See Mental Mouthfuls, 9 Jul'62
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Feedback:
"Norbert Wiener next invented the word 'feedback' to identify
discovery of biased error and its spontaneously-coped-with
over-correction. Governed by minimum-angular-error-maintain-
ing devices, such as gyroscopes governed by delicate hydro or
electrically actuated servomechanism connected to the powerful
rudder-steering mechanisms, these devices greatly reduce the
magnitude of rightward and leftward steering errors. In gyro-
scopes governed by servomechanisms, steering is accomplished
only by minimizing angular variance errors, and not by elimina-
ting them or pretending they do not exist. Gyro-steering pro-
duces a net wavilinear course, but always with errors of much
higher frequency and much shorter wavelength than those made by
the human handling of the rudder and the latter's inevitable
veerings left and right.
only through angle
"All designing of Universe is accomplished
and frequency modulation. The DNA-RNA codes found within the
protein shells of the viruses governing the designing of all the
species of all biological organisms in Universe consist only of
angle-and-frequency-modulated instructions."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Bro. Jos. Chula, P.4; 7 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Feedback:
Self-Accelerating Feedback:
"As the irreversible succession of self-regenerative human events--
Experiences, intuitions, experiments, discoveries and
productions--
Successively increases both the comprehensions and capability
options
The commonwealth of intercommunicated comprehensions
Produces and ever-evolving, subconsciously changing common sense.
Where syntropy is gaining over entropy, life prevails;
Where entropy is gaining over syntropy, death prevails.
Their exponentially regenerative birth-death interplay
Is describable in information theory
As 'self-accelerating feedback, '
And in nuclear physics it is manifest as 'chain reaction'
And in an even more comprehensive way
It is manifest pulsatingly, resonantly and propagatively,
As the irreversible regeneration of universal evolution.
Citation at Evolution (1)(2), May172
Cite
BRAIN & MIND,
'
px84 May 172

TEXT CITATIONS
Feedback:
"
"
Synergetics draft at Sec. 10C9.41, 10 Feb 73
1009.42,
"
"

Feedback Servomechanism:
See Information Control System
(1)

Feedback Servomechanism:
See Electronic Referendum, 9 Jan '75
(2)

Feedback:
See Computer
Epigenetic
Orbital Feedbacks
Pattern Cognition Feedback
Reading
Recall Playbacks
Telepathy
Two-way Feedback
Action-reaction Juxtapositions
Cybernetics
Trim Tab
(1)

Feedback:
See Computers as Specialists, 15 Aug 64
Conscious & Subconscious, 1960; Jun'66
Evolution, (1)(2)*
Industrial Complex, 13 Mar 73
Intellect, 1960
Intuition, 15 Jun 174
Manifest: Six, 1973
Mole: Industrial Man as Universal Mole, Jul*59
Ruddering Sequence (4) (5)
Jun '66
Subconscious Jun' 72
Telepathy,
Temperature of the Human Body (1)
Thinking, 1960; (A)(B)
Tunability: Intra & Ultra, 1954*
Twilight Zone, 1959
Computer Programming, May'49
Now House, (4)
(2)

Feedback:
See Feedback Circuitry
Feedback Comprehensivity:
Feedback by Eye
Feedback Laga
Computers vs. Humans
Feedback: Self-accelerating Feedback
Feedback Servomechanism
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Feeding Lota: Cattle Feeding Lots:
"Cattle feeding lots are another part of the pollution
game. They are also inhumane, adding fat at a few cents
a pound to sell at dollars a pound. Everybody is trying
to make money instead of trying to make sense."
Cite RBF to Engineers Meeting At H.U.D, Washington, 26 Jan 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Feel:
"We can hear, see, taste, smell and touch-feel."
Cite RBF on Synergetics draft, Sept. 1971, "Conceptuality.
Sensoriality: Sweepout."

15
RBF DEFINITIONS
Feeling Good: When You Feel Good You Feel Nothing:
"Bite your tongue
Get a cinder in your eye.
When you feel good,
You feel nothing."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, The Queen, May 170

Feeling Good:
(2)
121
See Health, 10 Oct'63
Invisible Architecture (E)
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning, 10 Oct'63
Costume, 14 Apr 70
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1)

Feeling Good:
See Tongue: Biting Your Tongue
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning
(1)

Feel: Feelings:
See Feeling Good
Set of Feelings
Unfeelable

Feet:
See Measurement, 6 Jun'69

Fellow Man:
See Biological Equation of Universe
Commonweal
Consideration for Others
Expense: Without Any Individual Profiting at the
Expense of Another
Golden Rule
Man: How Do You Really Serve Man
No License to Be of Service
Trespasing:
Not Trespassing
(1)

Follow Man:
See Individual Economic Initiative, 2 Jun'71
Naivete, Mar'66
Tomorrow, Feb'67
Intuition Sequence (1)
Pollution: Infinite Room to Pollute, 22 Jul 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fellowships:
Life Fellowships in Research and Development:
"The eduqtaion revolution requires the elimination of
exclusively academic tenure.
All of humanity must be given
life-long research fellowship tenure."
-
Cite RBF revision of "Ten Proposals for Improving the World,"
for EARTH, INC., New Delhi, Dec. '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fellowships: Life Fellowships in Research and Production:
"To take advantage of the fabulous magnitudes of real wealth
waiting to be employed intelligently by humans and unblock
automation's postponement by organized labor we must give
each human who is or become unemployed a life fellowship in
research and development or in just simple thinking.. Man must
be able to dare to think truthfully without fear of losing his
franchise to live. The use of mind fellowships will permit
humans comprehensively to expand and accelerate scientific
exploration and experimental prototype development. For every
100,000 employed inresearch and development, or just plain
thinking, one probably will make a breakthrough that will more
than pay for the other 99,999 fellowships. Thus, production
will no longer be impeded by humans trying to do what machines
can do better.'
- Citation and context at Earning A Living Sequence (2)(3), 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fellowships: Life Fellowships in Research and Development:
"They are comprehending increasingly that elimination of war
can only be realized through a design and invention revolution.
When it is realized by society that wealth is as much everybody's
as is the air and sunlight, it no longer will be rated as a
personal handout for anyone to accept a high standard of living
in the form of an annual research and devlopment fellowship."
Cite OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, p. 129, 1909

Fellowships: Life Fellowships in R & D:
See Lifetime:
Personal Lifetime Experience for
Elective Investment
Unemployment as Freedom to Think

Fellowships: Life Fellowships in R & D:
Sea Earning a Living Sequence, (2)(3)
Economic Accounting Sequence: Human Life-hour
Production, (1)
Population S quence, (5) (6)
Prospects for Humanity, 1 Feb'75
Office Buildings: Conversion to Apartments,
20 Sep' 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Female:
"The sweepout of the female is much less. She tends to stay
with the young and the old. She decides whether you are
going to skin it, milk it, or eat it... The consolidator of
the gains. 1
Citation and context at Sweepout, 17 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Female:
"Women and their clothes are like poets. They anticipate.
All options are open."
-
-Cite RBF quoted in Queen, May 170.
Citation at Option, May'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Female:
"The new life comes from the woman. The egg is in the woman,
so woman has physical continuity. Man is discontinuous.
This has great compatibility with the Universe. Women are
innately in tension, and men are in compression. The father
tends to specialization. The mother tends to be much more
comprehensive than man. Early man was the roving hunter or
the fisherman. Woman, staying near the hearth and cave, has
been the consolidator of the gains. When man brought in a
strange animal she decided whether to skin it, milk it, or
ride it. She is the differentiator. She put the children
and prisoners and old to work, ponding, weaving, and so on.
She invented industrialization. fr A
Cite RBF quoted in AAUW Journal, p. 178, May '65

KBF DEFINITIONS
Female:
"On meeting a female for whom I suddenly and surprisingly
discover that I have a string attraction, I don't tell her
and I do dismiss the inclination, but I don't pretend to myself
that I had no such thought."
Citation & context at Emotion, May'65

17
RBF DEFINITIONS
Female Leg:
"... The subconscious measuring capacity of man's eye
judges, at considerable distances, to a 64th of an inch
accuracy, the diameter of the female leg."
- Citation at
Invisible Architecture (1)(2), Aug164

Female:
See Girl
Male & Female
Kother
Woman
Womb Population
Women
(1)

Female:
See Emotion, May'65*
Fish: Playing the Fish on a Reel, 20 Apr* 72
Option, May 170*
Sweepout, 17 Oct' 72*
Primitive Regeneration, 27 Dec'74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fermi: Enrico: (1901-1954)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fermi Spaces:
"Fermi spaces.
will be made up of the concaves.
"
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 258, 11 Jul162

Ferrous & Nonferrous:
See Copper, 15 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fertilization:
"Engendering is a special case phenomenon that requires
fertilization. Fertilization is the sytemic differentiation
out of Universe which produces conceptually local Universe
marrying the macrocosm to the microcosm, which realizes a
new special case aystem event with its own set of insideness-
outsideness topological characteristitics."
- Citation & context at Hale & Female, 27 Dec '74

Fertility:
See Human Tolerance Limits, (4)

Fertilizer:
See Toilet, 28 Jun 72; 20 Sep* 76

Fibrous Crystalline Unita:
See Colloidal Chemistry, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fiction:
"Fiction? Approximately zero fiction.
enough fiction for me."
Life is
(In response to query on his reading habits.)
Cite RBF quoted by Peter Brown in St. Louis Post-
Dispatch, 5 Nov 169

Fiction:
See Novel
Fantastic
Parable
Yesterday's Textbooks
Legend
Myth
(1)

Fiction:.
See Fuller, R.B: The Thinking Me, 18 Dec' 76
(2)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Field:
"Einstein was up against trying to communicate with the
mathematicians in terms of mathematical models all of which
were-- and still are-- straight line, XYZ models on a linear
frame and with linear coordinates going outward from the
model to infinity. So 'field' was always a little set of
local perpendicular crossings of straight lines each otward
bound to an infinity of infinities.
"All the experimentally harvested information says that the
'field' must now be recognized as a complex of never-straight
lines which, at their simplest, always will be very great
circular orbits. And the orbits are all elliptical due to
the fact that unity is plural and at minimum two. There will
always be at least one other critical proximity aberration
with both of its diametric alterations of orbit."
[53,54]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1009.54,55, 14 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Field:
"As a cosmic generalized intertransformability system
field, our allspace filling synergetics matrix accommodates
and equates these behaviors. Allspace filling is a scenario:
the eternally selfregenerative scenario of cosmic integrity."
[28]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 780.29, 2 Nov'72

Fields of Actions:
See Domains of Actions, 21 Dec*71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Field of Cosmic Formabilities:
"Synergetics presents a picture of the multioptioned
operational field of cosmic formabilities, intertransforma-
bilities, and complementary interaccommodations within
which each human individual, his life, his world, is always
one way Universe could have turned out."
Cite RBF marginalis on EJA Memo. to Macmillan, 28 Jan 73
UNIVERSE SEC. 311.11.
-

Field Equations:
See Synergetic Hierarchy,

Field Lines:
See Fourth Dimension, 17 Nov 72

Field Modelability:
See Science Opened the Wrong Door, 30 Dec'73

Field of Omnidirectional Nothingness:
See Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (2)

Fields of Force:
See Patterning of Patternings, 1960

Field:
See Angular Field
Attractive Fields
Center of Field
Circumferential Field
Directional Field Pulls
Einstein: Unified Filed Theory
Electromagnetic Field
Energy Field
Frame of Reference
Geometry of Vectors
Gravitational Field
Inbound & Outbound Field
Information Field
Isotropic Vector Matrix Field
Invisible Muscular Field
Invisible Suspension Field
Magnetic Field
Matrix
Operational Field
Repelling Fields
(1A)

Field:
See Resonance Field
Spherical Field
Universal Integrity: Second-power Congruence of
Gravitational & Radiational Constants
Vector Equilibrium: Field of Energy
Verheld
Vectorial Geometry Field
Vector Equilibrium Field
Unified Operational Field
Yes-or-no Field
(1B)

Field:
(2)
See Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan' 74
Starting with Parts: The Nonradial Line, 29 Dec*73
Causality, Jan'77

Fields:
See Fields of Actions
Field Equations
Field of Cosmic Formabilities
Fielding
Field Lines
Fields of Force
Field Modelability
Field of Omnidirectional Nothingness
(3)
137

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fielding:
"...As in baseball fielding means to successfully intercept
the random event and convert it to orderly advantage.
-
Citation and context at Baseball, Dec'72

TEXT CITATIONS
Fifth Dimension:
202.01
206.00
527.50: 527.51-527.54
1234.03

Fifth Dimension:
See Powering:
Fourth & Fifth Dimensions

Fifteen:
See Great Circles: 15 Great Circles
Prime Number: First 15 Primes
Seven Axes of Symmetry
(1)

Fifteen:
(2)
See Aberration
Decimal &
Modelability, (4)
22 Jun 72
1960
Information Transaction & Valving Models, 9 Nov 73
Star Tetrahedron & VE, 9 Nov 73
Tetrahedron:
9 Nov 73
Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation,
Universal Joint: Tetrahedron, 9 Nov' 73
Triacontrahedron, 13 May' 77

Fifty-six Axes of Cosmic Symmetry:
See Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fighting:
"Despite the reflex conditioning governing past fighting,
the usual absence of fighting in respect to abundance discloses
that fighting is not an essential human characteristic despite
the fact that aggressiveness is
an essential of
intuitive curiosity."
-Cite Syracuse Address, p.45, 7 Nov'67

Figures & Words:
See Vitalistics, 1938

File Cards with Triangular Array of Holes:
See Cumulative Patterning Overlays
(1)

File Cards with Triangular Array of Holes:
See Pattern Generalization, (1)
(2)

File: Filing:
See Chronofile
Fuller, R.B. Indexing RBF Ideas
Fuller, R.b: Personal Research File Colors

Filled Set:
See Empty Set, 26 Kay'72

Film: Film Strip:
See Frame
Scenario
Motion Picture Continuity
Tetrascroll
Monometric Bubble
Membrane
(1)

Film: Film Strip:
See Finite, 2 Jun'71
Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec 73
Reflection Sequence: Apple, (1)(2)
Rolls, 20 Apr 172
Scenario Universe, 22 Apr 68
Self-regenerative, 2 Jun' 71
Tetrascroll, (1)
(2)

Finality:
See No Finality

RBF DEFINITIONS
Find:
"Man simply finds and employs. He does not put anything
into Universe."
-
Citation & context at Technology, Oct'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finger:
"...The convenience of the human's ten fingers
As memory augmenting,
Sequentially bendable,
Counting devices of serial experiences.'
"
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Numerology," Sec. 1210, Aug'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finger:
"Because man rotates he has fingers and toes.*
Citation and context at Rotate, 6 May'48

Finger: Cut Your Finger:
See Tongue: Bite Your Tongue

Fingerprints:
See Bertillon System
(1)

Fingerprints:
See Individuality, 10 Oct163
(2)

Finger-wrist Axia:
See Irreversibility, 4 May* 57

Finger: Fingers:
See Finger-wrist Axis
Hand with Fingers up as Symbol of Life
(1)

Einger: Fingers:
See Tactile Sequence, (1)
Mass, 12 May' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
*All inputs to the brain are finite."
Citation & context at Generalization & Special Caan, 20 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"...Men stop and start, sleep and wake, are born and die."
Citation and context at Integrity, 24 Jan'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"Experiences are either
involuntary (subjective)
or voluntary (objective) and all experiences, both
physical and metaphysical, are finite because each
begins and ends."
Gite SINGRUETTUS; "Universe," Sec. 302. 1971
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, Oct 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"Cosmic energy is finite."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 11. 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"The Universe can only be thought of competently in terms
of a great unending but finite scenario whose as-yet
unfilled film strip is continually self-regenerating."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 10.. 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"The surface of any system is finite-- that is, it
returns
returns
upon itself. Our Earth sphere is a system.
The
surface of any system such as the Earth is finite. It is
closed back upon itself. "
-CITE NEHRU SPEECH, p.18, 13 Nov'69

24
RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"Energy is finite."
Citation at Energy, 26 Sep'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"Endless does not mean infinite. A circle is finite.
The circle may be recyclically considered only as many
times as the observer's total life may accommodate.'
Citation at Endless, 22 Apr'68
eres Genfatt
Laws of Design, p. 2. 22 Apr'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"Finite" means "complete, but not terminal.
"
* Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE, 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"It is the nature of all our experiences that they
begin and end. They are packaged. For instance, we see
in 60 separate picture frames per second as in a moving
picture continuity. Each frame is a finite increment.
Our Brain's after image lag is so powerful that (it) gives
a sense of absolute 'eccentricity' to our only subconsciously
packaged 'seeing.' We wake up and go to sleep. Our
experiences are all finite because they all begin and end.
An agregate of finites is finite. Therfore the universe which
includes both physical and metaphysical is finite."
NASA Spruch, p. 32, Jun'66
->
Citation at Moving Picture Continuity, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
All physical experiments indicate that energy
can neither be created nor lost. Ther for
fore the energy of
Universe is finite."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 26, Jun'66

HF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
" . . in the early days of our twentieth century
we emerged into . an entirely new cosmological concept of
an inexhaustible, ergo finite physical Universe consisting
entirely of energy.
1
Cite NASA Speech, p. 25, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"The integrity of Universe is implicit in the
external finiteness of the circumferential set of vector
equilibrium which always encloses the otherwise divisive
internal radial set of omnidirectional vectors."
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium (I)
A
Gite Carbondale Draft
Return to Modelebility, pp. V.15
Cite NASA Speech, p. 83, Jun166.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"Finite is unique to Universe because it means
complete, but not terminal.
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 135 1960

HBF DEFINITIONS
Finite:
"The Universe is finite, and all its components
definable. Each life as we know it is definitve, 1.e.,
consists of a plurality of terminable, ergo definite,
experiences, beginning with each awakening and termi-
nating 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."
-
CIT INTRO
1959-
OMNIDIRECTIONAL
Citation & context at Universe (1)(2), 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite & De-finite:
"By the omnidirection, star-studded halo reasoning, the
development of a conceptual tetrahedron automatically changes
a negative yet invisible tetrahedron into the nonsimultaneous,
nonconceptual, finite Universe, comprehensive to the local
de-finite conceptual system."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 535.08, Nov'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Minus De-finite:
"Finite minus de-finite means four tetrahedra minus two
tetrahedra. Finite Universe equals eight cyclic unities.
Every tetrahedra equals two, having inside-outingness
oscillatory transformability unavailable to any structural
system other than the tetrahedron."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 535.03; Nov* 71

Finite & Definite: Finity & Definity:
See Complementarity, 10 Nov' 74
Halo Concept, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Event Scenario:
(1)
"Events are changes of interrelationships. Events are
changes of interrelationships between things in a system.
Events are changes of interrelationships between any one of
the separate 'thing' system's constituent characteristics--
a minimum thing has separable parts. A thing is always
special case. Special cases always have time-frequency
relative sizing, whereas the minimum system, the tetrahedron,
is generalized, prefrequency, sizeless, timeless, yet, concep-
tual, ergo, does not have separable parts, but--bing
primitive (timeless) --does have primitive fractionability
into structurally conceptual, timeless, omnirationally
accountable, symmetrical, differential polyhedra of the
cosmic hierarchy.
"The cosmic hierarchy is comprised of the tetrahedron's
inherent--four active, four passive--intertransformable inter-
relationships, all of which occur within the six primitive,
potential omnidirectional vectorial moves per each primitive
system's (timeless) event potential."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.31; 23 Jan '77
26

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Event Scenario:
"Nonunitarily conceptual but finite Scenario Universe's
only separate, differently enduring, and only overlappingly
occurring, conceptual episodes, their scenery, costumes,
and character parts--all being special case and temporal, are
each and all demonstrably separable, ergo finite, and only
altogether coordinate, to provide the ever-aggregating
finiteness of Scenario Universe's complex, nonsimultaneous,
ergo nonunitarily conceptual, episodes."
(2)
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.32; 23 Jan '77

Finite Event Scenario:
See Nonunitarily Conceptual
Scenario Universe

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Furniture:
" ... Finite experiences and finite experience furniture--
such as photons of light."
Citation and context at Thinking, 7 Nov'73

6
RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Furniture:
"Universe is finite
Because it is the aggregate
Of omni-finite
Local experiences.
All experiences begin and end.
Physics has found no continuums--
Has found instead only discrete and omni-separate
Finite quanta.
Meaningful segments
Of scenario universe
Are finitely furnished
With omni-finite experiences."
Cite RBF written amplifica-
tion of OMNIDRECTIONAL
HALU, p. 132 citation
Sarasota, Florida
11 February 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Furniture:
"All experiences are finitely furnished with
differentiated cognitions, recognitions and comprehensions.
The finite furniture consists of widely ranging degrees
of comprehensive constellar complexities.
A wide range
of time investment magnitudes must be assigned to the
respective considerations of the multitiude of different
constellar, experience-pattern comprehensions. 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
symbol entities.'
11
- Cit DIN DIPLINAL HALO
732-1960
Citation at Experience, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Furniture:
"Universe is finite because it is the sum total of finitely
furnished experiences."
(See Omnifinite, 11 Feb'71 for RBF rewrite of above.)
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.132, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Furniture:
"There is no experience without the finite furniture of
twoness."
Citation and context at Experience, Feb'50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Finite Furniture:
"All experiences are finitely furnished with differentiated
cognitions, recognitions, and comprehensions."
Citation & context at Experience, 1960

Finite Furniture:
See Furniture
Rearranging the Furniture
(1)

Finite Furniture:
See Experience, 1960*; Feb'50*
Omnifinite 11 Feb 71*
Thinking, Nov 73*
Nonsimultaneity, 7 Nov' 73
(2)

Finite Solutions:
See Unity: Complex & Simplex, 16 Oct 72; 15 Feb*66

Finite: Finity:
See Beginnings & endings
Circumferentially Finite
Closed System
Comet
Continuity-finiteness
Conceptual Finite
Conservation
De-finite
of Finite Universe:
Principle of
Eternal vs. Finite
Experience: Law of Conservation of
Infinite
Infinity & Finity
Limit
Maxima-minima
Minus Two
Moving Picture Continuity
Omnifinite
Inexhaustible = Finite
(1A)

Finite: Finity:
See Open Endings
Package: Packaged
Quantum
Unity: Complex & Simplex
Circumferential Finite vs Radial Infinite
Periodic Experience
(1B)

Finite:
See Comprehensive, 9 Jul'62
Definable, 1960'
Energy Event, 1960
Earth, 1965
Endless, 22 Apr168*
Energy, Jun'66; 26 Sep'68*
Experience, 1960*
God, May168
Hexagonal Vector Pattern, 8 May 172
Humans 8 Mar 73
Integrity, 24 Jan' 72*
In & Out, 19 Jun171
Line, 28 Jan'69
Magnetic Field, May149
Metaphysical & Physical, Jun'67; Oct'71*
Moving Picture Continuity, Jun'66
Plurality, 5 Mar'55
Polyhedron, 20 Feb 73
Quantum Mechanics, Jun'66
Generalization & Special Case, 20 Jan'75
(2A)

Finite:
See Somethingness, 16 Nov 72
Structure, 29 Dec 58; 19 Jun'71
Time Quality, 19 Jun'71
Undefinable. Oct'66
Universe, (i)(2)*
Vertex. 1955
Vector Equilibrium:
System, 27 May 72
Field of Energy,
(A)
Structural System, Nov'71
Space, 9 Feb 76
(2B)

Finite:
See Finite & De-finite
Finite Minus De-finite
Finity & Definity
Finite Event Scenario
Finite Furniture
Finite Solutions
137
(3)

RUF DEFINITIONS
Fire:
(A)
"... I find that even in peacetime when man was homesteading,
going out to open up their land. And he came under tenting
and very temporary form of shelter until he got to a site
where they were going to commit themselves. The thing that
really counted was getting the seeds in the ground, something
to grow so they could eat next winter. The high priority is
seed and growing things. You keep living under wraps as best
you can. And on the way there you've been hunting and have
a lot of food. But now you're so busy clearing the fields
of rocks and getting the seed in the ground, your wife says,
'Darling the meat is beginning to spoil now,' and so we've
got to build a fire and at least cauterize it-- it lasts a
little longer. This meant then that people in the fields
began to build fires; and making fire took an awful long
time you didn't have time for that you were so busy with
the field. So you keep that fire going, and I'm clearing
wood out of the fields here; so you've got plenty of wood.
Just keep burning that wood. Well, that makes smoke in
the sky and that gathered often hostile strangers here.
brought animals at night. So the built kind of a chimney
around it so it was easier to keep that fire going.
It got
a lot of rock out of the fields; there was a lot of rock
around and they used that to make a temporary chimney.
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p. 10, 20 Apr 172
It

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fire:
(B)
"And then you began to make a stockade around so that the
wild animals couldn't get at you, naturally, or strangers.
So you got a stockade and you got a chimney in the middle.
Then when you first had a little time you took some more
trees around, and ran some logs from the stockade to the
chimney. You got a roof on this. The wind is going to be
coming now. But the building was always on the antipriority.
How do you get nature to keep you going. You don't know why
the little thing grows into big things, but it does, and you've
just got to take advantage of that fact. You realize that
even in the peacetime building was an antipriority-- something
you did only in off moments."
(Slightly edited)
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.10,20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINIONS
Fire:
"Fire turned out to be just swift oxidation separating
the air into separate constituents."
-
Gite ADF to EIA, 1200 Idaho, wash DC, 1 Oct. 171
Citation and context at Lavoisier, 1 Oct 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fire:
"Fire is a way of gaining access to stored solar
energy, of extending the internal oxidation of the body
metabolism to provide an external source of heat, pre-
digest food, etc.-- also
providing one of our most durable
symbols in the process."
Cite WORLD DESIGN SCIENCE DECADE
Technological Systems
Phase II, Document 6, P. 53
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fire:
"Fire is an accelerated combining process of
oxygen combining with carbohydrates in ever-constant
arithmetical proportion."
Cite DESIGN FOR SURVIVAL-- PLUS, Jan 49
Cite I&I, PT 188
Citation and context at Science, Jan'49

Fire:
Man Trampling His Fellow Men to Death in a Fire:
See Scarcity: Not Enough to Go Around, May 70
Human Tolerance Limits, (2) (3); (c)

Fire in a Theater:
See Air is Socialized, Feb167
Human Tolerance Limits, (2)(3); (C)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fireplace Log:
Q:
RBF:
"So eventually we'll be getting all our heat and
energy to run machines totally from the Sun?"
"We always have. Fossil fuels are from the Sun.
You put a log in the fireplace and watch it burn.
In every minute you burn up a year. It took a year
to impound that. You are just unwinding the years.'
Cite RBF quoted in Orilla, Opt. Packet-Times, 7 Nov'74
29

FbF DEFINITIONS
Fireplace Log:
"When we see a log burning in the fireplace we see how very
fast a hundred years unrolls before us-- how fast we are
unwinding time. As it burns from one annual ring to the
next the stored up sunlight of one hot summer month may flare
up in an instant. So the fire in our fireplace has been
sent here-- telegraphed by radiation-- from the Sun and
stored these many years."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 23 Aug'71

Fireplace Log:
See Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr* 77

Fireproof Warehouse of Civilization:
See Civilization, May' 44

29
RBF DEFINITIONS
Fireworks:
The concept of Scenario Universe
As an aggregate
Of nonsimultaneous,
Complexedly frequencied,
And only partially overlapping
Ever and everywhere
Methodically intertransforming
events
Is superbly illustrated by an evening
Of overlappingly frequenced fireworks.
$E = MC^2$
And
C + AL +2
Experimentally conceptualized
By those partially overlapping
Fireworks events
As one rocket is blasted off
Before the previous rocket's
Unique display has been completed
And both a moving picture camera
And a tripodded still camera
Can be set
With their lenses left open
66
Cite INTUITION, pp.48-49 May 172
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fireworks:
"To register the whole evening's
Fireworks program
Both as a scenario
And as single, composite, static pictures
of all the light patternings
That took place
Against the black void of sky.
"And the synergetic relationships
Of the scenario footage
And the 'still' photographs
Together may become
The basic experimental evidence
of fundamental self-education.
For the omnidirectional light-wave growth sphere
Increases as the second power
Of the linear speed of light.
clinear speed of all radiation
$c^2$ = radiant growth rate of a spherical wave.
The radiant light discloses the
Cite INTUITION, pp.49-50 May '72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fireworks:
"Trajectory lines of the successive
Rocket blast-offs
Whose trajectory lines = L
Cross one another = C
As the local 'burst' lines
Complexedly define areas = A
And the whole fireworks
Demonstrate the patterning
Of Einstein's Universe as a Scenario Universe--
Of 'nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping
Transformation events.'
Again q.e.d.
"And the black void
Nothingness of night
Backdropping the fireworks
Is the omnipresent
A priori mystery.
And the real beginning of education
Must be the experimental realization
Of absolute mystery.
- Cite INTUITION, p.50 May '72
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fireworks:
"Four nonsimultaneous rocket bursts with visually
overlapping patterns. (See diagram) Their four stars
constitute the four vertices of a tetrahedron-- the
fundamental quantum of universe's structuring. There is
a tetrahedral structural
inter-
relationship between (1) the day before yesterday, (2)
yesterday, (3) today and (4) tomorrow. Though we
speak of them as "the four balls in the air"-- main-
tained there successively by a juggler using five balls
to do his trick-- they are not the same balls and the
four are never in the same positions; nonetheless
there are always, and only, six fundamental inter-
relationships between "the four balls in the air,
1.e., ab, ac, ad, bc, bd, cd; a,b,c,d, are
non-simultaneous events.
Universe
"
structures most frequently consist of the physical
interrelationship of non-simultaneous events.
Because of the fundamentalnon-simultaneity of
universal structuring, a single, simultaneous, static
model of universe is inherently both "nonexistent,
conceptually impossible," as well as "unnecessary.
1
1965
cite KEPES

Fireworks:
See Four Stars
Star Events
(1)

Fireworks:
See Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, 28 Jan'73
(2)

Fire:
(1)
See Fireplace Log

Fire:
See Lavoisier, 1 Oct 71*
Precession (b); (II)
Science, Jan'49*
Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr' 77
(2)
123

Firmament:
See Cosmic Structuring, (1)(2)

First Subdivision of Universe:
See System, 24 May'72
Thinkable Sat, 1 Feb 75
Nonsimultaneity, 7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fiscal Year:
"Fiscal year means basket year."
Cite RBF to Henny Liberman, NY Times, 22 Jun 72

Fiscal Year:
See Good & Evil Sequence, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fish: Playing the Fish on A Reel:
"... This is how man began to have greter tensile capability.
And with this greater tension capability... I've equated
compression with man's force, and his resisting force
with just massive stone... Comparing this to cranium tension
with the intellectual, or learning tensile.
"And the things are the difference between trying to jump
overboard and push a fish out of water with a spear versus
having a tension cable. A very delicate cable. You play
the fish and gradually reel him in. I find women are tensive.
en tend to be compressive. Women know how to reel people in--
know how to play them on a tension line."
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, pp. 18-19, 20 Apr 172

Fish: Playing the Fish on a Reel;
See Male & Female, May'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fisherman Theme:
"Out of the a priori mystery
From time to time
Mind fishes a new
Generalized principle,
Which though absolutely unique
Always addommodates and integrates
With all the previously discovered
Generalized Principles."
-
Cite INUTIION, p.43, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fisherman Theme:
"...Inspecting the literature just before this man made
his great discovery, and he didn't know he was going to
make this great discovery, at the time, and for a very
short time afterwards. . looking to see if he could
find anything in common between all the cases of these
great discoveries and he found two commonalities. Every
one of them makes it clear that the most important single
factor in his great discovery was intuition. And then they
say the second greatest factor was the second intuition
about 45 seconds later: about what to do about the discovery
you have just made. before the fish gets off the line.
You don't really catch it in this society until you start
realizing how important it really is. And you can't light
a cigarette, because you've got to go to work.
That you did a half hour later didn't make any difference.
either caught it or you lost it."
You
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 44, 19 Oct 170

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Fisherman Theme:
See Cosmic Fish
Intuition: Second Intuition
Idea Increments
Mental Mouthfuls
(1)

Fisherman Theme:
See Female, May170
Intuition Sequence (6)
(2)

Fishing Pole Salesman:
See Fuller, R.B: RBF Modus Operandi, Feb'73

Fish:
See Guppy
Porpoise
Whale
Salmon

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fissionability:
"Structural stability does not occur until the third layer.
Fissionability is impossible until the third layer.
and four of the balls from the square faces are knocked out.
Then you have external concavity.
asymmetrical."
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 23 August 1971.

Fission:
See Chain Reaction
(1)

Fission:
See Fourth Dimension, 6 May 48
Radiation, Feb'71
Superatomics Sequence, (4)
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy Of,
(2)
(2)

Fist:
See Hand in Fist as Symbol of Survival Needs

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fitting:
"...Indeterminism prohibits any exact measurement or any
absolut by exact physical agreement of mechanical or
structural fitting,"
-
Citation and context at Measurement (1)

Fit: Pressured or Tensed Fit:
See Angle: Pumping Fraction Factors, 15 Mar'48

Fit: Fitting:
See Nice, 29 Jul*76

KBF DEFINITIONS
Five:
"The vector equilibrium and the icosahedron are the prime number
five polyhedra; the multiplicative, concave-convex
twoness: 2 x 5 - 10."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 960.13, 20 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fiveness:
"The fundamental fiveness of the icosahedron is split two
ways with 2 going one way (the outside-out way) and 2
going the other way (the inside-out way)."
(This refers to the least common denominator
spherical triangular 'tiles'.)
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1053,13, 7 Mar' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fiveness:
"In the icosahedron we get to a very prominent
fiveness, that is, around every vertex we always can
count five."
->
Cite Carbondale Draft
Naturals Coordination, p. VI.29
GREGON LECTURE #7. p. 244
11 Jul 62

Five: Fiveness:
See Eternal Pattern Integrity:
Frequency: Half Frequency
Hand as Five
Icosahedron
Powering: Fifth Dimension
Vector Equilibrium
Six - Five = One
Three & Five
Sphere: Synergetics Formula for the Volume
Of a Sphere
(1)

Five: Fiveness:
(2)
See Basic Triangle:
17 Dec 173
Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle,
Integer, 15 Oct 72
Minimum Volume, 18 Jun'71
P1, 30 Dec'73
Split Persoanlity, 15 Jan'74
Synergetics, 29 Nov 72
Interval, 6 May 48
Wave & Particle Definability, 27 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fix:
"When two traceries cross one another we get a fix. Fixes
give geographical locations in respect to the system upon
which the topological aspects appear.'
Citation & context at Vertexes, Faces & Linea, 1 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fix:
"A point fix is a potential embryo consideration, a potential
thought, a potential system."
->>
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 510.01, 6 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fix:
It can be just an angle, which
It is a fix. No module."
"Zero power is the fix.
is subcyclic.
Citation at Powering:
Zero Power, 14 Oct 72
Cite HBL to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 14 866172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fix:
"Fixes consist of both angular and dimensional observations."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 513.02, 25 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fix:
*Fixes consist of both angular and dimensional observations. "
or
"Coincidental angle and dimension observations provide fixes."
WAVILINEARITY: FIXES 520.03.
RBF corrections to Synergetics draft
Chicago, 25 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fix:
"Calculus treats discretely and predictively with
frequency rates and
discrete directions of angles of change of the
omnicurvilinear event quanta's successively recurring
positionings: fixes."
de
Cit RBF, SYNERGETICS Draft, Mar. 171.
WARLINEARITY: FIXES SEC 520.02)
-

Fixes, Discontinuities & Continuities:
See Events, Novents & Event Interrelationships
Crossings, Openings & Trajectories
Joints, Windows & Struts
Points, Areas & Lines
Vertexes, Faces & Edges

Fix: Fixations: Fixity:
See Celestial Position Integrity
Crossing
Local Fixity
Locus Fix
Static Fixations
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid
Vector Center Fix
Vertex
Vertexial Connections
Chemical Bonds: Triple Bond
Cornerability
(1)

Fix: Fixations: Fixity:
See Chemical Bonds, Feb'71
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov'72
Powering: Zero Power, 15 Oct172*
Self-now, 1938
Nonpolar Points, 29 Nov 172
Spheric Domains, 6 Nov' 72
Surface, 17 Feb 72
Vector, 16 Dec 73
Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian, 2 Jun 74
Geometry of Vectors, 15 Jun '74
Navy Sequence (1)
Vertexes, Faces & Lines, 1 Jan*75*
Vectorial Orientation, Kar'71
Minimum Limit Case, 12 May 75
Nature in a Corner, 12 Nov' 75
(2)

Flagpole:
See Mast in the Earth

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flat:
Flatness:
"No surface is conceivable without its inherent sphere
as,a flat Universe is contradictory to experience."
Cite Noah's Ark, p. 3. 1950

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flat:
"No sphere is large enough to be flat."
Citation and context at Dynamic, 1950

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flat:
"Flat is a confined triangle phenomenon. "
Citation and context at Dynamic, 1950

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flat:
Almost Flat:
"The transformational projection model coupled with the
spheric experience data prove that a finite minima and a
finite maxima do exist because a flat is exclusively unique
to the area confined within a triangle's three points. The
almost flat occurs at the inflection points between spheric
systems' inside-outing and vice versa, as has already been seen
at the sphere's minima size-- and that at its maxima the moment
of flatness goes beyond approximate flatness as, at the
minima phase to satisfy the four triangle mnimum 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. The continually
transforming from inside-out to outside-in, finitely, is
consistent with dynamic experience.'
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 110624, 26 Jan'73

TEXT CITATIONS
Flat vs. Curved:
Synergetics, 2nd. Ed. Sec. 1053.71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flatland:
18
The fork in the road that the Greeks took to
Flatland. Their vases were done on non-Flatland.
their geometry was flat."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 1 Oct. '71.
Just

Flatland:
See Geometry, 1 Oct'71

Flat-out Projection:
See Omnidirectional Typewriter
(1)

Flat-out Projection:
(2)
See Normal to Universe, 10 Sep' 74
Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial Sphere (10)
Synergetics, 15 Jun'74
Spherical Tetrahedron, 10 Sep174
Varaibles: Theory Of, Nov'71

Flats & Sharps:
See Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (2)

Flat Spiral:
See Triangle, (a)

Flat: Flatness:
See Plane
(1)

Flat: Flatness:
See Dynamic, 1950
Navy: Theory of, 22 Dec 174
Prime Structural Systems, 3 Nov'75
Trigonometry, 18 Jul176
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fleet of Sailboats:
"When a fleet of one-of-a-kind racing sailboats is performing
they usually are beautiful to watch unless one is being
incompetently sailed. The winner often appears the most
beautiful because it is most inspiredly and capably sailed.
The winning boat of yesterday's race may be sailed today by
an incompetent careless helmsman and appear ugly though it is
the same boat which yesterday appeared to be so beautiful.
So too will the architecture of the new era be the inadvertent
qualities and attitudes manifest directly or indirectly by its
occupants. While one of two identically designed dwellings
may appear beautiful because of its dweller's competence and
consideration for others, the identical dwelling may appear
ugly because selfishly and incompetently occupied."
->
Citation and context at
(F), Aug'72
Invisible Architecture,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fleet of Sailboats:
"When... complexities are viewed in reverse, from the
advantage of even the most mathematically supersuper- inter-
ference, the whole regains the acceptable sublimity of aspect,
such as a fleet of little ocean racers 100 miles off Bermuda
strugling with the waves of interference of the Atlantic
turning the perversely interfering winds to advantage by
virtue of the relative inertia of the relative waves of water,
eventually to pass Bermuda, as the whole picture is observed
from the airplane and its infinitude of subcomplexities.
"
-
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, May'49

Fleet: Fleet of Boats:
See Ships: Fleet of Ships Needs More Room at Sea than
In Harbor

Flesh: Animal Flesh:
See Cartilage vs. Bone
Coll
Life Cells
Tissue Cells
Human Beings & Hard Nachinery
(1)

Flesh: Animal Flesh:
See Life is Not Physical, 11 Sep' 73
Matter, 3 Oct 72
Twenty Questions, (1)
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegrities, (8)
(2)

Flexible vs. Inflexible:
See Vectors & Tensors, 19 Oct' 72

Flexible: Flexibility:
See Flexible vs. Inflexible
Necklace
Tensor
(1)

Flexible: Flexibility:
See
Paolo,
Soleri 10 Sep' 75
Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model, 23 Beb'72
(2)

Plica Eyes:
See Invention, 3 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flight:
(a) "The flight is continuous.
"
(b) "People say, 'How was your trip?' But the trip is constant.
It's a very local pattern compared with Earth going around
the Sun at 60,000 mph which it does so very competently
that we don't tend to think of it."
->
-
Cite (a) RBF response to Mary Anne Kenner on greeting him
at Friendship airport with the query, "How was
your flight? 3 Oct 73
Cite (b) RBF in Johns Hopkins lecture, baltimore, 3 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flight:
"Flight was the discovery of the lift-- not the push."
-
Citation and context at Order, 1971

Flight: Fixed Formation Flight:
See Twin-spin: Earth & Moon Flying Twin-spin Formation
Flying Huddle
Group Coordination
(1)

Flight: Fixed Formation Flight:
See Photon, 26 Sep 73
Sun, May 72
Twenty-foot Earth Globe and 200-foot Celestial
Sphere, (1) (2)
Constellar, May' 71
(2)

Flight:
See Air Delivery
Airplane Flight as Lift
Flying
Vertol
Duck Flying
Gull Flying
(1)

Flight:
See Darwin, (^),
Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (1)(2)(4)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Floating City:
"In due course there would be my floating cities. Strange as
it may be, they are impractical to build on Earth due to the
gravitational effects and the winds. As a consultant to the
advanced structures team at NASA we developed a geodesic sphere
two miles in diameter. But this is really a delicate network--
ball to ball-- and they would be centrifuged in space, weight-
lessly; and in that form they are going to be crystallized.
They will be locally loaded.
"If you have sphers a mile in diameter then you can fortify
them to any extent you want, but when you let it down into the
atmosphere, it would be like a ping-pong ball landing in
Niagara Falls. Because of its structure we would have it
reflecting, so it would reflect its heat out and the structure
would weigh so little that it would be lighter than the
atmosphere around it. It is simply a cloud-- just the way
clouds float in the sky because they dismiss the heat outwardly.
But they are a practical thought: Housing in Space."
Cite Tape #3, pp.14-15; RBF to W. Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun'74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Floating City:
"To those who inquire as to whether we do not get discouraged
by the delays
we point out that it is a law of wave mechanics*
that the
biggest waves are the least frequent. The floating
city is a big step forward and its healthy gestation takes
time. There is
no use in working in the frontier if you are
overimpatient."
Cite SET"Y", p.4,Aug 72
(N.B., Above para omitted from WORLD, "Floating Cities,"
19 Dec 72.)

20
Floating City:
See Dome: Rationale for the Big Dome
Space Structures
Skybreak Bubble
(1)

Inventability Sequence (1)
Floating City:
621
(2)

Floor:
See Now House, (2)

Flow:
Fountain Flow
See Fountain Pattern:
Reverse Fountain Flow

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flower:
"We tend to applaud only the flower and the fruit
-
Citation and context at Organic Model, Oct 66

Flower:
See Petal: Three-petaled Flower Bud
Bud
Lily
(1)

Flower: Flowers:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)
Naivete, 1 Feb'75
Teleology, (1)(2)
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fluidity:
"To Sonny Applewhite: Who has tasted considerably of the
fluidity, not only of the geography of the earth but of
manmade circumstances, and above all the pervasive fluidity
of heart-intellect-and-faith!"
(I suspect the above contains an implicit or
subliminal reference to the dry martini cocktail-- EJA)
-
Cite RBF inscription to EJA in presentation copy of FLUID
GEOGRAPHY, 18 June 1946.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fluidity:
"You were doing the testing. It wasn't testing you."
(RBF to EJA in reviewing the 18 Jun'46 inscription
conceded that alcohol as well as my six years in
the Navy, was part of what he meant to embrace in
the reference to "fluid.")
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 15 Oct 72

Fluid Geography:
See Dymaxion Airocean World Map
Transformational Projection

Fluid: Fluidity:
See Education, May'49
(2)

Fluid: Fluidity:
See Force-fluid
Hydraulica
Liquid
Fountain Pattern: Fountain Flow
(1)

Fluttering:
See Chemical Bonds, May' 72

Flux Pattern:
See Hourglass
(1)

Flux Pattern:
See Magnetic Field, May 49
(2)

Flying Bedstead:
See Jet Stilts, 2y Jan'75

Flying Huddle:
See Critical Convergence & Flying Huddle

Flyable Logistics:
See Airspace Technology, 20 Sep' 76

Flying Slippers:
See Starting with Universe, 15 Aug'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fly's-eye Domes:
"Fly's-eye domes are beautiful energy traps."
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop 77; Phila., PA; 21 Jun'77

Flying:
See Instruments:
Bird's Wing
Flight
Science Blind Flying 'On Instruments'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flywheels:
"It is deliberately obscure for the New York Times to
describe flywheels [30 Nov' 757 as 'stroing inertial energy.
"The wheels are inert only when motionless.
Flywheels
don't store energy; they articulate energy. They are
energy-articulate.
"The flywheel--like the congruent unity of single, double,
triple, quadruple, and eightfold bonded vectors and vertices
of topology--are superficially very deceptive. The same
size wheel whose rate of revolutions is so high as to seem
motionless may be active energy of many magnitudes--sometimes
so great that the flywheels explode."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; 11 Dec175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Flywheel:
"Present experiments show that flywheels-- as enery accumu-
lators can be employed efficiently in connection with
variable winds to drive generators. The water and air waves
circulating around our planet are also energy accumulatora
whose captured energy may be used to generate electrical,
pneumatic, and hydraulic power systems.'
"
Citation and context at Wind Power Sequence (B), 25 May'73

Focal Center:
See Event Center: Event Embryo: Event Foci
(1)

Focal Center:
See Nonpolarized, 12 Nov'75
(2)

Focal Event Infratunable System:
See Nonpolarized, 12 Nov 75

Focal Manifest:
See Syntropy & Entropy, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Focus:
"All the interrelationships of system foci are conceptually
representable by vectors."
Citation and context at Polyhedral Systems, 25/2 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Focus:
"Radiation is outwardly focusable."
-
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. 870, August 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Focus:
". . .A sphere is an aggregate of energy event foci
approximately equidistant in all directions from approx-
imately 'one' energy event focus. This is a system
in which the most economical relationships between
embracingly adjacent foci are the great circle chords
and not the arcs."
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec 811.2, "Compound Curvature,"
U. Mass., Amherst. 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Focus:
Foci:
"Ins are foci. Foci are in, because focusable, but
always, as entropy shows us, temporary. Relationships
exist between the ins because they are focusable.
is not really packaged."
'Out'
Citation at In, 1 Jun'71
Cite RBF to EJA, Chisage, Lime 1977.

RBF DEFINITIONL
Focus:
"Radiation can be focused; gravity cannot be focused."
Euensota, Florida
7 rebruary 1971
Citation & context at Radiation-Gravitation, 7 Feb'71

Focus Angular Shunting:
See Shunting: Relative Motion Patterns (1), 1 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Focus
-
Beamable Wirable:
"The excess two poles permit omniradially propagated waves or
energy to be polarly focused, ergo beamable, or wirable by
conductors.
"
Citation & context at Gravitational Constant, (2), 1 Apr* 72

Focal: Foci: Focus:
See Beamable:
Beaming
Event Center: Event Embryo: Event Foci
Local Focus
Polar Focus
Man is the Focus
Restraint Focus
(1)

Focus: Foci: Focal:
See Domain, 22 Jun '72
Gravitational Constant (2)
Gravity, 23 Sep 73
In, 1 Jun 71*
Interrelationships, 1971
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov'72
Lever (I)
Minimum Set, 18 Nov'72
Omniorientation, 29 Dec'58
Package, 23 Sep 73
Point, Apr '72
Polyhedral Systems, 25 May 72*
Radiation-gravitation, 8 Mar 73; 7 Feb'71*
System, 29 Dec 58
Tides, 19 Jun171
Two Kinds of Twoness, (C)
Geodesic Sphere, (1)
Considerable Set,
11859
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 7 Novi 73
Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas, (1)
(2)

Foetus:
See Abortion, 13 Jul 74

For Gun:
See Wichita House, (2)

Fog-shrouded Navigator:
See Ignorance, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Foldability:
"The foldability of the great circles and their identification
with wave phenomena is one of the uniqe discoveries of
synergetics."
Cite SYNERGLTICS Sec. 250.10 1971

SYSTEM
RBF DEFINITIONS
Foldability of Great Circles:
"Wave phenomena always being cyclic
I began to take
whole circles. I could take four complete circles and
fold them in such a manner as to make bow ties, and they
fasten together and make the great circles. Everyone of
the 25 and 31-- making a total of 56-- can be made by
folding. You simply do your spherical trigonometry, your
central angles. . . sometimes a four-part bow tie and some-
times a two-part bow tie. They go together and you can
re-establish them, the biw ties together, corner-to-corner,
and they make a whole sphere again and you can see the 15
great circles, you can see the 10 great circles, and so
forth. .
They turn out to be only great circles.
no other way I can take a great circle and fold it, because
everyone of the fundamental symmetries of both the
icosahedron and the vector equilibrium are foldable into
great circles where the energy instead of going cyclic
around the whole system, can go around in a figure eight,
for instance-- or it can go around in 15 great circles.
In the 15 great circles you find they again disconnect and
they go around very locally on the surface of the icosahedron.
When you make up the icosahedron you find them in strange
little curlicues and they're very asymmetrical."
There's
SEC 453.05 - Cite KBF transcript of Chabondale Tape, BO'R + DK, 2 Fay '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Foldability of Great Circles:
"This may be pure accident but I could say something to
you now categorically that is really very fascinating,
that is, I found that you cold fold and make all the
25 and 31 great circles. There are no other circles though
that I know how to fold an make any other kind of great
circle patterns on spheres. They and they alone seem
to be foldable into these conditions. This seems to be
a very strange kind of control because if they did they all
relate, they are the ways of the grand central station
and all the shortest, most economical railroad tracks
between all the points in Universe-- flying either concave
or convex.
"
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 271. 11 Jul162
SYSTEM
SECS, 453.03-061

RBF DEFINITIONS
Foldability of Great Circles:
Spherical Vector Equilibrium:
"Here I am taking a great circle and folding it on its
60-degree angle, and we fold down, up, up, and down, up, up,
and it comes together and makes this bow tie.
You bring
these corners together and join those edges. And you take
four sets of these and they make the vector equilibrium.
So, the fewest great circles can be folded up and made into
bow ties and reassociated and then, even though you made
them into a local bow tie, it seems to re-establish to all
the great circles. You can play the game either by going
around this way or by going around in a local figure eight.
Either one is legitimate. These are very typical
characteristics of fundamental wave phenomena.
JVL
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 269, 11
162
SYSTEM
-SECS 453.03-061

RBF DEFINITIONS
Foldability:
Six Cases of Foldability of Great Circles:
"There are six cases of folding employed in the proof of
sixthing of the circle-- or hexagoning the circle. Case 1
is a limit case with congruence of all the diameters."
Cite RBF note to EJA with sketch incorporated in SYNERGETICS
at Sec. 831.31, 22 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Foldability:
Seven Great Circles That Are Foldable:
"I will give you the design of the crystallogicals.
We find seven fundamental symmetries" and they relate
to the "seven great circles that are foldable."
-
Cite RBF tape transcript, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago,
pp. 8-9, 1 Jun 171
SEVEN AXES
OF SYMMETRY-
SEC. 1042.04)

Foldability of Great Circles:
See How Ties
Railroad Tracks:
Foldability
Great-circle Energy Tracks:
Seven Fundamental Symmetries
Sym
Seven Axes of Symmetry

Foldability of Great Circles:
See Circle, 31 May171
Frequency: Alternate Wavelength, 19 Apr 73
Octahedron, 7 Mar' 73
O Module, 29 Sep' 76
(2)

Fold: Foldable: Folding:
See Infolding
Unfolding
Petal
Bow Tie Foldability
Great Circle Foldability
(1)

Fold:
Foldable: Folding:
See Modules: A Quanta Module & Basic Triangle,
20 Dec 73
Plastics, 10 Aug170
Tetrahedron:
Now House, (1)
Coordinate Symmetry, May'67
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (2)
Triacontrahedron, 13 l'ay' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Food Production:
"What we have now in these vital statistics is a look at
what we've got on Earth right now. What we've found in our
research is that the
materials of the Earth are there; we
don't have to
create the materials of the Earth. What we
have to
do is to increase the efficiency with which the
materials
are used. It just comes home every time that it's
the metaphysical
that has to be altered; not the physical.
The
physical is always there. . .
"There is enough land, if we work the land in the same way
Japan works it, in which
they're feed six-and-a-half people
per acre;
whereas in the United States we feed about one per
acre. If
we could duplicate that efficiency factor all over
the Earth,
we actually would feed the people; but the
problem is always the electrical power; it's always the
necessity of processing the food and getting the food to the
people.
It's fine to grow it in this area, but if you can't
store it,
you can't feed the people who are living in the
other area
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun- 31 Jul169,
from Saturn Film
transcript, Sound 2, Part 2 + 3, pp.51-53

Food:
Food Production:
See dare Maximum
Eating
Feed
Metabolic Flow
Vegetable Crop Harvesting
Human Food Waste
Farmer Brown
Agrarian Metabolics
Agriculture
(1)

Food:
Food Production:
See Air, 26 Sep'68
Human Tolerance Limits, (1)(3)(4)
Alcohol, 1946
Human Unsettlement, (1) (2)
Human Tolerance Limite, (A)-(D)
Subconscious, 20 Feb'77
(2)

Football: Football Player:
See Between the Halves
Education: Evolutionary Touchdowns
Forward Pass
Ignorance as Quarterback
Quarterback:
Lineman
We Applaud the Quarterback and not the

Force Center:
See Energetic Frequency
Internuclear Vector Kodulus
Nucleus

Force Diagram as Music Stand Form:
See Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (3)

Force Diagram:
See Four-dimensional Force Diagram

Force Distribution:
See Force Lines
Load Distribution

Force-fluid:
See Insinuatability, 6 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Force Lines:
Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
(1)
"One of the concepts of plane geometry goes along with
something we are told quite early, when getting into
physics, and that was that when we get the lines of force,
when we get into the parallelogram of forces.
de get
Galileo's concept of two ships running into each other.
One ship: we will take what its weight is-- it is ten tons
and it is making ten knots, so we will multiply ten tons times
ten knots and it is going east so we have 10 x 10, which
is 100. So we have a line 100 units long going east on
the pattern on the map on the table here. Then we have
another ship going 20 knots and weighing 20 tons so we
multiply 20 x 20 and get 400. So we have a line 400 units
long, instead of 100, and it is going north. We have
these two ships run into each other, and by Galileo's
diagram of forces, we have two lines, one going east and
one north. And we make two lines parallel to them of
equal length. Then we make a diagonal from the point of
running into each other to the opposite corner of the
parallelogram, and we take that same line and extend it
outwardly from the point and we said that that was the
resutant of forces. This is _ a game we played on
a plane. One thing that interested me very much when I"
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 105-106, 5 July '62

RBF DEFI.ITIONS
Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
(2)
"got into the Naval Academy, particularly when I went to
sea,
is that when two ships ran into each other, they didn't
waltz off north-northeast 12 miles together. One of them
usually went into the center of the Earth. And that wasn't
in the diagram. So I felt that to give me that kind of
elementary education was not a kindly form of simplification.
It was absurd. I felt there was a place where Universe
just started operating and that was where she always
operated. We were operating omnidimensionally, and we
might as well find out, if we could, what the minimum set
of forces operating were-- and where, and how, and why,
and whatever was interference did what it did."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 106, 5 July 162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Force Lines:
Omnidirectional lines of Force:
You
"I was told in school about Galileo's parallelogram of
forces. It was drawn on a plane where you saw one body
running at a certain velocity in a given direction.
multiplied its weight times its velocity and that made
the length of the line; we called such a force line a
vector. Then we had another body which was on collision
course with the first moving body, which we had vectored.
And you took the second moving body's weight times its
velocity and that was the length of the second line or
And the second body also was going in a unique
and discretely identified compass direction. You had
these two moving bodies come together and then you made
two other lines parallel to the first set of two vectorial
lines and they made a parallelogram with the first two
vectors.
vector.
"Next you made a long diagonal in that parallelogram from
the point of collision to its diagonally opposite
corner. Then you extended the long diagonal outwardly
from the
parallelogram from the point of collision,
extending this line to a length equal to the diagonal"
-
(A)
Cite UTOPIA OR OBLIVION, Music of the liew Life, p. 53, 10 Dec164,

RBF D.FINITIONS
Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
(B)
"already constructed inside the parallelogram and that
external equidistant extension of the diagonal of the
parallelogram was called the resultant of forces. In the
havy I had also been taught Calileo's parallelogram of
forces. . .
For some reason that I don't know of it was
never considered at the U.S. Naval Academy that when two ships
ran into each other, Galileo's force diagram told us that
following the collision as indicated by the 'resultant of
forces the two ships were supposed to waltz north-northeast
for 12 miles together. I saw as indeed most all sane men
see that such behavior was just what the ships didn't
display after col.ision. One of them went in toward the
center of the Earth and that wasn't in the diagram. I
decidied that this criticism was typical of my general
suspicion that we were not starting with the right set of
axioms or simplest concepts.
"So one of the two ships colliding on the wavy surface
of spherical Earth goes towards Earth's center. One of them
does go a few hundred feet in the direction of Galileo's
resultant of forces, but not 12 miles. We find that in
reality four forces are operating. Two accelerate conically
together, rising from Earth, plus gravity, plus the resultant."
Cite UTOPIA CR OBLIVIOi, iusic of the ew Life, p. 54-54, 10 Dec
164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Force Lines:
Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
(C)
"When the ships first ran into each other, they actually
rose outwardly from Earth's center because in acceleration
both ships were trying to leave the Earth. If they could
accelerate faster-- like rockets-- they could leave the
Earth. So when two ships collide they usually rise
outwardly, against gravity, before they subside, and then
one or both go into the bottom of the sea, or go a few yards
in the direction of the resultant of forces.
The pattern
of real force lines looks very much like a music stand--
three vectorial legs spread out with a fourth vertical vector.
And so I began to discover and study what we may call
fundamental angular degrees of the vectorial interactions
of universal freedoms.
Cite UTOPIA OR OBLIVION, Music of the kew Life, p.54, 10 Dec *64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Force Lines: Ornidirectional Lines of Force: (I)
"Vectors had first been developed to important extent in
electrical engineering (though Galileo used them tentatively
an erroneously in developing his parallelogram of forces).
According to Galileo we could make a vectorial pattern of a
ship A of such and such a weight, going in such and such a
direction at such and auch a velocity. You multiplied the
velocity times the weight, and that gave you a vector: x.
You then made a vectorial line AC on your diagram that was
x units long, that was shown going in the compass direction
that the ship was going-- let us say, 'due east.' Ship A
collided with another ship B at point C. Ship B weighed such
and such an amount. You multiplied ship B's weight by its
speed (velocity) and it gave you the length, y, of a vector
line BC. BC had a compass direction, too-- let us say,
'northeast,' reading from B to C. Galileo then constructed
a parallelogram ACBD with BD parallel to AC, running
west from B to D, then DA constructed parallel to BC,
running northeast from to A. Galileo then drew a vectorial
line diagonally from to C. the point of collision of
ships A and B, and then Galileo extended the line DC outward
of the parallelogram to E with CE = DC, and with the
angle DCE 180°, i.e., a 'straight' line. Galileo called"
Cite UTOPIA OR OBLIVION, Prevailing Cond. in Arts, pp. 85-86.

RBF DEFII. IT101.S
Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
(II)
"CE the 'resultant of forces'-- the vector of the combined
forces X, Y.
Galileo's 'resultant of forces' was wrong
because two colliding ships do not waltz gaily east-northeast
12 miles together. Usually one of the ships goes 'down'--
into the sea-- toward the center of Larth-- which multidirection
vector was not in Galileo's 'plane' geometry scheme. Never-
theless I found his vectorial diagram exciting. It
suggested a comprehensive geometry consisting entirely of
vectors.
18
Cite UTUPIA OR OBLIVION, Prevailing Conditions in the Arts,
P. 86. 10 Oct. 164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Force Lines:
Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
"I spoke about Galileo's parallelogram of forces where,
you may remember, you had two moving bodies and you had
their discrete angles and you have them running into each
other. One weighs so much and has such and such a velocity--
multiplying both and making vectors, you drew two lines
parallel to them with respect to where they intervened.
Then you made the parallelogram and the diagonal of the
parallelogram from the points of interception, extended it
outwardly of the parallelogram, and call it equidistant, and
call it the resultant of forces. I thought this was very
strange because I was in the Navy, while this diagram tells
me that when two ships run into each other at sea, they
waltzed off 12 miles northwest with each other and that
isn't what they did at all. One seemed to go to thes
bottom and that wasn't in the diagram. So I felt that it
was really invalid to make models that really didn't have
to do with our physical Universe. 19
-
Cite Ledgemeont Laboratory Address, p. 11, 15 Oct '64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Force Lines:
Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
"Ships colliding on the globe after sudden acceleration
reveal the inadequacy of parallel force diagrams for
explaining the omnidirectional interaction of forces."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION #15, caption, as rewritten
by RBF, 1971.

Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
See Electromagnetic Lines of Force
Force Distribution
Geometry of Vectors
Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry
Force Diagram as Music Stand Form
(1)

Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
See Energy Event (1)-(5)
Galileo, 12 Jul 62
Shunting & Reshunting, Dec'61
Synergetics, Sep'64
Surface Strength of Solids, Mar172
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Force: Don't Oppose Forces; Use Thom:
"Don't oppose forces; use them."
Cite:
RBF to EJA, Wichita, Kanasas
1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Force: Don't Oppose Forces; Use Them:
"Don't fight forces, use them."
(Attributed to "4D," but I have not found it in "4D."-- eja.)
Cite SHELTER, p.108, Nov'32

Force: Don't Oppose Forces, Use Them:
See Adversity: Turn Adversity to Advantage

17
Force:
See Adversity: Turn Adversity to Advantage
Alltime Force
Energetic Functions
Fields of Force
Inventory of Push-pull Alternations
Weak Force
(1)

Force:
See Abstraction, 28 Apr 74
Philosophy, 1928; 1946
Principle (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ford, Henry as Artist:
"Ford was a great conceiver. His logistics were like
conducting a great orchestra. He will come to be regarded
as the great artist of the 20th century.... Edsel was
corruptible and did not understand.
1
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 30 Jan'75

Ford, Henry as Poet:
See Leonardo Type, May' 70

Ford, Henry: (1863-1947)
See City (A)
City as Center of Abstract Intercourse (1)
Inventory, 28 Apr'74
Johansen Guages, 16 Jun 72
Leonardo Type, May'70

Ford Motor Company Rotunda:
See Invention Sequence, (B)
Tooling of Domes, (2)

Forecasting Capability:
See Navy: Theory Of, 22 Dec174
Computer Programming, May' 49
Humans as Machines, (2)

Foreign Affairs:
See International Affairs

Foreign Economic Aid:
See Politics, 10 Jun'71
Revolution by Inadvertence, 10 Oct 63

Forever-otherness:
See Acceleration: Angular & Linear, 20 May'75

Forever:
See Eternal
(1)

Forever:
See Inherent, 22 Jun'72
(2)

(S)
Forget the Universe:
See Professors, Jun'66

Forgotten Questions:
See Thinking, 6 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Form:
"The word form implies direct sensoriality.
The word
'conformity' likewise implies direct sensoriality-- it
means dealing only with forms."
-
Cite MEXICO, p. 101, 10 Oct 163

RBF DEFINITIONS
Form:
"In architecture form is a noun; in industry form is a verb.”
Citation and context at Noun, 1938

10.
RbF DEFINITIONS
Form Cannot Follow Function:
"The general principle of producing higher performance with
ever less inputs of energy, time, and weight of material per
any given level of accomplished functioning, produced
sumtotally a trend toward doing so much with so little that
we have now arrived at a condition where performance is
approximately invisible.
"Form is no longer following function. Functions have
become formless. World humanity's reality of 1900 consisted
of everything people could smell, see, touch, and hear.
Now, three-quarters of a century later, 99,9 percent of all
humanity's practical everyday, worked-withrealities are
only instrumentally (non-sensorially) apprehendable and
employable by humans. The electromagnetic Universe's
realities are coped with only instrumentally through macro
step-up and micro step-down transformers of information.
"Therefore, I pointed out to the Habitat audiences that they
should disregard their conditioned reflexes which spontaneous-
ly look only for immediately visible manifestation of new and
improved ways of living." "
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.12; 20 Sep' 76

RBP DEFINITIONS
Form Cannot Follow Function:
"Form is no longer following function. Punctions have
become formless."
Cite RBF to Ron Goodfellow, Philadelphia, PA; 29 Jul*76

RBF DEFINITIONS
•
Form Cannot Follow Function:
"Louis Sullivan employed the phrase 'form follows function'
and it became seemingly most apt to Europeans, developing thes
kind of simplified building. So form follows function is
the phrase that most characterizes our cultural experience
in the arts since the mid-tenties. More than a generation
has been preoccupied at the cultural level with the idea that
you do things in a very direct honest right way and that it
should be visible how you do it. When you learn how to do
that in a becoming manner then form is following function.
"So the Germans said why can't we take this good logical
kind of building. All it needs is a little refining.
it a little cleanliness and we could give up all the
odders of architecture and turn out something very pleasing
in its own right. o this began the Bauhaus kind of
viewpoint and the development of architecture which
called the international style."
Give
is today
*Cite OREGON UNIVERSITY Lecture 1, 19-20 1 July 1962
-
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Form Cannot Follow Function:
"One of the many characteristics of tensile strength is
that you can't see it. hen we say form follows function
and if a form is stronger then we ought to be able to see
it.
But alloys make it possible to do things with less.
Therefore form is not following function at all. In the
advanced technology form is not following function. All the
form is where you can see it. The functions are invisible.
There are not forms following the functions at all.
There
is a great computer. It is just a black box. hat does it
do? You don't know what it does. There is no disclosure of
the function whatsoever by the really adzanced technology.
"In our cultural life we have been preoccupied with being
very modern, consolong ourselves, in fact boasting, that
form follows function. "e are being very frank. We are
not putting a lot of orders and decorations on here at all.
But we are not being modern at all. We are being just the
opposite and fooling ourselves because form cannot follow
function. This is what we mean by the trend to invisibility."
(2)
(Slightly adapted.)
-
Cite OREGON UNIV_RLITY Lecture 1, pp. 21-22,
1 July 162

Form Cannot Follow Function:
See Tooloing of Domes, (3)

Form Follows Function:
See Form Cannot Follow Function

Form
SRA
Sensoriality:
See Form, 10 Oct '63

Form:
See Field of Cosmic Formabilities
Formless
Pattern
Process Relationships
Conformity
Form = Sensoriality
Model vs. Form
Uniform: Uniformity
Nonform
(1)

Form:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Formless:
"I saw that, in the tides and in gavity, nature had
accomplished a truly invisible, formless, structural,
tensional coherence."
Citation at Coherence, 10 Oct '63

Formless:
See Amorphous
Shapeless
Nonform

RBF DEFINITIONS
Formulations:
"Scientists have often said that the most important part of
their great discoveries occurred at the outset in the
proper formulation of the project's objectives, forgetting
that those enlightened formulations were really the
afterimage inducements of tail-end events of earlier and
seeming failures of experimentation."
Citation and context at Huddering Sequence (6) 1963

Formulation:
See Afterimage Formulation Lags
Conceptual Formulation
Equation
Inventory of Formulations & Constants
Problem: Statement of the Problem
Question Asking
Trial Balance
(1)

Formulation:
See Imagination, Sep'71
Number Pattern, undated
Pretending, 8 Apr'75
(2)

Formula:
Formulas:
See Equation
Euler'e Uncored Polyhedral Formula

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fortress Mentality:
"The fortress mentality persisted for a long time. In
World War I there were forts in New York Harbor. In World
War II there was the Maginot line. And when I started in
architecture in 1923 the whole idea was what was deep was
beautiful. the depth of the reveal.
..
- Cite RBF to USAIF conference, Foreign Disaster Assistance
Conference Room, State Dept, Wash, DC; 12 May' 77

Fortress Mentality:
See Yesterday's Private Castle Mentality
(1)

Fortress Mentality:
See Human Unsettlement, (3)
(2)

Fortuitous:
See Inadvertence
Piano Top
Surprise

Forty Questions:
See Strategic Questions: Inventory of

Forward Pass: America Has Been Thrown a Forward Pass:
See America, 22 Jul'71
52

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fossil Fuela:
"Fifth Fanifest is the spherical enmantling of biological
residues
"As hydrocarbons are pressure transformed into coal and
petroleum
"Which as fossil fuels stabilely store this cosmic energy
harvest.' "
Citation at Manifest: Five, 1973

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fossil Fuels:
"Manifest Number Seven
Of Earth's cosmic functioning
Is its progressive geological submerging
Of the hydrocarbon residue concentrates
Buried ever more deeply and at increasing pressures
Either within the Earth's crust, or its hydrosphere,
Whereby these biological residues are chemically transformed
Into rigid, liquid, or gaseous fossil fuels."
-
Cisation and context at Temperature of the Human Body (B), Jul 72

Fossil Fuela:
See Antientropy, (B)
Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (3)
Sulfur, 12 Jun'69
Wind Power Sequence, (3)
Everybody's Business,
Building Industry, 11(3)
Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr' 77
(2)

2
Fossil Fuels:
See Energy Capital
Main Engines of Universe

Foundation:
See Fundamental, 1 Feb'75

Fountain Pattern:
Fountain Flow:
(1)
See Torua
Waterspout
Reverse Fountain Flow
Water Fountain as System

Fountain Pattern: Fountain Flow:
See Magnetic Field, May'49
Tree, 16 Feb'73
Wind Stress & Houses, (9)
221
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
"The number four is the beginning number and not the
number one."
Citation & context at System, 16 Feb'78

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
"No insideness without four. Without four, no womb; no birth:
no life... the dawning awareness of the integrity of Universe."
Citation & context at Nature Permits It Sequence (3), 27 Dec*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
" The mathematical fact remains that four is the minimum
of realizable triangles that may be constructed if any are
constructed."
-
Citation and context at Spherical Triangle Sequence (ii), 26 Jan
173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
"There is a systematic interrelationship of basic fourness
always accompanied by a sixness of alternatives or freedoms.
"
-
Citation and context at Pulsation, 9 Nov 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
"The number of vertices are always divisible by four
in a structural system."
-
Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
"One of the most typical tricks I hav found in humanity is
to see the little small one triangle] and miss the big one
and the big one is the one that counts. Then Itold him he
drew four triangles. And he said, how did that happen?
Well,
they are spherical triangles and there is a concave little and
a concave big as viewed from inside and a convex little and a
convex big as viewed from out isde.
Convex and concave are not the same; so there are inherently
four. In fact, you will always find that there are four
there. Four is the minimum and when we get toany kind of
system there is always four there. You will get used to that
fourness and get used to not allowing yourslef to become
overconfined and looking at the little ones.'
"
- Oite Oregon Lecture #6, p.207, 10 Jun '62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
Experience may not be simultaneously recollected
and reconsidered, but may be subdivided into plurality of
locally tuneable event foci or 'pofits' of which a minimum
of four positive and four negative points are required as
that is, as a first finite
a'considerable set';
subdivision of universe.
basic quanta strategy.)
(This fourness coincides with
Cite INTRO. to UMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 125, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four:
"Four is the minimum of triangles that may be constructed
if any are constructed."
Cite NOAH'S ARK, P. 3, 1950

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four Color Theorem:
"Polygonally all spherical surface systems are maximally
reducible to omnitriangulation, there being no polygon of
lesser edges. And each of the surface triangles of spheres
is the outer surface of a tetrahedron where the other three
faces are always congruent with the interior faces of the
three adjacent tetrahedra. Ergo, you have a four-face
system in which it is clear that any four colors could take
care of all possible adjacent conditions in such a manner as
never to have the same colors occurring between two surface
triangles, because each of the three inner surfaces of any
tetrahedron integral four-color differentiation must be
congruent with the same-colored interior faces of the three
and only adjacent tetrahedra; ergo, the fourth color of each
surface adjacent tetrahedra; ergo, the fourth color of each
surface adjacent triangle must always be the one and only
remaining different color of the four-color set system.
"
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 541.20, 23 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four Color Theorem:
"In the four color theorem, three colors inwardly always break
down into the tetrahedron with three faces inwardly and one
outwardly."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho NW, 8 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four Color Theorem:
"The mathematical proof of the four color theorem is
one of the uniqe discoveries of synergetics."
Cite SYNERGETICS, Sec. 250.11, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four Color Map Problem:
"
'. . . The omnitriangulatability of the geodesic sphere
provides in its local face-to-face rotatability the
solution to the age-long challenging four-color map
problem."
-
(Edited and rearranged- EJA)
Cite RBF Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb. 166, p.5.

Four Color Theorem:
See Inter-triple-bonded

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four-D: 4-D:
"As a non-descriptive reference, 4 D being only the enigmatic
term for time, do we use these characters as the trade mark
of our industrial activity, occasioned by the new or correct
basis of figuring of the infinity of time dimensions."
Cite 4-D, TheTime Lock, Chapter 12, May, 1928

Four-D: 4-D:
See Anonymity, 19 Dec'71
Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-
Octahedron Universal Joint, (1)
Depression: Great Depression of 1930's, (1)
Primitive, 19 Jul'76

Four Degrees of Freedom:
See Mast in the Earth, 10 Jul'62
Me Ball, 21 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms:
"Our inventory of intergeared mobility freedoms is
fourfold. It is four-dimensional:
(1) omnidirectionality of united movement;
(2) roll-aroundness (orbiting);
(3) polarized evoluting-and-involuting, and
polarized spin; and
(4) inward-outward expandability, singly,
doubly, thrre- or four-partite.
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galleys at Sec. 411.34;
2 Nov 73

Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms:
See Degrees of Freedom & Bonding
Four Degrees of Freedom
Six Degrees of Freedom
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom
Motions: Six Positive & Negative
Energetic Functions
Structural Functione

Four Nonsimultanous Rocket Bursts:
See Fireworks
Star Events

Four-square Scaffolding:
See Fourth Dimension, 6 May' 48

Four Stars as Minimum Consideration:
See Pattern, 2 Jul 62
Tetrahedron, Nov'71

Four Stara: Four Star Affair:
See Fireworks
Star Events
(1)

Four Stars: Four-atar Affair:
See Thought, 20 Jan'75
Nov 71
Tetrahedron Oct 72
Structure,
22:
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four-triangular Circuits Tensegrity:
"Tony Pugh's four-triangular circuits tensegrity relates
to the four great circles of the vector equilibrium--the
great circles generate by the VE's eight triangular faces.
It relates to the empty tetrahedron at the center."
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Boulder, CO; in response
to direct query from EJA; 6 Apr 77

TEXT CITATIONS
Four-triangular Circuits Tensegrity:
Pugh, Anthony holograph of 31 Jul 76
81033.019, 17 Aug* 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourfold Twoness:
"There is a fourfold twoness: one of the exterior,
cosmic finite ('nothingness) tetrahedron, i.e., the
macrocosm outwardly complementing all ('something')
systems and the interior microcosmic tetrahedron of
nothingness complementing all conceptually thinkable
and cosmically isolatable 'something' systems."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 223.07; 10 Nov' 7%

Four Unique Frequencies:
See Ninety-two Elements:
Unique Frequencies

Four Vectors Define Minimum System:
See Mast in the Earth, 10 Jul'62
Minimum System, 1967

Four:
Fourness:
See Interrelationships:
Fourness & Sixness
Ninety-two Elements: Four Unique Frequencies
Primitive Fourness
Quadrangular
Quadrant
Quadrivalent
Tetrahedron:
Four Unique Planes
Positive & Negative: Four Kinda
Interconnection of Any Four Points
Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects
Minimum Geometrical Fourness
Axis: Four-axial System
Beginning Number
(1)
3

Four: Fourness:
See Carrier Wave, 9 Mar 73
Consideration, 1960
Considerable Set, 1959
Disparate, 22 har'73
Domains of Lines, 19 Dec'73
Indig, 3 ar 73
Information Transaction & Valving Models, 9 Nov' 73
Interrelationships, 19 Dec 73,
Interwave Behavior of Number, 29 Nov 72
Minimum Set, 18 Nov'72
Minimum System, 26 May 72
Multiplication by Division, 4 Nov'73
Octave Wave, 5 Mar 73
Octahedron, 29 Nov'72; 16 Dec173; 7 Mar 73
Omnilibrium, 19 Feb 72
Prime Enclosure, 17 Feb 73
Pulsation, 9 Nov 72*
Nature Permits It Sequence, (3)*
Number: Cosmically Absolute Numbers, 5 Mar' 73
(2A)

Four:
Fourness:
See Spherical Triangle Sequence, (11)*
10 Jul 62; 26 Dec174; 27 May'72
Universe 16 Jun '72
System,
Universal Joint: Tetrahedron, 9 Nov 173
Volumetric Awareness, 20 Feb 73
Zero Wave, 9 kar' 73
A Priori Environment, (p.14) May172
Somethingness & Nothingness, 10 Nov' 74
Hedra, 10 Apr175
Octahedron Model of Doubleness of Unity, (1)-(3)
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 May '75
Halo Concept, Nov'71
Cosmic Hierarchy, 23 Jan'77
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4) (7)*
System, 16 Feb 78*
(2B)

Four:
Fourness:
See Four Color Theorem
Four-D: 4-D
Four Degrees of Freedom
Four Nonsimultaneous Rocket Bursts
Four-square Scaffolding
Four Stars as Minimum Consideration
Four Stars: Four Star Affair
Four Unique Frequencies
Fourfold Twoness
Four Vectors Define Minimum System
Four-triangular Circuits Tensegrity
Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms
(3)

MBF DEFINITIONS
Fourteamess:
•
"The very fourteenness of the octahedron, of the vector
equilibraum's 14 faces and the 14 truncatable aspects of
a tetrahedron
Four faces truncating its six edges
plus four corners which can be truncated, making it 14.
These are corresponding to the 14 facets of all the bubble
associations and all the biological cells."
-
Cite NBF tape, Chicago, Blackstone Hotel, 1 June 1971
- P. 81

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourteen:
"Closest packed spheres provide tetrahedra or truncated
tetrahedra. Because 4 + 4 + 6 = 14, truncating the four
vertexes, plus four faces, plus six edges of the tetrahedron
provides the fourteen faces of the vector equilibrium.
High frequency agglomerations, asymmetrically truncated,
account for all the shapes of all living tissue cell
structures, as well as for all the shapes of bubble
agglomerations, all of which are 14-faceted chambers."
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes,
1965, Figure &c, Caption. p. 82.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourteen:
"Two pairs of seven-ball, triangular sets of closest
packed spheres precess to associate as the cube.
This cube consists of 14 spheres whose number corresponds
to the 14 tetrahedral facets, the 14 faces of the
vector
equilibrium, and the 14 faces of Lord Kelvin's
tetrakaidecahedron, the all-space-filling, 14-faceted
symmetricalpolyhedron of eight hexagons and six squares.
The cube
shown is the minimum cube which may be stably
produced by closest packed spheres. Eight spheres will
not
close pack as a cube and are utterly unstable."
->
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS, Ed. Kepes,
1965
, p. 84, Figure 7e, Caption.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourteen:
"...All life cell structures, no matter how complex the
total association may be, and all bubble complexes, are
characterized by 14-faceted, webbed chambers, the 14 faceta
being an infinite variety of asymmetrical polygon sizings,
but always of 14 facets. These 14 facets are then to be
identified with the tetrahedron's four faces plus six
edges plus four vertexes which prime aspects total fourteen.
Tetrahedrons of very high frequency composition which result
from piling up a triangular pyramid of ping pong balls, or
of any spheres of the same size, can be truncated on each
of their edges or each of their four vertexes by off balls--
which adds six facets and four facets, respectively, to
the four original faces. By simply increasing the frequency
of the basic layers of the spheres, the truncation of the
edges or vertexes may be so patterned with the faces in
such a manner as to result in 'any' polygonal shapes of a
total of 14 faces."
-
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes,
1965, p. 79.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron:
"The prime generation of the seven axes of symmetry derive
from the truncation of the tetrahedron:
4 original faces
4 triangular truncated vertexes
6 quadrilateral truncated edges
14 faces of truncated tetrahedron, which produce
seven unique pairs of parallel faces whose axes, perpendicular
to their respective centers of area, generate the seven axes
of all crystallographic symmetry.
"The seven unique axes of the three unique sets (4+4+6)
producing the 14 planes of the truncated tetrahedron are also
identifiable with:
11
the 14 planes that bound and enclosingly separate
all the biological cells;
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. At Secs. 1041,10 -.12, 10 Feb 75
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron:
"the 14 Facets boundingly interbonding all bubbles
in the bubble complexes; and
--
(2)
the 25 and 31 unique planes generated by the seven
sets of foldable great circles, that are the only such foldably
unbroken sets (1.e., the 3, 4, 6, and 12 sets of the vector
equilibrium and the 6, 10, and 15 sets of the icoshaedron).
"Various high frequencies of modular subdividings of the tetra-
hedron produce a wide variety of asymmetrical truncatabilities
of the tetrahedron. The dynamics of symmetry may employ seven
sets of the 56 foldable-great-circle variations of planar
orientation. Thus it follows that both the billogical cell arrays
and the bubble arrays display vast varieties of asymmetries in
their 14 enclosing planes, so much so that this set of
interidentifiability with the 14 topological characteristics of
tetrahedron, the prime structural system of Universe, have gone
unnoticed until now."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Secs. 1041.12 -.13, 10 Feb'75

Fourteen:
See Bubbles
Carbon
Cube
Tetrakaidecahedron
Trigonometric Limit: First 14 Primes
Vector Equilibrium
(1)

Fourteen:
See Closest Packing of Spheres, 1960
Crystallography, 14 Jan' 74
Organics & the Nucleus, 28 May 72
Prime Numbers: Pairing Of 17 Jan 74
Rollability of Polyhedra, 20 Dec 73
XYZ Quadrant at Center of Octahedron, 14 May 175
Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects, 9 Jun 75
Stabilized Cube, 11 Jul162
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Instead of 'three-dimensional' we may say insideness-and-
outsideness, or we may say four-dimensional, referring to
the four planes of the tetrahedron.
"The vector equilibrium is inherently_prefrequency with an
a priori volume of 20 tetravolumes. The vector equilibrium
is... a priori fourth powering."
Citation & context at Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"All four-dimensional patterning is controlled only by
frequency and angle modulatability."
Citation and context at DNA, 19 Dec 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Arithmetical four-dimensionality is unidentifiable geometrically."
Citation and context at Dimensionality (1), 28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Nonpolar points, or localities, are four-dimensional--
inside out and three symmetrically interacting, great-circle-
ways-around- producing spherical octation, with eight tetra-
hedra having three internal (central) angles) and three
external (spherical surface) angles each."
(See Nonpolar Points, 7 Nov 73 for revision of above- Ed.)
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.22, 29 Nov*72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Planar is four-dimensionally referenced, being parallel to
the four symmetrically interacting planes of the tetrahedron,
vector equilibrium, and isotropic vector matrix. Planar and
nonpolar-vertext four-dimensionality accommodates and imposes
the four positive, four negative, and neutral (nineness) of
the operational interwave behavior of number."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.31, 29 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Four dimensionality evolves in omnisymmetric equality of
radial and chordal rates of convergence and divergence, as
well as in all symmetrically interparalleled dimensions.
All of synergetics' isotroic vector matrix field lines are
geodesic and weave both four-dimensionally and omnisymmet-
rically amongst one another, for all available cosmic time
without anywhere touching one another."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 966.03, 17 Nov172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Time is no more the fourth dimension than it is the first,
second, or third dimension. No time: no domension.' 11
Citation and context at Dimension, 21 Dec171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Synergetics discloses the rational fourth, fifth, and
sixth powering modelability of nature's coordinate
transformings as referenced to the 60° equiangular
isotropic vector equilibrium."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Our omnioriented halo concept converts the paramter
consideration to symmetrically conceptual four dimensionality
and discloses a set of parameters inside as well as
outside the zone of lucidly considered star systems."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Halo Concept," Sec. 535.06., Nov. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"When we first look at the two unprecessed 60-ball
halves of the 120-sphere tetrahedron our eyes tend to
be deceived.
"We tend to look at them 'three-dimensionally,'
i.b., rectilinearly, and thus we do not immediately see
how we could bring two oblong quadrangular facets together
with their long axes crossing one another at right angles.
They come together in converging and diverging and not
in parallelism. We are dealing in a four-dimensional system.
-
[See Synergetics Illustration # 48.7
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 245, as re-written by RBF,
Beverly Hotel, New York, 14 Sept 171. Incorporated in
SYNERGETICS draft March 172 at Sec. 415.13.
[417.03]
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"That is one of the reasons why our eyes were deceived when
we took the two halves of the 120-ball tetrahedron that were
made out of 60 balls each. We tended to look at them three-
dimensionally, that is rectilinearly, and did not see how we
could bring two oblong quadrangular facets together with their
long axes crossing one anotherat right angles. But they were
coming together in converging and diverging and not in
paralellism: We are dealing in a four-dimensional system.
"
-
Cite rewrite of Fourth Dimension, 11 Jul 62, by RBF, 15 Sep'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
There are a minimum of four unique planes nonparallel
to one another.
The four planes of the tetrahedron
can never be parallel to one another."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, N.Y., 14 Sept. 1971.
TETRAHEDRON -
SEC 62) 041

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"It is a requirement of the above world-around mathematical
convention that a fourth power, or fourth dimension, can be
introduced into the system and expressed by the system
only if
a fourth axis can be found which converges
intersectingly with the first three axes of the system at
90
°,
while not being parallel to any of the first t
three axes. Since no such fourth axis has been experimentally
demonstrable in
physical models, the fourth dimension, or
fourth powering has been coped with by methematicians as
being purely imaginary, but calculable in abstract numerical
processes. Inasmuch as (1) The Mid-19th. Century science was
confronted by
fourth power energy relationships manifest in
electromagnetics and related thermodynamics; and insamuch
as
(
2) The fourth power energy behaviors were experimentally
reproducible
at will; (3) the scientists identified physical
reality with
the experimentally demonstrable energy behaviors;
and inasmuch
as
(4
) the physical behaviors disclosed fourth
power mathematical augmentation; and (5) physical models of
fourth
powers could not be demonstrated, science concluded
that nature, or physical Universe energy behaviors and
relationships were accomplished in a mysterious phase of
Universe existing independently of humanity's conceptual
models,
ergo, were treatable with imaginary mathematical
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 771.14, Sep'71
(1)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"tools; ergo, nature's energy transformations were transacted
mathematically but not geometrically."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 771.14, Sep'71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"You cannot demonstrate the fourth dimension with
90-degree models."
Cite RBF Lecture Town Hall, New York 12 March 1971
POWERING - SEC. 776.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Time is not the fourth dimension and should not be so identified--
this was a misleading notion popularized when Einstein first
became famous.
It
-
Citation & context at Time, 1970
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS text atSec. 529.06

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"
...That you are accustomed to thinking only in dots and
lines and a little bit in areas does not defeat the fact that
we live in omnidirectional space-time and that a four dimen-
sional Universe provides ample individual freedoms for any
contingencies."
"
-
Cite OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, p.132, 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS:
Fourth Dimension:
"They are vector equilibrium models because their explosive
and implosive forces are always equal, as is shown by their
four dimensional hexagonal cross sections whose radial and
circumferential vectors balance."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 25, 13 Nov 169
POWERING
SEC. 776.04

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
". . . Remember that the eight cubes around one point in
space represent the three dimensions of 90 degreeness. However,
when dealing with the 60 degree coordination of tetrahedra,
which are the volumes bound by the planes of four edge-joined
triangles, you will find that you can get fourth power or
'four dimensional' accommodation of space around a point as
computed in the terms of linear module frequency of either
radius or circumference of the pattern system (which also is
to say that linear and angular accelerations are in one-to-one
correspondence). You can get 20 tetrahedra around one point,
$2^4 + 2^2 = 20$. Anyone using the tetrahedral concept in coordi-
nating geometry and arithmetic would find that four dimension-
ality is not an inconceivable or nonconceptual mystery, but
a very simple, modelable and rational relationship arrived at
by closest packing together of equi-volume tetrahedra around
one point."
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes) p.72, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"The fourth power shows up to accommodate the first
four primes."
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 289. 12 Jul 162
POWERING.
SEC. 776.051

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"In an omnimotional Universe it is possible to take two
moving systems which move four dimensionally [ See Synergetucs
Illustration 63 7 the way we saw four sets of wheels (eight
wheels in all) moving perfectly comfortably. If we fasten
one vector equilibrium to another pair of wheels immobilizing
one of them and having an axis immobilized, the rest of
the system can keep right on rolling around it. By fastening
one such part of the Universe, literally, we don't stop
the rest of the motion of Universe. In all other kinds of
mechanical systems that we run into on a three-dimensional
basis, if anything is blocked then everything is blocked.
On a four-dimensional system, not at all. We are able to
have one local thing occur. de can have two atoms join
one another perfectly well, and the rest of Universe can
go right on i. its motion.
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 264. 11 Jul 162
SEC. 463.6 COMPLETE
ROTATION OF WHEELS IN VE
POWERING SEC. 776.08) + SUMMARY

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"That is one of the reasons why our eyes were deceived when
we took the two halves of the 120-ball tetrahedron that were
made out of 60 balls each. You tended to look tathem three-
dimensionally,
and you did not see how
you could bring quadrangular facets together. But they were
coming together in converging and diverging.... We are dealing
in a four-dimensional system."
(See citation of 15 Sep 71 for rewrite of above.)
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p.245, 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"The regular tetrahedron has four unique faces and
so there are four unique perpendiculars to them and
they make up a four dimensional system."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 259, 11 Jul 62
TETRANE ORON SEC. 621.04) + POWERING SEC. 776.021

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
•
. . Four dimensionality works in convergences and
divergences and not in parallelism.
Parallelism is
uniquely characterising the three-dimensional system."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 245. 11 Jul '62
POWERING
SEC. 776.031

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
POWERING -
Why
"Science had thought that it was impossible to be conceptual
because it had felt that
fourth dimensionality, which had been
showing up
time and again as an arithmetical behavior of the
physics,
could not be accomodated by the XYZ coordinate
system and it can be coordinated by synergetic geometry.
can it be?
Because the vector equilibrium has a volume of
20.
You can get eight cubes around one point and so the
third power of two, which is eight, has used up all the
space.
But using the tetrahedra 'I can get a volume of 20
around one point as I do in the vector equilibrium. Kanty
Twenty is two to the fourth power plus two to the second
power and it makes it quite possible to use models of fourth
powering
by using tetrahedroning.
"In fact, we find vector equilibrium is unity because its
edge module
is one as is the cube the module of one. It is
when
it is one, when it is unity. that its volume is 20.
When its edge module
is two, it is two to the third power
times 20,
which is 160, and the volume is 160 where the edge
module is
two. It will accommodate very high powering, the
sixth powering and
so forth.
modelling of
the multi-powers.
It makes possible the actual
•
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 233.
SEC.
776. 06.
10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"In the 1890's fourth power relationships were beginning to
show up in the physics and
in relation to eletromagnetic
phenomena, but you
couldn't make a model of it.
using imaginary numbers, complex numbers, where the square
By
root of minus one is
going into yesterday one quadrant, they
found they could accommodate the
fourth power mathematically,
though they could't make a
model of it."
Cite OREGON Lecture
p. 131, 6 Jul '62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Since every symmetric system contains a neutral axis,
with polar points, it follows that Fuller identifies 'third
powering' specifically with a symmetric swarm of points
around and in addition to a neutral axial line of points.
To find the total number of points collectively in all a
wystem's layers, it is necessary to multiply the third
power of the frequency by one of the first four prime
numbers (times 2). Consequently these collections disclose
a fourth power characteristic of the number of points in the
symmetric swarm-- four dimensionality of total point population
with reference to the frequency of the system."
"
-
Cite MARKS, pp. 46-47, 1960

RBF DEFINTIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"All geodesic lines
weave four dimensionally amongst one another,
forever, without touching one another."
POWERING. SEC. 776.031
Cite Coller's ltr, MCHALE, p. 114
Oct 159

1
RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Fourth powering is identified with interpointal domain
volumes.
"
•
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO and SYNERGETICS
"Corollaries," Sec. 240.44 and "Powering," Sec. OL 776.81
1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"Three dimensions invoked four-square scaffolding of civilisation,
which is o.k. at diminutive scale like a needle floating on
water... as relative tension supports the otherwise untenable
transgression of principle.
...
"Outbound point expands to fourth dimension: therefore is point
annihilations and fissions at limits."
-
Citation and context at Point: Outbound Point (1), 6 May'48

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
"A four-dimensional Universe from which universal dynamics
'slip by' into three-dimensional aspects."
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium (1), Feb'48

RBF JEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension:
Borrowing From Tomorrow's Clock:
"This freed the scientist then without any need to explain
to the writer what was going on. The scientists had been
getting along very beautifully in our calculation about
fourth power, fourth dimension, because we borrowed a little
from tomorrow's clock. le do our problem, then we pay
tomorrow back. You can't do that in the physical model,
you can do that on the paper mathematically. We can use the
imaginary numbers, the square root of minus one, and so
forth. So we get into no trouble at all just handling this
with figures and algebra, so we can make a model.
1
but
-
Cite BF to Students international Meditation Seminar
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, p. 14

Fourth Dimension: Borrowing from Tomorrow's Clock:
See Imaginary Number, Jun'66
Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities,
(B)(C)
Quantum Sequence, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimensional Coordination:
"You can completely spool-wrap all four faces of the tetrahedron
... endlessly wrapped as an omnidirectionally closed system.
Ergo, we have a device for recording all of the omnidirec-
tionally occurring and observed data into a minimum system
which is unwrappable into a flat ribbon printout with four-
dimensional coordination,"
Citation & context at Omnidirectional Typewriter (1), 10 Sep'74

Fourth-dimensional Design:
See Metal, Kay'28

Four-dimensional Force Diagram:
See Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr'43

Fourth-dimension Limit:
See Equiangularity, 17 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimensional Modelability:
"Since the middle of the 19-th century it had been the
confusion brought about by the succession of visible
thermodynamics by invisible electrodynamics. The crisis
was dramatized by the discovery that black bodies were
demonstrated to have fourth-power rates of change. The
trouble was that the world was accustomed to an eight-place
omnidirectional clock (eight cubes around one point) instead
of a 20-place omnidirectional clock (with 20 tetrahedra
around one point. With the number 20 you can bring the
the fourth dimension into modelability with no trouble at
all.
"It's been several years now since I made this point in a
conversation with C.P. Snow in London and he was kind enough
later to acknowledge in an article that 'an American architect'
had indeed shown him that the fourth dimension could be
modelable."
JAN
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust St., Philadelphia, PA, 24 Feb'75

Fourth Dimensional Modelability:
See Jitterbug
Fourth Dimension: Regular Tetrahedron as Fourth
Dimension Model
Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model
(1)

Fourth Dimensional Modelability:
See Hole in the Victrola Disc, 24 Jan'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension: Projective Transformation:
"All other projections impose the advantage of one feature
against the advantage of the other by trying to solve both
These resolved
convergence and parallelism by one grid.
gore parts of the Dymaxion map, by treating these conditions
separately, allow four-dimensional unwrapping of the sphere."
* Cite FLUID GEOGRAPHY, I&I, p. 141. Apr'44

RBF DEFINITIONS
Four-dimensional Reality:
"A plurality of points became the 'building blocks' with
which the mathematicians of the day before microscopes
imaginatively constructed their lines. 'Lines' became the
one-dimensional substanceless 'logs' which they floored
together in their two-dimensional, planar, thicklessness
'rafts.' Finally they stacked these planar rafts one-upon-
another to build a 'solid' three-dimensional 'cube,' but
having none of the essential characteristics of four-dimen-
sional reality--i.e., having neither temperature, weight,
nor longevity."
- Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.033; 30 Apr' 77

(1)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension: Regular Tetrahedron as Fourth Dimension Model:
"Since the outset of humanity's preoccupation exclusively
with the XYZ coordinate system mathematicians have been
accustomed to figuring the altitiude of a triangle as a
product of the base times one-third of its perpendicular
altitude. And the volume of tetrahedra are arrived at by
multiplying one-quarter of the height of the perpendicular
to the base times the area of the base. But the tetrahedron
has four uniquely symmetrical enclosing planes and its
dimensions may be arrived at by the use of perpendicular
heights above its four possible bases. That's what the fourth
dimension system is: it is produced by the angular and size
data arrived at by measuring the four perpendicular distances
in respect to the centers of area of the four faces of a
tetrahedron. As with the triangle, the perpendicular from
the center of the tetrahedron's base triangle goes right
through the tetrahedron's apex. The central angles converge
at 109° 28'.
"The area of a triangle is arrived at by multiplying the length
of the base line times one-third of the triangle's apex
altitude. This is four dimensionality. A tetrahedron of a"
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 971: 22+23, 27 Sep'72
[966.20]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension: Regular Tetrahedron As Fourth Dimension Model:
"given altitude with a base triangle of a given altitude is
completly described. With these two coordinates alone we can
describe any condition of the tetrahedron connecting any four
points in the
Universe.
"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 971.22+23, 27 Sep$72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth-dimensional Synergetics bathematics:
"Our synergetics mathematics is prospering.... We are challen-
ging academia at its heart. We are saying that science requires
experimental evidence and experimental proof--yet at the outset
adopted mathematical tools that are not experimentally demonstrable.
"Science starts the children off by saying experience in the
round is too complicated 'so we will start off with plane
geometry that is two-dimensional." There is no isolatable, demon-
strable two-dimensionality. There are no solids, no continuums--
only discrete energy packages. Physics has found no straight
lines, only waves. Universe operates four-dimensionally.
Physics employs only three-dimensional coordinates.
Plane geom-
etry employs rectilinearity and parallelism, when Universe has
no parallels. Universe operates only convergently-divergently;
that is, gravitationally and radiationally.
Universe is always
omnidimensional and always intertransforming.....
spontaneously
synergetica
"The young world seems/prone to take on my
which is, fortunately, conceptual and sensorially testable, ergo
experimentally evidenceable. There is no question in my mind any
more that it is the coordinate system employed by Universe.
Fortunately some great scientists now support me.
This means a
great revolution, really the greatest.'
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Bill Strachan, Doubleday; 14 Dec' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Dimension: Vector Equilibrium as Fourth-dimension Model:
Q.
RBF:
"You say you think of the vector equilibrium as a
fourth-dimensional model? How can you say that?"
"The error is in assuming that your experience is
three-dimensional. You were given height, width, and length,
but not heat, weight, longevity, and the others.
"The bicycle wheel model at the Cooper-Hewitt Exhibit shows
how you have reciprocity with four dimensions.
With only
three axes the gears automatically block. You can brake or
imnobolize any one pair of the eight-bicycle-wheel model
and the other six wheels keep rolling around: you can't do
that in three dimensions.
"I didn't think' that the vector equilibrium was a fourth-
dimensional model: I asserted that it was.
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop' 77; Phila., PA: 22 Jun' 77

Fourth Dimension:
See Dimensional Supremacy
Powering: Fourth Powering
Tetrahedroning
Time is Not the Fourth Dimension
A Priori Four-dimensional Reality
(1)

Fourth Dimension:
Air Space, May'65
See Atomic Computer Complex, (6)(7)
Bonding Hierarchies, 19 Dec'73
Dimension, 21 Dec171*
Dimensionality, (1)*
Equilangularity, 17 Nov* 72
Gear Train: Locking & Blocking, 18 Nov 72
Gravity, (h)
Halo Concept, 1960; Nov'71
Imaginary Number, 1968
Isotropic Vector Katrix, 9 Mar 73
DHA, 19 Dec 173*
Nature Has No Separate Departments, 18 Mar'69
Nonpolar Points, 29 Nov 72; 7 Nov'73
Point: Outbound Point, (1)*
Synergetics, (1)
(2A)
Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-
Octaheiron Universal Joint, (1)(2)
Time, 1970*
Vector Equilibrium, 13 Nov'69; (1)*
Cheese Tetrahedron, 20 Jan'75
Tetrascroll, (1)(2)
Nature in a Corner, 12 Nov'75

Fourth Dimension:
(2B)
See Multidimensional Accommodation, 11 Dec1 75
Quantum Mechanics:
Minimum Geometrical Fourness, (1)
Three: Number Function of Three in a Four-axial
System, 24 Jan' 76
Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms, 2 Nov' 73
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1)

Fourth Dimension:
(3)
See Fourth Dimension:
Borrowing from Tomorrow's Clock
Fourth-dimensional Coordination
Fourth-dimensional Design
Fourth-dimension Limit
Fourth-dimensional Modelablity
Fourth Dimension:
Projective Transformation
Fourth Dimension: Regular Tetrahedron as Fourth Dimension
Model
Fourth-dimensional Synergetics Mathematics
Four-dimensional Reality

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fourth Quantum:
"Life is the fourth, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't quantum."
Citation & context at Life, 9 Jun'75

Fourth Quantum:
See Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Gap Closer
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model
Visible & Invisible
Tetrahedron as Primitively Central to Life

Fourth Quantum:
See Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, 11 Dec*75

Fowler, Gone:
Montreal Expo '67 Dome Sequence, (4) (5)
See
Sunclipse, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fractionation:
"Frequency is a multicyclic fractionation of unity."
"A minimum of two cycles is essential to frequency fractionation."
"Angle is subcyclic-- that is, fractionation of one angle."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corollaries," Sec, 240.51., 52, and 53. 1971

Fractionating the whole:
See Quantum Mechanics:
Grand Strategy
Reduction of Myriadness to Unity
(1)

(8)
Fractionating the Whole:
See Proofs, 3 May' 77; 8 Aug177
(2)

Fraction: Fractionation:
See Angle: Pumping Fraction Factors
Rational Fractions
Fractionated Sphere
Rhombic Dodecahedron #2:
Steel Plate Fractionation
Angular Fractionation
Subdivision: Subdivisibility
Halving,
Dichotomy
Spin-halving
System-halving
(1)

Fraction: Fractionation: Fractionability:
See Distributive, 23 Sep' 73
Equiangularity, 25 Sep 72
Modules: A & B Quanta, 10 Jul'62
Package, 23 Sep 73
Point: Outbound Point, 23 Sep'73
Quantum Mechanics: Grand Strategy, 1 Feb'75
Multiplication by Division,
20 Jan 77
Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frame:
"Every picture you've ever seen has been in a frame-- but
there's no frame any more.'
"
Cite RF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 15 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frame of Reference:
"Frame of reference: The system generates itself whenever
there is an event. The system actually regenerates itself:
it is an eternal rebirth system."
_ Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 540.01, 24 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frame of Reference:
"Thus we realize conceptually the ever-self-regenerative,
omni-idealized, eternal integrity of the utterly metaphysical,
timeless, weightless, zerophase geometric frame of transforma-
tions referencing function which is served by the vector
equilibrium in respect to which all the aberrational dimen-
sioning of all realisation of the variety of relative durations,
sensorial lags, recalls, and imaginings are formulatingly
referenced to differentiate-out into the special-case local
experiences of the eternal Scenario Universe which each of
us identifies to ourselves as the 'Shape of Things' which each
individual sees differently yet ever intuits to be rigorously
reference to an invisibly perfect prototype in pure principle,
in respect to which only approachable but never realizable
'understanding' of one of us by others occurs: And it Came
to Pass."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Jitterbug as Energetic Model," Sec. 464.08,
4 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frame of Reference:
"The expression 'frame' of reference is not only 'square'
as imputed by the language of youth, but its two-dimensional,
3-D axes of reference, such as XYZ coordinates, require
inept exclusively rectilinear defining uncharacteristic of
the omniwavilinear orbiting Universe events, wherein science
has not found any continuous surfaces, solids or striaght
lines or infinitely extensible nonclosed-system planes."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec 1001.05, 27 Feb 172
[15]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frame of Reference:
"The metaphysically permitted frame of reference for all
the asymmetrical physical experience of humanity is
characterized by the 60-degree coordination with which
synergetics explores nature's behaviors-- metaphysical
or physical."
-
(Later context at Vector Equilibrium: Field
of Energy, (C))
Cite RBF dictation for SYNERGETICS, Beverly Hotel, New York,
28 Feb. 71, Seem Sec. 205. of Oct. 171.
[04]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frame of Reference:
"The vector equilibrium is absolutely dead center of
Universe and will never be seen by man in any physical
experience-- yet it is the frame of reference.
not in rotation and it is sizeless and timeless.
And it is
"
-
Cita tape transcript RBP to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, 1 May 1971,
132
- Citation at Vector Equilibrium, 1 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frame of Reference: Six Schemata:
"Synergetics' six positive and six negative, omnisymmetrical,
potential realization, least effort interpatterning,
evolutionary schemata reference frames are spontaneously
reinstituted and regenerated in respect to specific local
energy event developments and interrelationships of Universe."
-
Cite RBF corrections to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 240.41,
28 Oct 73

Frame of Reference: Six Schemata:
See Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 19 Nov 174

Frame of Reference:
See Dimensional Reference Frame
Dynamic Frame of Reference
Field
Grid
Raft
Rectilinear Frame
Sixty-degree Modulatability
No Static Frame of Reference
Scheme of Reference
Synergetics Calculation
XYZ Coordinate System
Omnidirectional Frame of Reference

Frame of Reference:
(2)
221
See Assumptions, 1946
Eternity (1)
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Feb*73
Nucleus (1)
Science: Pure & Applied, 14 Sep'71
Spherical Tetrahedron, 10 Sep'74
Synergetics Calculation, 17 Nov'72
Vector Equilibrium, 1 May'71*
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 19 Nov' 74
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities, 22 Jun' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Framework:
"The frame of a structure for enclosing space, or
the frame of a roof, wall or floor; used to distinguish
from individual frame components of a roof, wall or
floor, so as to denote the whole as distinguished from
its parts."
->
Cite Patent No. 2,986,241 2 May 30, 1961
SYNERGETIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Framework:
"The frame of a structure for enclosing space; may
be skeletal, as when made of interconnecting struts;
or continuous, as when made of interlocking or interconnected
sheets or plates."
-
Cite Patent No. 2,682,235, June 29, 1954
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Frame: Framework:
See Moving Picture
Scaffold:
Scenario
Scaffolding
Sculpture as Single Frame
Single Frame
Vector Equilibrium Frame
Basic Raft
Hyperbolic Paraboloid
Outline
Window
(1)

Frame: Framework:
See Jitterbug, 25 Feb'69
Polyhedron, 1 Jan'75
Conceptuality, 22 Oct'72
Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun'75
Tetrascroll, (1)
Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov 75
Scenario Universe, 18 Sep' 74
Energy Environment-harvesting Machines, 27 Jan' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frankenstein:
"Mechanisms are the antithesis of the Frankenstein concept."
Citation and context at Technology, 1947

Frankenstein:
See Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frankland:
Edward Frankland:
Linus Pauling "said there was a man named Frankland who
was the first man working in organic chemistry who began
to take notice that whatever was going on in the way of
things associating seemed to have to do with the numbers
on, two, three and four. Those were the only numbers that
seemed to appear in the relationships.'
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 73., 2 Jul '62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Franklin: Ben:
"Franklin was very much an operational man, first a baker and
then a printer. Being involved with production in your early
life is a very important kind of experience. And then he
became interested in economics and homely philosophy. Anyone
who is really involved in discovering principles which help
other people determine how they should behave, whether Franklin
or Mao, is seeking to find those generalized principles
governing sociology, which even to this day has failed to
discover any such laws ranking with those of science.
"If Franklin had been a large landowner, I'm sure he would
never have had the creativity. I'm sure he counseled himself
to be as simple as possible and to concern himself with just
the truth."
Cite RBF to EJA; context at Fuller, R.B.: A Propos Ben
Franklin, 22 Jan*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Freedom:
IF
Stephen M. Pike paper, p.66: "Wherein lies freedom? It
lies nowhere and everywhere at the same instance. It lies
in the concept of self and its relationship to other....'
RBF Marginalia: Freedom "is vectorially six positive and
six negative equieconomical degrees of freedom at each
turn
-
Cite RBF marginalis on Pike's paper "Geometrodynamics
of Thought," ; Jan'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Freedom:
"What do we really mean by freedom? We often hear it
said that it is freedom of thought, but there is freedom
of thought in Russia. People think and no one can stop
them from thinking. Possibly a real difference is a
freedom of initiative."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 125. 6 Jul'62

Freedom:
See Cosmic Freedoms
Degrees of Freedom
Free Will
Initial Freedoms
Loss: Discovery Through Loss
Man's Degrees of Freedom of Action
Motion Freedom
Individual Freedom vs. Mutual Emergency
Event Freedoms
Star Event & Degrees of Freedom
Intergeared Mobility Freedoms
(1)

Freedom:
See Sixness, 9 Nov 72
Understanding, 1 Apr'49
3
(2)

Free Energy va, Structure:
See Triangle, 1960

Free Enterprise:
See Business:
Businessmen
Capitalism
Enterprise
Private Eneterprise
Regenerative Economic Sustenance
(1)

Free Enterprise:
See Industrialization, 1947
Status Quo, 15
Propaganda, 29 Mar' 77
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (4) (5)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Freeways:
"The slower we get the more crowded we get.. As we leave
an airport and get out onto a freeway we have the
preposterousness of running in lines in opposite directions
at 65 mile per hour five feet apart-- with everybody
practicing steering. A decade from now this will look
rather silly. With current technological trending in
omnidirectional transport we will finish our great highway
programs just in time to turn them into some kind of
roller skating rink."
Cite THE YEAR 2000, San Jose State
Mar166
College

RBF DEFINITIONS
Freeways:
"It doesn't take long before the politicians begin to catch
on that those people want automobiles very badly, they are
very envious of the rich man who has them. They all dream
of self locomotion ever covering larger patterns. They
realize they would be very popular and get reelected if they
build some highways. So quite independent of what it is
going to cost, they set about to build highways. They
don't have to worry about the costs the way the business
executives do. We then see that highway building is really
a very big activity, covering a lot of land and is not
specialized at all. It is quite a generalized affair.
We have the politician really coordinating the capabilities
of corporations, all of which are integrated for special
purposes."
•
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 42. 2 Jul 62

Freeways:
See City
Highways
Inventions as Lifeways of Human Behavior
Traffic

RBF DEFINITIONS
Free Will:
"The Couplers literally couple 'everything,' while alternatively
permitting all the varieties of realizable
events experienced by
humans as the sensation of '
free will.""
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 954.50, 20 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Free Will:
"In order then to have a Universe where you have all
this regeneration, yet having an almost infinite number
of degrees of choice and selections and very high frequency
chances to make new channels and new actions-- the kind of
experience man really finds he does seem to have:
a certain kind of free will."
Cite RBF Tape for CHARAS,
"Everybody's Business
Taped 14 March 1971
Beverly Hotel, New York
EJA Transcript, p. 5.

KBF DEFINITIONS
Free Will:
...Evolution pivota on the conscious selective use of
cumulative human experience and on inherent freedoms of
action..."
Citation & context at Evolution, (p.10) 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Free Will:
"Man, in degrees beyond all other creatures known to him,
consciously participates-- albeit meagerly-- in the
selective mutations and accelerations of his own evolution.
This is accomplished as a subordinate modification and a
component function of his sum total relative dynamic
equilibrium as he speeds within the comprehensive and
complex interactions of Universe (which he alludes to
locally as environment.)"
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p. 225. May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Free Will:
"Through technology alone the creative individual can of
free will arrange for the continuing preservation of
mankind, despite individual man's frustrating propensities.
Mechanisms are the antithesis of the Frankenstein concept.
They represent the direct and only means of articulation
of free will. Mechanisms can only be operated by man."
-
Citation and context at Technology, 1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
Free Will vs. Darwin's Determinism:
" ...Evolution pivots on the conscious selective use of
cumulative human experience and on inherent freedoms of
action, not on Darwin's hypothesis of chance adaptation
to survival and assumption of evolution independent of
individual will and design."
-
Citation & context at Evolution, (p.10) 1960

Free Will:
See Degrees of Freedom
Determinability: Optimum Degrees Of
Determinism
Discretion
Electable:
Elective
Free Will vs. Darwin's Determinism
Man's Conscious Participation in Evolution
Option
Responsibility
Self-starter
Success
Voluntary & Involuntary
Will
Volition
(1)

Free Will:
See Evolution, 1960*
Individuality, May 65
Technology, 1947*
Freedom, Jan '77
(2)

Freezing the Unfreezable:
See Plastic Flowers, Oct'70

Freeze Freezing:
See Frozen Kensuration
Ice
Cryogenics
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency does not begin until you have modular subdivision."
Citation & context at Quantum Sequence, (4), 23 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"But frequency, as a word key to a functional concept, never
relates to the word one because frequency obviously involves
some plurality of events. As a one-frequency, ergo
sub-frequency, system, the vector equilibrium is really
subsize, or
a size-independent conceptual
integrity. Therefore, frequency beg with two--
where all the radials would have two increments. When the
edge module of a cube is one, its volume is eight. But when
the edge module of a vector equilibrium is one, its volume
is 20. A nuclear system is subsize, subfrequency.
Equilibrious unity is 20; its minimum frequency state
x 5. This is one of the properties of 60-degree
is 160 =
- 25
coordination."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 431.03,
2 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency is operationally realized modular subdivision
of the system enclosure."
Citation and context at Prime State, 21 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Time is frequency... R
Citation and context at Time, 6 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency begins with three-- with triangle, which is
the mimum cyclic enclosed circuitry."
-
Citation at Triangle, 17 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Special case always has frequency and size-time."
Citation at Special Case, 17 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
. The
"All the isotropic Vector matrix identifications of experience
are expressible in terms of angle and frequency.
frequencies are all special-case, time-space limited
specifics and identify relative sizes and magnitudes of
eternally conceptual generalizations."
Citation and context at Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Electromagnetic frequencies of systems are sometimes
complex, but they always exist in complementation of
gravitational forces and together provide prime rational
integer characteristics in all physical systems.
Citation and context at Package, 17 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"The frequency of any system is determined by the isotropic,
omni-intertriangulated, omnidirectionally considerate,
vectorially moduled, subdivision enumeration of the system's
radial and geodesically chorded circumferential closure's
totally relevant involvement limits taken in respect to the
system's independent event regenerating center. Because of
the required omnitriangulation and isotropicity systems are
inherently moduled only by equiangular-equilateral
triangles and their regenerative center is that of the
vector equilibrium wherefore the radial and circumferentially
chorded time-size, i.e., frequency wavelength modules
subdivision, by which alone system frequency may be
determined, are always identical."
SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 515.02, 15 Oct172

REF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
In "the frequency of the vector equilibrium... we witness
experientially the quantum propagation of radiant wave
after radiant wave identifiable with given wavelengths and
frequencies of embracements."
- Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS at Sec. 445.06; 22 Jun'72

REF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"You have to have division of the line to have frequency,
ergo to have time."
CILS HER TO. EJA, Beverly Hotel, New
Sept. 71.
Citation & context at Bow Ties: Genesia Of, 12 Sep* 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency begins with two.
Frequency and Size are the
same phenomena."
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 23 August 1971, Synergetics
Sept. 171 draft, Sec. 882.1

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Because there are no experimentally known continuums, we
cannot concede validity to the concept of continuous surfaces'
or of continuous 'solids.' The dimensional characteristics
we used to refer to as 'areas' and 'volumes,' which are always
the second and third-power values of linear increments, we
can now identify experimentally, arithmetically, and geomet-
rically only as quantum units that aggregate as points, both in
system-embracing areal aggregates and within systems as
volume-occupant aggregates. The areal and volumetric quanta
of separately islanded 'points' are always accountable numeric-
ally as the second and third powers of the frequency of modular
subdivision of the system's radial or circumferential vectors.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 515.011; RBF draft of Jun 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency is plural unity. Frequency is a multicyclic
fractionation of unity. A minimum of two cycles is essential
to frequency fractionation. Frequency means a discrete
plurality of cycles within a given greater cyclic increment.
"In closest packing of spheres, frequency is the number of
spaces between the balls, not the number of balls. In closest
packing, frequency is equal to radius."
->
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Seca. 515.30-.31; draft of Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Where frequency is one . . it just means it isn't frequent.
Which means frequency must be two or more. In the vector
equilibrium where frequency is one, there is only one interval:
the first layer = 10 F² + 2 = 12. Twelve balls of the first
layer. The center ball has a value of two for inside-
But the
outside, convex-concave: terminal condition.
center ball's frequency is zero."
- RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.
FREQUENCY
OF E-SEC. 445.03

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
in closest-packing "frequency is the space between
the balls and not the balls."
-
RBF TO EJA on telephone from
Los Angeles January 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"The physical Universe is an aggregate of frequencies. Each
element is uniquely identifiable in the electromagnetic spectrum
by its frequencies. None of them resemble each other and their
interactions bring about other unique cycles and frequencies
which act like great musical chords. We have a great orchestra-
tion which grows from the micro which are absolutely nondetect-
able by the human senses to the very complex which are in terms
of the whole galaxies. In fact the human senses are only able
to tune in to about a millionth of the total known realm of
identities of phenomena. Thus comes the awareness of the
physical giving the metaphysical employment-- to apply its
extraordinary sorting capability."
SYNTROPY +
ENTROPY-
SEC. 1652.57(
- Gite RBF Preface for Francis Warner, pp.34. Undated.
Citation and context at Eternal Slowdown (2) (3), 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Each local system has its own orbiting and its own frequencies,
and so forth.
Citation and context at Relative Asymmetry Sequence (1), Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"We can say frequency to the second power, or radius to
the second power.
Frequency I like because the frequency
modulus subdivision is either the radius or the edge.
Now
"Physics has found that there are two fundamental kinds of
acceleration: linear and angular.
Then we find that
the linear and the angular are the same. Now my word
frequency embraces them both, both linear and angular.
we have all the physics coming together and we can take care
of the orbits and linears in the same language known as
frequency.
-
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, p.2, 11 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Squares and triangles can be subdivided into greater
In
The number of
and greater numbers of similar units.
modular subdivisions along any edge can be referred to
as the frequency of a given square or triangle.
triangular grids each vertex may be expanded to become
a circle or sphere sowing the inherent relationship
between closest packed spheres and triangulation.
frequency of triangular arrays of spheres in planes
is determined by counting the number of intervals,
rather than the number of spheres on a given edge."
Cite Caption to Synergetics Illustration 50. May167
The

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Electromagnetic frequencies of systems are
sometimes complex but always constitute the
prime rational integer characteristics of
physical systems. It
Cite NASA Speech, p. 91. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"The cyclicly moduled length of the edge of any
triangulated, special case, structural system can represent
the basic 'standard' of relative comparison on a recycling
basis of subdivision.
Each increment is one unit of
frequency and each increment is one unit of wave."
-
Citation at Cycle, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"We find all the hierarchy of all the crystali-
zations to be rationally developed in respect to the
prime system. This hierarchy always can be topologically
analysed in the terms of two polar vertexes which we
call the additive twoness and a concave-convex multipli-
cative twoness, after the removal of both of which two-
nesses we find a constant relative abundance of one
vertex plus two faces and three edges times one of the
first four prime numbers, times frequency of modular
subdivision to the second power, frequency being the
modular subdivision of the basic edges of the tetra-
hedron, octahedron and icosahedron."
("spherical" omitted from last sequence.)
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 90. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Experienntally demonstrable cyclic regularities,
such as frequencies of the occurrence of radiation
emissions of various atomic isotopes, become the funda-
mental time increment references of relative size
measurements of elemental phenomena."
-
Citationat Time, Jun'66
Tite NASA Speech, p. 99, Jun'66
71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"The number of spheres along the edge of the icosahedron
is always one more than the frequency of modular
subdivisions of the icosahedron's linear edge."
--
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Robt. W. Horne, 1 Dec '65, p. 1.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"The word frequency would never relate to the word one,
incidentally, because frequency involves some plurality
of events. Therefore, frequency would begin at two. . . .
we have to have frequencies for size.
equilibrium is really subsise. .
•
as unity-- all the domain of a point
has a volume of 480."
Therefore vector
Looking at vector equilibrium
we find that it
d
Cite OREGON Lecture #8, p. 286. 12 Jul'62
FREQUENCY OF VE- SEC 445.031

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
In closest packing of spheres "we discover that the number
of balls in any one layer, we could call it frequency or
radius, because we have found that they are the same words."
Cite OREGON Lecture #7 p. 239. 11 Jul'62

72
RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency means a discrete plurality of cycles
within a given greater cyclic increment."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO. p. 144, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency is plural unity."
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 144,1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency:
"Frequency is a multi-cyclic fractionation of unity.
A minimum of two cycles are essential to frequency
fractionation.
Arithmetical size dimensionality is identified
geometrically with relative frequency modulation."
* Cite COLLIER'S, p. 114 Oct 59

Frequency Accounting:
See Distance, 16 Nov 172
Unit, Jul' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency: Alternate Wavelength Frequency:
"So the whole complex which is intimate and comprehensive to
all our great circlings and their foldabilities and the cosmic
railroad tracks and holding circuits and alternate wavelength
frequencies which they provide.
"
Citation and context at Atomic Computer Complex, 19 Apr173

Frequency Congruence:
See Pattern Generalization, (1)

Frequency Experienced Physical Energy:
See Unit, Jul*71

Frequency & Gravity:
See Prime rational Integers, Jun'oo; 25 1271 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency: Half Frequency:
"The fundamental fiveness is introduced with the initial
(frequency is 1/2, i.e., in equilibrium, that is, poised
between 1/2 positive and 1/2 negative) vector equilibrium
interiorly defining the nuclear sphere where the vector
equilibrium's volume = 2.5 (i.e., 5/2) and the two-frequency's
eightfold volumetric increase is 20."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.53, 29 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency: High Frequency & Low Frequency:
"The omni-interactions imping on your nervous system in all
manner of frequencies-- some so high as to appear 'solid'
things, some so slow as seeming to be 'absolute voids.""
-
Citation at Halo Concept, 25 Apr'71*
CTG SYNERGETICS drate, "Conceptuality

Frequency: High & Low:
See Energy Magnitudes:
Fast & Slow
Push-pull:
Order Of
Push Wave & Pull Wave
(1)

Frequency: High & Low:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence, (1)
Halo Concept, 25 Apr 71*; 'Jun 71
Specialization, 28 Apr 71
Spheric Experience
Thinking, 12
Tuning, 20 Jan'75
20 Feb 73
Cartilage vs. Bone, Dec 61
Periodic Experience, (9)
Mass, 12 May' 77
(2)

Frequency: High Frequency:
See Density
Ultra
High Frequency
(1)
7°

Frequency: High Frequency:
See Telepathy, 29 Jun 72; May 72
Womb Population, (2)
Nine, 16 May 75
Tune-in-ability, 5 Jun'75
Thinks, 11 Aug' 76
Geodesic Domes, 24 Jan' 58
Eyes, 1964
Electromagnetic Transmission of Human Organisms,
4 Jun'77
(2)

Frequency Integrity:
See Triangular Topology Integrity

Frequency & Interval:
See Relative Volumetric Frequency & Interval

75
RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency Islands of Perception:
"Though the diameter of Betelgues in Orion's Belt is greater
than the diameter of the Planet Earth's orbit around the Sun,
Betelguese appears to Earthians only as a fine point of light.
As in the rate of information recall by the mind from brain
storage, there is also an inherent lag in the rate of human
optical apprehending of newly perceived phenomena. The pulsa-
tive frequency of alternating current electric light at 60
cycles per second is designedly frequenced to coincide with the
frequency corresponding to humans' 'second look' stroboscopic
rate of apprehending. In a like manner the frequency rate of
cinema's picture-frame running is synchronized to coincide with
the rate of mental-mouthful digestability of new information
receptivity which must check the new information with the old
to permit recognition or new cognition. The static frames
themselves--as in benday screen printing--are frequency-subdiv-
ided into local increments whose wavelength-spacing is infra-
tunable by the human-brain-apprehending set. The human brain
apprehending at 200 info-bits per inch appears as omnicontinuous,
despite the separate frequency islands of their different color
light points, each of which is an island of different electromag-
netic frequencies. All of the spots are frequency islands like
events and novents."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 260.22; 13 Nov 75

Frequency Islands of Perception:
See Invisibility of Macro- and Micro Resolutions, (1)(2)

Frequency Limit:
See Photon: Tetra Edge as Unit Radius. 17 Jan 74
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegrities, (6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency & Magnitude:
"Wave magnitude and frequency are experimentally interlocked
as cofunctions, and both are experimentally gear-locked with
energy quanta.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 515.33; from NASA Speech (p.100),
Jun'66

Frequency & Magnitude:
See Irrelevancies: Dismissal of
Slower & Closer vs. Faster & Far Apart
Rates & Magnitudes
Frequency & Wave
(1)

Frequency & Magnitude:
See Environment Controls (1)
Inbreeding, 28 Apr 71
Social Adjustment, Feb 72
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov'71
Unitary Conceptuality, 22 Oct172
Thinking, 12 Jul'62
Order, 7 Nov 73
Radiation, 11 Feb'76
(2)

Frequency Model:
See Electromagnetic Transmission of Human Organisms,
4 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency Modulation:
"This is what science has discovered: a world of waves
in which waves are interpenetrated by waves in frequency
modulation."
-
Citation and context at Pulsation, 9 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency Modulation:
n
•
All bodies of Universe are affecting the other
bodies in varying degrees and all the intergravitational
effects are precessional angular modulations, and all
the interradiation effects are frequency modulations."
* Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, p. 73. Oct 166-
-
Citation at
Radiation-Gravitation, Oct *66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency Modulation:
"There are only two possible covariables operative
in all design in universe. They are modifications of
angle and frequency."
•CIES DOXIABIS
337, 20 Jun106.
->
Citation at Covariables, 20 Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency Modulation:
"By designedly synchronized frequency of
reoccurrence of their constituent event patternings
a machine gun's bullets may be projected through
a given point in the rotational patterning of an
airplane's propeller blades. Such purposeful
synchronization of alternate occupation at a point
by first a bullet and then a propeller blade, and repeat,
is called frequency modulation, which avoids inter-
ference since all physical phenomena from largest to
the smallest consist of frequencies of reoccurrence of
otherwise discontinuous events. All physical
phenomena are subject to frequency modulating
avoidance or use of interference patterns."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 50,
Cite CARDONALD TEXT IV, 27
Jun166
For later citation see Synchronization, Apr171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency Modulation:
"Frequency modulation is accomplished through precession-
shunted circuit synchronization. Valving is angular
shunting. Competent design is predicated upon frequency
modulation by application of the precessional shunting
principle."
->
Citation and context at Shunting: Relative Motion Patterns,
(1), 1955

Frequency Modulation:
See Angle & Frequency Modulation
Circuit
Design Covariables:
Shunt
Size Dimensionality
Tunability
Modular Subdivision
Synchronization
Principle of
(1)

Frequency Modulation:
See Experience, 1960
Plural Unity, 1960
Pulsation, 9 Nov 72*
Radiation-gravitation, Oct'66*
Shunting: Relative Motion Patterns,
Thinking, 1960
Vector Equilibrium, 10 Nov'74
Covariables, 20 Jun'66*
Compoundings of Systems, 10 May'76
(1) *
(2)

Frequency as One:
See Omnidirectional Terminal Case Corner, 13 Nov' 75

Frequency One:
See Frequency, 12 Jul'62

Frequency Radius:
See Frequency, 11 Jul 62; Jun171
Radial Depth, 20 Dec174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency & Wave:
"Wave as a constant topological aspect is exclusively
defined by angle, conceptually independent of frequency;
ergo, frequency is the additional special case fifth
characteristic: the generalization realized in time."
"
(81072.31)
- Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., RBF Ms. at Sec. 1072.31; 19 Dec 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency and Wave:
"Frequency and wave are covariably coupled; detection of
one discloses the
other."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 223.90, 26 Sep 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency & Waye:
"The number of waves longitudinally accomplished in a given
time consitutes frequency."
- Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS Ms. at Sec. 240.23,
Haverford, PA, 11 Oct 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frequency & Wave:
"Wave magnitude and frequency are experimentally interlocked
as cofunctions and both are experimentally gear locked with
energy quanta."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p.100, Jun '66
-
Later Citation at Prequency & Wave, Jun'66
78

Frequency & wave:
See Nave-frequency Relations
Radial-circumferential
Frequency & Magnitude
Javelength, Frequency & Resonance
Relative Volumetric Frequency & Interval
Electromagnetic lave Propagation
(1)

Frequency & Wave:
See Inflection, Mar' 71
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symetry, Nov' 71
Cycle, Jun'66
Isotropic Vector Matrix, (p.j2) undated
In, Out & Around Experiences, (1)
Repetitive, 28 May 175
Metaphor, 2 Jul175
Pole Vaulter, 2 Jul'75
Vector Equilibrium:
Field of Energy, (C) (D)
Vector Equilibrium: Unarticulated VE, 2 Nov 73
Halo Concept, Jun'71
Feedback, 7 Nov 75
Order & Disorder, 1964
(2)

Frequency:
See Amplitude & Frequency
Circumferential Modular Frequency Growth
Cyclic Experience
Dimensionality = Radial Depth
Energetic Frequency
Equi-interval
Family of Unique Frequencies
Frequency
Generalized Topological Definability
Initial Frequency
Measurment = Frequency
Mass & Frequency
Ninety-two Elements:
Omnifrequency
Prefrequency
Rate
Spun Frequency
Subfrequency
Unique Frequencies
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegrities
Time-size
Radial-circumferential Modular Growth
(1A)

18
Frequency:
See Topological Aspects: Inventory of
Unique Frequencies
Wave-frequency Aberrations
Wave-frequency Relations
Wavelength & Frequency Event System
Zero Frequency
Infinity = Frequency
Rates & Frequencies
Frequencyless
Relative Volumetric Frequency & Interval
Radial ave
odular Growth
Interference Noninterference
(1B)

Frequency:
See Behavioral States, May'72
Conceptuality Independent of Size & Time, 2 Jun'74
Cycle, Jun 66*
Dimension, 16 Nov'72
Eternal Slowdown (2) (3)*
Einstein, 16 Nov 72
Integral, 11 Mar'69
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Feb'73*
Line Between Two Sphere Centers, 12 Sep 71
Nature, Dec 72
Nonlimit, 16 Nov 172
Package, 17 Nov*72*
Prime State, 21 Mar173*
Relative Asymmetry Sequence (1)*
Resolution, 5 Jul 62
Resonance,
18 Jun 71
Bow Ties:" Genesis Of, 12 Sep' 71*
Life, May 49
(2A)

Frequency:
See Seven Axes of Symmetry, 13 May173
Special Case, 17 Feb'73*
Tidal, May 72
Time, 16 Nov'72; 6 Mar' 73*; Jun'66; (1)
Touch, 29 Dec 58
Tunability, 16 Nov 72
Individual Universe, (1)(2)
Quantum Sequence, (4)*
Prime Rational Integer Characteristics, Jun'66
General Systems Theory, (1)
Machines vs. Structures, 13 Nov*75
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects, 12 Feb*76
Primitive, 18 Jul*76
(2B)

Frequency:
See Frequency Accountable
Frequency: Alternate Wavelength Frequency
Frequency Congruence
Frequency Experienced Physical Energy
Frequency: Half
Frequency: High
Frequency: High & Low
Frequency Integrity
Frequency Limit
Frequency & Magnitude
Frequency Modulation
Frequency One
Frequency Radius
Frequency & Wave
Frequency Islands of Perception
Frequency as One
Frequency & Gravity
Frequency llodel
Frequency : Interval
(3)

Frequencyless:
See Awavilinear
Noninterferable
Nonintereference
Uninterferable
(1)

Frequencyless:
See Gravity, 11 Feb'76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fresh:
"The parent tells the child 'Don't be Fresh!' when
fresh is just what speech should be.
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington, 3 Detober 1971.

Fresh:
See Resources: Fresh vs. Waste

Freud, Sigmund: (1856-1939)
See Responsibility, Dec'69; 14 Oct169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Friction:
"
Local physical systems
Are always exporting energy
In one manner or another,
Such as by friction."
-Cite RBF Draft, BRAIN & MIND,
P
p.81 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Friction:
"Where Friction is dominant
there time is winning out over energy.
"
Cite SECOND HAND GOD, P. 46
9 Apr 40

Friction:
See Interfriction

Friendship:
See Love, 30 Nov'60

Frog:
See Snake Swallowing Frog

Frontier: Frontiering:
See Fuller, R.B: As Harbinger of Society
Outlaw Area
(1)

Frontier: Frontiering:
See Floating City, Aug'72
Rearrange the Scenery (1)
Intellect, 1972
Public Relations, 28 Jan '75
Genius: Children Are Born Geniues, (2)
(2)

00
Front Office Switchboard: Universal Mind':
See Intuition: Hot Line Of, 15 Aug'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frost: Robert:
Q.
A.
"I Understand you were rediscovering Robert Frost the
other night?"
"Yes. I had some antipathy to Frost. I felt him to be
too obvious. I was very pleased the other night to
find myself really intrugued with some of his subtleties.
I was very pleased to find myself wrong; all along I
couldn't understand how my fellow men could think so much
of this man while I thought so little of him.
"
Cite "Books and Buckminster Fuller," by Minel J. Bandler,
BOOK WORLD, 11 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frost: Robert:
"I had always had some kind of an antipathy to Frost.
It all just seemed part of the New England language and
so obvious that it didn't get me at all. But reading him
now I am intrigued with some of his subtlety. I was very
pleased to find that I was wrong. I had assumed that I was
that I had just read the wrong samples, since
wrong.
I knew my fellow man had though he was such a good poet.'
-
Cite RBF to Mike Bandler, Wash. Post, "Portrait of a Man
Reading," 3200 Idaho, Wush DC, 29 May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frost: Robert:
"Frost writes of the wavering and oscillations of local
truth, which he identifies very well-- and it made him
very popular-- but he doesn't go anywhere with it."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 25 May'72

Frozen Mensuration of the Past:
See Synergetic Constant, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fruit:
"We tend to applaud only the flower and the fruit
Citation and context at Organic Model, Oct 66

Fruit:
See Apple
Banana
Oranges

FSRCQ
Fuller Sublimely Rememberable Comprehensive Quotient:
See SSRCD

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fudging:
"If nature uses pi she has to do what we call fudging of her
design, which means improvising, compromisingly.
-
Citation and context at Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship
Sequence (2), 1965

Fuel Cell:
See Cosmic Accounting Sequence, (4)
Windmill, (2)
Wind Power Sequence, (1)

Fuel:
See Alcohol as Fuel
Feed
Fossil Fuels
Chemical Fueling
Celestial Radiation Accumulators
Fireplace Log

Fulcrum:
See Lever
Oar: Vacuum-fulcrumed Oars
Earth Model as a Bundle of Nutcrackers
Interfulcrum
(1)

Fulcrum:
See Buckle, 10 Nov'73
Curvature: Simple, (1)
(2)

Fuller Brush Man:
See Rearrange the Scenery, (2)

Fuller, Margaret:
See Conversation Sequence, (1)

FULLER, R.B. PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, Allegra:
See Conversation Sequence, (1) (2)
Cosmic Fish Sequence, (1)
Lecturing, (1)

TEXT CITATIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Alexandra Theme:
(1)
See: Brain and Find, pp. 159-161
museums as instruments of Education in the New Revolution
my initial Teleological Preoccupations, (i&1, Ch. #1),
Pp. o - 10.
Later Development of york," (lal), Pp. 48 - 50.
SII Address, U.hass., Amherst, 22 July 71, Talk 13,
p. 5, et. seq.
DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, P. 153, J. Cape La.
WATTS TAPE, p. 33 et. seq. 19 Oct '70
HOUSE & GARDEN, p. 198, May 172
INFLUENCES ON MY WORK, pp.22-25, I&I, Jan' 55

TEXT CITATIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Alexandra Theme:
RBF
Michael Ben Eli Interview, AD, Dec'72
(2)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Alexandra Theme:
See Natural, 20 Jan 75,
Telepathy, 2 Jun'71

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: I am Apolitical:
Q: (Sen. Humphrey):
"What do you think we politicans should
do?"
A: (RBF) "I really do not have any suggestions because my
whole way of thinking is apolitical. I think in
terms of artifacts, of reforming the environment
and not of reforming humans by laws. I am just
very proud that you wish to have me come and speak,
and I know all of you and am moved by your sincerity."
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May*75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: His Associates: & Collaborators: Charter of:
See Spontaneous Deputies
Cosmic Fish Sequence
Applewhite, E.J:
Sublimation, 21 Oct 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: His Aversion to Artistic Exploitation of
Synergetics Models:
"On the 'artistic' use of synergetics models, I am not talking
about what other people may do; I am just saying that I don't
do it myself."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 5 May 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B.: His Aversion to Artistic Exploitation of
(1)
Synergetics
Models:
See Tensegrity:
Synergetics:
Aesthetics:
Objets d'art
Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-
Octahedron Universal Joint
Effect on Art and Architecture
Invisible Aesthetics
Octet Truss in Yale Art Gallery
Invisible Aesthetics

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B: Books Read in His Youth:
"The books I enjoyed in my youth were: 'Robin Hood, *
The Faerie Queen, Shakespeare, Dickens, 'Quo Vadis,
and John Galsworthy."
-
Cite ATTACKS OF TASTE, Ed. by Evelyn B. Byrne and Otto M.
Penzler, Gotham Book Mart, NYC, 1971

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Books Read in His Youth:
See Philosophy, 11 Aug176
Reading Out Loud, 29 May' 72

NORMAN COUSINS QUOTATION
Fuller, R.B.:
Cousins, Norman:
Inscription to RBF:
"On a wall in his office at Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, Illinois, 1 saw a photograph of the boot of
Italy taken from a plane, seeming to show the earth's
curvature. His friend Norman Cousins, former editor of
Saturday Review (later to launch a new review, World) sent
it, inscribed:
"... of all the human beings I know,
You have liberated yourself most from earth
constrictions-- not just specific gravity
but general modes of fixed thought.""
-
From HOLLY ROUND, p. 121, Holt, Rinehart & Wisston, NY, 1973
by Hasa Gustaitis.

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Commitment to Humanity, 1927-1932:
See Artifacts, (1)
Dyamxion Artifacts, (1)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: On Creativity:
"There've been Bucky Fullers that were going to Hell, I'll
tell
you! And some that were going to Heaven, tool It's
always
touch and go. Because what I'm saying is there--
it had to be there in
advance.
We have a billion
potentials."
(BO R Comment: The latter part of this remark refers to
RBF's view that there is no such thing as 'creativity'--
everything is already there and it is imply up to us to
discover
it-- or rediscover it-- actually.)
- Cite HBF to BU'k, hent, Ohio, 23 Fay' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927:
P ...I realized how facile at popping off things that others
had given me; so for ten years I didn't use words to see if
I could really understand what I was
thinking."
RBF quote recorded by Neva Kaiser as shown on screen at
Harvard Commencement & reunions, June'75
04

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, H.B:
Crisis of 1927:
"Dear Red:
"I thank you very much for letting me know about the college
endowment program which is an excellent one.
"I want you to know a little bit about my own case. I do not
have any securities or interest-bearing business investments.
in 1927 I committed myself for the rest of my life to undertaking
the solution of problems which were not being attended to by
others which experience taught me would, if effectively solved,
greatly advantage society and if left unattended, would bring
about comprehensive disadvantage for all.
"There was no one to pay me for these tasks. No direct
bargaining could be undertaken. I saw that the Universe opera-
ted regeneratively on an indirect, complex circuitry of
intersupport.
"All biological life on Earth is sustained exclusively by star
(Sun) radiation. The radiation is vegetation-impounded by photo-
synthetic chemistry, which proliferates hydrocarbon molecules."
->>
Cite RBF Ltr. to Hobt. H. Davison, Boston, 12 Jun 73
(a)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927:
"of inadvertently to the cyclically regenerative functioning,
would find myself surviving without direct accountability and
only by surprise income sources. This 46-year-old assumption
seems to have proven valid as the sums of money which have come
to me annually have just about matched my ever-increased funding
of original research and development. For the last 20 years
the income has
averaged greater than $150,000 a year, all of
which I have reinvested in further research, ergo, no savings.
"I have not attended directly to developing any income for my
heirs. I have, however, inadvertently developed income for them
because of the 12 books i have written and published, royalties
from which will accrue to them for some time. This means that I
do not have any of the guaranteed income-producing capabilities
of many amongst our classmates who I am confident will be able
to participate in the new endowment program. As I have done
throughout all the last 56 years, I will kepp on giving annually
to Harvard until i die, and will try to increase the giving.
I hope that whatever benefit 1 may be to Harvard accrues to the
work I have done. I know that some of my books are already used
by Harvard classes."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Robt. H. Davison, Boston, 12 Jun 173
(c)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B:
Crisis of 1927:
"To avoid dehydration by Sun exposure the vegetation puts down
roots through which, by osmosis, it draws water through its
whole system, launching that water into the atmosphere to return
some day as rain.
The
Honey
"The vegetation gives off gases that keep the animals going.
manmals give off the gases that keep the vegetation going.
bees going after their honey only inadvertently cross-pollinate
the vegetation, which vegetation being rooted, could not reach
other vegetation to procreate its kind. in the same way the
money-bee (sic), humans, going after their profit inadvertently
cross-proliferated general production tooling but only for war-
making, which all inadvertently in due course provided swiftly
amplifying, world-around life support not foreseen by the money
bee when underwriting the development of arms production.
"I saw that all living organisms were given genetically incisive
drives which, in their accomplishment, inadvertently fed into the
complex regenerative pattern of life on planet Earth which has
now come to be known integratedly as ecology.
"I decided 1 1927 to assume that if I attended directly, instead"
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Robt. H. Davison, Boston, 12 Jun '73
(b)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, H.B:
Crisis of 1927:
"I hope that in Meager degree I am fulfilling William James's
The purpose of life is to spend it for something that outlives
you,'
I pray that this makes my position clear.
Affectionately and faithfully yours,
R. Buckminster Fuller."
Mr. Robert H. Davison
Haussermann, Davison & Shattuck
Fifteen State Street
Boston, Massachusetts
02109
Cite RBF Ltr. to Hobt H. Davison, Boston, 12 Jun '73
(d)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.:
Crisis of 1927:
"When I was 32 a major change came about in my life. Up to
then I had been conditioned, both lovingly and harshly, to live
in accord with inspirations, biases, values, concepts,
resolves, laws, loyalties, and credós evolved by others.
"In 1927, I resolved to do my own thinking, and see what the
individual starting without any money or credit-- in fact,
with considerable discredit, but with a whole lot of
experience- to see what the individual, with a wife and
new-born child, could produce on behalf of his fellow men.
I have been in this second stage of my life for approximately
half a century now."
- Cite RBF interview by Michael Ben-Eli, AD, Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.:
Crisis of 1927:
"I felt I was a low-average man. It occurred to me that the
world was largely made up of people precisely like that. So
I resolved to determine if there was something the little
individual could do to help his fellow man, to see if there
was something the individual could do that all the vast
corporations couldn't.
"There is nothing in the system of checks and balances of
giant cofrorations that produces a breakthrough.
We keep
the system going by deliberately introducing inefficiency.
"Humanity has been doing the right things but for the wrong
reasons. We're told that the Golden Rule is beautiful and
all that, but the hard economic fact is that there's not
enough to go around. It's you or the other guy. I tried very
hard to play that game until I was 32. But I discovered then
that I wasn't doing my own thinking, according to the rules
of the game, I was told I was impractical. So I tried to
open up again the valves of sensitivity. I resolved to
discipline myself not to talk to anyone else unless they
asked me. and then to give them my very best insights."
-
•
Cite RBF to m. C. Lyon, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 Nov '72
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
"You see, we spend so much time trying to persuade others
to see things as we do that we don't really listen to each
other. And we must be economical with our time.
so short.. I try to overcome my own reflex.
we act in moments of stress.
"
"
•
It's
the wav
to see things not as I was
convinced they were yesterday, but as I found them, even if
they are different-- today."
(2)
->
Cite RBF to Wm. C. Lyon, Philadelphia Enquirer, 1 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B: Crisis of 1927:
"This the birth of Allegra 7 precipitated my absolute
determination to peel off. had really been through a great
deal. But I had gone into Harvard with high honors in
physics. I had very rich boyhood experience with boats.
In my Navy, I had looked into electronics, the chemistries,
and navigation. I had papers to command unlimited tonnage
on the ocean. I could fly. But I had kept pushing things,
trying them out. And it always seemed to come to a dead end.
I decided I'd better call myself to account with this new
child to care for. Or get myself out of the way, because I
was a mess.
'
(A)
*
"This is really where I started. I was not called an archi-
tect. I was not called anything. I was simply faced with
the problem of organizing myself and really starting to use
I had to educate myself in a great many ways to pursue
such a course. But I found it's actually possible for an
individual to make first moves, and that these will incite
various others."
me.
"
Cite RBF to William Marlin, Architectural Forum, Feb172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.
Crisis of 1927:
"So I said to myself, 'If this gets anywhere it's going to
take 50 years and unless you're willing to spend 50 years,
don't touch it. Because it's too important. It's too big
and right. Don't flub this one, or you'll discourage a lot
of others coming along.'
"I said to myself, 'What can I do to help my fellow man
without trespassing on him?'
"Let's say you're looking at me. But I can see behind you.
And a rock is tumbling downhill and it's going to hit you in
the head. Let's say I divert it. You'd have been killed if
I hadn't. You didn't even know you were going to be killed.
You might say, 'Why did you do that? I wanted to die.' Well,
I would say,
Then jump out that window over there. There
are many ways for you to die if that's what you really want.'
But I want you to have the option of saying whether you want
to die."
Cite RBF to William Marlin, Architectural Forum, Feb'72
(B)

KBP DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
"At the age of 32 1 decided to reorganize my effectiveness--
to recapture the capabilities we were born with."
Cite RBF to EJA, New York, April 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
"I resolved to apply the rest of my life to converting my
pattern sense, through teleological principle into design
and prototyping developments governing the pertinent, but as
yet unattended essential industrial network functions, necessary
to removal of such housing chaos by physically effective and
lasting technology. As a corollary I resolved to eschew
further acceptance of conventional recourse to political or
moral reforms which, lacking physical energy effectiveness,
must in the face of physical inadequacy adopt peaceful or
forseful palliation through political action... I sought only
to allow myself to articulate my own innate motivational
integrity instead of tryin to accommodate everybody else's
prefabricated credos, educational theories, romances and
mores as had occurred in my first life'."
RBF interview in "Friends," (London) 14 Apr 70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
"In 1927 I gave up forever what I thought was a fallacy of
most
of my contemporaries-- in fact have to earn a living.
it seemed to me all of
my contemporaries. They all said:
And that had the highest priority in what they were studying
at school. The phrase 'earning a living' I thought was wrong.
The words really meant you had to prove your right to live;
you had to prove that you were worth living; in the face of
Darwin and Malthus, there was nowaher near enough to go round,
and survival only of the fittest. And I felt that all this was
wrong, so I said in 1927: I'm going to give up forever this
concept of proving my right to live. I'm going to find out
what it is that I've experienced, that I see needs to be done,
that nobody else is attending to and that my experience tells'
me I know how to solve. Most people were attending to very
narrow things; therefore it forced me to concentrate on big
things, and employ the biggest pattern-comprehending capability
with which we are all born."
-
Gite HBF in "The Listener," transcript by John Donat, 26 Sep 68

kuF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
"While both Anne and Allegra know that in 1927 I gave
up entirely the idea of trying to use my capabilities to
develop special economic and physical advantage for them
and instead committed myself to the proposition that if
those whom I love were indeed the kind of human beings
I thought them to be that they would not like finding
themselves in a position of special economic and physical
adavantage won at the cost of deprivation of others and
likewise that their true happiness could only develop
through an awareness that our efforts were always in the
direction of progressively increasing advantage for all
humans without any biases whatsoever."
Cite HBF Ltr. to Gene Fowler, 6 June 1967.

TEXT CITATIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927:
SIMS Address, U.hass., Talk 13, pp.4-8, 22 Jul 171
Designing A New Industry, p. 155 (J. Cape, Ed.) 1946
Mexico 163, p.9 et. seq., 10 Oct 163
Museums Keynote Address, Denver, pp.4-6ff.
New Yorker Profile, 8 Jan '66

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927:
See Dymaxion Outset
Blind Date with Principle
Commitment to Humanity
Thinking: Doing Your Own Thinking
Fuller, R.B:
Moratorium on Speech
(1)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B:
Crisis of 1927:
See Architecture, 2 Jul'62
Boltzmann Sequence, (2)-(4)
De sovereignization Sequence, (1)
Doing hat Needs to be Done, 26 Jan '75
Dome: Monteal Expo 67 Dome Sequence, (2)
Environment Events Hierarchy, (1)-(3)
Dome: Rationale for the Geodesic Dome, (1) (2)
Equilibrium, 25 Feb'69
Geodesic Dome, (1)
Gravity, 15 Oct164
Individual Economic Initiative, Dec 72
Industrialization:
Curve Of, (1)
Intuition Sequence, (1)
Invisible Man, 22 Jul 71
an as Local Problem Solver, (1)
Navy Sequence, (7)
Question Answering, Sep '73
Reflexes, 2 Jun'71'
Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man,
10 Oct 63
(2A)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927:
See Robin Hood Sequence, (1) (2)
Thinking, (1); 12 Jul 62
Words, Jun 58
Psychiatry, (1)-(5)
(2B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: His Discovery and Disclosure of Coordinate System
Of Universe
See Synergetics, 1959
Energetic/Synergetic Geometry: Original Publica-
tion in 1944

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Discoveries of 1913:
See Calculus, (2)
Nature Has No Separate Departments, May' 72

PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Decision to Be a Doer, Not a Persuader:
See Anonymity, 19 Dec'71
Design, 1970
Dome: Rationale For, (1) (2)
Rearrange the Scenery, (2)
Reform of Environment Rather Than Reform of Man,
10 Oct163
Philosophy, 1946
Supreme Intellect, 3 Nov'64

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller. R.B: On Drinking Liquor:
Q.
RBF:
"Is it true that you used to drink? Why did you
do it?"
*In the 1930s when I had that great responsibility
of exploring our highest scientific capabilities... when I had
the burden of proving that politics just might be invalid.
I had to regard myself as the custodian--but not the proprietor
of the rules of Universe, and not just our little local rules.
called politics.
"I did not want to be a leader, playing the political game.
But this was in the depths of the depression when I sometimes
got a decent meal only every two or three days and when some
of them in the streets didn't get that much. And I found that
people listening to my ideas started treating me as a messiah,
as kind of guru--and I didn't want that so I deliberately
took to drink and when the people saw me stumbling out of bars
or coming out of a brothel and things like that, well I can
tell you that it shook off all those disciples all right."
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila, PA; 22 Jun'77

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Ecological Predictions of 1927:
I
"It was 50 years ago when I started my projections of
what the world was going to be up against, but 50 years
ago no one was interested in what was going to happen
50 years from then.'
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop' 77; Phila., PA; 22 Jun 77

FBF PLRSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Ecological Predictiom of 1927:
See Dymaxion Artifacts, (1)
Ecology, Dec 72

K.B.F DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Ego, Desire to Avoid an Unnatural Ero:
See America,
22 July 171

TEXT CITATIONS
Fuller, R.B: Meeting with Einstein:
"The Listener", 26 Sep'68 - Transcript of interview with
Robert Donat

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B:
Energetic Geometry: I Began the Search in 1917:
See Acceleration of Change (1)
Cyclic Unity, 20 Jun166
Invention Sequence (A)
Newton vs. Einstein (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.:
Described as Engineer-Saint:
"I regard Bucky as one of the world's most valuable natural
resources and I hope that the main function of the Institute
will be to conserve that resource. I think he's valuable
because he's in a unique position: he inspires hope among the
young people, and this is absolutely essential because we now
have this curious malaise among the young-- interested in
astrology, mysticism, and witchcraft and this sort of nonsense,
which, you know, could be a sign of a disintegrating civiliza-
tion. But he shows that technology can, in fact, save our
civilization. . he is one of the people who inspire hope
among the next generation upon whom everything depends.
I won't embarrass him by repeating my description of him.
I think he's the world's first engineer-saint."
.
I hope
Cite Arthur Clarke at DSI Press Conference, NYC, 28 Jun 72

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RaF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: On Verner Erhard & est:
RBF:
about it.
"You say that Werner Erhard and eat are all on
the side of youth, truth, and love. Why?"
"I have never studied eat and so I cannot talk
I know Werner Erhard as a good human being."
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop' 77: Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77

RBF JEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: His Admission of Error:
"Both Hugh Kenner and this professor at Stanford have
pointed out my mistake in dating the publication and
recognition of balthus's work. i will write them both
and thank them. But I have already made the first amenda
of public admission of my error at a great university--
when I opened my talk yesterday at Harvard, at the Faculty
Club, telling them that I have been wrong about the dates.
First of all I welcome corrections. but at Fortune i got
into the habit of being casual about dates because we always
had researchers to check everything. I talked to the head
of the East India Company studies about this. Even though
althus didn't get his degree till later, he had access to
all the facts and figures. And the people around him
recognized thathis first surmise-- about population-- was
so valid that he really had earned his professorship, long
before it was actually awarded. As far as that date
goes. . . It is a part of my persoanl discipline to make
a public acknowledgement of my errors. It's not a question
of excusing myself. There's no vacuum in Universe about
this: your face is what it is. The welcoming of attention
to error is of the greatest importance."
Cite RBF to JA on telephone from Somerset Club, Boston, 1 Far'/2

RUF PERSONAL REFERENCES:
Fuller, R.B: His Admission of Error:
See Error, 5 Feb'77
Frost, Robert, 11 Jun' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.b: His Imaginative Etymologies:
"My capacity.
myca PaceT.
Pace peace. ca
against."
RBF to EJA on returning from men's room to pot of tea
at Royal Scots Grill, NY, 20 Jun'72

KBP DEFINITIONS
Fuller: K.B.: His Imaginative Etymologies:
See Healm: Real: Royal
Religion: Related to 'Heglio' or Rule
Consider
Fittest
Real, 20 Apr '72
Cipher
Algebra
Funambulist
Sinus
Education, May149
Fiscal
Lunatic
18 Jul172
Story-Tellin 72
Wizard, 18
Octet Truss, 8 Jan' 55
Inhibit, 29 Oct'72
Enterprise, 28 Nov 72
Touch, 29 Dec 58
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: His Imaginative Etymologies: (2)
See Schools: Shoals
Nine: Nucleus - Nine - Nothing
(cf. Nine, 18 Jun'71)
Imagination: Image-ination
Imagination: Image-ise
Division, 1960
Truss, 25 Jan '73
House, 1938
Shelter, 1938
Noun, 1938
Talent (1)
Mensuration, Aug'73
Vessel
Logistics, 10 Dec 173
Confusion - Fusing
Phoenician, 28 Jan'75
Sin, 7 Nov 75

RBF DEFINTIONS
Fuller, R.B: Hia Imaginative Etymologies:
See Penis, 12 Jan'74
Geometry, 1 Oct 71
Phoenician Phonetic Sequence, 23 Jan'75
Navy Phonetic Sequence, 23 Jan 75
Veritas, 7 Nov'75
Expensive Nonthinking, 24 Jan' 76
Polygon, 14 Oct'76
Triclinic, 31 Aug' 76
Understanding, 30 Sep' 76
(3)

PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B:
Evidence Published by Others: Qualified
Acceptance Of:
See Octahedron: Eighth-octahedra, (1)
Greater Intellect, (1)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Eyesight:
"My color sense without glasses-- or before I wore them
as a kid is always heightened by the lack of detailed
definition."
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop, Phila. PA., 22 Jun' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: On His Fellow Men:
"Now I don't think ill of any of my fellow men. Each one
has his own evolutionary pattern; but I am intent, wherever
I can, to free my fellow men of their entrapment in ignornace
and shortsightedness."
Citation and context at Pollution: Infinite Room to Polluter
22 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Meeting with Fernandez-Moran:
This
Bill Lear had arranged for RBF to meet (fnu) Fernandez-Moran,
Director of the Fermi Laboratory, University of Chicago.
was also the site of RBF's one-day meeting with Cyril Stanley
Smith in 1950. RBF also recalled that Fernandez-Moran was at
MIT at the same time RBF was-- 1955. At the invitation of
Fernandez-Moran RBF met with him and his top people in the
Chicago Laboratory, from 8.30 - 10.30 a.m., 5 Apr'73.
(1)
"They showed me everything they had-- the largest super-
conducter in the world, their laser diamond cutter, absolute
zero conditions with no energy loss at all. There was a man
named Wolf who had won the Scott Medal in Philadelphia and
was the head of the electron microscope work in the laboratory.
Wolf was the top mathematician at Cambridge. Fernandez-Moran
and Wolf said that RBF's mathematical discoveries were really
confirmed by the latest developments in nuclear physics. They said
that Fuller ranked with Einstein and Dirac as the only other
two men whom they knew in their lifetime to make original
mathematical discoveries of such significance. (They said
Dirac was as mean as was Einstein modest and generous.)
ranked me with Einstein and Dirac as most important personal"
-
They
Cite RBF on telephone from Palatine, Illinois, to EJA, 5 Apr 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B.: Meeting with Fernandez-Moran:
"acquaintances.
(2)
I said to them that radiation has shadow
while gravitational does not. They said that was true but
that no one had ever said that to them before. I said that
second powering relates to points and not to surfaces.
And they
understood and they said that that was so.
"They said they had known of my work for many years, since
the 1940's-- before World War II.
"With their holography they were able to make models of
concentric spheres getting smaller and smaller. And I told
them about spherics and there is a rhombic dodecahedron around
every point in the isotropic vector matrix. I explained my
billboard model successively activating each point in an
isotropic vector matrix. They understood. And I told them
about the 'Coupler' and how the center of the face of the
rhombic dodecahedron is congruent with the center of volume
of the asymmetric octahedronal 'Coupler'; it has eight faces
and brings in the octave system, with the value of one....
The interior octahedron of the vector equilibrium made up
entirely of energy-conserving A Quanta Modules...
"
- Cite RBF on telephone from Palatine, Illinois to EJA, 5 Apr 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: A Propos Ben Franklin:
"It was the head of the Soviet Academy of Scientists who
first made the comparison of RBF with Edison and Franklin.
(1)
"He gave the summary address to the 100 guests of the final
formal dinner of the 1961 10-day 'Dartmouth Conference' held
that year in Leningrad, between what the Russians called the
leading representatives of across-the-board fields of the
USA and USSR economied with 30 Russians and 25 USA's partici-
pating. Amongst the USA team of 25 were Arthur Larsen, Norman
Cousins Dr. Paul Dudley White (cardiologist), James Michener
(author), John Galbraith, Norton Simon, David Rockefeller and
B. Fuller. The Russian team had five of its science academicians--
also their leading philosophers, writers, economists, sociolo-
gists, the head of the moving picture institute, and the editor
of Pravda, Both sides had the representatives of their air
sefvices and the professional disarmament negotiators.
"It was decided by both teams and mutually agreed between them
not to have a final summary of the proceedings. Instead, on
the last day's morning a Russian team member would make a
comprehensive forecast of world affairs, and in the afternoon"
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust, Phila., 22 Jan173, as rewritten by
RBF.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: A Propos Ben Franklin:
(2)
"the USA member would make his comprehensive forecast which,
to some extent, would disclose what hope the meetings might have
engendered or not discouraged. The head Russian meteorologist
gave the Russian prognostication and B.F. the USA.
"Referring to B. Fuller's prognostication which had received
applause from both sides, the President of the USSR Academy
of Sciences made the statement that, as a consequence of my
prognostication and my domes and map that henceforth I would
be ranked in the USSR with Edison and Franklin.
*
*
*
*
"Franklin was very much an operational man, first a baker and
then a printer. Being involved with production in your early
life
is a very important kind of experience. And then he
became interested in economics and homely philosophy. Anyone
who is really involved in discovering principles which help
other people determine how they should behave, whether Franklin
or Mao, is seeking to find those generalized principles
governing sociology, which even to this day has failed to
discover any such laws ranking with those of science."
"
RBF.
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust, Phila., 22 Jan'73, as rewritten by

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: A Propos Ben Franklin: (3)
"If Franklin had been a large landowner, I'm sure he would
never have had the creativity. I'm sure he counseled himself
to be as simple as possible and to concern himself with just the
truth.
"It's like what Jasper Moore once said to me about why I would
never be a success. He said you are always trying to make
things simple, when the first rule of success is to try to
make things complicated."
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust, Phila., (as rewritten by RBF), 22 Jan 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: On Galley Proofs:
"I met with Bruce Carrick today from Facmillan and I wold
him that Thornton Wilder (who was a mathematician though many
people didn't know it) said that my mathematics book-- if it
is right would be more important than Newton's.. "Principia."
Now we know that it is right and so tactically it is
more important than the "Principia"-- the Greatest Book. I
talked Navy to him as a young man and told him I was rather
miffed at being stood up for lunch Monday. I told him about
our requirements for color plates and he agreed.
***
"I explained to him in some detail about method of
composition. How a thing is clear when I write it down
on paper. And how much clearer it is again when it comes
back after you (JA) have typed it up. But you really can
see vastly more only after it has come back to you as galler
proofs. That's when the real writing can begin. This is not
a question of being careless. I explained about meeting
Winston Churchill's secretary at the N.Y. World's Fair and how
we both had to go through seven drafts. Churchill had his
speeches and other drafts set up as galleys. With me, my use
of ralleys is not facetious: it is part of the process of being
adequate and thorough."
Cite RBF to EJA, telephone from Beverly Hotel, NYC, 11 Uct 72

KBP DEFI.ITIONS
Fuller; K.B: On Harvard kan:
"God tells a Harvard man what to do.
"
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 Apr 171

hoF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Hearing Aids:
"Hearing aids just train the mind in compensations."
Cite RBF at Videotaping session, Philadelphia, PA., 1 Feb'75

AbF JEFI.ITlul.
Fuller: R..
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Lee attached Sketch, 17-19 Feb 172
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RBP DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: On Himself:
"I am not a genius, but I am a terrific package of experience."
Quoted by Hugh Kenner. Flap copy of BUCKY, N.Y., 1973

RbF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller: R.B: On Himself:
See Self: I Would Like to be Myself
Creator, 1971
Average Human Being
Invisible Man
(1)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: On Himself:
See Charting Alternating Experiences of Man & Nature,
(6), last sentence
Guinea Pig, 27 Apr'71
(2)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Imaginative Statistics:
See Dollar Bills:
(1)
$200 Bilion One-dollar Bills
Circulating Around Earth
Energy Slave
Gross World Product
Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence
Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion
Metals: Recirculation of Metals
Industrialization: Curve Of

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Hia Imaginative Statistics:
See Air, 26 Sep'68; 22 Jan' 75
Artificial,
(2)
Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes,
May'65
Building Industry, (1)-(12)
Differentiation, 10 Dec'64
Explosives, 1970
Human Unsettlement
Metabolic Flow, (1)
New York City, (7)
(4)-(6)
Slenderness Ratio, Fay 72
Vegetable Crop Harvesting, 12 Jun'69
War: Official & Unofficial, (1)
Weapons Technology Sequence, (A) (B)
Earth, 17 May' 77
1
(2)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller: Indexing RBF Ideas:
"I gave Constance Abernethy a job that has really been a very
difficult
kind of a job. I knew she knew me so well, my
philosophy, and was so astute in managing and organizing things.
And incidentally at this time I was being beset with
requests for writing. And I hoped that she might be able to
make transcriptions of my talks-- which usually take about
seven rewritings; and I thought she might be able to put them
together in articles.
Time
"It turned out she couldn't do that. But I said, Constance, I'd
like you to take everything I've ever written and have any
number of xeroxes you need of anything and take it apart in
actual idea increments. Neybe there's a paragraph-- maybe
three paragraphs long-- and begin to collate those ideas.
and again I've found myself having to talk about those same
ideas, but they actually get progressively treated and they get
a little better. So if we had a file where you kept cutting
things out and were able some way to identify that idea and
were able to catalog it so you finally have seven statements of
the same idea and pick out the best one or going over them find
out what I've left out in several."
-
Cite tape transcript /6, Side A, p.10; RBF to Barry Farrell,
Bear Island, 16 Aug 70
(1)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller: Indexing RBF Ideas:
(2)
"There might be a composite where all the parameters, all the
variables, are in there. Make one composite. She did this job
for several years and she
found it mentally very tiring. And
I think it
would be awful to try to remember that you've seen
this
there and here and put all those together. She was very
devoted. And she'd gotten
to the point of identifying different
idea increments
with different kinds of names and tried to get
up some kind of proper indexing. A really expert indexer would
be able to cross
reference them so they could be called up very
importantly.
"I hoped she would be able-- when she had a tape recording of a
talk I'd given
some place and they wanted it transcribed to be
printed
someplace-- that she'd be able to say that's paragraph
number seven and this is paragraph so-and-so, and she'd be able
to pull
out those paragraphs and put a composite together. I
thought
that could be done. She never has been able to literally
do that.
I still think it's actually possible. But the point
is she has
worked very hard and has a very large collection of
work, very large and very valuable. She's now going to stop
working for me and Dale's going to pick that up in New York."
Cite tape transcipt #6, Side A, p.16; HBF to Barry Farrell;
Bear
Island, 16 Aug170

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller: Indexing RBF Ideas:
"But this also related to things you've been asking me about
the archivist. I would like really very much to know what the
package of my ideas really are when they are sorted out where
there is no redundancy."
(3)
Cite tape transcipt #6, Side A, p.11; RBF to Barry Farrell;
Bear Island, 16 Aug170

TEXT CITATIONS
Fuller's Law:
Robt. W. Marks "Dymaxion World of RBF," Caption to
Figure I-8, page 138
Introduction to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, RBF
-
P. 126

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller's Law:
See Prime Number Inherency and Constant Relative
Abundance of Structural Systems: Principle of:
(Above terminology adopted by RBF in course of writing
SYNERGETICS
as refinement of second paragraph of p. 126,
of INTRODUCTION
TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO.]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Lecture Invitations:
Fuller stands on random stages across the world-- he wants to
see what pattern his invitations will exhibit without influencing
them himself, so he goes where he is called.
Johns Hopkins Magazine, p.32, Nov'73. Based on interview
w/ RBF.

Fuller, R.B: Lecture Invitations:
See Montreal Expo'67 Dome (B)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Metaphors:
See Sequences: Ketaphors

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Milton Academy:
See Race (1)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Modus Operandi:
RBF:
What are you going to do with the years remaining to
you in this life?
"The most important thing for me to do the rest of
my life?... Our friend integrity."
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi:
Q.
"Should this be taped?"
RBF: "This should be on tape. I don't have any off-record life."
Tape transcript, p.1; RBF to W. Wolf, 200 Locust, Phila. PA,
15 Jun 174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: RBF Modus Operandi:
"The space is a priori mystery that the space vehicle goes in.
And you
don't think that it's a mysterious thing that he had
the capability to get there? It's all part of the same
mystery.
"People who listen to me say, 'Here's a man who's selling
screwdrivers... they don't realize how mysterious screwing
ia.
I've been identified only with the physical so far.
went through 25, 30 years of people saying: this is the
bathroom man, or the automobile man-- that's all they thought
about me. It's only in the last couple of years that they
discover I'm a thinker. And I started off as a thinker.
I didn't start with bathrooms. I started off with God and my
charge was to work with the physical. That's where I had the
capability; that's why we're here. I accepted this. And to
find myself identified, then, with just being a fishing-pole
salesman! I find this thing echoed when you say that about
my analogy, 'cause I use a very good tool there. I have helped
to shock man into realizing he's on board a space vehicle.
He's a passenger on it and he's intimately related to it."
- Citation and context at Spaceship (F), Feb 73

BRENDAN O REGAN QUOTATION
Fuller, R.B,: Modus Operandi:
You don't go to Bucky and ask him a specific question.
He gives you a huge view so you can then go back and find
the answer. You have to get into a different state of
consciousness, really, to hear him. He answers very much
according to the way he intuits you. He'd be different with
a molecular biologist, a crystallographer, a mathematician."
-
Quoted by Rasa Gustaitis in Wholly Round, p. 152, Holt, Rine-
hart & Winston, NY, 1973 - Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: Modus Operandi:
"I realize you have this very big love and you want to do
some very fine things with it. But I'm afraid you won't be
able to do anything beneficial until you really start to
think and get inside what's causing this love.
You are
going to have to think very clearly about basics and about
what moves you can make to bring about changes in the things
you see wrong. It doesn't do any good to get angry. And
it doesn't do any good for you to sit here with me unless
you can find in all this something of your own to say." "
Cite RBF to young student, Pacific Palisades, Christmas,
1971 quoted by Wm. Marlin, Architectural Forum, p.74,
Feb172

PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi:
(1A)
See Fuller, R.B: Decision to Be a Doer, Not a Persuader
Chronofile
Concrete Poetry
Cosmic Fish Sequence: Cosmic Fishing
Guinea Pig
Individual Economic Initiative
Invisible Man
Intuition: Eye-beamed Thoughts
Inventorying of Experience
Lecturing
Mark Your Paper: Nobody to Mark Your Paper
Problem: Statement of the Problem
Profess:
Profession
Promote: I Don't Promote
Publish
Reading
Self-querying
Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge

PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi:
See Thinking: Doing My Own Thinking
Thinking Out Loud
Reduction to Practice
Fuller, R.B: Evidence Published by Others:
Qualified Acceptance Of
Optimism: I Am Not an Optimist
Verb: I Seem to Be a Verb
(1B)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi:
See Airport, 13 Mart 73
Anonymity, 19 Dec'71
Assumptions, 1946
Bibliography, 2 Jul162
Carbondale Office, 10 Aug'70
Comprehensive, Feb 72
Comprehensivist, 1970
Cul de Sac, 30 Dec'73
Dome: Rationale for the Big Dome (1) (2)
Emotion, May'65
Evolutionary Checks & Balances, 26 Aug' 75
Flight, Oct' 73
Generalize, Feb 76
Humanity, Feb 75
Immunology Series, 15 bay' 72
Indispensable, 22 Jun'75
Inventability Sequence, (1)-(3)
Life, 25 Mar' 71
Order, 1971
Plumbing, (1)(2)
(2A)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi:
See Principles, 1 Feb'75
Questions: Answering Questions, Sep' 73
Rearrange the Scenery, (1)(2)
Selfishness, 22 Jun 75
Sin, Feb 72
Semantics, 20 Feb 73
Subversive, 1 Feb'75
Spaceship Earth (e)
Tapestry, 14 May1 72
Teleology, 15 Jun'74
(2B)
Philosophy, 11 Aug 76
Squatters, (1) (2)
Building Industry, (10)
Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar'77
Special Case, 26 Apr 77
Synergetics, 22 Jun 77
Will, 20 Apr*78; (2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi:
$986.00:
5.986.011-986.090
$986.110-986.190
$986.200-986.240
$986.301-986.310
8986.610
5986.710

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Speech:
(1)
"The conditioned reflexes, they absolutely astonish me...
because 50 years ago, I went into a speech moratorium so
that when I made a sound I would
know that I really meant
to use that word. I saw that we--like parrots--could make
sounds so easily.... How we can learn patterns and know
absolutely the right way for school without really knowing
anything. I think many of us got very good marks in school.
If we are honest, we admit that we really don't know anything.
I think it is very different from reasoning.
"So talking about conditioned reflexes, one person says a
cliche and another person pops back with the appropriate
other one.
This sort of nonsense goes on. This was on my
mind and I thought that I must shut off the proclivity in
myself for that cliche or countercliche... and I must use
words only because I intend to use the words... and obviously
at that time I said all the blasphemy, and so forth... but it
has actually no meaning. It would be impossible for any
human being to be the son of a dog, or whatever it may be.
It would be impossible to hold sexual intercourse with a
grandmother who was no longer alive--so I said I was forever"
->>
Cite transcript pp.8-10, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb'77

REF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Speech:
"going to give up those kinds of expressions. I had not
grown up with such language, but when I came to have my
first job in New York, the second time I was kicked out of
Harvard, I found that all the workmen there thought that I
was probably a homosexual because I spoke the language I
had learned at Milton Academy and Harvard and it sounded so
absolutely different from their language which was 50 percent
obscene or plasphemous, that I sounded so queer to them that
they thought I was a sexual pervert or something. I was sure
I wasn't, but the only way I could convince them, I couldn't
teach them my language, and I got pretty good at the horrible
cursing and blasphemy, so that it was... in there from way
back before World War I, so I am talking about 65 years ago.
"So in 1927, 50 years ago, I said I'm never going to use any
of that blasphemy
ever again.
"I will be driving in my car and suddenly someone will ha
come out of a side road very dangerously and I will say
'son of a bitch!' and I am so absolutely shocked I will say
'Jesus Christ" that this could come out of me.
I want to.
emphasize to you psychiatrists how very deep these things'
-
Cige transcrit R³ taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer,
Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B:
Moratorium on Speech:
(3)
"are to somebody who has determined not to use these words,
it is always under surprise. It is always because it is a
dangerous surprise and you have to alert yourself very fast
to avoid an accident. I try very hard not to allow it any
more. I was driving with my wife and her young nephews and
nieces quite a few years ago and one of those things happened.
One of her nephews was standing next to me and about an hour
later someone came out of a side road, and the nephew said,
*Uncle Bucky, aren't you going to call him a son of a bitch?'
And you realize how terrible and unbecoming it was. That's
the subconscious we are talking about here--conditioned reflexes
in which things we haven't done or thought about for a long, long
time and a surprise element will bring them out.
"You have a very difficult one to cope with there, don't you?
that these things could be so organized in the subconscious?"
- Cite transcript p. 11, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb'77

Fuller, R.B:
Moratorium on Speech:
See Fuller, R.B:
Crisis of 1927
Thinking: Doing Your Own Thinking
(1)

Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Speech:
See Sleeping & Thinking, (2)
Words, Jun '58
(2)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: On Christopher Forley:
"Christopher iorley was the greatest scholar I had known.
He was the editor of Bartlett's Quotations; he was a compre-
hensive reader, and an editor of the Book-of-the-Konth Club.
He had allegiance
"He gave himself very much to the other man.
to his intuitions and to the universal phenomenon of love.
Just ask a scientist to give you the difference between a
stone and love. Science is absolutely wrong in thinking that
the physical--all that chemistry lying there--is life, when
it has nothing to do with what life is.
"Christopher orley loved life so much. He was courageous
about being utterly metaphysical."
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'771 Phila., Ph; 22 Jun' 77

TEXT CITATIONS
Fuller, R.B: His Neo-Platonism:
Synergetics text, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 526.12

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Neo-Platonism:
See Ideal Tetrahedron
Ideal Synergetics
Invisible entries
No Absolute Identity
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles
World as Idea in the Mind of God
Image: All We Do is Deal in Images:
Ideal vs. Real
(1)

KEF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.b: His Neo-Platonism:
See Eternity, (1)
Identity, 20 Jun'66
Immaculate Conception, 25 Jan' 72
Individual Universe, (2)
Nucleated Systems: Idealistic Vectorial
Geometry Of, 15 Feb 72
lan as a Function of Universe, 20 Jun'66
Principle, 22 Feb' 72
Set, 5 Jui 62
Thought, 31 Lay' 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, K.B.: Nobel Prize, References to Nomination For:
UTOPIA OR OBLIVION, Sedond cover: "Mr. Fuller was nominated
for the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize.
[RBF found this extremely distasteful]

RBF DLFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: His Decision He Must Not Be A Persuader, But A Doer
"I made up my mind that if you really develop the tools and
abilities and don't waste any time or effort trying to persuade
people to look at what you're doing, and you find out whether
your designs will work or not, that when and if they do work,
someone will say, "What is that?' And you will tell them. And
the news of your invention will get around and in due course
if what you have developed is needed in an emergency, the world
will come to you for it."
->
Cite RBF to Wm. Marlin, Architectural Forum, p.73, Feb 72

RB LFINITIONS
Fuller Projection:
See Transformational Projection

RBF FINITIONS
Fuller R.B.:
RBF Personal Research File Colors:
(Tab Colors):
Sublime (Cosmic Discovery and Host Intellectural)
(Very Impressive)
"VIOLET
-
BLUE
-
GREEN
-
(Looks importnat)
Yellow
-
(Could be Important)
ORANGE (Amusing)
RED -
(Ridiculous. Least intellectual and most mechanical.)
Cite Nike Paterra to EJA, Carbondale, 111. 17 Nov. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B: On Social Impositions:
•
"I was born into an enormous amount of social imposition
on me as a child about what is au fait.
. . And the
critic says that is absolutely au fait, you get the
prizes and they go into the museums, or whatever it may
be. And you and I might not exactly, as a kid or a child,
sayIthink that's great. It was part of the way
society was operating."
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 13, 19 Oct 170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B., As Harbinger of Society:
As a child he had such a bad eye defect that he thought his
sister was telling tall tales when they compared notes about
their visual world.
His vision was corrected with spectacles (he now also wears
a hearing-aid), but, as an original independent thinker, his
mental view of the universe has never quite coincided with
that of other people.
At school he fell into the pattern of accepting authority, but
"I didn't seem to see things the way other people did," he says.
Today, he describes himself as a harbinger of society-- a
citizen of the world with a post office address at Southern
Illinois University, a man "living in the frontier of the
breaking pattern of humanity."
to the
"I find that what happens to me happens
rest of society not long after," he says. "If economics are
going badly for me, for instance, I feel very sorry for the
rest of the world because it's going to happen to them not long
after." (At the moment, he adds, his personal economics are
doing well.)
Cite RBF quoted by Marian Bruce in Vancouver SUN, 14 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: His Life As Harvester:
See Observation, Mar' 71

REF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: As Technologist & Technocrat:
See Capability, 20 Apr 72

IF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: The Thinking Me:
"You have done a magnifieent job! I find it fascinating.
This is good, for in relevant contrast I have been unable
to read more than 100 pages of Hugh Kenner's 300-page book
about me; not more than 10 pages of Alden Hatch's on the
same subject. This is because I soon found that they were
not about the real me, which is the thinking, me. Their
books are about legendary-type characters that they (and
many other writers, too) have spontaneously fabricated from
too little data and too narrowly-focussed a viewpoint.
Neither of them let me see their manuscripts nor checked
any 'facts' with me.'
Cite RF Ltr. to Louise Morley Cochrane, Wiltshire,
England, 18 Dec' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Puller, R.B: Unpublished Mathematical Discoveries:
"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, Kay'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B: Unpublished Mathematical Discoveries:
See Energetic/Synergetic Geometry:
Original Publication
in 1944

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller's Vector Constant:
See Synergetic Constant

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller, R.B.: What I am Trying To Do:
"All science starts with absolute mystery... I'm not discontent
with the fact there's a priori mystery.. I'm only interested
in how useful I am to the other guy. If I'm not useful to
the other man I'd like to do away with myself quickly...
"I'm only interested in the rest of man; I'm only interested in
love. I'm not interessed in self."
-
Quoted by Rasa Gustatitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY) p. 158, Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B: What I Am Trying To Do:
(1)
"Acutely aware of our beings' limitations and acknowledging
the infinite mystery of the a priori Universe into which we
are born, but nevertheless searching for a conscious means
of hopefully competent participation by humanity in its own
evolutionary trending, while employing only the unique
advantages inheraing 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, and deliberately
avoiding political ties and tactics, while endeavoring by
experiments and explorations to excite individuals' awareness
and realization of humanity's higher potentials, I seek
through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its
reductions to physical practices, to reform the environment
instead of trying to reform men, being intent thereby to
accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less,
whereby in turn the wealth-augmenting prospects of such
design science regenerations will induce their spontaneous
and economically successful industrial proliferation by
world-around services' managements, all of which chain-
reaction-provoking events will both permit and induce all
humanity to realize full lasting economic and physical"
-
- CiteHAT I AM TRYING TO DO, 2 Mar'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B.: What I Am Trying To Do:
"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, 2 Mar'68
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fuller,
.
R.B: What I Am Trying
To Do:
"But the fact is I really am pure guinea pig to me.
Back in
1927. I committed myself to as much of a
fresh start
as a human being can have to try to go back
to the fundamentals
and see what nature was really up to.
But I
was all alone, andup against the massive corporation
and the massive
state. 'Can the unsupported individual
really get
anywhere?' I asked myself. Because I'm not
impractical I'm not a blind idealist. How could I work in
the system
without capital backing? And I came to the
following
conclusion: In the Universe everything is always
in motion,
and everything is always moving in the directions
of least
resistance. That's basic. So I said, 'If that's
the case, then
it should be possible to modify the shapes
of
things so that the follow preferred directions of least
resistance.'
I made up my mind at this point that I would
never
try to reform man-- that's much too difficult.
I would do was to try to modify the environment in such a
What
way as to get man moving in preferred directions.
•
It
Cite Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 166. p. 64.
UNIVERSE
SEC. 305.2.1
96

Fuller, R.B: What I am Trying to Do:
See Blind Date with Principles
Commitment to Humanity
Dymaxion Outset
Fuller, R.b:
Crisis of 1927
Fuller, R.B: Modus Operandi

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Writing Style:
"I write like a sculptor. A sculptor starts by chipring
away
from the stone. and then he chips away a little more.
always taking things away.
And in the end it comes
">
out to be more incisive.'
-
Cite RoF to Sue Liberman at WAMU-FI: taping, Wash, DC: 26 Apr 77

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Writing Style:
"You say I write omnidirectionally.
like a sculptor."
That is so.
I write
Cite RBF to EJA, Philadelphia, 22 Jan'75

6
RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Writing Style:
"Marshall McLuhan says that my expressions are old-fashioned.
He says I shouldn't say that man backs into his future; he
says that's rear-mirrorism.' Marshall is very good at explain-
ing
things to society. He extends other peoples' ideas, but
he is a man of integrity."
-
Cite RBF videotaping sessions Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

Writing
Fuller: R.B.: His Style:
REYNER BANHAM DEFINITION
"Now, writing about Bucky has its peculiar difficulties,
of which the leading one is that it is almost impossible
except in his own idiom. There is a very good reason for
this that his creative thinking, does genauinely seem to
be done in the grammar and syntax he uses when speaking.
Problems are simultaneously bulldozed frontally, undermined
termitically, and outflanked by relative clauses lasting, up
to six weeks. All this is fine while Bucky is telling the
tale himself, except possibly for people sitting at the
back of large audiences who cannot follow his facial
expressions or the subtleties of his hand-actions. Compre-
hensibility survives into print, if the text is lucky's own,
but if it is written by another hand. trouble! In
hobert Park's 1900 book on Bucky, the interference between
his own manner of writing and Bucky's manner of thinking,
produces a style that falls apart-- ponderous and pedestrian
on the maths, which it fails to illuminate, turgid when it
turns to narrative, which it fails to animate.
- Cite keyner Banham, "The Dymaxicrat," Arts Magazine,
London, Oct 163, p. 66.

NEWSOCIETY DEFINITIONS
Fuller: R.B.: His Writing Style:
"The texts issuing from Carbondale are all in the high-
powered, compressed, no-doubts jargon that is one of his
peripheral inventions. Exhortatory texts which thrust
through the newspeak a stream of apocalyptic images."
Cite "Observations: Fuller's Earth," NewSociety, London, 13 Aug 65

RoF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: His Writing Style:
See Dymaxion, (1) (2)
Poetry, undated

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: Writing Synergetics:
Farrell "How much time do you have to write?”
RBF:
Farrell:
RBF:
Farrell:
RBF:
"There's no regularity, old man. I do the writing in
enormous drives and spurts and then go on to something
else. It
"How are you doing with the book?"
"The book? It takes such high concentration that I've
I'm going to spend some time
It's been with me for a really
will have to be rewritten
had to wait for a time.
on it later this month.
long time and I think it
several times more."
"Do you expect to publish it within the next year or two?"
"I pray that I can, yeah. I'm confident it's the most
important thing I'll ever do in my life."
Parrell: "It's been in preparation many years now, hasn't it?"
RBF:
"An adequate number of years, yes."
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrel, Tape #2, Side A,
p.3; Bear Island, 11 Aug 70

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B:
See Anonymity
Idea Stealing
Spontaneous Deputies
Nobody to Mark Your Paper
Reality: Fuller's Reality vs. Popular Reality
Doing What Needs to Be Done
Guinea Pig
Promote: 'I Don't Promote
(1)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B:
See Anger, (1)(2)
Belief, 20 Feb'77
Inexorability, 11 Aug' 70
(2)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B: (12 Jun 1895
-
)
(3A)
See Alexandria Theme
His Associates & Collaboratora
His Aversion to Artistic Exploitation of Synergetics
Models
Books Read in his Youth
Cousins, Norman: Inscription to RBF
Commitment to Humanity of 1932
On Creativity
Crisis of 1927
His Discovery and Disclosure of Coordinate System
Of Universe
Discoveries of 1913
Ecological Predictions of 1927
Ego: Desire to Avoid an Unnatural Ega
Meeting with Einstein
Energetic Geometry: I Began the Search in 1917
Described as Engineer-saint
His Admission of Error
His Imaginative Etymologies
On His Fellow Men

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES:
Fuller, R.B:
See Meeting with Fernandez-Moran
A Propos Ben Franklin
On Galley Proofs
On Harvard Man
His Hearing
On Himself
On Himself as Subject of Experiment
Fuller's Law
Lecture Invitations
His Metaphors
Milton Academy
HBF Modus Operandi
Moratorium on Speech
His Neo-Platonism
Nobel Prize: References To
His Decision He Must Not Be a Persuader, But a Doer
Fuller Projection
RBF Persoanl Research File Colors
(3B)

RBF PERSONAL REFERENCES
Fuller, R.B
See On Social Impositions
As Harbinger of Society
His Life as Harvester
His Imaginative Statistics
As Technologist & Technocrat
Unpublished Mathematical Discoveries
Fuller's Vector Constant
What I Am Trying To Do
His Writing Style
Writing Synergetics
The Thinking, Me
Evidence Published by Others:
Acceptance of
On Werner Erhard & est
On Christopher Morley
Cualified
(30)

Full Potential:
See Powering: Third Powering, 15 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Funambulist:
"Many,
if not most, of the important scientific events that
have occurred have appeared first in fun and play, as for in-
stance, the suspension bridge which appeared first as a Chinese
tight-rope-walker!s frame. Funambulist = rope walker; funis
rope; ambulare = walk. Fun
'rope'
Will Rogers
•
--
line -- tension -the 'fun' of Life.'
--
-
Citation and context at Time, p.142, 1938

Fun & Play:
See Games
Scientific Events Appearing in Fun & Play
09

HLF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
"Functions always and only co-occur as subsystem relativistics,
characteristics, inherencies, and proclivities.
occur only as parts of systems."
Functions
Citation and context at System, 26 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Function:
"Not being simultaneous
Universe cannot consist of one function.
Functions only coexist.
Universe while finite is not definable."
Citation & context at Undefinable, Oct '66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
"There is a plurality of coexistent behaviors in
nature which are the complementary behaviors. That
caused the mathematicians to generalize further. They
developed the word functions. Functions cannot exist by
themselves. Functions only exist with other functions.
They are sometimes covariables."
-
Cite SUMMARY VISION 65, p. 148
23 Oct165

Q
RBF DEFINITIONS
Function:
"We are dealing in a Universe of functions...
11
a Citation and context at Building Blocks (1), 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIO..S
Function:
"Functions are never independent of one another. lio
tension member is innocent of compression and no compression
member innocent of tension. Tension and compression are
in respect to one another like tides-- one is in high tide
while the other is in low tide-- or you might say low tide
of visible apprehendability. They are strictly functions
in regard to one another. The meaning of a function is
that it is part of a complementary pattern and there is no
function existing by itself, X only in respect to Y, so
your tension and compression are interfunctioning with weight
variables of relative importance in the local pattern inspected."
Cite Gui. Lecture 5 - p. 157, 9 Jul'62
SEC. 640.201647.011

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
"I felt that we didn't have functions that weren't part
of a system and the Universe was clearly a plurality of
systems.
Oregon Lecture #4,
Citation & context at Unity Is Plural, 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
"Functions do not occur exclusively of one
another. Functions occur only as inherently cooperative
and accommodatively varying sub aspects of synergetically
transforming wholes."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 134,
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
Principle Of:
"The principle of functions states that a function can only
and always coexist with another function as demonstrated
experimentally in all systems as the inside-out, convex-concave,
tension-compression couples."
Cite RBF Glossary of Terms bound with "The Live Book Squad," 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions: Principle of:
"In the principle of functions... any function always and only
coexist with another function. Then we can generalize still
further by reducing the theory of functions to the one word
'relativity.'"
Cite NASA Speech, p.88, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
Principle of:
"The discovery that a structural system may be described
as the sum of its surface angles ( in increments of 720°
that the tetrahedron is the basic
bears out
quantum unit. It also demonstrates the fundamental
twoness of the energy quantum's proton-neutron. It also
provides the experimental basis of the S of Functions
in which a function can only and always coexist with another
function as demonstrated experimentally in all systems as
the inside-out, convex-concave, tension-compression couples."
STALKCETIC PRINCIPLE
->>>
Cite NASA Speech, pp. 63-64. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
Principle Of:
"The theory of functions holds for universe itself.
SYNCKELTE K
Universe consists at minimum of both the metaphysical and
physical."
- Bite Carbondal Draft-
-
Return to Hodelabaility, p. V.3-
CIC NASA Speech, p. 68, Jun166
Citation & context at Relativity, Jun'66

Functions: Principle of:
See Corollary: Principle of Functions

RBF DEFINITIONS
Functions:
Theory of:
"A system is something that divides the Universe into all that
is inside the system as distinct from all that is outside of
it. Your body is such a system. So is a tomate can. So is
the
Earth. Viewed from inside, a system is concave; viewed
from outside, it is convex. As the sums of the angles add up,
the total is always less degrees than a plane. In order to
take a flat piece of paper and make it into any kind of
polyhedron, regular or irregular, you are going to have to
keep taking out angles to bring it back to itself until, finally,
it is a polyhedron. You always come into that concavity and
convexity eventually. When energy radiation impinges on
concavity, the radiation converges; energy impinging on
convexity diverges the radiation. So concave and convex always-
and-only coexist. I give you three kinds of always-and-only
coexisting functions: tension and compression, concave and
convex, and proton and neutron. Now we can develop something
we call the theory of functions where we have x and y as the
two covariables and have the x standing for tension, convex,,
and proton and y standing for compression, concave, neutron.'
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., p.83, 1970

TEXT CITATIONS
Functions: Theory Of:
326.25
Synergetics, 2nd. Ed. draft Sec. 325.25

Functions: Theory of:
See Dog Pulling on a Belt
Functions: Principle Of
Generalization: Third Degree
(1)

Functions: Theory of:
See Generalization Sequence, (1) (2)
Intellect: Equation Of, (1)
Quantum: Event-paired Quanta, Jul'66
Relativity, Jun'66*
Universe, 22 Apr'68
(2)

Functions:
See Cofunctions
Complementarities
Covariables: Covariation
Energetic Functions
Externalization of Han's Own Functions
Form Cannot Follow Function
Integral Functions of Man
Interfunctioning
Inventory of Functions
Mian as a Function of Universe
Proclivities
Structural Functions
(1)

Functions:
See Building Blocks, (1)*
Differentiation, 27 May' 72
System, 26 May! 72*
Unity Is Plural, 6 Jul'62*
Undefinable, )ct'66*
(2)

Fundamental Case:
See Ninety-two Elements, 9 Apr 40
Prime Otherness, 23 Sep*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fundamental:
"I don't like the word 'fundamental' because it's just the
wrong way to start out thinking. le may use the word
'primitive' to describe the self-starting condition of
divergence."
->
Citation & context at Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Fundamental:
"I don't like the word 'fundamental' because I don't really
believe that there are things you could call foundations."
Cite RBF videotaping, Philadelphia, PA., 1 Feb 75

Fundamental:
See Basic
Rate: Fundamental Rates of Change of Number
Three-and-only Fundamental Structural Systems
(1)

Fundamental:
See Trigonometry: Spherical Trigonometry (3)
Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb'76**
Particle, ly Feb176
(2)

Fungus: Fungi:
See Organic Model,
Oct166
10

Funk:
See Leaders Can Yield to the Computer, 4 Far'69

Furniture of Chemical Elements:
See Economic Accounting System, (A)

Furniture of the Dreams:
See See Dreams, 2 Jul'62

101
Furniture of Experience:
See Universe, 16 Jun 172

REDEFINITIONS
Furniture of Remembered Experiences:
"Image-ination involves reconsidered and hypothetically
rearranging the 'furniture' of remembered experiences as
retrieved from the brain bank.".
Cite RBF-reurite of SYNERGETICS, "Deliberately Non-Straight_
LineSec 522.01: Draft, May 171
-
Citation at Imagination, Mar'71

Furniture of Information:
See Lies: Telling a Lie, 16 Jun 72

Furniture of Lies:
See Lies, 2 Jul'62

Furniture:
See Finite Furniture
Rearranging the Furniture
Atomically Furnished
(1)

Furniture: Furnished:
See Information, 1971
Invisible Tetrahedron, 13 Nov'69
Space, 20 Oct 72
(2)

Furniture:
See Furniture: Atomically Furnished
Furniture of Chemical Elements
Furniture of the Dreams
Furniture of Experience
Furniture of Remembered Experiences
Furniture of Information
Furniture of Lies
(3)

TEXT CITATIONS
Furniture:
Synergetics
: Sec. 780.10

Eusing:
See Confusion
Fusing

Fusion:
See Radiation, Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future:
"The future is not linear.... It probably consists of
omnidirectional wave propagations."
Citation and context at Now, 7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future:
"Life is the Now event with its reaction Past and
resultant Future."
-
-
Citation at Life, 1 Jun' 71
Give HBF Darginalia on STNERGETI
Chicago, June 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future:
"The future is not something linear.
So we seem to be talking
about a great er range of known cycling... We're talking a
complete 'now'."
Citation & context at Time, 19 Oct'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future: Man Backs Into His Future:
"Crabs walk sideways; but only human society keeps its eyes
on the past as it backs into its future.....
Citation & context at Nature Permits It Sequence (2), 27 Dec'73

RBF DEFIKTIONS
Future: Man Backs Into His Future:
"It is one of those strange facts of experience that when
we try to think into the future, our thoughts jump backwards.
It may well be that nature has some fundamental law by which
opening up what we call 'future' also automatically opens up
the past in equal degree. Time is not linear, but
probably consists of omnidirectional wave propagations.
Because every action has both a reaction and a resultant,
every 'now' must have a 'past' and a dawning 'future.1"
Cite RBF as quoted by im. Marlin, Architectural Forum,
(Possibly composited by W.M. from EJA
p.80, Feb 72.
file entries.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future:
Man Backs Into His Future:
"It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we
try to think into the future, our thoughts jump backward. It
may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law
by which opening up what we call the future also opens up
the past in equal degree. The metaphysical law corresponds
to the physical law of engineering that every action has an
equal and opposite reaction.**
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 529.10, Nov 171

HBF DEFINITIONS
Future: Man Backs into His Future:
"
...The Doppler effect may be operating in our history so that
the relative frequency and wavelengths of approaching vents
are compacted, and receding ones thinned. It could be that
by traveling 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."
wi
Citation and context at Doppler Effect, 2 Mar'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future: Man Backs Into His Future:
"The greatest overall misapprehension regarding the complex-
continuities is that which assigns a static or 'at rest'
analysis to the sum total sensation of individual experience
and consequently to the sum total of all individuals'
experience. Against the inertia of a seemingly static whole,
each new harmonic incorporation of life therefore seemingly
impinges as a dynamic perversity. This is why we frequantly
remark, Man tends to back up into his future.
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (4), May' 49

TEXT CITATIONS
Future: Man Backs Into His Future:
I&I, Total Thinking, pp. 230 + 239
Synergetics, Sec. 534.02

Future: Man Backs Into His Future:
See Action Alwas Has an Equal & Opposite Reaction
Doppler Effect
Historical Event Cognition
Adoption of the New Only as Last Resort
Evolution by Inadvertence
(1)

Future: Man Backs Into His Future:
See Doppler Effect, 2 Mar'68*
History, 2y Aug164
Ignorance, (1)"
McLuhan, Marshall,
(1)
Nature Permits It Sequence, (2)*
Ruddering Sequence, (5)
Time, 2 Kar'68
Fuller, R.B: His Writing Style, 1 Feb'75
Life, Kay 49
Periodic Experience,
(4)*
(2)

Future Otherness:
See No-time-and-away-ago, 28 May 75
Tetratuning, 30 May 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future Set:
"...Sight (what only may be next) is the future set.
seem to see, but we have not yet come to it.)"
Citation and context at Senses (1), 22 Nov 173
(We can

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetica:
"Synergetics augments the prospect of humanity becoming
progressively exploratory. There is clearly disclosed the
desirability of commencing scientific exploration with
synergy-of-synergies Universe: metaphysical and physical.
While synergetics seems to open new ranges of cosmic
comprehension, we assume that the time will come when the
inventory of experiences that have catalyzed both its
conceptioning and inception will have become overwhelmed by
vaster experientially based knowledge and may well become
progressively useful but, in its turn, obsolete. Because
the generalized principles cannot be principles unless they
are eternal, and because human experience is inherently
limited, there can be no finality of human comprehension."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 217.04, as adopted 27 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"Synergetics facilitates and augments the prospect of
humanity becoming both progressively and successfully
exploratory. There is clearly disclosed the desirability
of commencing scientific exploration-- as permitted by
synergetics-- with synergy-of-synergies Universe: both
metaphysical and physical. While synergetics seems to open
new ranges of cosmic comprehension, we assume that the time
will come when the inventory of experiences that have
catalyzed both its conceptioning and inception will have
become overwhelmed by vaster experientially based knowledge
and may well become progressively useful but, in its turn,
obsolete. Because the generalized principles cannot be
principles unless they are eternal, and because human
experience is inherently limited, there can be no finality
of progressive human comprehension."
Cite SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 217.04; RBF rewrite of
26 Sep'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"Synergetics bids fair to being progressively exploratory.
There is clearly disclosed the desirability of attaining and
commencing scientific exploration with the synergy-of-
synergies Universe: metaphysical and physical. while synergetics
seems to open new ranges of cosmic comprehension, we assume
that the time will come when the inventory of experiences
which have catalyzed both its conceptioning and inception, will
have become overwhelmed by vaster experientially based
knowledge and may well in its turn become progressively
useful but obsolete. Because the generalized principles
cannot be principles unless they are eternal, because human
experience is inherently limited, there can be no finality
of human comprehension."
Cite RBF dictation to EJA for SYNERGETICS,
New York, 28 Feb. '71,
Hotel,
See Sec. ofth
zre 217.04, 10 Nov' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"Because the Generalized Principles cannot be principles
unless they are eternal, because human experience is
inherently limited, there can be no finality of human
comprehension."
-
Citation at Generalised Principles, 28 Feb'71
Cite HBP dictation for SYNENCHTICS, 28 Feb 171.
Spa-
2, 171 See Sec. 217.04, 10 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"Synergetics recognizes the history of progressively
larger and more incisive conceptionings which have
eliminated previously uncomprehended behaviors of local
Universe. It recognizes that the elegant conceptionings
of one period which greatly widened the horizons of
human understanding reached their limits of informative
capability to be progressively obsoleted by ever greater
conceptioning accruing to the ever-mounting harvest of
cosmic experience.
Cite RUF dictation to EJA for SYNERGETICS, Beverly Hotel,
New York, 28 Feb. 171. Sewer-219
Incorporated in SYNERGETICs draft at Sec. 217.01,
10 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"The inherently endless scenario model of Einstein's
Universe in which truth is ever approaching evolutionary
...
catalogue of alternate tranformative options of
ever more inclusive and refining degrees
wherefore
metaphysical might continually improve the scenariom by
conceptual discoveries of new generalized principles."
- Citation & context at
-
from Pendulum Model VS Scenario Model. 23 Dec 168
Incopporated in STRERGETICS Draft at Sec. 217.03, 10 Nov 72

SECS
ABF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"The rate of change and number of special-case self-
retransformings of physical evolution tend ever to
accelerate, differentiate and multiply; while the rate
of change and numbers of self-remodifyings of generalized
law conceptionings of metaphysical evolution tend ever
to decelerate, simplify, consolidate and ultimately unify."
-
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, 22 Apr 68
Cite Cidriti
: 2, 22 Apr 1
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 217.02, 10 Nov'72
323 217.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"I am . .
thoroughly aware that there is a whole new
generation of young people who are becoming preoccupied with
this field. I am aware that the return of science to full
conceptuality
is leading to ultimate popular compre-
hension of the vast ranges of science's nuclaer, chemical, and
biological explorations wherein, for a century, it had been
assumed that nature developed her energy patternings and
transformation without modelability.
"As a result of my energetic-synergetic geometry breakthrough,
we are entering a new era in which the transactions and trans-
formations of nature have become so lucidly, rationally, and
simply conceptual that children will be playing games of
nuclear, chemical, and biological structuring as a fundamental
kindergarten preoccupation. The great awkwardness of irrational
constants characterizing today's and yesterday's physics will
vanish. The awkward irrationalities were the consequence of
man's attempts to measure the omnidynamically transforming
fourth, fifth, and sixth dimensional Universe with a static
three dimensional system."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Steve Baer, 19 Apr'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetica:
"There is a question-asking-possibility that omniscience
may be trandscendental in velocity to the definitive
physical speed of energy omnipotence. The synergetic
anticipatory capabilities of intellect (in respect to
conceptual formulations of evolutionary transform
ing potentials of universe and the anticipatory
stratagems evolved by intellect to test such hypotheses)
imply the possibility of a velocity transcendence of
omniscient functioning over omnipotence functioning
which could mean an intellectually regenerated
evolutionary extension of universe in generalized
synergetical integrity. Intellect's comprehensive
anticipatory objectivities indicates a speed of functioning
transcendental to physical events. Intellect may be
'creating' finitely extending and re-fining universe as
it asks each next good question."
-
Cite Umnidirectional Halo, p. 163. 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Future of Synergetics:
"A complex reorganization of mathematics will probably
occur within the next quarter century (or generation)
with all the so-called elementary phases relegated to non-
sense and the ever most advanced intuitions shifted to
elementary priority in the effective informing of the new
life by the old."
-
Citation and context at Geometry of Reality, May'49
pp. 230-231, Maying
Cite TUTAL THINKING &

Future of Synergetics:
See Ideal Synergetics
Unknown: All the Unknown
(1)

Future of Synergetica:
See God, 26 May '72; 3 Apr'74
Generalized Principles, 28 Feb'71*
Geometry of Reality, May'49*
Metaphysical & Physical, 22 Apr*68*
Pendulum Model vs. Scenario Model, 23 Dec '68
Star Tetrahedron & Icosahedron, Oct 71
Synergetic Hierarchy, 19 Apr166
Geometry of Reality, May '49
(2)

Future:
See Future: Man Backs Into His Future
Future of Synergetics
Historical Event Cognition
Prognostication About Future of Man
Tomorrow
Unseeability of Far Forward Events
(1)

Future:
See Environment, 15 Feb'66
History, 29 Aug'64
Life, 1 Jun'71*
Macrocosm, May172
Now, 7 Nov 73*; 25 Apr 71
Surprise, May149
Time,
19 Oct 70*
(2)