
P

RBF DEFINITIONS
Package:
**Package is a thing word and I don't think things; I think
verbs. I keep housecleaning my language-- but, there, 'house'
is a bad word too. In my spontaneous reflexes I often use
reflex thing words. I apologize.
P
-Cite RBF videataping in Philadelphia, PA., 1 Feb 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Package:
"We package our foods coming inbound: Why don't we package
When
them going outbound? It's just exactly as easy.
nature takes so much trouble to separate liquids and solida
it is preposterous to put them together again."
Citation & context at Wichita House, (1)(2), 31 Jan '75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Package:
*Radiation is always packaged... All the quanta are local-
system, center-of-event activity, focal points-- fractionations
of the whole point: what are minimally, ergo most
economically
packaged, and expanded outwardly and omnidiametrically as
three-central-angle-defined tetrahedra.
* Citation and context at Integrity of Universe, 23 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Package:
"In the quantum and wave phenomena we deal with individual
packages. We do not have continuous surfaces. In synergetics
we find the familiar practice of second powering displaying
a congruence with the points, or little separate energy
packages of the shell arrays. Electromagnetic frequencies
of systems are sometimes complex, but they always exist in
complementation of gravitational forces and together provide
prime rational integer characteristics in all physical
systems. Little energy actions, little separate stars:
this is what we mean by quantum. Synergetics provides
geometrical conceptuality in respect to energy quanta."
[31]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 964., 17 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Package:
"... Angular accelerations are in finite package impelments
which are chordal (not Arca)..."
Citation and context at Hexagon, Nov' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Packaged Concept:
"
Experience is often a packaged concept.
Such packages
consist of complexedly interrelated and not as-yet
differentially analyzed phenomena which, as initially unit
cognitions, are potentially re-experienciable."
Citation and context at Brain and Rose, 3 Jun'72

Packaged Word:
See Conceptuality, 1965
Earth, 1965
Equanimity Model, 26 May172
Point, 19 Feb '72; 1 Apr 72
Spherical Triangle Sequence, (c)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Packaged:
*Each experience begins and ends; ergo is finite. Because
our apprehending is packaged, both physically and metaphysically,
into time increments of alternate awakeness and asleepness as
well as into separate finite conceptions such as the discrete
energy quanta and the atomic nucleus components of the
fundamental physical discontinuity, all experiences are finite."
-
Citation & context at Universe (p.62), 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Packaged:
"It is the nature of all of our experiences that they begin
and end. They are packaged. For instance, we see in 60
separate picture frames per second, as in a moving-picture
continuity. Each frame is a finite increment. Our brain's
that it gives a sense of
to our only-subconsciously
packaged seeing. We wake up and go to sleep."
afterimage lag is so Powercu
absolute eccentricity
NASA Speech, pr33, Jun166
Citation and context at Finite, Jun'66

Package:
See Container
Discontinuity
Discrete
Energy Package
Finite Package
Photon
Quantum
Vector Equilibrium Package
Periodic Experience
Terminal
Outbound Packaging
(1)

Package: Packaged:
See Centers of Energy Rebirth, 16 Nov 172
Finite, Jun'66**
Hexagon, Nov 71*
In, 1 Jun 71
Integrity of Universe,
Metaphysics, 2 Jul 62'
23 Sep'73*
Point: Outbound Point, 23 Sep'73
Polyhedron, 20 Feb 73
Powering (B)
Rose, 3 Jun 72*
Thinkability:
Thinking (2)
(2)
Thinkable System Takeout, 16 Jun'72
Universe (p.62) 1969
Dwelling Service Industry (B) (D)
Scenario, 1 Feb 75
Wichita House, (1) (2)*
Dome House Grand Strategy:
1927-1977, (2)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1)

Packet:
See Autonomous Living Technology Packet

Paddle:
See Precession, (II)

Pain:
See Good & Evil Sequence, (2)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1)

PAIRED CONCEPTS: CHECKLIST
See Aesthetics & Intuition*
Annihilation & Conservation*
Annihilation & Synergy
Antipriorities & Priorities*
Apprehending & Comprehending
Articulated & Unarticulated
Articulating & Observing*
Aesthetics & Integrity
Angle & Frequency
Action & Thought*
Artifact & Grand Strategy
Always & Only
Away & Ago
*Indexed under other formulation
(A)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Boast & Fear
Bias: Fear & Political Bias*
Bonding & Degrees of Freedom*
Black Holes & Synergetics
Behavior & Environment
* Indexed under other formulation
(B)

Paired Concepts:
Checklist:
See Circuit & Noncircuit
Comprehending & Apprehending*
Connections & Relatedness
Critical Proximity & Orbital Escape*
Conservation & Annihilation
Complementary & Reciprocal
Consciousness & Time*
Climate & Intellect
Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity
Convergence & Nonconvergence
Cold & Vacuum
Cognition & Time*
Coming Apart & Holding Together
Conceptuality & Space
Congruence & Incongruence
Complex Universe & Human Beings*
* Indexed under other formulation
(C)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Discovery & Loss
Domain & Quantum
Discontinuity & Energy Flow*
Degrees of Freedom & Bonding
Decay & Growth*
*Cited under other formulation
(D)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Energy & Number
Escape: Orbital Escape & Critical Proximity*
Experiences & Principles
Energy & Information
Energy & Intellect
Energy & Time
Elliptical Orbits & Otherness Restraints*
Energy Flow & Discontinuity
Embracement & Nucleus*
Energy & Volume
Energy & Thought*
Eventings & Sensings*
Environment & Behavior*
Everywhere & Everywhen
* Indexed under other formulation
(E)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Fear & Longing
Fear & Political Bias
Figures & Words
Fear & Boast*
Frequency & Mass*
Frequency & Angle*
Frequency & Gravity
Frequency & Magnitude
Frequency & Wave
*Indexed under other formulation
(F)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Geometry & Number
Gravity & Frequency*
Growth & Decay
Grand Strategy & Artifact*
Generalists & Specialists
* Indexed under other formulation
(G)

Paired Concepts:
See Human Mind & Physical Evolution
Holding Together & Coming Apart
Human Beings & Hard Machinery
Human Beings & Complex Universe
(H)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Information & Energy*
Intellect & Energy*
Intellect & Climate*
Intuition & Aesthetics
Intellect & Physical Universe*
Integrity & Aesthetics*
Islanded Radiation & Tensional Constancy
Incongruence & Congruence*
Inescapable & Only*
*Indexed under other formulation
(I)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Know-how, Export Of & Transnational Capitalism*
* Indexed under other formulation
(K)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Longing & Fear*
Loss & Discovery*
Local Continuity & Cosmic Discontinuity*
Love & Truth*
Line & Nonline
*Indexed under other formulation
(L)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Mechanics & Structure*
Mass & Frequency
Magnitude & Frequency*
*Indexed under other formulation
(K)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Noncircuit & Circuit*
Nonself & Solf*
Number & Energy*
Now & Self*
Nontruth & Truth
Nonconvergence & Divergence*
Number & Geometry*
Nonline & Line*
Nucles & Embracement
* Indexed under other formulation
(N)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Orbital Escape & Critical Proximity
Otherness Restraints & Elliptical Orbite
Otherness & Self*
Observing & Articulating
Only & Always*
Only and Inescapable
Indexed under other formulation
(0)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Proximity & Remoteness
Proximity: Orbital Escape & Critical Proximity*
Political Bias & Fear*
Principles & Experience*
Priorities & Antipriorities
Physical Evolution & Human Mind*
Physical Universe & Intellect*
Principle & Resource*
*Indexed under other formulation
(P)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Quantum & Domain*
* Indexed under other formulation
(Q)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Remoteness & Proximity*
Relatedness & Connections*
Reciprocal & Complementary*
Review & View*
Rate & Terminal
Reinvestable Time & Survival Needs
Resource & Principle
* Indexed under other formulation
(R)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Self & Nonself
Synergy & Annihilation*
Self & Unity*
Structure & Mechanica
Syntropy & Time
Self & Otherness
Self-now
Surface-volume*
System & Zero*
Spheres & Vertexes
Structural Performance & Size
Space & Conceptuality*
Survival Needs & Reinvestible Time*
Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness
Synergetics & Black Holes*
Sensings & Eventings
Sleeping & Thinking
Specialists & Generalists*
* Indexed under other formulation
(S)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Time & Energy
Time & Consciousness
Time & Syntropy*
Truth & Love
Truth & Nontruth
Time & Cognition
Terminal & Rate*
Thought & Action
Thought & Energy
Tensional Constancy & Islanded Radiation*
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how
Time Somethingness & Space Nothingness*
Tuning-in & Tuning-out
Thinking & Sleeping*
* Indexed under other formulation
(T)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Unity & Self
Unarticulated & Articulated*
Unstructurings & Restructurings
*Indexed under other formulation
(U)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Volume-surface
Vacuum & Cold*
View & Review
Vertexes & Spheres*
Volume & Energy*
* Indexed under other formulation
3
(V)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Words & Figures*
Wave & Frequency*
* Indexed under other formulation
(W)

Paired Concepts: Checklist:
See Zero & System
(Z)

FILE INDICATORS
Paired Concepts:
Dichotomy: Dichotomizing
Checklist:
See Complementarities:
Equals: Checklist
Inventory of Push-pulling Alternations
Nonequals: Checklist
Versus: Checklist
(1)
Always & Only Coexisiting

Paired Concepts:
See Complementarity, 12 Sep'71
(2)

230
Paired Congruency:
See Reciprocal Involvement
Sleeping in the Same Bed
(1)

Paired Congruency:
See Congruence, 25 Aug'71
(2)

Pair: Pairing:
See Cofunctions
Coupled: Coupling
Covariables: Covariation
Paired Concepts: Checklist
Prime Numbers:
Pairing Of
Swimmers: Two Swimmers
Twins
Two Kinds of Twoness
Quantum: Event-paired Quanta
(1)

Pair: Pairing:
See Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Srtategy, (1)
(2)

Palm:
See Pine Tree & Palm Tree Belts

RBF DEFINITIONS
Palpitate:
"... Nature oscillates and palpitates asymmetrically
in respect to the frame of the omnirational vector
equilibrium, the plus and minus magnitudes of asymmetry
are rational fractions of the omnirationality of the
equilibrious state.
"
-
-
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium, 21 Dec'71
Cite AIF to 1, 3200 Tasho, Washington DC, 21

Palpitate:
See Oscillation
Oscillation & Pulsation
Pulse: Pulsive:
Pulsivity
(1)

Palpitate: Palpitation:
See Now, 14 Feb'72
Physical Reality, 1 May171
Vector Equilibrium, 21 Dec 71*; 1 May' 71
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec*73
(2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Pandora's Box of Invisibility:
(See Transcript of RBF address to MXC
Dubuque, IA, 15 Dec. 171, p. 17.)

Panic:
See Official Panic
Fire in a Theater
(1)

Panic:
See Human Tolerance Limits, (2)
(2)

Paper: Sheet of Paper:
See Child Tearing Paper
Newspaper
Foldability
Mark Your Paper
(1)

Paper: Sheet of Paper:
See Curvature: Simple, (1)
Drawing, 1971
Squatters, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parable:
"Playboy: 'But since you mentioned Adam and Eve a moment
ago, let's take the Garden of Eden as a parable and ask if
the element of man's will mightn't make him a stranger to
this universal perfection. Couldn't the Scenario Universe
be a tragedy as far as human affairs are concerned?"
"Fuller: 'In the first place I don't take anything aga
parable. I'm interested in stories if I can understand them,
but I don't use fiction as the basis of doing any strong
thinking, especially when it comes to such matters as
'man's will.' I think we'd better not assume that what
we've been told about the Garden of Eden has any validity
whatsoever. I don't think there was a Garden of Eden, and
I don't think there was an Adam and Eve, and I don't think
Eve was born out of Adam's rib. So I can't accept the
parable."
-
Cite RBF in Barry Farrell PLAYBOY Interview, February 1972,
Above passage was in BF transcript, but omitted from final
passage as it appears on p. 66. of magazine.

Parable:
See Christian Legend & Philosophy
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Myth
Naga Theme
Legend

Parabola: Paraboloid:
See Hyperbolic Paraboloid

Paradox:
See Computer: Paradox of the Computer
Zeno's Paradox
(1)

Paradox:
See Artist: Histrionics (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parallax:
"When the relative circle size in respect to the observer is
of macro-differential magnitudes, such as that of the circum-
ference of the galactic system in respect to each planet
observer, then the central-angle magnitude of the subtended
macrocosmic arc becomes undetectable and the astronomer and
navigator assume parallelism-- parallax-- to have set in, which
produces a constant factor of error which must be incorporated
in mathematical formulation of system descriptions. In quantum
accounting and analysis of energy events and transformative
transactions, this parallelism separates one quantum tetrahedron
from its three surrounding tetrahedra."
7
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 539.10, 23 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parallel:
"There can be no nucleus with parallels."
Cite RBF holograph at SYNERGETICS 2, Sec. 100.000; 28 Mar'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parallel:
"Parallel and antiparallel are precession."
Cite RBP marginalis deed 5 Sept 1965
yndzayor (1093) -page-12.
-
Citation at Precession, 5 Sep*65
Scilific

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parallelism:
"Parallelism is uniquely characterizing the three
dimensional system."
-
Cite Carbondale Draft-
Nature's Coordination IV,30
Cite Oregon Lecture, #7, p. 245. 11 Jul'62

KBF DEFINITIONS
Parallel: Quasi-Parallel Lines:
The bow tie symbol "is currently more fitting as an equation
symbol than the old equation mark because we know that
parallel lines, or conditions, are impossible. Morever,
quasi-parallel lines, never coming in contact, are
procreatively sterile."
"The
1s, then, inaccurate as a sign to link integrators
and product."
Cite NINE CHIINS, p. 42 1938
Citation & context at Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol, 1938

Parallel: Quasi-parallel Lines:
See Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol,
1938*

Parallel:
See Antiparallel
Inflection
Interparallel
Nonparallel
Parallax
Convergent vs. Parallel Perception
Series vs. Parallel Circuitry
XYZ Coordinate System
(1)

Parallel:
See Curvature: Simple, (1) (2)
Equation Symbol, 9 May'60
Terminals, 4 Feb'68
Dimensionality, 30 Mar*75
Means, 22 Jun '75
Minimum Limit Case,
Nature in a Corner
Verse vs. Prose, 1
12 May'75
6 Nov'75
Dec 75
Nuclear Pattern of Growth & Decay, 8 Dec 75
Dynamic Equilibrium, 24 Apr 76
Module: A Quanta Module:
22 Feb177
Introduction Of.
(2)

Parallelogram of Forces:
See Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force

Parallelogram:
See Deliberately Nonstraight Line
(1)

Parallelogram:
See Prime Vector, (2)(3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parameters:
It
•
The variables outside the system may affect
the system from outside. In varying degrees specific
levels of sub-classes of these 'background' or outside
variables are identified as parameters. This backgoound
'inside and outside' concept is a two dimensional or flat-
projection concept."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 153, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parameters:
"Our omniortented Halo concept converts the papameter
consideration to conceptual four dimensionality and discloses
a set of parameters inside as well as outside the zone of
lucidly considered _ system stars. And the parameters
are at minimum fourfold: (1) the convex twilight zone of
inward relevancy, (2) the concave twilight zone of outward
relevancy, (3) the stark nonconceptual irrelevancy inward,
and (40 the stark nonconceptual irrelevancy outward. Para-
meter (1) is a tetrahedron. Parameter (2) is a tetrahedron.
Parameter (3) plus parameter (4) comprise an invisible
tetrahedron.
11
CITE OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 153, 1960
- Citation & context at Halo Concept, 1960

Parameters: Parametric:
See General Systems Theory, 18 Dec'74
Halo Concept, 1960*; Nov 71
i
(B)
Variables: Theory of, 1960; Nov 71
Design Science: Grand Strategy, 31 Jan '75
Omnihalo, Nov' 71

322
Parapsychology:
See No agic Universe, 8 Apr '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parents:
"Sometimes parents say 'don't' because they want to
protect the child from getting into trouble. At other
times, when they fail to say 'no,' the child gets into
trouble. The child, frustrated, stops exploring."
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 174, May '65

Parent:
See Children
Education
Mother
Television: Third Parent
(1)

Parent:
See Environment 22 Jul 71
Fresh, 3 Oct 71
(2)

MBF DEFINITIONS
Parity:
"That is the way our Universe is. There are the visibles
and the invisibles of the inside-outing nonsimultaneity.
What we call thinkable is always outside-out. What we call
space is just exactly as real, but is inside out. There is
no such thing as right and left."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 507.02, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parity:
"Now, what we call thinkable is always otside-out. What
we call space is just exactly as real, but it is inside-
There is no such thing as right and left!"
out.
-
Cite Rbf to BO'. Carbondale Dome, 1 May 1971.
CONCE PTUALITY
PARITY SEC 507.021

RBF DEFINITIONS
Farity:
"Positive (right) and Negative (left) make
one tetrahedron;
therefore no parity.
11.
-
Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967
CONCEPTUALITY-PARITY- SEC. 507.04)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parity:
"We cannot build Universe with just the rightness or leftness
'blocks' exclusively of one another."
Cisation and context at Monological, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parity:
"
Physics long-held law of conservation of parity
held the obverse and reverse to be identical, ergo,
redundant."
Cite UMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, 1960, Pp. 153-156.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parity:
"Comprehensive system turbining: the whole system turbines
positively or the whole system turbines negatively. There
are no polar or opposite hemisphere differences of these
systems.
There are no 'rights' or 'lefts' in Universe."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION, #92, caption. 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parity & Disparity:
"Disparity is a complementary of parity."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.
CONCEPTUALITY - PARITY - SEC. 507.05

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

Parity:
See Complementarity
Complementor
Disparity
Left & Right
Negative
Mirror Image
Non-mirror Image
Parity & Disparity
Proton & Neutron
Rubber Glove

Partial Generalization:
See Vector, 26 May' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Partiality:
"... 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
Partiality:
Q: is partiality a complementary of totality?
A: Synergy says Partiality is inherently a complementary,.
which means it is not witnessable in the part, per se.
The part does not say it, but they are always intercom-
plementarities. You have to have the other parts in
order for them to be complemented by.
- Cite RBF answer dictated to EJA, Kennedy airport, NY,
1 Apr '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Partiality:
"Compression is inherently partial.
-
total."
-
Tension is inherently
Citation at Tension & Compression, Dec'71
Cite Synergetics Braft at Sec. 640.70, Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Partiality:
"Conceptuality is systematic but always partial."
ma International Meditation Seminar -
22 July 1971.
- Citation at Conceptuality, 22 Jul 71

Partiality:
See Cosmic Partiality
Part: Parts: Partial: Particulars
Totality
(1)

Partiality:
See Conceptuality, 22 Jul'71*
Experience, 12 Sep'71
Tension & Compression, Dec'71*
Vector, 26 May '72*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Partially Overlapping:
"The complex of event sequences are most often characterized
by overlappings.
grandchildren.
A man is born, grows up, has children and
His life overlaps that of his grandfather and
father and that of his children and grandchildren.
But his
grandfather's life did not overlap his childrens' nor his
grandchildrens' lives.
Hence, partially overlapping."
FOOTNOTE SEC. 302.00
Cite HBF marginalia
Universe draft - 28 Feb 1971
231

Partially Overlapping:
See Newton vs. Einstein (2)
Scenario, 1 Feb 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Particle:
"The primitive is quite different from the fundamental
particles game of the high-energy research physicists."
-
Citation & context at Primitive, 19 Feb 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Particle:
"A unique energy patterning-- erroneously referred
to in archaic terms as a particle."
NEĀRU SPEECH,
Citation & context at Annihilation, 13 Nov'69
CONCEPTUALITY - SEC. 507.05

36
RBF DEFINITIONS
Particle:
"One of the most interesting things about the modern
chemistry and physics is that men have discovered that
there are no things, there are no small particles. The
physicist deliberately misleads society by using-the
words solid state' and things like that and by still
using the word particle. he may say that of course,
he doesn't mean anything by it, but he just doesn't know
what else to call it.. He is so busy with his work that
he doesn't want to bother with semantics so he calls it a
particle. There is some kind of local preoccupation here
and we just call it particle. We identify it as special
local behavior. It is a special local behavior but it is
pure principle, such as the wave concept. It has no weight
whatsoever. . .
"He well then get in to what we call the nucleus, the
positive particles if you want to call them that. But it has
since been discovered that every one of them has an anti-
particle. All the negative particles have negative weight
and so you have neutrons, positrons, and so on: you have
positives, and negatives and neutrals. The sum total of
am
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p.123, 6 Jul162
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Particle:
zero.
"all the Regitive weights and all the negative weights is
You are dealing in pure principle. This is the actual
fact. And it is weightless. There is no smallest thing.
There are very minute energy events in pure pattern, but they
are pure pattern-- just as the knot was not a rope but a pure
regenerative principle. The wave was not the water or the
milk or the kerosene. The quantum in wave mechanics is
simply the way we deal with these pure principles in an
absolutely weightless manner."
(2)
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, pp.122-123, 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Particles:
"There are no ponderable, smallest, hard-core,
'thing' particles."
Cite SECOND HAND GOD, p.36
9 Apr 40

Particle: Particular:
See
Wave vs. Particle
Whole to Pafticular
Corpuscle:
Corpuscular
Rules of No Actual Particulate Solida
Strange Particles
No Building Blocks
Quarks
(1)

Particle: Particular:
See Energy Event, 13 Mar 73
Minimum Set, 18 Nov 72
Modelability,
(a)
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (2)
Primitive, 1y Feb*76*
Proofs, 3 May '77
Bubble Bursting, 20 Jan'78
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Particularity:
"Quantum implies particularity."
-
For citation and context see Module,1 Jun '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Particulate hodel:
"Because of indeterminism, discontinuity, the exclusive
tenuous nature of integrity, means that no hard
particulate models may ever be fashioned by man."
Citation at Tenuous, 10 Feb'73

Particulate: Particulate Model:
See Quantum, 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Particulate:
"The tetrahedron can be considered as a whole system or as
a constituent of systems in particular. It is the particulate."
- Citation at Tetrahedron, 7 Mar'73

Parting the Strande:
See Grass: Putting Aside the Grasses
Swimmer: I Am a Swimmer
(1)

Parting the Strands:
See Self-experience. 1938
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Part:
"The Ancient Greeks initiated problem solving
By recourse to cosmology and cosmogony,
By proceeding from the whole to the part
Lest they miss
The exquisite relevance
Of each little part or event."
Citation at Wholes & Parts, May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Part:
"And in fact
No property of one part
Considered only by itself
Predicts the existence of another part--"
- Cite INDITION, p.27, May 172
23

KBF DEFINITIONS
Parts:
"Functions occur only as parts of systems."
Citation and context at Functions, 26 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parts:
"... The more symmetrical, the less the number of parts types."
Citation and context at Simplicity, 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Parts:
"It is a derivative corollary of synergy that there are no
parts,
for parts always turn out to be subsystems of pattern.
There is only
pattern, there is only wholeness to begin and
cease: the
environment and content of all experience or
experiment.
"It is a corollary of synergy that behaviors of subdivisions
are of
plural and alternate sets permitted and required of
the larger pattern; and that there are always sets of
complementary consequence in respect to any of the
selectable alternate permissible sets. Plurality of
permitted freedoms within the whole is manyfold.
"Effectiveness of synergetics is relative to comprehensiveness
of initiation, its sub-behaviors being determinable to
degrees of refinement permitting event prognostication
within
circumscribed limits of high fidelity attunement."
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon ?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59,
p.4a.

38
RBF DEFINITIONS
Parts:
"So-called fabricated parts of synergetic general assemblies,
it should be remembered, are in themselves a complex of
systems of overall morphation classification and function
integrations; in turn comprised of multibillions of molecules,
combining in themselves a plurality of unique atomic nuclear
systems and their respective subsystem activities, each of
which responds to its cues in the ever present larger
synergetic patterns of local alloys or within the far larger
synergetics of isotopal decay by transformation cycles."
-
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?) Raleigh, NC, 1954-59
p.14

Parts:
Each Part in View of the Others:
(1)
See Self-consideration

Partal Each Part in View of the Others:
See Design, y Dec'73
(2)

Parta: Self-parta-raplacing:
See Industrial Complex, 13 Mar 73

Part: Parta: Partial: Particulars:
See Between
No Building Blocks
Energetics
No Absolute Division into Parts
Partiality
Particle
Particularity
Modules
Starting with Parts
Toenail
Wave vs. Particle
Prediction
Nonsystem Parts
Key-keyhole
Wholes & Parts
Highway is Part of the Automobile
Mine is Part of the Mole
Nest is Part of the Bird
Tools are Part of Human Beings
Teleology Reuniting of Parts
(1A)

Part: Parta: Partial: Particulara:
See Component
Increment
Cosmic Parts:
Comic Partiality
Human Parts Replacement
(1B)

Part:
Parts: Partial:
See Child, 16 Jun '72
Conditioning, 14 Feb172
Design, 9 Dec 73; 13 Dec173; 4 Aug'74
Education (2)
Energetics & Synergetics, 10 Jan'74
Epistemology of Quantum Mechanics, 16 Dec '73
Functions, 26 May' 72*
Gestalt, 1960
Instant Universe (1)
Local Change, May'49
Mechanical Mind, 22 Jul 71
Simplicity, 1954*
Spaceship Earth (c)
Science (2)
Specialization, 28 Apr171
Whole System, 28 May172; 16 Jun 72
Synergetics vs. Model, 28 Apr'74; (A)
Dome: Rationale For (I) (II)
Conceptuality, 16 Aug170
Thinkability, 16 Aug 70
Time-size, 30 Oct172
(2A)

Part: Parts: Partial: Particulars:
See Definable. 1959.
Plumbing, (1)(2)
Weapons Technology, (2)
Boeing 747 Sequence, 22 Jun 75
Understanding, 30 Sép 76
Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan' 77
Event, 23 Jan'77
Finite Event Scenario, (2)
(2B)

Partitions:
See Privacy, 22 Apr*61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pass: "And It Came to Pass":
"I used 'pass-age' all the time in Shelter Magazine. It means
the same thing as 'and it came to pass,' which means it came
to pass, but not to stay."
Cite RBF to EJA & Bob Kahn in Phila. office, 22 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pass: "And It Came to Pass":
'And it came to pass' is something like an event. It has
a 'before' and an 'after'...' "
Cite RBF to Hugh Kenner, NY City, 29 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pags: "And It Came to Pass":
"Bill Whitehead had never realized that 'And it came to pass'
means 'It came to go by,' that is something we could use as
a chart or guidepost.'
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Phila., 1 Apr 73

TEXT CITATIONS
Pass: "And It Came To Pass":
Synergetics text at Sec. 464.08

Pass: "And It Came to Pass":
See Frame of Reference, 4 Oct172

Pass:
See Twist-pass

Passion:
See Intellection, Oct166
Technocracy, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Passive Resistance:
"Passive resistance will not amplify the production of
life support."
-
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS
DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, 29 Jun'72

Passive:
See Active & Passive

Passport:
See World Passports
(1)

Passporta:
See World Pattern vs. Local Pattern, 29 Jan'75
Desovereignisation Sequence, (31
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Past:
"Life is the Now event with its reaction Past and
resultant Future."
Citation at Life, 1 Jun 71
Oft RBS MargIKELIN, AYNERGETICS Draft (Conceptuality, -Life),
1-1971

Past Otherness:
See No-time-and-away-ago, 28 May175
Tetratuning, 30 May'75
Environment, (A)

Past:
See Historical Event Cognition
History
Yesterday
Swivel-moored the the Tonnage of our Past
(1)

Past:
See Death, 1970
Life, 1 Jun 71*
Now, 25 Apr'71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Patent:
"A basic patent must be statable in one line.
mark of an original invention."
That's the
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 16 Dec'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Patent:
"Patent law and precedence requires specific choices of tech-
nical ways and means for each patent claim. A number of claims
can be filed covering alternate realizations of the same
invention. Overall legal costs per patent are so high that
usually but few of the alternate realizations are covered, the
most economical under the contemporary economical conditions
being hopefully selected by the inventor.
"
- Citation and context at inventability Sequence (2), 9 Jul'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Patent:
"It is interesting that the Russians go along with the old
patent idea.
You can't apply for one; the government simply
awards it at the point when it comes into use. And if the
invention is so good that it gets adopted within 12 months,
they award a patent and a patent in Russia gives the individual
the right to go into any establishment and look things over and
see what he might do; it gives him the right to ride wherever
he wants on the transportation system; it is really a more
effective thing than what we have here. He gets a fundamental
advantage and an actual payment.
"It's interesting that the idea of giving inventors some
advantage persisted from the olf feudal monarchies through
democracy and into communism.
"A patent in the United States is just a license to sue.
There have been over 300 licenses of geodesic domes and over
50 have been to big, major corporations. Every time their
patent attorneys would come to mine, saying of course we'd
like to get around your patent but it's too well written, so
we have to come to you.... You absolutely have to have a world
patent; a U.S. patent is useless."
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #8, Side A,
transcript p.5; 22 Aug '70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Patent:
"In general, it can be said that patents are never granted
You cannot
for covering fundamental principles of nature.
patent any unique geometry. I have a great many patents and
none of them are
granted in the terms
of the specific mechanical, structural, and chemical technology
employed to realize an interaction of a plurality of principles.
"It is also necessary that there be a fundamental surprise
quality in an invention. Though patents can be secured from
the patent office, they hold up in court when this fundamentally
unique and illusive quality of surprise is undeniably present....
"I am saying these many things to you not with the idea of
discouraging you as an inventor but to save you money in your
patent work.
I have always found it a great help to have
powerful patent searches made. They often disclose earlier
invention in areas where I had thought myself to be the
inventor. I never let an earlier invention discourage me,
I do not want to kid myself into thinking I am an inventor
when I am not."' 18
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Steve Baer, 19 Apr166
but

RBF DEFINITIONS
Patent
"The patent examiner's actions of one-third of a century
call for subdivision because there is no comprehensive
dynamic class of functioning environment valve.
"This is the case for simplicity in legal action where the
simplest rather than the most complicated documents are
most effective and most costly. The criterion for a basic
patent is one of approximately one sentence, or one line
in length ergo, most far-reaching and of highest value,
and resultant to the largest experience, and greatest breadth
and penetration of thought and therefore resultant to greatest
experience-- which is basic cost, ergo, most costly; but
because of its end result being mistaken by the many for the
just naturally obvious simplicity and therefore of negligible
cost.'
(Slightly edited)
Cite RBF holograph in cardboard file folder of Synergetic
Notes, circa 1955

Patent:
See Inventability Sequence
Invention
(1)

Patent:
See Einstein, 23 May172; (A)
Philosophers, 22 Aug170
Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (2)
Large Patterns, (1)
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (5) (6); (1)
c
[2]

Path:
See Critical Path
Parting the Strands
Trail
Trajectory

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pathology:
Preventive vs. Curative:
I
"Nobody seemed to know where the housing traditions and the
diseases they bred came from and why they were going on.
could not seem to be able to maintain health conditions as I
wanted them in the kind of rentals I could afford, and I
blamed it very much on housing. The more I saw of the housing
world the more it seemed to me that about this great ignorance
much could be done if we could think of our whole economics
in the terms of preventive pathology instead of curative
pathology. In our curative pathology we wait until somebody
is very sick, and if they are lucky they might be able to
get the right drugs from the research institute.
I am
talking of the picture of 1927.
"This present war has, however, seen an enormous advance in
these curative matters. One of our boys here today had an
infection in his nose which started in his eye the day before
yesterday. They rushed him to the hospital and they gave him
penicillin. He is all right now. It might have been a fatal
case a few years ago, since the infection would have gone
right up into his brain. It is just wonderful; but that has
happened now in 1946. War releases an enormous amount of
technology, and that is at least one benefit showing up."
-
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, pp. 153,1581 1946
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pathology:
Preventive vs. Curative:
"But that came as a remedial form of pathology.
223
(2)
"If we were really to attempt preventive pathology, we would
question how these things got started and, it seemed to me in
1927, we would learn to measure and to adopt the enormous
amount of data being sent down by technologists everywhere
relative to measurements of man's Universe and man himself
and the forces seeking to destroy him and we would try to
build in advance a form of environment control for man that
would be both occupationally, in the manufacture of this
environment control, and equally, in its end use, prvent
much of the present inroads of physical and mental and moral
diseases into good health and well-being and general happiness."
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RRF Reader, p. 154), 1946

Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative:
See Mend vs. Cure
(1)

Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative:
See Economics, 1946
(2)

Patron: Patronage:
See Artist-scientist, May '60
Invisible Architecture, (A)(B) (D)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
19 ...And what would be necessary
was really to
find out what were the great comprehensive patterns
operating in Universe.'
"
-
Cite RBF quated by Cam Smith in RBF to CHILDREN OF EARTH,
Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"It is a tendency for patterns either to repeat themselves
locally or for their parts to separate out to join singly or
severally with other patterns to form new constellations. All
the forces operative in Universe result in a complex progress-
ion of most comfortable--1.e., least effort, rearrangings in
which the macro-medio-micro star events stand dynamically
together here and there as locally regenerative patterns.
Spontaneously regenerative local constellations are cosmic,
since they appear to be interoriented with angular constancy."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 601.01; 3 Oct' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"The Euler formula should be revised in arrangement of
You must have lines; you have to have two
expression.
lines to have a crossing, which is a point (fixed).
you have to have three lines in order to have an area--
these being the basic constituents of a pattern. "77
And
-
Cite RBF to BO'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 20 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"Relationships are local to pattern. Patterns are
comprehensive to relationships."
-
(Incorporated in SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 505.03)
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC., 20 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"One of the things we have to make clear for society
is the dilemma of the Max-Planck-descended scientists,
the way they do their problems, you can have either a
wave or a particle, but not both simultaneously.
Heisenberg has the same fault. They make the error of
having a wave as a continuity, as a picture-- not as a
pulsating frequency. A planar reflex causes them to
think of a continuous wave."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
CONCEPTUALITY PATTERN SEC 505.40

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"When we speak of patterns we speak of generalized
patterns of conceptuality gleaned from a plurality of
special case pattern experiences which have been experi-
mentally proven to be without exception, always existent
in every special case within the required class of
experiences."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 100, Jun'66
CONCEPTUALITY - PATTERN - SEC. 565.01)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Patterns:
1
•
.
All patterns, for instance, numbers or
phonetic letters, consist of physical ingrediants
and physical experience recalls. The physical
ingredients consist inherently of event-paired
quanta and the latter's six-vectored, positive and
negative, actions, reactions and resultants. .
•
-
Citation and context at Number, Jun'66
HASA Speech, p. 58,
CONCEPTUALITY PATTERN - SEC. 505.121
66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Patterns:
"Euler showed that all conceptual experiences which we
can pattern, or form, are composed exclusively of the three
patterning elements: lines. vertexes, and areas.
They are
all that are necessary to analyze and inventory all parts of,
as well as all whole, patterns. And Euler disclosed a
three algebraic formulae characterizing the constant relative
abundance relationships of these three fundamental topological
elements in all patterns."
- Cite CARBONDALE DRAFT IV.41
NASA Speech, pp. 58-59. Jun'66
CONCEPTUALITY PATTERN SEC 505.11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"Kepes at M. I.T. made a beautiful demonstration of the scientist's
and artists need to articulate 7. He took hundreds of eight by
ten black and white photographs of modern paintings and shuffled
them thoroughly with photographs taken by scientists through
microscopes or telescopes of all manner of natural phenomena:
sound waves, chromosomes, and such. The only way you can class-
ify photographs with nothing recognizable in them is by your own
spontaneous pattern classifications. Group the mealy, the
blotchy, the striped, and so forth. The pattern groups of
photographs were put on display. The artists' work and the
scientists' were indistinguishable. Checking the data, it was
found that the artist frequently conceived of a pattern in
his imagination before the scientist found it in nature.
began to take a new view of artists."
Science
Cite RBF to AAUW panel; AAUW Journal, p.174, May165
PATTERN SEC 505.07

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"I see things sometimes in terms of vectors, some-
times in terms of the faces, and sometimes in terms of the
vertexes which would be spheres. These are the three main
aspects of all pattern as known by Euler.
Euler found
these incontrovertible minimum aspects of pattern."
-
->
Gite Carbondale Draft
Naturels Coordination, p. VI.J+
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 245. 11 Jul'62
CONCEPTUALITY - PATTERN SEC. 505.11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Patterns:
"It is very interesting to consider
a total
inventory of the relative abundance of different
patterns remembering that the patterns are reciprocal."
-
Cite ORGEON Lecture #5
p. 167, 9 Jul'62
CONCEPTUALITY PATTERN-SEC 505.051

RBF DEFINITIONS
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."
-
Citation & context at Irrelevancies: Dismissal of, 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"The integration of all possibilities of the complementary
alternates, though confinable, inherently defies exact identity
because the minimum is pattern and not isolated integer.
"All pattern has inherent plurality of viewable aspects,
which are the reciprocals of pluralities of permissible view-
points, for instance, from within or from without, a system.
"All treatable pattern is a subdivision of Universe, and
disposes, in its first generalization, of the macrocosmicand
microcosmic irrelevancies."
- Citation and context at Residual Error, 1954

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"There is only pattern, there is only wholeness to begin
and cease: the environment and content of all experience
or experiment."
Citation and context at Parts, 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern:
"Abstraction has no pattern."
Gite RBE marginalis in "Mathematics in Action," by 8.Gr
Sutton. - 1955
Citation at Abstraction, 1955

Pattern Analysis:
See Geometry, 14 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Cognition Feedback:
"Fundamental wisdom
Can readily identify any and all
Special case aspects within
The generalized whole
When listening
Sensitively to one's intuitions
By which alone
The generalized sub-subconscious integration
Of pattern cognition feedbacks
Are articulated."
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, p.62 Oct '66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Cognizance:
It is a discovery of synergetics that "the addition of
angle and frequency to Euler's inventory of crossings,
and lines is the absolute characteristic of all
areas,
pattern cognizance."
(Synergetics: 251.02)
-
20 Dee.
Citation at Synergetics, 20 Dec 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Conservation:
These
*Structures are constellar pattern conservations.
definitions hold true all the way from whole Universe to
lesser and local pattern differentiations all the way into the
atom and its nuclear subassemblies. Each of the families of
chemical elements, as well as their most complex agglomerations
It is
as superstar Galaxies, are alike cosmic structures.
clear from the results of modern scientific experiments that
structures are not things. Structures are event constellations."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 601.02; 3 Oct 72

215
RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Conservation:
"Regenerative means local pattern conservation of
energy events.
"Structures are pattern conservations."
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
15 March 1971

Pattern Conservation:
See Local Pattern Conservation
Pattern Integrity
(1)

Pattern Conservation:
See Energetic-synergetic Geometry,
Jul' 59
(2)
Nonmirror-image, 22 May$73
Regenerative, 15 Mar 71
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy of, (2)
Structure, 15 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern
Evolvement:
"Unique pattern evolvement constitutes elementality.
What is unique about each of the 92 self-regenerative
chemical elements is their nonrepetitive pattern
evolvement which terminates with the third layer of 92."
Gite RBF Insert Synergetics draft, Sec 416.4, Bear island,
Citation at Elementality, 25 Aug'71
25 August 1971.

Pattern Evolvement:
See Elementality, 25 Aug171*
Rectilinear Frame, 24 Sep 73
Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep 73
Vector Equilibrium Frame, 3 Nov 73

Patterns of Experience:
See Angular Sinus Takeout, Dec'61

Patterns of Experience Return Upon Themselves in All Directions:
(1)
See Nature Always Comes Back on Itself
Returning Upon Itself: Systems Return Upon Themselves

(2)
Patterns of Experience Returning Upon Themselves in All Directions:
See Comprehension, Dec'61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Generalization:
(1)
"Out of multi-overlaid experience patternings there sometimes
emerges an awareness of what we may call a coincidence pattern--
a localized thickening of points. These emergent patterns of
frequency congruences and concentrations display a unique
configuration-
-integrity which has up to now been so
dilute in any one experience as to be only invisibly common to
many differentiated or special experiences, e.g., a pack of
one hundred 4-inch by 5-inch file cards each riddled with
hundreds of different sized
small holes. Each card appears
to be chaotically patterned with holes. However, when the cards
are stacked with edges aligned three holes in each card are
vertically aligned; all others are obscured by blank spaces on
one card or another. A triangular pattern relationship of the
light coming through three tubes in the stack of cards is now
lucidly conceptual. To such persistently emergent, uniquely
mutual, coincidence-patterning relationships as the same tri-
angle array of holes in each and every card we may apply the
term 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 con-
siderations of any specific case data."
-
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.118-119, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Cneralization:
(2)
"When the uniquely emergent generalised 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,
colors, sound, or size, of any one tension-dominated experience."
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.119, 1959

Pattern Generalization:
See Conceptuality, 24 Apr' 71

Pattern va. Integer:
See Minimum, 1954

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"A pattern integrity operates independently of the local
environment in which we find
it
. Take a piece of rope.
wave. Its presence is communicated by its interference,
apprehended by our tuning capability.
"We have step-up, step-down transformations.
A
The wave you
can tune tells you of the wave you cannot tune by apprehension
lags."
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
22 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Interity:
"Pattern integrity is conceptual relationship independent
of sixe."
-
Citation and context at Structure, 10 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"When we speak of pattern integrities, we refer to generalized
patterns of
conceptuality gleaned from a
plurality of special-case pattern experiences that have been
proven experimentally to be existent always, without exception,
in every special case within the required class of experiences.
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 505.01; RBF galley rewrite of
6 Nov 73

HBP DEFINITIONS
Pattern integmaty:
"We have topology as a pattern integrity."
3200 Idahoy
Citation at Topology, 17 Feb '72

247.
RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"Each of the chemical elements are pattern integrities
formed by their self-knotting, inwardly precessing,
periodically synchronized self-interferences."
->
Cite RBF insert Synergetics draft at Sec. 416.4. Bear Island.
25 August 1971.
ALSO CONCEPTUALITY PATTERN SEC. 505.20)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"Comprehensive universe is amorphous and only locally finite
as it transformingly differentiates into serially conceptual
pattern integrities, some much larger than humanly apprehendible,
some much smaller than humanly apprehendible, ever occurring
in nonsimultaneous sets of human observings, time-cancelling,
harmonically integrative synchronisations are supra or sub
human sensibility and longevity experiencability whose
periodicities are therefore so preponderantly unexpected as
to induce human reactions of o'erwhelming disorder, so that
. . . suddenly around comes the comet again for the first
known time in humanly recorded experience, periodically
closing the gap and periodically pulsing through eternally
normal zero.
Cite RBF amplification to EJA on citation re Comet in
Oregon Lecture #5, p. 158. Now in SYNERGETICS draft Sec.
614, Tension and Compression.'
1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"Man is a complex of patterns or processes. We speak of
our circulatory system, our respiratory system, our
digestive system, and so it goes. Man is not weight.
He isn't the vegetables he eats, for example, becuase
he'll eat seven tons of vegetables in his life. He is
the result of his own pattern integrity."
-
Gite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970
Citation at Man as Pattern Integrity, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
19 ... Man is not alone the physical machine he appears to be.
He is not merely the food he consumes, the water he drinks,
or
the air he breathes. His physical processing is only an
automated aspect of a total human experience which transcends
the physical. As a knot in a series of spliced ropes of manila,
cotton, nylon,
etc., may be progressively slipped through all
the material changes of thickness and texture along the length
yet
remain in identifiable pattern configuration, so man is
an abstract
pattern integrity which is sustained through all
the physical changes and processing."
Citation and context at Population Sequence (4), Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"Triangular structuring is pattern integrity itself."
400
Cite NASA Speech, p. 54. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"No sharp cleavage is found
That identifies the boundary between life and nonlife,
Between the heretofore so-called 'animate' and 'inanimate.'
"Viruses,
The smallest organised structures
Exhibiting 'lifo,'
May be classified either
As inanimate or animate,
As crystalline or 'cellular' forms.
This is the level also at which
The DNA/RNA genetic code is essentially
A structural pattern integrity.
Such pattern integrities
Are strictly accountable
Only as mathematical principles.
Pattern integrities are found
At all levels of structural organization in Universe.
The DNA/RNA is a specialized case
of the generalized principle of pattern integrity
Found throughout life and nonlife."
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, pp. 71-72, Oct. 66
(1)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"All pattern integrity design
Is controlled by
Angle and frequency modulation.
The biological corpus
Is not stictly 'animate' at any point.
Given that the 'ordering'
Of the corpus design
Is accomplished through such codings as DNA/RNA,
Which are essentially angle and frequency modulation.
Then we may go on to suggest
That life,' as we customarily define it,
Could be effected at a distance.
Precession is the effect
Of one moving system
Upon another.
Precession always produces
Angular changes of movement a
Of the affected bodies,
And at angles other than 180 degrees;
That is, the results are never
Continuance in a straight line.
Ergo, all bodies of Universe"
-
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, pp. 72-73, Oct 66
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"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.
"The gravitational and radiation effects
Could modulate the DNA/RNA
Angle and frequency instructions
At astronomical remoteness--
Life could be 'sent on.'
"Within the order of evolution as usually drawn
Life occurred' as a series
Of fortuitous probabilities in the primeval sea.
It could have been sent or 'radiated' there.
That is, the prime code
Or angle and frequency modulated signal
Could have been transmitted
From a remote stellar location.
It seems more likely
(In view of the continuous rediscovery of man"
-
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, pp. 73-74, Oct 66
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"As a fully organized being
Back to ever more remote periods)
That the inanimate structural pattern integrity,
Which we call human being,
Was a frequency modulation code message
Beamed at Earth from remote location.
Man as prime organizing
'Principle' construct
Was radiated here from the stars--
Not as primal cell,
But as a fully articulated high order being,
Possibly as the synergetic totality
Of all the gravitation
And radiation effects
Of all the stars
In our galaxy,
And from all the adjacent galaxies
With some weak effects
And some strong effects,
And from all time.
And pattern itself being weightless,
The life integrities are apparently
Inherently immortal."
-Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, pp.74-75, Oct'66
(4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"You and I
Are essentially functions
Of Universe.
We are exquisite antientropy.
"I'll be seeing you!
Forever."
-
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, p.75, Oct'66
(5)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"Into the molecular rope
A complex slip knot has been tied'
Which complex knot
Is both internally and externally
In the exact pattern
Of the complex pattern integrity--
Me--
Which has been slipped
Along the rope
By time.
"And as the knot passed,
The rope behind it
Disintegrated and
Its atoms dispersed
And deployed into
Other biosphere function patternings. ."
Cite HOW LITTLE, p. 21. Oct166

HBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"When I gave you the slip knot on the rope and we moved
it along now it was nylon, now it was manila and now
it was cotton-- we agreed that it really wasn't any of these.
They were just again colors and tactile experiences which
reported something to us as a pattern. They were what I call
a pattern integrity. I am saying to you that each of the
chemical elements are pattern integrities the forms of local
self-interferences."
Cite OREGON Lecture #5 p. 164 9 Jul'62
,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"My working theory is that man is an a priori pattern
integrity of really very great importance."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #5
p. 173, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium
by virtue of which you have received the information
that it exists-- the step-up, step-down transformation
medium."
Gite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 171.9 Jul 162
- Citation and context at Tunability, 9 Jul'62
PATTERN-SEC 505.20
CONCEPTUALITY

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"Every individual is a pattern integrity and it is an
evolutionary pattern integrity; it is not a static
pattern integrity."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 171. 9 Jul'62
CONCEPTUALITY- PATTERN-SEC. 505.20

RBF DEFINITIONS
FIRST IP-
Pattern Integrity:
"No longer do I want to talk about the chemical elements as
things but as pattern integrities. Each one of them is &
unique pattern integrity... in a sense a form of knots.
So we
get where there are chemical compounds and the knots tend to
be interlinkable and they will catch on one another. This one
is holding together, all right, but this ball of twine and
this ball of twine, suddenly one weaves into the other every
so often and associates...
(A)
"One of the interesting things I have found to consider about
humanity, whereas each one of us weighs in at an average of
seven pounds-- there is a pattern integrity that is very extra-
ordinary, because no sooner is a child born than people say,
'That is Aunt Mary,' and so forth. There are certain strange
pattern characteristics that suddenly reappear. And it is not
just that there are species, that they are human-- I don't
think people tend to do this too much, but they do, even in
hybrids of plants-- to bring out the red and the white, split
petal, or whatever it may be. At any rate, we say 'There is
Aunt Mary, and probably when it only weighed one ounce it
still had Aunt Mary in there."
Cite Cregon Lecture #5, p.165, 9 Jul162
CONCEPTUALITY PATTERN SEC. 503.211
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
"There is some pattern integrity that came in in a family--
absolutely discontinuous, because Aunt Mary had absolutely
nothing to do with this wedding. She was just Aunt Mary, and
there is some Aunt Mary in this child, all right. I call that
pattern integrity quite independent of the relative size--
whether it is the one ounce size, or the seven pound size, or
the 70 pound size-- because later on it gets to be 70 pounds--
then it gets to be 170, and then it had better watch its
Metracal. There is a pattern integrity which is something
independent of weight; and each human being is an extraordinary
complex of these pattern integrities."
(B)
-Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p.166, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity:
. . Waves are essences neither of milk nor water
nor gasoline; the waves are distinct and measurable pattern
integrities in their own right. The invariant relationships
* pure
which govern pattern integrities in nature
principle, "
are
CONCEPTUALITY
-
Cite MARKS, p. 20, 1960
PATTERN SEC 505.321

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Integrity: Atomic Knots:
"Each of the chemical elements is a unique complex pattern
of energy event interrelatednesses which interact inter-inter-
feringly to continually relocalize the involved quantity of
energy. These self-interference patterns of atomic element
components are in many ways similar to the family of knots.
that are tied with rope by sailors to produce various local
behaviors, all of which, however, result in further contraction
of the knot as the two ends of the rope immediately outside.
the knot are pulled away from one another by forces external to
the knot and thus all the attractive forces of Universe
operating upon the atoms may result precessionally in keeping
the atomic knots pulled together."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 505.21,
6 Nov'73

Pattern Integrity: Atomic Knots:
See Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern integrity:
Equation of Pattern integrity:
"... All the biologicals are continually multiplying
Their orderly, cellular, molecular, and atomic, structurings
hich metabolic conservation functioning complétes
The comprehensive pattern integrity equation
Governing orderly cosmic energy export-import balancing."
Citation and context at Manifest: Three, 1973
254

Pattern Integrity: Equation of:
See Equation: Philosophical Equations

Pattern Integrity Phenomenon Without Name:
See Conversation Sequence, (1)

Pattern Integrity:
See Eternal Pattern Integrity
Intellectual Pattern Integrity
Knot
Man as Pattern Integrity
Metabolic Flow
Pattern Conservation
Topological Aspects: Inventory Of
Viral Steerability
Pattern Integrity - Phenomenon Without Name
You & I as Pattern Integrities
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities
(1)

50
Pattern Integrity:
See Conversation Sequence, (1) *
Heres & Theres, 4 Jun 72
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man, May* 72
Medium, 9 Jul'62
Necklace, (2)
Population Sequence, (4) *
Regenerative Design:
Structure, 25 Feb 69;
System, 4 Jun 72
Triangle, (2)
Tunability, 9 Jul*62
Topology, 17 Feb'72*
Twenty Questions, (4)
Domain & Quantum, (1)
Law Of, (2)
16 Deci73*; Nov 71; 9 Nov'73
Omnitriangulation, 3 Oct 72
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 10 Dec 175
Geodesic Domes, 24 Jan' 58
Stock Market, 1964
Electromagnetic Transmission of Human Organisms,
1. Jun' 77
Human Beings, 22 Jun'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Patterning of Patterninga :
"In a comprehensive view of nature the physical
world is seen as a patterning of patternings .
whose constituent functions are fields of force, each of
which compenetrates and influences other localized fields
of force.
" A pattern ] is a macro-micro-oscillocosm."
"
CONCEPTUALITY - PATTERN - SECS-505.04 + 505.05)
MARKS
Cite MOWER, P. 8. 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Processing Machines:
"The computers, both large and small, are pattern processing
machines of which the human brain is the prototype. As
with the human brain all pattern processing consists of
two main classes: differentiation and integration, i.e.,
specialization vs. generalization."
- Citation and context at Computer, 10 Oct '63

Pattern-seeking Function:
See Metaphysical, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Sense:
"I resolved to apply the rest of my life to converting
my pattern sense, through peleological principle into
design and prototyping developments governing the
pertinent, but as yet unattended, essential industrial
network functions... ft
Citation and context at Fuller, R.B.: Crisis of 1927, 14 Apr170

Pattern Sense:
See Blind Date with Principle, Jan'55

AbF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Stabılızıng:
"A triangle is a pattern stabilizing complex of energy
events.
11
-
Cite BF in Corcoran Gallery Address, Washington DC,
23 Feb 172

HBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Stability:
"A necklace has no pattern stability."
->
Cite RBF to H.U.D. Engineers, 26 Jan '12 at Washington

Pattern Stability: Pattern Stabilization:
See Structure, 16 Dec173; 27 Dec'74
Object, 9 Nov 73
Restraints, 8 Aug 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities:
"Thus we learn sum-totally how a ribbon (band) wave, a
waveband, can self-interfere periodically to produce
in-shuntingly all the three prime structures of Universe
and a complex isotropic vector matrix of successively
shuttle-woven tetrahedra and octahedra. It also illustrates
how energy may be wave-shuntingly self-knotted or self-inter-
fered with (see Sec. 506), and their energies impounded in
local, high-frequency systems which we misidentify as
only seemingly-static matter.'
->
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 930.26, 19 Dec 173

Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities:
See Tetrahelix: Continuous Pattern Strip
Waveband
Tetrascroll

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pattern Uniqueness:
That
There
If I
"Eler said, "We are dealing in pattern. Mathematics is
pattern and there are irreducible aspects of pattern.
is the patterns do represent some kind of events.
are the lines: a line is a unique kind of a pattern.
have two lines, where the two lines cross is distinctly
different from where the lines don't cross.' He called
this the vertex, the convergence. He said this is absolute
pattern uniqueness.
P
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 245. 11 Jul 62
'CONCEPTUALITY - PATTERN - SEC 505,101 VERTERIES
523.01

Pattern Uniqueness:
See Unique Pattern
(1)
25

Pattern Uniqueness:
See Synergetics, 1959
Synergist, 1954
Vertex, Jun 66
(2)

Pattern: Patternings:
See Awareness Patterns
Circumference Patterns
Complementary Pattern
Continuous Pattern Strip
Cumulative Patterning Overlays
Ecological Pattern
Evolutionary Pattern
Evolvement: Pattern of Evolvement
Flux Pattern
Fountain Pattern
Happening Patterns
Hierarchy of Patterns
Holding Pattern
Interpatterning
Interrelationship Patterns
Largest Pattern
Local Pattern
Local Holding Pattern
(1A)

Pattern: Patternings:
(1B)
See Local Patterning Aspects
Memory Album of Patternings
Metaphysical Wave Pattern
Minimum. Pattern Minimum - Pattern
Minimum Characteristics of All Patterns in Universe
Minimum Set of Patterns
Number Pattern
Omnidirectional Pattern
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities
Precessionally Shunted Pattern Relay
Pulse Pattern
Set of Patterns
Shunting: Relative Motion Patterns
Structural Pattern
Subpattern
Strip: Continuous Pattern Strip
Tetrahelix: Continuous Pattern Strip
Process Relationships

252
Pattern: Patternings:
See Tools as Part of the Pattern Man
Triangulation Pattern Strip
Unique Pattern
Equations = Pattern
Mathematics = Pattern
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern
Nuclear Pattern
(1C)

Pattern:
See Abstraction, Oct 59; 1955*
Alphabet, Jun'66
Brain's TV Studio, 1960
Comprehensive, Feb 72
Discovery 11 Jul 62
Energy 1960
Hair, Jul 62
Intellections, 1960
Irrelevancies:
Dismissal Of, 2 Jul 62*
Metaphysical & Physical, 2 Jun 74
Monkey Wrench, 9 Jul'62
Mathematics, 1965
Nature, Dec 72
Number, 1954; Jun*66*
Parts, 1954*
Principle, 12 Jun' 56
Intertransformability Systems, 28 Apr 77
(2A)

Pattern:
See Rafts: Early World Drifting on Rafts, 11 Jul'62
Recognize, 22 Jul 71
Residual Error, 1954*
Scientific Generalization, 28 Jan'69
Solid State
13 Jan173
Structure, 21 Dec171
Structure Sequence (1) (2)
Synergist, 1954
Triangle, 25 Feb169
Weather, Feb'73
Wave, 6 Nov 73
(2B)

Pattern:
See Pattern Analysis
Pattern Cognition Feedback
Pattern Cognizance
Pattern Conservation
Pattern Evolvement
Patterns of Experience
Patterns of Experiencing Returning Upon Themselves
Pattern-seeking Function
Pattern Generalization
Pattern Integrity
Pattern Integrity: Equation of
Pattern Processing Machines
Pattern Sense
Pattern Stabilizing:
Pattern Stability
Patterning of Patternings
Pattern Strip
Pattern Uniqueness
Pattern vs. Integer
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pauli'a Exclusion Principle:
"Pauli's exclusion principle verifies that each of the
stirred points in Brouwer's theorem and the point which did
not move have their inherently separate counterpart points,
which discloses bot the neutral axis formed by the two points
that do not move, and the obverse and reverse set of moving
points.
11
Citation & context at Brouwer's Theorem, 1960

TEXT CITATIONS
Pauli, Wolfgang:
8201.22

Pauli: Pauli's Exclusion Principle:
See Brouwer's Theorem, 1960*
Coincidental Articulation Sequence, (1)-(4)
Synergetic Hierarchy, (1)

RHF DEFINITIONS
Pauling,
Linua:
"Since all vectors are divisible by two Linus Pauling was
right that you can close pack spheres with two spheres
tangent connected.'
"
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 7 Oct '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linus Pauling:
"Dr. Linus Pauling has found and twice published his
saheroid clusters designed to accommodate this magic number
series in a logical system. without powerful synergetic
tools we find him in the vicinity of the answer; but
we now identify these numbers in an absolute synergetic
hieraghy which must transcend any derogatory suggestion
of pure coincidence, alone, for the coincidence reoccurs
with mathematical regularity, symmetry and structural logic
which identifies it elegantly as the model for the magic
numbers."
MAGIC NUMBERS
Cite NASA Speech, pages 104-105. Jun'66
SEC 98202 [995.34]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pauling, Linus:
"After X-ray diffraction in 1932, Linus Pauling who received
the Nobel Prize for his pioneering exploration of chemical
structuring, began to discover that metals were also see
yan't Hoff, 1965 tetrahedrally coordinated and interlinked,
not point-to-point but through one another as chains are
linked with dynamically coordinate or coincident grayitational
centers. If we think of six-edged chain links (remepering
that the tetrahedron is a six-edged pyramidal frame we can
envision the manner in which we may link tetrahedra in six
different directions. That multidirectional connectibility
explains the way in which metals are linked together."
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes), p.72-76,
1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pauling:
...
Linus Pauling:
"
"When you get to the reconstructs from x-ray diffraction,
Linus Pauling began to discover that all the metals were
tetrahedrally organized, but instead of being vertex to
vertex they were center of gravity to center of gravity.
An alloy could be stronger where you had congruent
centers of gravity-- that was a characteristic of metals
In fact, becausethe tetrahedon has six edges you could
chain or link it in six ways to six others and they would
not be vertex to vertex but edge to edge as linkage. So
the metals were tetrahedronally organized too and Linus
Pauling went on examining metal after metal. He has never
found a metal yet which is not tetrahedrally organized."
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, pp.74-75, 2 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Linus Pauling:
Pauling's x ray diffraction analyses show
omnitetrahedral configuration interlinkages of
gravitational centers of compounded atoms in all
metals analyzed.
It
Cite Omnidirectional Halo, p. 161. 1960

TEXT CITATIONS
Linus Pauling:
See NASA Speech, p. 57.
+ p. 104.
Oregon Lecture #2, pp.73-74 2 Jul162
Omnidirectional Halo, pp.151,161,
931.62
995.34
1960
8201.22

Pauling, Linus:
See Magic Numbers
Van't Hoff: Combining van't Hoff & Pauling
(1)

Pauling: Linus:
See Chemical Bonds, Jun'66
Closest Packing of Spheres, 7 Oct '71
Inorganic Chemistry, 10 Jui'62
Synergetic Hierarchy, (1)
Teaching, 2 Apr 71
Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature, 1965
Viral Steerability: Tetrahelix, 1960
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Peace:
"When you use the word peace too many people think of
political reforms, where there's a political struggle and
you try to persuade and that doens't do any good because
people can't live on persuasion. They've got to eat.
And so I'm interested in how you actually employ those
principles. So I began playing my World Peace Game, in
which I then said I won't use the word peace any more,
because man has no meaning for the word. There never has
been anything
peace. What has been called peace
is what pleased the last victor."
.....
Cite RBF in Watts Tape, p.64, 19 Oct'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Peace:
"...The prolonged and far more sanguinary private and
nonspectacular chapters of strife under the guise of 'peace.
壽
Citation and context at War, 1947

Peas:
See Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas

Peashooter:
See Hammerthrow, 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pebble:
"A little pebble is a rolling way to make more
dust and sand."
Cite RBF in tape for Wildlife Magazine, 3200 Idaho,
Wash DC, 30 May172

Pebble:
See Rock
Roundness
Stone
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
(1)

Pebble:
See Aggregate, 20 Dec'71
(2)

Peel Peeling:
See Precessional Peel-off
Skinning
Unpeel

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pellet:
"Pellet. That must mean it's been impelled.
thought about that."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3 Mar' 73
I'd never

RBF DEFINITIONS
Penance:
Penitent:
"The Brahmins are pure contemplation... They keep going
through ablutions and penance when there's nothing to be
penitent about.
"
Citation & context at Hesse, Herman, 28 Apr 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pencil:
"Rationalization alone, however, is not sufficient. it is not
an end in itself. It must be carried through to an objective
state and materialize into a completely depersonalized instru-
ment a pencil. (Who knows who made the first pencil?
Certainly not 'Eberhard Faber' or 'Venus'.) The pencil not
only facilitates communication between men, by making thought
specific and objective, but also enables men cooperatively to
plan and realize the building of a house, oxygen tent, flatiron,
or an x-ray cabinet by virtue of the pencil's availability.
The inventor-- alive or dead-- is extraneous and unimportant;
it is the pencil that carries over. Abstract thought dies with
the thinker, but the mechanism was building for a long time
before the moment of recognized in-vention."
Citation and context at Nationalization Sequence (4), 1938

Pencil:
See Design, 1938
Rationalization Sequence, (4)*
Teleology, (2)

Penditure:
See Expendable
Indispensable
(1)

Penditure:
See Twoness, (p.143) 1960
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pendulum Model vs. Scenario Model:
"The Pendulum Model of Newton's Universe in which the swings
decrease and the pendulum ultimately comes
to 'Up and Down Rest'
vs.
the inherently endless Scenario Model of Einstein's Universe
in which truth is ever approaching evolutionary and constantly
intertransforming, precessionally behaving, process of a complex
of omniaccommodative, intercomplementary, transactional events
involving in its inward-outward, three-way aroundness, catalogue
of alternate transformative options of ever more inclusive and
refining degrees-- in ever closer proximity to perfect equili-
brium of all transformative forces, but never attaining such
equilibrium of 'absolute' truth in which the avoidance of such
omnizerophase condition involves not only a constant metaphysical
apprehending, comprehending, sorting, contracting, and compacting
(by universal mind) of physical entropy's everywhere and every-
while increasing disorder and expansiveness (a disorder which
attains and passes through maximum asymmetry as the metaphysical
passes through, but fails to remain at, the zero of equilibrious
truth) wherefore metaphysical might continually improve the
scenario by conceptual discoveries of new generalized principles."
Cite PENDULUM MODEL vs. SCENARIO MODEL, (typescript), 23 Dec'68

Penetration: Penetrating:
See Compenetration: Compenetrate
(1)

Penatration:
Penetrating:
See Building, 28 Jan'75
(2)

Peninsula:
See Male & Female, 12 Jan' 74

Penis:
See Male & Female, 12 Jan'74; 1 Feb'75

Penitence:
See Hesse: Herman, 28 Apr 171

Pensive:
See Expensive Nonthinking, 24 Jan' 76

Pentagonal Polarity:
See Tensegrity Masts: Pentagonal Polarity

Pentazon:
See Hex-pent
Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons
Twelve Pentagons
(1)

Pentagon:
See Domain of a Point, May 172
Domains of Polyhedra, 7 Nov' 73
Necklace, (A)
(2)

People's Language:
See English, 28 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perception:
"The physical aberration is always in our perceptioning but
it is not the reality.
Citation & context at Principle, 6 Apr' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perception:
"Our vision is limited to the tiny red, orange, yellow,
green, blue, violet bands of frequency tunabilities represent-
ing far less than one-thousandth of one percent of the great
electromagnetic spectrum of the thus far discovered vast range
of the Physical Universe realities. Our afterimage overlapping
which results in our sense of motion, is even more limited in
its perceptual range.
"We cannot see the hands of the clock move. We cannot see life
growing. We cannot see either the stars or the atomic components
move, though they move at fantastic speeds. We can only see the
ultra-slow motions of the clouds, locally running waters, human
beings and other creatures, and their parts.
"No wonder that little man, who within his average lifetime
has seen only about one-millionth of the surface of his planet,
and has lived but a split-second of the astronomical ages, does
not see and cope simultaneously with the larger evolutionary
patternings and life aboard the planet Earth. Only through
memory plus thought-- greatly aided by instruments-- does man
discover the ultra- and infra-motion effects."
- Cite WHAT QUALITY ENVIRONMENT?, 24 Apr'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perception:
Our
"It is the nature of all our experiences that they
begin and end. They are packaged. For instance, we see
in 60 separate picture frames per second as in a moving
picture continuity. Each frame is a finite increment.
brain's after image lag is so powerful that (it) gives a
sense of absolute eccentricity' to our only subconsciously
packaged seeing. We wake up and go to sleep.
Cite NASA Speech,
Citation and context at Finite, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Percentual Peephole as Fraction of Reality:
"How did the Universe come into being with its complete
integrity, its comprehensively interaccommodative, omni-
differentiated rates and methods of transforming? Such
questions remain ever more importantly unanswered and seemingly
unanswerable. Yet, all of our present customs, ways of
thinking, and means of communication have been developed under
the misapprehension that only the minuscule, millionth part
of the physical Universe, which the peepholes of our
perceptual senses reveal, comprises the whole of reality.
Because humanity has deliberately fractionated the formal
study of residual reality into ever more minute specializations,
which continually know more and more about less and less, the
residual preoccupations have lost sight completely of any of
the comprehensive and infinitely inspirational mystery of
totality. First pragmatism, then utter despiritization,
have resulted. It is not God who died. It was sophisticated
man who died, choked to death by the ever-tightening noose
of specialization-- 'enlightened selfishness.
1
Cite ARCHITECTURE AS ULTRA INVISIBLE REALITY, p. 151, Dec. '69

Perceptual Peephole:
See Common Sense: Perceptual Peephole

Perception: Perceptivity:
See Apprehension
Invisible Motion
Convergent vs. Parallel Perception
Frequency Islands of Perception
(1)

Perception: Perceptivity:
See Principle, 6 Apr'75*
22:
(2)
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (1) (2)
Children as Only Pure Scientists, (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perfect:
"Nature abhors an equilibrium as much as she abhors
a perfect vacuum or a perfect anything."
-
For citation and context see Equilibrium, Jun 166

ABF DEFINITIONS
Perfect:
"Perfect, though impossible of demonstration, is nonetheless
the criterion of selection. Perfect is not only a direction
but a time direction, perfection being never in 'reality'
attainable. There is herein to be discerned the meaning of
"Never, Never Land" Children dream truly."
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE NOUN, p.19, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perfection:
"As a result of the gamut of relative recall time-lags,
the physical is always the imperfect experience, but tantaliz-
ingly always ratio-equated with the innate eternal sense of
perfection."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 443.04,
4 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perfection:
"Intellect... is an infinite refinement in proximation
to perfection, which perfection is the zero-inflection...
phase through which... the transformations oscillatingly
pass...
Citation and context at Intellect, 16 Aug 150

Perfect " Direction:
See Perfect, 1938

Perfect & Imperfect:
See Immaculate Conception, 25 Jan'72

Perfect Man:
See Immaculate Conception, 25 Jan'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perfect Prototype:
"The vector equilibrium... an invisibly perfect prototype in
pure principle."
Citation & context at Understanding, 4 Oct172

Perfect Zero:
See Aberrating, 23 Jun'75

259
Perfect: Perfection:
See Exact:
Ideal
Exactitude
Perfect & Imperfect
Potential
Perfect
- Zero
(1)

Perfect: Perfection:
See Equilibrium, Jun'66
Eternal Principles, 22 Nov 73
Frame of Reference, 4 Oct'72
God, May' 72
Immaculate Conception, 25 Jan'72
Intellect, 16 Aug' 50*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Performance: Equation Of:
"When finally solving from the inside out the teleologic
perspective will be universal and the equation of performance
will be:
Degree of satisfaction encompassment -
Degree of factor inclusion."
Citation & context at Taleology, 1938

Performance: Equation of:
See Equation: Philosophical Equations

RBF DEFINITIONS
Performance Per Pound:
"Inasmuch as nature's omni-inexorable transformings consist
of a plurality of equieconomical, alternatively employable,
disassociating and associating, principles-- these, together
with the complex of electromagnetic and mechanical principles
can be electively employed by humana to greatly advantage
humanity by producing ever higher performance with ever less
investment of resources as pounds of material, ergs of energy,
and hours of time, per each function designedly satisfied."
Citation & context at Artifacts (1) (2), 30 Apr 74

Performance Per Found:
See Copper
Design Science
Displacement of Ships & Buildings
Ephemeralization
Metals: Recirculation of Metals
More With Less
Weapons Technology
(1)

Performance Per Pound:
Acceleration of Change (2)
See Aesthetics, Dec167
Artifacts (1) (2)*
Automobile, Feb 72
Curvature: Compound, 12 Mar 74
Design Science (B)
Dome, 9 Jul*73
Dymaxion, 1967
Industrialization (1)
Prestressed Concrete Sequence (3)
Sovereignty: Elimination Of, 29 Jun 72
World Game (II)
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism, (1)
Bauhaus School: Remoteness Of, 24 Jan'58
Dymaxion Artifacts, (2)
Club of Rome: Limits to Growth, (B) (C)
Form Cannot Follow Function, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

Performance:
See Invisible Performance

Perfume:
See Communications Hierarchy, (2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Perimeters:
Synergetics: Fig. 412.01, note.
Sec. 465.42 (2nd. Ed.)
-

Perimeter:
See Macro-micro, 12 Nov' 75
Out-lining, 22 Mar' 76

Periodic-continuity:
See Continuity-finiteness
Scenario
(1)

Periodic-Continuity:
See Thought, May'49
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
"Mathematical concepts of group phenomena may be acquired in
principle by the willingness (subjectively initiated) of the
individual to be governed by the integrity of progressive
conceptioning principle-- the objective synchronizations are
implicit and unavoidable competence and comprehensive,
realizable design will result. Let us pursue further the
conceptioning in specifics of group principle.
"It is not difficult to understand that the trends to synchro-
nization by harmonic interval of one collection of events can
seemingly and sumtotally create an aspect of such superficial
incongruity in respect to the sumtotal collected harmonic
events of other phases of functional disposition, of the
differentiable Universe, as to predispose us to assume that
there might never be synchronization of one major collection
with another. We obviously incline to this predisposition by
virtue of the persistence of the familiar in our own environ-
mental close-up-- thought, which causes the dynamic inter-
penetrations to appear as a static, rather than as a periodic-
continuity environment reality.
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I & I, pp.237-238, May'49
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
"Misapprehension of our own dynamic significance becomes in
environmental close-ups a bundle of persistent periodicities
developing into a spontaneous anticipation of repetition of
harmonic intervals and their familiar synchronization.
(2)
"So marked is our proclivity for such anticipation that we set
ourselves as though we were alarm clocks to waken at specific
blocks of intervals of familiar periodicities of experience.
We relate our own heartbeat to minutes of hours of days, and
our meals or chemical fueling-- to the days of the postman's
coming and going, and even to periodicities such as invented
Father's Days and other soon-familiar invented conventions
of the persistent, complex periodic continuities of our days
into years. The invented periodicities may become only
monotonous.
"Life in retrospect, however, may be informatively discovered
to have been comprised of a progressive series of interruptions
and penetrations of the successively latest a priori environ-
ment continuities-- by unfamiliar frequencies or biodynamic
groups of frequencies, always occurring, as unfamiliar to the
Ignorantly accepted trend to mono-tony.
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.238, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(3)
"The new event always comes as an harmonic interruption of
frequencies, or an interference with the increasing inventory
of already assimilated synchronizations (up to the latest
instant), which have only become obvious by virtue of the
spontaneous synchronization of the sum total of acquired
experiences and progressively integrated interruptions.
"It is necessary that the comprehensive realizer ascertain in
principle how the mathematical proportioning of experience is
persuasive to the erroneous concept that the sum total bundle
of already-experienced frequencies constitutes so unified, or
well synchronized an experience whole as to have seemingly
always been 'known. The comprehensive realizer will discover
that his adequacy as rearranger of local Universe, in
principle, will, if competently effected, be acquired by men
as an obvious accretion, and that the more competent his
realizing-rearrangements of design, the less grateful the
beneficiaries, which will be precisely the objective of the
comprehensive realizer.
"A korwn personality, that is, a life-- with which the compre-
hensive realizer is concerned-- is a unique bundle of
Cite TOTAL THINKING, IaI, pp.238-239, May 49
"

261
RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(4)
"accumulated experience to which the new experience must always
be dissynchronous, but only at the moment of original inter-
ference, elee the new interaction of the greater complex of
truth would not have been recognizable and acquirable as new
experience and tactical advantage.
"The greatest overall misapprehension regarding the complex-
continuities is that which assigns a static or 'at rest
analysis to the sum total sensation of individual experience
and consequently to the sum total of all individuals
experience. Against the inertia of a seemingly static whole,
each new harmonic incorporation of life therefore seemingly
impinges as a dynamic perversity. This is why we frequently
remark, Kan tends to back up into his future.'
"In addition to the simple arithmetical, algebraic, and
geometrical progressions of the first, second, and third
degrees of acceleration, mathematics discloses other series,
and superseries, of superficially unpredictable mathematical
frequencies because they are composed of complementary and
reciprocal numbers whose products alone, though never occurring"
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.239, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
"simultaneously or in whole are compositely congruent with
complex progressions. But these complex components occur in
discontinuous series, and are inherently self-inexplicable.
The complementary functions must therefore impinge upon con-
sciousness only as meaningless. As immediately contemplated
upon first experience, they of necessity, alone, constitute
seemingly absolute perversity of interference. Synergy--
wholistic behavior unpredicted by parts.
(5)
"It is, therefore, the unpredictable degree of the super- and
the supersuper- 'n' degrees of complex association of energy
frequencies which seem most preposterous. We cannot view the
great confluences of separately and remotely significant events
forwardly resultant to now. Synergy is inherently surprising.
"When, however, these complexities are viewed in reverse, from
the advantage of even the most mathematically supersuper-
interference, the whole regains the acceptable sublimity of
aspect, such as a fleet of little ocean racers 100 miles off
Bermuda struggling with the waves of interference of the Atlantic
turning the perversely interfering winds to advantage by virtue"
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, pp.239-240, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(6)
"of the relative inertia of the relative waves of water,
eventually to pass Bermuda as the whole picture is observed
from the airplane and its infinitude of subcomplexities.
"Though both are designed with the same family of principles
called 'factors of ships,' the comprehensive ralizer can see
that the superficial difference between the collections of
frequencies which makes the Bermuda cruising boat seemingly
different from the airplane-- or indeed, man from elephant--
may be in principle the same difference as understandably
exists between an early Wright airplane and the latest super-
sonic airplane, or, yet, between an early Chinese hot air
balloon and a late helicopter.
"The only difference between the Wright and the supersonic
planes is the sum total of recurrent synchronized cyclic,
events known as the 'succession of design models' -- evoluted
in complex out of the physical experience with each trial
balance of the designed complex effected by
man, and
as let loose after static-load-test-within-limited-controlled-
conditions of variables, into the dynamic-load-tests within
the unknown, uncontrolled, comprehensive and a priori design"
Cite TOTAL THINKING, (I&I), p.240, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(7)
"complex of the residual uncharted variables of Universe.
The uncharted residual function of Universe balances the
special-set function of derived functions-- called from out
of the total principles of energetic Universe by the designer
as a newly realized mutation of species evolution accomplished
by synergetic extension.
"Though having no one common component part identification,
the difference between the 1904 Wright Brothers' biplane and
the 1963 superjet, supersonic, stratosphere monoplane is only
a group difference of a minor complex of almost 60 packed
years of experience with the same body of experience called
airship; which, in turn, only specialized in a few of the
greater body of principles called ship; which specialized in
a few of the greater body of principles called barth; which
specialized in a few of the greater body of principles
called motion%;B which specialized in a few of the greater
body of principles called energy, which specialized as an
original function for the comprehensive Universe. The first
derived coordinates of Universe would seem to be functions
of energy variant in respect to intellect.
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, pp.240-241, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(8)
"We can see that the concept of original separation of Universe
into two inherent functions-- and the further subdivision and
expansion of one function into a uniqe plurality of subsets of
functions and subsequent acceleration of specialized
experience with new design events of any one unique subset's
evolution, as contrasted against another, can only accelerate
superficial differences between any degrees of subsets.
"It is obvious that if the frequency of cyclic events differs
in one geographical environment from another, the life within
one environment may be accelerated to increasing degrees of
experience over the life within another and, therefore, to
sets of superficial difference of existence and trend.
It can
then be seen that what we might designate as natural education--
by induced self-discipline advantage-- represents an accelerated
testing of objective-subjective experience, and that accelera-
tion is natural and that natural education may potentially
evaporate the inadequacy predilections of original vanity and
superstitions and that the original springs of action may
become obsolete as the realizations of intellect and the
hitherto preoccupations with seeming frustration and self-
destruction may be supplanted, through the self-disciplining"
Cite TOTAL THINKING, (I&I), p.241, May149

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
"of the comprehensive designer to orderings of integrity of
Universe.
(9)
"Where, geographically speaking, of a priori unique environ-
ment continuities, the inherent periodicity of the occurrence
of interference is at a relatively low frequency, then the
rate of dissipation of ignorance is proportionally low, and
vice versa.
"The relatively lowest inherent periodicity of interference of
forceful variables-- of experience in the dynamic environment
(
geography)-- occurs in the dry land near sea level in the
region
of the equator. The periodic frequency of interference
by physical
variables increases outwardly from the Earth's
center into the colder climates of mountain and toward the
Earth poles.
The periodicity and magnitude of forceful inter-
ferences increase even more upon the seas, and yet more as
man penetrates outwardly from the unique energy fixations of
Earth into the cosmos of major categories of general dynamic
principles.
"Sum totally on Earth the residual vanities and superstitions
of the ego bulk up most obviously in the warm and mild climates,"
Cite TOTAL THINKIS, (I&I), pp.24-242, Nay'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(10)
"originally most favorable to the naked, ignorant man,
and are
most rapidly dispersed and replaced with intellectual ordering
in the environments of highest frequency of unprecedented
intensities of interference, penetrated now by man at will by
virtue of his contriving of realizations in complex princ-
ciples.
"Each of the sumtotal variety of biological forms represents
in simple principle the complex bundling of unique internal
experience continuities, and the latter's individual accumula-
tions of external periodic experience, within the greater
bundle of persistently unique environmental sequences-- of
variable geographic frequency bundle limitations. Humans have
abstract tree rings' of experience.
"The circling bands of cross-sectioned tree or the scalloped
terraces of the shellfish are convergently secreted structures
(interference of higher order) of cyclic bundling of experiences.
Wave embodiments of cyclic experience appear everywhere in the
accredited morphology of nature's omnidirectional, convergent-
divergent, synchronous-dissynchronous, infinite plurality of
pulsating controls of interactive events in principle.'
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, (I&I), p.242, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(11)
The cyclic wave accretions-- unique to parents and parent's
parent make overlapping internal impressions of the periodic
and cyclic interferences-structuring-by-accretion, prearranging
thereby internal angles of the original turbining tendency of
unfoldment, upon the gestating seed of periodic secretion of
outside-in then inside-out pulsation-inversion which we call
regenerative birth. This is, of course, a union of the
infinite inwardness with the infinite outwardness to fulfill
the comprehensive duality principle of uni-verse.
Human egos
are multiconcentric frequency 'halo' systems.
"As with the complex of synchronized convergent principles
called airplane, compounded of the succession of flight
experiences with a succession of 'improved' designs
in-corpor-ating all previous experience in action-reaction
juxtapositions (called structure and mechanics), a trend to
further inclusion and refinement of accelerating acceleration
of improvement is inherant but always improvement is relative
to the whole of already-secreted true experiences, whether as
yet detected or not by the redesign-cycle mutators.
A new design's 'sport' or subspecies may long be latent, a
helicopter development postponed by preoccupation with the"
* Cite TOTAL THINKING, (I&I), pp.242-243, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience: (12)
"initial concept of 'airship.' The relative, realized-complex
trend accelerates itself in compounding degrees, whereby,
eventually, the probability of numbers of immediately detected
forward mutations to be refiningly anticipated exceeds in
number the sum total of the previously secreted, or experienced,
impressions, innately preoccupying the species division.
"A historical shift is now occurring in the scientific view-
point, induced by this shift in balance of preponderant
numbers of effective impressions, pre-and-post-natal, upon
behavior probabilities of the various species to be affected
preponderantly by the relative number of post-natal, periodic,
and cyclic accelerations.
"Hazy awareness of the significance of this historically
pivotal event is at the core of hastily taken political posit-
ions seeking to establish monopolistic validity of comprehen-
sive viewpoint (where mono-logical explanation of the biologi-
cally functioning derivatives of Universe may never be tolera-
ble). Both sides are right about their specially selected
cases; neither may incr ase their understanding by arbitrary
limitations of experience and conception regarding the next"
Cite TOTAL THINKING, (I&I), p.243, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Experience:
(13)
"appropriate trial balance of potentials of the apprehended,
and therefore anticipated, periodic inclusions of the
subjective-objective 'beating to windward' of the periodically
shifting advantages of Universe. The comprehensive realizers
of all time have always realized the implicit truth of these
relationships of Uni-verse. Bias precludes synergetic
advantage.
->
Cite TOTAL THINKING, (I&I), p. 43, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Table:
"Because people thought the nucleus was one, they missed
for so long the significance of the atomic weights in the
Periodic Table."
-
Citation and context at Zero Frequency, 29 May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Table and Closest Packing:
In closest packing of spheres "the third layer of 92
spheres contain eight new potential nuclei which however
do not become active nuclei until each has three more
layers surrounding it-- three layers being unique to
each nucleus. This tells us that the nuclear group with
92 spheres in its outer or third layer is the limit of
unique, closest-packed assemblage of unit wavelength
and frequency, nuclear symmetry systems. This is
impressive for the system's three layers of 12, 42, y2
add to 146 which is the number of neutrona in uranium,
which has the highest nucleon population of all the
self-regenerative chemical elements-- and whose 146
neutrons plus the y2, unengaged mass attracting protons
of the outer layer adds y2 to 146 giving the predominant
uranium 238 from whose outer layer the excess two of
each layer-- which functions as a neutral axis of spin--
can be disengaged, which leaves the chain reacting,
uranium 236."
- Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 25, 13 Nov 69

Periodic Table & Closest Packing:
See Kite as Model for Quark, 3 May' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodic Table: Harmonica of 18:
"The prime number 17 accommodates all the positive-negative,
quanta-wave primes up to and including the number 18, which
in turn accommodates the two nines of the invisible twone ss
of all systems. It is to be noted that the harmonics of the
periodic table of the elements add up to 92:
8
8
18
18
18
18
36
18.
There are five sets of 18, though the 36 is not always so
recognized. Conventional analysis of the periodic table omits
from its quanta accounting the always occurring invisible
additive twoness of the poles of axial rotation of all systems."
- Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1238.43, 22 May'75

Periodic Table:
See Eightness:
Elementality
Begeted Eightness
Ninety-two Elements
(1)

Periodic Table:
64, 22 Jan'73
See Number:
Pythagoras, (2)
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 25 Feb'72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Periodicity:
"Because the physical is time, the relative endurances of
all special-case
physical experiences are
proportional to the synchronous periodicity of associability
of the complex principles involved."
-
Citation and context at Metaphysical Experience, 13 Mar 73

Periodicity:
See Comet
Harmonics: Harmonic Intervals
Ninety-two Elements:
Relative Abundance
Tidal
Invented Periodicities
Input Periodicities,
Decimal & Duodecimal
Octave
Local Periodicity
Periodic Regularities Or
(1)

Periodicity:
See Antientropy (1)
Design Covariables: Principle of, 1959
Ignorance (2)
Intellect, 16 Aug'50
Metaphysical Experience, 13 Mar*73*
Personality, May149
Physical, 13 Mar 73
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (1) (2)
Boeing 747 Sequence, 22 Jun 75
Regenerativity, 17 Jan '75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Peripheral:
"
•
Identifications of physical reality have been and
as yet are only awkwardly characterized because of the
inherent rationality of the peripheral hypotenuse aspects
of
systems in respect to their radial XYZ interrelationships."
(1),
[32]
-
Citation and context at XYZ Coordinate System, Sec. 825.53,Sep172

Periphery: Peripheral:
See Embracement
Surround
(1)
26

Periphery: Peripheral:
See Projective Transformation, (4)
(2)

Perishable:
See Mind, 24 Feb'72

Permanence & Normal:
See New York, 1970; 13 Mar '75

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RBF DEFINITIONS
Permanent Symbolic Communication Devices:
"Architects designed temples, cathedrals, and other.
buildings as permanent symbolic communication devices."
W
Citation and context at
(B), Aug 72
Invisible Architecture,

Permanent Sabolic Communications Devices:
See Religious Edifices

Permanent Wave Architecture:
See New York City, (1)

Permanence:
See Change is Normal

Permeative Topology:
See Dymaxion Airocean World, undated

Permeate: Permeative: Permeability:
See Omni embracing vs. Permeating
Omnipermeative
Permeative Topology
(1)

Permeate: Permeative: Permeability:
See Carrier Wave, 9 Mar 73
Octave Wave, 5 Mar 73
Synergetic Hierarchy, 5 May 74
Tetrahedral Dynamics, (3)
Time, 2 Jul '62
Truth, (1005.52) 29 Dec 73
Universe, 4 May157
Vector Equilibrium, 16 Oct 72
(2)

Permit: Permitted:
See Degrees of Freedom
Hammering Sheet Metal
Nature Permits it Sequence
Realization
Womb of Permitted Ignorance
Event Freedoms
Reciprocals of Permissible Viewpoints
Copermitting
(1)

Permit: Permitted:
See Artificial, Jan'59: 22 Apr161
Awareness, 10 Feb 73
Free Will, 20 Dec 73
Invisible, 16 Dec 73
Rules of Universe, 9 Dec 73
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry,
Twoness, 1960
Happening, 22 Apri71
Isotropic Vector Matrix, Oct'71
Conceptuality, 28 Feb'71
Restraints, Dec'71
Nov171
(2)

Permutations:
See Interpermutations
(1)

Permutations:
See Limit, Oct 71
Octahedron: Nuclear Asymmetric Octa, 1 Apr173
Prime Number, Oct 71
Resonance, 18 Jun'71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perpendicularity:
"Perpendicularity (90-degreeness) uniquely characterizes
the limit of three dimensionality."
->
Citation and context at Sixty-degreeness, 17 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perpendicular:
"The minute you know you are on a sphere or spheroid,
you know that none of the perpendiculars are parallel
to one another,"
- Cite RBF to SIMS Seminar, U. Mass, Amherst, 22 July 1971.

Perpendicular: Perpendicularity:
See Interperpendicular
Internuclear Vector Modulus
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Unique Perpendicularity
XYZ Coordinate System
Nonperpendicular
(1)

Perpendicular: Perpendicularity:
See Calculus, (1)
Omnidirectional Typewriter, (1) (2)
Projective Transformation, 16)
Sixty Degreeness, 17 Nov '72
Dimensionality, 30 Mar'75
Nature in a Corner, 6 Nov 75
Module: A Quanta Module:
22 Feb'77
Introduction Of.
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-packed
Spheres, (1,(2)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Perpetual Motion machine:
"Our
universe is the only and the minimum perpetual motion
It is self-regenerative."
madine.
-
* address
Citation & Context at Self-regenerative, 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perpetual Motion Machine:
"The Universe is a perpetual motion machine because its
energy is never lost. So the minimum number of transformations
is Universe. It is the minimum and only perpetual motion
machine, and perpetual conservation requires this metaphysical
functioning
of order and collection inherent to man."
Citation and context at Intellect: Equation of Intellect,
(2)(3), 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Perpetual Motion Machine:
"The physical Universe is a machine-- in fact,
Universe is the minimum and only perpetual motion
machine."
- Citation & context at Universe, 10 Dec'64

Perpetual Motion Machine:
Conservation of Energy
See Closed System:
Eternal vs. Finite
Self-regenerative
(1)

Perpetual Motion Machine:
Absolute Velocity, 30 Oct 173
See Intellect: Equation Of, (2) (3)*
Reciprocal, 9 Jul'62
Regenerative, 1960; 28 Apr 71
Self-regenerative, 2 Jun 71*
Sphere, 26 Jan'73; (1)(2)
Universe, 1960; 10 Dec'64*; 9 Jul'62
Minimum Sphere, Aug*71
(2)

Persistence: Persistent:
See Matter, 19 Jun'71
Hierarchy of Constellar Configurations, 1959
Mobility 4
Atom,

HBF DEFINITIONS
Personality:
"The interaction of the unique patterns of... inherited genes
and experiences...make personalities..." "
-
Citation & context at Individuality, 9 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Personality:
"A known personality, that is, a life-- with which the
comprehensive realizer is concerned-- is a unique bundle of
accumulated experience to which the new experience must
always be dissynchronous, but only at the moment of original
else the new interaction of the greater complex
interferid not have been recognizable and acquirable as
of truth
new experience and tactical advantage.
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (3) (4), May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Personality:
"Continuity of conscious life becomes personality and
is a product of complex periodic interactions known as
cycles, or periodic recurrences of a higher frequency
order."
-
Citation & context at Charting Alternating Experiences
of Man & Nature (1), May'49
Free TOTAL THINKING,
aythe

Personality:
See Dual Personality
Identity
Individuality
Multiple Personality
Self
Split Personality
(1)

REF JEFINITION
Personality:
See Charting Alternating Experiences in Man & Nature,
(4)(5)*
Individuality, 9 Jan'75*
Periodic Experience, (3) (4)*
(2)

Perspective:
See Central Perspective
Intellectual Perspective
Teleologic Perspective
Time Perspective
Universal Perspective

RBF DEFINITIONS
Persuasion:
"People can't live on persuasion. They've got to eat."
Citation and context at Peace, 19 Oct' 71

Persuasion:
(1)
See Education:
Fuller, R.B:
Knowing Where the Bridges Are
Decision to Be a Doer, Not a Persuader
26

Persuasion:
See Peace, 19 Oct'71*
Religion, May'65
(2)

Perturb: Perturbation:
See Interperturbation

Perversity:
See Future:
Man Backs into His Future, May'49
Progressions, May'49

68
Pessimism:
See River: You Might as Well Jump in the River

RBF DEFINITIONS
Petal: Tetrahedron as Three-Petaled Flower Bud:
"Convergence is involuting; divergence is evoluting.
"Each vertex of the tetrahedron precesses its opposite
face. Like the flower petal. The action is pear-shaped
as the pattern of the vertexes opening up. Like the
plus-four and the minus-four of the Indigs, which really
should not be illustrated in a plane: the model is
tetrahedronal as in the tetrahelix.
"The tetrahedron is regenerative-- quite different from
two hemispheres."
Cite RBF to EJA, Pepper Tree Inn, Santa Barbara, 11 Feb'73

Petal: Tetrahedron as Three-petaled Flower Bud:
See Leaf: Unfolding Leaves
(1)

Petal: Tetrahedron as Three-petaled Flower Bud:
See Comprehension, 16 Feb'73; 10 Jan 74
Geometrical Function of Nine, (3)-(6)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pata:
"In Florida one of the porpoises at Marineland picked
me as a pet. People pick dogs as pets. Porpoises pick
people as pets.'
-
RBF to videotaping audience (between takes), Penn Ball
Studios, Philadelphia, PA., 31 Jan '75

Petrocolonialism:
See Transnationalism vs. Colonialism, (5)

Petroleum: It Costs a Billion Dollars to Make a Gallon of
Petroleum:
See Cosmic Accounting Sequence, (2) (3)
Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (2)
Energy Capital Sequence, (2) (3)

Petro-pap-pipelines:
See World Pattern vs. Local Pattern, 29 Jan '75

Petroleum:
See Fossil Fuels
Petrocolonialism
(1)

Petroleum:
See Energy Slave, (3)
No Energy Crisis, (A)-(C)
(2)
63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Phantom Captain:
Q. Do you foresee the day when the phantom captains
inhabit vessels of their own design?
A.
"The phantom captains can and do inhabit only vessels
of their own design-- there are no other designs than
that of the great cosmic intellect's designing."
Cite RBF Ltr. to James Coley, Sep' 73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Phantom Captain:
"An illuminating rationalization indicates that captains--
being phantom, abstract, infinite, and bound to other captains
by a bond of understanding as proven by their recognition of
each other's signals and the meaning thereof by reference to
a common direction (toward 'perfect')-- are not only all
related, but are one and the same captain. Tathematically,
since characteristics of unity exist, they cannot be nonidentical."
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MUN, p.22,
1938

RBF DEFINITION
Phantom Captain:
"Common to all such 'human' mechanisms- and without which they
are imbecile contraptions-- is their guidance by a phantom
captain.
"This phantom captain has neither weight nor sensorial
tangibility, as has often been scientifically proven by careful
weighing operations at the moment of the abandonment of the
ship by the phantom captain, 1.e., at the instant of 'death.'
He may be likened to the variant of polarity dominance in our
bipolar electric world which, when balanced and unit, vanishes
as abstract unity 1 or U. With the phantom captain's departure,
the mechanism
becomes inoperative and very quickly disintegrates
into basic
chemical elements.
-
Cite NiE CHAINS TO THE NOUN, p.19, 1938
A-A

Phantom Captain:
See Beautiful, 1938
False Property Illusion, (1)(2)
Industrial Man, 1938
Reflection Sequence:
Teleology, (2)(3)
Applew, (2) (3)

Pharaoh:
See Ecology Sequence, (H)
Pink Stuff, May10
Pyramid Technology, Dec'71
Buddha: Christ: Mohamed, (1)

Phase: Coming Into Phase:
See Continuous Man, 1971
Individual Economic Initiative, 19 Feb'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Phase & Interphase:
The
"Phase and Interphase of Cosmic System Transformations:
Phases are symmetric and interphases are asymmetric.
interphases are only locally asymmetric but always
omnitransformatively symmetric."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of 8 Feb 76 citation: 9 Feb'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Phase & Interphase:
"Phases are symmetric and interphases are asymmetric.
The phases are locally and physically asymmetric but
sumtotally symmetric."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC.; 8 Feb 76

Phase:
See Behavioral Phases
Coming Apart Phase
Coming Towardness:
Conservation Phase
Contracted Phase
Coming Together Phase
Convex Individualizable Phase
Contracting Metaphysical Universe
Denucleated Phase
Equilibrious-balance Phase
Equimagnitude Phases
Expanding Physical Universe
Gestational Phase
Gibbs: Phase Rule
Holding Together Phase
Inside-out Phase
Inventory of Proclivities, Phases & Disciplines
Limit Phase
Neutral Phase
Nothingness Phase
(۱۸)

Phase:
See Omni-phase-bond Integration
Omnipotential-energy Phase
Orbital Phase
Proclivity
Push-pull:
Push Phase vs. Pull Phase
Spherical Quadrant Phase
Symmetric Phase
Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model
Three-phase Vectors
Vector-equilibrium Phase
Zerophase
Split-phase
Interphase
Liquid-crystal-vapor-incandescent-phases
(1B)

Phase:
(2)
123
See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring: Hierarchy of,
19 Dec 73
Congruence, 25 Jan172
Inflection,
Synergetics, 26 May'72
Time, 1970
Transformation, undated
1950
Universe as Energy & Information, 11 Nov174
Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta,
25 Mar 71
Dwelling Service Industry, (2)

Ph.D'a as Deluxe Quality Technicians or Mechanics:
See Specialists, May'65

Phenomenology:
See Vector Equilibrium, Summer' 71

Phenomena: Phenomenon:
See "Named" Phenomena
Pattern Integrity Phenomenon Without Name

RBF DEFINITIONS
Philosophers:
"Some of the best thinkers I know are patent attorneys, many
of them quite impressive philosophers, really trying to think
about what Universe is trying to do: What are the true
equities, difficult questions; and there's a great deal of
study going on now in the patent world about enormous changes
and reforms. I wouldn't be surprised if that would be an
area where world man forms his own new rules."
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #8, Side B;
transcript p.7; 22 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Philosophy:
"I don't want any credit for having such wisdom as the
ancient philosophers. I was just lucky enough to have been
so busy as a mechanic, never to have learned about them.
"When I entered Harvard I had all A's in mathematics and
I took some more advanced math, and so I was able to catch on
to the whole idea of geometric proofs. But I had the good
luck to be insulated from all philosophy and such formal
knowledge. They didn't tell you anything about Plato at
Milton Academy. The nearest we got was the Platonic solids
in solid geometry.
"I knew Shakespeare, and the Fairie Queen, and Thackeray,
and all about the kings in history: who beheaded who and
who put someone in a tower. I had the battle stuff okay.
....And
all I knew about the greeks
was what my mother had taught me about the Spartan boy
who brought the fox in to eat all his guts."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC: 11 Aug 76
Incorporated in COSMIC FISHING; MS p. 11 - 2.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Philosophy:
"Philosophy gains validity by the practical application of
its general principles."
-
Cite RBF quoted by Alden Hatch in "RBF: At Home in the Universe,"
P. 184. Tape transcript probably. 6 Jun 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Philosophy:
"The artists are philosophers in cry."
Citation & context at Artist, 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Philosophy:
"Technology represents philosophy resolved to the most
cogent argument.
Citation & context at Technology, 1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
Philosophy:
"You can't better the world by simply talking to it.
Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Wichita, Kanagaz 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Philosophy:
"But you can't better the world by simply talking of or
to it. Philosophy, to be effective, must be mechanically
applied."
Cite 4-D, Timelock, Chapter 5, 21 May'28

Philosophy:
See Boolean Algebra
Christian Legend & Philosophy
Containing & Contained
Epistemology
Ethical Physics
Fuller, R.B:
His Neo-Platonism
Geometry of Thinking
Logic
No Thing-in-itself
Psychological Geometry
Reductio ad Absurdum
Teleology
Thinkability
Thinking
Determinism
Causality
Equation: Philosophical Equations
(1)

Philosophy: Philosophers:
See Civilization, May '70
Force, 1946
Inhibit, 9 Apr 40
Marx, Karl: Epitaph, undated
Self-discipline, May 72
Synergetics, Oct 71
Technology, 1947*
Tension, 4 Oct 72
Theory, 22 Jul 71
Author, Dec'72
Epistemology, 28 Kay'75
Fear & Longing, 1938
Communications Hierarchy, (2)
(2)
121

Phobia of Imprisonment:
See Immobility, 4 May'57

RBF DEFINITIONS
Phoenician:
"Phoenician = phonetic. The Phoenicians invented the
alphabet for trade.'
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Phoenician Phonetic Sequence:
--
red
--
DO
*Poon
Punic Wars
pundit
--
punt -- boat...
thinker -8
Phoenician
Venetian
Cite RBF videotaping Penn Bell Studios, Phila., PA 23 Jan'75

Phonetics: Phonetic Letters:
See Letters of the Alphabet
Navy Phonetic Sequence
Phoenician Phonetic Sequence
(1)

Phonetics: Phonetic Lettera:
See Phoenician, 28 Jan'75
Communications Hierarchy, (2)
(2)

Photoelectric:
See Light Cells

Photography:
See Camera
Macrophotography
Microphotography
Model vs. Photograph
(1)

273
Photography:
See Eye-beamed Thoughts, (II) (III)
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Photon:
"Max Planck's photons of light are separately packaged at
the radiation source and travel in a group-coordinated
flight formation spherical surface pattern which is ever
expanding outwardly as they gradually separate from one
another. Every photon always travels radially away from
the common origin. This group-developed pattern produces
a sum-totally expanding spherical wave-surface determined
by the plurality of outwardly traveling photons, although
any single photon travels linearly outwardly in only one
radial direction. This total energy effort is exactly
expressed in terms of the exponential second-power, or areal
'squaring,' rate of surface growth of the overall spherical
wave; i.e., as the second power of the energy effort expended
in lifting one gram in each second of time a distance of
one 'vertical' centimeter radially outward from the origin
center."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 223.72, 26 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Photon:
"The minimum increment of all radiation, the photon
R Max Planck's photon of light. . . expands outwardly as
a spherical wave surface in all directions-- instead of
travelling linearly outwardly in only one direction..."
radial
Citation and context at Planck's Constant (C), 15 May'73

Photon-quantum:
See Spherical Field, 9 Jan '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Photon: Tetrahedron Edge as Unit Radius:
验 ...We identify the minimum tetrahedron photon as that
with radius = c, which is the speed of light: the tetrahedron
edge of the photon becomes unit radius = frequency limit."
Cite RBF clarification of garble at galley marginalis,
SYNERGETICS Sec. 1106.23, by telephone from la Jolla,
to Wash, DC, 17 Jan '74.
da
Citation & context at Unit Radius, 17 Jan '74

Photon: Tetrahedron Edge as Unit Radius:
See Constant Volume of A & B Quanta Modules
Radial Line as Tetra Edge
Tetra Edge
Unit Radius
(1)

Photon: Tetrahedron Edge as Unit Radius:
See T Quanta Module, (1)
(2)

Photon:
See Photon-quantum
(1)

Photon:
See Finite Furniture, 7 Nov 73
Gravity, (2)
Planck's Constant, (A)-(C)*
Nonsimultaneity, 7 Nov'73
(2)

Photo-satellite:
See Satellite: Telescopes Mounted on Around-Earth,
Fixedly-hovering, Photo-satellites

RBF DEFINITIONS
Photosynthesis:
"Photosynthesis is meaningful communication whereby metaphys-
ical rules the physical (like the Federal Reserve Bank) by
issuing or withdrawing complex coding-identified 'quanta'
currency from the overall, cosmic, transforming and trans-
action system's accounting."
Citation & context at Radiation as Information-carrier,
9 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Photosynthesis:
"The Sun's radiant energy
Is the prime regenerating source
For all biological life on our planet.
Even while sunburning their skins
Humans and all other mammals
Are unable to take in enough radiant energy
Through their skins
To keep themselves alive.
To circumvent mammals attempting futilely
Nature has invented
The green vegetation on the dry lands,
so to do
And the algae in the waters around the Earth's surface.
The vegetation and the algae
Impound the Sun's radiation by photosynthesis
Converting the radiation
Into orderly molecules,
Which provide celestial life's prime energy intake.
The vegetation and algae
Provide metabolic sustenance
Of all manner of creatures,
Some of which can in turn.
Nourish humans.
Cite BRAIN & MIND, Pp. 109-110 May 172
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Photosynthesis:
"Urged by subconsciously initiated desire,
Or genetically programmed
To experience thirst, appetite and breathing,
Biological species are motivated
To 'feed' in the solid, liquid and gaseous
Chemical constituents necessary
To produce the ongoing biological molecules
hose energies are convertible
Into action and growth."
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.110 May 172
(2)
23

RBF DEFINITIONS
Photosynthesis:
"Thus Sun energy as heat is impounded into the atmosphere
to produce weather changes. Thus also are the waters refract-
ionally heated by the Sun's radiation. Thus by a series of
relay stages is energy impounded aboard our spaceship Earth
to regenerate life by the photosynthesis of the vegetation,
which is a beautiful process whereby the random energy receipts
are transformed chemically into beautiful orderly molecules,
which are beautiful structures. Here you see the turnaround
from
disorder to order-- from entropy to antientropy.
All the biologicals are converting chaos to beatiful order.
All biology is antientropic."
Cite Antientropy (2), Oct'69

Photosynthesis:
See Biosphere
Ecology Sequence
Metabolic Flow
Radiation Sequence
Electromagnetic-photosynthetic Programming
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model
(1)

Photosynthesis:
See Antientropy, (A) (B); (2)*
Boltzmann Sequence, 15)
Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (2)
Cosmic Accounting Sequence, (2)
Design, (2)
Isotropic Vector Matrix Field, 15 Feb'73
Manifest: Six; 1973
Precession (a)(b); (II)
Roots, May
72
Syntropy & Entropy, 31 May174
Wind Power Sequence, (2) (3); (A)
Radiation as Information-carrier, 9 Jun 75
(2)

RBP DEFINTIONS
Physical:
"The physical is always special case; that's why we spell
Universe with a capital U."
Cite RBF to EJA & Roger Stoller, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC; 12 Nov'75
GENERALIZATION + SPECIAL
CASE
SEC 262.081

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"The physicist's first definition of physical is that it is
an experience which is extracorporeally, remotely, instrument-
ally apprehendible."
Citation & context at Metaphysical & Physical, 27 Dec174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
*The physical is always experienc@able and special case."
Citation and context at Limit-Limitless, 4 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"p = Physical: All the physical is energy.'
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1056.20 (Item #32), 13 Fay173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"Because the physical is time, the relative endurances of all
special-case physical experiences are proportional to the
synchronous periodicity of associability of the complex
principles involved."
-
Citation & context at Metaphysical Experience, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"... The physical energy Universe's
inexorably expanding momentary disorders..."
Cite INTUITION, p.60 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"Waves are not metaphysical. Waves are physical."
Bitation at Wave, 19 Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"Definition of Intellect: The metaphysical measures
the physical, but not the reverse, i.e., local
irreversibility."
-Cite RE
Soweiser Club Boston,
Citation at Intellect: Equation of Intellect, 22 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"Without weight you do not exist physically-- nor
without a specific temperature.
-
-
Citation & context at Temperature of the Human Body, 21 Dec'71
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"The physical alone accelerates and is fast.
It is really
only the destructive things or negative things that accelerate."
Citation & context at Eternal Slowdown, circa 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"The physical is subdivisible
Into two different phenomena
Energy associative as matter-- substance
And energy disassociative as radiation,
Both of which behavioral phenomena
May be transformed into one another."
-
Cite RBF Draft BRAIN & MIND, pencil, 1970

RBF DEFINTIONS
Physical:
"The physical is inherently entropic; it gives off
energy in ever more disorderly ways.
"
-
Cite NEHRU, p. 39
13 Nov 69

RBP DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"The physical is always special case.'
Citation and context at Generalization Sequence (1), Jun-Jul*69

RbF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"The concept of life
Is unique to the mind.
Brain apprehands
Only the physical.
Drain does not differentiate life and death."
-
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.7, 28 Jan'69

HBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
All patterns, for instance, numbers or phonetic
letters, consist of physical ingredients or physical
experience recalls. The physical ingredients consist
inherently of event-paired quanta, and the latter's
six-vectored, positive and negative, actions, reactions
and resultants.
R
Cit NASA Speech, p. 56 Jun166
Citation at Pattern, Jun*66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"The proton group and the neutron group account
rationally for all physical structures."
Cite NASA Speech; p. 64, June 166
Citation at Proton & Neutron, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"My definition of Universe inherently includes all
the ponderable, i.e., weighable, instrumentally detectable,
associative and disassociative, material and radiational
energy behaviors of the physical subdivision of Universe."
-
Cite DOXIADIS,
p. 310, 20 Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"Electromagnetic frequencies of systems are sometimes
complex but always constitute the prime rational integer
characteristic of physical systems.
"
79-Jun+66
Citation at Frequency, (p.91) Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
STRUCTURAL
ASE
"All physical phenomena accounted in the terms of
tetrahedron, octahedren, vector equilibrium and
icosahedron."
(RBF noted 30 May 172 that "avilinear is
physical but not structural, since it is not
accounted for by tetrahedron, octahedron,
vector equilibrium, and icosahedron."
EJA note.)
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 179, 9 Jul '62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"It is the nature of physical universe always to operate
in the most economical ways. Sometimes there are a
plurality of equally economicals and nature might operate
in any one of these equally economicals. This does not
put nature into a groove. There is not just a one most
economical way but there are an alternate number of equally
economicals-- and nature will always take one of that set."
Cite OREGON LECTURE #2
P. 70, 2 Jul 162

HBF DEFINITIONS
Physical:
"The physical portion of Universe is energetic
and finite."
Cite INTRO. to OMNIDERECTIONAL HALO,p. 124, 1959

Physical Case:
See Vector Equilibrium, Oct175
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 10 Dec'75

Physical Discontinuity:
See Interference:
19 Dec 73
You Really Can't Get There From Here,

TEXT CITATIONS
Physical Education:
Hyper, World Mag., 10 Apr 173

Physical Evolution:
See Cosmogony.
Scenario Universe: Physical Evolution Scenario

Physical Experience Recalla:
See Pattern, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical is Always the Imperfect:
"The whole of Universe is a consequence of our not seeing
instantly. As a result of the recall lags the physical is
always imperfect."
Citation at Recall Lags, 26 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Is Always The Imperfect:
"We discover . . . that the physical is always the imperfect,
special-case, after-imaged lagging realization of the
ideal generalization, which can be realized, or momentized,
or experimentally identified, time-ized and measured, only
by such limited, ergo imperfect approximation, all of which
latter is implicit in Heisenberg's operationally imposed
indeterminism."
-
For citation and context see Metaphysical, 14 Feb 172

Physical is Always the Imperfect:
See Recall Lags, 26 May172*
Metaphysical, 14 Feb'72*
Perfection, 4 Nov'73

Physical Ingredients:
See Pattern, Jun'66

Physical Law:
See Lawa of Nature vs. Laws of Man
(1)

See Navy: Theory Of, 22 Dec'74
Physical Law:
221
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Life:
"Physical Life is always a special case."
Citation and context at Generalised Principle (A), 22 May173

Physical to Metaphysical - Brain to Mind:
See Triangle, (1)

Physical to Metaphysical:
See Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity
Idea Trending
Progressions
(1)

Physical to Metaphysical:
See Cosmic Accounting, 2 Jun 74
Process Relationships, 28 Jan'69
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Reality:
"Very clearly, vector equilibrium is a zerosize tetrahedron.
We have already had tetrahedron as an indestructible phenomenon
independent of sise. And then we have it getting into its own
true zero vector equilibrium. It is a condition that apparently
nature does not permit in our life, but what we call physical
reality is always a positive and negative pulsating aberration
of the whole-- a multifrequency-accommodating, vector equilibrium
aberratability whole."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 441.23 as rewritten by RBF
on galley, 4 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Reality:
"It is a condition that nature apparently does not permit in
our life, but what we call physical reality is always a
positive and negative pulsating aberration of the whole-- a
multifrequency-accommodating, vector equilibrium aberratability
whole."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 441.23,
4 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Reality:
"The vector equilibrium and the isotropic vector matrix
are the equilibrium or the central set of conditions
through which physical reality palpitates.
It never
stops at the center.
19
•
->
For citation and context see Vector Equilibrium, 1 May *71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Reality:
"It is a condition that nature apparently does not permit in
life, but what we call reality is always a
our
positive and negative set of the whole."
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron, (3),
11 Jul 62

00
Physical Reality:
See Potential vs. Physically Realized
(1)

Physical Reality: Physical Realization:
See Awareness, 10 Feb'73
Mathematics, undated
No Generalized Boat, 22 Jan'75
Vector, 27 May'72
Vector Equilibrium, 1 May'71*
Vector Equilibrium:
Universe, 11 Dec'75
Zero Tetrahedron, (3)*
Regular Uniangular, 11 Dec'75
(2)

Physical Ingredient Recalls:
See Alphabet, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Sciences:
"But physical science lacked the experience which might have
persuaded it to hypothesize what all Universe it. Physical
science therefore restricted its comprehensive accounting
strategy to the special case of definitive isolations within
the physical portion of Universe. This left the remainder of
all experiences, no matter how earnestly and meticulously
reconsidered, outside the definitive portion of comprehended
experiences of Universe,i.e., the physicist gaid that all
that is not physically encompassed as E Mc2 is metaphysical."
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.124, 1959

Physical vs. Structural:
See Physical, 9 Jul'62
Wavilinear, 30 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Synergy:
"The universal mass interattractions called gravity
of galaxies, star systems and atoms
All manifest physical synergy." 11
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan. 172, p. 6.

Physical Tetrahedron vs, Conceptual Tetrahedron:
See Instantaneity Eternity

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Universe:
"The whole of physical Universe experience is a consequence
of our not seeing instantly, which introduces time. As a result
of the recall lags the physical is always imperfect."
-
& context
Citation at Time, 26 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Universe:
"Minimum ffort is one of the chief characteristics of
our physical Universe.
"
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Universe:
"Physics has found the whole physical Universe to be
uniquely differentiated and locally defined as 'waves,1"
[02]
Cite RBF Margonalis, at SYNERGETICS, Sec. 522.04, Nov. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Universe:
"The physical universe as we have seen it is
entirely charcterized by entropy-- an ever increasing
randomness, an ever increasing diffusion as all the
different and non simultaneous transformations and
reorientations occur.'
Gite NASA Speech, pr-87, Ju№ 66
Citation and context at Comprehensive Universe (1), Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physical Universe:
"Synergetics originates in the assumption that dimension
must be physical. It follows that, inasmuch as physical
Universe is entirely energetic, ali dimension must be energetic.
Vectors and tensors constitute all elementary dimension."
Citation at Dimension, 1 Apr'49

Physical Universe:
See Equanimity Model
Eternal Universe & Physical Universe
Intellect in Physical Universe
Expanding Physical Universe
Perpetual Motion Machine
Energy: Energetic
(1)
28

Physical Universe:
See Comprehensive Universe, (1)*
Dimension, 1 Apr149*
Energy, Jun'66*
Frequency, 1970
Radiation, 18 Mar'65
Relativity, May 72; Jun'66
Time, 26 May 72*
Wave, Nov'71
Zero, 13 Nov'69
A Priori Four-dimensional Reality, (1)
Conservation of Energy, 18 Mar'65
Poetry, 13 Nov'69
Left & Right, 7 Nov' 75
Infinite, 15 Oct172
Multiplication by Division. 20 Jan' 77
(2)

Physical Vectors:
See Powering: Sixth Powering, 26 Nov 72

Physical:
(1A)
See Body:
Bodies
Field: IVM Field of Thought or Physical Articulation
Life Cells
Life is Not Physical
Metaphysical & Physical
Mortal
Omnidirectional:
Surrounds
Physical Existence Environment
Physical vs. Structural
Real
Realization
Scenario Universe:
Sense Phrases
Energy & Information
Metabolic Flow
Physical Evolution Scenario
Atoms vs. Radiation
Matter
Matter vs. Radiation
Know-how Accounting vs. Physical Accounting
Human Mind & Physical Evolution

82
Physical:
See Frequency =
Experienced Physical Energy
Constant vs. Physical
Ninety-two Elements
(1B)

Physical:
Adam & Eve, 2 Jun'74
See Awareness, 10 Feb 73
Angular Topology: Principle of, 14 Dec166
Communication, 13 Mar 73
Electromagnetic Spectrum, Aug'64
Eternal Slowdown, 1970*
Generalization, 13 Mar 73
Generalization Sequence (1)*
Intellect: Equation of Intellect, 2 Apr171*
Imperfect, 26 May 72
Limit-limitless, 4 Nov 173*
Organism, 3 Jun 72
Metaphysical Experience, 13 Mar'73*
Frequency, (p.y1) Jun'66*
Life, 7 Apr 75
Modelability, 12 May'75
Energy Event, Mar'71
Multiplication by Division, 20 Jan' 77
(2A)

Physical:
See Pattern, Jun'66*
Proton & Neutron, Jun'66*
Periodicity, 13 Mar 73
Principle, Jun'69
Real, 20 Apr 72
Reality, 22 Apr'71
Size, 21 Mar 73
Specialization, 28 Apr 71
Structure, 29 Dec 58; 1965
War, 1971
Wave, 19 Dec 171*
Temperature of the Human Body, 21 Dec'71*
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects, 12 Feb'76
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (1)(2)
(2B)

Physical:
Physical Case
See Physical Discontinuity
Physical Education
Physical Experience Recalls
Physical Is Always the Imperfect
Physical Ingredients
Physical Life
Physical to Metaphysical
Physical Reality
Physical Ingredient Recalls
Physical Sciences
Physical vs. Structural
Physical Synergy
Physical Universe
Physical Vectors
Physical Law
Physical Tetrahedron vs. Conceptual Tetrahedron
Physical Evolution
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physics:
"That's what physics is: the energy investment of Universe
on a wave-quantum basis."
Cite RBF remarks at Design Science Institute press conference,
N.I. 28 Jun 72

KLF DEFINITIONS
Physics:
"Thysics is concerned only with the most economical."
- Citation at Most Economical, 12 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physics:
"All the time phenomena of physicists are linear."
- Citation & context at Time, 8 Mar 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physics:
"Ernest Mach
said that 'Physics is experience
arranged in the most economical order.' To define the
special case of scffice known as physics Mach added only
the two words 'most economical' to Eddington's definition
of generalized science. Mach made this qualification
because physicists have found that nature always behaves
most economically."
Cite Hist Speech, -pp-)
66
-
Citation & context at Environmental Events Hierarchy, (5)(6),
Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physics & Chemistry:
Difference Between:
"The vector equilibrium is the... zero-inflection, nonmoment
of intertransformabilities where anything can happen and must
happen single-atomically within and multiatomically without."
"
-
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium as Starting Point,
8 Apr 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
&c Chemistry:
Physics:
Difference Between
"In the atoms we are always dealing in equiradius spheres.
Chemical compounds may, and
often do, consist
of atomic spheres with a variety of radial dimensions.
Since each chemical element's atoms are characterized by
unique frequencies, and unique frequencies impose unique
radial symmetries, this variety of radial dimensionality
constitutes one prime difference between nuclear physics
and chemistry.'
"
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS, Sec. 415.23 (5 July172)
per marginalis, Beverly Hotel, NY, 22 Jun 172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
& Chemistry:
Difference Between
Physica:
"In the atoms we are always dealing in equiradius spheres.
Chemical compounds may, and often do, consist of atomic
spheres in a variety of radial dimensions. This is the
difference between nuclear physics and chemistry."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 415.23, 8 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physics & Chemistry: Difference Between:
"In the atoms we are always dealing with equiradius
spheres. Chemical compounds have multiradius spheres.
This is the difference between nuclear physics and
chemistry."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 28 May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
& Chemistry:
Physics: Difference
"All the internal or nuclear affairs of the atom occur
internally to the vector equilibrium and all the external
or chemical associations occur externally to the vector
equilibrium."
peech, pp.
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium (I), Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
& Chemistry:
Physics:
Difference Between
"The cube relates to chemistry, the external affairs of
the atom. Organic chemistry begins with the cube:
carbon. The tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron
relate to physics, the
affairs of the atom."
internal
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
& Chemistry:
Physics:
Difference Between
"All the phenomena larger and more complex than vector
equilibria do relate to the chemical compounds and anything
smaller than vector equilibrium relates to the single atoms
and the single atoms do get into the symmetries whereas the
chemical compounds get into a polarized system."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture 3
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium, ii Jul'62
TE AS ZERO MODEL SEC +32.03 440.03)

RBF DEFINITIONS
& Chemistry:
Physics: Difference Between
"The physicist deals with the internal affairs
and
the chemist with the external affairs of the atom. 17
Cite NO MORE SECOND HAND GOD, p.32, 9 Apr'40

04
Physics & Chemistry: Difference Between:
See Atoms c Compounds: Difference Between
Ninety-two Elements
(1)

Physics & Chemistry: Difference Between:
See Organic & Inorganic, Nov 71
Vector Equilibrium, (I)*; 11 Jul*62*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Physics as Internal Affairs of the Atom:
"The tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron relate to
physics, the internal affairs of the atom."
Citation and context at Physics: Difference Between Physica
and Chemistry, 31 May'71

Physics as Internal Affairs of the Atom:
See Atom as Solar System

Physice:
See Ethical Physics
Fielda
Quantum Mechanics
Relativity
Strange Particles
Conceptual Physics
Quarks
(1)

Physics:
See Energetic Words, 1 Jul'62
Environmental Events Hierarchy,
Invention, 27 Dec '73
MIT Sequence, (2)
Jun'66*
Most Economical, 9 Jul 62; 12 Mar'71*
Time, 8 Mar 71
Topology, 11 Dec 75
Structure, 23 Jan'76
Experiential Mathematics, 15 Oct' 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
PL
"The neat five value of the nuclear sphere eliminates the
necessity of employing pi in synergetics coordinate systems,
though it discloses where and why pi coexists, but only as a
terminal vestige."
Citation and context at Cul de Sac, 30 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pi:
"Circle
"Sphere
•
GOT
polygon
polyhedron
"That's what makes calculus and trigonometry seem so difficult.
And pi doesn't come in because the arc is just not there. The
radian is beyond the limits of experienciable demonstrability."
cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho Nw, (Cf. Sec. 1005.63 draft), 8 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pi: (I):
"The irrational radian and pi (T) are not used by nature
because angular accelerations are in finite package
impelements which are chordal (not arcs) and produce
hexagons because the average of all angular stabilizations
from all triangular interactions average at 60 degrees--
ergo radii and 60-degree chords are equal and identical;
ergo six 60-degree chords equal one frequency cycle; ergo
one unit of quantum.
"
-
Otte ket untated holograph, done in November 1971,
probably in New Delhi, India
Tacorporated in SYNERGETICS at Sec. 423_10, 11 Oct 72
Citation at Hexagon, Nov 71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Pi: ():
"The transcendentally irrational 'constant' pi (N) is
irrelevant to spherical geodesic polyhedral array calculations
because minimum sphere is a terahedron."
-
Citation & context at Minimum Sphere, Aug'71

RBF DEFINTIONS
PA: ():
"P1 (7) is irrelevant in Synergetics because the sphere
is not experimentally demonstrable and tetrahedron is
the minimum sphere. Compound curvature starts with the
etetrahedron. Pi drops out because chords are more
economical than arcs. .
-Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicage, 31 March-1971-
-
Citation and context at Sphere, 31 May171

Pi:
(\pi):
See Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship Sequence
Circle: Synergetice Formula for Triangular Area
of a Circle
Irrational Constants
Sphere: Synergetics Formula for Area & Volume
of a Sphere
(1)

PI: (\pi):
See Chords, 22 Jul171; 31 May '71
Cul de Sac, 30 Dec '73*
Disparity, 1960
Hexagon, Nov 71 *
Spherical Interstices, 18 Nov 72
Starting with Parts:
Universal Integrity:
Vector Equilibrium:
Vector Equilibrium:
Geodesic Sphere, (1)
The Nonradial Line, 29 Dec 173
Principle of, 21 Dec 71
Spheres & Spaces (1)
Zerophase, 1 May' 71
(2)

HBF QUOTATION
Piaget: Jean: Child's Spontaneous Geometry:
(1)
"Study of the child's discovery of spatial relationships--
what may be
called the child's spontaneous geometry-- is no
less
rewarding than the investigation of his number concepts.
A child's order
of development in geometry seems to reverse
the order of historical
discovery. Scientific geometry began
with the Euclidean
system (concerned with figures, angles,
and so on),
developed in the 17th century to the so-called
projective
geometry (dealing with problems of perspective),
and finally
came in the 19th century to topology (describing
spatial
relationships in a general qualitative way-- for
intance
, the distinction between open and closed structures,
interiority
and exteriority, proximity and separation).
A child begins with the last: his first geometrical discoveries
are topological.
At the age of three he readily distinguishes
between open
and closed figures: if you ask him to copy a
square
or a triangle, he draws a closed circle; he draws a
cross with
two separate lines. If you show him a drawing of
a
large
circle with a small circle inside, he is quite
capable of
reproducing this relationship, and he can
also draw a small circle outside or attached to the edge of
the large one. All this he can do before he can draw a"
-
Cite Jean Piaget: HOW CHILDREN FORM MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS,
"Scientific American," p. 75, Nov 53. Above quote marked by RBF.

RBF QUOTATION
Piaget: Jean:
Child's Spontaneous Geometry:
(2)
"rectangle or express the Euclidean characteristics (number
of sides, angles, etc.) of a figure. Not until a considerable
time after he has mastered topological relationships does he
begin to develop his notions of Euclidean andprojective
geometry. Then he builds these simultaneously."
Cite HOW CHILDREN FORM MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS, by Jean Piaget,
"Scientific American," p.75, Nov 53. Above passage marked
by RBF.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Piano Top:
I
"I am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and
sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck
and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to
keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life
preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to
design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top.
think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in
accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting
the only means for solving a given problem. Our brains
deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our
minds are able to discover the generalized principles
operating without exception in each and every special-case
experience case which if detected and mastered will give
knowledgeable advantage in all instances."
--
Cite opening paragraph, Chapter One of OPERATING MANUAL
FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, 1969

Piano:
See Neutral, 1 Feb'75
Standardization, 13 May'30

RBF DEFINITIONS
Picasso Duo-face Painting:
"This 2 positive superimposed upon the 2 negative, 120-LCD
picture is somewhat like a Picasso duo-face painting with
half a front view superimposed upon half a side view..."
-
Citation and context at Basic Triangle:
48 LCD Triangle, 17 Dec 73
Basic Equilibrium

RBE DEFINITIONS
Picasso Duo-face Painting:
See Split Personality
Profile: There is No Half-Profile
(1)

BRE DEFINITIONS
Picasso Duo-face Painting:
(2)
See Basic Triangle: Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle,
17 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Picture:
...Light absorption and reflection are mechanical considerations
because neither life nor mind activity is involved until the
essence of the picture has been articulated in the 'brain' and
has been automatically refersed to the memory filing department
(the system of which is even more complicated than the world-
wide Bertillon system of finger-print identification) for
comparison with all of the apple experiences of the 'see-er."
Citation and context at Reflection Sequence: Apple (2), 1938

Picture Puzzle:
See Puzzle

Picture:
See Children's Picture of the Sun & the Moon
Conceptual Geometry
Picasso Duo-face Painting
Time Entered the Picture through Poetry
(1)

Picture:
(2)
See Brain, 30 Nov172
Frame, 15 Dec'73
Reflection Sequence: Apple (2)*
Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian (2)
Polyhedron, 1 Jan'75
Simplest Knot, 1 Jan'75
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (1)

Pieso- :
Piezo-crystals: Piezo-electricity:
See Quantum Mechanics: Minimum Geometrical Fourness, (1)

Pigment: Pigmentation:
See Skin Pigmentation

Pin: Head of a Pin:
See Invisible Circuitry, (1)

Pine Tree & Palm Tree Belts:
See Ecology Sequence, (E)

Pine Tree:
See Hierarchies, 16 Jun 72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Pink Stuff:
"The Pharaoh said to the doctor,
'Doctor, give me that pink stuff.'
The doctor said, 'Pharaoh, I think
The pink stuff is the wrong stuff.'
The Pharaoh said, 'Give me the
Pink stuff!!
The doctor did.
They put the living doctor
Into the tomb with the dead Pharaoh. T
-Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170 (Not in Bantam edition)

Pipe:
See Closest Packing of Rods
Monopolizable over Pipe or Wire
Petro-pap-pipelines
(1)

Pipe:
Pipes:
See New York City (8)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pirates: Great Pirates:
Q.
? It
"Are there still great pirates?... Can I become one?
RBF:
"The top ones were called sovereigns and the lesser
ones were called pirates, and the even lesser ones hi-jackers.
The British Empire began as a subterfuge for Queen Elizabeth I
The
to go into private enterpise with the East India Company...
American flag was actually derived from that of the East India
Company.. The German cartels were owned rartly by the allies
and they played both sides. The East India people swithhed over
and backed the new American colonies.
"There are no great pirates left. It's all lawyers now, and
lawyer-capitalism. It's all now corporate: the safest and
surest way to make the most money.
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop' 77; Phila.,
PA: 22 Jun 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pirates: Great Pirates:
"Penobscot, Blue Hill, and Frenchman's Bay were up to World
War I the summer residence country of what Bucky Fuller speaks
of as history's 'Great Pirates." These were the men who ran
the world as a consequence of their commanding the oceans of
the Earth-- for the oceans of the Earth governed three-quarters
of our planet. Because the laws invented and adopted by dry-
land-dwelling people cannot be enforced either logically or
practically over the ever moving ocean waters beyond their
political entity's shores the ocean seas are inherently out-
side the man-made laws. Only the physical laws of raw nature
govern the seas.
(1)
"The high seas sailormen were inherently 'outlaws'-- therefore
pirates. When one high seas crew seized another ship, she was
called a prize into which they entered-- ergo, enterprizo.
Because the greatest purates were, literally speaking, 'privately
enterprising outlaws, Bucky used the contracted form of this
term, which is simply 'pirate', to identify them.
The great
pirates were inherently world people because they were masters
of the World Ocean. Land people are local people and think loc-
ally. Ocean people are world people and think world."
-
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley pp.25-26, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pirates: Great Pirates:
(2)
"The headquarters of the 'Greatest Pirates' were the British
isles because the British Isles represented the unsinkable
flagships commanding the majority of the best harbors of Europe
where lived the richest customers for their world trade. The
greatest pirates manned their ships with men from their
shipyard's country. Because the most conveniently recruited
or 'Shanghaied' their sailors from the British Isles waterfront
saloons, their operation came to be called the 'British
Empire' though such an empire was never the democratic ambition
of the British Isles people. World-around sea battling narrowed
the field of contenders for world supremacy. Finally there was
established amongst the greatest pirates the top or I pirates.
The IN pirates called themselves 'sovereign' and called all the
OUT pirates 'outlaws.'
"When the North American
colonists broke away from the
greatest IN pirates in 1775, those British Isles-based great
pirates came to America where, finding it impossible to
dominate or conquer the colonists politically, they conquered
their business world through financing acumen and control of
the corporation shares.'
Cate BEAR ISLAND STORBY, galley p.26, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pirates: Great Pirates:
"When World War I was declared in August 1914, the British
Ambassador to the United States, Sir Arthur Spring-Rice was in
residence at Isleboro in Penobscot Bay. That's where the
great Il pirates were making their war defense plans. World
War I was waged by the greatest OUT pirates against the great
IN pirates. With its mighty new armored steel ships replete
with modern mechanics, World War I was the first comprehensive
world-around industrial technology and science war in history.
It was waged around the hole planet Earth between the great IN
and great OUT world pirates.
(3)
"World War I and its post-war decade saw the end of the world
ruled by either the top IN or OUT great pirates. In World War
I the great pirates lost their world mastery forever because
the fundamental controls of the new world of industry, technolggy,
and science went from wire to wireless communication, from
tracked to trackless transport, and from visible to the in-
visible structural strengths of atomic element alloying. Con-
comitantly the controling factors of science and technology
founded industry went entirely out of human sight into the vast
ranges of the nonsensorially tunable x electromagnetic spectrum.
The great pirates who ruled with their senses were helplessly and"
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.26, 1968
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pirates: Great Pirates:
"hopelessly blind. Also in 1929 a one-ton airplane in flight
launched a torpedo which sank a 20-ton battle cruiser and this
shifted mastery of the economic and social affairs of Spaceship
Earth from a sea to an air dominance strategy.
(4)
"Not long before the stock market crash of 1929 when the great
pirates lost their world power by silent default, J.P. Morgan's
great steam yacht, the 'Corsair' went on a reef entering Gilkey's
harbor on Isleboro. No Morgan yacht had ever before touched a
rock. The captain claimed the reef was uncharted. The 'Corsair*
was floated safely off on the next tide. No one ever knew what
happened to that captain. This event however was full of
mystical foreboding of the great stock market crash that took
place two months later. The great pirates went on the rocks
forever.
"The great pirates were great! They did run the world and they
ran it with magnificent selfishness and brilliant foresight--
that is within the limits of their comprehension of the supreme
scheme of physical laws of Universe. Their thinking was however
too limited. It was based on the seemingly scientific 1810
finding of Thomas Malthus, Professor of Political Economics of"
Cite BLAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.27, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pirates: Great Pirates: (5)
"their East India Company. Malthus discovered that the world
people were multiplying themselves much more rapidly than they
could produce goods with which to support themselves. His cal-
culations showed an arithmetical progression in the rate of gain
of the vital supplies and a geometrical progression in human
reproduction, Darwin's 'Evolution' and his explanation of it as
being caused by 'survival only of the fittest' was formulated
25 years after Malthus and successful survival of only a minor
fraction of humanity-- by the shrewdest, toughest, swiftest,
most foresighted, and hardest hitting-- seemed to be as scien-
tific fact. To their thinking, any altruism was fatal.
"This was the basic consception upon which the great pirates
and all the sovereignties which they established were operated.
Neither they nor the rest of the world society ever foresaw an
era of technology which would continually do much more with ever
less resource investments per each function until, as today,
suddenly, all unexpected by the world's economists, business-
men, and politicians of all ideological persuasions, a 1/4-ton
communications satellite outperforms the transoceanic message-
carrying capability of 150,000tons of copper cables."
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.27, 1968

Pirates: Great Pirates Are Dead:
See Meek Have Inherited the Earth, 10 Oct163
Pirates: Great Pirates, 22 Jun 77

TEXT CITATIONS
Pirates: Great Pirates:
Mexico 163, p.7, 10 Oct 163

Pirates: Great Pirates:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence
Eggs: You Just Lay Eggs
Enterprise
King's Sign
Leaders: Leadership
Money
Outlaw
Realm
Rule
Invisible Masters
(1)

Pirates: Great Pirates:
See Artist Jun'66
Education (B); Jun'66
Lever (b)
Country, 12 Aug170
(2)

HBP DEFINITIONS
Plagiarism:
"What is often mistermed as plagiarism is more precisely
'talent. Plagiarism is an ethical offshoot label of the
false property illusion..."
Citation and context at Talent (2), 1938

Plagiarism:
See Coincidental Articulation
Idea Stealing
Intellectual Kleptomaniac

Planarity of Civil & Agrarian Law:
See Grid: Criss cross,
Right-angle Grid
Local Squareness, '9 Jul 62
Air Space, May'65
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Planar Reflex:
"One of the things we have to make clear for society
is the dilemma of the Max-Planck-descended scientists,
the way they do their problems, you can have either a
wave or a particle, but not both simultaneously.
Heisenberg has the same fault. They make the error of
having a wave as a continuity, as a picture-- not as a
pulsating frequency. A planar reflex causes them to
think of continuous waves."
Citation at Wave vs. Particle, 22 Apr 71
Coife Bar in JA, Somerset Club, Boston,
1941

Planar:
See Plane: Planar

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"Whereas: All the volumes of all the equi-edged regular poly-
hedra are irrational numbers when expressed in the terms of the
volume of a cube = 1;
Whereas: The volume of the cube and the volumes of the other
regular polyhedra, taken singly or in simple groups, are
entirely rational;
Whereas:
Planck's constant was evaluated in terms of the cube
as volumetric unity;
Whereag: Synergetics finds the tetrahedron, whose volume is
one-third that of the cube, to be the prime structural system
of Universe;
Whereas: Structuring stability is accomplished by triangularly
balanced energy investments;
Whereas: Cubes are structurally unstable;
Whereas: The radial arrangement of unit tetrahedral volumes"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 223.71, 15 May'73
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"around an absolute radiation center (the vector equilibrium).
constitutes a prime radiational-gravitational proclivity model
with a volume of 20 where the cube is 3 and the tetrahedron 1;
"It becomes evident that: In order to convert the value of the
photon, which occurs as a whole rational energy entity, to
conformity with the ill-chosen cube, Planck's constant emerged
empirically, and to reconvert it to conformity with synergetics
the 6.6-ness is cancelled out:
6.6
volume of
30
20
-
vector equilibrium
volume of
cube
"Planck's constant: Symbol h. h 6.6
--
multiplied by
(B)
10-27 grams by square centimeters per each second of time.
h is the invariable number found empirically by Planck by
which each of the experimentally discovered minimum increment
of all radiation, the photon, must be multiplied to equate
the photon's energy value as rated by human's energy-rating
technique, which is predicated on the effort expended in lifting"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 223.71 +.72, 15 May173

HBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"weights vertically against gravity given distances in given
times. Thus automotive horsepower or electromagnetic kilowatts
per hour are rated.
(C)
"In the case of Max Planck's photon of light, which expanda
outwardly as a spherical wave surface in all directions-- instead
of travelling linearly outwardly in only one radial direction--
the energy effort involved is expressed in terms of the exponen-
tial second power, or areal 'squaring' rate of surface growth
of the spherical wave; i.e., as the second power of the energy
effort expended in order to lift, in each second of time, a
distance of one 'vertical' centimeter radially away from the
Earth's center, one gram of weight, i.e., the weight of one
cubic centimeter of water whose temperature is 40 centigrade.
The invariable number, which accomplishes this rating is h
6.6 multiplied by 10-27; whereas the gravitational constant
- 6.6+ multiplied by 10-8 grams per second 'squared.'"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs 223.72 + .73, 15 May173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"Planck's constant corrects for the error of science's
predicating its comprehensive coordinate mensurating
system upon the cubic centimeter of water at a specific
temperature as the volume-weight geometrical coordinating
factor, whose centimeter of edge-length-height on the
XYZ three-dimensional system became the distance of anti-
gravitational work to be accomplished in one second of
time as constituting the most logical system for integrating
the energy information science was acquiring instrumentally
from the vast invisible ranges of physical reality."
Cite RBF entry of 22 July 1971 as re-written by him
in Washington, 7 October 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"Planck's constant corrects the cubic centimeter. It accomBO-
dates a number which relates what man is doing to electromagnetic
theory."
Cite RBF to SIMS Seminar, U.Mass, Amherst, 22 Jul'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"Now Planck's Constant was simply how you forced what
you find out about energy into calculatability and
manipulatability mathematically in respect to rectilinear
That's plotting things only on the
Always having to go round corners.
analytic geometry.
XYZ coordinates.
-
"
Cite RBF tape transcript to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, 1 May 1971.
Page 43.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
Put
"Planck's constant is purely an accommodative number.
together. The central angles of the octahedron are the 90-
degree coordinate system; the coordinates are there, but that's
not what nature uses. There's no denying man's way of
With
accounting for things-- which is absolutely awkward.
the synergetics conversion constant I'm discovering how you
can take the same fundamental data and really make it come
out right."
Tape #6A, Side A, transcript p.3; RBF to Barry Farrel,
Bear Island, 16 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
(1)
"In synergetic geometry the vector equilibrium's mass value
of 20 shows why nature requires that the cube's volumetric
value of three be multiplied by Planck's empirically
discovered, but heretofore scientifically inexplicable,
constant 6.665--? to correct for the mistaken assumption by
both mathematics and physics that the cube's volume was
nature's logical volume of one-- instead of its actual volume
of three, in nature's most economical system of both physical
and metaphysical accounting. The physicist finds that nature
is always most economical. Planck's empirical constant of
correction was also required to remedy the mistaken assumption
by physics that the cube of one centimeter to the edge, filled
with water at four degrees centigrade (as the unity of the
XYZ, 90-degree-corrdinate, gram" temperature "second system)
was also suitable as the basic unit of energy for computing
radiational propagation. The 6.6 radiational constant
correction, of the mistakenly assumed suitability of the
cube and its conversion therby to the value of the rector
equilibrium's base 20 also required the furbher 10 reduction
in size to reduce the gram of water's reference size to a
photon's energy magnitude."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, pp. 27-28. 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"The closest packed sphere layers of the vector equilibrium
account for the non-solid proton-quantation of the wave's
outer layer value of frequency (or velocity) to the second
power as required by Einstein's c of his equation E = Mc
and eliminates the necessity to consider the second power as
characterizing continuous surfaces of systems.
22:
(2)
"The vector equilibrium's surface sphere growth rate of the
second power also accommodates Newton's discovery of gravitation's
mass attraction.as being governed by the second power of the
relative proximities of the masses, expressed in terms of their
respective radii (or modular frequency.) The gravitational
constant also requires the 6.66+ 1 correction of its gram-
cube base to conform the vector equilibrium and requires
a
10-8
reduction of size to (conform to the electron volt magnitude
of energy.
17 TO
Cit NEHRU SPEECH, P.
28.
13 Nov 69

OL
RBF DEFINITIONS
Planck's Constant:
"The many mildly differing values arrived at empirically for
both Planck's constant and for the gravitational constant
seem to indicate that the radiational constant is just a
little less than 6.666 and thatthe gravitational constant
complementarily just a little bit greater then 6.666
is
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 28, 13 Nov 169
(3)

RBF QUOTATION
Planck:
"If one wishes to obtain a definite answer from nature one
must attack the question from a more general and less
self-ish point of view."
Cite RBF undated holograph quoting Max Planck: SURVEY OF
PHYSICS, PUL. London & N. Y.

TEXT CITATIONS
Planck's Constant:
Barry Farrell & RBF Tapes; Tape 6A, Side B,pp. 13-15;
Bear Island, 16 Aug170
Synergetics:
Sec. 223.70ff, 26 Sep 73
204.01
223.71-223.91
240.65
511.04
1024.25
511.04

Planck's Constant:
See Whole System: Synergetica Principle of, (1)
Photon, 26 Sep 73
Attic Window, 20 Jan '75
Quantum: Event-paired Quanta, 1971
Synergetics Constant, 10 Dec 75

Planck, Max:
See Light: Speed Of, 1 May'71
Conceptual Mathematics, (2)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"A plane is a tetrahedron of macro base and micro altitude....
Planes... are real, conceptual, experienceable visually and
mentally..."
- Citation & context at Point, 20 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"A planar system is the first stage of comprehension..."
Citation and context at Comprehension, 16 Feb'73

KBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"All lines are curvilinear and ultimately close back on
themselves, ergo short line increments are always segments
of weak geodesic loopings. In the same way a plane is always
just a local facet aspect of a system. Planes do not exist
independent of systems. The nonsynergetic consideration and
articulated employment of points, lines, and planes
exlusive of system identities induces unconsidered, inexorably
complex developments of covariant functions of always
integrated generalized system laws. The unconsidered complex
of omnidirectional event developments of an almost exclusively
'specializing,' self-considerate society occasions the
continuous generation of unwanted problems at ever greater
scale in twentieth century world affairs. A linear
preoccupied strategical play scenario in Monte Carlo and Wall
Street may win money while vitiating the wealth accounting
system and deferring the realization and general distribution
of synergetically augmented commonwealth."
-
Cite RBF re-write
of Plane, 17 Feb 172: 19 Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"A plane is just a facet of a system."
-
Cite RBF to
EJA + BU'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"Theoretically, a flat surface is infinitely extensible
laterally, i.e. in'
all diametric planar
directions. As a laterally unbounded, or infinitely open,
extensibility the theoretical flat plane is only partially
definable. That which is definable of the plane forbida
its returning upon itself."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, P. 12, 13 Nov 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"Planes described supposedly by three points have, in
experimental fact, four points, with two very close together,
ergo, all planes are warped."
-Cite RBF marginalis at old Chap. 2, "Synergy," 1.5, 18 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"If there are six equilateral triangles around a
vertex we cannot define a three-dimensional structural
system, only a plane."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS # 7
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"I can't get six triangles around a vertex because
their corners would add up to 360°. A 360° intersection
of triangles is'flat.' They form a theoretically and ex-
perimentally nonexistent, non-experimentally demonstrable
plane which would go to 'infinity,' and could not there-
fore subdivide the universe, by a local conceptual system."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 61, Jul 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planes:
"There are, of course, no planes. It is experimentally
demonstrable that an apparent plane is a 'surface' area
of some structural system.
"There are no experimentally demonstrable continuums.
"All that has been found is discontinuity as in star
constellations or atomic nuclear arrays. Areas are
discontinuous, by constructional definition.
Areas,
as system 'faces' are inherently empty of actions or
events, and therefore are not'surfaces.""
Cite NASA Speech, p. 60, Jun'66
NOVENT SEC 524,20)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
Since "lines cannot go through the same point,
then there cannot be a plane: so planes are eliminated.'
Cite Ledgemont, p. 13, 15 Oct 64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plane:
"A 'plane' is a tetradron of negligible altitude and
significant base dimensionality.
"There are no impervious surface continuums.
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 115, Oct159

Plane as Facet:
See Polyhedron, 1 Jan '75
Plane, 1y Feb'72

Plane:
See Area
Geometry: Plane Geometry
Planarity
Planar:
Surface
Tools of Geometry
Facet
Eternal Plane
No Planes
Tuck in a Plane
Sphere Tangent with a Plane
(1)

Plane: Planar:
See Comprehension, 16 Feb'73*
Fourth Dimension, 29 Nov'72
Meaningless, Oct 66
Probability (1)
Point, 20 Dec*73*
Systematic Realization, 20 Dec'74
Systems & Nonsystems,
Bubbles, 7 Nov '73
Threeness, 27 May' 72
No Opposites, 12 Nov 75
Polygon, 14 Oct' 76
26 May '72
Four-dimensional Reality, 30 Apr'77
(2)

Planetarium:
See Children as Planetarium Audiences

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planetary Democracy:
Q: (Sen. Clark): "Do you feel any form of world government
is in order or that we are moving toward
that? Or that there is any possibility that
the American people, after years of plowing
the field, are ready to accept any concept
like that?"
(1)
A: (RBF): "I have been asking myself the question you ask me
for a very long time. I am a student of large patterns
and am trying to see what evolution does to some of
these things. I
think that human beings do not
often realize how powerful, knowledgeable, and
competent is universal evolution.
"X-ray cinema makes visible organization of a chicken-- the
gradual assembly from its embryo, all taking place inside the
egg, much of which process seems chaotic and discretely un-
controlled. Humans do not see the logical interrelatedness
of big evolutionary development. All the technical happenings
which were unpredicted in my youth seem only in retrospect to
have been obviously sequitur to their immediate predecessor"
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 lay'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planetary Democracy:
"developments.
(2)
Humans tend to think that Universe is waiting
upon them to make the evolutionary decisions.
I do not. That
is why I have tried to stress the fact with you today that--
when considered before they occurred-- all the technological
events in my life were thought to be absolutely impossible.
Therefore, they were not the consequence of society deliberately
undertaking to bring them about. Individual inventors, often
called 'crackpots,' brought them into realization.
It was
completely unexpected.
"When I was five years of age no one realised that we would
develop any of the 20th Century technology. Anyone who even
suggested humans reaching safely to and returning from the
Foon were called lunatics and in jeopardy of being incarcerated
in a lunatic asylum.
"As an infinitely small detail in designing terrestrial ecology
Nature designed the honey bees with their chromosomic drive to
go after honey in order to have them inadvertently cross-
pollinate the veretaion; so too, by a million other chromosom-
ically programmed behaviors, nature arranged to grow and"
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planetary Democracy:
(3)
"sustain humans on our planet. Also, 99-percent-programmed
humans usually have been doing a lot of the right things for
the wrong reasons. What we think of as side effects are usually
evolution's main events. The time has come when we must
particpate directly in the mainstream of Universe, instead of
only accidentally, while playing lethally-biased, exclusive-
survival games instead of the all-inclusive main show.
"When our forebears evolved the system of democratic represen-
tation of the United States all the first representatives were
well and favorably known to their neighbors. Everybody knew
them. Their term of office was predicated on the realization
that they would have to go to the central meeting place in
Philadelphia by foot or by horse over footpaths, Indian trails,
or very small highways, stopping overnight at inns and talking
with everybody along the way. And while in Philadelphia-- or
later in Washington-- three or four important letters might
come from Europe during the whole year you were there. Every-
body at the capital knew what the letters said. They all
talked about the letters with one another. Then all of the
representatives started back homeward talking to the people"
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May$75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planetary Democracy:
(4)
"along the way, at the inns and homes. They would tell every-
body at home about the four letters from Europe this year and
what everybody in Philadelphia (or later in Washington) thought
about the situation, and what the people along the way think,
and would then say to their home people, 'How do you feel about
it and what do you want me to do about it?' They were told;
and then they walked or rode on these, often many-days travel
to the capitol. We had what scientists call a one-to-one
correspondence between stimulation and response.
"With the unexpected development of the telegraph 30 years
later news short-circuited the represntatives' direct communi-
cations system and reached people in minutes instead of in
months; and the people had no way to respond to the stimulation.
Since that time radio and television broadcasting have added
to the telegraph-fed newspapers in producing a constant barrage
adding to hundreds of thousands of stimulations before any
political response could be manifest by the citizenry.
"Democracy worked well with the initial one-to-one correspond-
ence. Today, democracy is not working. It is not the fault"
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May 75

RBF D FINITIONS
Planetary Democracy:
(5)
"of the concept of democracy. Democracy is unable to express
itself. That is why samplings of political viewpoints have
developed. The Bongress conducts as many inquiries as possible
to discover in advance of elections what their constituents
are thinking. Particularly amongst the young there is a feeling
of absolute futility. The system is not working.
"Over a great many years I have been following the technology
of electromagnetic communications to find out if it did not
contain its own answer to how one-to-one correspondence might
be regained. In 1940 I was science and technology consultant
to Fortune' magazine. After checking with the telephone system
engineers and finding it technically feasible, and not disrup-
tive of all other regular services.. I proposed daily voting
by telephone on all prominent questions before Congress. That
was back in 1940 and I published my proposal in my book, 'No More
Secondhand God.'
"Since World War II studies have been scientifically conducted
disclosing the electromagnetic energy output of human brains.
The work has been scientifically conducted in veterans' hospitals
with electrodes fastened to the heads of volunteers.
Then,
ff
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planetary Democracy:
(6)
"using recording oscillographs, unique patterns were discovered
to be identified with certain dreams.
Most recently experiments
have disclosed an electromagnetic field surrounding the whole
body of a human, which field discloses a positive
or a
negative
attitude of response to various stimuli-- very much
as does the
polygraph or lie detector through direct contact.
"With the sensors now mounted in satellites orbiting our planet,
broadcasting to us, there is present in this room right
now
one electromagnetic program amongst several million,
which,
if
tuned in by the right radio set, can tell us where
every beef
cattle on Earth is located. As a consequence, we may
soon
have
the capability to directly sense how
each and every human feels
about each and every common human problem of the
moment as
each such problem and its alternative solutions
are
separately
broadcast. This might well develop within the
critical 10
years of which I have been speaking.
"Senator Percy, you have asked me what kind of world government
may develop. It may well be akin to the
city management concept
,
where the management has to do whatever
the satellite-sensor-"
harvested and computer analysis says that the world majority"
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May 75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Planetary Democracy:
(7)
"thinks ought to be done. Undoubtedly the world majority would
make many mistakes, but as the mistake becomes evident the
majority of humans will think that this alternative will work
better; and because they think so, it will be satellite
sensed and the computer will instruct management to immediately
alter the course.
"This is the way all mechanical steering mechanisms of air-
planes or ships of the sea work. The servomechanisms respond-
ing to sensed error in first one direction and then the other,
successively correcting the steering-- first this way, then
that way averaging an accomplished course halfway between.
The variations get finer and finer, trending toward but never
attaining, absolute straightness. This is the essence of
cybernetics. This way humans reached the Moon. It is the
essence of all life growth. Development of such satellite-
harvested, electromagnetic-field sensing of how world democracy
feels about any proposed solution of any given problem is close
at hand or has already been technically prototyped. An incor-
ruptible, true, direct planetary democracy with all of humanity
franchised and always voting, may well render all of humanity
sustainable, successful. So those are my thoughts, sir."
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May'75

Planetary Democracy:
See Electronic Referendum
World-around Communication Transcends Politics
World Democracy

RBF DEFINITIONS
Qi
Planet Earth:
(Allegheny Airlines lost baggage agent tracing lost
RBF suitcases sent to Pittsburgh by mistake.)
"What is your permanent addras?"
A: (RBF) "Address!
That isn't the right question. Young man,
I live on Planet Earth!... Man was born with legs,
not roots!"
Cite RBF, red-faced and banging the counter with his fists,
Washington National Airport, with EJA, 12 Feb 72

REF DEFINITIONS
Planet Earth:
"This planet is a low pressure area for gathering the Universe
together again. And I can see man arriving here as part of that
function. So we're a gathering point; and every time a
gathering point gets to the place where it needs the mental
capability of man on board, man arrives...."
-
Citation & context at Man:
14 Aug170
Interstellar Transmission of Man,

Planet Earth:
See Earth
Spaceship Earth

Planetary Inventory:
15 Jun 74
See Time-energy Economics,
Interrelatedness vs. Names, (1)

TEXT CITATION
Planets: Prediction of Unknown Planets:
Synergetics,
Sec. 115, Sept 171

Planets: Prediction of Unknown Planeta:
See whole System: Principle of, (1)

Planets: Probable Myriads of Consciously Operated Planets:
See Extraterrestrial Humans
(1)

Planeta: Probably Myriads of Consciously Operated Planets:
See Metaphysical: Supremacy Of, May' 72
(2)

Planeta: Planetary:
See Coherence, 10 Feb'73
Curvature: Compound
22 Sep'71
Human Life-hour
Economic Accounting System:
Production, (1)
Sphere, 1971
Synergetic Strategy of Commansing with Totality,
28 May '72
Earth, 17 May$77
201

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planilinear:
"The statisticians think almost exclusively in lines or
planes; they are what I call planilinear."
Citation and context at Probability Model of Three Cara on a
Highway (2), 26 Sep 73
lity

RBF DEFINITIONS
Planilinear:
"Probability is purely mathematics: just points on curves.
But they are thought of as linear. Or planar.
planilinear."
What I call
-Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172

Plasmics:
See Compound, 13 Mar 73

06
RBF DEFINITIONS
Plastic:
"There is an unfortunate tendency to abhorency of the plastic.
Our fingernails are plastic. Our eyes are plastic....
-
Citation & contextat Reproducible, 30 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plastica:
"There's really a whole new generation of chemistry coming
through again. We're getting new skins and tubes that go
three and four times as far. The first skins only lasted two
years; now they last six. So with all these inventive kids,
and the new chemistries, and the aerospace industry which has been
depending on the war and is going to have to find new
capabilities after they stop the nonsense... these things are
really going to come along. There's a whole new era coming
through with new skins and new foldabilities. You'll be able
to fold your dome up in a little package and just explode it
into something really big."
-
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #1, p.3;
Bear Island, 10 Aug 70

Plastic Call-girl Angels:
See Dwelling Service Industry, (6)

Plastic Flowers:
See Dwelling Service Industry, (6)

Plastic Replica of a Cotswold Cottage:
See Dwelling Service Industry, (1)

Plastic Tube of Universe:
See Metaphysical Gas, 27 Dec 73

Plastic:
See Artificial
(1)

Plastic:
See Reproducible, 30 May'72
Alcohol, 1946
Wood Technology, (4)
New York City, (4)
Hex-pent Sphere:
Transformation into Geodesic
Spiral Tube, (1) (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Platonic Solids:
"The Platonic solids do not stand in a vacuum of Universe.
They are in Universe and if you change that thing you
change the rest of Universe.
Nothing can change locally
without changing everything else."
17
-
Cite Dragon Lecture 8, p. 285. 12 Jul 62
· Citation & context at Restraints, 12 Jul'62

Plato's Solida: Platonic Geometries:
See Size (A)
Transformation, 12 Jul 62
Prime Structural Systems (2)
Restraints, 12 Jul*62*
Vectors & Tensors, 19 Oct172
Dodecahedron, 1 Feb'75
Subvisible Discontinuity, 19 Oct172
Philosophy, 11 Aug' 76

Plato:
See Philosophy, 11 Aug' 76

Play Acting:
See Population Sequence, (6)
Pretending, 8 Apr'75

Playbacka:
See Feedback
Recall Playbacks

Pleased or Displeased: We Are Not Here to Be:
See Amused: We Are Not Here to Be
(1)

Pleased or Displeased: We Are Not Here to Be:
See Humane City, (10
(2)

Plenitudes:
See Acceleration of Change, 1938

10
Plumbers:
See Labor Unions

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plumbing:
(1)
"My self-disciplining strategy of never losing the large-
pattern comprehensivity doesn't mean that you have to disregard
the particulars. For instance, when I was designing my
stamped-out bathroom, doing the research for it, I discovered
that there was one man in Toledo, Ohio, who designed all
the toilet bowls in the U.S. His problem was largely one of
manufacture, where the crude ceramics employed did not permit
any fine tolerances.
"Scientists are simply not looking at plumbing. There is a
feeling that pure scientists shouldn't stoop to that sort of
nonsense. Nature spends a lot of time separating materials
out into solids and liquid-- as you know if you've ever done
any mining or refining. We should always pay close attention
when nature does this kind of thing. If we employed stainless
steel instead of ceramics we could have very fine tolerances
and we wouldn't have to waste seven gallons just to flush one
pint of waste.
"The point is that you can be a generalist and still plunge into
the particular. I've done such plunges for one month at a time
or for six months at a time, such as the time I was doing my
->
Cite RBP at Penn Bell studios, Philadelphia, Pa., 25 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plumbing:
cartography.
to the grand strategy."
-
But you always can come back from the artifact
(2)
Cite RBF at Penn Bell studios videotaping, Philadelphia, PA.,
25 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plumbing:
•
Science has hooked up the everyday plumbing to the
cosmic reservoir.' n
Citation and context at Junkyard, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plumbing:
"Many scientists live in houses-- they look at the plumbing,
often find that the plumbing isn't working, twiddle the
knob, and send for the plumber. You know as architects
that you do not design the plumbing which you buy. You
design the superficial use and arrangement of fixtures which
are designed by non-architects and manufactured by commerce
for you.
You are free only to choose the coloring of the
bathroom tiles and the coloring of the fixtures. But what
goes on back of the bathroom tile is not part of the
architectural design. Even if you studied 'plumbing' and
detailed the pipe layouts, your design would not be
followed or even looked at. The layout would be as dictated
by the plumbens' scientifically illiterate craft code and
frequent whimsy.
"The fact is that the plumbing system and the sewer system
and the aqueduct system have not been importantly changed
for 4,500 years. Only one improvement in the system was
made, 100 years ago, in England. That was the development
of the roof vented plumbing stack and water seal in
plumbing fixtures to keep the sewer gases from entering the
- Cite MEXICO '63, p. 10, 10 Oct 163
house."

Plumbing:
See Autonomous Living Technology Packet
Bathroom as Symbolism & Association
Excrement: Excremental Functions
Toilet
Sewers: Sewage Systems
Outbound Packaging of Human Food Waste
(1)

Plumbing:
See Buildings as Machines (2)
Livingry Science, 1 Apr'49
Junkyard, 1971*
Buildings: Multiple Occupancy, 30 Apr 74
Romance, 30 Jan' 75
Desovereignisation Sequence, (1)
Building Business, (4)
Doing What Needs to Be Done, (1) (2)
Back Pack, 20 Sep' 76
Dome House Grand Strategy: 1927-1977, (1)-(3)
Invented Jobs, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pluralistic:
"We cannot have disorder
Because Universe is not monological;
It is pluralistic and complementary....
"
Citation and context at Universe, pp.
p.156-157 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plurality:
"Plurality of systems is a plurality of micros,
but only one macro.'
"Each of a plurality of systems forces all other
systems into lesser proportions of totality.
"Likewise, Universe is inherently infinite and
systems are inherently finite."
Cite RBF holograph in synergetics notes, 5 Mar'55

Plural Otherness:
See Environment, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plural Unity:
...There are only two fundamental kinds of observable
transformational changes, i.e., angular, or subunity
alterations, and linear or plural unity' (frequency modulated)
accelerations."
-
Citation and context at Accleration: Angle and Linear
Acceleration, 1960

Plural Unity:
See Unity as Plural
(1)

Plural Unity:
See Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan'74
Interawareness, 9 Jul 75
Multiplication by Division, 20 Jan' 77
(2)

Plural: Plurality:
See Singular & Plural
Understanding Must Be Plural
Unity is Plural
(1)

Plural: Plurality:
See Awareness, 10 Feb 173,
Differentiation, 27 May 72
Experience, 1971
Is, 24 Apr 72
Second, May 72
Universe, 26 May 172
Whole System, 16 Jun'72
Geometry of Vectors, 15 Jun '74
Isotropic Vector Matrix, (p.j2) undated
Polarity, 11 Sep 75
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Plus and Minus:
"Physics hasn't really associated radiation with (+) and
gravitation with (-), but that's what they are."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idago, Washington DC, 25 Jan 172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plus and Minus:
"The average of all plus (+) and minus (-) weights of
Universe is zero weight. The normal is eternal."
Citation at Normal, 25 Apr'71

Plus-and-minus One Equilibrium:
(1)
See Zero Frequency

Plus-and-minus One Equilibrium:
See Vector Equilibrium, 23 Oct172
(2)
123

Plus-minus Polarity:
See Number:
Even Number 26 Sep'73
Vector Equilibrium (2)
Polarization, 10 Nov174

Plus & Minus:
See Angamal
Positive & Negative
Split Personality
Mima Magnitudes
(1)

Plus & Hinus:
See Algebra, Oct '66
Coupler (2); 27 Jan 75
Death 13 Mar 71
Normal, 25 Apri71*
Polar Points, 7 Nov 73
Powering: Sixth Powering, 26 Nov'72
Twinkle Angle, 19 Dec'73
Vector Equilibrium, 21 Dec'71
Polarization, 10 Nov'74
Conception-birth, 27 Dec 74
Superstition, May'49
XYZ Quadrant at Center of Octahedron, 14 May'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Plus One:
"So it is really never infinite because you are not looking
at one part. It is never just Plus One%; it is always plus
the rest of the Universe when you separate that One out.
You can separate unity up further and further.
multiply the subdivisions of unity."
You can
Citation and context at
Infinity & Finity,
(1)(2), 9 Jul'62

Plus Two:
See Additive Twoness
Coring
Two Twonesa
Polar Points
Vertexial Unities
(1)

Plus Two:
See Euler, (2)
Theta, 11 Mar'69
Topology: Synergetic & Eulerlan, (2)
Torus, 11 Jul'62
Thinking, (II)
Ten, 22 Jun 75
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec'73
(2)

Plus:
See Positive Negative
(1)

Plus:
See Circuitry:
23 Jan 72
Thermionic & Political Analogy,
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatics:
Synergetics has discovered "the identification of
tensegrity with pneumatics and hydraulics-- it's load
distribution, that's the point."
Cite RBF to EJA re SYNERGETICS, Sec. 251.19, 20 Dec. 171.
BALLOON SEC. 656.30

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatics:
"When I use the six-strut tetra tensegrity with
tensegrity octa in triple bond I get an omnidirectional
symmetry tensegrity which is compressible and expandible
as are gasses.'
17
(N.B. Caption supplied by RBF on Holograph)
-
Cite undated RBF holograph on paper of Onchiota Conference
Center, Sterling Forest/ Tuxedo, New York.
TENSEGRITY 650.11)

RGF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatic Bag:
"We assume that pneumatic bags are not permitted as
solutions of the problem as they prohibit omnidirectional
penetrations and provide no local resistance against
high
impact."
Cite Pennsylvania Triangle, Nov. 152, p. 11.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatic-hydraulic Structures:
"Hydraulics and aerodynamics and pneumatics-- Nature is using
them in making trees and everything else, but we're just
beginning to use them in buildings. This is the reason great
trees can go through hurricanes. Nature uses the crystals
only for tension; all the compression she uses hydraulics for.
In between the molecules of liquids of the tree are the gases,
so the branches away-- five tons, ten tons-- waving in the
wind. And it's doing so because the hydraulics holds its shape
under pressure in compression, with the very high tensile
strength of the fibers, and the pneumatics there, taking all
that shock.
"No man has built any buildings like that yet. That's the truth.
That's the way nature does it. That's the way she designs you.
You're a beautiful piece of design, and what a contrast you are
to a stone fortress! Can you imagine architects saying I am
unaesthetic because I didn't want to work with stone? Yes,
Italy is beautiful: every stone laid by a prisoner. The reason
you don't have stone buildings now is that a man has to earn a
wage. If you pay him so he can live decently
Clyyou can't afford to
lay stone.
"
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #8, Side A,
transcript p.2; 22 Aug 70

Pneumatic-hydraulic:
See Intuition Sequence (2)
Spectrum, 15 Oct 72
Tensegrity, 10 Nov 173
Human Beings & Hard Machinery, 20 Apr*72
Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy,
25 Mar 75
Humans as Machines, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatic Structures:
"A fleet of ships maneuvering under power needs more room than
do the ships of the same fleet when docked side by side. The
higher the speed of the individual ships, the greater the sea
room required. This means that the enclosed and pressurised
molecules in pneumatic structural systems are accelerated in
outward-bound paths by the addition of more molecules by the
pump and, without additional room each must move faster to
get out of the way of the others.
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 703.04, 25 Sep'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
BALLOON
Pneumatic Structures:
•
•
"I have considered a great deal about footballs and balls
and pneumatics from being a little kid. And I saw that as
I pumped up my basketball or football, it went from supine
flat, into this beautiful firm condition. But this
is because the molecules of gas were trying to get out of
the system. And they got hot because they were in such
action. The kinetics of gas are something easy for the
brain to understand and feel..
the action of those
individual molecules of gas. I saw all the molecules of
gas were trying to get out of the system-- that gives it
the high pressure-- and they were stretching it outwardly
and so, therefore, the skin is designed to go the other way,
holding it inwardly so that the skin is finite and comes
back upon itself. And it represents a tensional force with
the arrows bound inwardly, balancing all the molecules,
bouncing, hitting it, caroming around every action having
its reaction. So I began to see that it would be possible
that geodesics could be similar to what could be called
discontinuous compression/continuous tension, where every
molecule has to have one it pushes from, like two swimmers
in the middle of a tank."
(1)
Cite RBF Interview by Hans Meyer, Dome Book II. p. 90. Dec170
SEC. 656.03 - 656.10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatic Structures:
123
(2)
"When you are swimming you dive from one end of the tank--
gives you a little acceleration into the tank, when you get
to the end, you can put your feet up and double your body
up and so forth and shove off from the tank, and if two
swimmers could meet in the middle of the tank and double
their bodies up like that and put the soles of their feet
together and thrust and go in opposite directions, I saw
that the molecules that are in motion... and every action has
its reaction... there has to be some reaction set, so each
molecule which is caroming around, circularly hitting
glancing blows and then making a chord, then another
glancing blow, had to have one it shoved off from. Each one
would have to be balanced, so a balanced pair... all the
forces are caroming around... each one will represent one
of the
chords, the compression chords, which
the two ends pressing outwardly glancing blows against the
tension skin, which are trying to pull inwardly and they
are pulling outwardly. So thre's a net arrow outwardly in
the middle of the chord against the net of arrows pointing
inwardly. So... I saw this represents what the gases are
doing and you could make discontinuous compression/continuous
tension geodesic structures in this way. So all this came
Cite HBF Interview by Hans Meyer, Domebook, II, p. 90. Deec'70
BALLOON SECS. 656.10411

RBF DEFINITIONS
BALLOON -
Pneumatic Structures:
(3)
"in as a fundamental feeling that in dealing with geodesics
in contradistinction to compressional arches where men had
made lesser rings of stone and bricks and so forth, like
Santa Sophia, fitting them beautifully and very mathematically,
one to the other, so they wouldn't fall in, and taking and
putting chain around the bottom of the dome to take care of
the thrust of the enormous weights of the buildings, they
could build a dome that would not thrust outwardly at the
base and allow it to collapse.... I saw that in tension
there is no limit-- you can make as big a pneumatic bag as
you want. . . I saw that in the comprehensive geodesically
omnitriangulated tensegrity structure I would be able to go
to unlimited spans, because your only limitation is tension.
I've found that there is no inherent limit to cross section
due to length. We get to where there is no cross section
visible at all, as in the pull between the Earth and the
Moon. The beautiful intuitive feelings have been there
right from the beginning. Always I could really feel the
apple in those terms of hydraulics and doing, the same tricks."
-
Cite HBF Interview by Hans Mayer, Domebook II, p. 80. Dec'70
SEC. 656,30

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatic Structures:
"Pneumatic structures are tensegrity structures .
•
all
structures are tensegrity structures from the solar system
tom the atom."
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 197, 10 Jul'62
TENSEGRITY - SEC. 650.041
20

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pneumatic Structures:
"Tensegrity structures are pure pneumatic structures
and pneumatic structures do what they do at the
subvisible range."
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
p. 189, 9 Jul*62
TENSEGRITY
SEC. 650.10)

Pneumatica: Pneumatic Bag:
See Balloon
Hydraulics
Human Beings & Hard Machinery
Pneumatic-Hydraulic
Prestressed Concrete Sequence
Tensegrity Sphere
Invisible Pneumatics
Geodesic Spinnaker
(1)

Pneumatuce:
Pneumatic Bag:
(2)
See Sphericity of Whole Systems,
26 Sep*73
Three-way great Circling: Three-way Grid, 17 Feb'72

02
TEXT CITATIONS
Pocket Calculator:
See RBF Introduction to Schlossberg & Brockman:
"Pocket Calter Game Book, 2 Sep'75

RoF DEFINITIONS
Poe,
Ezar Allen:
"I'm sorry to say Edgar Allen Poe drank, quite heavily....
No I'm not sorry about anything."
- Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 30 Jan'75

Pos, Edgar Allan:
See Artist, 24 Jan 72
Artist: Histrionics, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poet:
"The word poet in this professorship of poetry ( 1.e., the
Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard ]
is a very general term for a person who puts things
together in an era of great specialization wherein most
people are differentiating or 'taking things apart. '
Demonstrated capability in the integration of ideas is
the general qualification for this professorship."
Cite EDUCATION AUTOMATION. p. 3,
22 Apr'61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poetry:
Q.
A.
"Is there any type of poetry, or any poet you can't
stand?"
"No, I have nothing negative to say about petry, except
to tell you that rhyme is not poetry."
Cite RBF in tape interview with Mike Bandler for BOOK
WEEK, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC, 29 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poetry:
"Ralph Waldo Emerson defined poetry as 'saying the
most important things in the simplest way.'
By that
definition Einstein became and will probably remain
history's greatest poet-- for who could say so much so
simply as did Einstein when he described physical unigerse
as mc
mc²."
->>
Cite NEHRU, p. 78, 13 Nov'69
(The Leonardo Type)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poetry:
"If you say it is poetry that is because engineering
is poetry. Take out for yourself some engineering and
science textbooks and break the words up into phrases
in similar manner and prove it for yourself.
Then try
some non-engineering prose and it proably won't work.
I would not be surprised if some day it were proven a
law that the better the science the better the poetry."
Cite Poreword to No More Second Hand Gad, p.3. 1962 1962
(Incorrect attribution)

POETS
"Poets tend to say things a little earlier than the others
regarding the significance of what it is that we are experiencing."
-Cite RBF in Milton Eisenhower Lecture, Johns Hopkins,
Baltimore, 3 Oct173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poets:
"Poets have been history's consistently competent
anticipators of forward evolutionary transformations."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, p. 14

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poets:
"The young life realizes that the older life is holding
to the familiar, in opposition to evolution. This is an
interesting point to identify the prescience of the poet.
What man tends to call a poet is one whose sensitivity
has not been
so damaged, where the thoughts flow
almost subconsciously, where all the tastebuds of sound
have been undamaged and the communication capability is
very, very high. Their full vision is unimpaired. Time
and again the poet will say what the nonpoet will not
dare to say.
He is afraid to hear his own voice-- the
poet's not. The poet's not afraid because he's not
thinking in terms of his own voice. It's irrepressible;
and so time and again poets have said very extraordinary
things long before the rest of society recognized the
significance of what they were saying."
-
Cite RBF in Preface for Francis Warner, p. 5,
circa 1970

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Posts:
...Poets are the earliest to foresee and express almost all
of the important concept changes in the evolution of humanity's
development around the surface of the spherical Spaceship
Earth.
h
Citation and context at Millay, Edna St. Vincent (3), 1968

Posts Anticipate Discoveries of Science:
See Artist, May'65
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence, 28 Jan'69
Time, 1938
20

FILE INDICATORS
Poets Cited in this File:
See Aiken, Conrad
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Kipling, Rudyard
Morley,
Christopher
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Fowler, Gene
Eliot, T.S.
Pound, Ezra
Joyce, James
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Frost, Robert
Poe, Edgar Allen

Poetry: Poets:
See Artist-explorer
Artist-scientist
Concrete Poetry
Economist-poet
Einstein as Poet
Ford, Henry as Poet
Time Entered the Picture through Poetry
Prose: Prosaic
Verse vs. Prose
(1)

Poetry: Posts:
See Generalization Sequence, (2)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, (3)*.
Nature Permits It Sequence, (2)
Option, May' 70*
Slang, 28 Apr '71
Culture, 1 Feb*75
Words, May 44
News & Evolution, (1)
Custom:
Lest One Good Custom Corrupt the World, (A)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Points:
"Points are point-to-able microscale systems which at
minimum consist of one tetrahedron which is always potentially
amplifiable independently of size to conceptual inspectability."
Cite RBF holograph for EJA; Windsor Castle, Berka; 22 Mar* 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A point is always a microsystem or a plurality of
microsystems, ergo at minimum one tetrahedron."
-
Citation & context at Microsystems, 22 Mar' 76

RBP DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Points are subdifferentiable systems; i.e., microsystems of
event points too far apart to resolve."
Citation & context at Minimum Awareness Model, (1), 9 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Points are unresolvable, untunable somethingnesses occurring
in the twilight zone between visible and supravisible experience."
Citation & context at Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A point is a somethingness."
-
Citation & context at Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Reality is a priori Universe. What we speak of geometrically
as having been vaguely identified in early experience as
'specks' or dots or points has no reality. A point in synergetics
is a tetrahedron in its vector-equilibrium, zero-volume state,
but too small for visible recognition of its conformation.
A line is a tetrahedron of macro altitude and micro base. A
plane is a tetrahedron of macro base and micro altitude. Points
are real, conceptual, experienceable visually and mentally, as
are lines and planes."
-
Citation & context at A Priori Four-dimensional Reality, (2)
20 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"In omnitopology, a vertex (point) is the only-approximate,
amorphous, omndirectional region occurring mid-spatially
between the most intimate proximity attained between two
almost-but-never-quite, yet critically intertransformatively,
interfering vectors."
Citation and context at Interference: Your Really Can't Get
There From Here, 19 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"It takes four to define insideness and outsideness.
It is called a point only because you cannot resolve it....
"When concentrically and convergently resolved, the 'point'
proves to be the 'center' -- the zero moment of transition
from going inwardly and going outwardly..
"Physical points are energy-event aggregations.... A 'point'
often means 'locus of inflection' when we go beyond the
threshold of critical proximity and the inness proclivity
prevails..."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 519.03 +
519.10, 6 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Every 'point' (event embryo) may articulate any of its four
event vector sets, each consisting of six positive and six
negative vectors, but only one set may be operative at any one
time; its alternate sets are momentarily only potential."
Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. 240.28,
28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"What we speak of as a point is always eight tetrahedra
converged to no size at all. The eight tetrahedra have
been brought to zero size and are abstracted from time and
special case. They are generalized. Though the empty
vector equilibrium model is now sizeless, we as yet have
the planes converging to intercept centrally
indicating the locus of their vanishment. The locus of
vanishment is the nearest to what we mean by a point.
point is the macro-micro switchabout between convergence
and divergence."
The
[33]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1012.34; 20 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Any point or locus inherently lacks insideness."
Citation and context at Prime Enclosure, 17 Feb 73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
All that
"Any point can tune in any other point in Universe.
18 necessary is that they both employ the same frequency, the
same resonance, the same system, center to center."
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft at Sec 960.08, 16 Nov 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A point is not a relationship.
"
Citation and context at Line, 7 Nov 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
*Points are complex but nondifferentially resolvable by super-
ficial inspection. A star is something you cannot resolve. We
call it a point, playing Euler's game of crossings. One star
does not have an insideness and an outsideness. It is a point
because you cannot resolve it.
"Two remotely crossing trajectories have no insideness nor outside-
ness but do produce optically observable crossings or fixes which
are positionally alterable in respect to a plurality of observation
points."
[03]
Cite RBF_rewrite of Synergetics Sec. 519.10 (Jul'71) done
1 Apr 72 (At Kennedy Airport)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A point's definitively unresolved event relationships
inherently embrace potential definitions of a complex
of local events. When resolved, the point is the
microcosmic turning around between going inwardly and
going outwardly."
1-87
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS Dec 171 draft Secs.
$1911519, Kennedy Airport, 1 Apr 172.
POINT-SEC, 519.031

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Without insideness there is no outsideness, and without both
there is no point, ergo points are inherently nondemonstrable
and the phenomena accommodated by the package-word 'point'
will always prove to be a focal center of differentiating events.
"A point constitutes conceptual genesis which may be realized in
time.
"Any conceptual event in Universe must have insideness and out-
sideness. This is a fundamental self-organizing principle."
->
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC (19 Feb'72) rewritten by RBF
Kennedy Airport, 1 Apr 72'
POINT SEC 519.02)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Without insideness there is now outsidenss,
and without both there is no point.
Ergo, point's
are inherently nondemonstrable and the phenomena
accommodated by the packaged word 'point' will always
prove to be a focal center of differentiating events.
A point constitutes conceptual genesis which may be
realized in time."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 19 Feb 172; as
rewritten by RBF, Kennedy Airport, 1 Apr 172.
POINT SEC 519.021

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"What we really mean by a point is an unresolved definition of
an activity. A point by itself does not enclose. There are no
indivisible points.
"A point's definitively unresolved event relationships inherently
embrace potential definition of a complex of local events.
"When resolved, the point is the microcosmic turning around
between going inwardly and going outwardly."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of Synergetics draft at Secs. 519_11312
(Dec'71) done at Kennedy Airport, 1 Apr*72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Without insideness there is no outsidenss, and without
both there is no point. Any conceptual event in Universe
must have insideness and outsideness. This is a fundamental
self-organizing principle."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 19 Feb '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"In a vector equilibrium the points are only in
equilibrium when they get to be the icosahedron.
•
Points are always tetrahedra-- whether it's a neuron,
or whatever. . A point is a minimum tetrahedron just
•
as a tetrahedron is a minimum sphere. Without insideness
there is no outsideness, and without both there is no
point. Any conceptual event in Universe must have
This is a fundamentally
insideness and outsideness.
self-organizing principle."
(EJA NOTE: The above is superseded by RBF rewriting
of 1 Apr 172.)
-Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 19 Feb 1972

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A point is an as-yet-undifferentiated focal star embracing a
complex of local events.
"The point is the microscopic turning around between going
inwardly and going outwardly.
There are
"What we really mean by a point is an unresolved definition of
an activity. A point by itself does not enclose.
np indivisible points."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 519.11+12, Dec'71
200

BFF11.11.
Foint:
"A point by itself does not enclose."
-
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. 880.2, August 1971.
POINTS - SEC. 519.01\

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Points are complex but nondifferentially resolvable to super-
ficial inspection. A star is something you cannot resolve. We
call it a point, playing Euler's game of crossings. One star
does not have an insideness and an outsideness. It is a point
because you cannot resolve it.
[03]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 519.to, Jul171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"Points are energy event aggregations; when they converge
beyond the critical fall-in proximity threshold, they
orbit co-ordinatedly, as loose pebbles on our Earth orbit
the Sun in unison and chips ride around on men's shoulders.
A point, then, is when we go beyond the threshold of
critical proximity and the inness proclivity prevails,
in contradistinction to the differentiable other fallen-in
aggregates orbiting precessionally in only masa-attractively
cohered remoteness outwardly beyond the critical proximity
threshold. Points are complex but nondifferentiably
resolvable to superficial inspection."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.
POINT SEC. 519.01 +02+.10)

no
RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A point on a sphere is never an infinitesimal tangency
with a plane."
POINTS
-
Citation at Tangency, 31 May '71
-Cite RBE -EJA, Blackstons Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.
SEC. 519.21

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"The domains of vertexes are spheres. This is all
the symmetries around the exquisite point."
P
Cite RBF tape Blackstone, Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971
POINTS SEC. 514.227
P. 37.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"The point is the microcosmic turning around between going
inwardly and going outwardly."
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.
POINTS, SEC. 519,03)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A star is something you can't resolve.
We call it a point,
playing Euler's game of crossings.
One star doesn't have and outsideness and an insideness.
It is a point because you can't resolve it."
POINTS SEC. 519.031
Cite RBF to EJA
Carbondale
2 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
If light or any other experiential phenomenon
were instantaneous it would be less than a point."
POINTS SEC. 514.20
Cite RBF SYNERGETICS Draft Mar 171

REF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"What we really mean by point then is an unresolved
identification of an activity."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 284. 12 Jul*62
POINTS - SEC. 519.011

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"There are no indivisible points."
Cite SYNERBETICS Corollarioes, Sec. 240.
POINTS SEC. 519.01
Oct '59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"For every mint in universe there are six uniquely and
exclusively operative vectors."
"Each vector is reversible having its negative alternative.
"Every point may export all or any of its six positive or
six negative vectors by importing like numbers.
"Each point in universe could be said to have twelve unique
and exclusive vectors, but one set of six is operative
and its alternate reverse effect set is only potential."
Cita COLLIER's, p. 113. Oct' 59
Citation & context at Vector, Oct 59
POINTS SEC. 519.30

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
PAINTS. SEC 519.
"A point is an as-yet undifferentiated focal star
embracing a complex of local events."
Cite Collier's, p. 113, Oct159

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A 'point' is a tetrahedron of negligible altitude and
base dimension."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS corollaries, Sec. 240. Oct159

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"There is no pointal center of gravity."
Citation and context at Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan'55

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point:
"A point is a tetrahedron of combined zerophase of
both altitude and base."
- Cite PENNSYLVANIA TRIANGLE, p. 10
Nov' 52
'

Points, Areas & Lines:
See Constant Relative Abundance
Events, Novents & Event Interrelatabilities
Fixes, Discontinuities & Sontinuities
Crossings, Opening & Trajectories
Vertexes, Faces &
Joints, Windows & Struts
Edges
(1)

Points, Areas & Lines:
See Euler, (1); 1969
Minimum Awareness Model, (1)
Domains of Polyhedra, 7 Nov' 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point-to-able Something:
"A point-to-able something may be much too small to be optically
resolved into its constituent polyhedral characteristics, yet
be unitarily differentiated as a black speck aginat a white
background. Because a speck existed yet defied their discern-
ment of any feature, mathematicians of the premicroscope era
mistakenly assumed a speck to be self-evidently unitary,
indivisible, and geometrically employable as a nondimensional
'point.in
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.032; 30 Apr* 77

Pointable: Point-to-able:
See In & Out: Go In to Go Out, 16 Dec 73
Vector, 16 Dec '73
Primitive Dimensionality, 1 Mar 76
Tetrahedron as Microsystem, 12 May'77
In, Out & Around, 17 May' 77

10
Point Growth Rate: External:
See Powering:
Second Powering

TEXT CITATIONS
Point: Humans First Conception of a Point:
Sec. 262.02 (2nd. Ed.)
264.03 "
265.03

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point: Inbound Point:
"The omni-inbound gravity works collectively toward the
invisibility of the central sero-size point."
- Cite SYNERGETICS Draft at Sec. 541.05, 23 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point: Outbound Point:
"The outbound, tetrahedrally-packaged, fractional point
works toward and reaches the inherent visibility phases
of radiation."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 541.05, 23 Sep' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point: Outbound Point:
"Trigem (trimetric) system of airways--
Is just like a plane
on the ground with
three-point support.
"The four-point landing of a plane is ridiculous, as, in fact,
is the automobile for which we have had to build plane (carpet)
highways... Individual spring was to loose fourth wheel.
(1)
"Three dimensions invoked four-square seaffolding of civilisation,
which os o.k. at diminutive scale like a needle floating on
water... as relative tension supports the otherwise untenable
transgression of principle.
"Inbound point concentrates infinitely as
point and foges (sic) an infinite tensile
cohesiveness.
"Outbound point expands to fourth dimension:
therefore is point annihilations and fissions at limits.
Cite RBF holograph, 6 May'48
.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Point: Outbound Point:
"Ergo; Radiation finite: tension infinite.
Therefore,
Universe is infinitely cohesive and limitedly chaotic.*
Cite RBF holograph, 6 Mar' 48
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point: Outbound Point:
"Inbound point. diminishes or contracts
to straight line: therefore, shortest
distance B to A.
"Outbound point must expand to direction
of cone or tetra: therefore, radiation tends
to take angle, and therefore, longest
distance A to B.
"Therefore, gravity swifter than radiation;
therefore, Universe collects its masses in
ever tighter concentrations."
- Cite RBF holograph, circa 1948
B
B

Point Population:
See Powering:
Powering:
Second Powering, 28 Oct'73
Third Powering, 28 Oct'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Point of No Return:
"
Humanity
Is approaching a crisis
In which its residual ignorance, shortsightedness
And circumstance-biased viewpoints
May dominate,
Thus carrying humanity
Beyond the 'point of no return'--
Enveloping his exclusively Sun-regenerated
Planetary home
In chain-reactive pollutionings
And utter disorder."
Cite INTUITION, pp.60-61 May 172

TEXT CITATIONS
Point - Fight Tetrahedra:
$1053.810

Point = Eight Tetrahedra:
See Point, 20 Feb 73
Nonpolar Points, 29 Nov' 72
Tetrahedron:
Nine Schematic Aspecta, 30 Aug175
Vector Equilibrium: Zerophase, 30 Aug'75
Hedra, 10 Apr'75
Sec. 1012.33

Point vs. Zone:
See Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan' 55

Point: points
223.40 external, superficial points of a system
(a)
223.65 points defining modular subdivisions (length, area, vol.}
224.07 sphere; center & surface
240.05 tetra of negligible altitude & base
240.09 undifferentiated focal star complex
240.10 undivisible
240.11 complex unities
240.12 six vectors for every point
240.28 embryo articulates as six vectors
445.05 VE as domain of a point
510.01 star event: fix
510.05 star event: focus
515.011 points defining modular aubdivisions (length, area, vol.)

Point: points
519 (Main text)
535.11 geodesic array
537.11 six vectors for every point
541.09 tetra: points & no-points
541.10 novents embrace points
707.02 points, planes, and lines are systemic
713.06 subvisible aggregates
713.07 convergence & twist
825.27 triangulation and trigonometric fix
960.08 any point can tune in any other point
966.12 specks an dots are unreal; points are conceptual
985.20 spheric experience of three or more vectors converging
985.21 points define systems
(b)

Point: points (c)
1009,11 vertex between converging vectors
1011.10 four points for prime enclosure
1011.11 no interior point in a domain
1012.33 point
=
eight tetra: zerosize: generalized
(c)

Point: (1A)
See Brouwer's Theorem
Congruence with the Points
Cosmic Limit Point
Crossing
Disturbance Initiating Point
Domain of a Point
Ineffable Point
Intertangency Points
Kissing Point: K
Localized Thickening of Points
Nonpolar Points
No Points
Otherness Point
Polar Points
Spherical Point System
Subpoint
Surface Points
Vector Center Fix
Zero Point
Lines Cannot Go Through the Same Point at the Same Time

Point:
See Conceptual Genesia
Event Embryo
Locus Fix
Starting Point
Limit Point
Event-points
Interpointal
Vertexial Topology
Vector Equilibrium as Starting Point
Interconnection of Any Two Points
Interconnection of Any Four Points
Reachable Point
Whyte, L.L: Point System
Somethingness
Benday Screen
(1B)

Point:
(2A)
See Aggregate, 20 Dec 71
A Priori Four-dimensional Reality, (2)*
Constant Relative Abundance, 29 Nov 72
Coupler, 5 Apr1 73
Crystallography, 17 Aug'70
Domain, 22 Juni 72
Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan 55
Interference:
19 Dec'73*
Line, 7 Nov 72*
You Really Can't Get There from Here,
Meaningless, Oct 66
Needle, 10 Fep 73
Powering: Second Powering, 5 Apr*73
Prime Enclosure, 17 Feb'73*
Start, 29 Dec '58
Surface, 17 Feb 72
Tangency, 31 May171*
Two, (2)
Vector, Oct'59
Vector Equilibrium, (1); Feb'48

Point:
See Systematic Realization, 20 Dec'74
Minimum Limit Case, 9 Jun'75
Somethingness & Nothingness, 9 Jun'75*
Minimum Awareness Model, (1)*
Proofs, 7 Oct 75
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (2)
Primitive Dimensionality, 1 Mar 76
Microsystems, 22 Mar' 76*
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1)-(3)
(2B)

Point:
See Pointable: Point-to-able
Points, Areas & Lines
Point Growth Rate
Point: Inbound Point
Point of No Return
Point: Outbound Point
Point Population
Point vs. Zone
Point Eight Tetrahedra
Point-to-able Something
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poisson Effect:
"These vectorial resultants of forces articulated in
planes perpendicular to the axia of the applied force vector,
with concomitant right-angle transformation of compression
into tension, and vice versa, are altogether known as the
Poisson Effect (as named for their human discoverer and not
for a fish-like behavior). We now know that this impre-
cisely recognized reciprocal effect is a precisely operative
physical system phenomenon known as precession.'
-
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO AND ART NEWS,
, p. 119, Dec. 161

TEXT CITATIONS
Poisson Effect:
Oregon Lecture #3, p. 152, 6 Jul'62
Synergetics Secs. 1005.30-32

Poisson: Poisson Effect:
See Electric Motor, 25 Jan '72
Tidal, (pp. 129-130) May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polarity:
"All systems are polarized.... There is an inherent polarity
in all observation: that is the additive twoness.
"
Citation & context at Nonpolarized, 12 Nov'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polarity:
"Polarity is inherent in the plurality of the con of congruence.
Citation & context at Two-dimensional Polarity, 11 Sep 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polarity:
"Absolutely straight lines or an absolutely flat plane would,
theoretically, continue outwardly to infinity.
The
difference between infinity and finity is governed by the
taking out of angular sinuses, like pieces of pie, out of
surface areas around a point in an absolute plane. This
is the way lampshands and skirts are made. Joining the
sinused fan-ends together makes a cone; if two cones are
made and their open end, ergo infinitely trending, edges
are brought together, a finite system results. It has
two polar points and an equator. These are inherent and
primary characteristics of all systems."
Citation at Angular Sinus Takeout, Dec '61
ortfolter Art News Annual), pp. 119-120,-Dec'61
SYSTEM SEC
400.10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polarity:
"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.
•
- Cite Undated Sheet: The DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polarization:
"The precessional processing of plus-minus polarization is"
a synergetic proclivity.
Citation & context at Synergetic Proclivity, 10 Nov'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polarization:
"There are in closest packing, we find, always alternate
spaces that are not being used so that triangular groups
can be rotated into one position or 60 degrees to an
alternate nestable place. In other words you take the
vector equilibrium, rotate it 60 degrees to the next
nestable position and suddenly it is polarized.
• .
-
Gite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 234-235, 11 Jul'62
Cite Sirty Degreeness, 11 Jul*62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polarization:
"Here we have a positive and a negative event in opposition
to one another as a polarized system. Up to now I have
been giving you symmetrical systems, not polarized.
There is nothing at all polarized about tetrahedron or
icosahedron, but now when we oppose these two there is
a north pole and a south pole in equatorial aspect."
(Comment on SLIDE 3:4
-
1)
-
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
-
pp. 179-180, 9 Jul'62

Polar Coupling:
See Associability, 21 Mar 73

Polar Focus:
See Focus - Beamable B
Wirable, 1 Apr '72

Polar Azimuthal Projection:
See Projective Transformation, (II)

Poles of Inward-outward Consideration:
See Macro-Micro, 12 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polar Points:
"Polar points are two dimensional: plus and minus, opposites."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 527.21
7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polar Points:
"Polar points are two dimensional: North-South."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.21, 29 Nov 72

Polar Points:
See Vertexial Unities
Plus Two
Neutral Axis

HBF DEFINITIONS
Polarized Precession:
"Polarized precession is special case."
Citation and context at General Case, 16 Feb'73

Polarized Precession:
See Polarization, 10 Nov'74
Heaven & Hell, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polar Symmetry:
"Poles are symmetrical to each other, but not
omnisymmetrical like the icosahedron and tetrahedron."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash Dc, 17 Feb 172

Polar Symmetry:
See Projective Transformation, (8)
Tetrahedron:
Polarization of, 13 Nov' 75

Polarized System:
See Physics: Difference Between Physics & Chemistry,
11 Jul162

Polar Torque:
See Jitterbug, 1 Dec'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polar Vertexes:
"For every point in Universe except two there are always
and only six intertriangulating connective lines because
every action has its reaction, every event vector line has
PUSH
its diametrically always coexistant exposed
and pull
forces, ergo every visible line has its coexistant counter-
part, ergo in addition to the visible six, there are
six invisible lines (or twelve universally unique degrees
of freedom of alternately optional articulatabilities.
Cite BF re-write 19 Feb 72 at 3200 Idaho, DC, of
undated 1971 holograph, same citation.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polar Vertexes:
"For every point in Universe except two there are always and
only six intertriangulating connective lines."
Cite RBF undated holograph (1971)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polar Vertexes:
"Every event has its coexistant system's topological
characteristics. Initially to be considered are the two
polar axis points of every event observer's axis of view,
i.e., the viewer's 'up and down, eye to foot, vertical
axis of right and left footprints.
In our analysis of our
spon/neous conceptioning controls we extract these two
polar points and there remains a constant relative of two
areas and three edges of every event fix. In respect to
our spontaneously adopted axis of view, me or we, can
the shape of anything in
describe
Universe exclusively in terms of angle and frequency."
. Cite KBF re-write 19 Feb 172, of same caption 17 Feb.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polar Vertexes:
We need to
"Every event has two points. Every event has two polar
points derived from the axis of reference.
extract these two polar points and there will be a
remaining constant relative abundance of two areas and
three edges. We take an axis of observation-- Me--
and we can describe anything else in Universe in terms
of angle and frequency."
Cite RBF to EIA + BO'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb '72

Polar Vertexes:
See Additive Twoness
(1)

Polar Vertexes:
See Two, 25 May 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poles:
"At any instant of time any two of the evenly coupled
vertexes of a system function as poles of the axis of
inherent rotatability."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corollaries," Sec. 240.63. 1971

Polar: Polarity: Pole: Polarization:
See Additive Twoness
Axis entries
Electromagnetic
Fountain Pattern
Magnetic Field
Nonpolar
Omnidirectionality
V.S.
Polarization
Precession: Polarised Precession
Plus-minus Polarity
Tetrahedron: Polarity Or
Vector Equilibrium:
Polarization of
Minimum Polar Triangle
Coring
Toration
Topological Aspects: Inventory of
Synergetic Proclivity
Positive & Negative:
Four Kinds
Eternal Pole
One-dimensional Polarity
Two-dimensional Polarity
Pentagonal Polarity
(1)

Polar: Polarity: Pole: Polarization:
Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms, 2 Nov'73
See Angular Sinus Takeout, Dec'61*
Brouwer's Theorem, 10 Nov 73
Colloidal Chemistry, 1938
Compound, 3 Nov 73
Great Circle, 10 Nov'73
Number: Even Number, 26 Sep'73
Sixty Degreeness, 11 Jul 62*
System, 8 Jan 55; 1954
Twoness, 23 May172
Vector Equilibrium, 11 Jul162
Organic Chemistry, 11 Jul 62
Prime Numbers:
Pairing Of, 17 Jan '74
Synergetic Proclivity, 10 Nov*74*
Positive & Negative: Four Kinds, 10 Nov174
Heaven & Hell, 31 May 171
Fear & Longing, 1938
Two-dimensional Polarity, 11 Sep*75*
Nonpolarized, 12 Nov'75*
Hex-pent Sphere Transformation into Geodesic
Spiral Tube, (1),
Tensegrity Fasts: Pentagonal Polarity, 27 Dec 76
(2)

Polar: Polarity: Pole: Polarization:
See Polar Coupling
Polar Focus
Polar Azimuthal Projection
Polarized Precession
Polar Symmetry
Polarized System
Polar Torque
Polar Vertexes
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pole Vaulter:
"Repetition is inherent to frequency and wave phenomena in
writing and expression as in music and sports, where rhythm
is fundamental and expression is the essence. Whether it
is a kid jumping over a ditch or a pole-vaulter seeking a
new world record, he cannot do it all in no-time-at-all nor
all the first time. It is part of the grand strategy that
the pole vaulter has to run over the same cinder path
hundreds and hundreds of times before comprehendingly omni-
coordinating his degrees of freedom and rising to that
additional quarter of an inch for a record. And no one
ever gets tired watching him."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., front matter, Author's Note on
Rationale for Repetition in This Work, p.xxii; 2 Jul'75

TEXT CITATIONS
Pole Vaulter:
Total Thinking, I&I, p.228, May'49

Pole Vault: Pole Vaulter:
See Charting Alternating Experiences, (4)
Jet Stilts, 2y Jan 75
Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (1)
Repetition, 8 Mar' 75

317
RBF DEFINITIONS
Politicans:
"Politicians are merchants of woe. They get elected because
of what's bothering people now."
Cite RBF to EJA at Kennedy Center in Washington after
National Town Meeting of the Air, 10 Sep'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politicians:
(In response to newspaper account: "McGovern Wonders Why
the Public is so Apathetic about the Watergate?")
So
You
"Society has always assumed that politics is crooked.
if you just get experts to say this is so, why nobody is
surprised. They just find it a little more sophisticated
crookedness. where the McGoverns and the Humphreys-- and
even Adlai to some extent-- go wrong is when they try to
appear as pure saints when they are politicians too.
couldn't be a politician and not have some important
compromise in your background. You may not have done
anything personally wrong. But you may have temporized.
You may have put up with. You may have kept quiet.
may have looked the other way....
You
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idao, Wash DC, 20 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politicians:
"Politicians are going to confess the obvious-- that no
human beings can keep in mind all the special interests of
all people and all the whereabouts and unique behaviors of
all the resources of Earth. No human beings can persuade
other people to behave in unfamiliar, untried ways, but the
computer can integrate and disclose the critical information
and be completely convincing... As the world game is played
progressively it will disclose a myriad of politically
untried, unprecedented yet effective ways of solving hitherto
unsurmountable problems. These will become big news items of
the world's press and international wire services. As man
gets into more critical proximity to a full-scale World War
Three, the people of the world will begin to say in
increasing numbers, 'Now that we can see a way in which this
and that can be done, we must obviously adopt the policies
inidicated by the World Game.' Popular pressures will
gradually force world politics to yield to these mutually
beneficial world game programs.
"Our greatest problem is the educational problem of getting
man to realize in time what his programs are, and what the
most effective priorities may be for saving them." It
+ Whole Earth
Cite RBF quoted by Gene Youngblood in LA. Free Press Cat. Mar+70
'

RBP DEFINITIONS
Politicians:
"The number of scientists today who really know the world
could work is something less than one percent. Society
doesn't know the world could work. Politicians haven't the
slightest idea it could work. They really don't. They're
the most earnest people, and I think we as human beings are
putting a horrible load on politicians, who can't really
solve the problems. Their lives are really quite horrible
lives. And we're blaming them, and it really is just that
they don't have the capabilities. So we're at fault in asking
them to solve the problems. I'm perfectly confident that no
politician can ever yield to the other politician on the other
side; he'd be a traitor and he's de immediately dispplaced,
because the other politician is waiting to displace him that
way. So I do know that every politician can yield to the
computer.
"
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul 69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 1, Reel, 1, pp. 108-109.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politician:
"The politician is someone who deals in man's problems of
adjustment. To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the
tail of a dog to lead the dog."
CiteDESIGNERS AND THE PONCIANS, I&I, p.305, 1962

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politicians & Defense Budgets:
"Because of the rocketing costs of TV time and other public
relations organizations, politicians have become electable
only by the money power either of unions or of business
management; and since World War II's close, it has been left
to the politicians to keep the mass-production economy
going and growing--a task which politicians of all sides
found could be best accomplished through $50-100-billion-a-
year 'defense' budgets, and having their military (or their
satellite governments' military) establishments continually
buy ever-advancing power, range, and accuracy of their
armaments' hitting-power in anticipation of the always
politically logical assumption of the 'next' vastly more
sophisticated war."
Citation & context at Building Industry, (4); 20 Sep'76

Politicians & Defense Budgets:
See Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep176

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"All politics are not only obsolete but lethal."
-
Citation and context at War, 13 Dec*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politica:
"Politics is always on one side of how you deal with fundament-
al inadequacy."
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec'73;
as rewritten by him at 3200 Idaho, 13 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politica:
"Politics is always on the side of how you deal with
fundamental inadequacy."
-Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politica:
"My hopes then are not founded on acts of political wisdom or
adoption of altruistic conventions. They are predicated
exclusively on an informed and experienced competence adequate
to the task of physically accomplishing fundamental cosmic
success of humanity. Appropriate political actions must be
sequitur to actual capability. Political actions without
knowledge of how to attain universal success are inherently
wishful and even specious, ergo doomed to failure or to only
momentary advantage gains of an exclusive nature."
Citation and context at Design Science (3), 29 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"Unless you have the technical solution, politics can't
do anything."
Citation & context at Office Buildings: Conversion to
Apartments, 28 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"Playboy: Is there a single statement you can make that
expresses the spirit of your philosophy?"
"RBF: I always try to point one thing out-- if we do
more with less, resources are adequate to take care of
everybody. All political systems are founded on the
premise that the opposite is true. We've been assuming
all along that failure was certain, that our Universe was
running down and it was strictly you-or-me, kill-or-be-
killed as long as it lasted. But now in our century we've
discovered that man can be a success on his planet, and
that is the greatest change that has come over our
thinking."
-Cite Barry Farrell Playboy Interview, 1972 Draft, p. 1.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"We find that generally speaking the geographically larger
the physical task to be done, the duller the conceptual
brain is brought to bear upon the technically realized
applications. Finally we get to international affairs and
you know what is happening today. The most highly polished
of the dullest class, scientifically and intellectually
speaking, may wear their striped pants very beautifully and
be charming fellows but they have not produced any mutually
acceptable, constructive world peace generating ideas. They
traffic successfully only in people's troubles and emergency
compromises."
-Cite RBF quoted by Hal Aigner in ROLLING STONE, 10 June, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"I'm confident that Politics is losing its credit with the
world, while people are growing continually more confident in
the kind of results they can get out of computers.'
"
-
Cite Transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #2%; Side A,
p.4; Bear Island, 11 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"Politics are only appropriate to an economy of scarcity.
Within the scarcity context politics play tricks short-of-
war by which the successful politicians' side monopolozes
the limited survival supply. Death by want-- i.e., by
metabolic inadequancies is much slower than by the sword
or gun and causes much more anguish and pain than that of
the swift hero's death. Death by want imposed on many by
the successful politicians' warfaring only with laws and
police guns obscures the identity of their executioner from
both the politicians and the slow-dying victim. Only if there
is an inherent major life support inadequancy aboard our
planet and even in the Universe, politics and politicians are
valid functions of Universe. If there is a fundamental
adequacy of life support aboard our planet which is as-yet
popularly unrealized, politicians can go on playing their
trincks in seemingly good conscience. But the politicians'
self-deceptive scarcity game playing and the ultimately
lethal consequences for many humans inherent in the
politicians' one-sided victories tend to prolong and obscure
from social consideration the now dawning scientific awareness
of the technical feasibility of universal economic success for all"
-
Cite RDF Ltr. to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 4 Jan 170, p. 5.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"
All politicians can and will yield enthusiastically
to the computers
•
.
in bringing all of humanity in
for a happy landing."
-
Citation & context at Leaders Can Yield to the Computer, 1969
-Cire UperatingManual for Spaceship Earth. 1969.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"We need not be against politicians to realise that their local
preoccupations are futile. They have good convictions and are
individually moved as human beings by what they regard as a
responsibility to 'their' side or 'our side.
But every
political ideology and all extant political systems assume
that there is not enough to go around: it is either you or me;
there can't be enough for both. So we eventually assume war;
and that is the cause of the weapons race.
(1)
"The reasoning was once correct. When there is enough available
a healthy human will eat three pounds of dry food a day, drink
six pounds of water, and breathe 54 pounds of air: or six pounds
net of oxygen. For most of the history of man on Earth there
has not been enough of that dry food and humanity has fought
about this, time and again. Many times there has not been
enough water; and humanity has fought over this. There has been
no time when there has not been enough air. Humanity has so
much air available that no one has even thought of putting
meters on air and trying to make money out of it. But there
are times, for example in a great theater fire, when humanity,
completely unused to competing for air, finds itself suffocating
and goes mad."
Cite YEAR 2000, AD, Feb*67

RBP DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"It seems perfectly clear that when there is enough to go
around, man will not fight any more than he now fights for air.
When man is successful in doing so much more with so much less
that he can take care of everybody at a higher standard, then
there will be no fundamental cause for war.
"In the years ahead, as man does become successful, the root
cause of war will be eliminated. Scientists assure us over and
over again that this is feasible. There can be enough energy
and organized capability for all men to enjoy the whole Earth.
"This is the most important prediction I can make: in 10 years
from now we will have changed so completely that no one will
say that you have to demonstrate your right to live, that you
have to earn a living. Within 10 years it will be normal for
man to be successful-- just as through all history it has been
the norm for more than 99 percent to be economic and physical
failbres.
"Politics will become obsolete."
(2)
Cite YEAR 2000, AD, Feb '67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"Science paces technology, technology paces industry,
industry paces economics, and economics paces politics.
Quite clearly, then, political leaders are at the tail
end of affairs. And for man to ask change of political
leaders is like asking the cow's tail to redesign to cow."
Cite HBF quoted by Michael S. Gruen, Harvard Crimson story
on Charles Eliot Norton lectures, January 1962.

RBF DEFINITIONS.
Politics:
"The unfamiliar complex of the new wealth accounting
requirements of the evoluting human experiences emerges
as an aggregate of unique and popularly discerned
everyday 'news' problems. In turn the popularly discerned
inventory of problems altogether provides the raw materials
to be
processed by the machinery of politics. It is
the purpose of politics to digest the problems and to
provide adequate accounting and readjustments to the
unexpected and often disconcerting changes in the patterns
of technical advantage realizations. Politics must thus
implement life's continually increasing sweepout and
penetration of Universe with a continually changing set
of operational rules and accounting conventions." It
- CIC NO the SOUNDHAND Q, Preface, x, x 9-May162
Citation and context at Science-Technology-Industry-Economica-
Politics Sequence (2
) (3), 9 May162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"An outmoded activity.
•
A naive attempt to
achieve through games of words what must ultimately
be derived from technology."
Cite MARKS, P. 10, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"Politics can only redeal the inadequate cards.
-
Cite I&I, THE COMPREHENSIVE MAN, p. 81. Jan'59
11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"At present all the world's industrial, or surfaced,
processed and reprocessed,
funtional
tonnage is in the service of one-quarter of the world's
population.
•
All the politicians can do regarding the
problem is to take a fraction of that inadequate ratio
of supply from one group and apply it to another without
changing the overall ratio.
•
.
All that money can do is
"
•
shower paper bills of digits on the conflagration.
-
Cite RBF quoted by Elaine de Kooning in Art News, Sept. 52

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"No politician can yield to another politician but
all politicians can-- and eventually will yield to
the complex problem solutions of the computer."
Cite NL SWEE
Etecture, The Present Scene," p. 10
Citation & Context at Leaders Can Yield to the Computer, undated

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics:
"
•
Political force
•
. is one of the survivals of
feudalistic patronage systems, embodying self
indulgence of the few. Industry is replacing political
control. Unscrupulousness in politics thrives on the
unenlightenment and unindividualism of
mobs.
So called
'mob psychology' is only group motivation through animal
instinct, selfconsciously denying itself of its
individual reasoning power. .
Cite 4-D, Chapter 5, May 1928

RBP DEFINITIONS
Politics: Accessory After the Fact:
"Politics are an accessory after the fact."
- Cite RBF to steak crowd at
LBJ Grille, Carbondale, Ill.
1 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politica:
Accessory After the Fact:
"Politics exists and will always exist-- but it must always be
an accessory after the fact... an accessory after the fact of
whatever the circumstances may be. So if you change the
environment, the circumstances change and politics will have to
have new problems. Politics can't really begin until you have
a plow at hand, or a pick-axe at hand. They can't create that;
and once you do have tools at hand, then you use them. And
that becomes part of the circumstances. I'm not saying there
isn't going to be political action, but it must be an accessory
after the fact. So I can see that we can get the political mood,
the mood of man, to simply demand that their political parties
on both sides merely yield in a direction that neither of them
ever thought of before. The one will not be yielding to the
other man's policy at all. He'll be yielding to the computer.
And I find that anybody can yield to the computers. He can't
lose face by yielding to a machine."
-
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #3, Side A,
p.10; Bear Island, 12 Aug'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politica: Accessory After the Fact:
"Political reform is only and always accessory after the
fact."
Citation and context at Problem: Statement of the Problem,
1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Political Mandates:
Inventory of:
"...Little humans on tiny planet Earth each becoming Mr. Big
with a suddenly mistaken sense of power over environmental
transformations-- participation in which permitted him to feel
himself as a manager of inventories of logistical multiplicities
which, at the most ignorant level, manifests itself as
politically assured mandates and political-world gambling
gamboling = ideological warfare national sovereignties =
morally rationalizing public body politic = individual nations
as United Nations.'
-
- Citation & context at Nature's Subvisible Order (2), 27 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics & Property:
"The young people recognize the integrity of the Queen--
in contrast to the corruptibility of all the big politicos.
"There were no radical or hostile demonstrations anywhere
over the 4th of July...although, in a new phase of the
psycho-guerrilla warfare, the young are developing their
own antibodies to pólitical exploitation."
"The young are frustrated by the obsolescence of our politics
and our economics, but they are all now coming to realize
that nothing worthwhile is for sale!"
Cite RBF in response to direct query from Anthony Crosland,
UK Foreign Secretary, re US youth's interest in the
royal visit; at a small reception given by the Queen and
Prince Philip aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, Phila-
delphia, PA., 6 Jul176.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Political Revolution:
"It is impossible for us under the present comprehensive
design pattern of world industrialization to make the Earth's
total metals serve 100 percent of humanity exclusively
through political revolutions or peaceful reforms and
rearrangements of the way of administering the economic
accounting of the commercial and social affairs of man.
All we can do politically with the fundamental resource
inadequacy is to take from one group and give to another.
Competitive enterprise assumes exclusive success.
19
Cite MEXICO 163, p.2, 10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Politics vs. World Game:
Bill Wolf: "Is there an evolutionary or gradual path from the
present to the goals of World Game, or is there a
sharp discontinuity?"
RBF:
"I say politics is an exclusive system at this point
and World Game is an inclusive system. Whatever it is,
and to the extent that the exclusive system is running
itself out, and it equals out to simply the inverse of
what's out. So it simply melts into one another at
some point."
-
Cite Tape #3, p. 13; RBF to W. Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun³ 74

Politicians: Politica:
See Bias on One Side of the Line
Circuitry: Thermionic and Political Analogy
Conservatism
Democracy
Leaders
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer
Leaders:
Freeways
Nation
Take Away the Leaders
Narcotics as Political Strategy
Peace
Revolution
Socialism
Sovereignty
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politica
Sequence
Last Chance Adoption of
Survival Recourse:
Unheeded Principles
Technocracy
Social Organization
(1A)

Politicians: Politics:
(1B)
See United States:
To Break Up
War
One of the Most Difficult Sovereignties
War: Official War & Unofficial War
World Game:
Nonpolitical
Men Landing on Moon
Politics vs. World Game
Social Economics
Apolitical
World-around
Communication Transcends Politics
Ideology
Ideologies Become Supranational
Merchants of Woe
Global Political Revolution

Politics:
Politicians:
See Air Delivery & Submarine Cities, (3)
Automobile, 5 May' 72
Building Industry, (11) (12)
Communications, 1967
Culture, 27 Jan' 77
Doing What Needs to be Done, (1) (2)
Design Science, (3)*
Ego, 9 Nov 75
Electrical Network, 12 Jun'69
Fuller, R.B: On Drinking Liquor, 22 Jun 77
(2 A-N)
Individual Economic Initiative, 2 Jun'71; 13 Jul 74
Inhibit, 9 Apr'40
Invented Jobs, 20 Sep'76
Laissez-faire Process, 10 Oct'63
Neek Have Inherited the Earth, 10 Oct'63
No Energy Crisis, (A)-(C)

Politics: Politicians:
See Obsolescence, Apr' 72
Office Buildings, 28 Jan'72*
Population Explosion, (1)
Private Enterprise, May' 57
Problem: Statement Of, 1954
Soleri, Paolo 8 Feb'76
Structure, 8 Sep 75
Sweepout, 9 May 62'
(2 O-Z)
321

Poll: Polling:
See Electronic Voting

Pollen: Pollination:
See Bee: Honey-seeking Bee
Inadvertence: Inadvertent
(1)

Pollen: Pollination:
See Male & Female, 1 Feb 75
New York City' (12)
223
(2)

22
RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"Man talks carelessly and ignorantly of such words as... (the
popular, modern) pollution. where nothing but absolute order
is subvisibly maintained by Universe and her transformation
arrangements unfamiliar to man. Universe does not have any
pollution.
All the chemistries of Universe are always essential
to the integrity of eternal transformation..."
Citation & context at Nature&s Subvisible Order (1), 27 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"I'm perfectly confident that the way we are going to get
around pollution and so forth is by developing much better
tools for handling energy. You make a tool and you have
it available. If it does work it makes things obsolete that
have been inadequate... Desperate people say I'm not going
to pollute.' But oil is coming out of the refinery down
there and people are using the automobile. People can't
design their own automobiles. They can't design refineries
as a body politic. Somebody has to take the trouble to
discover how you refine and how you don't pollute.
be done."
This can
Quoted by Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND, p.153 (Holt, Rine-
hart & Winston, NY) 1973 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"All the chemistries of Universe are essential to
Universe.
Nature has no pollution."
-Cite RBF at Catholic University Address, Washington DC,
24 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"Pollution is a natural resource that we are
failing to harvest."
(Slightly adapted.)
LIFE,
- Cite article on RBF by Barry Farrel 26 Feb' '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"Collect it in the nozzle-- not in the spray!"
HBF to EJA, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"Ignorant humans aboard Space Vehicle Earth are now
screaming, "Pollution! * There is no such phenomenon.
What they call pollution is extraordinarily valuable
chemistry essential to Universe and essential to man on
Earth. What is happening is that the egocentricity of
omnispecialized man makes him ignorant of the value with
which his processing is confronting him. The yellow-brown
content of fume and smog is mostly sulfur. The amount of
sulfur going out of the smokestacks around the world each
year is exactly the same as the amount of sulfur being taken
from the Earth each year to keep the world ecology going.
It would be far less expensive to catch that sulfur while
concentrated in the stack, and to distribute it to the
original users, than to do the original mining and to get
it out of human lungs, etcetera, when all the costs to
society over a detriorating 25 years are taken into account.
But humanity insists on holding to this year's profits,
crops, and elections. World society is lethally shortsighted."
-Cite RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED
CINEMA, 1970. p. 21.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"When people use the word pollution it simply means that
they have some chemistry they aren't familiar
with.
There is powerful evidence as you study the
total
Universe
and the total relative abundancies that
there is an
extraordinary continuous interplay of those chemistries,
and so it's simply a matter of man getting much too overspec-
ialized and not realizing that what you have here,
is
exactly what's needed there.
"
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, p.75
.

HBP DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
"For the strange carelessness of urban society in polluting
and corrupting the beauty of the environment is an inherited
precedent set by big corporation factories belching smoke into
Find-
the sky and vomiting chemical residues into the waters.
ing one's self born within the ugly city streets with no
fundamental outlet for the innate energies and explorational
initiatives, breeds early contempt for the environment and for
those who perpetuate its inadequacies. Because humanity has been
born without asking so to be, and must frequently grow within
environments which disregard their developing needs, most of
society tends to cast aside its refuse in unmeditated disdain
for the economic masters who seem exclusively preoccupied with
making quick profits out of men's desperately vital needs."
-
Bite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.32, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution Control:
I
"I was told by the chief engineer of Combustion Engineering
that the apparatus for precipitating all of the fumes, parti-
cularly the sulfur which makes the public utilities the worst
urban sky polluters, was in complete mechanical solution.
asked what the additional cost per kilowatt hour would be if
the apparatus were installed. The answer was 25 percent
additional.
"On speaking to the Edison Electric utility managers I pointed
this out and was told by them that the chief customers were
industries and that the industries only buy from them because
the public utilities can provide power at only a fraction less
There-
than it would cost the companies to produce their own.
fore, if they did add the 25 percent, the public would gladly
pay but their prime customers would forsake them; ergo, they
could not do so.
Vast
"The sulfur coming out of all the world's chimneys annually
exactly equals what we are taking out of the Earth anuually
to supply industry's rubber making and other such needs.
amounts of energy, knowledge, and skill are expended in the
progressive stages of separating out and refining metals from"
(1)
diy
Cite RBF Ltr. to Marshall McLuhan, 2 Sep 174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution Control:
(2)
"their original random ore matrix. This process of separating
out that which the processor desires inadvertently produces
a left-over concentrate of chemical substances unwanted by
the producer, which are now or soon may be essential constituents
of other humanity serving industries. Therefore the unwanted
or so-called waste products are highly valuable concentrates--
before diffusion ot of the stacks or nozzles.
"Nature has no exclusively polluting substances. All physical
substances consist of complexes of some of the 92 regenerative
chemical elements all of which are essentials at different
frequencies of time and in different magnitudes to the success
of eternally regenerative Universe. Pollution is a word invented
by and manifesting human ignorance.
"Many metallic elements may be combined to produce special
behavior alloys which other elements serve as catalyzers, and
so forth, while altogether accommodating all of Universe's
intetransformative capabilities with only a few of which humanity
is as yet familiar and many of which may be essential to
humanity's future survival and service functions."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Marshall McLuhan, 2 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution Control:
(3)
"When any one of our various competitively producing industrial
companies are told that they must stop polluting the atmosphere
or waters, they say that the added cost would prevent them from
competing in their respective industries; ergo pollution abate-
ment would mean bankruptcy for them; ergo no compliances. The
atmospheric airs drift and the waters flow interconnectedly arend
our planet. They and all resources are essential to all
humanity and the Universe of which humans are just such a
function.
"Clearly the problem won't be solved until central governments
make complete precipitation mandatory and rebate the costs
thereof from the annual taxes of the industries while forcing
the utilities to turn over to the central government all the
valuable chemical elements recovered. The governments would
find their stockpiles worth many times what they seemingly
were losing in tax rebates. The saving to governments in medicare
and general pollution-caused deteriorations would be profound.
The computers would soon inform the government that they were
saving so much money that they could almost completely eliminate
taxes. They would be converting commonwealth to sorted-out
metals that would continually recirculate and with each 22-year"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Marshall McLuhan, 2 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution Control:
"average recirculation would employ the interim harvest of
improved know-how to produce the manyfold performance increase
per pound of the previous recirculation. As for instance, each
melted down Cadillac today can produce two superior-to-Cadillac
Japanese vehicles. I am not promoting automobiles, just
clarifying the point."
(4)
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Marshall McLuhan, 2 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution:
Infinite Room to Pollute:
"If the Earth was flat-- out to infinity-- there'd be
infinite room to pollute. You just get rid of it.
It goes
to infinity. That's been the practical idea up to now. And
if it went to infinity there'd be an infinite amount of
resources to replace the resources we've exhausted. That's
been our experience in the past. Let's be practical. Let's
get down to Earth! That's the way it is.
And then look
at the extraordinary editorial in yesterday's N.Y. Times
quoting Maurice Stans, the Secretary of Commerce, saying let's
go slow on environmental controls: if it gets in the way of
making money, we can't afford it. I think it is a most ghastly
demonstration of the magnitude to which humans are really
entrapped by shortsightedness and selfishness. Now I don't
think ill of any of my fellow men. Each one has his own
evolutionary pattern, but I am intent, wherever I can, to free
my fellow men of the entrapment in ignoranca and shortsight-
edness.
Cite RBF at SILS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71,
Talk 13, pp. 20-21
A

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution: Infinite Room to Pollute:
And
"If there is an infinite system, then there are an infinite
number of resources to be exploited. You can be just as
careless and stupid as you want, since there are an infinite
number of resources out there and we'll never run out.
there's an infinite amount of space in which you can get
rid of all your filth as you waste all those resources. But
in a closed system you can't do that-- and that's the kind
of system we're in. We have anything but an infinite number
of resources! We have just enough to make the experiment."
Cite APPROACHING THE BENIGN ENVIRONMENT. pp. 77-78, 1970

REF DEFINITIONS
Pollution: Infinite Room to Pollute:
If
"Thinking of Universe only as an infinitely extensive
plane, humanity felt itself logically justified in throwing
away its refuse outside the boundaries of its particular
domain-- there was infinity into which all pollution would
be ultimately dissipated into infinite innocuousness. It
meant nothing to dump a teacup into an infinite ocean.
there is an infinitely extended world, then we may assume
that when we exhaust the present familiar resources, we
will, as in the past, keep on finding new and better
alternate resources, ad infinitum-- so why should we worry
and be fussy. Never mind about tomorrow. Never mind about
the other fellow. The more ruthlessly selfish one is, the
better off is one and all his dependents."
"So the difference between closed system surfaces and a
closed Universe in respect to the utterly open, infinite
flat slab world concept with which man has been ignorantly
rationalizing all past experience, is the 'similar difference'
between humanity's extinction or its continuation upon this
beautifully equipped and provisioned, closed system, space
vehicle Larth. It is clearly to be utopia or oblivion-- and
no half measures. He must begin today to expose our youth and
ourselves to the fundamental self-discipline conceptioning 13 Nov'
which is the only
real educational process." NEHRUSPEECH, pp.22-23
www

'Pollution' as an Invented Word:
See Pollution Control (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pollution: News as Most Polluted Resource:
"Probably our most polluted resource is that of the
tactical information to which humanity spontaneously
reflexes,"
Citation at Information: Tactical Information, 13 Nov'69
1.37 13 Nov169
- Gite NU SPEECH,

Pollution: News as Most Polluted Resource:
See News, 25 Jul'72
Tactical Information, 13 Nov'69*

Pollution:
Pollution Control:
See Conservation
Desalinization
Excrement: Excremental Functions
Feeding Lots
Junkyards
Metals: Recirculation of
Methane Gas Engine
No Energy Crisis
Resources:
Fresh va. Waste
Scrap Sorting & Mongering
Wind Power
Ecology
Only the Whole Big System Works
(1)

Pollution: Pollution Control:
See Afford, (1)-(3)
Corporation, 28 Apr 71; (2)(3)
Nature's Subvisible Order (1)*
Point of No Return, May'72
Spherical Triangle (4)
Sulfur, 12 Jun'69
Syntropy, 7 Feb 71
Young World, (1)(2); 4 Jul 72
No Energy Crisis, (B)
(2)
23

Polyconic Projection:
See Projective Transformation, (II)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polygon:
" The 'gon' stands for sides, as in 'polygon,' a
planar affair."
-
Citation & context at Synergism vs. Energian, 14 Oct'76

KBF DEFINITIONS
Polygon:
"A polygon's perimeter
returns upon itself
as viewed from either pole of the axis of the perimeter."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 42
Jun166

Polygon:
See Minimum Polygon
No Twogon
Circle -
Polygon
(1)

Polygon:
See Structure, Nov 71
Domains of Polyhedra, 7 Nov 73
Object, 9 Nov' 73
Triclinic, 31 Aug' 76
(2)

Polygraph:
See Planetary Democracy, (6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polyhedra:
"Polyhedra consist only of polyhedra. Polyhedra are
always pro tem. constellations of polyhedra. Polyhedra
are defined only by polyhedra--and only by a minimum of
four polyhedra.
"All systems are polyhedra: all polyhedra are systems.
are
"The observed or tuned-in polyhedra whose plurality of
corners, faces, and edges and frequency of subdivisioning
tunably discernible to the tuning-in station
(the observer) consist of corners which are infra-
threshold-tunable polyhedra and whose faces or openings
are ultra-threshold-tunables."
Cite RBF to EJA and RBF rewrite; 3200 Idaho Wash, DC; 18 Jul 76,
incorporated in SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Rd. at Sec. 400.55-400.57.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polyhedral Systems:
"All the interrelationships of system foci are conceptually
representable by vectors. 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. Polyhedral systems display a plurality of
polygonal perimeters all of which eventually return upon
themselves
. Systems have an electable plurality of view-
induced polarities. The polygons of polyhedra peregrinate
systematically and sometimes wavilinearly around three or
more noncongruent axes.' it
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 400.09, RBF reqwite, 25/2 May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polyhedron:
"But operationally speaking a plane exists
only as
a facet of a polyhedral system. Because I am experiential I
must say
that a line is a consequence of energy: an event,
a tracery upon what system? A polyhedron is a system separated
out of Universe.
Systems have an inside and an outside.
picture in a frame has also the sides and the back of the
frame which is in the form of an asymmetrical polyhedron."
A
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1007.25, 1 Jan'75

RDF DEFINITIONS
Polyhedron:
"The word polyhedron has to go because it says 'many-sided'
which implies a continuum. We don't even have the faces.
Faces
become spaces. They become intervals. They become
nothing. The Einsteinian finite Universe is predicated on
the absolute finiteness of the local energy event packages."
Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec. 1023.12, 20 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Polyhedral Understanding:
Great circles, unlike spiral lines, always return upon
themselves in the most economical manner. All the system's
paths must be topologically and circularly interrelated for
conceptually definitive, locally transformable, polyhedral
understanding to be attained in our spontaneous-- ergo, most
economical-- geodesically structured thoughts."
Citation & context at Geodesic, 1969

Polyhedron: Polyhedra:
See Conceptuality as Polyhedral
Equi-edged Polyhedra
Interpolyhedral
Nuclear & Nonnuclear Polyhedra
Prime Hierarchy of Symmetric Polyhedra
Regular Polyhedra
Rollability of Polyhedra
System Enclosure
Cheese Polyhedra
Clear Space Polyhedra
Sphere Polyhedron
String-connected Polyhedra
Domains of Polyhedra
Minimum Polyhedron
Cosmic Hierarchy
Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron
Euler's Uncored Polyhedral Formula
(1)

Polyhedron: Polyhedra:
(2)
See Halo Concept, 22 Feb 72
Superficial, 6 Mar'73
Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian, 2 Jun'74
Centers of Energy Rebirth, 16 Nov'72
Open Triangular Spirals, Nov'71
Quantum Mechanics:
Triclinic, 31 Aug' 76
Minimum Geometrical Fourness, (1)
Hex-pent Structure of Purines, 15 Dec' 76
Genralization & Special Case, 23 Jan' 77

Polynesians:
See Binary, 1970

Pondorable:
See Imponderable
Weighable
(1)

See Metaphysics, Jun'66
Universe, (B); Oct'66; 13 Nov'69
Ponderable:
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population:
"I find that as industrialization increases, the population
decreases. With industrialisation, the life expectancy
increases. When that happens, families don't have to be
large. In the last five years the absolute number of
babies has been less each year. The big bulge everyone's
worried about occurred because all the people that used to
die have not been dying, particularly at birth. This bulge
is working up to a time when there will be a great, great many
people who are very old.
But the number coming in at the
bottom is lessening very rapidly."
-
Cite RBF to William Marlin, Architectural Forum, Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population of Cities:
Q.
(William Raspberry): "Mr. Fuller, should we put a gate up
in the city and keep the people out after it reaches
a certain size, or not? Should we limit the size of
our cities? Should we limit the population of our
cities?"
A. - (RBF): "We shouldn't limit anything. That's what human
beings are all about... to delimit their capabilities, to give
them a chance to really function. We're probably here to find
out how it's supposed to function. So I do not expect anything
positive from negative beginnings."
Cite RBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash., DC; 10 Sep' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Density:
"All the cities of the world occupy less than one percent
of the Earth's surface."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170 (Not in Bantam version)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Density: Manhattan Cocktail Party:
"All the people in the world today could be housed in
the buildings of Manhattan with each person having as
much room as at a cocktail party."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170 (Not in Banatm edition)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Density:
Manhattan Jet Dispersal:
"Here is how New York is going to solve its transportation
problem. First you'll have to do away with the automobile
altogether. It is a matter of geometries. You take a point
and then a line. That's what a highway is, a line between
two points. Well, you have areas which are much vaster than
lines, and you have all the volume above the areas, which is
space. If you take all the 30 million people of the New York
metropolitan area and give them little harnesses with jets
and have them put on the proper clothes, and if you send them
up in the air to a reasonable altitude, say 10,000 feet, where
they wouldn't need any additional oxygen, all simultaneously,
people would be so far apart they couldn't see each other.
That would solve your traffic jams!"
Cite RBF quoted in New York magazine, p.27, 30 Mar'70

Population Density: Manhattan Cocktail Party:
See New York City, 1938; (8)
Population Explosion, (1) (2); 1959

Population Density:
See Community
Privacy
Proxemics
Proximity Neighborliness

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Explosion:
"The population explosion is a myth. As we industrialize,
down goes the annual birth rate. If we survive, by 1985, the
whole world will be industrialized, and, as with the United
States,
and as with all Europe and Russia and Japan today, the
birth rate will be dwindling, and the bulge in population will
be recognized as accounted for exclusively by those who are
living longer.
"When world realization of its unlimited wealth has been
established there as yet will be room for the whole of humanity
to stand indoors in greater New York City, with more room for
each human
than at an average cocktail party.
The
"We will oscillate progressively between social concentrations
in cultural
centers and in multideployment in greater areas of
our Spaceship Earth's as yet very ample accommodations.
same humans will increasingly converge for metaphysical inter-
course
and deploy for physical experiences.
Cite OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, pp.131-132, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Explosion:
"There has been a great debate about the so-called
population explosion in recent years,
.
The cause of
the bulge in census population is, of course,
that more
people are living longer. But the underlying reality of
the population problem, if there is a problem, is that as
we industrialize the rate of births decrease.
.
•
Clearly,
as man industrializes and improves the probability of
human survival, whatever the drives or controls of nature
are, she does not have to have anywhere as many birth
This is one of the fundamental points about
'starts.'
industrialization.
-
which will be world wide by 1985."
Cite THE YEAR 2000, San Jose State College, 1966
Column 4.
330

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Explosion:
(1)
"Desirable time investment alternatives inherently decrease
overall baby-making time. That explains the rich getting
richer and the poor getting children.' Prime designing
commands the fundamental solution of the overpopulation
threat. As with all the fundamental problems of man on
Earth fundamental solutions are not to be had by political
reforms of either the peacetime prohibitory law enforcement
variety, or of the never convincing wartime annihilation
variety. Fundamental solutions are not for sale. Mass
subscriptions to support professional do-gooders are futile.
"Fortunately population explosion is only the momentary social
hysteria's cocktail conversation game. Real population
crisis is fundamentally remote. There is room enough indoors
in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to
enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the
twist in average nightclub proximity. There is ample room in
the New York streets for one-half the world's population to
amble about in, leaving enough room inside buildings for the
other half to lie down and sleep. This would be a,good moment
to call for all scientists, engineers, tool makers, machine
fitters, mechanics, and aircraft pilots present, all of whom"
Cite PRIME DESIGN, I&I, p.248, May 60/63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Explosion:
(2)
"amount to less than one per cent of humanity, and to send
them out from New York City all around the world to get
total automation of world production and services going.
After this the world's population could start enjoying the
whole Earth as students, archaeologists, playwriters,
players, poets, artists, dancers, skin divers, tourists, etc.
There would be no further muscle and reflex jobs to be done
and no need to earn a living, for the living would be
generated as effortlessly as apples grow on trees."
Cite PRIME DESIGN, I&I, pp.248-249, May160/63

TEXT CITATIONS
Population Explosion:
"Thinking Out Loud (1): Disproving the Population Explosion,"
.
World Mag. 3 Jul 73
"Playboy, Ltrs. to Editor, Feb 72 pp. 50-51,
RBF Views.)
(Discussion of

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Sequence;
"There are many prognostications about immediate technology..
It is all Buck Rogers and it will happen. But, such specula-
tion is a waste of time, it is more important to consider
what will happen to our relationship one with another.
"In its broadest aspect this area must be considered under
'population.' There has been a great debate about the so-
called population explosion in recent years. This has been
occasioned in part by the fact that we have only recently had
accurate census in many countries. Even in Europe population
figures only go back a short time.
"In the USA, though there was an increase in the post-war
birth
rate between 1947 and 1954, since then it has declined.
This trend is also evident in all the industrialised countries,
including Russia. During the last 12 years then the birth
rate has been declining in the industrialized countries, yet
the main problem is thought to be population increase. The
cause of the bulge in census population of these countries, is
of course,
that more people are living longer. But the under-
lying reality of the population problem, if there is a problem,
is that as we industrialize, the rate of births decreases. We
may see this most clearly in, for example, the US, where the"
- Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD. Feb'67
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Sequence;
(2)
"the early settlers had an average of 13 children per family
and survival rate was very poor. We may then plot the decrease
in number of children per family against improvement in tech-
nological services, public health, indoor water supply, bathrooms,
refrigeration, general improvement in life expectancy, and so on.
Clearly as man industrializes and improves the probability of
human survival, whatever the drives or controls of nature are,
This
she does not have to have anywhere as many birth 'starts.'
is one of the fundamental points about industrialization.
"We should also consider the rate at which countries become
industrialized. England took 200 years to get industrialization
going and up to the present level. The US took off from
Russia came
England's vantage point and did it in 100 years.
We
in and accomplished in 50 what had taken the USA 100 years,
because it was able to start at a more advantageous point.
find the new countries come in where others left off, not where
they started. Japan did not start flying with the Wright
Brothers bi-planes, but with the 'Zero' and 'Spitfire' types;
China has never flown anything but jets. China came into the
world of industrialization after the transistors, computers,
and atomic fission were available-- so she will come to indus"
-
Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Sequence:
India will
"trial parity with the west in about five years.
probably be even faster. The acceleration of capabilities
coming to bear on India and Africa are of the very highest.
As far as one can see, industrialization will be worldwide by
1985.
(3)
"By this date, as the world industrial process is completing,
and birth rates reducing, every individual human being will
still have about ten acres of dry land and approximately 20
acres of ocean averaging half a mile deep. In terms of a family
of five that would be 50 acres of land and 100 acres of ocean--
150 acres per family. The amount of food supply would be ample.
"We may glimpse in such patterning certain total behaviors in
Universe that we know little about. We noted, for instance,
that as survival rate and life sustaining capability increased
fewer birth starts were required. This may be related to our
developing capacities in interchanging our physical parts, of
producing mechanical organs, of having progressively fewer
human organisms to replenish. The drive in humanity to
reproduce as prodigally as possible decreases considerably.
This may be reflected in social behaviors-- when all
the
girls"
Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Sequence:
"begin to look like boys and boys and girls wear the same
clothes. This may be part of a discouraging process in the
idea of producing more babies.
"We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation
to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i..., that it is
normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its
Our
assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be.
viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be
reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.
(4)
"Central to such readjustment will be the concept that man is
He is not
not alone the physical machine he appears to be.
merely the food he consumes, the water he drinks, or the air
he breathes. His physical processing is only an automated
aspect of a total human experience which transcends the physical.
As a knot in a series of spliced ropes of manila, cotton, nylon,
etc., may be progressively slipped through all the material
changes of thickness and texture along the length yet remain
an identifiable pattern configuration, so man is an abstract
pattern integrity which is sustained through all the physical
changes and processing."
Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Sequence:
(5)
"We become more aware of this uniqueness of organizing principle
in the Universe, in science. The long-held myth that science
wrests order out of chaos is fast disappearing in due ratio
to the extent that all great scientists have found the Universe
to exhibit an a priori orderliness. All the various specialties
are discovering that their variously remote studies
which seemingly 'ordered' local aspects of nature are converging
within progressively simpler and more comprehensive patterns.
The ordering' is coming together. When we refer to the
computer and automation' taking over we refer really to man's
externalization of his internal and organic functions into
a total organic system which we call industrialization. This
metabolic regenerating automated organism is going to be able
to support life in an extraordinary way. The machines will
increasingly assume various specialized functions. Man who was
born spontaneously comprehensive but was focused by survival
needs into specialization is now to be brought back to
comprehensivity.
"As enormous numbers of men are freed for more education and
research and as they become more and more comprehensive in
their dealings with nature, there will be engendered a total"
Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Sequnce: (6)
"philosophic awareness of the significance of the whole of human
experience. There will be a rediscovery of what Einstein
described in 1930, in an article on the 'cosmic religious
sense the intellectual integrity of the Universe and an
orderliness that was manifestly a priori to man.
"We are going to have an increasing number of human beings as
scientists and philosophers thinking about the total signifi-
cance of human experience and realizing that there is an intelleet
far greater and far more powerful than that of man-- and anti-
cipatory of the whole trend of his development. An era of
extraordinary integrity might ensue.
"This would be for me, the most important and exciting aspect
of all the trend curves-- that in A.D. 2000, to a marked extent,
the integrity of humanity will be of an unbelievably high
order. What one human being says to another regarding what he
thinks or what he has observed, will be reliable. There will
be play-acting still, but it will very clearly be play-acting.
In looking forward to the year 2000 it is not the 'Buck Rogers'
details which are important but whether the world will be a
good place for our children and grandchildren. In the past,"
-
Cite THE YEAR 2000, reprinted in AD, Feb 67

RBP DEFINITIONS
Population Sequence:
No matter
(7)
"man had to do many things shortsightedly and we have wasted
a great deal of our natural heritage. We have squandered the
fossil fuels which represented an extraordinary 'savings' or
The great
energy capability account stored up in the Earth.
change now will be in a new type of accounting when we begin
to draw more consciously on the fabulous 'income' energies of
Sun, water, wind, and tidal powers-- which, if not used, will
not be saved' or impounded on the Earth. We will adopt new
accountancy standards for all wealth. To account our success
in terms of gold and various traditional banking practices is
irrelevant. Real wealth is organized capability. One of its
major characteristics is that it is irreversible.
how much wealth you have, you cannot change one iota of yester-
What we
day. Wealth can only be used now and in the future.
really mean by wealth is how many days forward we have energy
available and organized for work to keep the machines running,
to keep the foods growing, the refrigeration, transportation,
and so on. The basis for our new accounting system will be
'How many forward days of organized capability do we have
available to serve how many men'. We will be able to make the
working assumption that it is normal not only for man to be
successful but also normal for him to move as freely as he
wishes without interfering with any other man. Our overall"
Cite THE YEAR 2000 reprinted in AD, Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population Sequence:
"accounting assumption will be based on whatever amount of
organized energy capability is required so as to make it
possible for any man to travel around and enjoy the whole
Earth, and be completely supported in doing so. There will be
no such thing as deficit accounting. You cannot live on
deficit accounting. You cannot eat deficitly or drink water
deficitly. What is to eat is there-- as the water is there.
"All such negative accounting procedures went along with the
need for exploiting others in the 'you or me' phase of man's
past struggle for basic survival.
(8)
"Much of the most exciting and important part about tomorrow
is not the technology or the automation at all, but that man
is going to come into entirely new relationships with his
fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday relations
of what we term the naivete and idealism of the child.
will be completely justified and not exploited or exploitable
in any way. I think then that the way to see what tomorrow
is going to look like is just to look at our children."
This
-
Cite THE YEAR 2000 reprinted in AD, Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Population:
Stabilization Of:
"Japan was the first country in the world to actually
stabilize its population. China is going in for birth
control in a major way if they industrialize, and they
industrialize at a very rapid rate. The only place
where we're making an enormous amount of babies is in
the nonindustrial countries where the probability of
survival is very poor: just as clearly identified as it
can be. •>
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
from Saturn film transcript, Bound 1, Take 1, p.1
9.

Population: Center of World Population:
See Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross, 13 Mar 75

Population: Population Stabilization:
See Acres per Individual Human Being
Homosexuality
Procreation
Womb Population
(1)

Population: Population Stabilization:
See Artifacts, 28 Apr 74
Lags (1)
India, 12 May '75
(2)

Population:
See Population of Cities
Population Density
Population Density: Manhattan Cocktail Party
Population Density:
Population Explosion
Manhattan Jet Dispersal
Population: Stabilization Of
Population: Center of World Population
(3)

Porcupine: Runover Porcupine:
See Cartography: Conventional Projections, (1)
Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial
Sphere, (9)

Porpoise Sounds:
See Universal Language, 28 Apr'71

Porpoissi
See Pet, 31 Jan'75
Pure Principle, 6 Jul'62
Surfing:
Surfboarding, 5 Jul'62

Ports:
See Seaports

RBF DEFINITIONS
Positional Differentiala:
"Positional differentials in Universe derive only from the
sixness of the 12 degrees of freedom."
-
Citation & context at Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom,
1 Feb 75

Position:
See Celestial Position Integrity
Interpositioning
Self-positionability
Fix
(1)

Position:
See Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (2)
(2)

Positive Matter:
See Matter & Antimatter
Negative Matter
(1)

Positive Matter:
See Antientropy, 10 Oct'63
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Positive and Negative;
. ...What we call physical reality is always a positive
and negative pulsating aberration of the whole..."
- Citation and context at Physical Reality, 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
sitive and
Positive and Negative:
Everything that we know as reality has to be
either a positive or negative condition."
-
Cite Carbondale Draft
Nature's Courdination p. VI.43–
OREGIN LECTURE # 7,
11 Jul162
70 235.
Citation at Reality, 11 Jul162. (Incorporated in SYNERGETICS
at Sec. 441.231

331
RBP DEFINITIONS
Positive and Negative:
"Positive and negative cancel as the principle sero."
-
Citation and context at Principle, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Positive and Negative:
"
'Right' and 'left' should be replaced by the nonequal and
opposite words 'positive' and 'negative'…….'
Left & Right,
-
Citation and context at
4 May '57

RBF DEFINITIONS
Positive & Negative:
Four Kinds:
"There are four kinds of positive and negative:
(1) the eternal equilibrium-disturbing plurality of
differentially unique, only-positively-and-negatively-
balanced aberratings;
(2) the north and south poles;
(3) the concave and convex; and
(4) the inside (microcosm) and outside (macrocosm) always
cosmically complementing the local system's inside-
concave and outside-convex limits."
- Citation & context at Two Kinds of Twoness, (A), 10 Nov'74

Positive & Negative Set of the Whole:
See Physical Reality, 11 Jul'62

Positive Negative:
See Positive & Negative, 4 May'57

Positive & Nerative:
Active & Passive
See Annihilation
Complementarity
Energetic Functions
Interwave Behavior of Number
Mite: Positive & Negative Functions
Motion: Six Positive & Negative Motions
Nonmirror Image
Oscillation
Parity & Disparity
Polar & Hemispherical Positive-negativeness
Pulsation
Reciprocity
Structural Functions
Tensegrity: Miniature Masts:
Plus & Minus
Outside-out vs. Inside-out
Basic Event
Symmetry: Positive or Negative
(1)
Positive & Negative

Positive & Negative:
See Aberration, 22 Nov'73
Algebra, Oct*66
Antientropy, 10 Oct'63
Atomic Computer Complex, (2)
Axis of Spin:
Tetrahedron, 7 Oct'71
(2A)

Positve & Negative:
See Considerable Set, 1959
Crystallography, 17 Aug' 70
(20)

Positive & Negative:
See Dynamic Symmetry, 31 May' 71
(2D)

Positive & Negative:
See Energy, 16 Sep'67
Energy Event, 9 Jul' 62
Equilibrium 25 Feb'69
Eternity, (2)
(2E)

Positive & Negative:
See Frequency: Half Frequency, 29 Nov 72
(2F)

Positive & Negative:
See Game of Cosmic History, 27 Dec '73
(2G)

Positive & Negative:
See Information Transmitting & Nontransmitting Model,
27 May 75
Invisible Negative, 28 May' 75
Intertransforming, Jun' 66
(21)

Positive & Negative:
See Left & Right, 4 May' 57
(2L)

Positive & Negative:
See Mite & Coupler, 13 May' 73
Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (1)-(3)
(2M)

Positve & Negative:
See Nature, Jun' 66; 13 Nov' 69
News & Evolution, (1) (3) (4)
(2N)

Positive & Negative:
See Odd Ball, 27 Sep' 72
Optimism: I Am Not an Optimist, 26 Apr' 77
(20)

Positive & Negative:
See Particle, (1) (2)
Physical Reality, 11 Jul'62*
Planetary Democracy, (6)
Population of Cities, 10 Sep* 75
Plastic Flowers, Oct 70
Powering: Fifth Dimension, 29 Nov' 72
Prime Dichotomy, (1) (2)
Prime Structural Systems, 11 Jul 62; 3 Nov' 75
Principle, May' 49*
(2P)

Positive & Negative:
See Quantum: Event-paired Quanta, Jun'66
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (1)
(2Q)

Positive & Negative:
See Reality, 11 Jul'62*; Jun'66
Reflection Sequence: Applew, (1)(2)
Ruddering, May165
(2R)

Positive & Negative:
See Seeability, 31 May'71
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry, 11 Dec' 75
Star Event & Degrees of Freedom, 12 May '75
Stability, 18 Mar' 69
Syte, 31 May 71
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1) (4) (5)
(2S)

Positive & Negative:
See Tetrahedron: Nine Schematic Aspects, 30 Aug' 75
Tetrahedral Dynamics, (2)
Tetrahelix, 10 Sep'74
Tidal, 9 Novi 73
Triangle, (A); (a); Nov 71; Jun' 71
Twoness, 23 May' 72; 1967
(2T)

Positive & Negative:
See Vector Equilibrium, (I)
X Configuration with One Ball at the Center,
(1) (2)
Zero, 9 Apr 40; May' 49
(2 UVWXYZ

Positive:
(1)
See Low Pressure vs. Positive

Positive:
See Navy Sequence (7)
Optimism: I Am Not an Optimist, 26 Apr'77
(2)
123

BRE DEL INITIONS
Positron:
See Electron & Positron

RBF DEFINITIONS
Possession:
"Galen Handy's quote, 'since truth is universal, truth cannot
be possessed, only the untruth can be possessed; to which I
append that all possession must be founded on delusions, lies,
or self-deceptions."
Cite RBF Ltr. to N. Kaiser, p.1; 10 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Possession:
"Possession is becoming progressively burdensome and
wasteful and therefore obsolete."
Cite Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. 1969

Possession:
See Mine: That's Mine
Ownership
Private Property
Thing: Thingness

Possible Into Probable:
See Life, 16 Aug'50

Possibility:
See Question-asking Possibility

RBF DEFINITIONS
Posterioral Osculations:
°
**Soldiering, pretentious hustling, officiousness, abstract
posterioral osculations are amplifications of the momentum
of the subconsciously sustained fallacial notion of a
necessity of evidenced quasi-justification of existence."
-
Citation and context at Industrial Hypocrisy, May 132

Post-uraniums:
See Ninety-two Elements: Chart of Rate of Acquisition
Superatomics

RBF DEFINITIONS
Potential:
"Life is fully potential and the entirely sublimated human
organism coordinates omnisubconsciously."
Cite
Invisible Architecture: (E), Aug'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Potential:
"...We have the theoretically perfect man as he goes through
the vector equilibrium, he no longer needs the physical.
Everyone is 3.702 short of his potential."
* Citation & context at Lumaculate Conception, 25 Jan'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Potential:
"Potential lines are metaphysically straight, all
physically realized relationships are geodesic and
curved trajectories."
->
GET SHEHO
tex, Sec. 240-1972
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, 1971

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Potential:
"Universe is a nonsimultaneously potential vector
equilibrium."
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240. 1972

RBF DEFINITIONS
Potential:
"The mathematical patterning and intertransformability
of nature's geometrical structurings are the only reality
of Universe.
The infinitely regenerative dynamism, always
potential in the fundamental relationship of the principles,
in itself constitutes the intellectually tunable and ever
inescapable reality."
dar
Citation at Reality:
Reality, 1963
Structurings as the Only Inescapable
Date undetermined

Potential ys, Active:
See Industrial Principle, 1 Jun'49
Precession, 8 Dec³72'

Potential vs. Manifest:
See Universal Integrity: Manifest Ratios & Potential
Ratios, 1 Apr '72

226
Potential va. Operationally Effective:
See Mite & Coupler, 13 May '73

Potential vs. Operative:
See Vector, Oct15y
Vector Equilibrium, 2 Nov' 73

Potential vs. Physically Realized:
See Line, Oct 59
Theoretical, 26 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Potential va, Primitive:
"The potential activation of tetravolume quantation in
the geometric hierarchy is still subfrequency but accounts
for the doubling of volumetric space.
"The potential activation of tetravolume accounting is
plural; it provides for nucleation.
Primitive tetra volume
accounting is singular and subnuclear."
-
Cite RBF to EJA,
3200 Idaho Wash. DC; 12 May' 77
(Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1033.181.)

Potential vs. Primitive:
See Vector Equilibrium: Potential & Primitive
Tetravolumes

Potential va. Radiant:
See Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model,
22 Jun 72

Potential Ratios of Volume to Quanta Values:
See Universal Integrity: Manifest Ratios & Potential
Ratios, 1 Apr'72

Potential vs. Realized:
See Angle & Frequency Design Control, Jul'71
Metaphysical & Physical, 1971
Nucleus, 12 Jul 62
Vector, 26 May '72
Wavilinear, 28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Potential Sphere:
"All spheres are potential spheres."
- Citation & context at Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of
Freedom, 8 Aug 77

Potential:
See Copotentials
Embryo
Full Potential
Interpotential
Perfection
Relevant System Potential
Superficial Potential
Latent
Behavior Potential
(1)

Potential:
(2)
Cosmic Hierarchy, 23 Jan 77
See Eternal Instantaneity, 22 Jun 72
Fix, 6 Nov 73
Fuller, R.B: On Creativity, 23 May' 72
God, 26 May 72
Ideals, 14 Feb 72
Immaculate Conception, 25 Jan'72
Invisible Architecture, (E)*
Metaphysical & Physical, 1971
Powering: Third Powering, 15 Oct 72
Reality: Structurings as the Only & Inescapable
Reality, 1963*
Sixty Degreeness, 8 Dec172
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality,
28 May 72
Tension & Compression, 1944
Theoretical, 26 May172
Tongue: Bite Your Tongue, Aug 72
Vector, 14 Oct'72
Vector Equilibrium, Gct'59; 1971; 23 Oct 172
Vector Equilibrium: Zero Model, 31 May171
Individual Life as One Way Universe Could Have Turned
Out, 5 Jun'75

Potential:
See Potential vs. Active
Potential vs. Manifest
Potential vs. Operationally Effective
Potential vs. Operative
Potential vs. Radiant
Potential Ratio of Volume-to-Quantum Values
Potential vs. Realized
Potential vs. Primitive
Potential Sphere
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pound: Ezra Pound:
"Heisenberg said that observation alters the phenomenon
observed. T.S. Eliot said that studying history alters
history. Ezra Pound said that thinking in general alters
what is thought about. Pound's formulation is the most
general, and I think it's the earliest."
-
Cite Hugh Kenner, "The Hope and the Knot, " Kentucky
Review, Autumn 1968, who attributes this quote to R.B.F.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pound: Ezra Pound: (1885-
"Before Heisenberg's 'indeterminism,' T.S. Eliot said
'the act of considering history alters history.' Ezra
Pound anticipated them both when he remarked much earlier
that the act of thinking alters thought."
Cite The Generalized Laws of Design, p. 1. 22 Apr168

Pound, Ezra:
See Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence

RBF DEFINITIONS
Poverty:
"And humanity's enlightenment is delayed
Because the Earth planet is so large,
And man is so infinitely tiny
And so myopically preoccupied with personally avoiding
The erroneously assumed inevitability of poverty for the many,
which has slavishly and fearfully conditioned his flexes."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.94 May '72

30
Poverty: Slow Slum Death:
See War:
War:
Official & Unofficial
Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death
(1)

Poverty: Slow Slum Death:
See Design Science, (2)
Resource Inadequacy, May '72
(2)

Poverty: Poor:
See Success, 10 Sept 75
News & Evolution, 15 Mar 77
Enough to Go Around, (1) (2)

Power Factoring:
See Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, 11 Aug177

Power Generation:
See Electromagnetic Generating
Wind Power Sequence
Inanimate Energy Power

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"In the topology of synergetics powering is identifiable
only with the uni-angular vectorial convergences."
Citation and context at Convergence, 16 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"Number powers refer to the number of times any given
number is multiplied by itself. While empty set numbers
may be theorized as multipliable by themselves, so long
as there is time to do so, all experimental demonstrability
of science is inherently time limited. Time is the only
It is expressable as frequency."
dimension.
Cite Synergetics Braft at Sec. 960.03, 16 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"Powering means the multiplication of a number by itself."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 960.02, 16 Nor'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"Powering is numbers self-multiplying."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 28 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"Powering means the development of dimensions that require
the introduction of constant angular interception of a
constant angle system of planes by a plane not already
in the system."
Cite RBF re-write of Oregon Lecture #4, p. 131 on 12/13
Sep 171, in SYNERGETICS draft 770.01; Jan. 172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"In the topology of synergetics powering is identifiable
only with uni-angular vectorial convergences. The number
of superficial vertex convergeneces of the system are
identified with second powering, and not with anything we
call 'areas, that is, not with the surfaces nor with any
experimentally nondemonstrable continuums."
Cite Nasa Speech, p. 90 as rewritten 12/13 Sep '71
by RBF in SYNEREGTICS Draft at Sec. 770.02, Jan 172.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"IN a radiational (eccentric) or gravitational (concentric)
wave system:
Second powering is identified with the point population of
the circumferential arrays of any given radius stated in
terms of frequency of modular subdivisions of the circum-
ferential array radially-read system's concentricity
layering;
Third powering is identified with the total point population
of all the successive
wave layers of the system;
Fourth powering is identified with the interpointal domain
volumes; and
as products
Fifth and Sixth powerings are identified
of multiplication by frequency doublings and treblings, etc."
May 1971)
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft, Corollaries
See Secs. 240.44 and "Modelability, Powering," Secs.
772.3, 773.1, 774.1, and 775.1.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"1 Powering'
in this topology is identifiable
only with the vertexes and not with something we
1
call 'area, that is, not with a surface or an experi-
mentally non-demonstrable continuum."
(Adapted.)
(I deleted "second" before
"powering."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 90, Jun'66
PRINCIPLES
223.54 + Powering 770.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"Nature needs only triangles to identify arithmetical
powering for self-multiplication of numbers.
Therefore,
'triangling' is twice as efficient as 'squaring.
10
-Cite Carbondale Braft-
Return to Modelability
Cita NASA Speech, p.75, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
POWERING
-
Powering:
Re Equation 10 p² + 2:
"That is a very interesting kind of mathematics for you to
think about for certain reasons. To start off, you have second
power. This second power is a number characterising layers
or surfaces. What we use for surface is a shell-- in a sense it
becomes the. 'surface' or a package in the system. I get a
bigger package and I can tell what the number is by using the
second power. We have been very used to using second power for
the surface of a cube or any other thing. We say the linear
measure is first power: this is the radius or edge of the cube
and the surface is the second power, and the volume is the
third power.
Second power has been connected uniquely with
surface area and it is still the surface or the shall. But
what it is showing is very interesting: there is no continuous
shell, there are actually only points. They are little
spheres. You can have this very high frequency and we would
be counting the points in the shell, and not the surface as a
whole, so we find second power representing points in the
system and not surface.
What we really discover in physics
is that there are no such things as solids, and there are no
such things as surfaces, because what we simply meant was a
solid surface.
SEC 774.05 - Cite Order on Lecture #7, p.239, 11 jul'62
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"We have been used to the idea of the second power for
plotting the solid surface. In the quantum and wave
phenomena, they have been dealing in individual packages
that do all of their accounting. They don't have continuous
surface at all. Suddenly we find here then a congruence of
the phenomena we have been very familiar with, the second
power, and we understand it now to mean the shell and you can
identify the second power with points or little separate
packages and not as a continuous solid surface. You could
relate it to little energy actions, little separate stars,
and you are coming out all right. This is what you really
mean by quantum. Now you have actually conceptuality in
respect to the quantum.
"
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp.239-240, 11 Jul'62
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"Science had thought that it was impossible to be conceptual
because it had felt that fourth dimensionality which had been
showing up time and again as an arithmetical behavior of the
physics, could not be accommodated by the XYZ coordinate
system and it can be accommodated by synergetics. Why can it
be? Because the vector equilibrium has a volume of 20. You
can get eight cubes around one point, and so the third power
of two, which is eight, has used up all the space, but using the
tetrahedra I can get a volume of 20 around one point as I do in
the vector equilibrium. Twenty is two to the fourth power
plus two to the second power and it makes it quite possible to
make models of fourth powering by using tetrahedroning. In fact
we find vector equilibrium is unity because its edge module is
one, as is the cube the module of one. It is when it is one,
when it is unity, that its volume is 20. When its edge module
is two, it is two to the third power times 20 which is 160 and
the volume is 160 where the edge module is two. It will
accommodate very high powering, the sixth powering, and so
forth. It makes possible the actual modelling of the multi-
powers that have characterized some of the physics and some
of the chemistry which have not been modellable before and
had only been treatable mathematically-- and calculatable but
-
Cite Orgeon Lecture #6, p.233, 10 Jul162
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
*not modellable. Now that they are modellable again, we find
that modellability goes with using the right coordinate system
and therefore conceptuality and modelability has returned and
is valid so that we will probably have an entirely new kind of
day dawning for man because it is going to mean that it is
possible for the scientist really to talk to the kindergarten
children and these are very simple increments. We are not
having any numbers that are not easy to handle in the very
earliest phases, so the coordinating capability of the child
is going to be able to accommodate the nuclear physics and
that is a very new kind of day."
(2)
W
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p.233, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
"Powering, the development of dimensions that require
a unique perpendicularity to a plane not already in
the system."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 131.6July 1962.
POWERING SEC. 770704

RBP DEFINITIONS:
Powering:
"
•
(Synergetica' Six Dimensional Reference Frames.)
I identify second powering with the point population
of any one radiant (eccentric) or gravitational (concentric)
wave systems circumferential arrays of any given radius
stated in terms of frequency of modular subdivisions of the
circumferential arrays radially-read systems' concentricity
layering; third powering with the total point population
of all the successive wave layers of the system; fourth
powering with the interpointal domain volumes; fifth
and sixth powering as products of multiplication by
frequency doublings and treblings, etc.. The Doppler
effect or wave reception frequency-modulation caused by
motions of the observer and the observed are concentric
wave system fourth and fifth power accelerations.
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDERECTION HALC, P. 126, 127
1959
POWERING - SECS-IN 770

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering.
(Synergetics' Six Dimensional Reference Frames.)
"All local events of universe may be calculatively
anticipated by inaugurating calculation with a local vector
equilibrium frame and identifying the distrubance
initiating point, direction, and energy of introduced
action.
"[Synergetics'] six positive and six negative dimensional
reference frames are reinitiated and regenerated in respect
to specific local developments and interrelationships of
universe.
"Arithmetical one dimensionality is identified geometrically
with linear, pointal frequency.
"Arithmetical two dimensionality is identified geometrically
with areal pointal frequency.
"Arithmetical six dimensionality is identified geometrically
with vectorial system modular frequency relationship.
"Arithmetical size dimensionality is identified geometrically
with relative frequency modulation."
-
Cite COLLIER'S, P. 114, Oct159

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Zero Power:
"Zero power is the fix.
subcyclic. It is a fix.
It can be just an angle, which is
No module."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 14 Oct172; as rewritten by
RBF, 15 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Zero Power:
"Zero power is the point.
subcyclic. It is a fix.
It can be just an angle, which is
No module.'
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 14 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
One Dimension:
"We say the linear measure is the first power, that is,
the radius of the sphere or the edge of the cube. First
powering expresses only one vector, i.e. one-twelfth of
relevant system potential."
Powering, Jan'71 as rewritten by RBF 15 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: One Dimension:
"We say the linear measure is the first power
radius of the sphere or the edge of the cube.
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 773.02, Jan'71
that is,
the

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
One Dimension:
"We say the linear measure is the first power, that is, the
radius of the sphere or the edge of the cube.
"First powering expresses only one vector, i.e., 1/12th
of relevant system potential."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 773.02, Jan'71 as expanded
by RBF, 3200 Idaho, 14 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
First Power:
"First power is linear. A time-size module."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 14 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
First and Third Power Concentric Shell Growth Rates:
"The discovery of the formula for the rational whole number
expression of the tetrahedral volume of both the spherical
and interstitial spaces of the first and third power
concentric shell growth rates of nuclear closest packed
vector equilibria.'
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 251.47, 15 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Powering:
"Synergetical second-powering is identified with the point
population of the progressively embracing, closest-packed
point arrays at any given radius stated in terms of frequency
of modular subdivisions of the circumferential array's
radially-read concentricity layering."
Citation and context at Dimensionality (1), 28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Second Powering:
"Second powering relates to points and not to surfaces."
Citation and context at Fuller, R.B.: Meeting With
Fernandez-Moran (2), 5 Apr 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Powering:
"In synergetics we find the familiar practice of second
powering displaying a congruence with the points, or
little separate energy packages of the shell arrays.'
17
-
Citation and context at Package, 17 Nov '72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Second Powering:
"The number of superficial radiantly regenerated vertex
convergences of the system are identified with second
powering, and not with anything we call 'areas,
that is,
not with surfaces nor with any experimentally demon-
strable continuums."
-
Citation and context at Convergence, 16 Nov*72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Powering:
"Second powering is areal: superficial area modularly
outlined. Second powering expresses only superficial
potential."
Cite Powering: Second Powering, 14 Oct 72 as rewritten by
RBF 15 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Powering:
"Second powering is areal: superficial area modularly outlined."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 14 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Poweting:
"The synergetic discovery of the identification of the
surface points of the system with second powering accommodates
quantum mechanics' discrete energy packaging of photons and
elucidates Einstein's equation, E = Mc², where the omnidirectional
velocity of radiation to the second power-- c²-- identifies the
rate of the rational order growth of the discrete energy
quantation.
This also exmains synergetics' discovery of the
It also elucidates
and
point-rate external growth of systems.
identifies the second power factoring of Newton's gravitational
law."
Cite RBF to EJA 21 Dec. 171, Washington DC, incorporated
in SYNERGETICS AT, Sec,
251.25.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Powering:
"The mathematical regularity identifies the second power
of the linear dimensions of the system with the number
of non-polar crossings of the comprehensive three-way
great circle gridding, in contradistinction to the previous
mathematical identification of second powering exclusively
with surface areas."
-Cite RBF to EJA, 21 Dec. '71, Washing on DC, incorporated
in SYNERGETICS Draft at Sec. 251.24.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Powering:
"Second powering' in this topology is identifiable only
with the vertexes and not with something we call 'area,
1.8., not with a surface or an experimentally nondemostrable
continuum.
"There are no topologically indicated or implied surfaces
or solids. Because the vertexes are the external points--
the higher the frequency of the system, the more dense the
number of external points. We discover then that 'second
powering' does not refer to 'squaring' or to surface
amplification but to the number of the system's external
vertexes in which equating the second power and the radial
or circumferential modular subdivisions of the system
multiplied by the prime number one if a tetrahedronal system;
by the prime number two if an octahedral system; the prime
number three if a triangulated cubical system; and the prime
number five if an icosahedral system; each multiplied by
two and added to by two will accurately predict the number
of superficial points of the system. This fact eliminates
our dilemma of having to think of the second and third
powers of systems as referring exclusively to continuum
Cite NASA Speech, pp.90-91, Jun 66
200
SYNERGETICS
SECS 223.54 + 52909
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Second Powering:
(2)
"surfaces and solids of the systems, neither of which have been
experienced by experimental science. On the other hand electro-
magnetic frequencies of systems are sometimes complex but always
constitute the prime rational integer characteristics of physical
systems.
11
SYNERGENcs
Cite NASA Speech, pp.90-91, Jun'66
SECS
774.04-774.06)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Second Powering:
"The word second power gives you something to do
now with radials and surfaces." "
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 241. 11 Jul'62

Powering:
Second Powering:
See Linear Becoms the Second-power Rate of Growth
Universal Integrity: Second-power Congruence of
Gravitational & Radiational Constants
Vertexial Topology
(1)

212
Powering: Second Powering: Two Dimensions:
See Convergence, 16 Nov'72*
Dimensionality, (1)*
Gravity: Circumferential Leverage, (3)
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Nov 72
Mass, 16 Nov 72
Package, 17 Nov' 72*
Polar Points, 29 Nov 72
Variables: Theory of, 1960
Vertexial Topology, Aug'71
Ten, 22 Jun 75
T Module, 31 Jul 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
(Second and Third Powering.)
"Second powering
"Third powering
point aggregate quanta
volumetric quanta
=
area.
volume."
-
Cite P. PEARCE, Inavetory of Concepts, June 1967
PONERING-SEC. 774.02+

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Third Powering:
"Synergetical third-powering is identified with cumulative
total point population of all the successive wave layer
embracements of the system."
-
Citation and context at Dimensionality (1), 28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Third Powering:
"Third power is volume modularly and areally embraced.
Third powers express full potentials."
Cite Powering: Third Powering, 14 Oct 72 as rewritten by
RBF 15 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Third Powering:
"Third power is volume modularly and areally embraced."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 14 Oct172

Powering: Third Powering:
See Third-power Rate of Variation Model
(1)

Powering: Third Powering:
See Dimensionality, (1)
Gravity: Circumferential Leverage, (4)
Nothingness, 16 Nov 72
Perpendicularity, 17 Nov 72
Powering: Sixth Powering, 20 Dec'73
Somethingress, 16 Nov 72
Synergetic Constant, (1) (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: (Three and Four Dimensions:)
The four dimensionality works in convergences
Parallelism is uniquely characterizing the
and divergences.
three dimensional system."
-
POWERING SEC 776.03
.8.
245
KI.30
Oregon LECTURE #7,
Cite Carbondale Draft
Nature's coordination-
11 Jul 62

Powering: Three & Four Dimensione:
See Hole in the Victrola Disc, 24 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth Dimension:
"While nature oscillates and palpitates asymmetrically in
respect to the frame of the omnirational vector equilibrium,
the plus and minus magnitudes of asymmetry are rational
fractions of the omnirationality of the equilibrious state,
ergo omnirationally commensurable and modelable to the
fourth power volumetrically, which order of powering
embraces all experimentally disclosed physical volumetric
behavior.
20 F³.
"The volume of the vector equilibrium =
frequency 20, we have 20 x 20 x 20 x 20; Vol.
When
11
20˚."
->>
Cite same caption, 21 Dec'71 to which RBF added "volumetrically"
on 26 Nov 72
SYNERGETICS Sec. 966.11, 18 Nov 72, modified accordingly

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Fourth
Dimension:
"It was the failure of the exclusively three-dimensional
XYZ coordination that gave rise to the concept that fourth
dimensionality is experimentally undemonstrable, ergo its
arithmetical manifestation even in physics must be a
mysterious, because nonconceivable, state which might be
spoken of casually as the "time dimension."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 966.06, 18 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth Dimension:
*While nature oscillates and palpitates asymmetrically
in respect to the frame of omnirational vector equilibrium,
the plus and minus magnitudes of asymmetry are rational
fractions of the omnirationality of the equilibrious state,
ergo omnirationally commensurable to the fourth power,
which order of powering embraces all experimentally disclosed
physical behavior. The volume of the vector equilibrium
= 20 F3. When frequency = 20 we have 20 x 20 x 20 x 20;
Vol. 204."
MODELAGILITY
SEC. 966.16
-
(For later context see A Priori Four-dimensional Reality, (1)
20 Dec 73..
Originally derived from RBF statement to EJA at
3200 Idaho, 21 Dec'71. Above text is altered and
expanded version incorporated in SYNERGETICS draft at
Sec. 966.14, 18 NOV 72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Fourth Powering:
"Fourth powering identifies the nuclear propagation rates
inherent in the radiation vs. gravity, convergent and
divergent interoscillatory wave propagations which pulsate
through the omnidirectional serophase of the vector equilibrium.
Fourth powering identifies the magnitude of energy involvement
as either particulate mass or wave frequency, vectorially
expressed."
Cite RBF rewrite of Powering:
incorporated in SYNERGETICS,
RBF reqrite as of 9 Sep '75
Fourth Powering, 15 Oct'72
2nd. Ed. at Sec. 966.13,
2

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth-Powering:
"Synergetical fourth-powering is identified with the
interpointal domain volumes.
->
Citation and context at Dimensionality (1), 28 Oct 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Fourth Powering:
"Fourth powering would be always the nuclear propagative
as described in convergence and divergence.
Fourth power
would thus be the energy content: the energy involvement
as mass and frequency, vectorially expressed. Radiation
vs. gravity are fourth power behaviors.
Fourth power
expresses behaviors."
-
Cite Powering: Fourth Powering, 14 Oct'72 as rewritten by
RBF 15 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth Powering:
"Fourth powering would be always the nuclear propagative
as described in convergence and divergence.
Fourth power
would thus be the energy content: the energy involvement as
mass and frequency, vectorially expressed.'
Cite RBP to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 14 Oct 172

315
Powering: Fourth Powering:
See Fourth Dimension
(1)

Powering: Fourth Powering:
See Loss:
Discovery Through Loss, 14 Dec '73
Nonpolar Points, 29 Nov 72
Dimensionality (1)*
Synergetic Surprise, 9 Apr 71
Words, 15 Jun 74
Gravity: Circumferential Leverage, (4)
Modelability, (b)(c)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Fourth and Fifth Dimensions:
"In an omnimotional Universe it is possible to join or lock
together two previously independently moving parts of the
system without immobilizing the remainder of the system,
because four dimensionality allows local fixities without
in any way locking or blocking the rest of the system's
omnimotioning of intertransforming. This independence of
local formulation corresponds exactly with life experiences
in Universe. This omnifreedom is calculatively accommodated
by synergetica' fourth and fifth power transformabilities."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 966.07, 18 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Fourth and Fifth Dimensions:
"When we begin to integrate our arithmetical identities,
as for instance n² or n³, with a 60-degree coordination
system, we find important coincidence with the topological
inventories of systems, particularly with the isotropic
vector matrix which makes possible fourth- and fifth-power
modeling."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, Sec. 423.04, 9 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth and Fifth Dimensions:
"We find that the volume of the two-frequency cube equals
eight, which is two to the third power, expressed as 23,
whereas the volume of the two-frequency vector equilibrium
equals 160, which is two to the fifth power multiplied
by five, expressed as 5.25. In 60-degree vector
equilibrium accounting when the edge module reads two,
and we have an energy quantity of two to the fifth power
times five, we understand why the previous nonmodelabity
of fourth and fifth dimensions occasioned the century ago
discard by science of the generalized modelability which
now returns with energy-vectored tetrahedroning."
Cite NASA Speech, pp. 81-82. Jun166

Powering: Fourth & Fifth Dimensions:
See Imaginary Number, Jun*66
Sixty Degree Modulatability, 19 Nov'72
Synergetica, 20 Jun'66
Vector Equilibrium: Field of Energy, (C) (D)
Multidimensional Accommodation, 11 Dec 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Dimensions:
"Synergetics discloses the rational fourth, fifth, and sixth
powering modelability of nature's coordinate transformings
as referenced to the 60-degree, equiangular, isotropic vector
matrix."
-
Citation at Fourth Dimension, 21 Dec '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Dimensions:
"The awkward irrationalities were the consequence of man's
attempts to measure the omnidynamically transforming fourth,
fifth, and sixth dimensional Universe with a static, three-
dimensional system."
Citation and context at Future of Synergetics, 19 Apr'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Fifth Dimension:
"We know that the sphere points on the outer shell of the
vector equilibrium and the icosahedron, between which states
the pulsative propagation of electromagnetic waves oscillates
between the icosahedron and the vector equilibrium, but
the number of points remains the same: 10 F + 2.""
[51]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.52, 29 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fifth Dimension:
"Five-dimensionality is realized by the pulsation of the
positive-negative VE Icosa
--
7
VE
---
as 2.5
five."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.54, 29 Nov 72

Powering:
Fourth, Fifth & Sixth Dimensions:
See Fourth Dimension, 21 Dec 71*
Future of Synergetics, 19 Apr'66*
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (B)
Synergetics, Dec'61
Synergetics Constant, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fourth Dimension and Sixth Dimension:
"
•>
•
Whereas we can only get eight cubes around a point.
90 degreeness uses up all the space around a point. When I
am dealing in 60 degreeness, when I am using tetrahedron as
unity, we can get the whole volume of 20 tetrahedra around
one point. The tetrahedron is unity. Then we are getting
20 around a point insteda of eight around a point. Eight
is the third power of two. When I have a stack of cubes
coming together around a point, the edge count is two cubes.
Unity is two there. There is just one set of radii from
the center of gravity in the system and you can only have
a total volume of eight which is the third power of two.
If I have a volume of 20 around a point, then two to the
fourth power is 16, plus two to the second power. I can
then accommodate two to the fourth power plus two to the
second power around a point. It is very easy to make
models of the fourth dimensioaalities. We discover that
when we do that-- this is what we call the vector equilibrium--
the edge count is one. When the edge count is one we
have a vector equilibrium, not two as in the cubes. The
volume is 20. You start with unity as 20.
that we are able to accommodate sixth powering."
- Cite Oregon Lecture #4, pp. 137-138. 6 Jul 62
And we find

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fifth- and Sixth-Powerings:
"Synergetical fifth- and sixth-powerings are identified as
products of multiplication by frequency doublings and
treblings, and are geometrically identifiable."
Citation and context at Dimensionality (1)(2), 28 Oct'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fifth & Eighth Powering:
2
"The vector equilibrium at initial frequency (frequency)
manifests the fifth powering of nature's energy behaviors.
Frequency begins at two. The vector equilibrium of
frequency has a
prefrequency, inherent
tetra volume of 160 (5 x 25 = 160) and a quanta-module
volume of 120 x 24 = 1 x 3 x 5 x 2° nuclear-centered system
as the integrated product of the first four prime numbers;
1, 2, 3, 5. Whereas a cube at the same frequency accommodates
only eight cubes around a nonnucleated center."
(Sec. 1006.33) (2nd. Ed.)
-Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 1006.33; 25 Jan'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Fifth & Eighth Powering:
"The vector equilibrium at initial frequency (frequency²)
manifests the fifth powering of nature's energy behaviors
Frequency begins at two.. The vector equilibrium of frequency
has a tetravolume of 160 modules (5 x 2 160) and a
25
2
quanta-module volume of 120 x 24 3 x 5 x 28. Whereas the
cube at the same frequency2 accommodates only 8 cubes around
a nonnucleated center."
2
-
Cite RBF to EJA + RBF holograph, Wash., DC; 11 Dec'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Sixth Dimension:
"Sixth-powering is all the perpendiculars to the 12 faces
of the rhombic dodecahedron.*
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 621.05,
9 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Sixth Dimension:
"Synergetical six-dimensionality is identified geometrically
with vectorial system modular frequency relationship.*
Citation and context at Dimensionality (2), 28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Sixth Dimension:
"Linear, as manifest in the tetrahedron, the simplest
structural system of Universe, is six dimensional, providing
for the six degrees of universal freedom and the operational
six-wave (sexave) phenomenon of number."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.41, 29 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Six Dimensions:
"Synergetics posits six positive and six negative dimensional
reference frames corresponding to the 12 universal degrees
of freedom unique to each point in Universe. The six
dimensional reference frames are reinitiated and regenerated
in respect to specific local developments and interrelation-
ships of Universe."
(N.B. On 30 Oct 72 RBF wrote in margin of this
passage at Sec. 972.01 Synergetics draft:
"Sonny: drop out this paragraph.
The six edges
of the tetrahedron lie in three planes."
- Cite COLLIER Ltr p. 113, Oct 159
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS drfat at Sec 770,04, Aug171
later re-edited as Sec. 972.01, Jan172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering:
Sixth Powering:
*Since the original point was a tetrahedron and already,
a priori volumetric, the third powering is in fact
sixth powering: N³ x N³ = Non
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 965.01, 20 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Sixth Powering:
"While nature oscillates and palpitates asymmetrically in
respect to the frame of the omnirational vector equilibrium,
the plus and minus magnitudes of asymmetry are rational
fractions of the omnirationality of the equilibrious state,
ergo omnirationally commensurable and modelable to the
sixth power vectorially, which order of powering
embraces all experimentally disclosed physical vectorial
behavior."
-
MODEL ABILITY
966.10
Cite Vector Equilibrium, 21 Dec171
Cite same caption, 21 Dec171 to which RBF added "vectorially"
on 26 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Sixth Powering:
"Sixth powering is all the perpendiculars to the rhombic
dodecahedron which is all the internal truncations of the
tetrahedron."
TETRAHEDRON
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 August 1971.
SEC 621.05)

Powering: Sixth Powering: Sixth Dimension:
See Chess: A Priori Intellect Invents a Game Called
"Life", (2)
Vector Equilibrium, 21 Dec 71; 19 Nov*74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Powering: Seventh Powering:
Seventh Dimension:
"Like the octahedron, the vector equilibrium also has eight
triangular facets; while also explosively extroverting the
octahedron's three square central planes, in two ways, to each
of its six square external facets, thus providing seven unique
planes, i.e., seven-dimensionality."
_ Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1011.23; rewrite of 26 Dec 173

Powering: Powers:
See Dimensional Growth
Dimensional Supremacy
Equatability of Volumes & Powers
Fourth Dimension
Limit of Powering
Sixty-degree Modulatability
Triangling
Volumes Powers
Scheherazade Numbers:
Multirepowerings
Declining Powers Of
Point Growth Rate
(1)

Powering: Powers:
See Convergence, 16 Nov'72*
Perpendicularity, 17 Nov '72
Pythagoras, 18 Jun'71
Time-size, 20 Dec'73
(2)

Power Structure: Symbola Or:
See Child Sequence, (3)
Interrelatedness vs.
Names, (1)

Power Transmission:
See High Voltage Power Transmission
World Power Grid
(1)

Power Transmission:
See Communications Theory (2)
Invention Sequence,
Oct166
(2)

Pragmatism:
See Operational
Specializations of Residual Physical Reality
(1)

Pragmatism:
See Intuition, 1971
(2)

Practical: Practice:
See Earth: Let's Get Down to Earth
Reduction to Practice

Prayer:
Praying:
See Christ, 7 Oct 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precess:
"Compression members precess to bend."
-
Citation and context at Rope, 6 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Process:
"Precess means for two or more bodies to move in an
interrelationship pattern of other than 180 degrees."
PRECESSION, SEC. 533.01)
- Cite KEPES
Caption Figure 76, Page 84, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
(I)
*Precession is the intereffect of individually operating cosmic
systems upon one another. Since the Universe is an aggregate
of individually operative systems all of the intersystem effects
of Universe are precessional and the 180-degree imposed forces
usually result in rediriational resultants of 90 degrees.
*Gravity's 180-degree circumferential omniambracement effect
results in a 90-degree inwardly affected pressure which gains
rapidly in intensity as the initially sixfold leverage advantages
of the circumferentially tensed embracement gains exponentially
in locally induced pressure as the radial distance outwardly
from the sphere's center is decreased.
The Sun's
"The Sun's direct 180-degreeness interattraction pull upon Earth
begets precessionally the latter's 90-degreeness orbiting around
the Sun. And the Earth's circumferential orbiting direction
begets the Earth's own 90-degreeness of axial rotation.
radiational 180-degree impingements upon Earth's waters begeta
90-degree circumferential cloud travel, which in turn begets
90-degree radially inward precipitation."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 533.08 + 109, 14 Nov'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
(II)
"Precessional 180-degree efforts beget 90-degree effects such
as the Sun's radiation impoundment on Earth by the photosynthesis
of agriculture (around the land) and photosynthesis of algae
(around the waters of Earth), which regeneration occurs as
precessionally impounded life-sustaining foods. The 180-degree
Sun dalation effect precesses Earth's atmosphere in 90-degree
circumferential direction as wind power, which wind power in
turn precesses the windmills into 90-degree rotating.
"All the metaphysical generalizations of physical principles
produce physical indirect acceleration effects which are
precessional.
"Leverage, Sun power, wind power, tidal power, paddles, oars,
windlasses, fire, metallurgy, cooking, slings, gears
,
electromagnetic generators, and metabolics are all 180-degree
effort that result in 90-degree precessional intereffects."
"
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Seca. 533.10 +.11+.12, 19 Nov*74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Nature uses rectilinear patterns only precessionally; and
precession
brings about orbits and not straight lines."
Citation and context at Rectilinear Frame, 24 Sep*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Precession and mass-attractive gravity convert centrifugal
into orbital motion."
Citation and context at Radiation-Gravitation Sequence (2) (3),
5 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
(a)
"Precession is the effect of discrete motion systems on
other discrete motion systems. Since all the Universe consists
of differential motion subsystems all of the intersystem effects
of Universe are precessional and the 180-degree directional
efforts of systems always impose 90-degree directional resultants
in the motions of all other systems.
"Gravity's 180-degree circumferential tension, as omniembracement
effect, begets 90-degree effects; as for instance, the Sun's
direct 180-degreeness begets 90-degreeness of orbiting; and the
orbitings' directional 180-degreeness begets the 90-degreeness
of axial rotation.
"The Sun's radiational 180-degree impingements upon the Earth's
waters beget 90-degree evaporation and circumferential cloud
traveling, which, in turn, beget 90-degree rain precipitation.
Precessional 180-degree efforts beget 90-degree effects such as
the photosynthesis of agriculture around the land and photo-
synthesis of algae around the waters of Earth, regenerating as
food."
Cite RBF holograph, New Delhi, 8 Dec'72 as rewritten by
RHE, 13 May 73
PRECESSION -533.07

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
(b)
"The 180-degree Sun effort precesses 90-degrees as wind power,
which wind power in turn precesses 90-degrees the windmills and
sailing ships. All the metaphysical generalizations of physical
principles disclose direct acceleration (which is synergetic),
or indirect acceleration (which is precessional). Leverage,
Sun Power, wind power, tidal power, paddles, oars, windlasses,
fire, metallurgy, cooking, slings, gears, electromagnetic
generators, and metabolics in general are all 180-degree efforts
that go into 90-degree precessional intereffects."
Cite RBF holograph, New Delhi, 8 Dec'72; as rewritten by RBF,
13 May173.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"It could be that in always-and-only-coexisting
action-reaction
180°-ness begets 90°-ness
and
90°-n
-ness begets 180°-ness
ergo (active)
-
PRECESSION-
and
600-ness is neutral
1
ergo (potential)"
Cite RBF holograph, New Belhi, 8 Dec'72
SEC.
533.11)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Precession is synergetic to mass attraction.'
Citation and context at Hierarchies, 16 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Precession is a second-degree synergy
Because it is not predicted by mass attraction
Considered only by itself.
Mass attraction
Is experienced intimately by Earthians
As gravity's pulling
Inward toward Earth's center
Any and all objects
Within critical proximity
To Earth's surface,
And moving through space
At approximately the same speed
And in the same direction
As those of planet Earth.
"Not until we learn by observation
That the mass attraction
Of any two, noncritically proximate
Bodies in motion
Imposes a motional direction
At ninety degrees
To their interattraction axis,"
-
Cite INTUITION, p.31 May '72
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Do we learn of this second surprise behavior
Of two or more bodies.
They no longer 'fall-in,'
One to the other.
"Thus is the Moon
Precessed into elliptical orbit about the Earth
As the Earth and Moon, together,
Are precessed into elliptical orbit around the Sun,
Yielding only in a ninety-degree direction
To the Sun's massive pull--
Being beyond
The critical proximity distances
For falling into one another.
Cite INTUITION, pp. 31-32 May 172
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Irecession is the behavioral interrelationship
of remote and differently velocitied, --
Differently directioned,
And independently moving bodies
Upon one another's
Separate motions
And motion inter patternings."
- Cite INTUITION DAY DEC
p.30, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Mass attraction is to precession
As a single note is to music.
Precession is angularly accelerating
Regeneratively progressive
Mass attraction."
-
Cite INTUITION Bft Dec
p.30, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
We
"Precesssion is the effect of any moving system upon any other
moving system and the closer the proximity the more powerful
the effect. Mass attraction is inherent in precession.
Mass
attraction is to precession as a single note is to music.
do not pay much attention to precession because we think only
of our own integral motions instead of the Universe, though we
are processing the Universe every time we take a step.'
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 533.02, Nov'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"And the transition from being an entity to being a plurality
of entities is precession, which is a peeling off into orbit
rather than falling back in to the original entity.
explains entropy intimately.'
This
Citation & context at Entropy, 28 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Critical proximity occurs
where there is a 90° angular transition
from falling back in at 180°
which is precession."
->
Beverly Hotel, New York
28 Feb 1971
Citation at Critical Proximity, 28 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Precession is the behavioral interrelationship
of remote and differently velocitied,
Differently directioned,
And independently moving bodies
Upon one another's
Separate motions
And motion inter-patternings.
Mass attraction is to precession
As a single note is to music.
Precession is angularly accelerating,
Regeneratively progressive
Mass attraction.
The elliptic orbiting
of the sun's planets
As well as the solar system's motion
Relative to the other star groups
Of the galactic nebula
Are all and only accounted for
By precession.
PRECESSION SEC. 533-12+533.15.
Cite INTUITION, Draft Feb 171, p. 19

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Because precession imposes angles other than 180° upon all
interactions of all moving systems of the Universe there are
no straight lines demonstrated in Nature. The fundamental
wave behavior ofall nature is a consequence of the
omnintereffective precession."
-
Citation & context at Social Science: Analogue to Physical
Science, (1), 13 Nov 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Precession is the effect of any body in motion
upon any other body in motion and the closer the
proximity the more powerful the effect, and since all
known bodies of macro-micro Universe are always in
motion all the inter-effects of all bodies are always
precessional and those effects always result in the
production of an angular change of course in the
affected bodies-- thus, for instance, does the Sun's
pull on the Earth induce its orbiting in a course
around the Sun at 90 degrees to the gravitational
pull; that is, the effect on the other body is always
produced as an angular re-direction other than a
180 degrees direction towards or away from one
another. ...
"Mass attraction is also involved in precession,
which is another of the important, but popularly unknown,
generalized principles. Precession allows a spinning
top to lean over sideways without tipping further.
Precesssion makes the gyro-compass hold its true north
orientation without magnets and despite the ship's
changes in course."
AST SENTENCE- PRECESSION - SEC. 533,021 Cite NEHRU SPEECH, P. 35, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"The effects of one moving system upon another
moving system.
Precession is describable in vectorial terms: i.e., of
physically-realized, design, expressed differentially as
relative angle, velocity and mass (size) modification's
in respect to an axis.
The precessional result of all events are always three-
fold, embracing (1) action, (2) reaction, and (3)
resultant. None of these interprecessional event
components occur at 180° to any other components.
A system must have a minimum of four vertexes in order
to have an emni-direction insideness and outsideness
and six is the ik minimum number of vectorial edges
uniquely connecting the four vertexes of the minimum
system. The six vectorial edged are comprised of
two energy event's inherent three-vector componentation
of action, reaction, and resultant." n
Cite "Word Meanings," EKISTICS, Vol. 28, No 167
Oct169
1ST SEUTENCE FRECESSION-SEC. 533.021+ 533.06

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Prcession is the effect of one moving system upon another.
"Precession always produces
Angular changes of the movements
Of the affected bodies
And at angles other then 180 degrees,
That is, the results are never
Continuance in a straight line.
Ergo all bodies of Universe
Are affecting the other bodies
In varying degrees,
And all the intergravitational effects
Are precessional angular modulations
And all the interradiation effects
Are frequency modulations."
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, p.73, Oct 66
PRECESSION -
SEC. 533.03" 533.07

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Reactions and resultants are always precessional."
Citation & context at Action-reaction-resultant, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Parallel and antiparallel are precession."
- Cite RBF marginalis datel 5 Sept. 1965 in "The Scientific
Endeavor," (1963) - page 12

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
N
We don't pay much attention to precession
because we think only of our own integral motions instead
of the universe, though we are precessing the universe every
time we take a step. Precessional effects are always
angular and always something other than 180 degrees; they are
very likely to be 90 or 60 degrees.
regenerative."
Precessions are
Cite LEDGEMONT, pp. 46, 47
15 Oct 164
'
PRECESSION SEC. 535.021

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
The energy event action itself "is inherently precessional
because it is against gravity. It is a linear acceleration
and an angular acceleration simultaneously as functions
with a prominent resultant and a prominent reaction.
Because we have now learned that these are going to be at
angles of other than 180° and this three-fold affair is
obviously not going to occur in a plane. Therefore, we
are not surprised to find our event. . make the tetrahedron."
•
Citation & context at Energy Event, 9 Jul*62
-
City Oregon bouture #5,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"The effects of all components of universe in motion
upon any other component in motion is precession and
inasmuch as all the component patterns of universe seem
to be motion patterns, in whatever degree they do affect
one another, they are interaffecting one another
precessionally and they are bringing about angular
resultants other than the 180 degreenesses."
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
p. 164, 9 Jul'62
PRECESSION - SEC 533.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"There are no straight lines. Nobody has ever thrown a
straight ball. Everything is always moving in the direction
of least resistance. That is one thing about the relation
of all the forces. A body in motion affecting another
body in motion
the effect is always precession.
•
When the top is in motion and you in motion touch it, then
the result is precession. Now inasmuch as the whole
Universe is in motion, all the parts affecting each other
are always precessing each other. Precession is the most
predominant. You might say the first law of motion is
precession. You could say that the first law of motion,
if it had been properly written, was that all the Universe
is continually in motion and all the other affecting it
in various degreees: the effect is always precession.'
"T
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 151. 6 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"There are five motions we are all familiar with:
sin, orbit, turn inside out, expand and torque.
"There is a sixth motion which very few people are
familar with called precession."
-
• Citation and context at Motion: Six Positive and Negative
Motions, 6 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"When the stone drops in the water it impinges on the
atoms and everything is in motion, and immediately there is
a resultant at 90°. The resultant is the wave and the
90 degreeness begets another 90 degreeness and this 90
degreeness begets another 90 degreeness and so on until
you have a series of 90 degreenesses.
•
"Precesssion is regenerative and that is why you have the wave.
It is very simple to see why there is a wave. Pure
precession."
PRECESSION
-Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 152, 6 Jul162–
Citation and context at Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped
In Liquid, 6 Jul'62
SEC 533.04)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
(1)
"Precession plays the major role in my re-statement of the
first law of motions, which says, 'The entire regenerative
hierarchy of major, intermediate, and minor constellations
of component-patterns-within-component-patterns of Universe
are continual processes of sync bonous, yet independent and
unique, transformative patternings. That is, all components
of Universe are in continually accommodative, associative-
disassociative motion reciprocity, and all the moving
components of Universe continuously affect all the other
moving components-- in varying degrees, ranging between high
and low tide reciprocities of critically intense to critically
negligible. All of these intereffects of all them motional
components upon one andther are precessional, and precession
always produces transformative resultants in vectorial
patterns which always articulate angular accelerations in
directions other than the 'straight lines of directions
between the inter-effective components.
1
"This is to say that the effects of all local motion systems
in the Universe are always precessional, and that none of
the resultants of any forces operative between them are
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO AND ART NEWS, p.119, Dec 161

ABF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
(2)
"ever straight line patterns. Individual lines of vectorial
trajectory interactions never go through the same points.
They diverge periodically to innocuity of inter-effectiveness,
or they periodically converge to critical proximities.
local interferences, through critical proximity, produce
reflections, refractions, and regenerative-shunting patterns."
Their
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO ART NEWS, p. 119, Dec. 161

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Universe is the minimum as well as the maximum
closed system of omni-interacting, precessionally
transforming, complementary transactions of synergetic
regeneration.
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.135. 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
The effect of all the local systems of events upon any
and all other systems of local events is precessional. "
-
Citation and context at Newton's First Law of Motion: RBF
Restatement Of, 4 May'37

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession:
"Synergetic geometry precession explains radial-circumferential
acceleration transformations."
-
Citation and context at Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan'55

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession & Degrees of Freedom:
(1)
"Despite the angularly modified resultant complexities of
omnidirectionally operative precessional forces upon ever varyingly
interpositioned cosmic bodies, Universe may be manifesting to
us that there is always and only operative an omniintegrated
cosmic coordination of cosmic independents' actions and reactions
wherein, with radial broadcasting of energy there is an
exponentially increasing diffusion as well as disturbance-
diminishing resultant energy effectiveness producing widely
varying angular aberrations of the precession, wherein nonetheless
there is always an initial individual-to-individual operative
attractiveness whereby 180-degreeness begets 90-degreeness
and 90-degreeness begets 180-degreeness
all of whose angularly aberrated complexity of resultant
directional effects always pulsate in respect to a neutral or
static 60-degreeness which (only static) imposes an everywhere-
else 60-degreeness of resultants which in turn induces the
"
coexistence of the isotropic vector matrix."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 533.21, 19 Nov 74
354

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession & Degrees of Freedom:
(2)
"The 56 axes of cosmic symmetry (see Sec. 1042.05) interprecess
successively to regenerate the centripetal-centrifugal inwardness,
outwardness, and aroundnesses of other inwardnesses, outwardnesses,
and aroundnesses as the omnipulsative cycling and omniinter-
resonated eternally regenerative Universe, always accommodated by
the six positive and six negative alternately and maximally
equieconomical degrees of freedom characterising each and every
event cycle of each and every unique frequency-quantum magnitude
of the electromagnetic spectrum range."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 533.22, 19 Nov'74

Precessional Intertransformability:
See Acceleration: Angular & Linear, 11 Feb'73

Precessional Peel-off:
See Doing What Needs to be Done, 26 Jan'75

54
TEXT CITATIONS
Precession of Side Effects & Primary Effects:
Synergetics, 2nd. Ed. draft Sec. 325.10ff

Precession of Side Effects & Primary Effects:
See Good & Badding Kind of Idea

Precession of Octa Edge-vector:
See Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, 11 Dec' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precessionally Shunted Pattern Relay:
"Resistance... in synergetics is called the precessionally
shunted pattern relay."
Citation and context at Tunability, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession: Analogy of Precession and Social Behavior:
"Mass attraction and
precession
Provide the first scientific means
Of elucidating social behavior.
When humans affect one another
Metaphysically,
The least thoughtful
Goes into local system orbit
Around the most thoughtful.
When humans tense one another
Physically,
The least strong
Falls into the other,
Falls' in love.
When they repel one another physically
The least strong is rocketed
Into remote system orbit."
Cite INTUITION, pp.33-34, May 172

Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior:
See Social Sciences: Analogyue to Physical Sciences, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-packed Spheres:
10
"I'm sure a number of you have been with me at previous
lectures and you may have seen these _
closest-packed spheres--see sec. 260.50, but the majority
of you, I am sure, still have not been with me all this
time. I know that four years ago I was asked to speak
at a congress of mathematics teachers in Oregon and there
were 2000 mathematicians there and I asked them if any of
them were familiar with the se objects. And they said 'No.'
And I said would any of them be willing to come up on the
stage with me and put them together in a way that we would
all agree is the way. There is a the way.
"So one of them came up and he looked them over, and he saw
these two quadrangles and he tried matching those... then he
saw two triangles and he tried matching those... then he saw
these--what we call trapezoids--and he tried matching those.
So then he tried to put them together like that, and that
didn't seem to be too impressive either. Then he tried what
we might call like a raft and that wasn't too good either.
So he started all over again and I saw he wasn't getting any-
where, so I said I'm going to have to show you how to do it."
-
Cite RBF talk at Am. Museum of Natural History, NYC,
EJA transcript, pp.8-9; 1 May'77
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-packed Spheres:
(2)
"One reason that this is not self-evident is that because,
in all the great motions employed by Universe, there are six
fundamental kinds of motion and five of them very familar:
spinning, orbiting, turning inside-out, expanding, and
torquing.... These are very well-known fundamental behaviors
of nature. But there's a sixth one called precession. And
I've heard of
you say: I don't remember... I've heard of it.
the word precession, but that's about the most people can do....
"Precession is one of the most important things to understand--
and its the mistaken 180-degreeness that finds humanity
missing a lot. At any rate, I'm going to precess these (two
OK?
sets of 10 closest-packed spheres) now at 90 degrees.
And I'm going to now put them together and obviously they are
now not going to fit! (Applause.) And the reason you didn't
see that--and the thing about it is--that you all went to
school being taught the XYZ coordinates of parallels and
perpendiculars.... And you try to bring in together perpen-
dicularly. But Universe is not operating that way.
is operating in radiational-divergence and gravitational-
convergence. Divergent and convergent: that's the way
Universe operates.
This is nothing like the XYZ coordinates"
-
Cite RBF talk at Am. Museum of
Universe
History, NYC,
EJA transcript, pp. 9, Natural 177

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-packed Spheres:
"and all that--they have nothing to do with the way the
Universe works. Things in parallel never get resolved.
Convergent things get beautifully resolved, they get exactly
they get nature int a corner. At that's why you couldn't
have a nucleus in a perpendicular parallel system. You
can only have nuclei when you have convergence.
why I say how far out our schooling really is."
...
And's that's
(3)
Cite RBF talk at Am. Museum of Natural History, NYC,
EJA transcript, pp.9-10; 1 May'77

TEXT CITATIONS
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-Packed Spheres:
Synergetica : Sec. 260.50 (2nd. Ed.)
527.08

TEXT CITATIONS
Precession of Two Sets of 60 Closest-packed Spheres:
417:
417.01-417.04
(Fig. 417.01)
8527.08

Precession
B
Tension:
See Interaffecting, 9 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precession of Tetra Edges:
"There are six edges of a tetrahedron, and each edge precesses
the opposite edge toward a 90-degrees-maximum of attitudinal
difference of orientation. Any two discrete opposite edges can
be represented by two aluminum tubes, X and Y, which can move
longitudinally anywhere along there respective axes while the
volume of the irregular tetrahedra remains constant, They may
shuttle along on these lines and produce all kinds of asymmet-
rical tetrahedra, whose volumeswill always remain unit by
virtue of their developed tetrahedra's constant base areas and
identical altitudes. The two tubes' four ends produce the
other four interconnecting edges of the tetrahedron, which
vary as required without altering the constantly uniform
volume.
"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 923.10, Apr'72

Precession of Tetra Edges:
See Interconnection of Any Two Lines in Universe

RBF DEFINITIONS
Precessional Thinking:
The "central and surface angle understandings are
fundamental to precessional thinking which deals
locally with the falling-inward critical proximities
outwardly of which gravity suddenly induces precession
at 90 degrees to the earlier falling-inward proclivity."
-Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. 860., August 1971.

Precessed Triangle:
See Yin-yang, 28 Jan'75

Precession:
(1A
Angular Precession
See Chemical Bonds
Energetic Functions
Intereffects
Interprecess
Knight's Move in Chess
Motion: Six Positive & Negative Motions
Mass Attraction
Omnimotions
Orbiting
Omniprecessional
Petal: Tetrahedron as Three-petaled Flower Bud
Polarized Precession
Poisson Effect
Shunting: Relative Motion Patterns
Critical Proximity
Primary vs. Side Effects
Sideways
Synergy vs. Precession
Reprecession

Precession:
See Precession = Tension
Metaphysical Precession
Complementaries Precess
Reciprocal Self-precessors
Regenerative Intersupport
Modulation vs. Precession
Gyrocompass:
Gyroscope
Regenerative Precession
Quantum Model
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Water
(1B)

Precession:
(24)
Breakwater, 15 Jun 74
See Bonding Hierarchies, 19 Dec'73
Chemical Bonds, May 172
Compression, 19 Jun'71
Design Covariables:
Energy Event, 9 Jul 62*
Entropy, 28 Feb *71*
Principle of, 1959
Gravitational Zone System, 14 Jan'55*
Hierarchies, 16 Jun 72*
Mass Attraction, 6 Mar*73
Multiorbital, 1960
Newton's First Law of Motion: RBF Restatement of,
4 May'57*
Pull, 25 Sep*73
Radiation-Gravitation, Oct 66; (2) (3)*
Rectilinear Frame, 24 Sep'73*
Side Effects, 9 Dec '73
Supersynergeticall, May'72
Synergetics pj3, undated
Step, Nov 71
Eccentricity, 7 Feb'71

Precession:
(2B)
See Tetrahedral Dynamics (1) (2)
Tetrahedron, 10 Dec'73; 1 Feb'75
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe (B)
Transformations, 10 Oct150
Vector Equilibrium: Spheres & Spaces (1)
Wave, 13 Nov 69
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid, 6 Jul*62*
Action-reaction-resultant, Jun'66*; May171
Tidal, 15 Oct164
Truth & Love, 16 Feb'73
Polarization, 10 Nov'74
Scratched Surface, 27 Jan '75
Prism, 31 May '71
Gravity, 6 Apr'75
Inward Explosion, 8 Apr 75
In, Out & Around Experiences, (1) (2)
Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Gap Closer, 23 May '75
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 Jun 75
Yin,yang, (2)

Precession:
See Geometrical Function of Nine, (1)
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (B)(C)
Social Sciences: Analogy to Physical Sciences, (1)*
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (5) (6)
(20)

Pracassion:
(3)
See Precession & Degrees of Freedom
Precessional Intertransformability
Precessional Peel-off
Precession of Side Effects & Primary Effects
Precessionally Shunted Pattern Relay
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior
Precession = Tension
Precession of Tetra Edges
Precessional Thinking
Precessed Triangle
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-Packed Spheres
Precession of Two Sets of 60 Closest-Packed Spheres
Precession of Octa Edge-vector

Prediction:
Socio-economic vs. Engineering:
See Structural Sequence, (C)

Predictability: Prediction:
See Prognostication
Synergetic Advantage:
Synergetic Hierarchies
Synergy: Degrees Of
Synergy of Synergies
Principle Or
Unpredictable: Unpredicted
Viral Steerability
Sequence
Unpredicted: Sequence of Unpredicted Events
Planeta: Prediction of Unknown Planets
Forecasting Capability
(1)

257
Predictability: Prediction:
See Ignorance (2)
Jet Engine (1)
Science, p.7, 1947
Synergetic Accounting Advantages:
Hierarchy of Patterns, 1954
Nature Permits It Sequence (3)
Synergetic Integral, 1960
Education, 1 Jul 62
Vertexial Topology, Aug'71
Modelability,
(b)
Modulations, 17 Jun '75
Structural Sequence, (C)
(2)
Hierarchy Of (3)

Pre-experienceable:
See Primitive Regeneration, 27 Doc'74

Prefabricated Credos:
See Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927, 14 Apr 70
Robin Hood Sequence (1)

Prefabrication:
See Prestressed Concrete Sequence, (2)

Preferred Directions of Least Resistance:
See Fuller, R.B: What I Am Trying To Do, 8 Jan'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prefix:
See Deprefixing

Prefrequency:
See Presise
Subfrequency
Prime
(1)

Profrequency:
See Conceptuality Independent of Size & Time, 2 Jun'74
Prime, 20 Dec174
Primitive Regeneration, 27 Dec'74
Fourth Dimension, 19 Feb'76
Powering: Fifth & Eighth Powering, 11 Dec'75;
25 Jan'76
Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan' 77
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (B)
(2)

Pregnant Mother: Communication with Child She is Bearing:
See Tactile Sense, 6 Jun169
Tactile Sequence, (1)

Pregnancy: Pregnant:
See
Unique Frequencies, 18 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prehending:
"Prehending is pure tension; it's like gravity."
->>>
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC, 19 Dec'74

Prehending:
See Intuition, 26 Dec174

Prehierarchical:
See Prime, 20 Dec174

Pre-Scenario:
See Dynamic vs. Static, 12 Nov 75

Prescience:
See Poets, 1970

Present Otherness:
See No-time-and-away-ago, 28 May 175
Tetratuning, 30 May175
Environment, (A)

250
Present:
See Omnipresent
Now
(1)

Present:
See Minimum of Four Tetrahedra, 22 Feb'77
(2)

President of the U.S:
See Error: Pullout from Error, 17 Juà'73
The One: Watergate, 13 May 73
United States: Kost Difficult Sovereignty to Break Up, (2)

Presize:
See Conceptuality Independent of Sise
Prefrequency
Subsize
Sizeless
(1)

Pre-special Case:
See Primitive Regeneration, 27 Dec'74

RUS DEFINITIONS
Pressive;
See Compression, 1 Apr'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pressure:
"Velocity gives
us what we call pressure or heat;
it can be read either way."
-
CICH OREGON Lecture #5, p. 187, 9 Juk162
-
Citation at Velocity, 9 Jul'62

Pressure - Heat:
See Balloon (C)
Sec. 763.02

Pressure:
See Interattraction Pressure
Compression
(1)

Pressure:
See Gravity: Circumferential Leverage, (3)
221
(2)

Press:
See Stretch-press

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prestressed Concrete Sequence:
This
(1)
"I began to initiate such a 'regenerative tree' [ See Trees]
strategy in experimental undertakings in structures about a
third of a century ago. I gave myself the task of exploring
the practicality of assembling the components of buildings
under the most preferred conditions of technology and science,
in order to achieve a very high degree of efficiency.
collection of components had to be capable of economical air
transport to any part of the Earth. I saw that the essentils
were local hydraulics and pneumatics and generalized tensional
packages-- broadly speaking. Familiar examples of this are
all kinds of pneumatic structures, from inflatable toy sea
horses and life rafts to dirigibles. Beyond these, there are
very complex structures. For examples, I have made geodesic
domes-- omnitriangulated spheres-- with pneumatic components.
veodesic tensegrity spheres are highly magnified, pneumatic
principle structures.
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes,
1965, p. 86.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prestressed Concrete Sequence:
(2)
"The hydraulics possibilities include the local cements,
The economic theory
water, air, gravel, sand, and rocks.
behind prestressed concrete is based on prefabrication and
shipping only the small bulk of steel as a tensional sinew
system, and applying the local water, sand, gravel, and cement
as the building bulk. The particles which make up cement are
sifted sand and gravel, which, though they look rough, pack
averagedly as spheres would pack-- in 60-degree angular
packing. Few people think of cement that way, but if it is
shaken down, agitated well, and lubricated together with a
colloid, it will automatically avail itself of nature's
tetrahedral structuring in closest packing pattern."
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes,
1965, p. 86.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prestressed Concrete Sequence:
"This principle of tensional blueprints-- prestressed
concrete is an example is manifesting itself as the
direction which building will take. In order to make the
resources of the Earth adequate to the needs of all
people, we must increase the performance per pound of
those resources in a very big way, thus giving man
environmental controls. This must be done to accommodate
all the new shifting patterns of man around the face of
the Earth. We will have to employ nature's much more
economical grand logistical strategies. Emulating nature,
(3)
man must distribute mathematical information as basic
pattern, which does not weigh anything at all.
The highly
technical components of very fine high-tension steels and
aluminums and fine alloys can then be centrally processed
and distributed. Those will be used primarily for
tensional functions, and will be rigidified by the local
compressional pneumatics and hydraulics.... This is the most
comprehensive statement that I could make regarding the
most recent discovery of nature's forever permitted
structural strategies. ST
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes.,
1965. P. 88.

Prestressed Concrete:
See Colloidal Chemistry
Hydraulics

Pretence Bio-organism:
See Corporation, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pretending:
"There's nothing wrong with pretending; in fact we have to
pretend. Pretending is just the same thing as our image-
ination. We have to formulate something like ' going down
town' before we can actually go down town. Even Christopher
Robin with Alice. It's really not a matter of pretence
but more of a trial balance. It's not a pretence: you might
just not have had time to do it yet.
"You write the play; Then you act the play. You have to write
it first. It's like the lag between the navigating and the
conceptioning. You can't just go... except off the deep end,
and even a child knows better than that!""
(N.B: Above comments in response to EJA showing RBF
a quote from Wittgenstein (Philosophic Investigations:
II, xi - 229e "A child has much to learn before it
can pretend.")
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 8 Apr'75

Pretending
Image-ination:
See Pretending, 8 Apr '75

Pratime:
See Prefrequency
Timeless
(1)

Pretime:
(2)
See Conceptuality Independent of Size & Time, 2 Jun'74
Synergetics vs. Model (B)-(D)

Prevent: Preventive:
See Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative

Previous Otherness:
See Awareness, 24 Apr'72

Pride:
See Selfishness
Sheath of Pride
Ego
Self-deception
Vanity
(1)

Pride:
See Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses, (1)
Life is a Suntatal of Mistakes, (1)"
Mistake, 7 Nov' 75
Crowd-réflexing, 7 Nov'75
(2)

Priestly, Joseph: (1733-1804)
See Lavoisier, 1 Oct'71

Primacy:
See Prime Number
Primitive
(1)

Primacy:
See Trigonometric Limit: First 14 Primes, 14 Jan'74
(2)

Primary Faculties:
See Intellect & Quickness

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primary ya, Side Effects:
"We don't pay enough attention to the side effects. The
primary effects are really very, very tiny. What we have is
the intercomplementation of the primary effects with the
side effects, in which the side effects-- due to precession--
become the really important operation."
Cite RBF to Yale students, New Haven, 9 Dec '73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Primary vs. Side Effects:
"Nature arranges for the side effects-- at 180° to become
the major thrusts. We tend to think of the chromosomie 180°
'drive programming as the primary effect, but it's not.
"Only mind can discover mind: that's what society is doing
right now.
The brain is the honey-bee, honey-money reflex."
Cite RBF to Yale Students, New Haven, 10 Dec'73
(See alse, RBF Holographs)

Primary vs. Side Effects:
See Precession of Side Effects & Primary Effects
Evolution by Inadvertence
(1)

Primary vs. Side Effects:
See Ecology Sequence, (F)(G)
Proton & Neutron, (B)
Two Kins of Twoness, (B)
Ecology, 3 Apr$75
Planetary Democracy, (3)
(2)

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RBF DEFINITIONS
Primary Structure:
"Whenever cutting or joining is introduced, complex structures
occur. That is, the hole may be filled with a
primary
structure
and therefore all the structural events of the surrounding
ring
are second-layer structural emergences of the primary structure."
- Citation and context at Moebius Strip, 10 Jan*50

Primary Structure:
See Icosahedron:
10 Jan'50
Inside-outing of Icosahedron,

Primary Systems:
See Equations: Primary Systems

TEXT CITATIONS
Primary Svatoma:
Synergetics text: Sec. 223.20, et.seq., Fab'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime:
"Prime means siseless, timeless, subfrequency. Prime is
prehierarchical. Prime is prefrequency. Prime is generalized,
a metaphysical experience, not special case."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1071.10, 20 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime:
"Prime means sizeless, timeless, subfrequency."
Cite RBF typescript shown to EJA, Wash. DC., 18 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime:
It does not
"Prime means the first possible realization.
have frequency. It is subfrequency. One is subfrequency.
Interval and
differentiation are introduced with two.
Frequency begins with three-- with triangle, which is the
minimum cyclic enclosed circuitry."
1011.30
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft At Sec. 10, 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime:
"Prime means the first layer. It does not have frequency.
It is subfrequency.
Frequency
One is subfrequency.
Frequency and size are the same
phenomena. Subfrequency prime tetra, octa and icosa
begins with two.
consist of one vertex and an edge module of one.'
"
- Gite RBF to EJA, Bear Island 23 August 1971, Synergeties
draft Sept 171, Sec. 882.1
Citation at Subfrequency, 23 Aug'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Awareness:
"Sphere is prime awareness."
-
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium, 18 Nov'72

Prime Conceptuality:
See Conceptuality Indipendent of Size & Time
A Priori
(1)

Prime Conceptuality:
See Domain & Quantum, (2)
Unity as Plural, 1960
(2)
12:

Prime Convergence:
See Vertex, 11 Oct '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Definition:
"Whenever I can I always try to make a comprehensive prime
definition then break it into the main parts. .
0
Citation and context at Environment (1), 19 Feb'73

Prime Design:
See Artist-scientist, May'60

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Dichotomy:
"In the prime dichotomy of Universe into a thinkable
tetrahedronal zone between unconsiderable irrelevancies,
which in turn requires a secondary zonal separation into
macro-micro momentarily unthinkable cosmoses, it becomes
evident that the tetrahedronal zone itself introduces a
tertiary dichotomy into the two inherent twilight zones of
almost considerable bigness and almost considerable
littleness, respectively.
"We find a fourth stage dichotomy of Universe when we
consider that the big and little twilights each respectively
are again also comprised of two tetrahedra as minimal
requirement, one as the concave inward tetrahedron and the
other as the convex outward tetrahedron.
"We next, fifthly, discover that the positive-negative (con-
vex-concave) tetrahedra constitute only the minimum functiona]
dichotomy of finite Universe resulting in a minimum portion
of the Universe disposed in the microcosm and a maximum
portion of the Universe assigned to the macrocosm. An
(1)
approximately spherical polyhedral zonal dichotomy of finite"
-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.140-141, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Dichotomy:
"Universe by a spherical array of considered relevancies
provides the minimum portion of sum totally finite Universe
assigned to the macrocosm and the maximum relative portion
of finite Universe assignable to the microcosm..." "
The alternate relative proportions of finite Universe's
micro-macro magnitude limits of definitive dichotomy as
tetrahedronal minimum or spherical maximum introduce an
inherently alternative propensity of universal finite
accountability whose alternative eccentric-concentric
reciprocity of omnidifferential-lag-rate compensations
inherently propagate and regenerate preferably considered
universal evolution accomplished by omnidirectionally
expansive-contractive, wave propagating oscillations."
(2)
Cite OANIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.143-144, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Domain:
"A vector equilibrium is not a prime domain or a prime volume
because it has a nucleus and consists of a plurality of defini-
tive volumetric domains. The vector equilibrium is inherently
subdivisible as defined by most economical triangulation of all
its 12 vertexes into eight tetrahedra and 12 quarter-octahedra,
constituting 20 identically volumed, minimum prime domains.
"
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium, 26 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Domains:
"While generalizably conceptual the prime structural systems
and their prime domains, linear, areal, and volumetric, are
inherently subfrequency, ergo independent of time and size."
Citation and context at Subfrequency, 17 Feb'73

Prime Domains:
See Prime Volumes
Spheric Domain

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Enclosure:
"Omnitopology describes prime volumes. Prime volume domains
are described by Euler's minimum set of visually unique
topological aspects of polyhedral systems. Systems divide
all Universe into all of the Universe occurring outside the
system, all of the Universe occurring inside the system, and
the remainder of the Universe constituting the system itself.
Any point or locus inherently lacks insidenss. Two event
points cannot provide enclosure. Two points have betweeness
but not insideness. Three points cannot enclose. Three
points describe a volumeless plane. Three points have
betweeness but no insideness. A three-point array plus a fourth
point which is not in the plane described by the first three
points constitutes prime enclosure. It requires a minimum of
four points to definitively differentiate cosmic insideness
and outsideness, i.e., to differentiate macrocosm from
microcosm, and both of them from here and now. "
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1011.11, 17 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Enclosure:
Two points do not constitute enclosure.
by itself does not enclose.
constitute enclosure.
A point
Three points do not
Three points constitute a plane.
A three-point array plus a fourth point not in the plane
of the first three points do constitute prime enclosure.
Four points minimum have insideness and outsideness."
1011.11
-Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. B, August 1971. JE JAN'73
36

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Epistemology:
"Prime epistemology is generalized thinkability. Epistemology
discovers
intuition.
Citation & context at Prime Thinkability, 26 Dec 74

Prime Generation:
See Seven Axes of Symmetry: Prime Generation of

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Hierarchy of Symmetric Polyhedra:
"It was our synergetics' discovery and strategy of taking the two
poles out of Euler's formula
that permitted disclosure of the
omnirational
constant relative abundance of the V's, F's, and
Ets, and the
disclosure of the initial additive twoness and
multiplicative
twoness whereby the unique prime number relation-
ships of the prime
hierarchy of omnisymmetric polyhedra
occurred, showing Tetra = ; octa 2; cube 3; VE or Icosa - 5."
Citation & context at Constant Regative Abundance, 29 Nov'72

66
Prime Hierarchy of Symmetric Polyhedra:
See Equations: Primary Systems

Prime Interrelationships:
See Understanding, May'67

Prime Invention:
See Dome, y Jul°73

Prime Minimum System:
See Mites as Prime Minimum System

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Nuclear Structural Systems:
"All prime nuclear structural systems have one-- and only one--
(unity two) interior vertex.
*Nuclear structural systems consist internally entirely of
tetrahedra which have only one common interior vertex:
omniconvertex.
"In nuclear structural system each of the surface system's
external triangles constitutes the single exterior facet of an
omnisystem-occupying set of inter-triple-bonded tetrahedra, each
of whose single interior-to-system vertexes are congruent with
one another at the convergent nuclear center of the system.
"In all nonredundant prime nuclear structural systems the
congruently interior-vertexed, omnisystem-occupying tetrahedra
of all prime structural systems may all be interiorly truncated
by introducing special case frequency, which provides chordal
as well as radial modular subdivisioning of the isotropic-
vector-matrix intertriangulation of each radial, frequency-
embracing wave layer, always accomplished while sustaining the
structural rigidity of the system.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Secs. 1074.10-.13, 27 Dec174

Prime Nucleated System:
See Vector Equilibrium, 2 Nov'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Nucleus:
"The isotropic vector matrix equilibrium multiplies omni-
directionally with increasing frequency of concentric vector-
equilibrium-conformed, closest-packed uniradius sphere shells,
conceptually disclosing the cosmically prime unique sequence
of developed interrelationships and behaviors immediately
surrounding a prime nucleus."
Citation and context at Atomic Computer Complex (2), 13 May'73

Prime Nucleus:
See Energy Event, May 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number:
"
...There really is a number one, and there is a number two.
The prime numbers are unique behaviors.... Prime numbers
are unique to what I call primitive experience and minimum
experience.
"
Cit78
Citation &
context at Human Beings & Complex Universa, (7),
16

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number:
"Han accommodated the primes one, two, three and five
in the decimal and the duodecimal system. But he left
out seven. After seven the next two primes are eleven
and thirteen: man calls these very bad luck. In playing
dice seven and eleven are crapping and thirteen is awful."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Numerology," p. 16 Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number:
"We have some absolutely beautiful rememberable numbers
which are all primes. I have discovered that all the
primes until 31 would form the positives and the negatives
of all the phenomena we can possibly group in the
permutations of the elements. The number of these
permutations is a rememberable number. Every so often
out of absolute chaos of millions and billions of numbers
there suddenly comes a rememberable number which shows the
beautiful balance at work in nature."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Numerology," pp. 17-18, Oct. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number:
"A prime number cannot be produced by the interaction
Of any other numbers--
It is only divisible by itself and one.
-
Cite NUMEROLOGY Draft,
P. 32
April 1971

KBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number:
"A prime number is a basic event.
three parts.
"
Beverly
Citation ay Banic Event, 7 Mar 71
Every event has
36

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

Prime Numbers Factorial:
See Scheherazade Numbers:
Scheherazade Numbers:
Declining Powers Of
(1)

Prime Numbers Factorial:
See Triacontrahedron: Great Circles Of, 27 Apr³ 77
(2)

368
RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number: First 15 Primes:
"But so long as the comprehensive cyclic dividend fails to
contain prime numbers which may occur in the data to be
coped with, irrational numbers will build up or erode the
processing numbers to produce irrational, ergo unnatural,
results. We must therefore realize that the tables of the
trigonometric functions include the first 15 primes 1, 2,
3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 41,
43."
-
Cite RBF addition to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1230.11,
Santa Monica, CA, 14 Jan '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Numbers: Pairing of:
"The pairing of prime numbers has something to do with the
poles.
It has to do with the 14 poles of the seven
axes of symmetry.
.
"
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from La Jolla to Wash, DC,
17 Jan 74

TEXT CITATION
Prime Numbers: Pairing of:
Synergetics dat at Sec. 1239.20, galley

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number Inherency & Constant Relative Abundance:
"Structural systems are always special case operational
realizations in which there is a constant relative abundance
of all the topological and system characteristics with the
only variable being a quantity multiplier consisting of one
of the first four prime numbers-- 1, 2, 3, and 5-- or an
intermultiplied plurality of the same first four prime numbers."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1072.10, 27 Dec '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number Inherency of Structural Systema:
Principle of:
"What I have discovered is that: the number of vertexes of every
omnitriangulated symmetrical structural system is always
rationally accountable as 2 (polar vertexes of the neutral axis
of spin) plus the product of 2 multiplied by one of the first
four primes (1, 2, 3, or 5) times frequency to the second
power; and the number of triangular faces will always be two
times, and the number of edges three times the number of
nonpolar vertexes.
"This is the principle of prime number inherency and constant
relative abundance of the topological characteristics of
structural systems."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Robt. W. Horne, p.2, 14 Feb'66; as
rewritten by RBF Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number Inherency of Structural Systems: Principle of:
"Omnitriangulated symmeteric systems are ployhedra whose
vertexes derive from the external set of the closest
packing of spheres and are rationally accountable in
terms of the first four prime numbers (N), that is 1 or
2, or 3, or 5.
Equation:
where: X
B
N
F
X 2 N (F2) + 2
number of crossings, vertexes, or spheres in the
outer layer or shell of any symmetrical system
one of the first four prime numbers: 1, 2, 3, or 5
edge frequency, i.e., the number of outer layer
edge modules.
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft, March 1971 (Rev)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number Inherency of Structural Systems:
Principle Or:
"What I have discovered is that: the number of vertexes of
every omnitriangulated symmetrical system is always 2 (polar
vertexes of the neutral axis of spin) plus the product of 2
multiplied by one of the first four primes (1, 2, 3, 04 5)
times frequency to the second power; and the number of triangular
faces will always be two timess and the number of edges three
times the number of nonpolar vertexes."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Robt. W. Horne, 14 Feb'66, p.2.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Prime Number Inherency and Constant Relative Abundance of
Structural Systems: Principle of:
"The precessionally regenerative concentricity of structure
is antientropic and evolutes toward optimally economic
local compressibility and symmetry.
This principle of 7 "omni-optimally-economic, omnitriangu-
Tated point system, symmetry relationships and relative
abundance of frequency-modulated multiplicative subdivision
of unitary local systems; i.e., M (mass) means: All the
Universe's self-interfering complexes having
concentrically self-precessing, local-focal-holding patterns
resulting in locally regenerative constellar associabilities
as positive-outside-in structures. C (radiation) means: All
the Universe's nonself-interfering complexes having eccentric-
ally interprecessing, omnidirectionally diffusing patterns
resulting in comprehensively degenerative negative limits of
dissociabilities as negative (inside-out) de-structures."
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.126, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Number Inherency & Constant Relative Abundance:
"The table of synergetics hierarchy (223.64) makes it
possible for us to dispense with the areas and lines of
Euler's topological accounting and provide a definitive
description of all omnitirangulated polyhedral systems
exclusively in terms of points and prime numbers."
Table:
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC., 28 May '75

TEXT CITATIONS
Prime Number Inherency and Constant Relative Abundance of the
Topology of Symmetrical Structural Systems: Principle Of:
Synergetics, Sec. 223

(1)
Principle Of:
Prime Number Inherency & Constant Relative Abundance of
The Topology of Symmetrical Structural Systema:
See Vertexial Topology
Shell Growth Rate
Equation: Omnidirectional Closest Packing Of
Spheres

(2)
Principle of:
Prime Number Inherency & Constant Relative Abundance of
The Topology of Symmetrical Structural Systema:
See Ten, 22 Jun' 75
Vector Equilibrium:
Unarticulated VE, 2 Nov' 73

Prime Numbera:
First Four Primes:
See Quantum Mechanics:
(4)
Triacontrahedron:
Minimum Geometrical Fourness,
Great Circles Of, 27 Apr 77

TEXT CITATIONS
Prime Number Consequences of Spin-halving of Tetrahedron's
Volumetric Domain Unity:
Table 1033.192

Prime Number:
See Low Order Prime Numbers
One as a Prime
One as Not a Prime
Primacy
Primitive
Scheherazade Numbers
SSRCD
Trigonometric Limit
(1)

Prime Number:
See Basic Event, 7 Mar'71*
Cube, (1)
Disparate, 22 Mar 73
Frequency, Jun'66*
Modulo 10, 26 Sep*73
Octant, 26 Jul*75
XYZ Quadrant at Center of Octahedron, 14 May'75
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (7)*
(2)

A
RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime One:
"Unity is plural and at minimum two.
but it is one-half of unity.'
There is a prime one,
-
Citation at Unity Is Plural, 26 Jan'72

Prime One:
See One as a Prime

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Otherness:
*Prime otherness demands identification of the other's--
initially nebulous-- entity integrity, which entity and
subentities' integrities first attain cognizable self-inter-
patterning stabilization, ergo, discrete considerability,
only at the tetrahedron stage of generalizable entity
interrelationships. Resolvability and constituent
enumerability, and systematic interrelationship cognition
of entity regeneration presence, can be discovered only
operationally. (See Secs. 411, 411.10, 411.20, and 411.30.)
After the four-ball structural interpatterning stability
occurs, and a fifth ball comes along and, pulled by mass
attraction, rolls into a three-ball nest, and there are
now two tetrahedra bonded face-to-face."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 540.06, 24 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Otherness:
"Prime otherness was first hypothetically discovered in the
early 1920's and was identified by the term 'fundamental
complementarity.'
"Prime otherness has been experimentally evidenced in 1956 when
the Nobel prize was given for the proof that the complementaries
were inherently dissimilar, non-mirror-imaged systems. For
instance, proton and neutron always and only coexist; they are
interchangeable but have different masses and other dissimilar
characteristics.
"The limit case of prime otherness is that of the point and
the no-points; the events and the novants. Numerically, one
vs.zero. Because it is the limit case it is prime. Zero is
prime otherness,
"
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 23 Sep*73

Prime Otherness:
See Plural Otherness.
Past Otherness
Present Otherness
Single Otherness
Future Otherness

Prime Otherness:
See Intereffects, 25 Sep'73
Environment, (A)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Rational Integer Characteristics:
"The frequencies of systems modify their prime rational
integer characteristics."
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft at Sec 223.41, Feb $72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Rational Integers:
"Other characteristics of systems: Prime rational integer
characteristics: 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.
"Systems may be symmetrical or asymmetrical.
"Systems are domains of volumes.
and prime volumes cannot."
Systems can have nuclei,
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Seca. 400.50-.51-.52; partly from
NASA Speech, p.91; last rewrite, 28 May' 72

371
RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Rational Integer Characteristics:
"Electromagnetic Frequencies of systems are sometimes complex
but always constitute the prime rational integer characteristic
of physical systems."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 515.32; from NASA Speech (p.91),
Jun'66

Prime Fational Integer Characteristics:
(1)
See Rational Whole Numbera
Single Integer Differentials
Geometry & Number

Prias Rational Integer Characteristics:
See Frequency, 17 Nov 72
Physical, Jun'66
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime State:
"The systems as described in Colums 1 through 9 are in
the prime state of conceptuality "independent of size:
metaphysical. Size is physical and is manifest by frequency
of length, area, volume, and time. Size is manifest in
the four variables of relative length, area, volume, and
time; these are all four expressible in terms of frequency.
Frequency is operationally realized modular subdivision of
the system enclosure."
Cite SYNERGETICS Table of topogical hierarchies,
Sec. 223.65 21 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"There are three types of omnitriangular, symmetrical
structural systems. We can have three triangles around each
vertex; a tetrahedron. Or we can have four triangles around
each vertex; the octahedron. Finally we can have five
triangles around each vertex; the icosahedron.
"The tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron are made up,
respectiveley, of one, two, and five pairs of positively and
negatively functioning open triangles.
"We cannot have six symmetrical or equiangular triangles
around each vertex because the angles add up to 360 degrees--
thus forming an infinite edgeless plane. The system with
six equiangular triangles 'flat out' around each vertex never
comes back upon itself. It can have no withinness or with-
outness. It cannot be constructed with pairs of positively
and negatively functioning open triangles. In order to have
a system, it must return upon itself in all directions."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 610.21-.22-.23; second
printing; 3 Nov* 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
(1)
"The domain of the tetrahedron is the tetrahedron as defined
by four spheres in a tetrahedronal, omni-embracing, closest-
packed tangency network. The domain of an octahedron is an
octahedron as defined by six spheres closest packed octa-
hedronally. The domain of an icosahedron is an icosahedron
as defined by 12 spheres closest packed without a nucleus.
All of the three foregoing non-nuclear-containing domains of
the tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron are defined by
superficially omnitriangulated closest packing of the four
spheres, six spheres, and 12 spheres, respectively, which
we have defined elsewhere as omnitriangulated systems or as
prime structural systems. There are no other symmetrical
non-nuclear-containing domains of closest-packed volume-
embracing agglomerations.
"While other total closest-packed-sphere enbracements, or
agglomerations, may be symmetrical or superficially asymmetrical
in the form of crocodiles, alligators, pears, or billiard
balls, they constitute complex associations of prime structural
systems. Only the tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosa-
hedral domains are basic structural systems without nuclei."
Cite RBF marginalia at Synergetics draft "Omnitopology," July '71
See Sections 1010.10+11+12, Apr. '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"All the Platonic polyhedra and many other more complex
multidimensional symmetries of sphere groupings can occur.
Non of them can occur as a consequence of closest packed
spheres having no nucleus."
(2)
-Cite RBF marginalia at Synergetics draft "Omnitopology," July '71
See Sections 1010.10+11+12, Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"The tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron are prime
structural systems: there are no other symmetrical
non-nuclear domains in closest packed agglomerations.
Their domains are defined by superficial omni-
triangulation of 4, 6 and 12. The domain of a tetrahedron
The domain. of an octahedron is six
is a tetrahedron.
spheres closest packed octahedronally. The domain of an
icosahedron is an icosahedron and is defined by the
closest packing of twelve spheres without a nucleus."
Cite HBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Chez Wolf.
18 June 1971.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"Only the tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron are
prime structural systems which can be arrived at in structural
stability without a nucleus. All the Platonic "solids"
and many more complex regular polyhedra are stable structural
systems, but they all have a nucleus."
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Chez Wolf.
18 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prine Structural Systems:
"there are only three possible cases of fundamental
omni-symmetrical, omni-triangulated, least effort structural
systems in nature: the tetrahedron with three triangles at
each vertex, the octahedron with four triangles at each
vertex, and the icosahedron with five triangles at each
vertex,"
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS # 7, 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
two,
"A structure divides Universe into two main parts-- al the
Universe that is inside and all the rest of the Universe
which is outside of the structural system. We find that
there are only three types of fundamental omnitriangulary,
symmetrical structural systems. We can have three triangles
around each vertex of a symmetrical structure; this makes
a regular tetrahedron. Or we can have four triangles around
each vertex; this makes the regular octahedron. Finally we
can have five triangles around each vertex which makes the
icosahedron. The tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron,
are made up respectively of one
and five pairs of
positively and negatively functioning open triangles. We
cannot have six symmetrical or equilateral triangles around
each vertex beaause the angles add up to 360°-- thus forming
an infinite edgeless plane. The structural system with six
equilaterals around each vertex never comes back upon itself.
It can have no withinness and withoutness. It cannot be
constructed with pairs of positive-negative function open
triangles. In order to have a structural system it must
return upon itself in all directions. If the system's
openings are all triangulated it is structured with minimum
effort."
Cite Mexico 163, p. 27. 10 Oct 163
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"There are only three possible omnisymmetrical, omni-
triangulated least effort structural systems in nature.
They are the tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron.
When their edges are all equal in length, the volumes of
these three structure are respectively: one; four and 18.51."
(Last word substituted.)
Cite Mexico 163, p. 27.10 Oct '63
(B)

RBF REFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"We find there are only three possible omnitriangulated systems
that subdivide Universe. There are the three faces around one
vertex which is the tetrahedron; the four faces around one
vertex which is the octahedron; and the five faces around one
vertex which is the icosahedron.
"You can't have six because it would be flat and would not come
back on itself to close the system. It would be neither concave
nor convex. We have the positive and negative condition of
these three things. Remember that you cannot have a polygon of
less than three sides. So the triangle is minimum polygon; it
is the only polygon that is inherently stable. We have learned
that the triangle stabilizes itself with minimum effort, so we
learn that triangulated systems are the systems of the least
effort. If they are equilateral triangles then all the system
is of equal effort in all directions... so that there are only
three possible cases: tetrahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p.249, 11 Jul*62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structure and Prime System:
"Exploring experimentally, synergetics finds the tetrahedron,
whose volume is one-third that of the cube, to be the prime
structural system of Universe: prize structure because
stabilized exclusively by triangles that are experimentally
demonstrable as being the only self-stabilising polygons; and
prime system because accomplishing the subdivision of all
Universe into an interior microcosm and an external microcosm;
and doing so structurally with only the minimum four vertexes
topologically defining the insideness and outsideness."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec 223.73, 26 Sep*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"Of the three fundamental structures (tetrahedron,
octahedron, and icosahedron) the tetrahedron contains the
least volume with the most surface and is therefore the
strongest structure per unit of volume.'
"
10-Art+63
Citation at Tetrahedron, 10 Oct163

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
"Light (as typical wave frequency group) obstruction is
greatest where structural components converge (grid photostats
show this as stars at convergent points). A multi-axial or
dynamical system cannot have only two triangles round one
vertex. It can have three, four, or five equilateral triangles,
but cannot have six or more equilateral triangles in a finite
system."
(Above extract is in the context of a discussion of radomes)
Cite Descript "Definitions by RBF," 29 Dec 58
Context at Radome Sequence (1)

TEXT CITATIONS
Prime Structural Systems:
Synergetics
Synergetics
Synergetics
-
Synergetics
-
Synergetics
Sec. 1011.30 "Prime Tetra, Octa and Icosa. "
Sec. 724 "Three and Only Basic Structures"
Sec. 610.20 "Omnitriangular Symmetry: Three Prime
Structural Systems"
Sec. 532.40 "Three Basic Omnisymmetrical Systems"
Sec. 612.00 "Subtriangulation: Icosahedron"
Synergetics Sec. 1010.20 "Nonnuclear Prime Structural Systems.*
Sec. 1031.10 "Dynamic Symmetry. (Esp. 1031.13)
Synergetics
Synergetics
->
Sec. 611.00
-
Synergetics Sec. 905.13
223.73
982.02-982.06
1222.20
8251.19
8937.14
s1074.10-1074.13

Prime Structural Systems:
See Icosahedron
Octahedron
Tetrahedron
Primary Structure
Prime Volumes
Tensegrity:
and Only
Basic Tensegrity Structures: Three
Prime Minimum System
Domains of Tetra, Octa & Icosa
Tetra, Oct & Icosa
(1)

Prime Structural Systems:
See Cycle, 10 Feb'73; 1955
Least Effort, 1967
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities, 19 Dec '73
Radome Sequence (1)*
Sphere, 25 Feb 74
Planck's Constant (A)
Tetrahedron, 5 Mar 73; 10 Oct 63*
Z Cobras, 6 Nov 73
Subfrequency, 17 Feb 73; 23 Aug'71
Physics: Difference Between Physics & Chemistry,
31 May 71
Frequency, Jun'66
Dyanamic Symmetry, (2)
Octahedron Model of Doubleness of Unity, (1) (2)
Quantum Sequence, (2)(5)
Stable & Unstable Structures, & Jun' 72
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, 9 Nov*73
(2)

Prime System:
See Minimum System
Primary Systems
Prime Nucleated System
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Thinkability:
"Prime thinkability is inherently systemic. Prima epistemology
is generalized thinkability. Epistemology discovers intuition."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 1071.26, 26 Dec174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Thinkability:
"Systematic Character of Prime Thinkability."
Cite section caption in SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 1071.00,
20 Dec 74

HBP DEFINITIONS
Prins Vector:
"All structural accounting of nature is accomplished with
rational quantities of tetrahedra. The XYZ coordinates my
be employed to describe the arrangements, but only in awkward
irrationality because the edge of the cube is inherently
irrational in respect to the cube's facial diagonal. The
hypotenuses actually function only as the edges of the positive
and negative tetrahedra which alone permit the cube to exist
as a structure. The hypotenuses connect the sphere centers at
the cube corners; they function concurrently and simulatane-
ously as the natural structuring of the tetrahedra edges in
the omnidirectional isotropic vector matrix; as either
hypotenuse or tetra edge they are prime vectors."
(1)
"Of the eight corners of the cube only four coincide with the
sphere centers of closest-packed, unit-radius spheres; therefore
only the cube's facial diagonals can interconnect closest
packed spheres. One closed set of six cube face diagonals
can only interconnect four sphere center corners of the prime
tetrahedron which alone provides the structural stability of
the cube, whose eight-cornered, structural stability completeness
requires the saturation of the alternate set of six diagonals"
dide
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Seca. 540.11 +.12, ly Nov'/4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Vector:
"in each of the cube's six faces, which alternate set of six
diagonals intertriangulates the other four sphere centers of
the cube's eight corners. The cube diagonals and the edges of
the tetrahedra structuring the cube are two aspects of the same
phenomenon. The tetra-edge, cube-face diagonals connecting the
two sets of four gorners each of the cube's total of eight
corners are the prime vectors of the vector equilibrium and the
isotropic vector matrix.
"The second power of the length of the prime vector that
constitutes the diagonal of the cube's face equals the sum of
the second powers of any two edges of the cube. Because these
two edges converge at the cube's corner to form one standing
wave which may be multifrequenced to apparently coincide with
the cube's facial diagonal, we discover that this relationship
is what we are talking about in the deliberately nonstraight
line. It is the same mathematical relationship demonstrated
in the ancients' proof of the Pythagorean theorem, wherein the
square of the hypotenuse is proven to be equal to the sum of the
squares of the triangle's two legs. Thus the deliberately
nonstraight line displays an evolutionary transformation from
coincidence with the two sides of the paralellogram to
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Seca. 540.12 +.13, 19 Nov 74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Vector:
"coincidence with the seemingly straight, wavilinear diagonal
of the parallelogram.
"Prime vector may be considered variously as
--
--
--
Po
the axis of intertangency (Secs. 521.21 & 537.22);
the control line of nature (Sec. 982.21);
the deliberately nonstraight line (Sec. 522);
the diagonal of the cube (Sec. 463);
half vectors (Sec. 537.21);
the hypotenuse (Sec. 825.26);
the internuclear vector modulus (Sec. 240.40);
the line between two sphere centers (Sec. 537.21);
linear menigration unity (Sec. 982.51);
the radial Yine (Sec. 537.21);
the tetra edge (Sec. 982.51); or
unit radius (Sec. 1106.23).
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Secs. 540.13 +.14, 19 Nov'74
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Vector:
"Of the eight corners of the cube only four are sphere centers;
therefore only cube diagonals can connect spheres.
"The diagonals of the cube which connect sphere centers coincide
with the tetra edges of the two tetrahedra that structure the
cube. They are two aspects of the same thing.
"The tetra edge connecting the two cube corners that are sphere
centers is the prime vector-- just another aspect of the radial
line connecting any two tangent sphere centers.
*This is what I am talking about in the Deliberately Nonstraight
Line.
It is what the ancients were talking about in the
Pythagorean Theorem: the square of the hypotenuse equals the
sum of the squares of the two legs."
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Pacific Palisades, CA,
20 Jul 74

Prime Vector:
See Axis of Intertangency
Control Line of Nature
Cube: Diagonal of
Deliberately Nonstraight Line
Hypotenuse
Internuclear Vector Modulus
Line of Interrelationship
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Mensural Unity
Pythagorean Theorem
Radial Line as Tetra Edge
Synergetics Constant
Tetra Edge
Vector: Half Vectors
Vector: One-second Vector Length
Radial Unity
Unit: Unity
Unit Radius: Unit Vector Radius
(1)

Prime Vector:
See T Quanta Module, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Vortexes:
"The 25 great circles of the vector Equilibrium all go through
the prime vertexes.
M
- Citation & context at Seven Axes of Symmetry, 16 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Volumes:
"A prime volume has unique domains but does not have a
nucleus.
"A prime volume is different from a generalised regenerative
system. Generalized regenerative systems have nuclei;
generalized prime volumes do not.
"There are only three prime volumes: tetrahedron, octahedron,
and icosahedron. Prime volumes are characterized exclusively
by external structural stability."
-
(Sec. 1010.01-.03)
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec.s 1010.01-.02-.03; 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Volumes:
"A prime volume is different from a system.
Systems
have nuclei and prime volumes do not. There are only
three prime volumes: tetrahedron, octahedron, and
icosahedron.
Prime volumes are characterized exclusively
by external structural stability."
1010.02 A88172
-
Cite SYILRGETICS text, at Sec., Sup

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Volumes:
"A prime volume is different from a system.
Systems
can have nuclei and prime volumes cannot. There are
only three prime volumes: tetrahedron, octahedron and
They have to have exclusively external
icosahedron.
structural stability to be prime volumes."
Cit Synergetics draft, Sec. 880.1, August 1971.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Volumes:
"Systems can have nuclei and prime volumes cannot.
There are only three prime volumes.
17
[EJA comment: Tetrahedron, Octahedron and Icosahedron. ]
Cite RBF to EMA, Fairfield, Conn., Chex Wolf.
18 June 1971.
SYSTEM 400.53)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prime Volumes:
"Systems can have nuclei and prime volumes cannot.
There are only three prime volumes."
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Chez Wolf, 18 Jun 171
PRIME VOLUMES
SEC. 1010.02)

Prime Volumes:
See Prime Enclosure
Spheric Domain
Tensegrity:
Only
Basic Tensegrity Structures:
Three & Only Structural Systems in Nature
System vs. Prime Volume
Three &
(1)

See Prime Domain, 26 Dec 73
Domain & Quantum, (1)(2)
Prime Rational Integers, 28 May1 72
Prime Volumes:
221
(2)

Prime:
See Between:
Model
Vector Equilibrium as Prime Between-ness
Conceivable Entity - Prime
Limit
Primacy
Primitive
Vector Equilibrium as Prime Nucleated System
Tetrahedron as Prime Nonnucleated Structural System
(1)

Prime:
See Complex, 17 Feb 73
Originality, Apri71
Subfrequency, 23 Aug'71*
(2)
Vector Equilibrium, 15 May'73
System, 27 May 172
Basic Nestable Configurations: Hierarchy of, 29 May172

Prime:
See Prime Awareness
Prime Conceptuality
Prime Contractors
Prime Convergence
Prime Definition
Prime Design
Prime Dichotomy
Prime Domain
Prime Enclosure
Prime Hierarchy of Symmetric Polyhedra
Prime Interrelationships
Prime Invention
Prime Nucleated System
Prime Nucleus
Prime Number Inherancy of Structural Systems:
Principle of
Prime Number
Prime Numbers:
Pairing of
Prime Numbers: First Four Primes
(3A)

Prime:
See Prime One
Prime Otherness
Prime Rational Integer Characteristics
Prime State
Prime Structural Systems
Prime System
Prime Vector
Prime Volumes
Prime Vertex
Prime Epistemology
Prime Thinkability
Prime Generation
Prime Minimum System
(3B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primitive:
"Priative is what you conceptualize sizelessly without
words. Primitive has nothing to do with Russian or English
or any special case language. My original 4-D, convergent-
divergent, vector equilibrium conceptualizing of 1927-28
was primitive
Bow Tie: the symbol of intertrans-
formative equivalence as well as of complementarity:
convergence
divergence
Also the symbol of syntropy-entropy
and of wave and octave
-
-4, -3, -2, -1,
+1, +2, +3, +4"
Cite RBF rewrite of 19 Jul'76; incorproated in Synergetics,
2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1033.453

RBP DEFINITIONS
Primitive:
"Primitive is what you say without words.
•
it has
nothing to do with Russian or English. Like the triangular
grid in "4-D." Frequency: Hex: In, out and around."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC; 18 Jul176

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primitive:
"We may use the word 'primitive' to describe the initial
self-starting condition of divergence.... Thus the primitive
is quite different from the 'fundamental particles' game
of the high-energy research physicists."
- Citation & context at Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primitive:
"Primitive is principle and not a special case.
(virgin soil - primitive.) Virginity is an aspect of
primitive. There can't be any
vrgins; viriginity is prefrequency."
special case
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 18 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primitiver
"Primitive means a priori, rather than prime."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Waldorf Astoria, 10 Jan '74
3

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primitive Dimensionality:
"Primitive dimensionality is systemic. You could not
point to something that is less than a system.
The points
are the ins. What is non-point-to-able is simply the
untuned. This primitive way of looking at things affords
prime intertransformable magnitude independent of size."
- Cite RBF to EJA, by telephone from Jim Fitzgibbon's in
St. Louis; 1 Mar'76

Primitive Experience:
See Prime Number, 16 Feb'78

Primitive Fourness:
See Fourfold Twoness
Minimum of Four Tetrahedra
Minimum Tetrahedron
Tetrahedral Minimum
(1)

377
Primitive Fourness:
See Number: Cosmically Absolute Numbers, 5 Mar 73
System, 26 Dec 74
Cosmic Hierarchy, 23 Jan' 77
(2)

Primitive vs. Frequency:
See Synergetics: Evolution of, 14 Oct' 76

Printive Hierarchy:
See Cosmic Hierarchy
Geometric Hierarchy
(1)

Primitive Geometric Conceptuality:
See Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, 28 Jan '73

Primitive Hierarchy:
See Quanta Loss by Congruence, (2)
(2)
Six Kotion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, 11 Aug 77;
(A)(B)
Synergetics, 17 Oct '77

Primitive Inventory:
See Quanta Loss by Congruence, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primitive Regeneration:
"Prime = primitive.
not a special case.
Primitive is generalized principle and
Virgin primitive. 'Virgin soil' =
special case. Virgin female human special case, only
because of the 'human' case realization. Virginity is a
generalised aspect of primitive. There can be no special
case generalized virgins. Virginity is not only prefrequency,
it is pretime, pre-special-case, and pre-experienceable dimension."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 1076.10, 27 Dec'74

Primitive Regeneration:
See Conceptual Genesis
Life's Original Event

Primitive:
See Conceptuality Independent of Size
Conceptuality Independent of Sise & Time
Initial: Initiating
Prefrequency
Primacy
Prime
Prime Number
Tetrahedron as Primitively Central to Life
Virgin Primitive
Potential vs. Primitive
(1)

Primitive:
(2)
23
See Octave Wave, 5 Mar 73
Models, 9 Jan '74
Tetrahedron, 5 Mar 73
Time, (1)
Second-power Congruence of
Universal Integrity:
Gravitational & Radiational Constants, 9 Jan'74
System, 26 Dec174
Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb 76
Tunability, 24 Apr 76
Minimum of Four Tetrahedra, 22 Feb'77
Cosmic Hierarchy, 23 Jan'77
Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan'77
Energetic Functions, 8 Aug'77

Primitive:
See Primitive Fourness
Primitive Geometric Conceptuality
Primitve Dimensionality
Primitive Regeneration
Primitive vs. Frequency
Primitive Hierarchy
Primitive Inventory
Primitive Experience
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primordial:
"One physicist remarked recently,
I am tiring of the nonsense legend
Which finds one end of Universe closed,
By a required beginning event
And the other end open to infinity.'
The concept of primordial--
Meaning before the days of order--
Which imply an a priori,
Absolute disorder, chaos, a beginning
(The primordial ooze-gooze explosion'),
Is now scientifically invalidated, passé."
Cite BRAIN AND MIND, p.156 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primordial:
"The idea of anything primordial could not exist.
There could not be anything prior to order.
disorderly only in his ignorance."
kan is
-
Cite RBF to SIMS Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Primordial Soup:
"All the scientific talk of probabilities is asinine.
Ther is no probability about mass attraction.
They all
want primordial soup, out of which improbable selection
would begin. But the LAWS were always there."
Cite XB1 m
Citation at Probability, 14 Sep'71

Primordial:
Seb Chaos
Life's Original Event
Orderliness Operative in Nature
(1)

Primordial:
See Probability, 14 Sep'71*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"Principles can be realised independent of sise."
Citation & context at Proofs, 7 Oct'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"The principles are the only reality. They are so absolute
that you can taste them. The physical aberration is always
in our perceptioning but it is not the reality.
"
Cite RBF to EJA and BO'R, 3200 Idaho, Wash., D.C., 6 Apr' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principles:
How did you come to know what you know?
Q:
RBF:
I intuited principles.
I don't know whether I
discovered principles, as such, or not. You should
say: How did we happen? and I don't know."
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa. 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
Humans
(1)
"I've worked very hard on my audiences to make sure that they
understand that it's only the human mind that is able to
discover those eternal principles that are operative,
governing the eternal regeneration of the Universe.
are here for functioning in a special capability of reference
to the eternal laws. When you have something as complex in
design as the Boeing 747 you have to have all those instruments
up forward and every once in a while the instruments tell the
pilot that they're non functiong-- or they're not saying anything.
It tells the pilot he's got to take over now himself, not to
rely any more on automatic and only by direct access to the
principles of the Universe can he possibly save his ship.
"The Universe must be a problem of design of eternal regeneration,
a design that makes the Boeing 747 look like a toothpick in
simplicity compared to the complexity of eternally regenerative
Universe. There must be some local things that go on as there
would be in the Boeing 747, where you find out where the stress05
are, or where the heat is: something you've got to attend to.
You need a local monitor on some part of the Universe... and that's
what we're here for.
-
Cite tape transcript RBF to W.. Wolf, Gloucester, Mass., p.13,
2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"The one thing common to all lives everywhere-- regardless
of differences in size, or ethnics-- the one thing common is
that we're here with this beautiful mind with access to
principles to solve problems by principles not by force.
We re born as force; we're born as physical. But mind is our
great function here. Our relationship to Universe is
completely abstract.
"We find then humanity is still in a bind with all the politics,
all the big business, all the organization, all for the power
structure... who's got the biggest gun? And I say, if we're
going to stay here it's so we can actually graduate in our
function. This is a priori.'
(2)
-
Cite tape transcript, RBF to W. Wolf, Gloucester. Mass., p.13,
2 Jun' 74
38

HBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"All principles are omni embracing, omnipermeative,
omnisynergetic."
-
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (F), 5 Jun'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"The principle is more of a reality than the qualities they
produce. The teacher knew that Euclid's planes and lines
didn't exist."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 idaho, DC, 22 Feb'72

RHF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"Principles governing all the atomic behaviors that associate
triangularly and tetrahedrally with the 12 degrees of freedom
all are eternal design evolution, such as must include the
complex of potential, symmetriach and asymmetrical limited,
pulsative regeneration, all of which are ideally conceivable,
as is experimentally manifest in synergetics and in my
explorations of the idealistic ramifications."
-
(Rewritten as Nucleated Systems, 15 Feb 72.)
Cite RBF marginalis in Eccles' "Facing Reality," p.3,
3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 14 Feb'72

380
RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
' ending.'
*There can't be a principle that has a 'beginning' and an
We cannot suggest that an abstraction could have
a beginning and an end. The words beginning' and 'end' have
to do with the physical."
- Citation and context at Gorralization Sequence (3), Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"Principles do not begin and end. Experiences do."
-
Cite RBF to Hugh Kenner, Santa Barbara, Dec'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"
...The pure principles were generalisable and of no weight
at all. The principles were always there and the generalizable
had nothing to do with the special case. The generalizable
was always present in the special case, but it had nothing to
do with the avoidupois, for it is not weighable. Mathematics
weighs nothing and this is mathematics. It is a mathematica]
correspondence."
-
Citation and context at Orderliness Operative in Nature,
(1)(2), 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINTIONS
Principle:
"By the word principle I mean those generally describable
behaviors of local frequency and angle patternings
subsidiary to obviously more comprehensive and universally
integrative patternings; despite that the local patternings
wavelengths are infra or ultra to our sensorial tunabilities,
wherefore these infra and ultra sensorial wave frequency
and angle complexes are apprehendible and comprehendible only
through relayed step-up or step-down transformation of the
pattern as a generalizably recognizable pattern behavior as
it consistently displaces locally cooperating frequency
patternings of lesser or greater wavelengths, e.g., . .
the outwardly 'moving wave in water is a pattern comprehen-
sivity by a plurality of reported patternings of local
displacements of locally operative pattern relaying as
water molecules of waves go in and out from the center of the
Earth."
-
RBF holograph, 12 Jun'56

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"... Magnitude vanishes; only principles endure.
The fantastic, being of purely superficial magnitude,
vanishes in the face of principle."
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.226, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Principle:
"... In comprehensive Universe, dimension drops out and
conceptual principle remains. Physical interferences of
our sensibilities are alike true and real, or realizable,
only in principle. Positive and negative cancel as the
principle zero."
Citation and context at Reciprocity (3), May149

Principle va. Aberration:
See Man as a Function of Universe, 21 Jan'75

Principles: Hierarchy Of:
See Generalization of Generalizations
Synergy of Synergies

Principle:
(1A)
See Aggregates of Principles
Antientropic Ordering Principles
Blind Date with Principle
Equatability of Generalized Principles
Generalized Principle
Industrial Principle
Interference of Principles
Inventory of Principles
Inventory of Characteristics of Principles
Lag Rates of Principles
Objective Employment of Principles
Organizing Principle
Pure Principle
Reciprocal Involvement of Experiences & Principles
Reciprocal Patterning of Principles
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles
Resource vs. Principle
Self-organizing Principle

Principle:
See Synergetics Principles
Undiscovered Principles
Schematic of the Principles
Interaoperativeness
Omniinteraccommodative
Fantasy vs. Principle
Experiences & Principles
Last Chance Adoption of Unteeded Principles
Individual & Group Principle
Bundle of Principles
Mutual Survival Principles
(1B)

Principle:
See Anticipatory, 3 Nov164
Antientropy, 20 Jun'66
Artifacts (1) (2)
Ecology Sequence (F)*
Generalization Sequence (3)*
Orderliness Operative in Nature, 9 Jul*62*
Reciprocity (3)*
Word, May 49
Chess: A Priori Intellect Invents a Game Called
"Life" (1) (2)
Adam & Eve, 2 Jun'74
Fantastic, May'49
Airplane, Kay'49
Prrofs, 7 Oct'75*
(2)

Printing: Printing Press:
(1)
See Benday Screen

Printing Press: Printing:
See Rolls, 20 Apr172
Publishing, 30 Jan'75
Resolvability Limits, 30 Apr'77
(2)

Priority: Priorities:
See Antipriorities
(1)

Priority: Priorities:
See Ship, (3)
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prism:
"A prism can twist to becoming two tetrahedra by
processing until the legs cross in the middle.
the corners and you have the octahedron."
-7
Interconnect
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971

382
Prison:
See Inventions that Decrease the Degrees of Freedom
(1)

Prison:
See Teleology, 20 Jun'66
(2)

Pristine: Pristinity:
See Intuition of the Child, (4)
Nuclear Uniqueness, 18 Feb'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Privacy:
"Get yourself the tools and ways of enclosing enormous amounts
of space, and make it possible for large numbers of human beings
to come together under more preferred conditions than have ever
before come together. Then give them large clear spaces so
that their privacy results from having sufficient distance
between people or groups of people. Get over the idea of
partitions. Partitions are like socialism. They came out of
living and working in fortresses where there wasn't enough room
to go around, so they put up partitions-- really making cells.
Partitions simply say you shall not pass. That's all they do.
They are improvised to make that which is fundamentally inade-
quate work after a fashion.'
"There are four kinds of privacy: if I can't touch you, we're
tactilely private; if I can't smell you, we're olfactorily
private; if I can't hear you, we're aurally private; and if I
can't see you, we're visually private. Just a little space
will take care of the first three. For the fourth-- since we
can see a great distance-- all we need are delicate occulting
membranes, possibly rose bushes or soap bubbles or smoke screens.
Cite EDUCATION AUTOMATION, pp.83-84, 22 Apr 61

Privacy vs. Community:
See Introversion vs. Extraversion
Proximity
Neighborliness
Proximity & Remoteness
(1)

Privacy vs. Community:
See Dome, 3 Jan'71
Old Man River Project, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

Privacy:
See Community
Proxemics
Hearable You
Touchable You
Smellable You
(1)

Privacy:
See Walls, 29 Jan'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Private Enterprise:
"Auto
Highway
13
Motoring
11
"During the last twenty years while automobile companies
produced and sold $220 billion worth of autos the government
spent $200 billion on roads.
"Private enterprise' is a dependent function. It is
subsidized self deceit.'
-Cite RBF Holograph, Delos Conference, 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Private Enterprise:
"This is a powerful trend. Private enterprise is taking the
initiative entirely away from politics. Politics lingers in
the twilight of geographical islands. Enterprise operates
transcendentally to such limits. Major enterprise is
inherently bound by Universe alone...'
.
w
Citation and context at World Corporations, 9 May157

Private Enterprise:
See Capitalism
Corporation
Enterprise
Free Enterprise

RBF DEFINITIONS
Private Property:
"Property Rights will stop because they are simply
nonexistent!"
- Cite RBF to SIMS Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Private Property:
"Look for the obsolescence of Acquisitions and
Possessions. Ownership will become progressively onerous,
because it imposes undesirable local restraints and
frustrates realization of world citizenship which is
progressively accommodated by the service industries
ever higher performing rentable facilities."
Cite
Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, p. 15

RBF DEFINITIONS
Private Property:
Our
"Private Ownership is going to go, not by political
revolution, but because it becomes obsolete, onerous.
young people are going to want to live around the world,
and it just isn't possible to carry 'all that stuff' with
them. So we will take all of the beautiful things out of
the museums, rebuild Babylon, rebuild Egypt, and spend a
week in Egypt living the way the people lived. We will
call our dwelling rental service, tell them what we want,
and it will be ready for us when we arrive.'
ft
-Cite THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY, undated, p. 8

Private Property:
See Capitalism
False Property Illusion
Obsolete: Inventory of Obsolete Concepts
Possession
Mine: That's Mine
Property
Real Estate Development
Tollgate: Private Tollgate
Yesterday's Private Castle Mentality

Prize:
See Enterprise, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Probability is mathematically proven and useful but, as its
name states, it is far from, incisive prediction. It is a tool
but a weak tool. If you want to cross the Atlantic to a given
port, probability per se won't you there. It can only say that
your chances of getting there are such and such a bet-- as
'48 to 11. Probability says any easterly direc-
tion is more favorable than a westerly, but a westerly could
probably get you there. But probability would not tell you
anything useful about the rocks or continents that might
intervene. There will probably be rocks and continents in
your way. • Probability could not get you to a given port.
Navigation can do so. Navigation is discrete and is a powerful
tool."
M
Cite RBF Ltr. to James Coney, Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
(1)
"Nature's probability is not linear nor planar, but the
mathematical models with which it is treated today are
almost exclusively linear. Real Universe probability accomo-
dates the omnidirectional interaccommodative transformating
transactions of universal events which humanity identifies
superficially as environment. Probability articulates
locally in Universe in response to the organically integral
generalized omnidirectional in, out, inside-out, outside-in,
and around events of the self system as well as with the
self system's extra-organic travel and externally imposed
processing around and amongst the inwardly and outwardly
contiguous forces of the considered system as imposed
by both its synchronously and
contiguously
critically near macrocosmic and microcosmic neighbors.
"Real Universe's probability laws of spherically propagative
whole systems' developments are intimately conditioned by
the three-way great-circle grids inherently embracing and
defining the nonredundant structuring of all systems as
formingly generated by critical proximity interferences of
the system's components' behaviors and their dynamical self-"
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 538.01 + 02, 26 May '72

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Probability:
(2)
"triangulations into unique system structuring symmetries
whose configurations are characterized by the relative
abundance patterning laws of topological crossing points,
areas, and lines of any considered system as geherally
disclosed by the closed system hierarchy of synergetics.
"Synergetics, by relating energy and topology to the
tetrahedron, and to systems, as defined by its synergetic
hierarchy, replaces randomness with a rational hierarchy of
omni-intertransformative phase identifications and quantized
rates of relative intertransformations."
->>
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 538.02 + 03, 26 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Nature's probability is not linear nor planar as it is
almost exclusively employed today. Probability accommodates
the omnidirectional conditions of the universal environment
of events and articulates, in response the the generalized
omnidirectional in, out, and around-the-self system, and of
the self-system around and amongst the inwardly and outwardly
contiguous forces imposed upon the considered system by
both its macrocosmic and microcosmic neighbors.
"Probability's laws of spherically propagative whole systems'
developments are intimately conditioned by the three-way great-
circle grids inherently embracing and defining all systems
as formingly generated by critical proximity interferences of
the system's components' behaviors and their dynamical
self-triangulations into unique system structuring symmetries
whose configurations are characterized by the relative
abundance patterning laws of topological crossing points,
areas,
and lines of any considered system as generally disclosed
by the closed sys tem hierarchy of synergetics.
Cite RBF 20 Feb re-write of 17 Feb citation, 20 Feb'72
PROBABILITY SEC. 538.01+02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"The specialized mathematical probability art and its
developed tables is exclusively linear and is exclusively
preoccupied with amorphous, planar graphable, and linearly
plottable rate of covariant change calculus. Specialized
probability disregards reality shapes and considers itself
to be concerned with pure number abstractions."
- Cite KBF 19 Feb re-write of Probability, 17 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Probability is not linear nor planar, but it is following
the laws of sphericity of whole systems. It ties up
with the three-way grid and with the constant relative
abundance of points, areas and lines as disclosed by
synergetics."
-
Cite RBF to EJA + BO'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172
(For expanded context see Three-day Great Circling: Three-
May Grid, 17 Feb '72.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Probability doesn't know anything about shapes.
number, purely mathematical."
It's just
Cite RBF to EJA and BO'R, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 17 Feb 72

KBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Probability is purely mathematics: just points on curves.
But they are though of as linear. or planar. That I call
planilinear.
Gibbs, 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 seem
But synergetics, by relating energy and
to be random.
topology to the tetrahedron, and to systems as defined,
and by its synergetic hierarchy, replaces randomness with a
rational hierarchy."
LAST SENTENCE-
Cite BF to JA, 320C Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172
PROBABILITY - SEC. 538.03,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Statistical Probability is a very crude tool-- like
using a hammer for a screw driver.' "
da
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York 15 Sept. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"All the scientific talk of probabilities is asinine.
There is no probability about mass attraction.
They all
want primordial soup, out of which improbable selection
would begin. But the LAWS were always there."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Royal Scots Grill, N.Y. 14 Sept. 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Probability is anything but comprehensively anticipatory:
if it had any force there would not be a stock market or
a horse race."
-
Concreet Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
Citation & context at Happening, 22 Apr171
SYNERGETICS. SEC. 503

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"You don't program 'happen.'
Probability is anything but comprehensive.
And we find that 'happenings' contradict probability.
SYNERGETICS, SEC.503.1
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Carbondale
2 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Society has been trained to think only statistically and
probability is the most powerful phase of statistics. But
probability is a weak tool. If it were strong the stock
exchanges and gambling houses would have to close their doors.
But nature does use synergy. 眙
-
Cite RBF marginalis on Old Chap. 2, "Synergy," 18 Mar'69
294

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"Probability, the strongest tool of statistics
which deals only with parts, at its best is a weak tool.
"Here probability strong it would predict stock-
market behavior with precision and would foretell horse
race results with reliability. Contrariwise, synergy
and general systems theory are powerful forecasting tools
and have been the backbone of modern physics, astronomy,
and chemistry."
Cite DOXIADIS, p. 314, 20 Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability:
"It is discovered in principle that probability probing
of physical Universe on a statistical basis is now becoming
of necessity frustrated while, probing in empty conceptual
principle could be instituted and accelerated for further
advancement or fundamental information. Exploration in
principle is re-rewarding."
Citation and context at Reciprocity (2) + (3), May'49

Probability Laws:
See Probability, (1)

26
RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability Model of Three Care On a Highway:
(1)
"I am tying up the social experience, often observed, in which
three independently
and consistently velocitied autombies
(and
only three) come into close proximity on the highway-- often
with no other cars
in sight. Mathematically speaking, three
points
and only three-- define both a plane and a triangle.
The cars make
a triangle; and because it is mathematically
discovered
that the total number of points, or areas, or lines
of a system are always
even numbers; and that this
divisibility by two accommodates polar-and-hemispherical
positive-
negativeness of all systems; because the defining of
one small
triangle on the surface of a system always inadvert-
ently
defines a large triangle representing the remainder of the
whole system's
surface, and this large triangle's corners will
always be more than
180-degrees each; ergo, the triangle is an
'inside-out,' i.e.,
negative triangle, and to convert it to
positive
condition requires halving or otherwise fractionating
each of its
three corners by great circle lines running together
somewhere within the
great negative triangle; thus there develops
a minimum of four positive
triangles embracing the Earth in-
duced by
such three-car convergences.
10
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 538.11, 26 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway:
The
(2)
"The triangle made by the three cars is a complementarity of
the three other spherical triangles on the Earth's surface.
The triangle formed by the two cars going one way, and one the
other way, gets smaller and smaller and then reverses itself,
getting ever larger. There is always a closer proximity
between two of the three. This is all governed by topological
"pattern integrity." Probability is exclusively abstract
mathematics: theoretically calculated points on curves.
statisticians think almost exclusively in lines or planes;
they are what I call planilinear.. Willard Gibbs 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. Despite the synergetic work
of such pioneers as Euler and Gibbs, all the different chamis->
tries and topologies still seem to be random. But synergetics,
by relating energy and topology to the tetrahedron, and to
systems as defined, and by its synergetic hierarchy, replaces"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 538.12, 26 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway:
(3)
"randomness with a rational, cosmic, shape-and-structural-
system hierarchy. This hierarchy discloses a constant relative
abundance of the constituents; 1.e., for every nonpolar point
there are always two faces and three edges. But systems occur
only as defined by four points. Prime structural systems are
inherently tetrahedral, as is also the quantum.
"A social experience of three cars: they make a triangle
The triangles
changing from scalenato equilateral to scalene.
are where the cars don't hit. (These are simply the windows.)
But you can't draw less than four triangles. The complemen-
tarity of the three triangles makes the spherical tetrahedron--
which makes the three-way grid. The little spherical triangle
window is visible to human observers in greatest magnitude of
human observability and awareness of such three-car triangles
at 15 miles distance, which is 15 minutes of the spherical arc
of our Earth. Such dynamically defined Earth triangulation is
not a static grid because the lines do not go through the same
point at the same time; lines-- which are always action
trajectories-- never do. All we have is patterning integrity
of critical proximities. There is always a nonviolated inter-
vening boundary condition. This is all that nature ever has."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 538.13, 26 Sep'73
d

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway:
"Nature modulates probability and the degrees of freedom, 1.e.,
frequency and angle, leads to the tensegrity sphere; which
leads to the pneumatic bag; all of which are the same kind of
reality as the three automobiles. All the cosmic triangling
of all variety of angles always averages out to 60 degrees.
That is the probability of all closed systems of which the
Universe is the amorphous largest case. Probability is not
linear or planar, but is always following the laws of
sphericity or whole systems. Probability is always dependent
on critical proximity, omnidirectional, and only dynamically
defined, three-way gridding pattern integrity, and with the
concomitant topologically constant relative abundace of
points, areas, and lines, all governed in an orderly way
by low-order, prime-number, behavioral uniqueness as disclosed
by synergetics."
(4)
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 538.14, 26 Sep' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway:
"I am tying up the social experience of three cars meeting
on the highway. They make a triangle which is a complemen-
tarity of the three other spherical triangles on the Earth's
surface. The triangles get narrower and narrower and then
reverse themselves. There is a proximity between two of
the three. We have topology as a pattern integrity.
Probability is pure mathematics, just points on curves.
A social experience of three cars. They make a triangle
changing from scalene to equilateral to sealene. The
triangles are where the cars don't hit. (These are simply
the windows.) But, you can't draw less than four triangles.
The complementary of the three triangles makes the spherical
tetrahedron-- which makes the three-way grid.
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway:
"In the early days of the auto on a lonely road-- when you
saw another car coming-- there was always a third coming
into view or already in view. Three cars frequently come
to approximately the same highway point at approximately
the same time. This is not surprising because when we,
having first taken away the two points from the system to
accommodate the axis of the observer, and you always have
the topologically constant relative abundance of interference
crossings, areas, and lines. Edges are lines. The guided
car paths are in reality lines, traces, with universal three-
foldness of energy event trajectory vectors. Universe keeps
sorting its event traces into bundles of three.
highway experience of three cars is the inexorably present,
tri-complementarity relationship of the little local triangle
on the Earth's surface complemented by the three other great
circle triangles of the terrestrial spherical tetrahedron
always inevitably produced in all systems formulations and
transformings law. Critical proximity imposes triangulation."
(For preamble to above see immediately preceding
statement: Polar Vertexes, cited to 17 Feb 172.)
B
The social
Cite RBF 19 Feb re-write of same caption 17 Feb.

Probability Kodel of Three Cars on a Highway:
See Social Highway Experience:
Spherical Triangle Sequence
Three Autos
(1)

Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway:
See Sphericity of Whole Systems
26 Sep 173
(2)
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid, 17 Feb'72

Probability:
See Happening
Navigation vs. Probability
Possible into Probable
Randomness
Nature Modulates Probability
Discrete vs. Probability
(1)

Probability:
(2)
See Direction, 1938
Life, 16 Aug 50
Reciprocity (2) (3)*
Three-way Great Circling:
Threshold of Life, 6 Jul'62
Three-way Grid, 17 Feb 72*
Omnidirectional Typewriter (1)
Equimagnitude Phases, 19 Dec 73
Synergy, 26 May 172
Means, 22 Jun 75
General Systems Theory, (B)
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problem:
"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."
Citation & context at Gravity (k), 12 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problema:
"Our fundamental proclivity is to keep intercepting problems.
Nothing could be more
fallacial than the notion that a normal
life
is one without problems. Even all human games are ways
of
initiating disorder to be parried by converting the disorder
to order."
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec173;
as rewritten by RBF at
3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 13 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problems:
"Our fundamental proclivity is to keep intercepting problems.
Nothing could be more wrong than the notion that a normal life
is one without problems.
"
Cite RBF address to Yale Political Union, New Haven, 9 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problem:
"Problems are metaphysical entropy. Humans are here to
function syntropically as solvers of problems as guided by
mind-discovered cosmic principles."
-
Citation and context at Man as Local Problem Solver (1), Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problem:
"Being between:
That's what humans always are.
That's where
the problems start."
Citation at Between: VE as Prime Between-ness Model, 7 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problems:
...
"Inevitable, important local problems develop in maintaining
the comprehensive integrity of the omni-regenerative universal
design. I think it probable that humans are designed to
be aboard planet Earth as the complex local problem
processor. Certainly, each of our own lives manifest just
such experiencing of 'problems, problems, problems.' I have
worked very hard on problems and I find that for every
problem I solve I induce twelve more problems or challenges.
You can look at problems as unattractive or attractive, but
the problem is that we are faced with problems. Nothing can
be more descriptive of life than a sequence of problems.
We are beautiful problem analyzing, differentiating and
sorting faculties. All that goes on in this room between
you and me is absolutely weightless. We are sorting out
our experiences."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, pp. 13-14 from transcript
as repwritten by RBF. 2 Jun'71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Problem:
•
The regeneration of the Universe probably depends
on these local monitors of very high capability to solve
very complex problems. Certainly our lives manifest
just problems, problems, problems. Nothing can be more
descriptive of life than problems." But we have a beautiful
sorting capability."
Cite BF address Am. Assn. of Museums, Jenver, 2 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problem Solving:
" An intellectual integrity of Universe evokes its
own theoretical evolvement of a Universe of ever-
multiplying problems and pure principles solutions and
eternal regeneration of multiplying problem solving."
Cite RBF marginalia, 20 Dec, 171 at SYNERGETICS Draft,
Sec. 529.07

Problem Solving:
See General Systems Theory
Local Problem Solver
Man as a Function in Universe
Man as Local Problem Solver
Man as Local Universe Technology
Starting with Universe
Mistakes
Trial and Errer
Synergetic Advantage: Prioriple Of
(1)

Problem Solving:
General
See Artifacts.
10 Aug 70; 17 Sep*74
Dreams, 10 Aug' 70
2
Individual Universes, (2)
Manifests: Eight, 1973
Omnidirectional Typewriter, (1)
Questions: Answering Questions, Sep' 73
Rationalization Sequence, (4)
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
Systems, (II)
Geometry, 14 Nov 73
Part, Fay'72
Performance; Equation Of, 1938
Electronic Referendum, 9 Jan '75
Humane City, (3)
Nucleus, 13 Nov 75
Nature in a Corner, 12 Nov 75
Dymaxion Artifacts, (2)
Children as Only Pure Scientists, (A)
Child, 1 May'77
Load Distribution, 17 Oct'77
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Problem:
Statement of the Problem:
"It is my philosophy that a properly stated problem is a
problem solved. The adequate statement must contain an
inventory of all the resources available and all the variable
The solutions are inherent
parameters uniquely involved.
in such adequacy of statement."
-
Cite SET "Y", p. 14, Aug'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problem: Statement of the Problem:
"Our problem is really one of information. We're in this
condition where we have to get the information out to all
humanity, which in the past was content with following a
leader. Some time ago I made the discovery that if I can
communicate something to somebody else, write it, put it
into print, it goes out of me and I can look at it to be
sure I'm not kidding myself. And then suddenly you make
the discovery that if you state the problem correctly, the
problem is solved. I simply happened to get to that
realization a little earlier than others due to my
comprehensive training and my thoDoughness and the inspiration
of knowing that if I could communicate these possibilities,
humanity really might make it. I've had a deep feeling about
this all along, and it's a very critical matter. Without
that information that we need, we do risk a runaway of
ignorance, and that's where the great peril lies."
Cite RBF tape transcript for Barry Farrel Playboy Interview,
Feb 72. Above passage deleted. See draft p. 61.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problem:
Statement of the Problem:
"Other men's consciously articulated awareness of the problem,
its existence, and the sequitor conclusion that inherent in
its comprehensive statement that once properly stated it
could even then only by teleologically solved through
competent design, and not by political reform, for not until
the comprehensive-competent-teleologic designer formulates
and calculates the total involvement, differentiation and
subsequent integration, and initiates the wheeel-starting
essential tasks do the minimum physical constituents of the
'reform' exist. Ergo, political reform is only and always
accessory after the fact. And the concepts of the ultimate
products consequent to our symegetically conceived designing,
were all alike nonexistent prior to out personally-unique-
experience-pattern induced abstract apprehension, and sub-
sequent systematic design conception of them, and our
production of their component subsystem items and their
testing and assembly."
-
RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

Problem: Statement of the Problem:
See Question Asking
(1)

389
Problem:
Statement of the Problem:
See Dreams, 10.Aug170
Formulation, 1963
Sunclipse, 1968
General Systems Theory, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Problems: Ten World-Around Problems That Have to Be Solved
By Bloodless Design Science Revolution:
"(1) Education Revolution, The Highest Priority Of All;
(2) Conversion of
World Accounting System;
(3) Elimination of Property By Making Ownership Onerous;
(4) World Democracy By Electronic Referendum;
(5) Elimination Of All World Sovereignties;
(6) Theoretical Exploration Through World Came;
(7) Realization Of Design Science Competence;
(8) Recognition of Humanity's Unique Functioning in Universe;
(9) Identification of Mathematical Coordinate System of Universe;
(
10)
Philosophical Realization That Physical Is Not Life.
->
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS
DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, NY Times, 29 Jun'72

TEXT CITATIONS
Problems:
World-Around Problems that Have to be Solved by
Bloodless Design Science Revolution, 29 June 1972

Problem: Problems:
See Finite Solutions
Social Problems:
Tetrahedral Coordination Of
(1)

Problem: Problems:
(2)
See Between: VE as Prime Between-ness Model, 7 Nov*72*
Consciousness, 12 Sep'71
Electronic Referendum, 29 Jun'72
Eternal Slowdown (2)
Fuller, R.B:
Gravity (k)*
Crisi of 1927 (a)
Individual Universes, (1)(2)
Mutual Survival Ptinciples, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Process Relationships:
"The transition of initial awareness of sensorially experienced
physical forms and process relationships through their
progressively
ephemeral diaphanous etheral →
brain-to-mind physical-to-metaphysical →
idea trending toward and attaining absolutely weightless
conceptual integrity of interangular proportionality...
a triangle.”
- Citation & context at Triangle, (1), 28 Jan'69

Process Relationships:
See Connections & Relatedness
Relationship Analysis

RBF DEFINITIONS
Process vs. Thing:
"Everybody is a process and not a thing."
Citation at Everybody, 3 Oct 71

Process vs. Thing:
See Behaviorist Word vs. Static Word
Eventing
(1)

Process vs. Thing:
See Individual Universes, (2)
Critical Proximity, Jun' 71
Environment, 12 May' 77
(2)

Process:
See Pattern Processing Machines
Process vs. Thing
Process Relationships
Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes
Urban Processes:
Metabolic Process
Inventory of
(1)

Process:
See Bird's Nest as a Tool, May'67; (A) (C)
Everybody, 3 Oct 171
Universe, 1944
Man as an Invention, 1 Apr'49
Geometry, 21 Jan'75
New York, 1970
(2)

Proclivities:
Basic va. Secondary:
See Anger, (1)-(3)
Human Tolerance Limuts, (A)-(D)

TEXT CITATIONS
Proclivities: Differentiated vs. Synergetic:
Synergetics, 2nd. Ed. Sec. 201.10
-

Proclivities: Differentiated vs. Synergetic:
See Absolute Network, 10 Nov' 74

TEXT CITATIONS
Proclivities, Phases & Disciplines: Inventory Of:
Synergetics, 2nd. Ed. : Sec. 201.10

301
TEXT CITATIONS
Proclivities: Inventory of:
Synergetics Sec. 1007.15
Synergetics
Sec. 905.16
-
Sec. 201.10

Proclivities: Inventory Of:
See Absolute Network
Behavioral Phases.
Behavior Potential
Energetic Functions
Motion Freedoms Degrees of Freedom
Structural Functions
(1)

Proclivities:
Inventory Of:
See Avogadro, Jun'66
Chemical Bonds, May 72
Compound, 13 Mar 73
Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan'74
Einstein: RBF Draft Letter To, (2)
Epistemology of Quantum Mechanics, 16 Dec 73
Field of Cosmic Formabilities, 28 Jan173
Functions, 26 May '72
Isotropic Vector Matrix, Jul'61
Planck Constant, (B)
Radiation, 20 Jun166
Structure, 16 Dec'73
Vector Equilibrium, (2); Feb 48; 13 Nov'69
Wealth, 28 Jan 75
(2)

Proclivity: Proclivities:
See Computer: Atomic-proclivity Computer
Differentiated Proclivities
Energy Proclivity Model
Fall-in Proclivity
Functions
In-ness Proclivity
Phase
Proclivities: Inventory Of
Proclivities, Phases & Disciplines: Inventory Of
Synergetic Proclivity
(1)

Proclivity: Proclivities:
See Functions, 26 May 172
Valving, 13 May 73
Vector Equilibrium, 15 May'73
Invented Periodicities, May'49
Life & Death, (1) (2)
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man, (A)
Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model, 23 Feb 72
Psychiatry, (3)
(2)
30

RBF DEFINITIONS
Procreation:
"If you think about it, it's probably a very difficult
design problem to get an organism to want to procreate.
Go to the mirror and stick your tongue way out and have
a good look at it. If you didn't have one of those and
a salesman came to your door and said, 'I'd like to sell
you one of these things. You stick it in your mouth and
it does you a lot of good,' I doubt that you'd be very
likely to buy that tongue. If you were to take a look
at your guts, your kidneys, and then had to go to a
supermarket and buy a kit to make a baby, I don't think
you could put it together at all. If each of us could
see all the organic equipment required to regenerate
this extraordinary walking coral reef thatwe really are,
I don't think anybody would procreate.
"So in order to be able to get us to procreate, nature
gave us a beautiful covering which sort of simplifies,
at least, all the frightening colors and coils and such.
We have a simplified skin stretched over us, and nature
has done a whole lot of tricks, trying to make this thing
attractive enough so that procreation will actually occur."
Cite Harry Farrell PLAYBOY Interview,
Transcript, 30 Oct171

Procreatively Sterile:
(1)
See Masturbation

See Abstraction, 24 Feb'72
Parallel: Quasi-parallel Lines, 1938
Procreatively Sterila:
(2)
63

Procreation:
See Adam & Eve
Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes
Baby Button
Life's Original Event
Donging: Fear & Longing
Man: Automated Metabolism of Man
Naked Girl on the Bed
Gestation
Sex
Survival Sequence: Love
(1)

Procreation:
See Artifacts, 28 Apri74
Beautiful, 1938
Divide & Conquer Sequence, (2)
Promote: I Don't Promote, 2 Jun 74
Short Cuts, y May'57.
Tactile Sequence, (2) (3)
Wealth as "Know-how", (2)
Love, 1 Feb'75
Helpless: Humans Born Helpless, 15 May'75
Mistake, 9 Nov 75
(2)

Production:
See Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour
Production
Nonproduction
(1)

Production:
See Human Events, Feb'71
Irreversible, 6 Nov'73
(2)

Profanity:
See Spit-punctuated Monosyllabic Verbalism

HBF DEFINITIONS
Profess: Profession:
"By my own rules I may not profess any special
preoccupation or capability. I am a random element."
Cite EDUCATION AUTOMATION, P.L
22 Apr'61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Profession: Professional:
M&
... I am neither a neurosurgeon nor a professional
of any discipline.
.
Cite BRAIN AND MIND, first verse
"
◆ 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Professors:
"You can forget the Universe and, like the other
professors, you can become completely unnatural masters
and doctors of theoretical myopias."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 97. Jun'66

Professable: Profession:
See Tenure:
Academic Tenure
Slave Professions: Slave Disciplines
(1)

Professable: Profession:
See Artist, 1968
Invention, 9 Feb'64
Prototype, 13 Mar 73
World Came, 12 Jun'64
Word Trends, May'44
Verb: I Seem to Be A Verb, 26 Apr'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Profile:
There Is No Half-Profile:
"There is no half-profile of you. All conceptuality is
systemic; it has to be finitely closed."
Citation and context at Conceptuality, 5 Nov'73

Profile: There is No Half-profile:
See Facial Asymmetry
Picasso Duo-face Picture
Split Personality
(1)

Profile: There is No Half-profile:
See Conceptuality, 5 Nov'73*
Design, 23 Jan'72
(2)
30

Profile of Industrial Revolution:
See Industrial Revolution:
Profile Or

RBF DEFINITIONS
Profit:
"Profit is just taking the input from the many for the
advantage of the few.
-
Citation & context at Industrialization, (A), 22 Jan'75

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

04
RBF DEFINITIONS
Profit:
Man-Invented Game of Quick Profit:
"Most of man's technology is of meager endurance being
comprised at the outset of destructive invention, such as
that of weaponry, or for something in support of the quick
profit, man invented game of selfishly manipulative game-
playing and rule inventing for the playing of his only
ignorantly-preoccupying value system."
Citation and context at Technology, 13 Mar 73

Profit: "We Stars Have Got to Make a Profit":
See Afford, 29 Jun'72

Profit: Profitability:
See Afford
Capitalism
Deficit Accounting
Economic Accounting System
Expense:
Without Any Individual Profiting at the
Expense of Another
Feeding Lots
Money-bee Humans
Status Quo
Money: Making sense vs. Making Money
(1)

Profit: Profitability:
See Immorality, 22 Aug'70
Pollution, 1968
Industrialization, (A)
Humane City, (10
Doing What Needs to Be Done, (1)
Building Industry, (3) (4)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prognostication About Future of Man:
"I don't think we tend to accredit at all the fact that we
might go on to have some other form of living in Universe."
-
For citation and context see Automation of Metabolic and
Regenerative Processes, May 165

Prognostications About Future of Man:
See Age of Cybernetics
Destiny of Humanity
Evolution: Subconscious Coordinate Functioning
Extraterrestrial Humans
Future of Synergetics
Historical Event Cognition
New Universe: Disclosure of in Next Decade
Optimism: Reverse Optimism
Point of No Return
Prospect for Humanity
Stillbirth of Humanity
Suicide of Humanity
Survival
Survival Sequence:
Love
Surprise: The Nonpolitical Surprise Has Already
Occurred
Tomorrow
Womb Population
Year 2000
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism
(1A)

Prognostications About Future of Man:
See Humanity's Final Cosmic Exam
Progress
Enough to Go Around
Fuller, R.B: Ecological Predictions of 1927
Race with Evolution
(1B)

Prognostications About Future of Man:
See Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes,
May'65*
Child: A Little Child Shall Lead Them, May'65
Communications, 1967
Computer, (B)(Ć)
Earning Living Sequence, (3)
Economic Accounting System, Sep'72
Environment, 15 Feb'66
Gross World Product Sequence, (3) (4)
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 6 Nov 72
Naivete, Mar'66
Newspaper, 16 Oct 172
Population Sequence, (1)-(8)
Scrap Sorting & Mongering, (2)
Spacehip, (2)
Success, May'70
Synergetics, 6 Nov 72
News & Evolution, (3) (4)
Enough to Go Around, (1) (2)
Options, 13 May 77
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (2)
(2)

Prognostication:
See Prediction
Synergetic Advantage: Principle Or
(1)

Prognostication:
See Parts, 1954
(2)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Program:
"You can program in any of the parts, but you cannot
program what's between and not."
-
-
City HBR at Students International Heditation Seminar,
UMass Amherst, 22 July 171, -1)
Citation & context at Mechanical Mind, 22 Jul'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Program:
"You don't program happen'.
and we find that 'happenings' contradict probability."
CIE RBF to EJA
Carbondale-
2-April 1971
-
Citation at Probability, 2 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Program:
"You can't program what it is you're looking for--
because they are the connections--
and not the things.
The only thing you can program
is the dismissal of irrelevancies."
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Carbondale
2 April 1971

Program: Programming:
See Computer Programming
Design Programming
Linear Programming
Critical Proximity Programming
Chromosomic Programming
Electromagnetic-photosynthetic Programming
(1)

Program:
Programming:
See Ecology, 29 Dec 73
Ecology Sequence. (C)-(I)
General Systems Theory, (1); (B)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4)(5)
Hunger, 16 Feb'73
No Mechanical Mind, 22 Jul*71*
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity,
Probability, 2 Apr 71*
221
(2)
(1)

Progress:
See Improve the Scenario
Prospect for Humanity
(1)

205
Progress:
See Belief, 6 Jul'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Progressions:
"In addition to the simple arithmetic, algebraic, and geomet-
rical progressions of the first, second, and third degrees of
acceleration, mathematics discloses other series, and super-
series, of superficially unpredictable mathematical frequen-
cies because they are composed of complementary and reciprocal
numbers whose products alone, though never occurring simul-
taneously or in whole, are compositely congruent with complex
progressions.
"But these complex components occur in discontinuous series,
and are inherently self-inexplicable. The complementary
functions must therefore impinge upon consciousness only as
meaningless. As immediately contemplated upon first experience,
they of necessity, alone, constitute seemingly absolute
perversity of interference. Synergy wholistic behavior
unpredicted by parts.
11
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (4)(5), May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Progressions:
"... All progressions are from material to abstract...
10
Citation and context at 'Ephemeralization, p.256 '38
NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON'

Progressive Invention of Universe:
See Sensorial Identification of Reality, (2)

Progressive Order: Law of:
See Conservation of Finite Universe: Principle Of,
20 Jun '66

Progressive Reduction of Residual Error:
See Exactitude, May' 72
General Systems Theory, (B)

Progression & Regression:
See Radiation-gravitation: Harmonics, 3 Jan'75

Progressions:
See Dimensions
Hierarchies
Manifests
Synergy: Degrees Of
Trends: Trending
Powering
Idea Trending
Physical to Kataphysical
Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual Error
(1)

Progression: Progressive:
See Life, May'49
Quantum Mechanics: Grand Strategy, 10 Apr 175
Tunability: Intra & Ultra, 1954
(2)

Prohibitions:
See Society: Control Of, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
RBF does not like above terminology. Approved designation
is "Triangular Geodesics Transformational Projection."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust, Phila., 22 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
B
•
•
(I)
"One of the things I've always wanted to be able to do was
to see the whole Earth at once with minimum distortion and
maximum effectiveness. That brought me to d method of
translating spherical data to a flat surface, which was a
direct extrapolation of my mathematical investigations.
Making a world map took me into the high stratosphere of
polyhedra. If we put information on a sphere, the
maximum that can be read is about one-quarter of the sphere.
The tangential information cannot be read. Since our real
objective is to be able to read all the information of the
total sphere, the whole Earth, then possibly a bigger globe
would give more data. But if a bigger globe will do, then
why not go to the maximum condition and use the Earth itself?
Actually, the bigger the globe, the smaller the reader is in
relation to it and the greater the re luction in the material
that can be read. There are certain optimal distances of
readability. Rather empirically, a 12- to 16-inch globe
held at arm's length is about the best that can be read from
a sphere per se."
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug, '66, pp. 195-196.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
(II)
"How can I get a total surface to give me the best information?
In traditional methods of projection such as Mercator, polyconic,
or polar-azimuthal, there is only one point, or line, or pair
of lines where there is a true reading: that special line
along which the conically or cylindrically curved paper is in
actual contact with the sphere. From the line of true contact,
accuracy diminishes outwardly in projection. The errors
increase very rapidly, particularly in the Mercator projection
in which the sphere is split open from the great circle of
the equator and spread flat so that two points in the middle
of Russia are split to the map's ends and seem to be
25,000 miles apart.
"I have found then, that instead of trying to use infinitely
severed lines with two polar azimuthal projected hemispheres
breaking the whole Earth into two separate circular planes,
or the polyconic projection with the northern and southern
hemispheres projected as fan-shaped planes with their curved
edges tangent to one another at only one point, it is
possible to avoid introducing infinity within the projected
system."
- RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166. p. 196.
30

RbF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
"I use three fundamental reference lines instead of two.
When only two lines cross, infinity is involved since one
or two lines are open-ended and have no finitely contained
areas. If three lines overlap one another they make a
triangle. Thus, a finite area is inherently contained.
not have to break open the data transferred from the sphere
to the plane by triangles.
distortion.
(III)
I do
"There is, however, what we call spherical excess in the
topological transformation of the spherical data to the
flat surface. Spherical excess is the only source of
Spherical excess refers to the amount by
which the sum of the spherical triangle's angles exceed 180°.
Spherical excess for a large spherical triangle is very
much larger than for a small spherical triangle.
For instance,
on a spherical tetrahedron each of the angles is 120 degrees,
so that the total of the three angles of each of the
spherical tetrahedron's four triangles is 360 degrees/ 360
degrees minus 180 degrees leaves an excess of 180 degrees.
In a spherical octahedron obtained by bisecting the edges
of a spherical tetrahedron and interconnecting the three
great circles, each of the angles will be 90 degrees, or
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166, p. 197.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
(IV)
"a spherical triangle total of 270 degrees, which means an
excess of 90 degrees. If the edges are bisected again each
of the corners will be 72° 32' with a total of 221°36' so the
spherical excess of 221° 36' minus180° is equal to 40° 36'
and is being reduced very rapidly. Smaller and smaller
spherical triangles give less and less spherical excess.
Therefore, I subtriangulate the total of the Earth's surface
in the largest number of identical equi-edged. small
triangles, i.e., the spherical icosahedron, where the
spherical excess is a minimal 36°.
The
"I have found that if I wanted to take off the total world's
data in the largest number of identical triangles and have
them symmetrical, the triangles have to be equilaterals.
maximum number of equilateral triangles into which we can
subdivide a spherical unity is twenty: a spherical
icosahedron." You might ask, "Why can't you have more triangles
than twenty?" To explan, I shall first take two triangles
and put them together. We see that they hinge and just come
to be congruent one to the other."
-
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166, p. 197.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
(V)
"A two triangle system has neither insideness nor outsideness.
I want to make a system which subdivides Universe into all
the Universe inside the system and all the Universe outside
the system. Now, I can take three triangles and I can put
them together around one vertex and make the tetrahedron.
A round each vertex there are always" a mnimum of "three
triangles. I can insert a fourth triangle around each vertex
and get the octahedron. Ican next put a fifth triangle ox
the around each vertex and get the icosahedron. In this
closed system there are 12 vertexes with five equilateral
triangles around each vertex." In a system "the largest number
of triangles you can possibly have around a vertex is five.
I can take that into the planar condition or the spherical,
and in the spherical each of the corners will be 72°. Now
that I find that I can get the total Earth's surface on to
the icosahedron, the edges of the icosahedron's spherical
triangles will all be 63° 26'. If possible, one of the
things I want is to take the 12 vertexes of the icosahedron
and manipulate them in such a way in relation to the sphere
of the Earth that the vertexes always fall in the oceans."
-
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166, p. 197.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
"Going from the spherical to the planar condition with
fige 60° anglesaround each vertex means that there are
going to be sines opening up to 60°. I would like to have
the sine opening in the ocean and not on the land because
one of the most unsatisfactory things about looking at
the Earth's data on classical map projections is that the
constinents themselves are always being distorted in an
unfair way.
The other fellow's continent is always being
broken up instead of our own.
"Taking all the Earth's data from the spherical icosahedron
to the planar icosahe ron permits the corners of the large
equilateral triangles to be 'reduced from 72° to 60° so that
there remains only a 20° spherical excess. By using an
equilateral triangle that is symmetrical with each of the
corners having equal subsidence, the amount of contraction
becomes invisible and concentric uniform boundary scale is
held for the entire length of the triangle edge, and there
is no change in this when going from the spherical to the
planar condition.
(VI)
-
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. '66, pp. 197-198.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
"There is local contraction within each small triangle
of the three-way grid and that contraction is symmetrical.
In all the other familiar methods of map projection,
projection errors are dismissed outwardly from the point
or line of reference and thereby greatly increased.
Compare a circle of radius one with w circle of radius two;
because the area of a circle of radius two is approximately
four times the area of a circle of radius one, when the
dimensional variables of a projected surface are outwardly
distributed, the proportion of total map area that is in
relatively greatest distortion exceeds by the ratio of
three to one the relatively least distorted areas.
In my
system, the spherical surface subsides inwardly by symmet-
rical contraction and the proportion of the map which is in
relatively greatest dimensional distortion is less by a
ratio of one to three than its relatively undistorted area.
In my map the error is sent inwardly and is at maximum at
the center of each small spherical triangle of the three-way
grid system. Every triangle is contracted symmetrically at
the same rate."
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166. p. 198.
(VII)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proiective Transformation:
"Cutting out around the edge of the map in the planar
condition and bringing the parts back together makes an
icosahedron. If the edges of the triangle are six inches,
the folded system is the same as a 12-inch diameter globe.
Of course, if you make an icosahedron, you will find it
faceted into 12 equilateral triangles. If, however, the
faceted icosahedron is compared to a 12-inch globe, the
efficiencies of conveying information are equal between the
two map systems.
(VIII)
--
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166., p. 198.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
(1)
"Since 1917 Mr. Fuller has been evolving his Airocean World
Map and new projection method. . . Due to its inherent
advantages in respect to astronomical observation, aerial
mosaicing, and comprehensive world triangulation by great
circle grid the projection comprises a world-around Airocean
strip map of approximately invisible dimensional distortion.
. . . The Dymaxion Airocean World Map and its projective
transformation strategy was glimpse-conceived in 1917, but
required over a third of a century of development of"
synergetics "to bring it to its present condition. . the
projection is contained entirely within a plurality of great-
circle bounded triangles-- or quadrangles-- of constant,
uniform modular subdivision whose identical length edges.
permit their hinging into flat mosaic-tiled continuities at
the planar phase of the transformation and thereby permit
a variety of hinged-open complete flat world mosaics."
•
Cite Undated sheet THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
"To provide a continuous one-surface world map-- while
peeling off the sections of the globe-- the transformation
must be such that the pieces have straight and matching
edges when peeled off and flattened out. Unlike any of
its cartographic predecessors which present the whole
shperical world surface data within a unit flat surface
map,
the Fuller projection maintains a uniformly modulated
and constant length great circle boundary scale in closed--
360 degree-- equilateral periphery controls."
Cite Undated sheet: THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION
(2)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
(3)
"The Fuller Projection operates in a series of transformattion
stages. It first subdivides the total world surface
into a plurality of great circle bound polygonal zones.
Next it transfers the data from the sphere's surface in
separate mosaic 'tiles' corresponding to each of the great
circle bound polygonal zones of step one. While migrating
as a zonal mosaic tile, each tile (independently) transforms
internally from compound curvature to flat surface by methods
shown" in the projective transformation model. Each tile
transforms entirely within the respective polygonally closed
uniform symmetrical containers, allowing none of the data to
spill outwardly in perverse distortion.
"When all the tiles have tranformed independently from
spherical to planar, their straight polygonal edges--
unaltered in length during the transformed in transit migration--
permit re-association in a variety of continuous data mosaics.
"The Fuller projection has the relationship to all other known
projection methods that a mechanically fillable and sealable set
of flasks bear to hair combs, hair pins, fish bones, and star
spurs, as instruments of liquid transfer.' "
Cite Undated sheet: Dymaxion Airocean World Fuller Projective-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
(4)
"The Fuller Projection not only contains its surface data
increments within uniform and linearly unaltered closed great
circle arc polygonal peripheries-- all the way from its
spherical to its planar positions-- but also uniquely con-
centrates all of its spherical angle excess. It concentrates
the excess into 360 degree symmetry within equilateral
polygons. This means that the compound curvater subsides
by symmetrical internal concentric contraction into a flattened
condition entirely within its neither elongating nor
shortening peripheral integrity. The internal subsidence of
the Fuller Projection is in contrast to all predecessor
projective methods for showing the whole world within one
unitary surface. All the predecessors disperse spherical
excess by outward 'fanning', i.e., by stretching out to
flattened condition."
Cite Undated Sheet: DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
The projective transformation "transfers the spherical
data to the planar by employing only great circle
coordinates, while all other projections employ a
progressively complex admixture of great circle and lesser
circle coordinates."
(5)
In the projective transformation "from spherical to planar
condition the radii of the sphere of reference which
penetrate perpendicularly each spherical surface coordinate
point of the comprehensive great circle grid, separate from
one another at their respective internal ends-- and each and
all remain constantly perpendicualr to the transforming,
internally shrinking surfaces throughout the transformation,
and their original uniform lengths also continue as
'constant throughout the transformation."
-
Cite Undated Sheet: DYMXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-THANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
(6)
"Becuase of the constant perpendicularity of the Fuller
Projection's radii to the transforming surface, the Fuller
Projection greatly simplifies celestial calculations. All
astronomical phenomena always occur in outward perpendicu-
larity zenith-- to the Fuller Projection's internal
spherical coordinates. On transformation to planar grids
the astronomical data always remains in identical
perpendicular zenith to the corresponding coordinate
positions in the planar phase of the Fuller Transformation.
"Because of this property the Fuller Transformation would be
more suitable than any other projection for a comprehensive
planar mosaic of a total covering-set of world-around aerial
photographs. Aerial photographs are always taken from
zenith positions and at a constant altitude, or radius
distance from the Earth's spherical
surface."
- Cite Undtaed Sheet: DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
The projective transformation "consists of great circle
bounded triangles of any angular magnitude which can
transform the comprehensive geographical data of the world
from the spherical to the planar by employment of either
the spherical tetrahedron, spherical cube, spherical
octahedron, or spherical vector equilibrium and its
alternate, the icosahedron, or any development of these.
It is a discovery of synergetics that there are no other
spherical triangular grid bases."
Cite Undated Sheet: DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION
(7)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
"It is a matter of Dymaxion cartographic strategy that:
the greater number of great circle polygonal zones
employed in the transformation, the less the spherical
excess to be subsidingly concentrated within each zone
surface, and therefore the less the residual distortion
distibuted to each of the planar mosaic aspects of the
whole world's reassembled surface when arrayed in one
continuous flat 'skin.'"
The projective transformation "Wepresents 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 a 'ays
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
(8)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
Raleigh Edition:
(2)
"The man may be cut around its periphery and bent on its
main triangular edges and the exterior edges brought
together closing all exterior sinuses-- thus making a
continuous or finite surface and constituting a planar
facted icosahedron transformed from the psherical
icosahe iron. When the surface is thus closed-- proving
itself to be a finite continuity-- and the resulting
icosahedron is compared to a globe of the world, the
relative shapes and area sizes will be found to be entirely
faithful to the spherical globe's relative sizes and shapes."
-
Cite Undated Sheet: THE DYNAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation:
Raleigh Edition:
(1)
The projective transformation employed in the Raleigh
Edition of the Dymaxion Airocean World is that of the
spherical icosahedron chosen because the latter has the
largest number of identical and symmetrical spherical
triangles, and therefore the least 'spherical excess of
all the possible symmetrical triangular great circle bound
mathematical cases. The spherical icosahedron was also
chosen because its controlling are boundary of 63 degrees 26
minutes 05.816... seconds was just adequate to the
triangular spanning of the maximum continetal aspects
encountered in the unpeeling of the Earth's data -- within
20 symmetrical great-circle bound control triangles--
spanning those continents in such a manner that all 12
vertexes of the spherical icosahedron grid lay in the
open waters. As a result this peeled strip map contains
all the world's continental contours. with no dis-
pleasing distortions of the shapes."
Cite Undated Sheet: THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation: (Dymaxion Airocean World Map:)
"The projection system of the Dymaxion Airocean World Map
divides the sphere into 20 equilateral spherical triangles
which are then flattened to form the icosahedron. These
20 triangles are each projected into a flat plane. . .
This method results in a map having less visible distortion
than any previously known map projection syste. . . To
flatten the globe it is simply necessary to 'unfold' the
icosahedron."
Cite Synergetics Illustration, #119, caption. 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation Model:
(I)
"I am going to give you a mental model of what I did in
developing my method of projection. This is really a
'topological transformation' rather than a 'projection'
since it isn't a shadowgram. I am going to take a thin
tempered steel band and I am going to mark it with sub-
modules, with increments like an engineer's scale. If I
bend the band, the modules will all stay in their same
original uniform lengths. In a bent condition, or in a
flat condition the modules will all read the same.
Now Tam
going to punch holes vertically through both the end module
marks of the band and I'm going to take two more such bands
each marked with the same modules and I am going to overlap
their hole-punched ends, and I'm going to put a round rod
through the holes. The rods going through each of the
corners of the steel band edged triangles make little
swivels. The rods go through the bands vertically and
perpendicular to the plane of the triangle formed by the
steel bands. If I take hold of the bottom ends of two such
rods that go through the holes at the end of one of the steel
bands and pull them towards each other, I make the steel band
bend. Now I take hold of the bottom ends of all three
perpendicular steel rods and pull them towards one another.'
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26m Aug. 166, p. 197.
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation Model:
"This will make each one of the steel bands bend. As each
one of these bent or arched bands also rotates away from
the others, each of the corner angles will be opening up
and the three swivel end bands form a spherical triangle."
(II)
"In my projection I've used great circles for the edges of
the spherical triangles and marked them with a uniform
boundary scale. A set of fundamental perpendiculars to the
great circles, as the radii of the sphere, come at even modules
onto the great circles. I have interconnected these edge
modules
of the spherical triangles with the three-
way grid. With this three-way grid I could do as I did above
with the tempered steel bands and produce a three-way grid of
small spherical triangles within the large spherical
triangles of the icosahedron. I can put a grommet where each
of these steel bands cross and run a rod through perpendic-
ularly which would represent the radius of the Earth going
into the center. Imagine the triangle in a flat or planar
condition, with a great many of these bristle-like rods
going perpendicular to the surface of the triangle and then
pulling them all together at their free ends. The triangles
of the three-way grid all form spherical triangles."
-
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166, p. 197.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation Model:
(III)
"We find that these rods remain perpendicular to the surface
of the triangle throughout all of their transformations. It
doesn't matter whether the triangle is flat or is spherical
or how it is spherical or what the corner angles are. Each
one of these rods will be perpendicular to its spherical
triangle at its vertex of attachment just as the radii of the
Earth are to the great circles. This means that when we take
the geometric data of the stars, any star that is in its
zenith over the Earth at any given moment will remain in my
map in this vertical position over that point on the Earth
whether my map is in a planar condition or a spherical
condition."
-
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166, p. 197.

RBF DEFINITIONS
.
Projective Transformation Model:
"The projective "Transformation is contained entirely within
a plurality of great-circle bounded triangles-- or quadrangles--
of constant uniform modular subdivision whose identical length
edges shown as steel bands in the illustrations. . .
--permit their hinging into flat mosaic-tiled continuities
at the planar phase of the transformation and thereby permit
a variety of hinged-open complete flat world mosaics."
-
Cite Undated sheet: THE DYMAXION IROCEAN WORLD FUILER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Projective Transformation Model:
The projective transformation model demonstrates how the
"zonal mosaic tiles migrate, how each tile independently
transforms internally from compound curvature to flat
surface."
Cite Undated sheet: THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION.

Projective Transformation:
See Constant Zenith Projection*
Transformational Projection*
Internal Control of Distortion
(** Preferred terminology)

Project:
Deproject

RBF DEFINITIONS
Promote:
Promotion:
"If you promote you cannot invent."
-
Cite RBF to EJA & Michael Denneny, Nicholas Restaurant,
N.Y. City; 7 Oct*76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Promote: I Don't Promotę:
"There is a gestation rate and that's why I don't promote.
You can't make babies by Madison Avenue. Nature has to have
its due course: the chemical process, so much pressure,
and
so much heat. You can't overdo it or you'll boil the egg.
You'll have a hard-boiled egg.
-
Cite tape transcript, p.19; RBF to W. Wolf, Gloucester, Mass.,
2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Promote:
??
I Don't Promote:
The Design Science Institute will keep his
books and writings available and will promote such
ideas as his geodesic dome." (Press Release, DSI,
29 Jun 72)
RBF wrote marginal instructions to EJA as follows:
"Sonny: it is one of my own strictest disciplines
NOT to promote! The Design Science Institute will
also avoid all promotion and is committed as am I
to giving forth only when asked by others so to do.
Please try to have this sentence deleted from your
release. Thanks. B. Fuller, Oct. 6, 1972.
Cite RBF marginalis as above, 6 Oct 72

101
Promote: I Don't Promote:
(1)
See Anonymity
Fuller, R.B: His Decision He Must Not be a Persuader,
But à Doer
Fuller, R.B:
Lecture Invitations
New Forms vs. Reforms

Promote: I Don't Promote:
See Religion, May'65
Robin Hood Sequence (2)
World-around Communication Transcends Politics,
(2)(3)
Evolutionary Checks & Balances, 26 Aug'75
Options; 13 May 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pronouns: I = We Us:
(1)
"The pronoun 'I' is simply the observing system's oversimpli-
fied I-dentification as with the only-threshold-tunable but
directionally-identifiable noise, or point-to-able, as-yet-
undifferentiable 'pointal' somethingness.
"The experience life being most minimally described as awareness,
and awareness being dependent on system otherness, unity is
at minimum two: 'I' means 'We.' I is only the system symbol of
the observer side of the awareness equation.
"You (e) become so preoccupied with interrelationship
principles as to become unconscious and unaware of any special
case aspects of both the observer and originally observed
correspondent as to momentarily lose all consciousness of
their mutual environment.
You and I and
"You (I) (We) become one with the environment.
the lamppost. I am a system; you are a system. Systems embrace
systems. 'System' is interchangeable with and could replace
the you-and-I I-dentities. We are both subtunable systems of
a greater system of systems. Me-Us is a system. I-We are a"
-
Cite RBF holograph, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; 10 Dec '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pronound: I = We = Us:
"a system. The system insideness may be hungry; the system's
external environment
may be cold.
(2)
"The systemic inside-outness-defining considerability, its
fourness, and its sixfold interrelationships which provide the
awareness of relevance and irrelevance, is always a priori--is
always there in every mo-ment."
Cite RBF Holographm 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; 10 Dec' 75

PRONOUNS: CHECKLIST
See He-even
Matrix of You & I
We-me
Complex It
Self
Subjective & Objective
Individual & Group Principle
Objective Intellect
Transcendental
It
You & Me
(1)

Pronouns: Checklist:
See Vector Equilibrium, Oct*75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proofs:
"Proofs must proceed from the minimum whole system to
Universe and the differentiation-out of Universe of the
special case conceptual system. Proofs must start from
the minimum something which is the minimum structural
system. All geometrical and numerical values derive from
fractionation of the whole."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1052.361; RBF rewrite
8 Aug 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proofs:
"Proofs must proceed from the whole to the particular,
starting from the minimum something. All geometrical and
numerical values derive from fractionation of the whole."
-
Citation & context at Mita as Model for Quark, 3 May' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proofs:
"...The thing about proofs is that I am really operational
and for me the test is: if the airplane flies. If it does
fly, then that's operational. But the mathematicians... you
read about them in Courant and Robbins... they have a
different kind of criteria. Even though they know that a
certain situation always produces predictable results every
time, it's not necessarily proven.... The way they might
have points on a surface but don't credit the fact that the
points are also on the other side of the surface.
But you
know the way I start out with one point, then two points,
then three points, and the insideness and outsideness with
four points.... That shows that principles can be realized
independent of size."
Cite RHF to EJA, by telephone from Phila. Office; 7 Oct 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proofs:
Any individual has only limited knowledge of what
the total Universe frontiering may be. The list embraces
what I know to be my own discoveries and I have no knowledge
of others haveing made those discoveries prior to my own..
I am claiming nothing. Proofs may have been made by myself
and will be made by myself. Proofs have been made by others
and will be made by others. Proofs are satisfying.
But many
mathematical theorems are of great advantage to humanity over
a long period of time before their final mathematical proof's
are discovered. The whys and wherefores of what is rated as
mathematical proof have been evolved by mathematicians; they
are formal and esoteric affirmations from one specialist
to another."
Cite RBF to EJA, Washington DC 20 Dec. '71 incoporated
in SYNERGETICs, at Sec. 250.09.
[b1]

Proof: Proofs:
See Circumstance-proved
Knowns Harvested From All the Unknowns
Experimental Demonstrability
(1)

Proof: Proofs:
See Science:
Left Hand & Right Hand, May'65
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality,
28 May 72
Geometry, 14 Nov 173
Systematic Realization, 20 Dec'74
Minimum Limit Case, 9 Jun 75
Philosophy, 11 Aug176
Fourth-dimensional Synergetics Mathematics, 14 Dec'76
Multiplication by Division, 20 Jan' 77
Mite as Model for Quark,3 May' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Propaganda:
"All the Western world's free-enterprise-controlled media's
propaganda is designed to rationalize selfishness--this is
its function in a world where there is supposed to be lethal
inadequacy of life support which therefore assumes a survival-
only-of-the-fittest raison d'etre."
. Cite RBF to White House Fellows, Watergate Hotel, Wash. DC;
28 Mar 77; as rewritten by RBF 29 Kar' 77

Propaganda:
See Psychological Warfare
(1)

Propaganda:
See Design Revolution, 7 Nov'67
Law, May'65
Superstition, circa 1955
Democracy, 10 Sep*75
New York City, (6)
121
(2)

Propagative Transformation of the Vector Equilibrium:
See Jitterbug

103
Propagation: Propagative:
(1)
See Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
Energetic Functions
Feedback
Propagative Transformation of the Vector Equilibrium
Spherical Propagations
Quantum Propagation
Wave Propagation Inward ou
Wave Propagation Model
Wave System Propagations
Nuclear Propagation Rate

Propagation:
Propagative:
See Frequency, 22 Jun 72
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov'72
Life, May'49
Observing vs. Articulating, Mar' 71
Radiation, May 172,
Spheric Domains, 6 Nov' 72
Vector Equilibrium, 30 Oct 173
Zerophase, (1)
Male & Female, 1 Feb'75
Abstraction, 24 Feb'72
Convergence & Divergence, 6 Jun '75
Synergetics, 11 Oct 173
Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta,
25 Mar 71
Energetic Functions, 8 Aug'77
(2)
223

RBF DEFINITIONS
Propeller:
"Let me take one propeller blade by itself. I am going to
split it longitudinally and get an S curve, one in which
the rates are changing and no power in the curve is the same.
So it is asymmetrical by itself: it is repeated six times:
positive, negative, positive, negative. and the six
blades come round in dynamic symmetry. The energy forces
involved are in beautiful absolute balance. We have energetic
balance."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 532.23; Dec 71

Propeller:
See Diesel Ship at Sea
Dynamic Symmetry
(1)

Propeller:
See Ecology Sequence, (G)
Wave, 11 Jul'62
Wind Power Sequence, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Property:
"The Elimination of Property By Making Ownership Onerous: The
elimination of property by making ownership onerous is to be
accomplished by making man a world citizen, each to enjoy all
the treasures of the whole Earth. He can't any more 'take it
with him' around the world than he could 'take it with him'
in yesterday's concept of 'into the next world. He can't
take it with him' and enjoy the new world of Universe
citizenship, and its natural emancipation from slavery chained
to ponderous thingness."
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS
DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, 29 June 1972

Property:
You Can't Take it With You:
See Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how, (1)

Property:
See False Property Illusion
Obsolete: Inventory of Obsolete Concepts
Ownership
Private Property
Thing: Thingness
Politics & Proprty
(1)

Property:
See
Literacy, 18 Aug'70
Real, 20 Apri72
Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (4)
Invention, (a)
Dome Over Manhattan, 26 Apr' 77
(2)

Proportion:
Proportionality:
See Interangular Proportionality
Interproportional

Prose:
See Ventilated Prose
Verse vs. Prose
(1)

Prose: Prosaic:
See Threshold of Life, 6 Jul162
(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
Prospect for Humanity:
"Russians, Arabs, Israelis-- wherever you look-- there is a
popular resentment of the political. People are ready....
Businessmen are not bad, they're just caught in playing the
wrong game.... Integrity: it's up to each of us in the little
things each of us do... if we don't pick up the paper to clean
up our own mess. Humanity is at the final exam. Humanity is
not marking the papers.... We are prone to think that the
Universe is here to please us and the stars are just so much
decoration.... And there are so many falee jobs that do not
produce life support. My predictions?... I know the options,
but I don't know whether we're going to make it or not."
Cite RBF at videotaping session Philadelphia, PA., 2 Feb'75

KBF DEFINITIONS
Prospects for Humanity:
Q.
RBF:
What are your dreams for the future of society?
"No society: no Ke. I am the product of two, to
start off with. No otheness: no me. No otherness: no
awareness. The individual is here for problem-solving. We
will become much more concerned by Universe than by society.
Earning a living is really the mischievous nonsense.
You can
"People will be living in the Macro and the micro.
put all the things back in the museum and live 3,000 years ago.
You can go backwards or forwards in time. We will have fellow-
ships just to think, and fishing is a better place to think
*
than a schoolhouse.
RBF to videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb 75

Prospect for Humanity:
See Meek Have Inherited the Earth, (1) (2)
Walls vs. Airspace Technology, (2)
Success, 10 Sep' 75

Prospero-proletarian Predilection:
See Computer Asks an Original Question, (3)

Protein Shells:
See Tensegrity Masts:
Pentagonal Polarity, 27 Dec*76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
"I will give another example
Of always and only co-occurring phenomena.
Physicists today observe
That the proton and neutron
Always and only co-occur.
While they are not 'mirror' images of one another
And have different weights,
They are transformable
One into the other
And are thus complexedly complementary,
As are isosceles and scalene triangles.
None of the angles and edges of either need be the same
To produce triangles of equal area.
And the sums of the three angles of each
Will always be one hundred and eighty degrees.
"The mathematical balancing or complementation
Of the proton and neutron are analogously balanced,
Each one having two small energy teammates.
The proton has its electron and its antineutrino,
And the neutron has its positron and its neutrino.
And each of these little three-member teams"
Cite BHAIN & MIND, p.134 May 172
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
(2)
"Constitute what the physicist calls hail-spin or a half-quantum.
They complement one another
And altogether comprise one unit of quantum.
We have now discovered experientially
An always and only coexisting tension and compression;
An always and only coexisting concave and convex;
And an always and only coexisting proton and neutron."
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, pp.134-135 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
"The physicist finds
That the proton and neutron
Not only always and only co-occur,
A are interchangeably transformable,
But also could not occur independently
Any more than a triangle could occur
With only two points. .
"We are founded on
The orderly base
Of the proton-neutron tripartite teams
Of six unique energy integrity vectors."
Citation and context at Universe, pp.156-157 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
"When you isolate the neutron you are isolating the
concave. When you isolate the proton you are isolating
the convex.
-
Citation at Convex and Concave
Cite RDF to EJA, 3200 Idahi, Wash DO, 29 May 172–

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
"The astrophysicists say that no matter how far things come
apart, they never come further apart fundamentally than
proton and neutron which always and only coexist.
While
one is convertible into the other, the masses are not the
same. The conversion of one into the other 18 only by
virtue of each having two side energy effects. In other
words the proton and the neutron have its two side energy
effects. These are like the resultant and the
reaction. And in relation to complementarity.
Prize being given 16 years ago to two young men who
discovered that the complementarity was not in mirror-image,
as it had been assumed up to that time. We had been
assuming that all you had to do was to multiply the Universe
by two. For some years it was discovered and demonstrated
scientifically, physically, that the complementarity was
not the mirror-image.
The Nobel
"I'd like to give you a way you can understand how the proton
and neutron, which do not have the same mass, yet are inter-
changeable one with the other, are always known to coexist
and are complementary to one another: how could they then do
this and not be mirror-image?"
-Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Pass, Amherst, 22 July '71, pp 20-21
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
And
And
"For instance, you could have an isosceles triangle.
you could have a scalene triangle where all three edges are
different. So the scalene and isosceles triangle quite
clearly are different triangles. Yet the sums of the
angles on the
scalene and the isosceles are all 180°.
you could have the sums of the lengths of the edges of the
scalene and the sums of the lengths of the edges of the
isosceles also the same, which is exactly what we do have
in the proton's and neutron's side energy effects, where we
have the proton with its electron and its antineutrino; and
neutron with its positron and its neutrino. Each of these
teams is called one-half quantum; or one-half spin in the
physics."
Cite RBF at Simb, U.h.ass, Amherst, 22 July 171, P. 21
(B)

REF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Leutron:
"I'm simply giving you complementarity. Je find that
nature, with proton and neutron always and only coexisting,
by virtue of which the astrophysicist of today has to say
that there never could have been anything primordial, that
is, something before order-- that there was original chaos
and disorder, out of which, surprisingly, order developed.
I would say very surprisingly, because it is fundamental to
antientropy that order inherently increases, disorder
inherently decreases, and it would be completely counter
probablity that out of inherent disorder there would
develope a beautiful human being or a lily. So the
astrophysicist discovers that we must always have
proton and neutron, always and only coexisting: that we
must always
had order. ian was disorderly in his
ignorance.
We find that fundamental complementarity.
to have to have two to explain and complement one another,
is not an illogical matter."
had
•
Cite KBF at Sims, U. Pass., Amherst, 22 July '71,
Talk 12, p. 27

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton & Neutron:
"...A basic orderliness of Universe is provided by the always
coexisting proton and neutron which, though complexedly
intertransformable, are not mirror images of one another, nor
are of equal mass or weight."
Citation and context at Chaos, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
"Of all the essential, harmonic, wave-frequency associable
phenomena none is more compatible with all other phenomena
At the
than are the proton-neutron teams of physical energy.
next higher level of complexity no phenomena is more univers-
ally associable than is the hydrogen atom. No physical
complex is more prolifically reproduced in Universe than is
the hydrogen atom. But the proton-neutron teams and the
hydrogen atoms are individually invisible to the naked eye
and are aesthetically appreciated only by the scientists who
deal with the invisible ranges of the great electromagnetic
spectrum reality.' As the essential complexes first become
visibly discernible as snowflakes, minuscule flower blossoms,
crystals, or any other of the myriads of minutiae, they are
spontaneously acclaimed by man as aesthetically pleasing.
This aesthetic pleasure includes not only all other
visible phenomena ranging from small to large, from starfish
to celestial star, but also ranging in biochemical, structural,
mechanical, and electromagnetic complexity from the simplest
algae and radiolaria to the elephant, the giant redwood, and
the human being. The spontaneous aesthetic satisfaction does
not stop here but goes on to include the products of these
living complexes, which in turn includes humanity's invented tools."'
Cite GENERALIZED LAWS OF DESIGN, p.3, 22 Apr'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proton and Neutron:
"The proton group and the neutron group account
rationally for all physical structures."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 64, Jun '66

Proton & Neutron:
See Dog Pulling on a Belt
Nucleon
Quantum
Universal Integrity: VE & Icosa
(1)

Proton & Neutron:
See Chaos, 13 Nov 69*
Convex & Concave, 29 May '72*
Coupler (2)
Equilibrium, 25 Feb'69
Icosahedron as Local Shunting Circuit, 22 Jun'72
Integrity, 24 Jan '72
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, Apr172
Quantum: Event-paired Quanta, Jul'66
Universe, May '72*
Vector: Threeness of the Vector (1) (2)
Crystallography, 17 Aug' 70
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (2) (3)
(2)

Protoplasm:
See Spectrum, 15 Oct '72
Viral Steerability:
Control, 22 Jul 71
Angle-frequency Design
Animate & Inanimate, 11 Dec' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Prototype:
"Just as in art, science, and poetry the most lasting is
proven to be the most profoundly understanding and yet most
simply articulated, so too may the word prototype in the
mass reproducible undertakings of humanity in the most
recent decades and most recent century and most recent
millenium of humans' known presence on Earth, only be given
in retrospect to those one amongst thousands of inventions
which are in fact so timely and simply appropriate and
adequate as to induce mass reproduction and can thus warrant
the only-retrospective identity of prototype. Just as myriads
profess to be artists, poets, or scientists, yet history
fails to confirm their claim, so too the word prototype is
prematurely claimed for enterpise initiating designs which
fail to be reproduced."
-Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh; above omitted from
passage incorporated in SYNERGETICS, Sec.260, 13 Mar'73.

-
TEXT CITATIONS
Prototype:
Nine Changs to the Moon, p. 38ff, 1938
Letter to Karan Singh
-
1973

Prototype:
See Aesthetica of Uniformity
Development
Fuller, R.B:
What I Am Trying To Do
Perfect Protorype
Reduction to Practice
Regenerative Design: Law Of
Reproducibleness:
Law Of
Research & Development
(1)

Prototype:
See Dwelling Service Industry, (2): (A)
Frame of Reference, 4 Oct 72
Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (3)
Reproducible, 30 May 72
Dome House Grand Strategy:
Building Industry, (3)
1927-1977, (1)
(2)

Proxemics:
See Population Density: Manhattan Cocktail Party
Privacy
(1)

Proxemica:
See Community, (2)

Proximity Neighborliness:
See Community, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proximity & Remoteness:
"Whereas none of the geodesic lines of Universe touch one
another, the lines approach one another. passing successively
through regions of most critical proximity, and diverge from
one another, passing successively through regions of most
innocuous remoteness."
-
Citation at Geodesic Lines, Oct'59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Proximity & Remoteness:
"Where all the local vectors are approximately equal,
we have a potentially isotropic local vector equilibrium,
but the operative vector complex has the inherent qualities
of proximity and remoteness in respect to any locally
initiated
action ergo a complex of relative
velocities of realization lags."
SEC. 425.01+ 240.371
----
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 113,
-Oct 59

Proximity & Remoteness:
See Convergence & Divergence
Cosmic & Local
Privacy vs. Community
Unsettling vs. Settlements
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern
(1)

Proximity & Remoteness:
See Covariation, 14 May 73
Energy, 6 May 48
Geodesic Lines, Oct'59*
Local Vector Equilibrium,
2 Nov 73
Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug
Model, 11 Dec'75
Old Man River Project, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

Proximity:
See Critical Proximity
Fall-in, Shunt-out Proximities
Interproximity
Proximity & Remoteness
Venus Proximity
(1)

Proximity:
See Tensegrity Sphere:
Six Pentagonals (1) (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Psychedelic:
"I can really understand psychedelic experiences where we
depress our definitive resolution capabilities which leaves
the phenomenon color uncontestedly supreme."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 4. 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Psychiatry:
•
•
(1)
"I have your questions here. You asked me first my general,
impressions, ideas, and experiences in psychiatry. I haven't
any personal experience with psychiatry; that is, I have never
been to a psychiatrist. I have known a number of psychia-
trists, however, and I have talked to them. and I have
gone back to 50 years ago here in Chicago when a friend of
mine was a student of Jung. and I have had conversations
with people for many years and I have had a number of students
at the university who have been going to psychiatrists.
And I have always really questioned whether those students
who were going to psychiatrists really needed to go to
psychiatrists--almost all of them were students of wealthy
families and were having troubles with their families and
maybe that was the thing to do. I had a tendency to feel that
these students depended too much on the psychiatrist. They
were just making another parent and continuiung with whatever
the problems were and they were just not trying to figure
things out on their own.
the man who
"I have been told by my friends--and particularly by my
friend of 50 years ago, Dr. Douglas
was a studentof Jung.
-
tra
he said that I had self-analyzed"
RBF ta
Ciftens encore, with Dr. Michael Bruwer,
Ritz

RBF DEFINITIONS
Psychiatry:
•
"myself and by the age of 32 I had changed my whole life
pattern. . . and at that time I reviewed very truthfully my
relationships with my family--particularly my mother--in such
a way that I would be able to be very fair to her and to
bring out whatever the truth really was. And this is a very
important part of doing my own thinking Wheter I did or
did not follow the practice of psychoanalysis according to
the various theories, I did have some kind of an experience
all right--enough to have had an experience that made me
think about other human beings and their problems.
certainly think that I got myself into that much of a cul de
sac in life that I had to start very fresh and do my own
thinking.
and I
(2)
"I had been brought up in an era that was no longer operative,
where the older people were utterly convinced that the younger
people's thinking was completely unreliable. that it was
something that did not firm up until they were 30 or so.
And all the younger people were continually being told by
older people: 'Never mind what you think!
Listen, we're trying to teach you.' And we were taught to get
over our sensitivity and to give up all the things that seemed"
Cite transcript (pp. 1 & 2) of RBF tape with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton, Chicago; 20 Feb'77
the

RBF DEFINITIONS
Psychiatry:
"to be our fundamental faculties and proclivities.
.
(3)
And there was a game.. there was something called life,
and that's the way life really is. . really a game. And,
knowing that my father died when I was very young, and my
mother--I knew how much she loved me, that she sent me to the
kind of school where she thought I would get something excell-
ent in the way of education, but I was continually being
told: 'Never mind what you think!"
So I simply made up
my mind to try to give up and pay no attention to what I
to give up all my sensitivites and put on an
ànd I actually got to be very good at it.
think
act,
•
"I confused my realities. When I was running and high-
jumping, and so forth, I was really very true to whatever
I am there. I was very true to myself in a ship at sea and
I did very well in the Navy, but the naval officer was a game
in itself. We had to be an officer. . . and I did very well
in the Navy, did very well as a mechanic--because I didn't
have to make any money aboard ship. I didn't have another
game to be superimposed on it.'
Cite Transcript (p.2) of RBF_tape with Dr. Michael Bruwer,
Ritz Carlton, Chicago; 20 Feb 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Psychiatry:
actually felt very
"When I got out of the Navy and had to come into the building
world
I found that I was interested in putting up good
I never
buildings; and I was not interested in making money.
had the slightest feeling for making money. I was really
tremendously surprised and
badly about why people wanted to play games for money with
me--and this spoiled the whole thing.
obnoxious to me really fundamentally.
play the game and I was no good at it.
sac. I had made a mess of it.
The money idea was
I tried very hard to
I was in this cul de
(4)
"A lot of people thought I was very bright with high initiative
and all, and they bet on me and so they lost all their money.
I was in a real mess. And I had either there to do away with
myself, because I had a new child, and this was not just our
Our first child died before
first child, but a second child.
her fourth birthday--and after a five-year hiatus here was this
new life entrusted to us--that my wife and I were
to have in
Chicago.
our families were in the East far away when we
had this new child.'
-
•
Cite transcript (pp. 2 & 3) of RBF tape with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton, Chicago; 20
Feb 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Psychiatry:
"And so I really had to.
attention to the game.
thinking.
.
.
saying I'm not going to pay any
and had to actually do my own
"So I tried to understand again how and what human beings
are,
and how we happen to be in our Universe, and above all
learn how to use all the faculties and senses we are given
as part of our regular design--a fundamentally important
design. That is really all I have to say about my general
impressions and experiences with psychiatry--and my relation-
ships to psychiatry--and I have now lived 50 years with this
new way of employing my faculties."
-
Cite transcript (p.5) of RBF tape with Dr. Michael Bruwer,
Ritz Carlton, Chicago; 20 Feb 77
(5)

Psychiatry: Psychoanalysis:
See Schizophrenia
(1)

Psychiatry: Paychoanalysis:
See Dwelling Service Industry, (6)
Responsibility, Dec'69
Self-discipline, Kay 72
Anger, (1)-(3)
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Speech, (1)-(3)
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (5)(6)
(2)

Psycho-guerilla Warfare:
See Narcotics as a Political Strategy
(1)

Psycho-guerilla Warfare:
See China (A)
Womb Population, (3)
Politics & Property, 6 Jul'76
(2)

Paychology:
See Behavioral Science
Mob Psychology
Operant Psychology
Reflexes
Deja Vu
Human Tolerance Limita
Motive: Motivation
Determinism
Inferiority Complex
Conditioned Reflex
Mentality
Fortress Mentality
Mind
Yesterday's Private Castle Mentality
Behavior & Environment
Feeling Good
Mental Health
(1)

Psychology: Psychologists:
See Consciousness. 14 Feb 72
Metaphysics, Jun'66
Synergetics, 15 Jul'73*
Design Science, 22 Apr 67
Anger, (1)-(3)
(2)

PSYCHOLOGICAL GEOMETRY
See Awareness
Balls Coming Together
Conceptuality as Polyhedral
Ethical Physics
Ego
Geometry of Thinking
Identity
Individuality
Individual: Theory of the Individual
Interference as a Social Model
I
Loss: Discovery Through Loss
Matrix of You & I
Otherness
Me
Middle
Observer & Observed
Me the Observer
Madonna Theme
Individual Universes
(1A)

Psychological Geometry:
(1B)
See Precession:
Personality
Analogy of Precession and Social Behavior
Prime Otherness
Self
Subjective & Objective
Social Problems:
Self-now
Self & Otherness
Tetrahedral Coordination of
Swallow the Otherness
Tetrahedral Dynamics
Thinking: Analogy of Sphere Layers
We-Me Awareness
Unselfishness
You
You & Me
You ȧr Me
Daddy
Teleology
Ke Ball
Pronouns:
I We Us

Psychological Geometry:
You & I as Pattern Integrities
Pronouns
Complex It
Individual & Group Principle
Split Personality
Metaphysical & Physical
(1C)

Psychological Geometry:
See Individual, Jun'66
Environment: A Priori Environment, May'72
Remember, 20 Feb 72
Evolution, 22 Apr171
Free Will, 20 Dec173
In, Out & Around, 17 May' 77
(2)

Psychological Warfare:
See Narcotics as Political Strategy
Mob Psychology
Propaganda

RBF DEFINITIONS
Paychology:
I find I don't use the word 'psychological'."
* Citation and context at Synergatics, 15 Jul173

RBF DLFINITIONS
Psychology:
"No consciousness: no psychologist."
Cite RBF marginalis at Eccles, Facing Reality,
p. 3., 14 Feb '72

Public Lands:
See Squatters, (2)

Public Opinion Polls:
See Electronic Voting
(1)

Public Opinion Polls:
See World Game, 4 Mar'69
(2)

ABF DEFINITIONS
Public Relations:
"You need public relations because the new dome you are
building is on a technological frontier but not out of this
world. "
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

Public Relations:
See Corporation, (2)
Robin Hood Sequence, (2)
Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Publishing:
"The printing machine belongs to humanity. There is
something mysterious in the system of how things get into
print and once they do then you no longer have the same
responsibility."
Cite RDF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 30 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Publish:
"Finally after about five years I published this
list of [environmental hazards] in an engineering
magazine and once it was published it got out of me.
I have found that it is good to get things published
and forget about them."
Cite OREGON Lecture #2 - p. 64, 2 Jul'62

Publishing:
See Books
(1)
Idea Stealing
Energetic-synergetic Geometry: Original Publication
In 1944
Fuller, R.B: On Galley Proofs
Fuller, R.B:
Writing
Unpublished Mathematical Discoveries

Publishing:
See Anonymity, 19 Dec 71
Boole, 1970
Problem: Statement Of, Feb 72
Question Answering, Sep'73
(2)

Puerto Ricans Moving into New York:
See City as Center of Abstract Intercourse (2)

412
Pugh, Anthony:
See Four-triangular Circuits Tensegrity, 6 Apr* 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pull:
"Precession is the pull."
Citation and context at Intereffects, 25 Sep$73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pull:
The
"A chord has pull: we would probably not think about the
connections unless there was some pull between them.
function of the chords is to relate. The event is the
vertex. The reaction is the chord, the pulling away."
Citation and context at Chord, 20 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pull:
"The beginning of awareness of intellect is otherness, the
mass attraction of another with a pull which relates it to
all our system."
-
Citation and context at Eternal Instantaneity, 22 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pull:
"In all our experiences there are relatively few principles
that are operative in nature; as for instance we had the
first instance when we tried to pull something as a child.
We tried to pull paper apart, pull books apart, and then we
began to try to pull sheets apart and we tried pulling
things apart. Then we get onto a boat and someone says
"Hold on to that rope," and you find you are pulling very
hard. They say pull this way and then that way-- one is
called a sheet and one a halyard and so forth. You have
this experience on a special boat and are very excited and
for many years you will always think about the "Primrose"
and your fun sailing the 'Primrose' on this special day.
You gradually get onto other boats and you find there are
the same kind of things to be pulled. And you find there
is a general kind of thing to be pulled in contrdistinction
to things that are pushed. This is what we call a generalization.
We are beginning to discover patterns that persist, principles
that are operative independent of whether the rope was white,"
or dirty, or yellow, whether it was plastic or whatever it was,
you still pulled it."
-Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 55. 2 Jul'62

Pullout:
See Error: Pullout from Error

Pull:
See Airplane Flight as Lift
Bottom: Pulling the Bottom Up
Directional Field Pulls
Low Pressure vs. Positives
Push-pull
Push-pull: Push Wave & Pull Wave
Wind Sucking Sequence
Dog Pulling on a Belt
(1)

Pull:
See Chord, 20 Feb'73*
Eternal Instantaneity, 22 Jun*72*
Intereffects, 25 Sep'73*
Rate, 9 Nov'72
Rowing Needles (1) (2)
Orbit, 20 Jan'75
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows, (1)
Wind Stress & Houses, (7)
Integrity, 2 Nov* 73
Gravity, 11 Feb 76
(2)

Pulmotor:
See Scenery: Rearrange the Scenery, (2)

Pulsara:
See Black Hole
Omnilibrium
(1)

Pulaar:
See Omniequilibrium, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulsation:
"The inward-outward expandibility is the basis of convergence-
divergence and radiation-gravitation pulsation-- which seems
furthest from man's awareness. This is what science has
discovered: a world of waves in which waves are interpenetrated
by waves in frequency modulation. There is a systemic
interrelationship of basic fourness always accompanied by a
sixness of alternatives or freedoms. "
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, incorporated in SYNERGETICS
draft at Sec. 411.96 9 Nov 72
[35]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulsation:
"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
consciousness.
"
-
Citation & context at Experience, 12 Sep*71
CITE RHY
Beverly Husel, 12 Sept. 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulsation:
"One of the things we have to make clear for society
is the dilemma of the Max-Planck-descended scientists,
the way they do their problems, you can have either a
wave or a particle, but not both simultaneously.
Heisenberg has the same fault. They make the error of
having a wave as a continuity, as a picture-- not as a
pulsating frequency. A planar reflex causes them to
think of continuous waves. "
Cite HBP to S, Somerser Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
Citation at Waye ys, Particle, 22 Apr '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulsation:
"What appears to be congruence will require pulsation,
synchronized pulsation of two separate entities."
->
Cite HBP t. Ell 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 25 Jan '72
- Citation & context at Congruence, 25 Jan'72

Pulsating Controla:
See Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, May'49

414
Pulsation: Pulsativeness:
See Asymmetric Pulsation
Discontinuity
Feedback: Self-accelerating Feedback
Interpulsativeness
Inward & Outwardness
Nuclear & Nebular Zonal Waves
Omnipulsative:
Omniinterpulsative
Oscillation & Pulsation
Resonance
Wave System Propagations
'Wow
Pulse Pattern
Pulse: Pulsive:
Pulsivity
In, Out & Around Experiences
Expanding & Contracting
(1)

Pulsation: Pulsativenes
See Calculus, Jul'71
Complementary, May 72
Congruence, 25 Jan'72*
Distributive, 23 Sep'73
Experience, 12 Sep 71*
Orbital Feedbacks, 10 Sep'74
Order & Disorder, May 72
Physical Reality, 4 Nov'73
Radial-circumferential, Apr 72; y Jan'74
Radiation: Speed Of (b)
Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct'71
Wave, 22 Apr 171
Wave vs. Particle, 22 Apr 71
Zerophase (1)
Vector Equilibrium, 10 Nov' 74;
Intuition, 1 Feb 75
Omni equilibrium, (1)(2)
Otherness Restraints & Elliptical Orbits, (2)
Verse vs. Prose, 11 Dec 75
Nuclear Pattern of Growth & Decay, 8 Dec' 75
(2) A

Pulsation: Pulsativeness:
See Three: Number Function of Three in a Four-axial
System, 24 Jan 76
(2B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
"Beginningless and endless Scenario Universe
With its vast frequency ranges
Of omni-interpulsative
Yes-no, give-and-take
Radial expansions and circumferential contractions.
p Citation at Scenario Universe, Jan'72
CILE EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPCE VEHICLE EARTH, Jan 172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
"How brilliant and conceptually advanced
Were the Phoenicians' high seas predecessors,
The Polynesians,
For the latter had long centuries earlier
Discovered the binary system of mathematics
Whose 'congruence in modulo two'
Provided unambiguous,
Yes no; go - no go
Cybernetic controla
Of the electronic circuitry
For the modern computer
As it had for milleniums earlier
Functioned most efficiently
In storing and retrieving
All the special-case data
In the brains of the Polynesians
By their chanted programming
And their persistent retention
Of the specific but no longer comprehended
Sound pattern words and sequences
Taught by their successive
Go - no go, male-female pairs of ancestors."
Cite Numerology draft August 1971, p.22.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
Talking about edges of the three frequency vector
equilibrium where there are 92 balls on the surface. Now
there would be then a frequency of three, but there are
four balls to an edge going point-to-point, with three
spaces in between them. An edge of four balls could either
belong to the adjacent square ot it could belong to the
It can't belong to them exclusively: it is
triangle.
like our bonding
where we get common edges. When I
began to take the sequence of the wave pattern I found
them running through the indigs of always eight of the
zero nine. I found some of them are characterized by
not only that one that 's plus one, plus two, plus three,
plus four, minus, plus four, plus three--- what am I saying?
Minus one, minus two, minua three, minus four, plus four,
plus three, plus two, plus one.' "
Ci RBF to EJA. Tape transcript. Chez Wolf. 18 June 1971.
PP. 36-37.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
"The great circles of the vector equilibrium.
vertexes.
•
•
There is
one that goes through six vertexes: it has the most possible
connections. Six great circles are only going through two
So you've got a very even amount of minus
one, minus one,
plus two. This is a sequence that oecurs
time and again. Which is, I have a ball and this is
no, no, yes, yes, no, no-- this is nestability of the ball
in the center. It is the same as that yes, no, no, yea
or yes, no, no, or minus one, minus one, plus two. It is
that kind of a sequence.
Then it goes on again yes, yes,
no, yesy, yes, no. Or it goes always yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes. Or yes, yes, no, yes, yes, no. Or it goes yes, no,
yes, no, yes, no. Or it goes yes, yes, yes, yes.
There are three ways it can behave.
•
•
You hemispheres
are the opposite of the same so it goes yes, yes, no or
no, no, yes. Or it could go yes, no, yes, no
•
? yes, no.
Or it goes yes, yes, yes. These are all the combinations
you can get.
-
Cite tape transcript HBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, Blackstone
Hotel, June 1971. PP. 14-15.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
"But the six is really the beautiful connector on the vector
equilibrium side and it is the one that goes through all the
six vertexes. It has the most possible connections.
•
It's a kind of double pulsation. It's only going
to send energy when it's going through a vertex. So it does
this twice in a cycle. Its energy increments between the
two going: yes, yes, no; yes, yes, no: so they add up to a
pulse.
It goes yes, yes, no; boom, no, no; boom, no, no. "
Cite tape transcript RBF to DK and BO'R, 2 May 1971, pp. 8-9.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
Those have the extraordinary quality of going through
a pumping business...54°44'; 55° 44; 70° 32'.
'
•
I use 60 as normal instead of 90°. so 54° 44' is 6° 16';
50 and 16'. There's 10° and 32'. This is plus two and this
is minus one, minus one, plus two, if 5° 16' is unity.
54° 44' and it leaves you 5° 16'; two time 5° 16' is 10° 32',
so it's Minus One Minus One, Plus Two, Minus One Minus One,
Plus Two,. As it revolves these are where 60° is again
"
.
our vector equilibrium so you've got the very even amount of
Minus One, Minus One, Plus Two. This is a sequence which
occurs time and again. . . I have a ball nest in the center.
This is no, no, yes; or yes, no, no.
Then it goes agaiin:
This is a basic nuclear
yes, yes, no; yes, yes, no, always.
arrangement. So you want to get a telegraph system that is
going to flash with nuclei and it's going to go yes, yes, no;
yes, yes, no. That's what you're getting on the six great circles."
-
Cite tape transcript RBF to DK and BO'R 2 May, pp. 6-7.
$71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
"It is fascinating to learn that, with the development
of the computer, nature uses a Yes-No or binary system.
This is the basis of waves. Consequently the polynesians
have been using the most advanced techniques during the
period that we have presumed them to be inferior because
they only counted to two."
-
Cite NAGA TO THE INVISIBLE SEA, p. 6. 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
"We come into some very interesting conditions of the
tetrahedron where we find that a strip of paper,
remember that we are exploring ways in which nature with
a given frequency will do certain things.
Remember alsg
precession. We find resultant of forces are not at 180°
and therefore there is a tendency to go off angularly.
Therefore a zig-zag like this of identical length members
becomes a very fundamental precessional consequence of a
high frequency event.
A continuous strip like this
when folded down, down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up,
would fold back on itself and form the tetrahedron and
octahedron.
and the octet truss and fill all space."
•
•
-
Cite Orgeon Lecture #8, p. 300, 12 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pulse Pattern:
"In the sixth frequency there is a ball again. So if you
go on layer after layer you will find that it reads:
nucleus, no nucleus, no nucleus, nucleus, no nucleus, no
nucleus, nucleus, no nucleus, no nucleus. In other words
it is yes, no, no, yes, no, no. It is a very different
kind of pattern from yes, no, yes, no . . . or yes, yes, yes,
oг no, no, no. When I folded the piece of paper into
a strip and said it was precessing, I said: hill, hill,
valley, hill, valley. It is this kind of one. That is, a
nucleus set of events could give you a yes, yes, no which
would be the same as hill, hill, valley-- so it was a
permitted kind of folding in a nuclear set of fundamental
prime set of interactions."
- Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p.305, 12 Jul 62

Pulse Pattern:
See Binary
Bits: Bitting
Diesel Ship at Sea
Dot-dash-dot-dash
Go-no-go
Yes-no-no
Yes-no-yes-no
Now-you-see-it-now-you-don't
(1)

Pulse Pattern:
See Awareness, Feb 50
Foldability of Great Circles:
Equilibrium, 11 Oct'62
Integer, 15 Oct 72
Nucleus, 18 Feb'73
Scenario Universe, Jan' 72*
Spherical Vector
(2)

Pulsivity of Realizations:
See Vector Equilibrium, 30 Oct'73

Pulse: Pulsive: Pulsivity:
See Heartbeat
Pulsation:
Oscillation
Pulsativeness
Oscillation & Pulsation
Palpitate
Pulse Pattern
Paluation"
(1)

Pulse: Pulaive: Pulsivity:
See Experience, 12 Sep' 71*
Life, May 49
Regenerative Design:
Law Of, (2)
Sphere, 31 May 171
Universal Integrity:
Principle of, Dec 72
Time, 6 Mart 73; 27 Dec'73
Vector Equilibrium, 30 Oct 73
Weather, Feb 73
Critical Proximity, May' 71
Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov' 75
Time is Only Now, 19 Jul' 76
Orbital Feedback Circuitry vs. Critical Path,
9 Sep' 74
(2)

Pumping Model:
See Jitterbug

Pump:
Pumpable:
See Angle: Pumping Fraction Factors
Hydraulics
Pulsation: Pulsative
(1)

Pump: Pumpable:
See Trees, (3)
(2)

Punched Carda:
See File Cards with Triangular Array of Holes

Punishment:
See Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up, (8)(9)
Human Tolerance Limits, (1): (B)

Purchasing:
See Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing

'Pure' as an Invented Word:
See Line: Imaginary Straight Line, 22 Apr 71

117
RBF DEFINITIONS
Pure Principle:
"What I am saying is that we have only eternity and integrity.
Unity is plural in pure principle. The awareness we speak of
as life is inherently immortal and equi-eternal."
Citation & context at Awareness, 10 Feb'73
CATH SYMERCIFICS

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pure Principle:
"There is nothing that the tough man can get hold of.
That is really what happened during World War I and
society paid no attention to it. We went off the invisible
and it had been discovered by the people who deal with the
invisible that there are no hard core things. If you say
that the thing goes off with an awful bang, it is just
like I said to you that the water in a wave isn't going
from here to there. Yet it is possible for the porpoise
to go from here to there surfboarding along with gravity
pulling him down forwardly in angles, but the water isn't
going from here to there. (There is some top water that gets
blown slowly from east to west, but I'm not talking about
that.) The
As moving at a very great velocity,
and there is no wave of water going there. It is moving in
pure principle so it is possible for us to realize that
what we call physically pure principle of that bang, because
that porpoise can bang up on the beach pretty hard. What he
is dealing in is weightless."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, pp. 123-124. 6 Jul'62

Pure Principle:
See Generalized Principle
Perfect Prototype
Principle
(1)

Pure Principle:
See Absolute Integrity, 4 Nov'73
Awareness, 10 Feb'73*
Epistemology of Quantum Mechanics, 16 Dec 173
Event, 29 May '72
Particle (2)
Radiolaria (1) (2)
Surfing: Surfboarding, 5 Jul'62
Tetrahedron, 20 Feb 173
Understanding, 4 Oct 172
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, 13 Dec:73
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid, (1)
Invisible Tetrahedron, (1)(2)
Atom, 8 Sep 75
Cyclic Experience, 1961
Geodesic Domes, 24 Jan' 58
(2)

Pure Science Events:
See Inventions vs. Pure Science Events

Pure:
See Inventions vs. Pure Science Events
Science: Pure & Applied Science
(1)

Pure:
See Communication & Culture, 1 Feb'75
Male & Female, 21 Jan'75
(2)

Burge: Purging:
See Self-purging

Purines:
See Hex-pent Structure of Purines

Purpose:
See Ends
Design
Meaning
Teleology

Purposeless:
See Culture, 11 Aug* 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Push:
"...I had kept pushing things, trying them out.
always seemed to come to a dead end... 1
And it
Citation and context at Fuller, R.B.:
Crisis of 1927 (A) Feb 72

Push vs. Attraction:
See Tensive vs. Pushive
(1)

Push ys. Attraction:
See Hammering Sheet Metal, (2)
(2)

Push Button & Dial Systems:
See Industrial Principle, 1 Jun'49
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pushive:
*Radiation is pushive, ergo tends to increase in curvature....
The pushive tends to arcs of ever lesser radius (microwaves
are the very essence of this)..
"
-
Citation and context at Curvature, 23 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pushive:
"Explosions are pushive and evolute and involute
as do rubber toruses."
Cite RBE caption for Synergetics Illustration 107.
Beverly Hotel, New York, 24 April 1971.
Citation at Explosions, 24 Apr'71

Pushive:
See Tensive vs. Pushive

RBF DEFINITIONS
Push-pull:
In reviewing with EJA Athena V. Lord's manuscript of
PILOT FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, RBF came across a description of
conventional stone structures held together by compression
"where the top stones are pushing down on the ones
beneath.
RBF: "Nothing could be more
erroneous. How could a
top stane push? What would it have to push against?
What happens is that gravity pulls the top stone--and all the
others--against each other."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC.; 28 Mar 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Push-Pull:
"The shift between spheres and spaces is accomplished
precessionally. You introduce just one energy action--
push or pull-- into the field and its inertia provides
the reaction to your push or pull; and the resultant
propagates the sphere-to-space, space-to-sphere, trans-
formation whose comprehensive synergetic effect in tfun
propagates an omnidirectional wave. Dropping a stone in
the water discloses a planar pattern of precessional wave
regeneration. The curves are seen generating and regenera-
ting and are not instantaneous."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1032., 22 Feb173
[20]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Push-Pull:
"The twelve degrees of freedom are also then identified
as the push-pull directions of the tetrahedron's six edges."
-
-
VILL-ABF-III Se Pref. Theodors Caplow,-18 Feb. 166.
Catation & context at Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom,
18 Feb 66

HBF DEFINITIONS
Push-Pull:
"My philosophy also takes heed of the approximately
unlimited ratio of length to girth of tensional controla
which always tend to pull true, versus the very limited
length to girth ratio of pushing devices which, when
pushed, tend to bend and break."
-
Citation and context at Ruddering Sequence (5), 1963

Push-pull Limits:
See Ignorance, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Push-pull Members:
"Minimum structural stability requires six struts, each of
which is a push-pull member. Push-pull structural members
embody in one superficially solid system both the axial-linear
tension and compression functions.
"Tensegrity differentiates out these axial-linears into separ-
ately cofunctioning compression vectors and tension tensors.
As in many instances of synergetic behavior, these different-
iations are sometimes subtle. For instance, there is a subtle
difference between Eulerian topology, which is polyhedrally
superficial, and synergetic topology, which is nuclear and
identifies spheres with vertexes, solids with faces, and
struts with edges. The subtlety lies in the topological
differentiation of the relative abundance of these three
fundamental aspects whereby people do not look at the four
closest-packed spheres forming a tetrahedron in the same way
that they look at a seemingly solid stone tetrahedron,
particularly when they do not accredit Earth with providing
three of the struts invisibly cohering the base ends of the
camera tripod."
-
(Sec. 722)
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec.s 722.01 & 722.02; 28 Oct 72

Push-pull Members:
See Structure, 22 Jul171

Push-pull: Push Phase vs. Pull Phase:
See Visible Light vs. Electricity, 1946

Push-pull Stabilization:
See Tensegrity Geodesic Grid: Three-way Grid, 10 Oct'63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Push-Pull Push Ware & Pull Wave:
"The push wave is high frequency.
The pull wave is low frequency.
The vector equilibrium consists not of curved lines but
of wave lines."
-Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 August '71.

Push-pull:
See Energetic Functions
Inventory of Push-pull Alternations
Intereffects
Oscillation
Structural Functions
Tidal
Push vs. Attraction
Tension & Compression
(1)

Push-pull: Push & Pull:
See Necklace (1) (2)
Polar Vertexes, 19 Feb 72
Ruddering Sequence (5)*
String, 14 Feb 74
Tensegrity, 20 Oct 72
Tensegrity Sphere, 19 Dec 73
Tetrahedron, 18 Feb'66
Vector Equilibrium, 13 Nov 69; (I)
Structure, 22 Jul'71
Building, 10 Sep 74
Hammering Sheet Metal, (2)
Male & Female, 1 Feb'75
Economics, 1 Feb'75
Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (3)
Invisible Negative, 28 May '75
Wind Stress & Houses, (10) (11)
Basic Event, Dec'71
Triangle, Nov 71
Window, 22 Nov* 77
(2)

Push:
See Pushive
Push-pull
(1)

Push:
See Curvature, 23 Sep'73
Explosions, 24 Apr'71
Flight, 1971
Evolution, 22 Jun' 75
(2)
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RBF DEFINITIONS
Puzzle of Washington Crossing the Delaware:
"I am holistic and I really don't want to be limited. It's
like a bunch of picture puzzles that we used to have with a
picture on the box of what you were making. But let's just
suppose we had no picture on the box, and we had ten puzzles
in different transparent plastic bags, and we mixed them all
I think we
up each of the puzzles with the other. puzzles.
could, you and I, sort of intuit which kinds of pieces must
be with one puzzle and which kinds of pieces with another and
eventually we could at least get them all in the right bags
again so they could be worked out.
Like we
(1)
*That's what it's been like here working these days.
had a picture puzzle of George Washington Crossing the Delaware.
We'd have one little piece that looked like some ice and we'd
have another little piece that looked like George's hat. And
we're really just throwing in the tiles and that's what I'm
doing giving a lecture, when the kids are all following it
and you really can go very fast while you're talking about
George Washington's hat and then you're talking about the ice
around the boat. All that you really have to say and all that
you have time for in the lecture is just to say HAT or just to"
Citation and context at Cosmic Fish Sequence (4), 16 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pussle of Washington Crossing the Delaware:
"say ICE, like that. And everybody follows and we're really
throwing in the tiles and we have the picture of George
Washington Crossing the Delaware."
Citation and context at Cosmic Fish Sequence (4), 16 Oct' 72
(2)

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pyramid:
"An Egyptian pyramid is a half-octahedron. The other
half is hidden in the ground."
Cite RBF in address to Dag Hammerskjold College, Columbia,
Md., 17 Oct 72.

TEXT CITATIONS
Pyramid of Generalizations:
Synergetics, 2nd. Ed. draft Secs. 325.20 - .25

-
Pyramid Half-octahedron:
See Pyramid, 17 Oct 72
Dimpling Effect, (B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pyramid Technology:
"With starvation-provoked universal thieving they had to
build a strong pyramid to guard the Pharaoh's after-life
equipment. This required the invention of scaffolding
technology in the present life. When successive Pharaohs
passed into heaven the scaffolding technology accumulated
on Earth. With a mounting technology the nobles also
acquired protective entry into the after-life. As generations
of Pharaohs and nobles went from this world into heaven, this
world's technology multiplied. Inevitably the citizens or
middle class exploited the burgeoning technology to gain
entry into heaven with the Pharaohs and the nobles.
Inaugurating the Greco-Roman period of history with knowledge
and technology multiplying swiftly, the Moses, Buddhas,
Christs, and Mohammeds procaimed the feasibility of safe
entry into heaven of everybody. This ushered in 1500 years
of building cathedrals, temples, synagogues, mosques and
their graveyards to secure everyone's after-life."
-Cite RBF dictation to BO'R, Chicago, Dec. 171 to be inserted
at galleys of Barry Farrell PLAYBOY Interview.

Pyramid Technology: Pyramids:
See Inertia, 20 Apr'72
Buddha: Christ: Mohamed,
(1)

Pyramid: Great Pyramid at Gizeh:
See Octahedron:
Eighth-octahedra, (1)

Pyramid Mystery Cults:
See Octahedron: Eighth-octahedra, (4)

Pyramid:
See Octahedron:
Tetrahedron:
Half Octahedron
Quarter Tetrahedron
(1)

Pyramid:
See Cube: Diagonal Of, 10 Jul'62
Harmonics, (1)-(4)
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (B)(C)
Octahedron: Eighth-octahedra, (1) (4)
(2)
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Pyramidines:
See Hex-pent Structure of Purines, 15 Dec'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pythagoras:
"We come then to Greece and the earliest of the going from
just geometry into numbers and arithmetic and we get to our
friend Pythagoras. Pythagoras was a very unknown kind of a
character, he's quite a mystical one; he's almost like one
of the prophets. The Pythagoreans kept things secret.
Pythagoras taught us many things about the second powers of
numbers. He was the first to discover the arithmetical
second powering and third powering. All the integration of
the arithmetic with the geometry comes from Pythagoras.
"And we have Pythagoras... having experimentally tried
twanging a string, what you might call a stringed instrument
and finding that when it had a flat at half the length of the
prime string it brought about a change in notes which we
today would call on the [ ? ] scale, exactly one octave.
This is a Pythagorean discovery; and a man who was terribly
interested in fundamental rates of change of number, by
various operations of the numbers, one with the other, and
all the powerings.
"We have him also then thirding the end of the string and
discovering that this took the tone what we call 'down, 1"
-
Cite tape transcript, RBF to EJA, Ghez Wolf, 18 Jun'71
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Pythagoras:
"either down or of the sharps or the flats, these are the
what we call a fifth, and what we then
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13
have is the keys
fifths up and down, the sharps being a fifth up and the flat
being a fifth down%3B five notes in the sacale-- so that we have
very interesting prime numbers halving the number two and the
thirding bringing about fifths. This would certainly indicate
quite clearly a fundamental in our relationship between wave
frequencies and number behaviors of octaves. And inasmuch as
I'm talking about physics and the waves of the periodic table...
its unique frequencies would interact... and what the
permutations would be mathematically and I found this highly
suggestive that the octave with its characteristically flat
resonance really governing the interactions of frequencies.
The resonances are the key to much of modern physical
exploration. And I think that the very fact that the Pythago-
reans were particularly secret is of importance."
->
Cite RBF to EJA, tape transcript, Chez Wolf, 18 Jun'71

Pythagoras: Pythagorean Theorem:
See Control Line of Nature
Hypotenuse
Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Control Length
Tensed String
(1)

Pythagoras: Pythagorean Theorem:
Cube:
Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model,
22 Jun 72
Prime Vector, 20 Jul174; (2)
Radiation-gravitation:
Harmonics, (1)
Harmonics, 3 Jan'75
Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (2)
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