
G

Gadgets:
See Obnoxica
Obnoxico
Secondhand Gadgetry

Caina Consolidator:
See Harvesting
(1)

Gains Consolidator:
See Female, 17 Oct 72; May'65
Girl, 13 Dec 73
Male & Female, 19 Dec'71
(2)

Gain at the Expense of Another:
See Expense: Without any Individual Profiting at the
Expense of Another

Galahad, Sir:
See Child Sequence, (3)

Galaxies: Interpulsation Of:
See Black Hole, (2)
Omnilibrium, 19 Feb172

Galaxy: Galaxies:
See Solar System
Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout
Nuclear & Nebular: Nucleus & Galaxies
(1)

Galaxy: Galaxies:
See Black Hole, (1)
Cosmic Structuring, (2)
Parallax, 23 Sep 73
Touch, 29 Dec'58
Omni equilibrium, (2)
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (2)
Energetic Information, 23 Apri 76
Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Galileo:
Galilei (1564-1642):
"I liked what Galileo had been doing with his force
diagrams even though they did turn out to be inadequate
because he did it on a plane instead of omnidirectionally.
But it was good thinking that things did run into each other
and there were a resultant of forces. You could prove
things on the billiard table showing that Avogadro was
right. So there were lengths of vectors that were
lengths of vectors that were proportional to the mass times
the velocity and there were unique directions in Universe."
(For follow-on text see Javelin + Geometry of Vectors, 12 July '62)
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 297. 12 July '62

Galileo:
See Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force
(1)

Galileo:
See Acceleration, 1 Apr 67
Blind Man's Buff, 1 Oct 71
Geometry of Vectors, 10 Oct'64
Gravity, 12 Jun'74

TEXT CITATIONS
Galileo:
Intuition, pp.24-26, May 172
521.30-521.31
1009.80-1009.81
1009.94-1009.95
1210 (p.738)

Galley Proofs:
See Fuller, R.B: On Galley Proofs

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gambling:
"The deep seated proclivities of humans to gamble their
monies is founded on the working assumption of human
consciousness that individuals are inherently programmed
for failure and that only cultivated luck can divert the
individual from his negative plight."
-
Cite RBF transcript of panel discussion following
Centennial Seminar, Univ. of Kansas, "Man and the Future."

Gambling:
See Political Mandates: Inventory Of, 27 Dec 73

10
RBP DEFINITIONS
Games:
"...All human games are ways of initiating disorder to be
parried by converting the disorder to order."
Citation and context at Problems, 13 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Games:
"There are only two kinds of games-- you or me and you and
They are equally good games. The competition in you
and me is to see who can help the other most effectively...
me.
-
Citation & context at Competition, Jan '72
"

Game:
Dying as a Game:
See Intuition of the Child, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Game of Cosmic History:
"There is the Game of Cosmic History, in which Universe goes
on approximately unaware of human nonsense while accommodating
its omnilocal game-playing. Flies have their game. Mosquitoes
have their game. Microbes have their game. Lion cubs have
their game. Whatever games they may be playing, positive or
negative, all the games are fail-safe, alternate circuits,
omniconsequential to eternally regenerative Universe integrity.
It's all permitted. It all belongs."
citation & context at Nature Permits It Sequence (1), 27 Dec 73

Game of Life:
See Chess: A Priori Intellect Invents a Game Called "Life"

Game of Life's Order of Play:
See Involuntary, Feb'71
Life's Original Event, May172

Came of Masks & Monuments:
See Nature Permits It Sequence (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Game Called Honey:
"The game called money originated as the exchange of life
support efforts of human beings, but it was taken over by
banks and the money always ends up in just one pocket."
Cite HBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan'75

Game Called Money:
See New York City, 31 Jul 75
Wealth, 8 Dec175

Game of Reality:
See Cosmetry, 1 Oct'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Game of Symbols:
"We thought... we could have complete substitution of symbols
for numbers and play the game of symbols."
-
Citation and context at Conceptuality, 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Game:
Synergetica as a Game:
(1)
"Energetic Geometry is, as mathematicians say, a game; and it
is a game of solitaire I started playing in 1917. It is now
no longer a game of solitaire. Certainly, I have many
friends like Duncan Stuart who are playing the game with
us and we find it very fruitful. When a game becomes fruitful,
whereby you can get information from the game itself, one
can transfer it to the larger game of life.
"Energetic Geometry started as a game before it had the nice
name of Energetic Geometry. It started in 1917 when I was in
the Navy and was interested in trying to give myself an
additional education which I did not receive in college.
I suppose the education I was trying to give myself would have
arrived in very fine order if I would have had the chance of
going on in college; and I assumed that what I began to
discover in the game was territory that had been well covered
by students long ago. In some instances that would seem to
be the case. In other instances, it would seem that we have
rediscovered arrangements of phenomena that, if they have been
known to man, have long since been forgotten. I must say that
when you play a game like this you get a strange feeling when
you come into view of arrangments of components of your
energetic Universe with which you are not at all familiar and"
RBF talk to students at Design School, Raleigh, NC, 1950
-

RBP DEFINITIONS
Game: Synergetics as a Game:
"which you are quite sure men have not seen recently. Yet
you have the astounding feeling that someone was here only
several thousand years ago, or something like that. You
get the feeling of a close kinship to the intellectual
speculation of all time. You sometimes feel that this time
you can make it stick."
(2)
Cite RBF talk to students at Design School, Raleigh NC, 1950

Game Theory:
See Neumann, John von

RHF DEFINITIONS
Game of Universe:
"With 12 omndirectional, equally-most-economical,
alternative move options accommodating each event, each
multiplied in optional diversity by myriads of alternate
frequences of _ occurrence rates, it is inherent to
the game of Universe that complex redistribution of
event identities swiftly ensues as with a vast omnidirect-
ionally observed kaleidoscope in ever-accelerating
acceleration of pulsatively transformed pattern continuities."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1002.12, 9 Feb173

Game of Universe:
See Chess:
Game of Universe
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom
(1)

Game of Universe:
See Dynamic Frame of Reference (1)
Individual Universe, (1)-(3)
Miniature Universe, 13 May'73
(2)

Games of Words:
See Politics, 1960

Game: Games:
See Baseball
(1A)
Blind Man's Buff
Checkers
Children's Games
Chess
Chess: Game of Universe
Chess: A Priori Intellect Inventa a Game Called "Life"
Competition
Euler's Game of Crossings
Fun & Play: Scientific Events First Appearing
In Fun & Play
Football
Gambling
Intellectual Development Game
Profit:
Man-invented Game of Quick Profit
Scoring
Sports
Toys
Unique Way of Playing the Game
Musical Chairs
Craps

Game:
Games:
See Omnidirectional Games
Invisible Games
Balance-of-Power Poker Game
1B)

Game:
Games:
See Architecture, Nov166
Business, 2 Jun 71
Cosmic Accounting, 2 Jun* 74
Feed, 16 May '72
Hyphenated Sciences, 18 Apr163
Mathematics, undated; 18 Apr 63
Specialization, May 65
Synergetics, 20 Jan 75
Technology, 13 Mar 73
Topology, 10 Dec 75
Particle, ly Feb 76
Psychiatry, (3)-(5)
Buddha: Christ: Mohamed, (1) (2)
Reality: Fuller's Reality vs. Popular Reality,
20 Feb 77
No Energy Crisi, (B)
(2)
111

RHE DEFINITIONS
Game: Games:
See Game: Dying as a Game
Game of Life
Game of Life's Order of Play
Game of Reality
Game of Symbols
Game Theory
Game: Synergetics as a Game
Game of Universe
Games of Words
Came of Cosmic History
Game of Masks and Monuments
Game Called Money
(3)

Gamut:
See Cosmic Gamut

Gandhi, Indira:
See General Systems Theory, 4 Jan'70
Politics, 4 Jan'70

12
TEXT CITATIONS
Gandhi:
* World Around Problems That Have to Be
Solved by Bloodless Design Science Revolution, 29 Jun'72

Gandhi:
See Passive Resistance

Gap:
See Closing the Gap
Science: Gap Between Science & Humanities
Young World: Generation Cap
Tetrahelix Gap Closer

Garden of Eden:
See Parable, Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gas:
"The single bonded tetrahedron system is like an
engineering pin joint: it can move in any direction.
It characterizes the behavior of gas.
"
(See Illustration #21.)
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS, Caption #21
May'67

Gas Turbine:
See Cosmic Accounting Sequence, (4)

Gag:
See Chemical Bonds
Kinetics of Gases
Load Distribution
Mammalian-vegetation Interchange of Gases
Methane Gas Engine
Metaphysical Gas
Incandescence
Univalent
Monovalent
(1)

Gas:
See Domains of Actions, 21 Dec'71
Incandescence, 5 Jun'73
etrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, 15 Oct'64
Thermal, 6 Far 73
Vacuum, 11 Sep 75
Aural, 22 Feb 77
Bubble Bursting, 20 Jan'78
(2)

Gathering Point:
See Planet Earth, 14 Aug170

Gather:
Gathering:
See Local Information Gatherer

G-C-T-A: DNA:
See DNA-RNA
Tetrahelix
Viral Steerability

RBP DEFINITIONS
Gears:
"The old-fashioned physicist used to put one nail in the wall,
fasten a rope to it, and stand back and throw a whip into the
rope. The whip goes to the nail on the wall and then comes
back to his hand and stops. That is the prime characteristic
of waves. They always make a complete cycle. That is why,
for instance, gears are always whole circles. A gear is a
fundamental wave phenomenon. Electromagnetic waves always
close back upon themselves."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 522.09,
7 Nov 73

HBF JEFINITIONS
Gears:
"Frequencies in waves may be thought of very realistically
in the terms of cycles, and you can think then, for instance,
of a gear, a mechanical gear which has teeth; they represent
waves when they come back to the cycle. And in designing the
wave phenomena of the Universe, when the Universe has a lot
of energy to invest she doesn't do it as often. With a finite
amount of physical energy she does big things very infrequently,
and little things very frequently. It's exactly like a gear
where you have a few big teeth and many little teeth for the
same amount of circumference, the same amount of metal."
-
Cite HEF at SIMS, U. Mass., Amheart, 22 July 171,
Talk 13, p. 9.

Gear-locked:
See Frequency & Magnitude, Jun'66
Synergetics, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gears: Loose Gear:
But one
"...A gear is designed to mesh with other gears.
loose gear put into the machinery will strip all the
others. when it is on the right pinion it meshes with the
other gears and can bridge a gear-train gap.
That's
exactly what happens to copper and spinach..."
Citation and context at Spinach, 11 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gears: Spherical Gearg:
"Having different sized teeth, and rates of revolution,
Two such gears cannot mesh, but associate only tangentially.
Consequently, their axial centers must be farther apart
Than are those of meshable gears.
Omnidiectionally pulsative systems
In effect, spherical gears.
Their inwardly and eriwards Palsating and rotating 'teeth'
Consist of multifrequenced circumferential and radial waves
of fifty-six great-circle subdivisions of spherical unity,
Often nonmeshing with other local systems.
The universally infrequent meshing of wavelengths and frequencies
Produces an omnicondition
In which the new omnidirectional system's center must, as each is
created,
Continually occupy omnidirectionally greater domains of disorder."
w
Cite BHAIN & MIND, p.89 May 182

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gears:
Toothed Gears:
"Toothed gears correspond with wave frequency cycles.
Whatever the number of teeth might be
waves are cyclic.
we can call the wave frequency. Two gears that do not
mesh can only be brought into tangent proximity and take
up more room than do meshing gears. Frequencies given
off entropically that don't mesh with energies given off
by other systems take up more room in Universe."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 12. 2 June '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gear Train: Locking and Blocking:
"In three-dimensional
omni-intermeshed, unclutchable,
mechanical systems, if any gear is blocked, the whole
gear train is locked. In a four-dimensional unclutchable
gear system a plurality of local gears may be locked
while the remainder of the system interarticulates freely."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 966.08, 18 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gear Train:
Locking and Blocking:
So no
the
"...Now along comes a third sphere and it nests in the
valley. This makes a train of gears with each one geared
to the next one. Even numbers of gears will always
reciprocate and the odd numbers will always block.
longer can those balls roll in a plane on
triangle which they form. If one tries to go one way it
will make the next one go the other way; and one can't be
moving in two different ways, so odd numbers will always
block."
Citation and context at Balls Coming Together (1), 25 Feb 69

Gear Train:
Locking & Blocking:
(1)
See Interlocking
Lever Complexes
Meshing & Nonmeshing

Gear Train: Locking &Blocking:
See Industrialization: Successive Halving Time of
National Industrialization, (1)
Icosahedron: Contraction from VE, 11 Jul'62
(2)
11

Gear with Two Teeth:
See Ellipse, 14 Feb 73

Gears: Geared: Gearing:
See Brain May be Lacking certain Gears
Interlocking
Meshing & Nonmeshing
Metabolic Gears
Omnigeared
Ovational Gearing
Intergeared mobility Freedoms
(1)

Gears: Geared: Gearing:
See Balls Coming Together (1)*
Critical Proximity, 10 Feb 73
Frequency,tés & Wave, Jun '66
Energetic Function, 1954
Lever (D)
Monkey Wrench, 9 Jul162
Quanta Wave Phenomena Sequence (1)
Precession (b); (II)
Skinning, undated
Spinach, 11 Feb 73*
Time-sizing, 30 Nov'72
Wow (1)
Atom, 30 May'75
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (1)
(2)

Gender:
Male & Female

HBF DEFINITIONS
General Case:
"The general case is tensegrity: three-way great-
circling of islands of compression. Polarized precession
is special case. Omnidirectional precession is generalized."
-
Cite SYNERGLTICS draft At Sec. 1005.61, 16 Feb*73

General Case:
See Omnidirectional, 23 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalist:
"I've been asking some large questions-- when you are a
generalist you learn to look towards big patterns-- and
I ask myself the question, 'Does man have a function in
the Universe?""
-
Citation and context at Man as a Function of Universe (A),
26 Sep'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalists & Specialiste:
RBF:
"You say you are holistic and opposed to specialists.
But cannot generalists be employed to coordinate the
work of the specialists?"
"Yes. The specialists were all generalists anyway
until they got to the graduate level. So they lose authority.
An effective generalist just learns all of the generalized
principles; the specialist just seeks the special cases-- with
ever less and less chance of finding a new generalization.
"The specialists don't see the applications of their knowledge;
they are encouraged not to. It's like the blacksmiths vs. the
Nobel prize-winners, the system tries to make them smaller than
they really are."
Cite RBF at World Game Workshop' 77; Phila. PA; 22 Jun'77

KBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
"There are eternal generalizations which embrace a plurality
of generalizations. The most comprehensive generalization
would be that which has UMP, standing for an eternally
regenerative Universe of M times P, where M stands for the
metaphysical and P stands for the physical. We could then
have a subgeneralization which says that the physical P =
EE, where Er stands for energy as radiation and E stands
for energy as matter."
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in SYNERGETICS
text at Sec. 162, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
"Generalizations are of the mind and are on
o miembracing and
omnipermeative.'
It
Radiation-Gravitation
Citation and context at
8 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
"Generalization is independent of size and time but the
generalization principle must be present in every special
case of whatever size or time magnitude."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1011.35, 17 Feb 73
[34]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
"... A vector is a partial generalization being either
metaphysically theoretical or physically realized, and in
either sense an abstraction of a special case...'
"
-
Citation and context at Vector, 26 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
"...Generalization itself is sequitur to experience."
-
Citation & context at Mathematics, 13 Mar' 71

RbF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
"A generalized principle holds true in every case.
If there is one single exception then it is no
longer a generalized principle.
No one generalization ever contradicts
Another generalization in any respect.
They are all interaccommodating."
Cite Lecture "The Function of Man in Universe"
Town Hall, New York, 26 Feb 1971
SYNERCETICS PRINCIPLES - SEC. 22004

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization Sequence:
(1)
"There's no drive we have quite so great as the sense of
order and the urge to employ the sense of order. The best
I can see of man's function is the one of the mind. The
mind has the ability to generalize. We don't have any
experimental suggestion that the physical would be able to
generalize. The physical is always a special case. Each
of the neurons are keeping the special case incident, but in
mind we see the ability to run them over and find out that
which is generalized among them. For instance, we said the
other day that we have the theory of functions where X can
stand for tension and Y for compression; where X could stand
for photons and Y for neutrons; where X could stand for
concave and Y for convex. These are always normally coexistent.
That's the theory of Functions, that is, a generalization of
generalizations. And there are generalizations which embrace
a plurality of generalizations.
"There are very basic first-degree generalizations, and
second-degree, and third-degree, and fourth-degree. We find
there are five degrees of generalizations where one embraces
the others, and we finally get to a word like 'Universe. 'n
-
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization Sequence:
"We find that 'Universe' itself has to be complementary
because there is the conceptual and the nonconceptual
automatically.
"We have nothing else to indicate mind present anywhere in
other animals, or in mountains, or in the physical. There
is nothing in our experience with little dogs, our affection
for a little dog, or whatever it might be, to suggest that
little dogs could develop the theory of functions. We find
that the ability to generalize is absolutely unique to mind
and that the little dog has brains, beautiful brains, but
not mind.
"We have no experience of the mind except in terms of the
human being; the mind of the human being, which is able to
apprehend and comprehend generalized principles. All the
generalized principles have been discovered by human mind.
The people who have discovered them are usually called
scientists. Sometimes there's a poet, but really the sort
of artist-scientist is the one who discovers them, and every
time he discovers them, he's prone to make a record of the
fact that he discovered it, and that he didn't invent it."
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul169
(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
Generalization Sequence:
(3)
"The great scientists and artist-scientists finding these
life principles find them all never contradictory one of the
other. They are intercomplementary; they are interaccommo-
dative. There can't be a principle that has a 'beginning'
and an
ending'. We cannot suggest that an abstraction could
have a beginning and an end The words 'beginning' and
'
end
'
have to do with the physical.
"So we have, then, this extraordinary a priori set of
absolutely weightless, pure metaphysical principles which
all interaccommodate and therefore are extraordinarily orderly.
And they can only be discovered by intellect or mind. They
seem to be quite clearly purely metaphysical, and in their
orderliness and metaphysicality, they seem to be intellectual
in their
own right. There seems to be an a priori greater
intellect operative in the Universe.
"Anyone who discovers anything about his physical Universe
begins to be overwhelmed by it. Just to start off with,
there is mass attraction. You learn how mass attraction
operates. But no scientist has the slightest idea of the
why or how of mass attraction. The more you discover scientif-
Cite RBF to World Came, Jun-Jul 69
ically,"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization Sequence:
(4)
"the more you are overwhelmed by what we don't know.
We're
dealing in a fantastic mystery, and yet that mystery
does have all this
extraordinary orderliness, so that you
can't help but
realize that it can only be found by intellect.
Apparently
we learn it subjectively, so apparently there must
be an objective
intellect. There seems to be an a priori
greater
intellect than that of man operative.
"I don't have to do anything about it. Nature knows exactly
what to do. Nature
is never caught off guard. RBF throws
coin into the air
I haven't the slightest idea really how
to resolve it when
I threw that coin in the air. But nature
knew how to
handle it. Nature is never nonplussed about what
to do. But you
and I get tremendously nonplussed about what
to do."
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Satrun
Film transcript #327, pp.13-16.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
It is
"If you try to remember all the special case experiences
of which your life is composed, your brain will be very
quickly overloaded in the given category of recall.
going to take too long to get this information back and
sorted out to use. Instead of trying to deal in all the
special cases, deal exactly with the opposite; work towards
the great generalizations. Mathematics is one of the great
generalizations and so I've worked and kept myself at
mathematics. By understanding the fundamentals of
mathematics, I can now understand special case behaviors very
rapidly. This is one of the major strategies."
-
Cite RBF address at Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166. p.195.

RBF JEFINITIONS
Generalization:
"You begin to be able to do away with thousands and thousands
of what we call special cases when you get into generali-
zations. Generalization gives you great strength so what I
had learned in chemistry, physics and mathematics began to be
very useful. I readopted mathematics because mathematics
contains all the great generalizations and there are not
really many generalizations. I discovered that if I could be
master of the generalizations that I could develop a very high
capability."
Cite OREGON Lecture #2 - p. 55, 2 Jul 162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Degrees Of:
"The degrees are then progressive omnibus stages
Of generalizations of generalizations."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.139 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Degrees Of:
"The whole process of generalising generalizations forms a
pyramid whose base consists of all the special cases of direct
physical experiences. But when we said, 'We take a piece of
rope and tense it,' we did not in fact have a rope in our hands.
We have all had so many rope experiences that we generalised
the concept. This was a first degree generalization. The
discovery of always and only coexisting tension and compression
was a second degree generalization. Finding a whole family of
always and only coexisting phenomena was a third degree
generalization; and conceiving therefrom a relativity was a
fifth [sic] degree generalization.
"In this pyramid of generalizations, the human mind then goes
way beyond the biologicals in its development of an increasing
and diminishing conceptual Universe. So we find the metaphysi-
cal not only balancing the physical-- which should have been
expected-- but also encompassing the physical by one tetrahed-
ron, and thereafter reducing its myriadness to unity. The
metaphysical, as with the circumferentially united, great-circle
chord vectors of the vector equilibrium, coheres the physical.
...Man is the great antientropy."
Cite NASA Speech, p.89, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization.
Degrees of,
"Each degree of generalization
shrinks the number of component concepts
from the original myriad of special-case experiences.
Man's mind is therefore
the most powerful anti-entropy
manifested in the universe.'
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Spring 1966, Vol. 1., No, 3. p. 46

TEXT CITATIONS
Generalization:
Degrees Of:
How Little I Know, pp.28-29, Oct 166
Music in the New Life, P.14

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
First Degree:
"It was a first-degree generalization
When I said, 'I take a piece of rope,
And in describing my purposeful tensing of it.
There was nothing I said
Regarding the piece of rope
That in any way contradicted
Any experience that anybody
In an audience has ever had
With any piece of rope."
-
Cite BHAIN & MIND, p. 139 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalizations:
First Degree:
"What I have done for you in differentiating out these
behaviors and finding always and only coexistings, is what
we call a first-degree generalization.
outsideness. . Concave and convex.
proton and neutron.
Those are all first degrees."
•
Insideness and
Action and reaction
Tension and compression.
-
Cite RBF at Students International Meditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, p. 10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization, First-Degree:
"By abstraction I mean an idealized empty-set,
first-degree generalized statement such as one of my
This
'Let's take a piece of rope and tense it.'
Own,
refers to any rope and is a first-degree generalization."
Citation at Abstraction, 10 Dec'64
Cite MUSIC p. 14

RB BREINITIONS
Generalization: First-Degree:
See Pattern, 1954-59
Eternal, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Second Degree:
"It is a second-degree generalization
To find an additional generalized principle
Operating within the generalized piece of rope;
Such as the always and only
Coexisting tension and compression.
It is also a second-degree generalization
To find the concave and convex within generalized systems."
-O
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.139 May 172

RBF JEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Second Degree:
"It was a second-degree generalization to find the theory
of functions embracing generalizations. Here is a
herali-
zation of x and y embracing a number of clearly differntiated
yet nonetheless generalized principles."
-
Cite RBF at Students International lieditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 171, p. 10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Second Degree:
"And within the specialised occupational categories
An ever multiplying host
Of second degree specializations
Are frequently being instituted
All in perverse disregard of the fact
That humans are born with universal curiosity,
And omnifunction inventing capability
With which to cope extracorporeally
With ever evolving
Environmental challenges.
"
Context and citation at Generalized Principle (3) + (4), 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization, Second-Degree:
"Next I say, 'Tension and compression are only
coexistent -- when you tense a rope its girth contracts--
This observation is ma second-degree
ergo compresses.
generalization."
Cite MUSIC, p. 14, 10 Dec'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Second Degree:
"When a second order of pattern distillation as a generalized
conceptual principle emerges, but this time exclusively from
the emergently-induced coordinate consideration of a plurality
of generalized conceptual principles themselves, each independent
of any special-case sensoriality, and in such a regeneratively
recognizable manner of patterning as to provide a means of
mathematical accounting and therefrom a tentative forecasting
capability, not only of generalized developments but also of
special forward experiences in the terms of specific sensorial
conditions, and those calculated forecast condition materialize,
and the forecasting capability is subsequently verified by
recurrent experimental demonstrations under controlled general-
ized conditions, then we may tentatively assume that we have
discovered at least a clause of 'natural law,' For example,
we tentatively assume that radiation is generalized compression
and that gravity is generalized tension and that tension and
compression are inseparable, precessionally complementary
functions of universal structure.'
Cite INTRODUCTION to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.120, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Third Degree:
"It's a third-degree generalization
Or a generalization of a group of generalizations,
To develop the Theory of Functions
Wherein the X and Y could stand
For any one second-degree coexistence generalizations."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.139 May 172

RbF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Third Degree and Fourth Degree:
"So I found there was a hierarchy of generalizations of
generalizations.
e go into relativity as a third degree
generalization and Universe as a fourth degree generalization."
-
Cite RBF at Students International meditation Seminar,
U. Lass., Amherst, 22 July '71, p. 10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization,
Third-Degree: and Fourth-Degree:
"Only coexisting phenomenan tension and compression,
convexity and concavity, and electromagnetic charges are
each special cases of the generalized mathematical case
of the only-coexistence of functions of a system. This
statement is a third-degree generalization which general-
izes generalizations.'
"
"Forty years ago I generalized this third-degree
abstraction even further by saying that 'unity is plural
and at minimum two.' This is a fourth-degree generalization."
-
Cite MUSIC, p. 14, 10 Dec'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Farth Degree:
"It is a fourth-degree generalization
To develop the word 'relativity."
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.139. May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Fifth Degree:
"When we get to the fifth-degree generalization,
Universe,
We have increased our numbers-of-experiences base
To all the experiences
Ever known to and remembered by humanity,
Including all the experiences
With all the atoms and their nuclear components.
"Thus, the human mind
Has collected, combined, and refined
All experiences of all humanity,
In all-remembered time,
Into one single concept,
Universe,
Which is, ipso facto,
The ultimate generalization."
Citation at Universe, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization:
Fifth Degree:
"And it's a fifth-degree generalization
To employ the word 'Universe'
To embrace both the relativity and complementarity."
-
Citation at Universe, May'72
Citu BRAIN & LIND

RBF DEFINS
Generalization:
Fifth Degree:
"Life is a fifth degree generalized principle
Permeating the gamut
Of special case, inanimate,
Physical energy events.
Live animals have no reaction to dead animals.
Animals do not think about life and death."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.7, 28 Jan*69

RbF DEFINITIONS
Generalization,
Fifth-Degree:
"Einstein's 'relativity' and the physicists'
'fundamental complementarity' of universe constitute
fifth-degree generalizations, for they abstract,
condense, and reduce the generalizations into
single words."
Cite Music of the New Life, U. on C
p. 14, 10 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalizations of Generalizations:
"The Cosmic Hierarchy of Comprehensively Embracing And
Permeating Generalizations-of-Generalizations = gg^h."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1056.20, 13 May'73

TEXT CITATIONS
Generalizations of Generalizations:
Synergetics text Sec. 1056
-
-
13 May 73

Generalizations of Generalizations:
See Hierarchy of Hierarchies
Truth & Love
Generalization:
Degrees Of
Pyramid of Generalizations
(1)

(2)
12:
Generalizations of Generalizations:
See Embracing & Linear 16 Feb 73
Eternal Designing Capability Sequence (4)
Metaphysical & Physical, 20 Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical vs Literary:
"In literature the word generalization means
Covering too much territory
Too thinly to be convincing.
However, we have in science a term 'generalization,'
which does not have the literary connotation.
A generalization in science refers to
A principle discovered by experiment
To be operative in every special case."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.136 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical vs Literary:
"The word generalization in literature usually means
covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive,
let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization
means a principle which has been found to hold true in
every special case."
Cite Nehru Speech, p.8, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical vs Literary:
"The term generalization
When used in a literary sense
Frequently suggests
That a statement has been made
Which tries to cover
Too much territory too sketchily
To permit the implication
Of significant pattern disclosures.
On the other hand
A scientificgeneralization
Has powerful significance."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.1, 28 Jan'69

KLF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical vs. Literary:
"By generalization we mean "I pattern generalization' as
used in a mathematical sense, in contradistinction to the
word 'generalization' as used in the literary sense. The
latter often means a too-ambitious subject range which
consequently permits only superficial considerations of
any specific case data.
(Adapted.)
"When the uniquely emergent generalized patternings
become describable by us in mentally regenerative conceptual
terms, as completely divorced from any one of the specific
sensorial conditions of any of the special experiences out
of whichthey emerged, yet apparently, as seen in retrospect
to have been persistent in every special case, then we may
tentatively assume such unique mutual pattern content to be
a generalized conceptual principle, as for instance the
conception of tension as opposed to compression independent
of textures, smells, color, sound, or size of any one tension-
dominated experience."
Cite INT UTRECTIONAL HAIC, p. 419, 1959
Citation & context at Pattern Generalization (1) (2), 1959

Generalizations:
Mathematical vs. Literary:
See Science:
Gap Between Science & the Humanities
Scientific Generalization
(1)

Generalizations:
Mathematical vs. Literary:
(2)
See Lever, (a)
Pattern Generalization, (1)

22
RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization & Special Case:
"...A minimum thing always 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, conceptual, ergo, does not have separable parts, but--
being primitive (timeless) --does have primitive fractionabil-
ity into structurally conceptual, timeless, omnirationally
accountable, symmetrical, differential polyhedra of the
cosmic hierarchy.'
. Citation & context at Finite Event Scenario, (1); 23 Jan'77

Generalisations of Generalizations:
See Embracing & Linear, 16 Feb'73
Eternal Designing Capability Sequence (4)
Metaphysical & Physical, 20 Jun166
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical vs Literary:
"In literature the word generalization means
Covering too much territory
Too thinly to be convincing.
1
However, we have in science a term 'generalization, '
which does not have the literary connotation.
A generalization in science refers to
A principle discovered by experiment
To be operative in every special case.'
"
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.136 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical ys Literary:
"The word generalization in literature usually means
covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive,
let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization
means a principle which has been found to hold true in
every special case."
-
Cite Nehru Speech, p.8, 13 Nov*69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical vs Literary:
"The term generalization
hen used in a literary sense
Frequently suggests
That a statement has been made
Which tries to cover
Too much territory too sketchily
To permit the implication
Of significant pattern disclosures.
On the other hand
A scientificgeneralization
Has powerful significance."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.1, 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization: Mathematical vs. Literary:
By generalization we mean "pattern generalization' as
used in a mathematical sense, in contradistinction to the
word generalization' as used in the literary sense. The
latter often
means a too-ambitious subject range which
consequently permits only superficial considerations of
any specific case data.
(Adapted.)
"When the uniquely emergent generalized patternings
become
describable
by us in mentally regenerative conceptual
terms
, as completely divorced from any one of the specific
sensorial
conditions of any of the special experiences out
of which they emerged, yet apparently, as seen in retrospect
to have
been persistent in every special case, then we may
tentatively
assume such unique mutual pattern content to be
a generalized conceptual principle, as for instance the
conception of tension as opposed to compression independent
of textures, smells, color, sound, or size of any one tension-
dominated
experience."
Cite INERG
* Citation & context at Pattern Generalization (1) (2), 1959

Generalizations: Eathematical vs. Literary:
See Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities
Scientific Generalization
(1)

Generalizations: Mathematical vs. Literary:
See Lever, (a)
Pattern Generalization, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization & Special Case:
A thing
" ...A minimum thing always has separable parts.
is always special case. Special cases always have time-
frequency relative sizing, whereas the minimum system, the
tetrahedron, is generalized, prefrequency, sizeless, timeless,
yet, conceptual, ergo, does not have separable parts, but--
being primitive (timeless) --does have primitive fractionabil-
ity into structurally conceptual, timeless, omnirationally
accountable, symmetrical, differential polyhedra of the
cosmic hierarchy."
Citation & context at Finite Event Scenario, (1); 23 Jan'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalization & Special Case:
"I make each individual as special case but consciousness
as the generalization. Like that bumper sticker this morning
(DC license # 160-585) THE REAL WORLD IS SPECIAL CASE.
Reality is special case. You and I are sitting here and no
one else can be sitting right where we are. But the news-
papers miss this: they write about reality as if we were all
the same realities, as if we were all the same things. If
you and I were sitting here we couldn't possibly be anywhere
else.
"There are a lot of different realities. That is the differ-
ence between reality and generalization; there is only one
generalization."
(8537.44)
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 12 May 175

REF DEFINITIONS
Generalization & Special Case:
*Special cases are inherently terminal.
Brain would like to
have everything begin and end. But principles are eternal,
a word with which brain is not familiar.
"All inputs to the brain are finite.'
11
-
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 20 Jan'75
SEC 263.03 [2HP. ED.]\

RBP DEFINITIONS
Generalization & Special Case:
*Our method of demonstrating the nature of the special-case
experiences out of which the pure mathematicians' imaginary
generalized case of his pure straight line was evolved, also
contains within it the complete gears-interlocking of
quantum-wave mechanics and vectorial geometry, which are
coordinately contained in synergetics with computer binary
'bitting.
11
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 522.36; Nov'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalizations & Special Case:
"If you try to remember all of the special case experiences
of which your life is composed, your brain will be very quickly
overloaded in the given category of recall. It is going to take
too long to get this information back and sorted out to use.
Instead of trying to deal in all the special cases, deal with
exactly the opposite: work towards the great generalizations."
-O
Cite RBF Address to Geographers in Rhode Island, 26 Aug'66

TEXT CITATIONS
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Generalization & Special Case:
See Generalized Principles, Once Discovered, Become
Special Case
Whole to Particular
Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Conceptual vs. Quantitative
Concept vs. Information
Wholes & Parts
Brain & Mind: Distinction Between
Irrelevancies:
Dismissal of
Eternal & Temporal
Model vs. Form
Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Strategy
Symmetry & Asymmetry
(1)

Generalization & Special Case:
See Angle & Frequency Modulation, Jun'66
Convex & Concave Tetrahedron, Aug 71
Cosmic Absolutes, 13 Jul 74
Design, May167
Domain & Quantum, (2)
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (3)
In, Out & Around Experiences, (1)
Mathematics 18 Apr 63
Metaphysical & Physical, Jun'66
Mind, (1)
Pattern, Jun'66
Prime, 20 Dec 74
Primitive Regeneration, 27 Dec'74
Plumbing, (1)(2)
Quantum Mechanics: Grand Strategy, Jun'66
Generalized Dichotomy:
Atom, 8 Sep'75
God, 7 Novi 75
Grand Strategy, (3)
(2A)

124
Generalization & Special Case:
See Science:
Pure & Applied, 14 Sep* 71
Spheres & Spaces, 14 May 75
Synergetics, (p.ioi) Jun 66; 12 May' 75
Things, 19 Febi 72
Truth, 30 Jun 75
Wave & Particle Definability, 27 Dec*74
Vacuum, 11 Sep'75
Unstructurings & Restructurings, 8 Sep 75
Angle & Frequency Design Control, Jul 71
Vector Equilibrium, Oct 75
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain,
Symmetry & Asymmetry, 11 Dec 75
18 Dec 75
Apprehension + Comprehension - Awareness, 26 Jan'76
Concept, 20 Dec' 74
Finite Event Scenario, (1)*
Proofs, 8 Aug177
Will, 20 Apr178; (1) (2)
(2B)

Generalization of the Special Cases:
See Information vs. Entropy, 15 Nov'74
Organic & Inorganic, Nov'71
Tetrahedron, 2 Jul'62
Truth, 31 Jan '75
Radiation, 1959
Export-import Centers, 20 May$75
Frequency & Wave, 19 Dec 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalizations Reduced to One Word:
"
The total rope experiences is perhaps ten thousand kinds,
and we've gotten that down to only one piece of rope.
Then
we took all the myriad kinds of experience with concaves and
convexes and with protons and neutrons; we got that down into
the theory of functions, and then we embraced that even
further, getting just the word 'relativity.' And finally we
got this word 'Universe. 1 What we have here is a pyramid of
all the special cases working up to generalizations, and
generalizations to one word. That's as orderly as you can get.
"We were looking for a phase of Universe where things are
contracting and increasingly orderly. Nothing could be more
orderly than those generalizations. 10
Citation and context at Intellect: Equation of Intellect (1),
1970

Generalizations Reduced to One Word:
See Idea Increments
Puzzle of Washington Crossing the Delaware

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalize:
"As part of my broad strategy when I started out I thought
I could generalize machine tools--or alloys--so they could
be better understood."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Wash., DC; 9 Feb 76

Generalized Boat:
See No Generalized Boat

Generalized Design:
See Valving, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Strategy:
"I do not mean to infer any set of special case paired
dichotomies.
(1)
"I first developed the concept of synergy, the behavior of
whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of the parts considered
separately, which automatically identifies the unique behavior
of the whole as resulting from the interrelationships exist-
ing between but not in any of the parts.
"Next I pointed out that there was nothing in atoms per se that
predicted their association as chemical compounds; there was
nothing in chemical compounds per se that predicted biological
protoplasm; I said there was nothing in biological protoplasm
per se that predicted camels and palm trees; nor the respira-
tory interexchange between those mammals and botanicals.
Quite clearly, the more complex systems were never predicted
by the behaviors of the lesser systems.
"I next pointed out that there is what we call synergetic
grand strategy. The synergetic strategy is that the known
behavior of the whole and the known behavior of some of the"
-Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Wm. R. Cline, San Francisco, CA,
26 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Strategy:
"
'parts may frequently provide the capability to discover
unknown parts or all the unknown parts.
"I pointed out that Euler's topology provided mathematical
means for dealing with the whole of visual experience
reducing it into points, areas, and lines and we found there
was a consistent generalization of the relative abundance of
those three irreducible aspects of experience.
(2)
"I then pointed out that Willard Gibbs, at the beginning of the
20th century had been able to provide a formula for relative
abundance of the tactile experiences of liquids, crystallines,
and gases; and with the known behavior of the whole and the
known behavior of some of the parts quantitatively predicted,
the behavior of the unknown parts and energy inputs we could
arrive at the factors necessary to establish the equilibrium
of a substance.
"Having found, then, that humanity had three successful grand
strategies for proceeding from the whole to the particular, I
produced my scientific definition of Universe; and I produced
the concept of a system; and was able to find an equation for"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Wm.R. Cline, San Francisco, CA, 26 May '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Dichotomy:
Grand Strategy:
*the conceptual system and the known conceptual but finite
nonsimultaneous scenario Universe.
"I then Introduced a series of deliberate dichotomies of
Universe, drawing out the successive irrelevancies, identify-
ing the number of dichotomies of the residual relevancies
identifying the number of such dichotomies, and culling of the
residual relevancies as the number of bits in cybernetics.
Many such dichotomies are necessary to reduce the net relevant
components of the net system sought with exact knowledge of
all the topologically identified components of the net
relevant system.
•
"In other words, I use a generalized dichotomy and not a
special case Obviously, when each special case use of my
grand strategy occurs, then we will have a series of special
case dichotomies."
(3)
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Wm.R. Cline, San Francisco, CA., 26 May '75

Generalized Dichotomy:
See General Systems Theory
Irrelevancies: Dismissal of

KBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Law:
"if the systems are unstable they are not inherent to
generalized law. If the systems are stable they are
inherent to all generalized law."
Systems,
Citation & context at Stable & Unstable, 23 Jan' 72
Gite MBT to WA, 3200 Idaho, its stington
at Sec

Generalized Law:
See Metaphysical, 22 Apr 68
Eternal & Temporal, 4 Sep'77

Generalized Orbiting:
See Orbit, 14 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principles:
"Universe is the aggregate of all the generalized principles."
-
Citation & context at Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (4)
1 Jul 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalised Principles:
"Generalized principles can only be expressible in abstract
mathematical terms."
Cite RBF to EJA, Pagano's Rest., Phila., PA., 22 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"Many principles as yet undiscovered are nonetheless
operative....
ft
Citation and context at Understanding, 7 Nov '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principles:
"If the only momentary and optically illusory system
consideration proves to be unstable, it does not manifest
generalized principle. If systems are stable, they are
inherent in and accommodate all generalized principles."
Citation & context at Stable & Unstable Systems, 2 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
(A)
"Human mind has discovered a number of generalized principles,
each quite different from the others: one, for instance, being
mass attraction; another being leverage; another being refrac-
tion of radiation; another being precession, etc. in order to
qualify as generalizations, these different principles found by
science must be devoid of exceptions. Therefore, principles
must be both eternal and mutually interaccommodative. Humanity
apparently discovered a plurality of a priori, absolute, weight-
less, abstract principles, each displaying unique mathematical
relationships, realization of which generalizations can be
employed physically by humans but only in time-limited special
cases for instance, to produce a lever of such and such a
length of wood or other substance.
"Unly through a succession of many subjective, special-case
physical experiences do we humans gradually tome to discover
a generalized principle. Later we also discover that we can
objectively employ those generalized principles. But then we
find they can only be employed in spacial-case physical ways.
Only the human mind can discover and think conceptually in
generalized terms. Physical life is always a special-case."
-
Cite GEOVIEW 1, "No Title," (Part 1), World ag., p.34, 22 ay173

HBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"Human mind alone has the capability to process and concept-
ualize in eternal, weightless, timeless metaphysical abstract-
ions. it follows that while all human organisms exemplify
and embrace a large number of generalized principles. Lach
human demonstrates the complex interaccommodation of an agg-
regate of generalized principles.
(B)
"So we have discovered, then, an eternally regenerative universe
consisting of a complex of eternally generalized principles,
wherein none of the generalized principles has ever been found
to contradict the others, and, indeed, all are found to be
interaccommodative at exponential rates of synergetic_inter-
augmentation, as for instance, the efficiency of an electromag-
netic generating and distributing system increases as the
square, 1.e.,
as n,
of the rate of the system's voltage
increase."
-Cite GEOVIEW 1, "No Title," (Part 1), World Fag., p.34, 22 May'73

RBF DEFI.ITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"Synergy manifests itself in the generalized principles
and their exponential rate of interaugmentation."
Cite RBF in Baccalaureate Address, University of Virginia,
Chalottesville, 3 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principles
... All the generalized principles
Thus far discovered
Are uniquely identifiable
Exclusively as
*Behavioral interrelationships'
Of two or more
Separate components..."
Cite Intuition, p.28 May '72

BBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"The physical universe is a self-regenerative process.
Its regenerative interrelationships and intertransformings
are governed by a complex code of weightless, generalized
principles. The principles are metaphysical. The
complex code of eternal, metaphysical principles is omni-
interaccommodative. That is, it has no intercontradiction.
To be classifiable as 'generalized,' principles cannot
terminate or go on vacation. If indeed they are, they are
eternal, timeless."
Cite Dreyfuss, Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971, pp. 4,5
SYNERGENCS PRINCIPIES - SEC 220.05)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized rinciple:
"Because the generalized principles cannot be principles
AND
unless they are eternal, because human experience is
inherently limited, there can be no finality of human
comprehension."
Cthe RBS dictation for SYNERGETICS, 28 Feb.
Sat 216,2005 177.
Cite RBF to EJA, 28 Feb 71
5 EC. 217.04)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"A generalized principle hold true in every case.
if there is one single exception then it is
no longer a generalized principle.
No one generalization ever contradicts
another generalization in any respect.
They are all interaccommodating."
-
Cite Lecture "The Function of an in Universe"
Town Hall, New York, 26 Feb 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"To date, we have gained vast inventories
Of trial-and-error experience
From all of which information we have developed
A family of generalized scientific principles
Which are weightless pattern concepts."
-
Cite RBF Draft, BRAIN & MIND, p. 10
1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless
generalized
principles.”
Citation at Reality, 13 Nov'69
CICO NEHRU-SPEECH,
3 No:69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"To qualify scientifically as generalized principles
The concept relationships
Must endure limitlessly
And hold true without exception
While also being transcendental
To the locally coming-to-pass
Separate experience sensations,
Within whose only superficial novelties
They persist unobtrusively.
"Generalizations are also transcendental
To beginnings and endings.
"In his endeavor to cope subjectively
With the information explosion,
And objectively
With socio-economic survival problems,
Kan has developed a myriad
Of specialized academic, technical, craft,
And repetitive labor tasks.
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.2, 28 Jan169
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"Having concentrated all their
Cognitive faculties and reflexes
In responding exclusively
To the inventory of characteristics
Of certain experiences
The 'special case' data on which
Agglomerate astronomically
Frequently to overwhelm
The brain's physically limited
'Special case' data
Storage capacity.
"The alternative intellectual discipline strategy
To that of specialization
Is to extract from all
The special case experiences
Of our total life's inventory
The easily rememberable
Few hundreds
Of thus far intuitively discovered
And experimentally verified
Generalized principles.
And because the generalized principles
Hold
true in all cases,
11
(2)
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.2, 28Jan'6

(3)
37
RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"All special cases can be understood
By those familiar with
The inventory of generalized principles
For the latter must hold true
In all special cases.
"There is apparently a complex family
Of immortal and omni-interaccommodative
Generalized principles
Which altogether govern Universe--
Indeed constitute Universe.
Comprehension of that family
Provides comprehensive understanding
Of all experiences.
"And within the specialized occupational categories
An ever multiplying host
Of second degree specializations
Are frequently being instituted
All in perverse disregard of the fact
That humans are born with universal curiosity,
-
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.3, 28 Jan'169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"And omnifunction inventing capability
With which to cope extracorporeally
With ever evolving
Environmental challenges;
In lieu of burdening or distorting
Their integral organisms
With special tool functions
Or even with hybrid evolved
New organic appendages
To cope with special case
Environmental conditions
As do all other
Biological species.
In evolving his hybrid
One ton tail
With which to bash loose
Likely food items,
The dinosaur developed two small brains,
One in his head
And one in his tail
And apparently
Nagged himself
Disordantly into extinction."
(4)
-
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.3

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"Because of his ever multiplying
Transfer of essential functioning
To his organically detached tools,
Fan's degrees of freedom of action
And magnitude of Universe penetrations
And velocity of information harvesting
Have become ever regeneratively amplified.
"The histories of biological species
Teach us that special extinction
Has always been caused
By overspecialization
And loss thereby
Of general adaptability."
-Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.3, 28 Jan169
(5)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"But we must recognize also
The irreversibility aspect
Of generalized principles
Which show that
Though they can be distilled
And abstracted from
A multitude of special case experiences,
Their net significance economically isolated
And their unique characteristics defined,
They cannot be employed
In total universally ranging performance.
You can abstract
From many experiences
With floating objects
The principle of displacement
As did Archimedes,
But you cannot design
A generalized displacement
Nor a generalized boat."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.4, 28 Jan'69
(0)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"The inter-accommodative generalized principles
seem to constitute a body of anticipatory, comprehensive,
intellectual abstractions weightlessly governing universe,
evolution and humanity's fate therein. Thus the great
scientists are beginning to discover God at first hand, as
the most comprehensive generalization of the invisibly
finite reality. We have then these great generalized prin-
ciples, of which the average man is unaware, operating
supremely and bringing about the evolutionary rearrange-
ments in our total experience of being aboard a planet."
. Cite ARTS & LETTERS GOLD MEDAL, P.
10
May'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Principle:
"Pure principles are usable. They are reducible from theory
to practice."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 102. 5 Jul'62
SYNERCETICS PRINCIPLES
-
SEC 220.031

Generalized Principles, Once Discovered, Become Special-case
Experiences:
See Mind, (1)
Universe: All the Known, 15 Jan'74
Special-case Experience, 6 Nov' 73

Generalized Principles:
See Cosmic Law Family
Cosmogony: Orderliness Operative in Nature
Discovery of Generalized Principles
Equatability of Geheralized Principles
Eternal Principles
Generalization
Inventory of Principles
Inventory of Characteristics of Principles
Metaphysical Synergy
Principle
Pure Principle
Undiscovered Principles
Interaccommodation:
Interaccommodative
(1)

Generalized Principles:
See Comprehensive, Feb'72
Eternal, May'72; 13 Kar'73
Hierarchy of Constellar Configurations, 1959
Metaphysical, Jan'68
Metaphysical Environment, 13 Nov169
Metaphysical & Physical, 22 Apr 68; 27 Dec174
Reality, 13 Nov 69*
Synergetic Surprise, 9 Apr 71
Tension, (1)(4)
Understanding, 7 Nov '73
Stable & Unstable Systems. 2 Nov'73*
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (4)*
Wealth, 8 Dec' 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Topological Definability
"Generalized principles have topologica' ystem definability
of angle, number, and constancy. Special cases have unique
frequency dimensionability. Wherefore we propose that all
recallably thinkable experiencings, physical and metaphysical,
are fivefoldedly characterized:
(1) systematically,
(2) topologically
(topo-aspectively),
(3) angularly,
(4) numerically
(topo-interabundantly),
(1)
Generalized
(metaphysical
& physical)
Special
case
(5) frequency definable
(special case: physical).
"All conceptually thinkable exclusively metaphysical experiencings
are fourfoldedly characterised as above. All generalized
-
principles are conceptually thinkable and fourfoldedly definable."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Secs. 1072.21 & 22, 27 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generalized Topological Definability:
(2)
"Generalization is conceptually (i.e., systematically) imaginable
independent of (5) frequency.
"The fifth characteristic, (5) frequency, is the unique special
case variable. Physical experiencings are dependent not only on
the four generalizable characteristics, but also on (5)
frequency (i.e., size)."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Secs. 1072.22 & .23, 27 Dec'74

General Systems Grid:
See Ekistics, Aug'72

General Systems' Mathematical-control Matrix:
See Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD
Triangle, 20 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
"General systems theory usually relates to arbitrary
parameters; I relate general systems theory to Universe.'
"
Cite RBF at 0.B. Hardison dinner party, Wash. DC., 18 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
"Just now, man is coming into technical discovery of general
systems theory. The experimental probing of the potentials
of the computers awakened man to a realization of the vast
complexes of variables that can be mastered by general systems
theory. So far, man has dealt but meagerly and noncomprehen-
sively with his powerful planning capability. So far, he has
employed only limited systems theory in special open-edged
systems- tic-tac-toe' rectilinear grid systems and planar
matrixes. The arbitrary open parameters of infinite systems
can never be guaranteed to be adequate statements of all
possible variables. Infinite systems engender an infinite
number of variable factors. Unless one starts with Universe
one always inadvertently starts with open infinite systems.
Only by starting with finite Universe and progressively
dismissing finite irrelevancies can one initiate finite,
locally limited, general system theory to assured satisfaction
in problem solving.'
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 537.33, 8 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
(1)
"The 12 universal degrees of freedom govern the external and
internal motions of all independent systems in Universe. In
order to take synergetic strategy advantage and thereby to
think comprehensively and anticipatorily, in terms of total
systems, we have to start off with Universe itself as a closed
finite system that misses none of the factors. We must also
include all the universal degrees of freedom, and the approx-
imately unlimited range of frequencies in the use theoreof,
which cover all variable interrelationships of Universe.
They become the controlling factors governing general systems
and, thereby govern such supercomplex systems design as that
of a nation's navy or a fundamental program for comprehensive-
ly considerate and efficiently effective use of all world
resources.
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 537.31; galley rewrite, 7 Novi 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
(2)
"The general systems approach starts with the differentiation
of Universe, including both metaphysical and physical, and
permits progressive subdivisions in cybernetical bits to bring
any local pattern of any problem into its identification within
the total scheme of generalized system events. Problem
solving starts with Universe and thereafter subdivides by
progressively disearding irrelevancies thereby to identify the
'critical path' priorities and order of overlapping developments
that will most economically and efficiently and expeditiously
realize the problem's solution by special local problem identi-
fication and location within the totality of the problem-
solving scenario."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 537.31, 7 Nov '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory: (A)
"General systems theory treats with phenomena that are
holistically comprehensible. The objects of our experience
are finite systems. Their superficial outlines close back
upon themselves multidirectionally as a systematic continuity
of relevantly contiguous events.
"Maximum system complexity consists of a dissimilarly
quantified inventory of unique and nonintersubstitutable
components. That is, Euler's irreducible-system aspects of
vertexes, areas, and edges exhibit the respective dissimilar
quantities 4, 4, and 6 in the minimum prime system, the
tetrahedron. This demonstrates the inherent synergy of all
systems, since their minimum overall inventory of inherent
characteristics is unpredicted and unpredictable by any of
the parts taken separately. Systems are unpredicted by
oneness, twoness, or threeness. This explains how it happens
that general systems theory is a new branch of science.
"General systems theory is another example of evolution by
inadvertence. It developed fortuitously to accommodate the
unprecedented and vastly complex undertakings of the late
twentieth century, such as the 10 million separate and only"
Cite SYNERGETICS tect at Sec.s 400.22, 23 & 24, 26 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
(B)
"partially overlapping 'critical path' tasks that had to be
accomplished and tested to foolproof reliability en route to
countdown to eventual blastoff, Moon landing, and safe return
to Earth, which found all conventional mathematical theory
wanting. It required the development of the computer and
star-focused instruments and computer programming arts together
with operational research, which guess-improvises the
inventory of parameter of variables that must be progressively
programmed into the system in order to further reduce the
magnitude of tolerated errors consequent to trial 'bird'
(rocket vehicle) 'flight' (trajectoryl control as the vehicles
are progressively zeroed-in to progressive target rendezvous
with celestial entities. Neither differential and integral
calculus, nor 'probability' statistics, nor any branch of
specialized hard science has accredited synergy as an a
priori assumption. General systems theory, which recognizes
synergy as inherent, was discovered and named by the biologic-
ally inspired Ludwig van Bertalanffy."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 400.24, 26 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
" ...The computer operational research and general systems
sciences and their equipment will help... to progressively
dispense with opinion judgments. They, as in the space
operations can cope effectively with all the tactical
variables.
Cite RBF Ltr. to Indira Gandhi, p.7, 4 Jan'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
"General systems theory is central to all the successful
prognosticating. This theory has been employed in the logistics
and ballistics of world-embracing naval theory for at least a
century. It involves all the fundamental variables entering
into the problem. Its strategy is to start with the most
comprehensive family of variable factors possible, and by
progressive elimination of those factors irrelevant to the
special case problem, to arrive at logically predictable
condition [sic] at a given time and place. The most desizable
results often require invention and development of now tools
and instruments. Thus, the physical novelties of tomorrow
are often the consequences of a complex family of variables."
Cite the AGE OF THE DONE, Jul'69

HBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
"In a great matrix we can call out the frequency and once
we have the frequency, we know how many there are in that
layer. . So we would be able for a given frequency to know
how many special-case informations we have stored there and
how many relationships there are.
"Now it's very possible that we are getting to general systems
theory. For a given frequency, what ever number of cells
there are in that outer layer, is exactly what you are going
to have to have for your general systems theory. Those are
the number of variables at that level of discretion. You
can generalize it more, or you can get down to less generalized
levels."
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 2, p.2, 11 Far'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
E
"The General Systems Theory is deductive and states that
only if we begin with universe and consider it finitely
and comprehensively in terms of total systems, can we deal
effectively with the maximum and minimum number of limiting
factors of the combined and complementary physical and
metaphysical subdivisions of universe."
bound with the "Live Book Squad"
Cite RBF Glossary of Terms
ou with "The Li...
1967

HBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory:
"How may we organize our self-disciplining to deal
comprehensively and capably with the maximum and the
minimum
of limiting factors of the combined and
complementary physical and metaphysical prime
subdivisions of universe?"
19
Cite NASA Speech, p. 24. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
General Systems Theory;
"The sphere is complex unity and the triangle is simplex
unity. Here and here alone lie the principles governing
finite solution of all structural and general systems theory
problems.....
"
Citation and context at Unity:
15 Feb 66
Complex and Simplex

TEXT CITATIONS
General Systems Theory:
EDUCATION AUTOMATION, pp. 66-67
400.22-400.24
$201.21
5304
$326.24
537.30: 536.31-537.34
707.01
901.18
1238.80

General Systems Theory:
See Bertalanffy
Bridgman
Differential
Operational
Problem Solving
Question: Original Question
Starting with Universe
Parameters
Variables: Theory Of
Irrelevancies: Dismissal of
Systems Alter Other Systems
Grand Strategy
Comprehensibility of Systems
Critical Path
Geometry of General Systems
(1)

131
General Systems Theory:
See Octant, 20 Jul173
System, (1)
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
Systems, (I)-(IV)
General
Unity: Complex & Simplex, 16 Oct 72; 15 Feb'66*
XYZ Coordinate System, Jun'66
Generalization & Special Case, Nov'71
(2)

Generalization:
Generalised:
See Absolute Generalizability
Contractively Orderly Generalization: Law Of
Design vs. Generalization
Ideal Generalization
Partial Generalization
Pattern Generalization
Scientific Generalization
Subgeneralization
Scientific Generalization
Ultimate Generalization
No Generalized Boat
Mathematics - Generalization
Metabolic Process Generalization
Reality vs. Generalization
Avogadro: Generalized Avogadro system
(1)

Generalization: Generalized:
(2)
121
See Frequency, 16 Feb'73
Integration, 10 Oct 63
Lever (2)
Mathematics, 1965; 2 Jul162; 13 Mar 71*
Point, 20 Feb 73
Quantum Mechanics, Jun'66
Radiation-gravitation, 8 Mar 73*
Transcendental, 28 Jan'69
Vector, 26 May 72*
Metaphysical & Physical, 19 Nov 174
Prime Thinkability, 26 Dec 74
Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual Error,
1 Feb'75
Otherness Restraints & Elliptical Orbits, (2)

General: Generalization:
(3A)
See General Case
Generalist
Generalization
Generalization:
Degrees Of
Generalization: First Degree thru Fifth Degree
Generalizations of Generalizations
Generalization: Mathematical vs. Literary
Generalization & Special Case
Generalization of the Special Case
Generalizations Reduced to One Word
Generalize
Generalized Boat
Generalized Topological Definability
Generalized Design
Generalized Dichotomy:
Grand Strategy
Generalized Law
Generalized Orbiting
Generalized Principles
Generalized Principles, Once Discovered,
Special-case Experiences
General Systems Grid
Become

General: Generalization:
See General Systems' Mathematical Control Matrix
General Systems Theory
(38)

Generate: Generating:
See Broadcastingly Generated
Electively Generatable
Electromagnetic Generating
Omnisymmetrically Generated
Propagate
Radiantly Gnerated
Regenerative
System Generates Itself
Prime Generation
Nuclear Power Generation

Generation Gap:
See Young World:
Generation Gap

Generation:
See Older Generation
TV: The TV Generation
Young World
(1)

Generation: Generations:
bee
Regenerativity, 17 Jan' 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generators:
"Electric current generators unpeel the gravitationals.
They unwrap the orbitals and precess them into linearly
focussed paths. Their generated output is induced by
remote closing of a wired circuit between the user and the
generator, which local switch closing allows an electron
train to be tensed toward the generator which releases the
power flow away from the generator toward the user's
switched-in 'outlet.""
Cite KBF 19 Feb 72 re-write of 17 Feb entry.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generators:
"Generators unpeel the gravitationals. They unwrap the
orbitals and turn them into the linears."
Cite
RBF to EJA BO'R, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 17 Feb'72

Generators:
Tumbling a Set of Dominoes to the Generating Station:
See Circuitry:
23 Jan 172
Thermionic & Political Analogy,

Generators:
Electric Power Generators:
See Electric Motor
Electromagnetic Generating
Electrostatic Generating
Flywheel
Power Generation
Windmill
Wind Power Sequence
Energy Harvesting
(1)

NINITIONS
Generators: Electric Power Generators
See Energy, Jun'66
Pollution Control, (1)-(3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Generous:
"So here we are then in this fantastic dilemma-- all
specialized.
Whereas I am perfectly confident that it
is perfectly possible for all humanity to really be what
they are born to be. To be generous. "
-
Cite Univ. of Chicago Address, p. 11, 5 May 172

Generous:
See Unselfish

133
Genesis of Modelability
a
Vector Equilibrium:
See Modelability, 12 Sep' 71

Genesis:
See Conceptual Genesis
Primitive Regeneration
Bow Tie: Genesis Of

RBF DEFINITIONS
Genetic:
"Genetic = A priori code of discrete instructions.
Dia-logue means two-way feedback, logos-
communication as always referenced to an a priori
complex integrity of abstract weightless, mathematically
ordered equatability of generalized, and only scientifically
discovered, eternal principles."
Cite RBF marginalis at Eccles' "Facing Reality," p. 3,
14 Feb 72, as rewritten same date.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Genetic:
"Genetic = a priori code of discrete instructions.
"Dia-logue as two-way logos-communication all with a priori
complex of philosophies."
Cite RBF marginalis at Eccles, 'Facing Reality,' p.3, 14 Feb'72

Genetic Instructions:
See Genetic, 14 Feb 72

Genetics: Genetic Code:
See DNA-RNA
Viral Steerability
Biogenetic Experimentation
(1)

Genetica: Genetic Code: Genes:
See Metaphysical Independent of Inbreeding, (2)
Race, (1)-(4)
Science: Comprehensive Integration of, 4 Apr 73
Personality, 9 Jan '75
Human Beings at the Center, (1) (2)
(2)

Genghis Khan:
See Child Sequence, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Genius:
"I have powerful reasons for assuming that genius is
omni-innate.
Our first child was born at the time of
World War I [ and so on, into the Alexandra Theme. ] "
Cite Address to Am. Assn of Museums, p. 1.
2 Jun171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Genius:
But
"I am grateful for being so generously introduced.
I hasten to int out that all humans are born geniuses.
However they are usually degeniused rapidly by perverse
circumstances. Most perverse is the ignorantly and
lovingly lavished don't or do that cultivates that which
does not come naturally,' and discourages much of what
does 'come naturally,' There is nothing innately
exceptional about me. I was just lucky.'
-
Cite Museum Keynote address, Denver
p. 1. 2 Jun' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geniug:
"The genius, as discovered by genetics is characterized by a
combination of highly divergent physical life cells that are
representative of widely cross-bred parent chains. These cells
engage in a ceaseless polar tug-of-war for dominance of the
specific human offspring and the result is a dual or multiple
personality manifestation. Each progressively revealed
momentarily prevailing personality is a summary of the
dominants of the whole hereditary line.
"Dual or multiple personality provides, then, two or more
viewpoints equivalent to the two eyes of a range finder, an
instrument which mechanically widens the distance between the
two human eyes; or to the multiple eyes of the Fairchild
aerial camera. Thus genius has the ability to 'fix' events by
the convergent angle of two or more 'sight lines,' not only
in time (or space) past, but, also, in time (or space) ahead,
from the central perspective of self-now. Resultantly it
becomes possible for genius first to analyze teleologically
such 'fixed' phenomena, and then to objectify them in a precise
time-energy composition. Genius's dual or multiple personalities
may be said to be representative of a breadth of viewpoint,
more-than-average, highly worldly, and having an exquisite
sense of Timeliness,'
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, pp. 96-97, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses:
"All children are born geniuses. Out of every 1,000 some 999
are swiftly and inadvertently degeniused by the grown-ups.
Because millions of human beings in all the years of their
history have always been born naked, helpless, and though
superbly equipped cerebrally, utterly lacking in experience,
ergo utterly ignorant. Their delicate sensing equipment is as
yet untried,
(1)
"Born with built-in hunger, thirst, curiosity, and procreative
urge, they could only learn what humanity has earned by trial
and error--by billions upon billions of errors. Lest humanity
be utterly dismayed by these errors, humans were also endowed
with easily self-deceiving pride by all those witnessing
their errors--proclaimed to themselves and others that they
(the witnesses) knew the answers all the time. Motivated
entirely by love, but also by fear for the future of the child-
ren they love, parents in their ignorance act as though they
know all the answers and curtail the spontaneous exploratory
acts of the genius of their children.
"Genius does its own thinking-- has confidence in its own explor-
atory finding, has confidence in its own intuitions."
- Cite, RBF draft, preface for Mrs. John S. Lillard, Lake Forest,
27 Aug

RBP DEFINITIONS
Genius:
Children Are Born Geniuses:
"Nature has her own gestation rates for all evolutionary
development. The behaviors of the parents represent the
checks and balances of nature's gestation control. Humanity
can evolve healthily only at a given rate. Maria Montessori
was fortunately permitted to maintain, sustain, and cultivate
her innate genius. Maria's innate genius involved her aware-
ness of the genius inherent in all other children. The
intuition and initiative of genius inspired Maria to discover
ways of safeguarding the genius while allaying the ignorant
fears of the childrens' parents--but not all parents--far from
it.
Hers was the difficult frontiering task of genius."
(2)
-
Cite RBF draft preface for Mrs. John S. Lillard, 28 Aug'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Genius:
Children Are Born Geniuses:
"By genius I mean those who act spontaneously with
imaginative realism-- that is, by subconscious coordina-
tion of brain by mind-- as stimulated by intuitive in-
sights regarding the interrelationship significances of
their successive experiences; such geniuses are to be
contrasted to those who respond only to external consider-
ations, self-conscious disciplines and pre-conditioned
nerve and muscle reflexing.
"All children are born geniuses but almost all are
swiftly degeniused by environmental events. By environment
I mean all of the Universe that is not self.
"Great artists and great scientists are the same.
Both
They cannot be one without being the other.
realize their inspirations through intuitions. Both have
complete confidence in the validity of their intuitions.
Both have the courage to commit themselves to the testing
of their intuitions."
-
Cite UNESCO TIFLIS 1968, p. 8

RbF DEFINITIONS
Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses:
Q:
"How can you say everyone is born a genius?
you really mean that?"
Can
RBF:
"Yes.
There is originality in everyone. There is
not anyone who can't in some way add to the Universe
and contribute to humanity."
Cite RBF to JZA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 8 Apr'75

Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses:
See Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (1)

Genius:
See Capability
Degenius
Originality
Regenius
Talent
(1)

Genius:
1973
See Fuller, R.B: On Himself
Intuition of the Child, (1)
Fear & Longing, 1938
Twilight Zone, Feb 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
MA ...Geodesic being the most economical interrelationships
of a plurality of events."
-
Citation and context at Sheme of Reference, 24 Sep' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"The time factor... is always accounted only in most
economical to self-experience, energy-time relationship
(1.e., geodesic) units."
Citation and context at Time Vector, 24 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"We have a mathematical phenomenon known as a geodesic.
A geodesic is the most economical relationship between any
two events. It is a special case of geodesics which finds
that a seemingly straight line is the shortest distance
between two points in a plane. Geodesic lines are also the
shortest surface distances between two points on the
outside of a sphere. Spherical great circles are geodesics.'
Cite SET X, pp.9-10, Aug' 72
Incorporated in SYNERGETI6S at Sec.650.21, 13 Oct'72
13

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"When we begin to talk about the interconnection between the
individual atoms that make our sphere, we find that there are
arcs and there are chords. And the shortest distance is the
chord. So it's the chords that come together instead of the
arcs. . .
"What you call a sphere is all the most important shortest
systems between all the points, which turn out to be all
triangulated. You can divide all the other polygons into
triangles and that's as far as you go. You can't have some-
thing less then the triangle. So we get all the most
economical relationships between all those points and you
simply have a spheroidal array of triangulated interrelation-
ships. Simply what we call a geodesic, a dome. You can see
how you arrive at this by something very simple. So the
simplest sphere which is concave and convex is the
tetrahedron. It seems to be a very angular sphere."
-
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.30, 20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
•
•
A 10,000 frequency geodesic, which is what the
Earth really is."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 22 Feb 172
CONCEPTUALITY, SEC. 501.10)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"Potential lines are metaphysically straight,
all physically realized relationships are geodesic and
curved trajectories."
- Cise SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec, 240, 197
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, 1971

136
RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"Vectorial Lines, or trajectories' are always the most
economical event interrelationships, ergo, geodesic."
-
- Citation at Interrelationships, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"Geodesic lines [are]curvilinear and most economical
lines of inter-relationship between two independently
moving events."
"Great circles are geodesic lines because they provide
the most economical (energy, effort) distances between any
two points on a spherical system's surface; therefore,
nature, which always employs only the most economical
realizations, must use those great circles which, unlike
spiral lines, always return upon themselves in the most
economical manner. All the system's paths must be topo-
logically and circularly, interrelated for conceptually
definitive, locally tranformable, polyhedral under-
standing to be attained in our spontaneous-- ergo, most
economical-- geodesically structured thoughts."
Cite OPERATING MANUAL, Pp. 66-67, 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"Geodesic means the shortest distance btween two
points on a sphere."
Cite RBF. Glossary of Terms
bound in "The Live Book Squad"
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"Geodesic lines may . .be described experimentally
as 'the most economic relationships between two event he
focii."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 46, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"The largest volume, least event, omnitriangular system
is the icosahedron and its multiple subtriangulated
•
geodesic patterning. . what I call the geodesic
structuring."
Dr. Preston, Bet 1964
Citation at Icosahedron, 8 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"A geodesic line means the most economical relationship
between events, but the events are not necessarily simulta-
neous. So there is a relationship between a rocket that
just went off and another rocket that goes off a little
later. When for instance, if you are so peculiar in the
head that you like to shoot at a duck, if you want to hit
the duck the way to shoot is not at the duck. You shoot
where you hope the duck is going to be, but you don't shoot
at the duck or you won't hit it. This is typical of the
geodesic relationship between yourself and a nonsimultaneous
event. The point of the head would not be simultaneous to
any shoot. We have pictures taken during this last world
war of night battles between two planes using tracer bullets
and the pictures are sometimes taken from the firing plane
and sometimes from another plane in company with it. In these
pictures of the tracer bullets you will sometimes see a plane
fire and hit another plane, but the lines are completely
skew lines. These are geodesic lines. They are the most
economical relationship between those two events. In a
nonsimultaneous Universe all the relationships are geodesic.
There are no straight lines."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 112. 5 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"The most economic relationships of points in Universe
and their transformation tendencies."
* Cite MARKS, P. 8, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"Geodesics are the most economical momentary relationships
between separate events.
"To shoot a flying duck a man does not aim at the duck, but
where the duck is going to be. If the bullet hit the duck,
its trajectory was geodesic."
Cite R.W. Marks, DYMAXION WORLD OF RBF, p.44, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"Of or pertaining to great circles of a sphere, or
of arcs of such circles; as a geodesic line, hence a line
which is a great circle or arc thereof; and as a geodesic pattern,
hence a pattern created by the intersections of great circle
lines or arcs, or their chords."
Cite Patent No. 2,682,235, June 29, 1954
HUILDING CONSTRUCTION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic:
"In energetic geometry geodesic signifies the shortest
(time) energy involvement distance between action centers."
- Cite RBF undated holograph on M.I.T. Memo pad.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesics:
(1)
"Einstein and Reimann had resuscitated from a similar limbo
to that of pre-1800 synergy the word 'geodesic' as used in
relation to great circles on spheres and then anew to Einstein's
curved space mathematics. Stevenson had long used geodetics
to embrace the whole art and science of measuring the dimen-
sions of subdivision of approximately spherical Earth.
I gave
geodesics a new scientific definition as 'constituting the
most economical relationships between separate event entities
in loci in Universe.
"At any one given moment in time, geodesics were dramatically
and visually manifest during World War II in photographs
taken by the U.S. Air Force of two fighter planes in a
"dogfight" at night with one ship firing it nose-mounted
machine gun using luminous tracer bullets and successfully
hitting its enemy ship. These two airplanes (unattached to
Earth) were two celestial bodies' and the geodesic line of
most economical interrelationship between them was that of
the bullets that 'knocked the other out' and that luminous,
chain of bullets' tracers was always an acceleratedly cork-
screw line."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Art Coulter, Jr, Chapel Hill, pp.2-3;
22 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesics:
"More geodesics--the top leaves of fast-growing vines reach
toward the Sun as the Earth revolves, leaving them reaching
westward and outward at evening sunclipse. In the morning,
the Sun is to the eastward and the vine circles its top
leaves to reach eastward; thus the spiraling vine's leaves
are always nearer to the Sun than are the vine's routs.
(2)
"But Einstein spoke only of geodesic lines--because the great
circles of a sphere provide the shortest distances between
any two points on the surface of a sphere, they are called
geodesic lines. Superimpose a circle of the radius of
80°
north latitude upon the equator of a 12-inch Earth globe,
which equator is a geodesic line. The latitude circle which
is not a geodesic but a lesser circle, crosses the equator
at two points, A and B, and it is quickly manifest that it
is a shorter distance between A and B along the equator than
it is along the circular distance of the small circle.
Because I structured my spherical structures entirely with
triangles consisting entirely of chords of those great circles,
they were structured in the most economical awareness for
that form, and therefore did not want to transform into any
other shape. I called the structures geodesics--and the art
and science of dealing with geodesic lines as 'GEODESICS
.
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Art Coulter, pp. 2-3; 22 Sep 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesics:
"Spheres are just very high frequency geodesics."
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfiàld, Conn. Chez Wolf.
18 June 1971.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesics:
"If you closest pack.geodesics they will take up just a
little more room as point-bonded (gas), than as edge-
bonded (liquid), than as face-bonded (crystal)."
-
Com Chalf.
18 June 1974.
Citation at Chemical Bonds, 18 Jun 71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Geodesica:
"Pi (r) is irrelevant in synergetics because the sphere
is not experimentally demonstrable and the tetrahedron is
the minimum sphere. Compound curvature starts with the
tetrahedron. Pi drops out because chords are more
economical than arcs. Chards of an omnidirectional system
never add up to 360° around a point. They are always
geodesics. A point on a pphere is never an infinitesimal
tangency with a plane."
-
CIT BE
1 Chicago, May-1971
· Citation & context at Sphere, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesics:
"Geodesics are the most economical momentary
relationships between separate events."
-
Cite MARKS, P. 44,
1960

Geodesic Center:
See Vector Equilibrium, (1)

TEXT CITATIONS
Geodesic Design in Nature:
Confirmation Of:
McHale, RBF Note 17, p.45, 1962
Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes) p.72 ff. 1965

Geodesic Design in Nature: Confirmation of:
See Flies' Eyes
Grebe, John J.
Radiolaria
Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature
Viral Steerability
Black Holes & Synergetics
(1)

Geodesic Design in Nature: Confirmation of:
(2)
See Invention, Dec'61
Omnidirectional Closest Packing of Spheres: Principle of,
(2) (3); 19 Jun'71
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tenseg-
rities, (8)
Radiolaria, (1)(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Diamonds:
"Geodesic Diamonds: there is always an even number of
triangles on a sphere so they may be treated in pairs as
diamonds, always made with straight lines but the lines are
different in length. The fats and thins have equal length."
-
Citation & context at Wichita House, (1)*, 31 Jan'75

Geodesic Diamonds:
See Wichita House, (1)*
Hex-pent Sphere, 15 Sep' 76
Hex-pent Sphere: Transformatio
Spiral Tube, (1)
into Geodesic

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Domes:
"Geodesic Domes abandon the compression conduits of
engineering: they are tension conduits.'
"
-
. Cite RBF to USAID conference; Foreign Disaster Assistance
Conference Room, State Dept, Wash. DC; 12 May' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Dome:
"Because geodesic structures inherently are always tensegrity
structures, i.e., discontinuously compressioned, omnicontinu-
ously tensioned, three-way embraced, there is no fastening in
shear and all local loadings are radiantly distributed ever
diminishing to equidiffusion as in all pneumatically and
hydraulically compressioned structures,
"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mr. Robertson, 12 Mar 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Dome:
"It was for this reason, p- the discovery of the fact that
the icosahedron-- among all he three-and-only prime structural
systems of Universe (see section 610.20)-- required the least
energetic, vectorial, structur 1 investment per volume of
enclosed local Universe, that led to the development of the
Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD Spherical Triangle and its multi-
frequenced triangular subdivisioning as the basis for calculating
all high-frequency, triangulated, spherical structures and
structural subportions of spheres; for within only one disequi-
librious LCD triangle were to be found all the spherical
chord-factor constants for any desired radius of omnisubtri-
angulated spherical structure.
"In the same way it was discovered that local, chord compression
struts could be islanded from one another, and could be only
tensionally and non-inter-shearingly connected to produce stable
and predictably efficient enclosures for any local energetic
environment valving uses whatsoever by virtue of the approx-
imately unlimited range of frequency-and-angle, subtriangle-
structuring modulatability."
-
H
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 901.15+16, +11]
20 Dec 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
1
Geodesic Dome:
... My prime invention (of omnitriangulated compound-curvature,
great-circle-arc chording and its synergistically surprising
structural advantages in pounds, kilowatts, and minutes required
per each unit of measurable performance) ... geodesic dome
patents..."
Citation and context at Inventability Sequence (2), 9 Jul'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Dome:
"The best geodesic dome design is the three-frequency
five-eighths."
Cite RBF to EJA, Washington, 7 Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Dome:
In
(1)
"Quite clearly, I am, to myself, not a dome salesman.
fact I don't want to be a salesman of anything. I don't
want to persuade anybody to do anything that is illogical
and anti-evolutionary. I'm identified with the dome only
because, back in 1927, in trying to seek out how I might be
able to affect and help man most, I said: if I could only
protect younger life while it still has its comprehensive
interest in the total Universe and give it a chance to develop
its faculties for comprehending the whole-- it would be a
way in which we might most rapidly arrive at a condition where
all of humanity might be a success. So, I said, this means a
controlled environment, and I kept searching for ways not only
of controlling it, but of using the chemistry around us in
our environment so effectively that there would be enough to
go round to take care of everybody and not just a few. All
this brought me into very deep study of all that science was
doing and all forms of industrialization, and how we could
produce the most with the least. This meant then that I went
into a series of experiments in how to control the environment,
and it was the geodesic dome that was the practical breakthrough."
interview by John Donat,
Cite RBF transcript in "The Listener"
26 Sep 168

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Dome:
"The geodesic domes were the beginning of the public's
realization of what I'm talking about; therefore I became
identified as the dome man. But I think I've made it quite
clear that this was simply the inadvertent consequence of
my concern with young life and protecting that young life."
(2)
Cite RBF in transcipt in "The Listener" interview by John Donat,
16 Sep 68

HLF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Dome:
"Geodesic tensegrity spheres are highly magnified, pneumatic
principle structures."
-
CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes,
Cit9686

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Dome:
"Jomes combine both horizontal and vertical behaviors
progressively translated into mutual synergetical aid
and integrated success.'
1
Cite I&I, DOMES, p. 154, 1963

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Domes:
"The forms we see in geodesic structures are synergetic,
which is to say that they are visible in mathematical
principle only, and only as the interaction of a complex of
functions. No one industrial function is visible. Any
one member, in a geodesic structure may be at one time
operative essentially in tension and at another time essen-
tially in compression These are exact opposites and none
of these alternating operative behaviors would be visible to
an observer of a geodesic dome as the latter remained
poised, apparently serene, in a hurricane. Geodesic domes
are then designed as synergetic complexes of events which
maintain a superficial ultra-high-frequency integrity of
constellar patterning."
Citation & context at Tooling of Domes, (3); 24 Jan' 58

Geodesic Dome:
See DEW Line Radomes
Dome:
Dome: Rationale for the Dome
Radome
Grow-a-dome
Now House
Zeiss Dome
Dome House
Structural Shell
Montreal Expo' 67 Dome
Turtle Dome
North Face Domes
(1)

Geodesically Interrouted Communications Traffic:
See Boats at Anchor Retard the River's Flow, 1960

Geodesic Dome:
See Curvature:
Compound Curvature, 25 Jan '73
Inventability Sequence (2)*
Wichita House, (1)
Museum, 17 Dec '74
Building Business, (4) (5)
(2)

Geodesics vs, Irrelevance:
See Epistemological Stepping Stones,
30 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Line:
"Synergetic geometry deals with the most economical relationships
and not with the shortest lines. 'Most economical' and
'shortest' are not the same.
"The 'straight' line of the Early Greeks is the shortest distance
between two points. Ergo, curved lines are not the 'shortest.'
But geodesic lines are the most economical (meaning least
time-energy involvement) relationship between any two events.
Events are energetic. The way to shoot a bird is not to aim at
where the bird is now flying.
Cite RBF rewrite of EJA query, 9 Sep' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Line:
"When two great-circle geodesic lines cross they form two
sets of similar angles, any one of which paired with the other,
will always add to 180°. (This we also learned in plane
geometry.) When any one great circle enters into-- or exits
from a spherical triangle, it will form the two sets of
similar angles as it crosses the enclosing great-circle-edge-
lines of that triangle.
"As in billiards or in electromagnetics, when a ball or a
photon caroms off a wall it bounces off at an angle similar
to that at which it impinged."
173
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 901.10+11, 20Dec,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Line:
"A geodesic line is the most economical time-
distance-effort relationship."
-
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE,
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Lines:
"Theras none of the geodesic lines of universe
touch one another, the lines approach one another,
passing succesively through regions of most critical
proximity, and diverge from one another, passing
succesively through regions of most innocuous
remoteness."
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 114, Oct 59

Geodesic Lines:
See Fourth Dimension, 17 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Sphere: (1)
"What we do have experimentally as a sphere is an aggregate
of energy-event foci approximately equidistant in approximately
all directions from one approximate 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. This is why pi (\pi) is operationally
irrelevant. Physics finds that nature always employs the most
economical means. Being shorter, chordal distances are more
economically traversed than are detouring arcs. All the chords
between external points of systems converge with one another
concavely and convexly, i.e., with the angles around each
external point always adding to less than 360 degrees. They
do not come together, as do radii in a plane, with 360 degrees
around each point.
"The chords of an omnidirectional system always come together
with concavity on one side and convexity on the other. The
angles never add up to 360 degrees, as do those formed on a
plane by lines converging radially upon a point. This is why
the long-held working assumption of mathematics-- that for"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 1022.12 & 13, Aug 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Sphere:
(2)
"an infinitesimal moment a sphere is congruent with the plane
to which it is tangent-- is invalid. Therefore, spherical
trigonometry, with its assumption of 360 degrees around a
point, is also invalid. Greek spheres cannot be scientifically
demonstrated. Almost-spherical polyhedra are the nearest
approximation. It can only be treated with as polyhedral--
as an aggregate of points in which the most economical relation-
ships are chords: ergo, geodesics.
"If you find all the connections between all the points, the
system is omnitriangulated. A spherical polyhedron is a high-
frequency geodesic polyhedron. Its symmetric base may be
tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral; but it may not be
hexagonal, i.e., with angles adding to 360 degrees around each
external point of the system. The sum of all the angles
around all the external points of the superficially seeming
spherical systems will always add up to 720 degrees less than
the number of external vertexes when each is multiplied by
360 degrees.
"In every geodesic sphere, you can always take out 12 pentagons,
These 12 pentagons each drop out one triangle from the hexagonal"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 1022.13, .14 & .15, Aug171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Sphere:
(3)
"clusters around all other points. Assuming the dropped-out
triangles to be equiangular, i.e., with 60-degree corners,
this means that 60 x 12 = 720°, which has been eliminated from
the total inventory of surface angles. You can always find
12 pentagons on spheric illy conformed systems such as oranges,
which are icosahedrally based; or four triangles with 120-
degree corners if the system is tetrahedrally based; or six
squares where the system is octahedrally based."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1022.15, Aug171

Geodesic Sphere:
See Tensegrity Sphere
Hex-pent Sphere
(1)

Geodesic Sphere:
See Gravitational Field, 8 Mar' 73
Convex & Concave Tetrahedron, Aug'71
Domain of a Line, 7 Nov' 73
Necklace, Nov' 71
Stable & Unstable Structures, 7 Jun '72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Spheric Experience:
"The spheric experience is a high-frequency omnidirectional
complex of events and their relatedness. Since it is
concerned with the most economical relatedness we can also
speak of it as a geodesic spherical experience. This is
where the importance of chords comes in...
"
-
Citation and context at Connections and Relatedness, 20 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Spinnaker:
(1)
"It's very interesting the way boating and sailing has become so
important today. It's all so fundamental: dealing with those
tensions involved in those lines and winches. Everything we
think about is there, the pneumatics, the hydraulics... vectorial
forces, everything is there. I think it's going to result in
at least one geodesic spinnaker. She's going to be a real
beauty... We'll just bring those stresses back to the three
corners; but once its out from those corners the distribution
will be such that the worst you could ever do to spinnaker is
to blow out one little triangle. It would be very easy to
repair; there would be no rips or tears.
Jay Baldwin: "You could have panels that would be loaded with
elastic so that if a certain load were exceeded the panels would
open and bleed out the load and then shut again."
RBF: "Sure. We could really do such a thing... when you put
springs in them, when you trim, so they breathe out for a
second instead of pulling.... There really could be something
like the coin purse or tobacco pouch, a twisting cylinder that
would release. Just string would do it if you got into an
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrel, Tape #3, Side A,
pp. 22,24; Bear Island, 12 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Spinnaker:
(2)
"tensegrity octahedron it would just twist around and come right
back. It would look like a flower opening, lilies opening."
-
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #3, Side A,
p.24; Bear Island, 12 Aug '70

Geodesic Spiral Tube:
See Hex-pent Sphere: Transformation into Geodesic
Spiral Tube

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Structure:
"In contrast to all previous structural experience, the
law of diminishing returns is operative in the direction
of decreasing size of geodesic tensegrity structures, and
increasing return is realized in the direction
of their
increasing dimensions."
(Sec. 750.23)
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 750.23; 31 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Structure:
"Though superficially similar in patternings to
radiolaria and flies' eyes, geodesic structuring is true
invention. The radiolaria collanse when taken out of water.
Flies' eyes will not provide structural precedent of man-
occupiable structures.
"The processes of engineering, ap to the moment of
introduction of my invention of geodesic structures, are
predicated unon the stress analysis of individual beam and
column behaviors, as separate components and thereafter
upon comprehensively organized beams, columns and
cantilevers as a solid compressional over-all integrity of
cohesion, aided here and there by tensionally exagerated
sinews- tension being subordinate and local. Therefore,
engineering as academically constituted in 1951 could in
no way predict the associated behaviors of geodesics,
which any one, several or many of the components could be
removed without, in any way, jeonardizing the structural
integrity cohesion of the remaining primary structure."
in
-
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 116, Dec. '61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Structure:
(1)
"Emulating the compound curvature trussing the atom's dynamic
structure comprised of great-circle forces, our geodesic
structure, though not inventing the principles, employs them for
the first time in man-made structure. This was a patentable
invention.
between
"In our geodesic structures, the surface of a sphere is
interlaced by an omni-three-way grid of great circles which
always uniquely intercept one another in such a manner that
everywhere the surface areas described by the intersections
are triangular. As triangles are nondistoratable, this
intersecting,
if substantially structured, reperesents a
rigid
trussing of the spherical surface. If
each of the vertexes or intersections of the great circles
occurring in the surface of the sphere, we construct chords,
or straight lines, these lines must fall below the surface
between their surface terminals. The lines converging at any
ohe vertex all leading away below the point on the surface must
form a convex intersection or pyramidal point.
As we press
against any convex vertex, where the other ends of the lines are
elastically restrained, the vertex will subside and the lines
will tend to form a flat plane."
Cite IDEAS & INTEGRITIES, PREVIEWS, P, 216, 1 Apr 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Structure:
(2)
"As each of the chordal ends between vertexes of our geodesic
structure is tensionally restrained by the comprehensive
trussing of the sphere, it is seen that when pressure is exerted
inwardly against any vertex it will thrust outwardly against
each of the chords leading radially from it. It will be seen
that, inasmuch as each vertex represents a pyramid of triangular
planes, the bases of the planes opposite the vertex constitute
à closed tensional ring. Because the linkage is of
great circle chords and because sections of the great circle
always represent the shortest distance between any two points
on a sphere (and the chords of the great circle represent the
shortest distance between the two points in space through thhe
sphere), the ring of chords tensionally opposite the compression
thrust of the pyramidal lines from any one vertex may not be
elongated. The vertexes will not subside.
"Thus it seems that the geodesic structure employs the principle
of compound curvature as the stress is radially distributed
from a single point. All the vertexes surrounding any one
vertex are secondarily actuated, and each in turn thrusts
outwardly to adjacent vertexes; rings of triangles of geodesic
lines are successively activated from the original thrust"
Cite IDEAS & INTEGRITIES, PREVIEWS, p.218, 1 Apr149

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Structure:
"against one vertex until six rings have been activated and
the equator is reached. All thrusting outwardly against the
equator symmetrically, their outward thrust is compoundingly
restrained by the opposite hemisphere.
(3)
"In the case of a geodesic structure representing a portion of
a sphere, the functions of the balance of the sphere are
rendered by the Earth, which tends to complete the spherical
structure by stress extension withinthe Earth. Thus, in compaund
curvature structures of nature, emulated in principle by our
geodesic structure, working stresses are ultimately translated
into omnidirectional outward thrust from the stressed centers,
and are ultimately satisfied throughout all the cohesiveness
of all the enclosing tension. In contradistinction to simple
curvature, which is ultimately satisfied in polar focus upon
two compression points, compound curvature invokes ultimate
activation of comprehensive tension.
"Men have employed godesic structure in the form of tetrahedrons,
octahedrons, and icosahedrons. While useful in small structures,
the relative sizes of spans or chords of these well-known
continuities of great-circle triangulation become so great in
unsupported length when applied to structures appropriate to"
Cite IDEAS & INTEGRITIES, PREVIEWS, p. 219, 1 Apr 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesic Structure:
"men's buildings that their virtues were unavailable for
practical purposes.
"The surprise factor in my introduction of geodesic structures
is the surprise provided by nature. We have discovered, and
not invented, all-triangular interaction of 25 great circles
and 31 great circles whose relative chordal lengths make them
appropriate for structures of up to unlimited diameter."
"
Cite IDEAS & INTEGRITEES, PREVIEWS, p. 219, 1 Apr149
(4)

Geodesics vs. Structure:
See Geodesics & Tensegrities, 9 Sep' 74

TEXT CITATIONS
Geodesic Structures:
203.09 541.06
1022.14
$201.11
222.43
608.11
1023.15
240.25 612.11
240.27
618.30
240.29
040.01-640.02
240.31
702-702.01
240.35
703.01-703.16
427.02 710.02-710.03
501.101
714.01-714.02
535.11
960.03
536.32 982.13
540.05
1021.13

Geodesic Structures:
See Tensegrity: Geodesic Tensegrity Structures
(1)

Geodesic Structures:
See Environment Control Valve, 1954
Invention, 3 Oct172; Dec'61
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, (1) (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geodesics & Tensegrities:
EJA Query: "Is tensegrity a special case of geodesics?"
RBF Reply: "Geodesics are generalizations. It does not
mean 'structure,' it means the most economical
relationship
between any two events. But tensegrity involves more than
two events. All of Universe is tensegrity. Geodesic is the
relation
between the Moon and the Earth. Tensegrity is always
a total system.
All
"Geodesics represent a subgeneralization of tensegrity.
geodesics are not, as built, tensegrities. Tensegrities are
inhemently
nonredundant."
-
Cite HBF response to EJA query; 3200 Idaho, Wah., DC, 9 Sep 74

Geodesically Structured Thoughts:
See Polyhedral Understanding, 1969

Geodesic: Geodesica:
See Dome
Great Circle
Radomo
Spherical Structures
Spherical Triangle Sequence.
Tensegrity Sphere
Transformational Projection
Most Economical
(1)

Geodesic: Geodesics:
See Chemical Bonds, 18 Jun'71*
Earth, 22 Feb' 72
Embracement, 22 Jul 71
Energy, 19 Dec 73
Epistemological Stepping Stones, 30 Dec'73
Fourth Dimension, 17 Nov '72
Icosahedron, 8 Oct'64*
Interrelationships, 1971*
Metaphysical & Physical, 1971*
Relationships, 5 Jul'62
Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep*73*
Sphere, 31 May' 71*
Spherical Triangle Sequence, (V)
Time Vector, 24 Sep'73
(2)

Geodesic: Geodesics:
See Geodesic Center
Geodesically-inter-routed Communications Traffic
Geodesic Design in Nature:
Confirmation Of
Geodesic Dome
Geodesic Lines
Geodesic Sphere
Geodesic Spheric Experience
Geodesic Structure
Geodesic Systems
Geodesically Structured Thoughts
Geodesic Spinnaker
Geodesics vs. Structure
Geodesics & Tensegrities
Geodesics vs. Irrelevance
Geodesic Diamonds
Geodesic Spiral Tube
(3)

Geodesy:
See Spherical Triangle Sequence, (d)

Geodetic Mensurability:
Geodetics:
See Vector Equilibrium, (2)
Geodesics, (1)

Geographical Identity:
See Address
Local Identification
Backyard: My Backyard is Getting Bigger
Obsolete: Inventory of Obsolete Concepts
(1)

Geographical Identity:
See Interrelatedness vs. Names, (1)
(2)

Geography:
See Fluid Geography
Climate & Intellect
(1)

Geography:
See Periodic Experience, (9)
Bundle of Experiences, May'49
(2)

Geologic Mensurability:
See Vector Equilibrium, (2)

Geology:
See Earth
Fault:
Erosion
Earth Fault
(1)

Geology:
See Epigenetic Landscape, May'49
Relativity, 1968
(2)

Geomathematical:
See Starting With Parts: The Nonradial Line:, 29 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"When you process your experiences it produces a geometry.
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust St., Philadelphia, 21 Jan'75
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"To me no experience in childhood so reinforced self-confidence
in one's own exploratory faculties as did geometry. Its
inspiring effectiveness in winnowing out and evaluating a
plurality of previously unknowns from a few given knowns, and its
elegance of proof lead to the further discovery and comprehension
of a grand strategy for all problem solving... the science of
pattern analysis."
Citation & context at Coxeter, H.S.M., 14 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"There is no geometry of space-- only of local aggregates
of principles, of special cases."
Citation and context at Rubber Glove, 23 May' 72

REF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"Geometry = Geo + Metry. It relates only to the Earth,
one single sphere. Ge- o- metry has an 'o' in it a circle =
Geodes
=
Gods. For the Greeks the 'o' became unreal; we
don't want to get caught in an avenue to Flatland."
Cite HBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 1 Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"Time is in our dimensioning because our geometry is
vectorial."
3200 Idaho, Washingt
-
- Citation & context at Time, 21 Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"Geometry-- meaning world measuring."
Citation and context at Up and Down Sequence (2) 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"There is no static geometry.
geometrical relationships.'
There are momentarily existant
t
Citation and context at Space, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"In our approach to geometry we thought it would be
simpler to start with plane geometry; and it was supposed
to be very complicated when you get to solid geometry,
and much more so when you get to spherical. So I
gradually began to reverse my field, in order to get the
total experince, and decided that spherical was much easier
than solid, and the solid easier than the plane, so that
everything became much simpler merely if I really started
with the totality all the time and dealt-- in spherical
geometry-- with the vectors."
dade
Cite LLUGERANT LABORATORIES Lecture, 15 Oct 164, pp. 11-
12

RBF DE INITIONS
Geometry:
"Geometry begins to emerge . . where there are convergences
•
to critical proximity, twistings around points
you find domains that are staked out by events . . .
where
corresponding to what would seem to be a separate
octahedron-tetrahedron, whatever it might be, cominhg up
through vertexes."
Cite LEDGEMONT LAB Lecture, 15 Oct 164, p. 13

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"So we have come to structure and we have come to pattern.
Pattern has emerged first from our preoccupation with
getting rid of the irrelevancies and out of it has emerged
a minimum constellation, a minimum consideration and it is
a four star affair. It is tetrahedral. It is very amazing
to have a geometry just appear out of our just considering
what is thought. We have come to some conceptuality and this
conceptuality is essential to this thinking process.
When we
say, 'I understand,' there is some conceptuality finally
developed."
-
Citation at Tetrahedron, 2 Jul'62
Cico Orogen Lecture #2, p. 69,2-Jul162
SEC. 620:01)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"Now I have discovered that this thinking process is one
in which by holding out and getting rid of the irrelevancies,
we definitely developed for the first time a conceivable
geometry.
The geometry of the Universe was not conceivable
In the first place I
because it was nonsimultaneous.
found this a very important and satisfying kind of
discovery and it stopped me from having to know where the
ball ends. It is not a ball, but thought begins to
develop the first geometry with a dismissal outwardly and
a dismissal inwardly which leaves a spherical zone of
irrelevancy. The thinking is omnidirectional."
Cite-Oregon Lecture #2, pp. 66-67, 2 Jul162-
- Citation at Thinking, 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"Substituting the word tetrahedron for the number two
completes my long attempt to convert all the
residual
heretofore unidentifiable integers of topology into
geometrical conceptability."
_ Cite UMNIDIRECTIONAL MALU
456, 1960
Citation at Synergetica, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
"Out of nonsimultaneously conceptual, yet finite,
universe has emerged a definitively conceptual geometry,
not a geometry invented by the conceiver but an a priori
geometry discovered by the re-considerer as a residual
relevancy constellation."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 138, 1960

Geometry of General Systems:
See Synergetics, 17 Oct '77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Conceptuality:
*Substituting the word tetrahedron for the number two completes
my long attempt to convert all the previously unidentifiable
integers of topology into geometrical conceptuality. Thus we
see both the rational energy quantum of physics and the
topological tetrahedron of the isotropic vector matrix rationally
accounting all physical and metaphysical systems.
"1
-
(Above is a synthesis of Isotropic Vector Matrix, 13 Nov'69
and Unity as Two, 1960.)
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 620.12, 11 Nov 73

Geometric Hierarchy:
See Cosmic Hierarchy
Primitive Hierarchy
(1)

Geometric Hierarchy:
See Potential vs. Primitive, 12 May' 77
Trigonometry, 26 Sep'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Integrity:
"A system is a closed configuration of vectors. It is a
pattern of forces constituting a geometrical integrity
which returns upon itself in a plurality of directions."
Citation and context at Polyhedral Systems, 25/2 May '72

Geometrical Integrity:
See Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec'73

Geometrical Interrelatability of Events:
See System, 25 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Inwardness & Outwardness:
"How many stars does it take to develop a geometry of
outwardness and inwardness? What is the minimum number of
stars to divide the Universe into outwardness and inwardness?
I find it takes a minimum of four."
Citation & context at Star Events, 2 Jul'62

40
RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Function of Nine:
"Thinking about precession Goldy observes that fish fan their
tails sideways to produce forward motion, that snakes wriggle
She sees that iceboats
sideways to produce forward motion.
attain speeds of 60 miles per hour in a direction at right
Coming back to her
angles to wind blowing at half that speed.
triangles and their synergetic surprise behaviors, Goldy flips
one simple white triangle over and find the other side is
black. She realizes that there are two triangles, the obverse
and reverse, always and only coexisting congruently.
(1)
"Goldy realizes that every sphere has a concave inside and a
convex outside. She knows that convex and concave are not the
same because concave reflectors concentrate energy as radiation
Convex and
and convex mirrors diffuse the radiant energy.
concave are nature's macro-to-micro or macro-to-macro radiant-
energy transformers.
"Goldy realizes that unity is
always plural and at
She realises
In Universe
minimum two. Unity does not mean the number one.
that one does not and cannot exist by itself.
life's existence begins with awareness.
No otherness: no
awareness. The observed requires an observer. The subjective
and objective always and only coexist and therewith demonstrate*
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, p.G3, 16 May '75
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Function of Nine:
"the inherent plurality of unity-- inseparable union. Physics
tends to think of 'complementarity! (discovered half a
century ago) and the latter's nonmirror-imaged complementation
(discovered only twenty years ago) as being the interrelation-
ship characteristics of two separate entities. However, the
always-and-only coexistant, non-mirror-imaged complementations
also may coexist with inseparable plural-unity.
"Goldy finds she can interconnect the three mid-edge points
of a triangle which subdivides the big triangle into four
similar smaller triangles and can fold the three corner
triangles along their connecting lines to produce two differ-
ent tetrahedra, because folding the corner triangles under
or over produces either a white tetrahedron with a black inside
or a black tetrahedron with a white inside. Since the inside
of the tetrahedron is concave and the outside is convex, there
are two very real and separate tetrahedra in evidence, whose
eight (four white, four black) faces have been evolved from
only four externally viewable triangles, which four were in
turn evolved from one (unity-is-plural) triangle.
"Since both the positive and negative concave tetrahedra have
four different black faces and four different white faces, she"
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, pp.C3-G4, 16 May 175
-
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Function of Nine:
(3)
"can differentiate them by placing a red, a green, a yellow, and
a blue dot in the center of each of their respective four white
inside faces; and an orange, a purple, a brown, and a gray dot
in the center of each of their outside black triangles success-
ively. Since each of the two tetrahedra can turn them-
selves inside out (as their respective three triangular corners
rotate around the central triangle's three edge hinges-- thus
to open like a three-petalled flowerbud), each tetrahedron can
be opened in four such flowerbud ways, with three triangular
petals around each of their four respective triangular flower-
receptacle base faces. These four separate cases of inside-
outing transformability permit the production of four separate
and unique positive and four separate and unique negative
tetrahedra all generated from the same unity-- each
of
which
tetrahedra can rank as nature's simplest structural system.
Therefore, each prime structural system in Universe has nine
separate and unique states of existence-- four positive, four
negative, plus one schematic unfolded nothingness
state--
which Goldy reminds the bears constitutes the same schematic
'game set up as that of physics' quantum mechanics with
four positive and four negative quanta as we go from
a
central
nothingness equilibrium to first ones, then two, then
three,"
- Cite GOLDYLOCKS, pp. G4-G5, 16 May '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Functions of Nine:
"then four, high-frequency, regenerated, alternate, equi-
integrity, tetrahedral quanta. All eight of which have
eight invisible counterparts.
Visibly
demonstrable
4 white three-petalled flowers
one with: red
base receptacle
one with:
green
base receptacle
(Physical)
one with:
yellow
base receptacle
one with:
blue
base recentacle
4 black three-petalled flowers
one with: orange
base receptacle
one with: purple
ene with: brown
one with: gray
base receptacle
base receptacle
base receptacle
G5
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, p.
16 May '75
(4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Functions of Nine:
Invisible but
thinkable
(Metaphysical)
4 white three-petalled flowers
one with:
one with:
orange
purple
one with: brown
one with: gray
base receptacle
Base receptacle
base receptacle
base receptacle
4 black three-petalled flowers
one with: red
one with:
base receptacle
green
base receptacle
one with:
yellow
one with:
blue
base receptacle
base receptacle
-
"Goldy now takes any two of these triangularly petalled
tetrahedra with both of their three respective, 60-degree
folded corners partially open and pointing out from their
bases like petals of an opening tulip bud. Goldy rotates
one of the 60-degree petalled tetrahedra a sixth-of-a-circle
turn and precesses it axially 60°, which points its opened"
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, pp. G5-G6, 16 May '75
(5)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Function of Nine:
(6)
"triangular petals toward the others' 60-degree openings.
Goldy brings them convergently together edge-to-edge to produce
the octahedron.
"Since the octahedron thus produced has a volume of four
tetrahedra, and since we have learned that each tetrahedron
is one energy quantum unit, Goldy has put one quantum and one
quantum together to produce four quanta. Another quantum
leap is demonstrated.
"What Goldy finds equally exciting is to
realise that each
of the two tetrahedra combining to make the octahedron can
consists of the eight unique combinations of the black and the
white triangular faces and their four red, green, yellow and
blue center dots. This means that an octahedron of eight
black triangles, eight white and one of four white plus four
black, and that the alternation of the four different color
dots into all the possible combinations of eight produces
four times 26-- which is the 104 possible combinations."
Cite Goldylocks, p. G6, 16 May 75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Geometrical Function of Nine:
"Where N = 8, and there are four sets of 8, the formula for
the number of combinations is:
4
( N² _N).
This result has a startling proximity to the 92 unique
regenerative chemical elements plus their 12 additional
non-self-regenerative isotopes. The bears applaud."
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, p.G6, 16 May 175
(7)

Geometrical Functions of Nine:
See Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry & Number:
"All geometrical and numerical values derive from
fractionation of the whole."
-
Citation & context at Proofs, 8 Aug'77

Geometry & Number:
See Intertransformative Number-value Accounting
Energy & Number
Prime Rational Inte Characteristics
Volume-energy Ratios
Volume-number Ratios
Volume-quanta Ratios
Geometrical Function of Nine
Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties
(1)

Geometry & Number:
See Octahedron, 10 Dec 75
Synergetics Constant, 10 Dec* 75
Module: A Quanta Module:
22 Feb 77
Proofs, 3 May' 77; 8 Aug'77*
Introduction Of,
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry:
Plane Geometry:
All
When we said that 'plane' geometry is more fundamental
and therefore easier than solid geometry, and that a dynamic
geometry was something prohibitively 'way out' in relative
difficulty of comprehensibility. "Geometry didn't have all
the qualities
of energy, 1 said the pure mathematicians.
their complete
abstraction of pattern from reality of
experiences was thought to be simple. I discovered that
nothing can be more complicated than 'plane' geometry nor a
more highly specialized case of pure mathematics." Plane
geometry is the most special case of 'not true at all.'"
Cite UTOPIA OR OBLIVIC, Kusic of the New Life, p. 53, 10 Dec 164

Geometry:
Plane Geometry:
See Up & Down Sequence
(1)

Geometry:
Plane Geometry:
See Spaceship Earth, (a)
Unit, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Reality:
*Residual ignorance has employed the as-yet-primitive tools
of mathematics in linear diametrica-- in the 'either yes or no'
of two-dimensional oversimplification. Ignorance thinking in
blackboard and paper planes labora protestingly over the
geometry of reality. A complete reorganization of mathematics
will probably occur within the next quarter century (or genera-
tion) with all the now 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."
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, pp. 230-231, May'49

Geometry of Reality:
See Vectors Are Real
(1)

Geometry of Reality:
See Quantum Mechanics, Jun'66
(2)

Geometry of Space:
See No Geometry of Space

GEOMETRY OF THINKING
"Getting nature into a corner in the essence of synergetics.
It is the coordination of thought and physical action, the
genesis of geometry, system, and structure."
Citation & context at Nature in a Corner, 13 Nov* 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Thinking:
"Synergetics is the geometry of thinking. How we think is
epistemology and epistemology is modelable; which is to say
that knowledge organizes itself geometrically, 1.0., with
models.
"Unity as two is inherent in life and the resulting model is
tetrahedral, the conceptuality of which derives as follows:
life's inherent unity is two;
-- no otherness no awareness;
--
--
111
life's awareness begins with otherness;
otherness is twoness;
this moment's awareness is different from previous
awareness;
differentiations of time are observed directionally;
directions introduce vectors (lines);
two time lines demonstrate the observer and the
observed;
the interconnection of two lines results in a
tetrahedron;
sixfold interrelatedness is conceptual:
RBF holograph incorporated in
SYNERGETICS at Sec 905.01.02. 16 Dec 73
Q.E.D.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Thinking:
"Conceptual formulation is inherently empirical."
SYNERLETICS
Citation and context at Experience, Feb150
ED-SEC. 906.11)

Geometry of Thinking:
See Abstraction of a Special Case
Centers of Abstract Truths
Comprehensibility of Systems
Conceptual Finite
Conceptual Geometry
Conceptuality as Polyhedral
Conceptuality & Space
Congruence of Metaphysics & Physics
Connections & Relatedness
Epistemography
Ethical Physics
Geodesically Structured Thoughts
Geometrical Conceptuality
Geometry of Reality
Irrelevancies: Dismissal of
Isotropic-vector-matric Fields of Thought
(1 A_I)

Geometry of Thinking: (1 J..S)
See Limits of Thinking
Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta
Nature in a Corner
Number: Tetrahedral Number: $\sfrac{N^2 - N}{2}$
Observer & Otherness: Tetrahedral Relationship
Between
Omnitopology
Polyhedral Understanding
Precessional Thinking
Primitive Geometric Conceptuality
Psychological Geometry
Spherical Comprehension
Spherical Thinking
Straight-line Thinking
Structural Conceptuality
Structure of Meaning

Geometry of Thinking:
See Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model
Thinking: Analogy of Sphere Layers
Thought Has Shape
Conceptuality
Topology
(1 T-Z)

Geometry of Thinking:
See Comprehension, 10 Jan'74; Dec'71
Conceptual Formulation, Feb'50°
Conceptuality, 1 Apr 72
Epistemology, 16 Dec 73; 9 May'62
Experience, Feb 50*
Ideal, 23 May 72"
Knowledge, 16 Dec '73
Minus Two, Aug'73
Synergetics, 15 Jul 73
Thinkable, May 71
Thought, May172
Remember, 20 Feb 72
Star Events, 2 Jul 62
Conceptuality Independent of Size, 31 Jan '75
Nature in a Corner, 13 Nov*75*
(2)

Geometry of Vectors:
"That's what I thought Avogadro was looking for: a geometry
of vectors bringing in time through the velocity of the
vector... the frequency of their discrete dimension!
"Avogadro accounts volume with number in a much better way
than just putting water in a cube.
"All three-phase vectors come together to make sum-total
structures.'
-
Citation & context at Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (1)(2),
27 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"I have a very discrete mathematics about how loads are
distributed. They couldn't be more vectorially fundamental.
Synergetic geometry is vectorial geometry. That's exactly
how forces are translated and to what magnitudes.®
"And I always must, do it nonredundantly. Plurality: there must
be always two discrete configurations. When you get to two
you have wanderability ((vulnerability ? ); when you have three
you are absolutely fixed."
-
Citation & context at Intuition Sequence (2), 15 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"Remember the words vectorial geometry: if you want to look for
maximum
efficiency, you do things vectorially."
Citation & context at Most Economical, 15 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"Time is in our dimensioning because our geometry
is vectorial."
-
Citation and context at Time, 21 Dec'71
-Cite RbF to KIA, 3200-Idaho, UC, 21 Dec +71

KBF LEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"Assuming an energy Universe of curved paths generated
by angular accelerations of varying intertensions, rates,
and radii, resulting in orbits of high-frequency
continuities, and separating time out of the compound
dynamic system there remains only the relative attractions
or repulsions expressed in relative vectorial terms in
respect to the radius of any one interattracted couple of
the set of all the radii expressed.
"In such a timeless and equilibrious instant the
remainder of the system may be discovered as a vector
construction of force interrelationships between centers.
A geometry composed of a system of interrelated vectors
may be discovered which represents the complete family
of potential forces, proclivities, and proportional
morphosis by octave introversion or extroversion."
Cite SYNERGETICS text as of Aug'71 as revised by RBF
between Aug and Dec '71.
Secs. 215.1 + 215.2.
Incorporated at

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"At the Naval Academy we learned about Galileo's_parallel-
ogram of forces. I liked the idea of vectors. I was excited
by vectors because I felt that vectors did what the geometry
teacher couldn't do with her 'pure abstract straight' linea.
Vectors had not only unique direction in relation to other
experiences, but also were discrete in their relative lengths,
which were arrived at by multiplying their obeject's mass
times their object's velocity. We didn't have to worry about
the vector's lines going to infinity. There was no such
inference in their deliberately developed construction.
vector went just so far and that was the end of it. So a
vector constituted an experiementally satisfactory kind of a
line.
A
"Furthermore, I could convert mass and velocity into heat,
and I could ascertain the time dimension from the velocity,
thus all the qualities and behavioral characteristics plus"
the environmental conditions of 'existence' which I had been
seeking, were satisfactorily expressed as vectors. So I said,
Might there not be a
Geometry of Vectors?' and I remem-
bered those equiliength toothpicks of my kindergarten experi-
mental exploration for logical structuring and the complex"
-
DO
Cite RBF marginalia at old Chap 2, "Synergy" 1.13, 18 Mar'69
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"of triangulated_polyhedra which I had evolved by tactile
stability tests."
(B)
Cite RBF marginalis at old Chap. 2, "Synergy," I.13, 18 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
In synergetics there is a total "correspondence of radial
wave modular growth with circumferential modular frequency
growth of the totally involved vectorial geometry." This
means that "angular and linear accelerations are identical."
Citation and context at Acceleration: Angular and Linear
Acceleration, 18 Oct 64

HBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"The only thing you have to watch for in the
vectorial geometry is times when things double up."
-
Cite LEDGEMONT Laboratory Address, p. 25, 15 Oct '64

RBF DEFINITION:S
Geometry of Vectors:
"I found his [Galileo's] vectorial diagram exciting. It
suggested a comprehensiva geometry consisting entirely of
vectors. A vectorial line was a very nice kind of a line
because it had a discrete length-- it didn't go on absurdly
forever to the nowhere of two infinities-- in both
directions as potential extensibilities of lines. It didn't
have the 'time' to do so. It had a discrete amount of time,
which time was a component factor of the vector's velocity.
I could
"I wondered if nature might have a set of omnidirectionally
operative vectors that represented all of our experiences.
It is experiences that we are dealing with in nature.
Nature and Universe are alike the aggregate of all experience.
Couldn't I then find vectors that represented any and
every unique experience? Vectors are like spears.
massage any object into a spear shape, point and thrust-
throw it in a
discrete direction. intuitively liked
those directional vector spears. I felt that they tended
at least to embody all the energetic qualities of
represented experiences. That thinking-feeling, however,
was only an intuition and not an accomplished, mathematically
coordinate, generalized experience system.'
Cite UTOPIA O OBLIVIO, Prevail. Cond in Arts, pp 86-87,10 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"I felt that it would be possible, for instance, when I
could make a model of two ships running in to each other,
where I took each of the ships. . . and I simply put it
into compression, and I make it into a great long sphere,
and it weighed and had the same despity as the other
sphere, and it would have a certain length and I saw that
I could make a model out of these interesting things.
In fact,
"I thought vectors were extremely realistic.
I
liked the idea then of a geometry which would be made up
entirely of vectors instead of a geometry made up of some
hyptothetical kinds of patterns.
In other words, they
could be made of vectors of actions. They were our
experiences of basic phenomena, so I said wouldn't it be
interesting if we had no geometry unless there were
vectors, because the vectors are real experiences, and
because the vectors had inherent velocity and mass.
Velocity is the complementarity of time and space. Time
and space are simply functions of velocity. Velocity is
really the reality. You can examine the time or space
increment, but they are never independent of one another.
They were unified as velocity. I said because it had"
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 298, 12 July 162
(1)

RBF JEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"velocity this kind of geometry would be a very nice
geometry."
(For text immediately preceding the above see Javelin, 12
July 162 and Galileo, 12 July 62)
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 298, 12 July '62
(2)

REF JEFINITIONS
Geometry of Vectors:
"hen you get into the energetic-synergetic geometry
you have to watch out the number of times these
vectors" double up. "Hemember that they represent a
mass and a velocity and sometimes they can double up
so they represent twice the value-- or four times the
value when they become congruent."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 248, 11 Jul 162

Geometry of Vectors:
See Avogadro: Generalized Avogadro System
Chemical Bonda
Congruence of Vectors
Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force
Self-congruence Packing
Vectorial Geometry Field
Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry
Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas
(1)

Geometry of Vectors:
(2)
See Accelerations: Angular & Linear, 18 Oct'64*
Avogadro 12 Jul 62
Closest Packing of Spheres Sequence (1)
Ninety-two Elements, 9 Apr'40
Time, 21 Dec '71 *
Vector Equilibrium, 9 Jul162
Most Economical, 15 Jun '74*
Intuition Sequence (2)*
Time-size, 20 Dec173
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, (4)
Synergetics, Nov' 71
Topology, 11 Dec 75

Geometry:
See Analytical Geometry
Celestial Geometry
Conceptual Geometry
Cosmetry
Distaff Geometry
Euclidean Geometry
Greek Geometry
Hierarchy of Geometrical Transformings
Minimum Geometrical Fourness
No Geometry of Space
Nuclear Geometrical Limit
Omnigeometric
Operational Geometry
Operational Mathematics
Piaget, Jean:
Child's Spontaneous Geometry
Plane Geometry
Polygon
Polyhedra
Primitive Geometrical Conceptuality
Psychological Geometry
Regular Polyhedra
Space Unoccupied Geometry
(TA)

Geometry:
See Spherical Triangle Sequences
Tools of Geometry
Topology
Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry
(1B)

Geometry:
(2)
See Rubber Glove, 23 May172*
Synergetics, 1960*; Oct 71; 17 Nov'72; Jun'66; 15 Nov
System, 25 May 172
Space, 1968*
Tetrahedron, 2 Jul*62*
Thinking, 2 Jul*62*
Time, 21 Dec'71*
Up & Down Sequence (2)*
Conceptuality Independent of Size, 31 Jan'75
Progressions, Nay'49
Structural System, Nov 71
Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr* 43
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec 73
174

Geometry:
See Geometrical Conceptuality
Geometrical Integrity
Geometry of Inwardness & Outwardness
Geometrical Interrelatability of Events
Geometry: Plane Geometry
Geometry of Reality
Geometry of Space:
There Is No
Geometry of Thinking
Geometry of Vectors
Geometrical Function of Nine
Geometry & Number
Geometrical Hierarchy
Geometry of General Systems
(3)

Geophysical Year: IGY: 1965:
See Antientropy, (A); (1)
Geosocial Revolution, (1)
Man as a Function of Universe, (B)
Manifest: Six, 1973
XYZ Coordinate System, 14 Sep'71
15A

RoF DEFINITIONS
Geoscope:
"The geoscope has the same relationship to the Earth as one
of the lifeboats on the davits of the Queen Mary has to the
Queen Mary. If the Queen Mary turns the lifeboat does likewise,
retaining the same relative position to the keel. If the
Queen Mary rolls the lifeboat rolls.
"The 4,000-mile parallax from the center of the Earth to
the Geoscope at the Earth's surface is inconsequential.... You
can see the Earth revolving faster at the equator.'
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia, 29 Jan
175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geoscope:
"The biggest problem of humanity right now is how to get all
of humanity to learn what it's all about in the shortest
possible time."
Citation & context at World Game, 15 Jun 174

Geoscope World Looks at Itself:
See Geoscope, 15 Jun '74

A
TEXT CITATIONS
Geoscope:
Education Automation, p.45

Geoscope:
See Earth Globe Models
Miniature Earth
Minni-Earth
Tool of Reorientation
Geoview
Seeing the Whole World at Once
World Looks at Itself

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geosocial Revolution:
"A half century of subconsciously developing world revolution
is now crossing the threshold into human consciousness and
ultimate popular support. The heretofore subconscious world
revolution may well become the conscious focus of effort of
the International Cooperation Year.
"The IGY-1965 itself has been indirectly occasioned by the
subconsciously occurring techno-scientific revolution and its
myriad of separate world- around transformations of human
ecology.
(1)
"The unheralded human ecology transformations have developed
only as inadvertent, unanticipated instractions of individually
undertaken uncoordinated inventions.
"The independent physical environment reforming inventions
have integrated, figuratively speaking, as streamliningly
divided, double-decked, banked, and cloverleafed lifeways of
human behaviors. These lifeways permit ever increasing numbers
of humans to survive logically and sense-satisfyingly without
mutually frustrating interferences. (2)
Cite GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION: SYNOPSIS, WDSD, Doc 13, p.79, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geosocial Revolution:
(2)
"There are two main classes of inventions: those which
increase and those which decrease the degrees of freedoms.
Because men are born immobilized there are few
invention
oppor-
These are prisons, traps,
tunities for his immobilization.
On the other hand
straight jackets, handcuffs, and caskets.
there are an infinity of opportunities to invent man's
increased mobilization-- all the way up to the speed of
light, 186,000 mps., and in all directions.
increased-freedom inventing is irreversible.
Means-of-
The
"Inventions occur when individuals, frustrated by circumstance,
eschew negative blaming and undertake positive physical
environment reforms rather than abstract
human reforms.
latter depend precariously only upon moral, ethical, and
legal codes which are enforceable only by
negative
penalties.
"The silent preoccupations of the artist-scientist, whose
inventions subsequently permit mankind
to realize his
innate
potentials without interference with others
are in marked
Political
theories
contrast to political behaviorisms.
apparently assume that there is no alternative to the word,"
(2)
Cite GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION: SYNOPSIS, DSD Doc. #3, 8.79, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Geosocial Revolution:
"fist, and bullet battles between opposing ideologies. Each
ideology seeks to reform man. They scheme and labor to impose
their respective viewpoints by omni-interfering political,
moral, psychological persuasions, furtive corruptions,
bullyings, or punishments.
(3)
"Both professional and amateur spokesmen for society apparently
assume that the political battles will persist until man
annihilates himself. The only considered alternative, happy
or unhappy according to the individual's viewpoint, is that
one bias or another will gain sufficient advantage to be able
to dictate the terms of mankind's reprieve from total extinction.
We don't agree.
We think there is a third eventuality wherein
the political chaos will fade out in ways entirely unpremed-
itated by political man as the invention order looms in.
Geosocial revolution explores the possibility that the non-
political surprise has already occurred and will soon be
increasingly visible to all."
(2)
Cite GEOSOCIAL REVOLUTION: SYNOPSIS ( WDSD Doc. #3, p.79, 1965

Geothermal Power:
See Income Energy

Geoview:
See Geoscope
World Looks at Itself
(1)

Geoview:
See Search vs. Research, 14 Feb 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gestalt:
"What matters, with regard to both scientific method and social
usefulness, is the total physico-economic spicture, the
Gestalt of nature-- the patterns that are inherently compre-
hensive and universal, in contradistinotion to what is local.
Specific parts of a pattern, the local designs, can be derived
from the general design, the comprehensive scheme.
The reverse,
however, is not true; in nature, society, and industrial
complexes, wholes express more than the simple effect resulting
from the sum of their respective parts."
Cite Marks DYMAXION WORLD OF RBF, p.8, 1960

Gestalt:
See Synergy,
Oct'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gestation
"The Special Theory is the umbilical cord, the conceptional
and locally dependent gestational phase."
Citation and context at Einstein: General Theory and Special
Theory, 4 Mar '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gestation:
"The metaphysical integrities manifest throughout the
everywhere intertransforming Universe's omni-interaccommodative
cosmic system apparently are from time to time emulated in
meager degree by the intellect of the human passengers who
are gestating within the spherical womb sheath of planet
Earth's watery, gaseous, and electromagnetic biosphere."
Cite RBF Introduction to Gener Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA, p.23.
Mar'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gestation Lag:
"We know there is a great variety in the time spans of
gestation lags between the moment of egg fertilization and
the birth of the independently conceived babies of the
different zoological species. But almost no variation
occurs within any one species' gestation rate-- for instance,
human babies take nine months. In the same way there is
a great range of time lags between invention and industrial
production among the different technical arts, but almost
no difference within a given art "
-
Cite ARCHITECTURE AS ULTRA INVISIBLE REALITY, p. 154, Dec. 169

Gestation Lag:
See Now, 14 Feb'72
nobin Hoca sequence (2)

Gestational Phase:
See Gestation, 4 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gestation Rate:
"Nature has her own gestation rates. The biggest--most
important--events take the longest.'
Citation & context at Black Holes & Synergetica, 1 Mar'77

Gestating Seed:
See Duality of Universe, May'49

Gestation:
See Birth
Cosmic Gestation
Pregnant Mother
Womb of Permitted Ignorance
(1)

Gestation:
Gestation Lag: Gestation Rate:
See Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes,
May'65
Einstein: General Theory & Special Theory, 4 Mar'73*
Curve Of, (1)
Industrialization:
Now, 14 Feb172
Promote: I Don't Promote, 2 Jun' 74
Race, 14)
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning, May'65
Time, 23 May '72
Unique Frequencies, 18 Aug170
Evolutionary Checks & Balances, 26. Aug175
Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar' 77*
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (2)
(2)

Gestured Communication:
See Communications Hierarchy, (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine:
Q.
RBF:
"What effect will the materials employed in your
domes have on the underdeveloped countries?"
(1)
"The underdeveloped countries are like 150 admirals
on one spaceship. I don't think in terms of underdeveloped
countries. The people aren't going to stay in those countries
any more than Americans stay in the same town.
"My feeling about the African students is that they are much
keener than others in their mathematics. We learned this at
Kumasi. We should have expected that their great feeling for
rhythm should have made them good in mathematics.... Last
month in my meeting at the State Department they said that
Africans couldn't use tools. I asked them what do they at the
State Department know about tools?
"Those countries have high capabilities and have been developed
for a very long time... but I understand what you are asking.
Taking the bauxite from Ghana is economic colonialism. In the
1970s the Ghanaians made the most beautiful dome_ever built
right in Accra--better than the one in Kumasi. They made this"
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop' 77; Phila., PA; ?? Jun'77
155

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine:
"beautiful geodesic dome as a self-chilling machine.
(2)
The
dome generates a thermal column pulling the air from around
the large openings at the bottom and down through a small
hole in the roof. We found this phenomenon first in the Butler
Grain Bins; out in the Sun they could be too hot to touch on
the surface yet very cool on the inside.
"Of course, the exploitation will go on... but the Ghanaians
are very rapidly becoming Worldians."
"
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ghostly Greek Geometry:
Sphere:
"The Greek sphere is wrong because it is a net too small
for the molecules of gas to get out."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 1 Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ghostly Greek Geometry:
Sphere:
"The definition of a sphere by the Greeks was 'a surface
equidistant in all directions from a point.'
Now if you
have a surface equidistant in all directions from a point
it couldn't have a hole in it. If it had a hole in it the
distance would not be equidistant because the surface would
start to turn inwardly and the radius would not be the
same. To say then that you have a surface equidistant in
all directions from a point is considered some kind of a
solid surface. A sphere then would be a subdivision of
universe in which part of the universe would be inside and
part outside and no communication between the two because
there are no holes in it. In other words, the Greek
definition of a sphere was the definition of the first
perpetual motion machine or local system that was adequate
in itself. It didn't need any of the rest of the universe.
All experiments in physics has shown energy losses in
systems and energy intakes and so there would have to be
some holes in the system for them to pass through. There-
fore we discover we have to give up the concept of the
sphere as defined by the Greeks and all we can say is that
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, pp. 204-5, 10 Jul'62
(1)

RBF DEFINITION
Ghostly Greek Geometry:
Sphere:
(2)
"what we mean by a sphere is an aggregate of events approximately
equidistant in all directions from one event. They may be of
very relative high frequency, of such a high frequency that you
can't resolve it and it looks continuous to your eye, and that
you call a sphere... That is the way we found we were fooled by
the pneumatic bags. They were full of holes too."
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, pp. 204-5, 10 Jul*62

Ghostly Greek Geometry:
See Bias on One Side of the Line, May'65
Calculus, (1)
Geodesic Line, 9 Sept 74
Synergetics, Apr149
Tools of Geometry, (1) (21
Nucleus vs. Boundaries, 28 Jan'75
Subvisible Discontinuity, 19 Oct 72

Ghost:
See Holy Ghost

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gibbs: Phase Rule:
"Willard Gibba in evolving his phase rule was engaged in
probability relating to chemistry when he inadvertently and
intuitively conceived of his phase rule for explaining the
number of energetic freedoms necessary to introduce into a
system complexedly constituted of crystals, liquids, and
gases, in order to unlock them into a common state of
liquidity. His discovered phase rule and topology are the
same: they are both synergetic."
100
Citation and context at Probability Model of Three Cars on a
Highway (2), 26 Sep'73"

KBP DEFI.ITICKS
Gibbs' Phase kule:
"Gibts, in his phase rule, ties up the probability with
chemistry.
His phase rule and topology are the same.
But still all the different chemistries and topologies zeem
to be random. But synergetics, by relating energy and
torology to the tetrahedron, and to systems as defined, and
by its synergetic hierarchy, replaces randomness with a
rational hierarchy."
- Citation & context at Probability, 17 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gibbs: Phase Rules
"Willard Gibbs' phase rule in a formula similar to Euler's
in which the degrees of freedom are in effect the vectorial
edges brought synergetic advantages to chemical strategy."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp. 160-161, 1960

Gibbs, Josiah Willard: (1790-1861)
See Euler & Gibbs
Gibbs: Phase Rule
Synergetic Hierarchy
Liquid-crystal-vapor-incandescent phases
(1)

Gibba: Gibbs' Phase Rule:
(2)
See Chemical Bonds, 6 Mar' 73
Probability, 17 Feb 72*
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway,
26 Sep' 73*
Synergetic Accounting Advantages:
Synergetic Hierarchy, (1)
Thermal, 6 Mar 73
Time, 6 Mar 73; Aug'71
Hierarchy of, (2)
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 6 Mar' 73
Whole System: Principle of, (1)
Topology, 11 Dec175
Degrees of Freedom & Bonding, 24 Jan*76
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec 73

Gibraltar:
Rock Of:
See Culture, 27 Jan' 77

Gin Pole:
See Mast in the Earth
(1)

Gin Pole:
See Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 10 Jul*62
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Girl:
"There is something of the harvester about girls: what
I call the gains consolidator. Girls fall in love with me.
It's
Nothing shakes them! They fall in love with integrity.
nothing to do with me at all, but what seems to be integrity
of thought."
Cite RBF to EJA re Mala, nee Thaper of New Delhi; at 3200
Idaho, Wash, DC, 13 Dec 73

Girl:
See Female Leg
Naked Girl on the Bed

Girth:
See Length-to-girth Ratio

Give Giving:
See More You Give the More You Have to Give

Glands:
See Automation of Metabolic and Regenerative Processes,
May 165
Scrap Sorting & Mongering (3)

Glimpse-discover:
(1)
Glimpsing:
See Guess-improvise

Glimpse-discovery: Glimpsing:
See Invention Sequence, (A)
Truth, Jan 72
(2)

Glimpsor:
See Communications Hierarchy, (4)

Global Political Revolution:
See Revolution: Design Science Revolution vs. Global
Political Revolution

Global Village:
See Earth Shrunk to One-town World
One-town World
Geoview
(1)

Global Village:
See McLuhan, Marshall, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Globe:
"You think you can only read half of a globe, but you'll find
that you can only see one-quarter of it at any one time.'
Cite RBF to Henry Liberman, NY Times, 22 Jun 72

Globe:
See Earth Globe Models

Glory:
See Greater Intellect, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gloves:
"Gloves are a complex of tetrahedra."
-
Cite RBF holograph, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971.

Gnomonic:
See Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (f), (h)

Go In To Go Out:
See In & Out: Go In to Go Out

Go: No-go:
See Pulse Pattern
(1)

Go: No-go:
See Degrees of Freedom, 13 Dec'73
Omnidirectional Typewriter, (3)
Causality, Jan'77
Will, (1)
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
God:
"The only-intellectually-discoverable, comprehensive integrity
of omni-everywhere-and-everywhen, complexedly intertransforming
Universe is omnigoverned by the mathematically-incisive,
generalized principles. It is to that comprehensive intellect-
ual integrity and wisdom to which I refer when using the
abstract word 'God.' God designs us and our Scenario Universe.
"The self-discipline involves commitment only to God: all
humanity and all the experimentally-demonstrable, mathematically
generalized principles thus far discovered by humans and all
the special case truths as we progressively discover them."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Bro. Jos. Chuala, P.1; 7 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"God is the synergetic integral of all truths... but these
are just words, utterly inadequate. You can only talk to
god on behalf of everybody.
"I have had experiences that make me feel that god knows
what I am doing."
- Citation & context at Truth, 31 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"God is the unknowable totality of generalized principles
which are only surprisingly unveiled, thereby synergetically
inaugurating entirely new, heretofore unpredicted-- because
unpredictable-- ages."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETIOS galley xix ("Moral of the Work")
telephoned to EJA from Philadelphia, 3 Apr'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"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..."
-
Citation and context at Fuller, R.B.:
Feb173
RBF Modus Operandi,

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"Little man on little Planet Earth evoking words to describe
his experiences, intuiting ever and anon the greater integrity,
struggles to form a word to manifest his awareness of the
greater integrity. His lips can express, his throat and lungs
can produce, in the limited atmosphere of Planet Earth, he may
make a sound like g o d . . . which is obviously inadequate to
identify his inherent atunement to eternal complex integrity.
The little humans on little Earth, overwhelmed these millions
of years with the power of the bigger over the lesser (muscles)
have spontaneously identified the cosmic integrity with the
local terrestrial experience. The conditioned reflex feedbacks
have introduced enormous confusion of approximate indentifi-
cation, fusing the local physical muscular authority with the
eternal complex integrity, whose absolute generalizablity can
never be locked into or described as a special case."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.42, 10 Feb'73
[41]

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"It is inherently potential in the integrity of eternal
regeneration and the inherent complexity of unity that only
god can invent a new generalized principle, and he apparently
does so, from time to time, thus synergetically creating
entirely new and heretofore unpredicted-- because
unpredictable-- Ages."
(Above is superseded by RBF amendment cited
as God, 3 Apr174)
-
Cite SYNEREGTICS Front Paper, 26 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
1... The eternally exact
Utter perfection,
Complete understanding
Absolute wisdom,
Unattainable by humans
But affirming God
Omnipermeative,
Omniregenerative,
All incorruptible
As infinitely inclusive
Exquisite love."
Cite LOVE, p. 176 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"Thus also humanity is permitted
By the omni-intellectual,
Weightless, amorphous,
Metaphysical integrity of Universe--
Which we intuitively designate
By the sound word 'god'
To participate in meager degree
Locally and temporarily--
In god's own vast
Evolutionary designing capabilities."
-
Cite INTUITION, pp. 53-54 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"God makes no mistakes. "
(A common observation by RBF)
For citation: see Mistake, 19 Dec 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"Pulsation, the vector equilibrium is the nearest thing we
will ever know to eternity and God: the zerophase of
conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative
asymmetries which propagate the problems of the
consciousnes.
•
.
-
Citation & context at Experience, 12 Sep*71
- berper
SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 0.01; Nort
BJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 12 Sept 1977.

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"May the great a priori intellectual integrity of eternally
regenerative Universe grant glorious flight to the chicks."
Cite & Definition of Evolution, p. 5. 15 Sep'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"God makes no mistakes. Never fear god."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York 15 Sept. 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"I don't use a capital G for god because that just
seems to stand for the old anthropomorphic idea."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"God
the most comprehensive generalization of
the invisible finite reality."
Cite ARTS & LETTERS GOLD MEDAL, p. 10
May168

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"It takes two to make a baby
But it takes God to make two.
"God is twoing
God is threeing
God is multiplying
By dividing
-
"
Cite HOW LITTLEI KNOW, Oct. 166, P. 56.

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"I think of God not as a superman but as the great
comprehensive a priori integrity of the universe within
which man finds himself to be operative."
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, Vol. 1.
No. 3., p.42
Spring 1966

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"God is entropy
And god is also antientropy,
God is synergy
God is energy.
And god is always
A verb--
The verbing of
Integrity."
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, p. 57. Oct166

RBF DEFINITIONS
God:
"I conceive of God as a verb,
not a noun. Intellect manifest in
man is to some extent God. God is part of the thinking process
of every man.
"I have torecognize something much bigger than my capabilities
in creativity. The orderliness of the Universe and all the
potential N² - N relationships are by experience a priori to
man's exploration and discovery of them. Often two remote
persons discover their existence independently.
" But I do not want to inaugurate another religion and
persuade people to believe in a set of rules. I am convinced
that the Almighty does not need anybody to promote God. God to
me is the total abstract intellectual capability and conscience."
-
Cite RBF at AAUW Panel, AAUW Journal, Pp.172-173, May 165

God as Mind:
See World as Idea in the Mind of God
(1)

God as Mind:
See Individual Universes, (2)
Timeless, 1 Apr 72
Transcendental, 2 Jun'71
(2)
121

RBF DEFINITIONS
God As Verb of Optimum Understanding:
(1)
"It seems possible to me
That God may be recognizable
In man's limited intellection
Only as the weightless passion drive
Which inspires our progressive searching
For the momentarily only--
And only most-truthful-thus-far-possible--
Comprehension of all the interconnections
Of all experiences.
It seems then to me
That the nearer we come to understanding,
The nearer we come to the
Orderly omni-interrelationships
Of all the weightless complex
Of all generalized principles
which seem to be disclosed to us
As so important
As to be tentatively identified as God.
For it is the integratable interrelationships
Of all the generalized laws
hich apparently govern
The great verb 'Universe'
Or the vastly greater
Because comprehensively anticipatory--

RBF DEFINITIONS
God As Verb of Optimum Understanding:
"Verb intellecting
Which verb of optimum understanding
May be 'God. 1"
(STET
(2)

God as Verb:
See God, May165
Objective Intellect, Jun'69

God:
See Absolute Integrity
Absolute Wisdom
Almighty
A Priori Great Design
Comprehensive Integrity
Cosmic Intelligence
Divine: Divinity
Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense
Eternal Designing Capability
Great Design: The
Great Intellect: Greater Intellect
Greater Understanding
Intellection that is Infinitely Perfect
Mind: Concept of God as Mind
Mind: Great Eternal Mind
Nonanthropomorphic God
Objective Intellect
Omniscience
Religion
(1A)

God:
See
Supreme Intellect
Science: The Great Design
Triangle as Signature of God
Universal Mind
World as Idea in the Mind of God
Trinity: Equation of Trinity
Synergetic Integral
No Secondhand God
Cosmic Wisdom
Great Design:
The
Competence Greater than that of Humans
(1B)

God:
Lord's Prayer, 16 Feb'78
See Death, 1970
Experience, 12 Sep'71
Generalized Principle, May'68
Geometry, 1 Oct'71
False Property Illusion, (1)
Intellectual Capability, May 65
Intellectual Integrity, Aug 64
Local vs. Comprehensive, (1)(2)
Mistake, 2 Dec 71; 3 Jun 72; 19 Dec '71*
Perceptual Peephole, Dec'69
Thinking, 1938
Time, 1940
Timeless, 1 Apr* 72
Transcendental, 2 Jun' 71; 6 Jul'62
Vector Equilibrium, Summer'71
Vector Equilibrium:
Heaven, 23 May'72
Truth, 31 Jan³75*
Zerophase, 12 Sep' 71
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
Christ, 7 Oct '71
(2)

Goddard, Robert H: (1882-1945)
See Orbiting, (1)
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe, (A)

Going Awayness:
See Coming Apart
Raison d'etre of Going Awayness
Coming Towardness
(1)

Going Awayness:
See Repustion, 7 Feb'71
(2)

Golden Rule:
See All or None
Consideration for Others
Expense:
Without Any Individual Profiting at
The Expense of Another
Meek Have Inherited the Earth
Utopia or Oblivion
Trespassing: Not Trespassing
(1)

Golden Rule:
See Competition: Elimination Of, 2 Jun174
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927 (1)
(2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Goldylocks:
Typescript extracts of 22 Jun 75 in RBF Phila. Office may
be found at:
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristės (1X2)
Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun'75
Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects, 9 Jun'75.
In that order.

Goldilocks:
See Scenario of the Child
(1)

Goldylocke:
See Children as Only Pure Scientists, (A)(B)
(2)

Gon:
See Polygon, 14 Oct' 76
Triclinic, 31 Aug' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gonads:
"It is no aesthetic accident that nature encased our
brains and regenerative organics in compoundly curvilinear
structures-- there are no cubical heads, eggs, nuts, or
planets."
Citation at Curvature:
Compound, 22 Sep'71
Cern OID MAN RIVER PROPOSAL, 22 Sep 71-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Good: If All The Good People Were Clever:
"If all the good people were clever
And all clever people were good
The world would be nicer than ever
We thought that it possibly could.
But somehow tis seldom or never
That the two hit it off as they should
For the good are so harsh to the clever
And the clever so rude to the good."
Doggerel verse attribated to "Some little old lady in
England," RBF asked Chris. Morley, Editing "Bartlett's"
to try to track it down.
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 21 Oct'72

REF DEFINITIONS
Good & Bad:
"I don't use the words 'good' and 'bad.' I try not to
oppose evolution.
it's just stupid."
If you do oppose evolution it's not bad,
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila. PA; 2 Jun'77

Good & Badding Kind of Idea:
See Homosexuality, 1972

RBF DEFINITIONS
Good & Evil Sequence:
And
(1)
"I have to be very careful to take things in a big frame.
I see that nature does have manure, and she has roots, as well
as blossoms; and I don't blame the roots for not being blossoms.
Things go through phases. I think society is getting somewhere;
we don't really know. We don't understand very much about how
and where we're going... I think we really are immortal. I think
life is really going somewhere.
"We tend to think always in superficials: saying that you are
your skin.
But I've just been sitting here peeling off skin all
the time, throwing it away. It isn't me. But we still assume
50.
So many of the things we think of as bad and hard and cruel
may not be so in the end. Just coming out of the womb, There's
a river flowing into the ocean and there are back eddies all
over. But I don't call that evil. We are in a very big course.
I don't think anything that's gone before really has to happen
again. But there are quite clearly rates of change. You don't
make a baby in less than nine months. There are those unique
frequencies. I do not tend to think of a Universe which
consists of
good or evil. I don't think an
electron is bad because we give it a negative sign. Much of the"
HBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island, Tape #7, Side B, Transcript
p.16; 18 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Good & Evil: Sequence:
"pain is related to the words we've invented and the signifi-
cance we attach to things. We make people ashamed when they
need not be ashamed. The young world is breaking out from much
pain that people had before; they're not having it simply
because they're not ashamed... Evolution has her own accounting
system and that's the only one that's going on. The Sun never
heard of our fiscal year. And it's the Sun that's keeping
us going."
(2)
-
RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #7, Side B, transcript
p.17, 18 Aug170

Good & Evil: Good & Bad:
See Good & Badding Kind of Idea
Immorality
Sin
Ethics
Nature is Neither Good Nor Bad
Pleased or Displeased: We Are Not Here to Be
(1)

Good & Evil:
See Plastic Flowers, Oct'70
Nature, 22 Jun 75
(2)

Good:
See Ethics
Feeling Good
Utopia
Virtue
(1)

Government:
See Politics
City Management Concept of World Government
One-world Management
Planetary Democracy
World Democracy
(1)

Government:
See Committee, 3 Jun' 72
Doing What Needs to Be Done, (1)
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sept 76
(2)

Grammar:
See Syntax

Gramming:
See Omnigramming

Grand Banks: Cosmic Fish in the Grand Banke:
See Cosmic Fish Sequence, (1)-(3)

Grand Canyon:
See Education: Knowing Where the Bridges Are, Oct'71

Grand Central Station of Energy:
See Alcohol, 1946

Grand Central Station of Universe:
See Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on
The Surface of a Sphere
Exchange Agent of Universe
Local Vector Equilibrium
Real Models of Reality
Avogadre: Generalized Avogadro Field
Isotropic Vector Matrix
(1)

Grand Central Station of Universe:
See Cosmic Democracy, 27 May'72
Graphable, 27 May 72
Vector Equilibrium, 1960
(2)

Grandfather Dead: What Again?
See Death, 11 Sep'73
Intuition of the Child, (2)

Grand Strategy:
See Artifact & Grand Strategy
1927-1977
Design Science: Grand Strategy
Dome House Grand Strategy:
General System Theory
Grand Strategy
Generalized Dichotomy:
Nature in a Corner
Quantum Mechanics:
Grand Strategy
Starting with the Whole
Starting with Universe
Synergetic Hierarchy
Variables: Theory Of
World Game:
Grand Strategy
(1)

Grand Strategy:
See Rearrange the Scenery,
Artifacts, 15 Jun'74
Geometry, 14 Nov 73
Education, 1 Jul'62
Plumbing, (1)(2)
(1)
Repetition, 8 Mar' 75; 2 Jul175
Assumption, 1946
Generalization & Special Case, Nov 71
Machines vs. Structures, 13 Nov' 75
(2)

Grand Vizier:
See Wizard
(1)

Grand Vizier:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence, (5)
(2)

Granite:
See Matter, 3 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Graphable:
"... Electromagnetic scientists had found that all their
E.M.F. (electromotive force) problems could be graphed
vectorially; that 'gra phable' or 'modelable' vectors can
interact modelably in real Universe space seemed to promise
that the equations of nature's omnicoordinate transactions
expressed in omni-space-intruding vectorial models might
produce real models of reality of nature's Grand Central
Station of omnicoordination."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, Sec. 410.05, RBF rewrite of 27/2 May 72

Graphable: Graphics:
See Charts: Curves & Trending
Modelability
Slides: Graphics vs. Words
Epistemography
Module: Modular

Graph: Graphable: Graphics:
See Spiral, 1938
Halo, 1938
Thinking, 10 Sep 75
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (a)-(1)
Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr 43
(2)
120

Grass: Putting Aside the Grass to Isolate the Trail:
See Trail
Irrelevancies: Dismissal of
Trail Kaking & Trail Remembering
(1)

Grass: Putting Aside the Grasses to Isolate the Trail:
See Thinking, 1960; Jun'66
(2)

Grass Blades of Grass:
See Biological Design, 13 Mar 73
Intuition of the Child, (2)
Reproducible, 22 Apr'68
Simplicity,
1968

TEXT CITATIONS
Grasshopper'a Lega:
Synergetics, 2nd. Ed.
-
Sec. 1053.75

Grateful: Gratitude:
See Competence: The More Competent, the Less Grateful

Gravel:
See Prestressed Concrete Sequence

Graveyards: Grave:
See Pyramid Technology

UNIVERSAL
INTEGRITY
RBF DEFINITIONS
SEC 1452.30
1052.31
Gravitational Constant:
"Pondering on Einstein's adopted last problem of the
Unified Field Theory, in which he sought to identify and
explain the mathematical differentiations between electro-
magnetics and gravity: the two prime attractive forces
of universe. In that connection, recalling my conclusion
that gravity operates in spherical embracement-- and not
by direct radial vectors-- and recalling that electromag-
netism follows the high tension convex surfaces, possibly
the great circle trunk system of railroad tracks, I found
myself pondering, surprisedly, over the fact that
the vector equilibrium, which identifies the gravitational
behaviors, and the icosahedron which identifies the
electron behaviors of electromagnetics, discloses 25
great circles for the vector equilibrium in respect to
its 24 external vector edges, and the icosahedron
discloses 31 great circles in respect to its 30 external
vector edges.
"In each case there is an excess of one great circle over
the edge vectors. Recalling that the vector edges of the
vector equilibrium exactly equal the radial explosive
forces, while the icosahedron's 30 external edges are
-
Cite HBF dictation, 1 Apr 172
(1)

13
(2)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravitational Constant:
"longer and more powerful than its 30 radial vectors,
yet each has an excess of one great circle, which great
circles must have two polar axes of spin, we encounter
once more the excess two polar vertexes characterizing
all topological systems, and witness the excess of
embracingly cohering forces in contradistinction to the
explosively disintegrative forces of Universe.
"This is the field theory.
"The excess two poles permit omniradially propagated
waves of energy to be polarly focused, ergo beamable,
or wirable by conductors.
"Gravity is to electromagnetics as 20 is to 18:51."
-
Cite RBF dictation to EJA at breakfast. International
Hotel, Kennedy Airport, NY, 1 Apr 172
OMNITOPOLOGY) UNIVERSAL, INTEGRITY
SEC.
1052317

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravitational Constant:
"Since Einstein's discovery of relativity, Emc'
mc2
, the
physicists have been preoccupied with the significance of
the radiational constant-- 186,00 m. p.s. as the top speed
of radiation. But physicists since then seem to have paid
very little attention to the complementary concept of the
gravitational constant-- the top speed of gravity, which is
just as significant as the radiational constant."
RBF to EJA Governor House Motel, Bethesda,
28 April 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravitational Constant:
... The gravitation constant of 6.6666667 is always
inherently more comprehensively, implosively, powerful
is syntropically cohering the Universe than is the
radiational constant..."
Citation and context at Universal Integrity: Principle of,
8 May 72

Gravitational Constant:
(1)
See Newton vs. Einstein
Radiational Constant
Universal Integrity:
Principle Or
Congruence of Gravitational & Radiational Constants

Gravitational Constant:
See Icosahedron as Electron Model, 7 Mar'73
Synergetic Hierarchy, 13 Nov 69
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravitational Continuum:
"Noventa characterize the finite but nonsensorial remote
masses' interattraction, i.e., the gravitational continuum."
Citation & context at Events & Novents, Nov'71

Gravitational Continuum:
See Novent Continuum

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravitational Field:
"Omnitriangulated geodesic spheres consisting exclusively
of three-way interacting great circles are realizations of
gravitational field patterns... The gravitational field
will ultimately be disclosed as ultra high-frequency
tensegrity geodesic spheres. Nothing else."
Citation and context at Three-way Great Circling: Three-
Way Grid:, 8 Kar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravitational Field:
"Radiation produces the phenomenon known to Einstein as
the bending of space, the gravitational field.'
n
Radiation-Gravitation,
-
Citation and context at
8 Mar 73

Gravitational Mensurability:
See Vector Equilibrium, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravitational System Zone:
"There is no pointal center of gravity.
There is a
gravitational system zone of concentration with min-max
zone system limits.
"Vertex is in convergence and face is in divergence.
"Synergetic geometry precession explains radial-circumfer-
ential acceleratione transformations.'
(Slightly edited)
Cite RBF holograph, Synergetics Notes, 14 Jan'55
(Incorporated in SYNERGETICS at Sec. 1030.21)

Gravitation:
Inverse Square Law Of:
See Newton's Second Law of Motion

171
RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is continuous tension omni-inter-between all
systems. Because gravitational intertensional intensivity
varies as the second power of the arithmetical interdis-
tancing variations, whose unique variations are locally
periodic, it manifests periodic intensities of tidal pulls,
but the overall tensional integrity is constant independent
of local intensity variables....
"Gravity is nondivisive and syntropic; its conservation is
accomplished by holistic embracement of variable intensities.
"Gravity is integral. Holistic gravity has no frequency."
Citation & context at Radiation-gravitation, 11 Feb'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"The physicists tend to describe gravity as a 'weak' force
because they don't recognize that it's a big-arc effect
in contradistinction to little pockets of energy like an
Earth or a star.
"Gravity is omnipresent, the most subtle of the great integri-
ties.
"This is typical of the semantics of scientists with their
addiction to axioms and solids; for the physicists a strong
force is a tiny thing like a bomb."
->
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 12 May175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"The effect of gravity on all matter is to make it want to
precess as radiation.
-
Cite RBF to EJA and BO'R, 3200 Idaho, Wash. 8.6., 6 Apr'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
(a)
t
"My theory of gravitaional behavior is an intuitively evolved
operational concept.
Since
(a) Spheres contain the most volume with the least
surface; and since,
(b) Nature always employs only the most economical
intertransformative and omnicosmic interrelatedness behavioral
stratagems; and since,
(c) with each and every event in Universe, no matter
how frequently recurrent, there are always twelve unique,
equieconmical, omnidirectionally operative, alternative action,
options: which twelve occur as four sets of three always
interdependent and concurrent actions, reactions, and resultants;
and since,
(d) Galileo discovered the mathematically uniform,
second-power, exponential rate of acceleration manifest by free
falling bodies; and since,"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
TWELVE DEGREES OF FREEDOM - SEC 53706 TENSION + COMPRESSION
SEC 64610+11

RBF DEFINITIONS
TENSION +
COPRESSION
SEC. 646.11
Gravity:
(e) Kepler discovered that hidden within the
(b)
superficial disorder of individual omnidifferences-- differences
of size; differences of distances from the Sun; and differences
of Sun-orbiting rates-- there nonetheless existed an elegantly
exact, one-to-one mathematical correspondence in the Sun's
planets intercoordinate. behaviors manifest by the equi-areas
of the radii- and arc-bounded, piece-of-apple-ple-shaped, areal
sweepouts, within an identical time span, of all the Sun's
planets as they orbited elliptically around the Sun at vast
distances from one another, all accomplished without any visible
mechanical interlinkage such as gears, yet whose orbiting around
the Sun- rather than flying off tangentially from those orbits
by centrifugal force as do the round iron balls released by
'hammer throwing' athletes-- altogether suggests some incredibly
powerful interattractiveness to be operative; and since,
(f) Newton correlated (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e)
above to discover
Firstly, that the prime interattractiveness magnitude
existing between two mutually remote bodies, as compared to the
prime interattractiveness existing between any other two mutually
remote bodies, is arrived at by multiplying each of the"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
(c)
"respective couples' separate masses by one another; and
Secondly, as a cosmic generalization of the
acceleration of Galileo's Earthward falling bodies, Newton
discovered the second-power mathematical rate of interattractive-
ness gain occurring with each half of the intervening distance
of any two given celestial bodies; whereby it was shown that
there are interrelationship behaviors manifest in physical
Universe that are in no wise indicated to be operative by any
or all of the unique geometrical or physical character-
istics of any one of the mass-interattracted bodies when
considered only separately; and since,
(g) Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted
by the integral characteristics of any of the system's separate
parts, it has come to pass that it has been synergetically
proven that Copernicus was 'right on,' for the ever exponentially
increasing interattractiveness of bodies freed of other
external restraints to come ever closer together, must induce
their ultimate huddling together in the most economical,
volume-to-enclosing-surface manner, which as the number of
converging bodies increases is that of the spherical conformation."
Cite Rbf Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
TENSION COMPRESSION
SEC. 646.11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
(d)
"This would also occasion the spherically trending
series of intertransforming events that would take place as
two independent large spherical masses, such as two asteroids,
fell into one another and their multitudinous individual atoms
began to sort themselves into most economical interarray.
Interestingly enough, this is the opposite of what
transpires with biological cell dichotomy.
"Electromagnetic radiant energy is entropic; gravitational
energy is syntropic.
"Speaking mathematically, the surface area growth is
always at a second-power rate of increase in respect to the
linear
dimension's rate of increase; wherefore, as
Newton's linear distance apart was measured arithmetically, we
can understand systematically why the relative interattraction
of the bodies varies as the second power, which represented
their
relative surface rates of change, but this
does not explain why there is any interattraction.
is eternally mysterious. "
*
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
TENSION + COMPRESSION - SELS. 646.12..134.14]
Interattraction

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
(0)
"I met an old friend yesterday, Gril Stanley Smith. I first knew
him in 1950 when he was the director of the Institute for the
Study of Metals at the University of Chicago. It was in his
institute that the first Enrico Fermi atomic pile was assembled,
erected, and operated. Cyril Smith was one of the original
Manhattan Project scientists. For a number of subsequent years
he has been professor of the History of Science at MIT. He is
one of the world's great metallurgists.
"I discussed with him yesterday unique metallurgical techniques
I had experienced in connection with producing my automobiles,
bathrooms, and aeronautical structures. In producing these
prototypes I always had occasion to take on metal craftsmen
called 'hammer men.' The best hammer men have been Polish-
Americans. They inherited their craft as the best of the early
armor makers of Europe. I said to Cyril, 'I don't think any of
those sheet metal workers ever think of what they are doing in
the way you and I would think about what their work does to the
atoms. 1 Cyrils said, You mean "in the ways the atoms accommodate
their work." I said, 'Yes, that's what I should have said.
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
TENSION + COMPRESSION
-
SEC. 646.15

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"The hammer men have learned that they can gather the metal
together, that is hammer it thicker. Anybody can conceive of
hammering metals thinner. Few would think spontaneously of
hammering it thicker. The hammer men do, however, hammer it in
such a way as to bulk it. They can start with a flat sheet of
metal and hammer it thicker as you would knead dough together
after it had been rolled out thin with a rolling pin.
But you
push the dough together horizontally with your hands. You do
not pummel it vertically from above. The skilled sheet metal
hammerers can do just that with metal, which amateurs would
spontaneously assume to be illogical if not impossible.
(f)
(1) We can conceive of heating metal until it becomes
liquid and flows together. Thus the blacksmith's heating of his
horseshoes to a bright red, to a condition just short of melted,
makes it easy for us to think of the derry-red metal as being
in a plastic or semimolten condition which permits the smith to
smite it into any preferred shapes-- thicker or thinner. But
the Polish hammer men hammer cold, hard sheet metal into any shape.
(2) What the Polish hammer men do intuitively without
sensing it realistically is to hit the indestructible atoms"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun 74
TENSION AND COMPRESSION -
JEC, 646.15, .16+.171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"tangentially as might a billiard player 'kiss' the object ball
with his cue ball. Thus does the hammer inadvertently impel
atoms sidewise often to roll atop the next nearest 'spherical'
aggregate of atoms-- spherical because of the electrons'
orbiting combined with the atoms' spinning at so high a rate as
usually to present a dynamically spherical surface.
(8)
(3) I went on to say to Cyril, 'I don't think hammer
men think about their work as bounce-impelling the spherical
atoms around as if they were a bunch of indestructible ball
bearings stuck together magnetically as a consequence of which
the accelerated ball bearings would cleave-roll, to relodge
themselves progressively in certain most economically travelled-to,
closest-packed, internested rearrangements.
(4) Dislodged atoms of the outer layer atoms of the
omniintermagnetized ball bearings would always roll around on one
another to relocate themselves in some closest packing array,
any two mass-interattracted atoms being at least in tangency.
When another dynamical spherical domain atom comes into closest-
packing tangency with the first two the mutual interattractive-
ness interrrolls the three to form a triangle. Three in a"
615
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
TENSION + Compression SEC. 646.17+ 646.18

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
When
"triangle produce a planar' pattern of closest packing.
a fourth ball bearing lodges in the nest formed between and
atop the first three, each of the four balls now touch three
others simultaneously and produce a tetrahedron having a
concave-faceted void within it. In this tetrahedral
(h)
position, with four-dimensional
symmetry of association, they are in circumferential closest
packing. Having no mutual nuclear sphere they are only inter-
circumferentially mass-interattracted and cohered: 1.e., gravity
alone coheres them but gravity is hereby seen experimentally
to be exclusively in circumferential interbonding.
one!
"With further spherical atom additions to the initial tetrahedral
aggregate, the outermost balls tend to roll coherently around
into asymmetrical closest packing collections until they are
once more symmetrically interstabilized with twelve closest
packed around
and as yet ex cizing their exclusively
intercircumferential interattractiveness, bound circumferentially
together by four symmetrically interacting circular bands;
whereby each of the 12 surrounding spheres has four immediately
adjacent circumfefnetial shell spheres interattracting them
circumferentially while there is only one central nuclear ball"
Cite RBF Ltr, to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun 74
646.18+ 646.19)
TENSION COMPRESSION Secs

RBF DEFINITIONS
TENSION +
COMPRESSIAN-
SECS.
646.19
.20
+ .21
Gravity:
"inwardly, i.e. radially, attracting each of them. In this
configuration they form the vector equilibrium, known to Plato
as the cuboctahedron. Here we have clarification of the
Copernican 'nostalgia' or synergetic proclivity of the circum-
ferentially arrayed spheres to associate symmetrically around
the nucleus sphere or the nucleus void which, as either
configuration-- the vector equilibrium or the icosahedron--
rotates dynamically producing a spherical surface. But the
modus operandi of four symmetrically intertriangulated
gravitational hoops (in the case of the vector equilibrium)
and the six (in the icosahedron) are lucidly manifest.
took out the central ball, or if it shrinks in diameter, we
will discover synergetics' jitterbug mod elfshowing that the
twelve circumferential spheres will closest pack circumferent-
ially until each of the twelve circumferantially arrayed balls
is tangent to five surrounding balls and thus altogether form
the Platonic icosahedron.
If we
"Cyril agreed with me that the hammer men probably didn't think
about these properties of atoms. The fact is that the spheres
don't actually touch each other. They are held together only
Bass-interattractively and their electron paths are, of course,
at distances from their atomic nuclei equivalent relatively to
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
TENSION +
COMPRESSION
SEC. 696.211
Gravity:
"that of the distance of the Earth from the Sun as proportioned
to the respective radii of these vastly different sized spheres.
As Cyril said, 'The hammer men can push the atoms only as the
physical laws allow them to be moved.'
(J)
"The reason I mention this hammer man inadvertency is that you
had spoken in your letter about 'hammering barrel hoops' and I
felt that the hammering of barrel hoops introduced the operational
concept of what it is that the only-intuitively-exploratory
hammerer does not see yet, by virtue of which, nature accommodates
his only superficially contrived hammering strategies while all
the time all those atoms are intercohered by gravity-- which the
hammerer associates only with falling objects.
"My book, SYNERGETICS, is committed to conceptual elucidation
of the intertransformative geometrics operative in the
nonoptically-tunable ranges of Universe events. Synergetics
conceptualities always manifest geometrical integrities of
intertransformabilities.
"Up to the twentieth century 'reality' was all that we could,
see, smell, hear, and touch. The vast range of the thus far"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
-

KBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
(k)
"discovered electromagnetic spectrum was first published in 1930.
It included the
frequency bands of all the 92 regenerative
chemical
elements as well as those of x-ray, ultraviolet, infra-
red, radio, the television
broadcasting bands, etc.; with the
discovery of that electromagnetic spectrum we learned experient-
ially that 99.9
percent of reality is invisible to humans.
Almost nothing of the reality of our present life meets the
human eye; wherefore our most important problems are invisible.
Our
problems are almost exclusively metaphysical and can only
be coped with
by scientific competence and intellectual integrity
on
the part of the discovering humans."
Cite RBF Ltr, to Annie Dillard, 12 Jun'74
TENSION + COMPRESSION - SEC 646.21

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity... is the variable interattractiveness of nonmagnetic
bodies, which interattractiveness varies at a second-power rate
inversely proportional to the relative distances intervening
the masses, as those distances vary only at an arithmetical
rate of change."
Cite Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage, 31 May174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is timeless and eternally instant."
-
Citation and context at Universal Integrity, 7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is omnipresent, omniembracing, and omnicollective:
shadowless and awavilinear. Awavilinear means nonwavilinear
or antiwavilinear. Gravity counteracts radiation; it is
progressively and centrally focusing; and it is always
apparently operative in the most economical, i.e.,
radially-contractive, transformation-- the radii being the
shortest distances between a sphere's surface and its
volumetric center; ergo, employing the absolute straight-
nothingness, radial line of direction, which, as such, is
inherently invisible."
Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec. 541.03, 23 Sep 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is tensive, ergo tends to decrease its overall
curvature. The ultimate reduction of curvature is no
curvature.... The tensive tends to arcs of ever greater
radius."
Citation and context at Curvature, 23 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity's omni embracing collectiveness precessionally generates
circumferential surface foldings-- waves (earthquakes)--
consequent to the second-power rate of surface diminution in
respect to the radially-measured, first-power linear rate of
system contraction. Gravity is innocent of wave. Gravity is
innocent ofradial; i.e., linear aberration waves; i.e., gravity
is nonwavilinear. The most economical interterminal relation-
ship is always that with the least angular aberration. Gravity
is the
geodesic most economical-- relationship of events."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 541.06, 23 Sep '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"...Gravity is nonlinear... omniembracing."
Citation and context at Truth, 5 Jun' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity has no shadow. Gravity is uninterferable;
radiation is interferable. Gravity is omnidirectional,
mass interattraction, which, as Newton discovered, is
directly interproportional relative to the respective mass
involved, and varies as the second power relative to the
interproximities of the respective bodies considered: Halving
the distance between any two will fourfold their interaction."
Citation and context at Radiation-Gravitation Sequence (1),
5 Jun'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"When man is so tiny and Earth is so great we can only see
gravity as operating in the perpendicular. We think of
ourselves as individuals with gravity pulling in perpendic-
ulars parallel to one another. But we know that
in actuality radii converge.
We
do not realize that you and I are interattracted because
gravity is so big. The attraction is there but it seems 50
minor we dismiss it as something we call 'aesthetics' or
'love affair'. Gravity seems so vertical."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1005.63, 16 Feb'73
(62)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is circumferential-- the barrel hoop staves trying
to get out."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust, Phila., 22 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is a spherically circumferential contractive force.
The resultant is radially inward, attempting to make the
system
get smaller. The circumferential mass-
interattractive effectivenss has a constant advantage ratio
of 12 to 1 over the radial inward mass attraction."
* Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 18 Oct 72. RBF rewrite.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is matterlessness: the whole integrity of our
Universe."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 22 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Nothing is quite so prominent in a child's life. His mother
is not always around but gravity is always there.
And every
time he tries to stand up-- Boom! Down he goes again."
1
Citation and context at Child Pushes Spoon Off Edge of Table,
16 Jun1/2

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"What holds things together is inherently invisible.
Gravity is inherently invisible. That is why the Universe
The integrity of
is so mysterious: the absolute mystery.
the Universe is invisible.
"But the behaviors of the integrity are
apprehendable;
--
measurable;
--
eternally relible."
Citation and context at Integrity, 25 Jan'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"The gravitational is comprehensively embracing and
circumferentially contractive, ergo advantaged over the
centrally radiational by a 6.28 effective energy advantage;
i.e., a circumference-to-radius vectorial advantage of
contraction versus expansion, certified by the finite closure
of the circumference, ergo, a cumulative series versus the
independent disassociating disintegration of the radii."
-
Lucorporated
i
Citation at Universal Integrity: Principle of, 21 Dec* 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"The difference between the central angles and
surface angles' functionings are identifiable with
radiational and gravitational functionings.
identifies with surface angles.
embracing and is not focusable.
Gravity
Gravity is omni-
Gravity is post effective
in its circumferential coherence."
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. -870, August 1971.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
ft
The electromagnetic frequencies of systems are
sometimes complex but always exist in complementation of
gravitational forces to constitute the prime rational
integer characteristics of physical systems."
- Cite NASA Speech, p. 91 as amplified by RBF at Deer Isle, Me.,
25 August 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"We now have another impressive kind of second-power relation-
ship, the word 'second-power' having something to do with
radials and surfaces. Regarding gravity, Newton discovered a
certain relationship of masses, but unfortunately his relation-
ship is stated in a negative way. He talks about an inverse
ratio. The word inverse ratio makes it very difficult concep-
tually. He talks about not what it is, attraction, i.e. coming
towardness, but about something else, i.e., repulsion, or
raison d'etre of going awayness-- the opposite of what he is
attempting to explain.
"It could have been stated that the gravitational relationship
is in terms of the second power of the relative distance
between the given masses as stated in the terms of the radius
of one of the masses. That is the way we would say it today.
He could have said, quite simply, 'Every time the distance
between the bodies is halved, the attraction is fourfolded.'
"We find that the gravitational law is in terms of the second
power of radius, which terms are convertible into Einstein's"
mass conversion into radiation in terms of the second power
of the radius."
(1)
7 Feb 71
= Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p.241, 11 Jul'62 as rewritten by RBF,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"We would then be able to know where relative mass was, how
much energy and how much quantum were in it; and we would
suddenly see the gravitational state in terms of the second
power and this relative concentration of masses. The gravita-
tional, then, is the contractive quantative of second power
of the relative masses status in quantum or photons-- and the
other one is the Einsteinian one, which is the rate of omni-
expansive surface growth of the radiation.
"We have two main conditions of energy: energy omniradiantly
divergent, and energy omniconvergent-- and we find both of
them in the second power of the radial dimension. We suddenly
find a very neat relationship going on."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p.241, 11 Jul 62 as rewritten by
RBF 7 Feb 71.
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"As man's knowledge of chemical element interactions
as alloys improves
(wherein those atomic proximities are intensified
by symmetrical congruence
wherein the 2nd power mass attractions multiply)
the length of tensile members
relative to given section diameter or given stress,
trends to increasing amplification--
to nfinite length with no section.
Incredible? No!
Every use of gravity
is a use of such sectionless tensioning.
The electrical tension first employed by man
to pull energy through the non-ferrous conductors
and later to close the wireless circuit
was none other than such universally available
sectionless tensioning.
* Cite PREVIEWS, I&I
P. 212
as amplified by RBF 7 Feb 71
Sarasota, Florida.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is a principle of synchronous coordination of
dynamic complexities. Gravity can break a dish carelessly
relinquished to its force. Principles may remain carelessly
or ignorantly unheeded, or uncomprehended, and the dynamic
effects may thus intrude upon man's unrealistic preoccupations
to be misapprehended as 'destruction' or 'chaos.'
(A)
"If, however, gravity is recognized as a principle, and its
behavior and rates are measured, then its enormous force may be put
systematically to work to augment man's as yet meager degree of
conscious advantage over evolutionary process and environment.
Thus great hydroelectric dams as complex products of intellectual
comprehension of principles converted to physical system,
operate under routine guidance of a dozen men to valve this
principle of cosmic force to provide 20 million inanimate
energy slaves to serve an Earth-huddled city of a million
humans.
"This is a puny accomplishment in view of the potentials of
the principle. The principle of gravity takes a little thing
like the minor planet Earth, weighing only 6,000 billion
Cite How to Make Democracy Work, Pp. 1-2, 28 Apr 48 as rewritten
by RBF 7 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
(B)
"tons, on a 93 million-mile tether, and swings it around the
Sun at 68,000 miles per hour, while simultaneously juggling
eight other planets around the Sun, while it swings that minor
star 'Sun' and its nine planets along its group orbit at
44,000 miles per hour as one of 30 billion such star groups
which gravity is zooming around in deft ellipses with the
Milky Way nebula, while simultaneously piloting billions of
these nebulae about the totality. Yet so infinitely comprehen-
sive is principle, that arvity includes capacity for detail
such as attending to the smashing of the cup against the floor
as it is relinquished from the careless fingers."
Cite 'How to Make Democracy Work,' Pp. 1-2, 28 Apr 48 as
rewritten by RBF 7 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"
•
•
A single massive sphere . . . will both
exert and yield attractively with a neighboring
massive sphere."
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH,
$
p. 34, 13 Nov 169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
The moon and the Earth are tensionally
The moon cannot get away from Earth,
cohered by gravity/
yet we can fly an airplane between the centers of gravity
of the Earth and moon without severing their coherence.
Obviously, the celestial bodies enjoy the zero-diameter-to-
great-length tensional relationships."
- Cite GODDESSES, Eat. Review 2Mar68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
". . . 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."
-
Cita HOW LITTLE I KNOW,
2024766
Citation & context at Precession, Oct'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"What we wanted to do in making tension members is to get
longer and longer and less and less section for a given
strength as a reason for increasing the bridges. That curve is
going up very, very rapidly as every metallurgist knows.
However, I saw we were tending towards infinite legth and no
section at all, so I said back in 1927 is that a silly
question thatwe are working towards great length with no
section at all? Of course, in order to be able to see this,
we will have to deal in big patterns of the universe because
these are big patterns that I'm talking about. Let's look
at just the Earth and the Moon, and quite clearly, they are
cohering in tension, beautifully, gravitationally, and yet
you can fly an airplane right through the point, the center
of gravities with no trouble at all. I saw here in the
heavens we were demonstrating over and over again great
lentgh with no section at all. This always seems to be
true in the microscope-- with electrons and protons and all
the atomic behavior. Man is excluded from thinking the
way the universe does-- this very efficient way of doing
the big cohering tension, and having only local islands of
compression.
"
Cite LEDGEMENT Lab, 15 Oct 164, pp. 31-32

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity is generalized tension.
Citation and context at Generalization: Second Degree, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"As man's knowledge of chemical interaction improves
the length of tensile members relative to given section
diameter or given stress, tends to increasing amplification--
to infinite length with no section. Incredible: No! Every
use of gravity is a use of such sectionless tensioning.
The electrical tension first employed by man to pull energy
through the nonferrous conductors, and later to close the
wireless circuit, was none other than such universally
available sectionless tension."
225
Cite PREVIEWS, I&I, p.212, 1 Apr149

Gravity & Bonding:
See Mass Attraction
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
"Gravity cannot be focused; it is circumferential
contraction."
Cite RBF to JA
Sarasota, Florida
7 February 1971

Gravity & Bonding:
See Gravity (j)
Mass Attraction 6 Mar 73
Co-orbiting of Earth & Moon around Sun, Apr171
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity: Circumferential Leverage:
"The principle of leverage is employed in shears, nutcrackers,
and pliers. The longer the lever arms, the more powerful the
pressure applied between the internal central angles of the
nutcracker's lever arms. We can make an illuminating model of
our planet Earth if we think of it as a spherical bundle of
nutcrackers with all their fulcrums at the center of the sphere
and all the radii of the aphere acting as the lever arms of the
pincers. The whole bunch of pincers have a common universal
fulcrum at the common center. The farther out we go on the
radial lever arms, the less effort is required to squeeze the
ends together to exert nutcracking pressure at the center. If
we go around the sphere-embracing circumference progressively
tying up the ends of the levers together, we find that it takes
very little, local, surface effort tensively between any two
surface points to build up excruciatingly powerful, central-
compression conditions. The bigger the model, the easier it
is to tie it up; ever more delicate an exterior web will hold
it together.
-
(1)
Cite HBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1051.50, 9 Jan'74

kbF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
Circumferential Leverage:
(2)
"Look at the relative distance of the atom and its outside
electron orbit. The atom's electron field may be equivalent to
our magnetic field around this Earth. This elucidates the
electromagnetic field of Earth as a world-around, circumfer-
ential-embracement field operating ephemerally on the outer ends
of 4,000-mile-long levers.
"Identifying the surface-angle chordings with gravity, we
comprehend why it is that as we get deeper and deeper, we see
that the increasing gravitational-compression effect is due to
the circumferential containment. The external containment web
is always getting hold of the outermost ends of the centrally
pinching levers. With this leverage effect, the farther out
you go, the more advantage you have and the more powerful work
you can do with that lever. Leverage effectiveness increases
toward the center, ergo the increasing pressure that we identify
with gravity. But it has this circumferential aspect.
Cite BF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 1051.51 and
1051.52, 9 Jan 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity:
Circumferential Leverage:
(3)
"There is a tendency to misinterpret the increasing pressures
occurring inwardly of Earth as 'deadweight,' i.e., only as a
radiationally-inward force, but it must be realized that the
'weight' is omnidirectional compression. The gravitational
intermass-attraction is progressively augmented, as we go radially
outward, by the circumferential mass-interattraction of the
relative abundance of elemental atoms, which increases at the
second-power rate of the radial-distance outwardly from the
Earth's center; and as the pressures bring about ever closer
presence of the atoms to one another, there is also an addition-
al second-power exponential gain which results in 2 varying
as proximity² P4, where P = relative compressive force. The
surface chordal angle magnitudes multiplied by radius to the
second power produce the relative magnitude of network leverage-
advantage resulting in the relative increase in pressure as you
go inward toward Earth's center. This is exciting because we
now comprehend that gravity is a circumferentially operative
force and not a radial force, with precession bringing about
the 90-degreeness.
=
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1051.53, 9 Jan'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity: Circumferential Leverage:
"Remembering Newton's law of gravity, wherein the relative
interattractions are directly proportional to the product of
the masses increased by the second power of the distances
between the respective mass centers, we realize that doubling
the size of a sphere brings about an eightfold multiplication
of the circumferential mass-interattraction. In effect, we
have a network of chordal cables tensively intertriangulating
the progressively outmost ends of the spherical nutcracker
bundle with circumferential turnbuckles continually tightening
the tensional surface-triangulated network. This means that
the pressures being exerted internally are proportional to the
fourth power of the relative radial depth inward of Earth's
surface.
"The surface-embracement leverage-advantage of the sphere
operating at the fourth power can always overmatch the total
volumetric gaining rate as only the third power of radial
(frequency), linear gain, as the second-power interproximity
attractiveness is further multiplied by the second-power,
radial-lever-arm, advantage gains."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 1051.54 and
1051.55, 9 Jan '74
(4)

Gravity Implosion:
See Implosion, 19 Dec'71; 8 Apr'75

Gravity-Importing:
See Importing, 25 Sep*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity Operates Circumferentially:
"
..
.But the point is that the bands of a barre17 are finite:
they come back upon themselves and they embrace. You have to
return on to yourself to embrace. Gravity operates then by
embracement. The larger the phenomenon that it embraces, the more
leverage effect it has because you simply tighten the screws and
the bands at the ends of the lever. This is why the pressures
increase as you go into the Earth; they continually increase the
further in you go due to the leverage effect of the embracement."
-
Citation & context at Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (A),
8 Jun 75

Gravity Operates Circumferentially:
See Embracement: Embracing
(1)

Gravity Operates Circumferentially:
See Gravitational Constant (1)
Gravity (h) (1); 18 Oct 72'
Hexagonal Vector Pattern, 8 May '72
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (A)*
(2)

Gravity Come to Maximum Concentration and Becomes Madiation:
See Limit Point, 9 Jun 72
Heaven & Heil, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gravity: Speed Of:
"This the expanding Universe concept may be the universal
effect of the speed of gravity, whose force (possibly in
order to eternally cohere Universe) is, as is often found
experimentally, always just a fraction greater than the
cosmic speed of inherently disintegrative radiation. (See
Sec. 231.)
"This conceptioning becomes lucid if one is familiar with
the vector equilibria and their identity with isotropism,
which spontaneously accommodates coexpansion or contraction
independent of any Universe center, every nuclear point
within the system being a Universe center, with all its
12 most immediate neighbors always being equidistant and
bearing the the same toal of central-angle magnitudes
from one another,* [I.e., 60 degrees. The nucleus of a
square would have a completely different distance to its
corners than the corners would have to each other 7 with
the circumferentially closed, embracing vector forces always
more effective than their equal and opposite radial vectors'
noncooperative, open-ended, disintegrative forces."
(Sec. 780.24)
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 780.24; RBF rewrite; 21 Oct 72

Gravity as Syntropy:
See Instant Universe, (1)(2)

Gravity: Gravitational:
See Black Holes
Center of Gravity
Child Pushes Spoon Off Edge of Table
Energetic Functions
Importing
Kass Attraction
Radiation-gravitation
Tidal
Universal Integrity
Unpeel the Gravitationals
Coming Towardness:
No Center of Gravity
Coming Together Phase
Electromagnetics vs. Gravity
Conservation of Gravity
Newton's First Law of Motion: RBF Restatement Of
(1)

Gravity: Gravitational:
See Chemical Bonds, (1) (2)
Child Pushes Spoon offf Edge of Table, 16 Jun 72°;
15 Jun 74
Coherence, 10 Oct 63.
Conceptual Physics, (2)
Critical Proximity,
Jun' 71
Cube: Diagonal Or, (2)
Curvature, 23 Sep' 73*
Energetic Words, 1 Jul'62
Energy, Apr'68
Generalization:
Second Degree, 1959*
Integrity, 25 Jan' 72*
Physical Synergy, Jan' 72
Point: Inbound Point, 23 Sep' 73
Precession, (1); Oct' 66*
Prehending, 19 Dec' 74
Push-pull, 28 Mar' 77
Reverse Atomics, 10 Sep' 74
Skiing, 20 Oct 72
Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct' 71
Synergy, 31 Jan'75
(2A)

Gravity: Gravitational:
See Tripod, 27 May175
Truth, 5 Jun' 73*
Universal Integrity, 7 Nov* 73*
Universal Integrity: Principle Of, 21 Dec* 71*
(2B)

Gravity: Gravitational:
See Gravitational Constant
Gravitational Field
Gravitational Menurability
Gravitational System Zone
Gravity & Bonding
Gravity Operates Circumferentially
Gravity Comes to Maximum Concentration add Becomes
Radiation
Gravity as Syntropy
Gravity Implosion
Gravity = Importing
Gravitational Continuum
Gravity: Speed Of
Gravitation: Inverse Square Law Of
31
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Great Circle:
"Every great circle plane is inherently two spherical
segment tetrahedra of zero altitude, base-to-base."
->
Cite RBF correction to Synergetics galley at Sec. 1106,25,
Santa Monica, CA, 12 Jan'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Great Circle:
"Every great circle always intercepts any other great circle
twice, the interception points always being 180-degree polar
opposites."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 703.13, 10 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Great Circle:
"Events are forced to bounce in spherically contained
circles because they seek the largest possible interior
circumference patterns. All great circles cross each
other twice. Three or more noncongruent great circles
are automatically inter-self-triangulating in their
repetitive searching for the 'most comfortable' interactions
which always resolve their three-way-great-circle pattern-
ing into regular spherical icosahedra, octahedra, or
tetrahedra."
Citation and context at Three-way Great Circling: Three-
Way Grid, 8 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Great Circles:
...Every great circle twice meets and crosses the path
of every other great circle, of the infinity of great circles,
while lesser and parallel circles need never meet another
lesser circle. Only great circles are biologically
regenerative."
-Cite Motion Economics, p. 56; May'44

Great-circle Chord Edges:
See Tetrahedron, (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Great Circle Subdivisions of Spherical Unity:
"Their inwardly and outwardly pulsating and rotating 'teeth'
Consist of multifrequenced circumferential and radial waves
Of 56 great circle subdivisions of spherical unity,
Often nonmeshing with other local systems."
-
Citation and context at Gears: Spherical Gears, Kay' 72

Great Circle Subdivisions:
See Spherical Grid

Great Circles: Excess of One Great Circle over Edge Vectors
In VE & Icosa:
See Gravitational Constant, (1)(2)

Great Circles: 15 Great Circles:
See Basic Triangle:
Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD
Triangles, 16 Dec'73
Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron,
13 Apri 77
18

RBF DEFINITIONS
Great-circle Spinnable Symmetries:
Hierarchy of:
"As you go from one sphere-foldable great-circle set to
another in the hierarchy of spinnable symmetries (the
3-, 4-, 6-, 12-sets of the vector equilibrium's 25-great-
circle group and the 6-, 10-, 15-sets of the icosahedron's
31-great-circle group), the central angles of one often
become the surface angles of the next-higher-numbered, more
complex, great-circle set while simultaneously some (but not
all) of the surface angles become the respective next sphere's
central angles. A triangle on the surface of the icosahedron
folds itself up, becomes a tetrahedron, and plunges deeply
down into the congruent central angles' void of the
icosahedron (see section 905.47).”
Cite RBF remwite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 902.31, 20 Dec '73

Great Circles:
See Circumferential Field
Foldability of Great Circles
Geodesic
Constant Zenith Projection
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on
the Surface of a Sphere
Symmetry: Seven Axes Of
Three-way Great Circling:
Three-way Grid
Vector Equilibrium: Great Circles Of
Icosahedron: Great Circles Of
Spherical Grid
Triacontrahedron:
Great Circles Of
(1)

Great Circles:
See Infinity (1)
Sphere, Apr 49
(2)

80
Great Design: The:
See A Priori Great Design
Eternal designing Capability
Greater Understanding
Science: The Great Design
Supreme Intellect
Universal Mind
Competence: A Knowing Competence Greater than
That of Humans
God
Cosmic Wisdom
(1)

Great Design: The:
See Christ, 7 Oct 71
Thinking
(3)
Words & Coping, 7 Nov* 75
Universe is Technology, (2)
(2)

Great Dipper:
See Big Dipper

Great Eternal Minda
See A Priori Great Design
Science: The Great Design
Spreme Intellect
Synergetic Integral
Transcendental
Universal Mind

RBF DEFINITIONS
Greater Intellect:
"When I first determined that I should do my own thinking I
decided I was going to go entirely on the basis of experi-
mental evidence. And that kind of evidence is a very large
resource as I found that we can also draw on the experiences
of our friends; through our reliable friends we can accent
much of the data of science as part of our experience
inventory.
"I use the word belief to describe men accepting the explana-
tions of physical phenomena without experimental evidence to
confirm them. So I gave up all my beliefs--clearing my deck
of any of them.
"But possibly the majority of human beings are deeply moved
by the knowledge of some greater power operative in our
Universe.... You do have experiences that force you to assume
that a greater intellect is operating than that of humans.
I am forced to conclude that we do.
"Design is related to intellect: as a deliberate arrangement"
- Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77
(1)

kBF DEFINITIONS
Greater Intellect:
(2)
"of parts and their interaugmentation of arrangements which
are discoverable only by mind. (RBF explains the lever.)
"It is the mathematical statements of principles that permit
environmental transforming. The observation of mathematical
ratio-ing is purely intellectual in a Universe where nothing
ever fails to work--with that great design of the interaccommo-
dation of principles. As we look at the operation of all
the macro-micro laws in Universe we are o'erwhelmed by the
evidence of a greater intellect to which we should be the
servant. Human beings should have no glory--all the glories
are to this intellect: it does not need any proselyting or
religion it is the Universe. I had to let you know how
I feel.'
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA; 22 Jun 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Great Intellect:
"All of which organic design conception
May be that of a great intellect
Which is inventing Universe progressively
Evolving mathematically elegant
Integral equations
For each conceivable challenge
Including the invention
You and me."
Citation and Context at Sensorial Identification of Reality,
(2), May 172

Great Intellect: Greater Intellect:
See Supreme Intellect
Eternal Designing Capability
Science: The Great Design
Cosmic Intelligence
God
Transcendental
(1)

Great Intellect: Greater Intellect:
See Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense, (3)
Population Sequence,
"(8)"
Sensorial Identification of Reality, May' 72
Spaceship, (^)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (15)
(2)

Great Pirates:
See Pirates: Great Pirates

Greater Understanding:
See kan as a Function of Universe, Jun'69

Greek Geometry:
See Ghostly Greek Geometry

Greek Temple:
See Redundancy:
Reduction of, 22 Apr171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Grid:
"A pattern of intersecting members, lines or axes;
usually intersecting great circles forming patterns made
up of equilateral triangles, diamonds, or hexagons."
Cite Patent No. 2 682, 235, June 29, 1954
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Grid Basis:
Multipolygonality of Great Circle Grids:
"It is a matter of Dymaxion cartographic strategy that:
the greater the number of great circle polygonal zones
employed in the transformation, the less the spherical
excess to be subsidingly concentrated within each zonal
surface, and therefore the less the residual distortion
distributed to each of the planar mosaid aspects of the
whole world's reassembled surface when arrayed in one
continuous flat 'skin. **
The projective transformation "represents the only method
by which the whole world data can be transferred from the
spherical to the planar within an all great circle grid
triangularly, quadrangularly, multipolygonally or all two
or three together."
"Because of a hemisphere's polar symmetry to its opposite
polar hemisphere the total inventory of great circle grid
triangles in the comprehensive world grid is always even
in number, therefore adjacent triangles may always be
associated in total or partial quadrangular pattern-phases
without increase in vertex count."
Cite Undated Sheet: THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Grid Basis: Spherical Triangular Grid Bases:
The projective transformation "consists of great circle
bounded triangles of any angular magnitude which can transform
the comprehensive geographical data of the world from
spherical to planar by employment of either the spherical
tetrahedron, spherical cube, spherical octahedron, or
spherical vector equilibrium and its alternate, the
icosahedron, of any development of these.
It is a
discovery of synergetics that there are no other spherical
triangular grid bases other than the above."
Cite Undated Sheet: DMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

Grid:
Crisscross, Right-angle Grid in Civil & Agrarian Law:
See Air Space, May'65

Grid: Omni-Earth-triangulated, One-mile-apart, Grid Vertexes:
See Twehty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial
Sphere, (2)

Grid:
See Dynamic Frame of Reference
General Systems Grid
Local Squareness
Rectilinear Grid Systems
Spherical Grid
Tensegrity Geodesic Grid:
Three-way Great Circling:
Two-way Rectilinear Grid
World Power Grid
Three-way Weaving
Two-way Crisscross
Triangle & Hexagon Grid
Coordinate System
Matrix
Three-way Grid
Three-way Grid
(1)

Grid Gridding:
See Vector Equilibrium: Great Circles Of, (4)
Hyperbolic Paraboloid, 14 May'75
(2)

Gross Communication:
See Communications Hierarchy, (1)

REF DEFINITIONS
Gross World Product Sequence:
(1)
"The capital worth in tools and other resources of all the
nations of the Earth in 1972 is... estimated to be 75 trillion
U.S. dollars, which last year yielded the annual world income
of $3.6 trillion. Heartbeat magnitudes give us an idea of the
nonsense characterizing the reflexing of human brains when
talking 'dollars'. As the $75 trillion worth of the world's
organized wealth-regenerating capacity is just about the same
number as the number of heartbeats ago of the earliest known
humans on Earth-- 2.5 million years ago-- it suggest that
during each one-second heartbeat of that time humans were
making and 'saving' $1 net.
"They were, in fact, saving memories of experiences, which
ever multiply, from which accumulate metaphysical know-how that
has never been entered into the ledgers of world-wealth
accounting. Those pages are only preoccupied with sovereignty-
guaranteed physical-proprty equities of socialist or capitalist
governments and the economic enterprises that they respectively
foster. GNP stands for gross national product annually.
stands for gross world product annually, the GWP of 1972
estimated at $3.6 trillion. The world's population of 1972
was 3-2/3 billion humans. A trillion is 1000 billion;"
GWP
- Cite HEARTBEATS AND ILLIONS, World lag., 13 Ear 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gross World Product Sequence:
(2)
"therefore, the worlds 1972 CWP of $3.6 trillion meant an
average income for each world human of $1000. However, the
production was not evenly distributed, as is well known, and
half the world's people averaged an income of $2000 each,
while the other half averaged $100 each. In 1810, just before
industrialization began in the United States, the annual
individual income was less than $100-annual-income-purchasing
capability of the 1972 world's indistrial as-yet-have-nots.
The difference is the spread of the new method of survival by
industrial rather than by farm and craft means. The curve of
this rising number of highly advantaged humans shows less than
1 per cent benefited haves as of 1900, 4 per cent haves as of
the entry into World War I, and 20 per cent haves as of entry
into World War II. In 1972 we went through the fifty percent
haveness point. Nineteen hundred and seventy-three opens the
new chapter of human history wherein, for the first time, the
majority of humanity are haves. For the 2.5 million years of
man's known presence on Earth, a majority of 99 percent were
have-nots subsisting at or below the living standards of the
half of humanity who in 1972 received only $100 of the gross
world product. Nineteen hundred and seventy-two was history's"
Cite HEARTBEATS AND ILLIONS, World Mag., 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gross World Product Sequence:
(3)
"most critical year, when the sudden avalanche of new affluence
left the not-as-yet industrialized have-nots dramatically
dismayed by the differences in human fortune.
"Up to 1972 the ever-increasing irritation of the majority of
human have-nots continually multiplied the probability of
world revolution. Up to 1972 this could have brought holocaust
so devastating as to preclude the farther existence of of any
There
human beings on our planet at any standard of living.
is now the possibility that the majority of humans who are now
haves will realize increasingly that they cannot enjoy their
haveness while the dismay and irritability of the have-nots
persist. The haves will come to understand that it is now
highly feasible for the first time in history to accelerate
the realization of 100 per cent haveness-- this realization to
be reached at the earliest by 1985, a time when the majority
of all present humanity will still be alive and young enough
to enjoy the new concept-- by then the established norm--
of human beings as cosmically designed to be successful in
the Universe, even as are the chemical elements and the princi-
ples of radiation and gravity."
Cite HEARTBEATS AND ILLIONS World Mag., 13 Far'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gross World Product Sequence:
"At the present time the $200 billion going for armaments of
all the great powers of the Earth is a little more than goes
to feed the 1.8 billion $100-a-year have-nots.
(4)
"Allowing three years for this to make sense and get going, it
also happens to be true that the same $22 billion annually'
approprriated by world governments for miltary use will
purchase the 40 million new 35000 homes required annually
during each of the next 25 years until A.D. 2000 if we are
to accommodate those now ill-housed as well as the interim
world population increase."
->
Cite HEARTBEATS AND ILLIONS, World Mag., 13 Mar 73

Group Advantage Gains:
See Loss: Discovery Through Loss, 14 Dec'73

Group Coordination:
See Flight: Fixed Formation Flight
(1)

Group Coordination:
See Photon, 26 Sep'73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Group Design:
Q.
REF:
Can groups design?
"Design is an individual function, but it can be
coordinated. Design synergetics enters in because
the object of design is not just the object."
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

R BESITIONS
Group Memory:
See Continuous Man
Womb Population
Group Womb
(1)

Group Memory:
See Thinking, 1960
(2)

Group Starter:
See Social-industrial Relay, 1 Apr'49

Group Womb:
See Womb of Permitted Ignorance, 10 Dec 73

Group: Groupings:
See Individual & Group Principle
Star Events
Crowd-reflexing
(1)

Group: Groupings:
See Constellar, May' 71
Communications Hierarchy, (2)
(2)

Group: Groupinga:
See Group Advantage Gains
Group Coordination
Group Design
Group Memory
Group Starter
Group Womb
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Grow-a-dome:
Then you
"The idea of the grow-a-dome is one that I've had around
for many, many years. The idea is to plant and grow a
geodesic trellis dome of interwoven live bamboo.
let it get overgrown with rather hardy vines like wisteria
so that it will survive on the bamboo framework even if
the original bamboo dies. And on the inside you just put a
dacron tent lining--just as in any of the standard trade-
fair domes. . . This would be very suitable throughout
southeast Asia where they might function also like hostels,
where people could put up their own tents inside the grow-
a-dome."
.
Cite RBF to EJA, by telephone from Kensington Motel,
Santa Monica, CA; 1 Dec 76

Growing Up:
See Metabolic, 1963

Grownups:
Older Generation
(1)

Grownups:
See Education: Evolutionary Touchdowns, Kay165
Intuition Sequence, (6)
Morley Poem, 10 Oct 63
Television: Third Parent, May'65
(2)

185
RBF DEFINITIONS
Growthability:
"You cannot have time without growthability which implicitly
has a nucleus from which to grow. We would not have discovered
the frequency, or time, dimension, had we not explored the
expansiveness-contractiveness and radiational-gravitational
behavior of nuclei in pure metaphysical sizeless and timeless
principle."
Citation and context at Time (1), 6 Mar '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Growth:
"A cone is simply a tetrahedron being rotated.
Omnidirectional growth-- which means all life--
can only be accommodated by tetrahedron."
Eit, Bear Island, 25-August 1971.
Citation at Tetrahedron; 25 Adg171
TETRAHEDRON SEC 621.031

Growth & Decay:
See Nuclear Pattern of Growth & Decay

Growth Rate: Modular Growth:
See Circumferential Modular Frequency Growth
External Point Growth Rate
Linear Becomes the Second-power Rate of Growth
Radial Wave Modular Growth
Shell Growth Rate
Radial-circumferential Modular Growth
(1)

Growth Rate: Modular Growth:
See Synergetic Hierarchy, Oct 75
(2)

Growth: Growing:
See Dimensional Growth
Emotion as Essential to Growth
Limits to Growth
Omnidirectional Growth
Trees: InvisibleGrowth of Trees
Complementarity of Growth and Aging
De-grown
Turtle Done
Tetrahedral Growth
Vector Equilibrium Growth
1
(1)

Growth: Growing:
See Culture, 1 Feb'75
Emotion, 1938
Lags, (1)
Minimum Limit Case, 12 May'75
Rationalization Sequence, (1)
Servoma echanism, 15 May 75
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov 71
Universe, 16 Jun 72
Regenerativity, 17 Jan '75
Ice, 29 Apr 77
(2)

Guage: Guages:
See Johansen Guages

Guanine:
See DNA-RNA

Guerilla:
See Psycho-guerilla

RBF DEFINITIONS
Guess vs. Believe:
"I am guessing.
I don't have a 'believe' here. I do guess
as a consequence of trends that I observe, that we will always
have a limited function, that we are meant to be a local
function and not the comprehensive function."
(Larger context at Local vs. Comprehensive (1).)
Cite tape transcript, p.15; RBF to B. Brooks, 30 Apr 74

Guess-Improvise:
See Glimpse-discover
(1)

Guess-improvise:
See General Systems Theory,
(B)
(2)

Guess: Guess on :
See Excluded Answer Resources, Oct'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Guinea Pig:
Q.
RBF:
"Could you elaborate on your ethics of facilitation?"
"I am a guinea pig undertaking a world program.
I don't invite negatives or barriers or political and banking
games. The young architects wanted to support me at their
meeting in Cuba but McGeorge Bundy wouldn't let me attend....
I do not operate by trickery. If I am doing
the right
thing, at the right time evolution will support me. I try to
make decisions on the basis of what is right for humanity.
"
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA:
22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Guinea Pig:
"I consider myself my own private guinea pig."
Citation and context at Average Man (1), 16 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Guinea Pig:
"I'm the only really important guinea pig I have."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 27 Apri71

Guinea Pigi
See Average Man (1) *
Fuller, R.B: What I Am Trying To Do, 8 Jan'66
Newton vs. Einstein (1)

Gulf Stream:
See Radiation Sequence, (2)

Gull Flying:
See Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (1)

Gull: Gulla:
See Sea Gulls

Gun:
See Machine Gun

Guppy:
See Rowing Needles (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gurdjieff:
"I knew Gurdjieff quite well. I was anything but a Gurdjieffian
disciple, but I knew a great deal of my friends who before
they
went on to Alcoholics Anonymous went on to Gurdjieff
and he
He would open up his daily
made it fairly comfortable for them.
sessions with them by 33 toasts to all the types of idiots, and
by this time everbody was pretty well plastered and then they'd
He had beautiful
expressions.
go to work writing his life history.
Shovelling out the manure' and so forth. And very sort of
easily appealing, talking about the different centers
of
man
and so on. I think too well of the voodoo people
to really
call a Gurdjieffian one of them."
Cite RBF interview by Colin Moorcraft in "Friends," (London),
14 Apr 70. "On his way to Oxford he chatted nonstop about
his ideas
and actions to a
carriage full
of
unsuspecting travellers, including myself."-- C.M.

Gurdjieff:
See Artist: Histrionics, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gusset:
*Since cubes make such poor structures, the only way that
men are able to stabilize the cubical buildings they do
build is by going to the corners where the members come
together at 90 degrees and putting in little triangular
gusset-plate reinforcings. Sometimes this vertexial
triangulation of quadrangular buildings is done with a
whole lot of nails, but in a big steel building it is
done by putting in triangular patterns by riveting or
welding in the gusseting. The triangular steel gussets
at the corners of interstices of steel structures must
withstand the prying action of the lever arm of the full
length of the beam to which each gusset is attached. The
builders are able to make the building 'stand' because of
the excessive use of steel and massive inertia but not
because the building is really well designed."
(1)
Cite RBF Conceptuality of FundamentalStructures, Ed. Kepes.,
1965, p. 82.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gusset:
"If we draw a line diagonally from corner to corner on
each of the six faces of a cube, we find that these six
lines turn out to be the outlines of a tetrahedron. These
hidden tetrahedra in 'solid' cubes make the cube stand up.
Let us now reconsider the triangular gusset plates in the
corners of the cubical buildings of steel, fighting the
long lever beams attached to them. Quite clearly, if we
made the triangular gusset plates a little larger they would
be more effective in opposing the beam's leverage against
them. If we increase the size of the gusset triangles
progressively they ultimately become the diagonals of the
quadrangular openings of the buildings and correspond to the
six edges of the tetrahedra hidden in the cubical or
quadrangular building scheme"
(2)
-
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. by Kepes,
1965. Pp. 82-84.

Cusset:
See Stabilized Cube, 9 Nov' 73

REXT CITATIONS
Gymnasium:
Hyper, World Mag., 10 Apr 73
100

Gyrate:
See Lasso, 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Gyroscope:
"...Minimum-angular-error-maintaining devices, such as
gyroscopes..."
--
Citation & context at Feedback, 7 Nov 75

TEXT CITATIONS
Gyroscope:
"Sperry's Spinning Wheel," FORTUNE, May'40, pp. 57-60, Vol. III, No.
-
RBF edited.
401.05
1005.11
1009.60 footnote
1009.80-1009.98

Gyro: Gyrocompass: Gyroscope:
See Nuclear Gyro
(1)

Gyroscope: Gyrocompass: Gyro:
See Eccentricity,
7 Feb'71
Precession, 13 Nov 69
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (2)
Feedback, 7 Nov*75*
(2)