
R

RBF DEFINITIONS
Race:
"There is no race other than the human race.
"Those who look superficially different
Are the consequence only
Of milleniums of isolation, attrition inbreeding
And inbreeding of the survival types
Under unique environmental conditions.
"If, in fact, there were different races
No political contriving
Could close the psychological gap.
"But in fact
There is only one race."
-
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 SPACE VEHICLE Earth,
Jan. 172, p.14

RBF DEFINITIONS
Race:
"University stir-ups, also greatly heightened by the cold-
war-stimulated awareness of a century of nonfulfilment of
the U.S.A. war for the emancipation of Blacks, and the
economic and cultural bans which prolong the racist discrimi-
nations against nonwhites... with Blacks skillfully persuaded
into activism...
"I well remember the sense of exultant camaraderie which I
experienced in 1907 when entering 'Upper School' at Milton
Academy. I discovered that the big boys were derisively
displeased with the headmaster and, in learning that he was
to resign, went into a townwide riot of joy. How I whooped
and danced and ran with the others, knowing absolutely nothing
of the merits or demerits of the case against the maligned
and dishonored Head.* This gives me insights into the mass
actions of today's students.
"The latter have much more cause for fundamental skepticism,
scorn, displeasure, and action against the establishment in
general because their elders are asleep at the switch of
history's express trains, and because the so-called educational
system is failing to give them powerful insights about what"
Cite Fragment on RACE, 7 Aug170
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Race:
"they need to know and do regarding their elders' dereliction.
"There is no social class distinction, no genetic difference:
only history-long brain damaging by undernourishment between
conception and one-year old. There is no race differentiation,
only a bleach-out of hibernating skin-covered, sub-freezing
dwelling zones: Swarthy pink; Sailor mew; Crossbreed-- and go
into the north to remain as Eskiope. Finns and Scandinavian
blondes milleniums of tribally inbred long arctic night
hibernaters. Man, born naked prior to invention of clothes,
stayed in temperate zones where his nakedness was tolerable;
but going from Polynesia westward across the Indian Ocean into
arid Africa, he became greatly blackened on his topsides, but
his hands and feet bottoms and fingernail-shielded skin stayed
'white man's' pale pink. White's are bleached out colored
people who are the normal people. The undernourished cereal-
roots- nuts- and bread-eating poor, constituting 99.9 percent
of history-long humanity, thought to be not only illiterate,
but incapable of becoming literate, due to an assumed innate
'dumbness' of the masses. Nobility was assumed, by self and
commoners, to be a kind of god-contrived, different genetic
breed; ergo it was required that the king's sons, daughters,"
-Cite Fragment on RACE, 7 Aug170
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Race:
"nephews, and nieces marry only sons and daughters of royal
or noble stock, whether they be friend or foe.
(3)
"Karl Marx assumed the scientific validity of both Malthus
and Darwin with their combined 'fundamental inadequacy of
popular life support' and 'survival only of the fittest.*
He assumed that the working masses were the fittest because,
though dumb, they instinctively understood how to cultivate
agriculture, husband animals, and work the craft tools.
Wherefore the great pirates, the nobility, and the bourgeoisie
who serviced the nobility, were parasites and must perish.
Marx also assumed that the genetic difference between the
nobility and the masses was valid; ergo his fundamental
class warfare inherent in the economic inadequacy to support
both. He also assumed the necessity of downgrading standards
in order to stretch support systems to serve all; and he
assumed minority-party rule by dogmatic adherence to nonindivid-
ualistic code, and annihilation of the treacherous 'other class.'
"For only the last ten years of human history, since 1960,
-
have we known beyodd sciétific doubt that the 'mass dumbness'
Cite Fragment on RACE, 7 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Race:
(4)
"was not genetic, but the consequence of undernourishment:
1.e., the non-chemically-interbalanced and chemically deficient
diet during gestation or the first year of post-wombland
life, which resulted from the meat-eating nobility's monopoly.
of the animal
flesh resources and the animals' multi-herb
diet."
-Cite Fragment on RACE, 7 Aug170

Race with Evolution:
See Synergetics, 21 Jun 71

Race:
See Crossbreeding World Man
No Race:
World Man
Nation
Ethnic
No Class

Racing:
See Sailboats, Aug'72

Radar Reflector:
See Octahedron: Eighth-octahedra, (2)-(4)

Radar: Radaracope:
See Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial Sphere, (1)
Lasso, 1946
Octahedron: Eighth-octahedra, (2)-(4)

RBF BEFINITIONS
Radial:
"The time dimension being the radial dimension..."
Citation & context at Dimension, 16 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial-circumferential:
"Complementarity of Circumferential Oscillations and Inward
and Outward Pulsations: We have demonstrated circumferential
complementarity, the circumferential twoness of systems such
as the northern and southern hemispheres of our Earth. There
is also concave inward and convex outward complementarity,
anward and outward twoness. As a consequence, there are also
circumferential skew oscillations and inward and outward
pulsations."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1051.10, 9 Jan'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial-Circumferential:
"We have demonstrated circumferential complementarity, and
circumferential twoness of systems such as the Northern and
Southern Hemisphers of our Earth. There is also imward and
As a
outward complementarity, inward and outward twoness.
consequence there are also circumferential oscillations and
inward and outward pulsations."
[10]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1051.01, Apr'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial-Circumferential:
Expansion is radial and contraction is circumferential.
(Adapted)
-
Citation at Expansion & Contraction, Jan'72
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan. 172, p. 3.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial-Circumferential:
There is
"le have demonstrated circumferential complementarity,
the circumferential twoness of systems such as the
Northern and Southern Hemispheres of our Earth.
also inward and outward complementarity, inward and
outward twoness. As a consequence there are also
circumferential oscillations and inward and outward
pulsations."
-
Cite Synergetics, Draft, Sec. 824, August 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
"
Radial-circumferential:
Circumferential micro- or macro- being finite,
and radial being infinite,"
- Citation and context at Macro-Micro, 1955

Radial-circumferential Accelerations:
See Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan' 55

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial-Circumferential Coordination:
"The coordinate systems of synergetics are omnidirectionally
regenerative by both lines and planes parallel
to the original converging set. The omnidirectional
regeneration of synergetic coordination may always be
expressed in always balanced equivalence terms either of
radial or circumferential frequency increments.'
"
[50]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 962.5+, 17 Nov'72

Radial-circumferential Coordination:
See Analytical Geometry, 7 Oct' 71
Life & Death, 26 Jan'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial-Circumferential Modularity:
"Had the Greeks originally employed a universal model of
x-dimensional reality as their first tool upon and within
which they could further inscribe and measure with their
divider, scriber, and straightedge, they would have been
able to arrive at unity of circumferential as well as
radial modularity. This would have been very convenient
to modern physics because all the accelerations of all the
constantly transforming physical events of Universe are
distinguished by two fundamentally different forms of
acceleration, the angular and linear accelerations."
Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec. 826.01, Sept 72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Radial-Circumferential Modularity:
"The linear measurements represent the radial going-away
accelerations or resultants of earlier or more remote
events as well as of secondary restraints. The rigid
rectlinear angularity of the 90° central angle XYZ mensuration
instituted by the Greeks made impossible any unit language
of direct circumferential or peripheral coordination between
angular and linear phenomena. As a consequence, only the
radial and linear measurements have been available to physics.
For this reason physics has been unable to make simultaneous
identification of both wave and particle aspects of energy
events.
Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec. 826.04, Sept'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial-Circumferential Modular Growth:
In Synergetics there is a total "correspondence of radial
wave modular growth with circumferential modular
frequency growth of the totally involved vectorial
geometry. This means that "angular and linear
accelerations are identical."
"
-
Cite Ltr. to Prof. Von Hochstetter, p.4 and footnote,
28 Oct 64

Radial-circumferential Modular Growth:
(1)
See Frequency Modulation
Modular Subdivision

Radial-circumferential Modular Growth:
(2)
See Frequency, Jun'71

Radial-circumferential:
See Boundary Layer
Circumferential Finite vs. Radial Infinite
In, Out & Around
Inward & Outwardness
Nuclear & Nebular Zonal Waves
Radial & Orbital
Spherical Barrel:
Radial Compression vs.
Circumferential Tension
Spherical Field
Inwardness vs. Omnidirectional
Frequency & Wave
(1)

Radial-circumferential:
(2A)
See Acceleration: Angular & Linear, 18 Oct'64
Cosmic Discintinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan'74
Electric Motor, 25 Jan' 72
Expansion & Contraction, Jan'72*
Fourth Dimension, 1965
Frequency, 15 Oct 72
Gears: Spherical Gears, Kay'72
Gravity, 18 Oct 72
Integrity of Universe, 23 Sep'73; 30 Oct 73
Jitterbug, 11 Oct 71
Macro-micro, 1955*
Powering: Second Powering, 28 Oct 73
Scenario Universe, Jan' 72
Shunting: Relative Motion Patterns, 1955
Sixty Degreeness, 1965; 18 Jun'71
Synergetics, 14 May 73; 14 Jan'55

Radial-circumferential:
See Tension & Compression, 1944
Vector Equilibrium, 4 Nov'73
Zoneness: System Zoneness, 8 Jan'55
Peripheral Sep'72
Aug171
Vertexial Topol.75"
Evaginating, 22
Gravity: Speed of, 21 Oct 72
(2B)

Radial Compression vs. Circumferential Tension:
See Spherical Barrel:
Radial Compression vs.
Circumferential Tension

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial Depth:
"Operationally omnitriangulated polyhedra may only be
realized systematically, i.e., with special case dimensionality
or special case radial depth of insideness. Dimensionality =
radial depth frequency. Radial depth is expressed in
frequency of omnidirectional wave propagations per unit of time."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 1071.23, 20 Dec 74

Radial Depth:
See Dimensionality
Radial Depth
-
Frequency
(1)

Radial Depth:
See Structure, 26 Dec 74
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial Line:
"The particular line of geometrical reference humans picked
happened not to be the line of most interattractive integrity.
It was neither the radial line of radiation nor the radial line
of gravity of spherical Earth....
"
- Citation & context at Starting With Parts: The Nonradial Line,
29 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial Line as Tetra Edge:
"We Identify the minimum tetrahedron as that with radius =
the tetrahedron edge of the phot on becomes unit radius. "t
g...
-
Citation & context at Photon:
Tetrahedron Edge as Unit Radius,
17 Jan'74

Radial Line as Tetra Edge:
See Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Prime Vector
Photon: Tetrahedron Edge as Unit Radius
(1)

Radial va. Orbital:
See Linear vs. Orbital
Radial-circumferential
Embracing vs. Linear
One Way vs. Round Trip
Local vs. Comprehensive
Local Radius vs. Wide Arcs
Orbital Feedback Circuitry vs. Critical Path
(1)

Radial vs. Orbital:
(2)
See Frequency, 11 Mar'69
Umbilical Cord, 4 Mar 73
Einstein: Special Theory & General Theory, 4 Mar' 73

Radial Reach:
See Sweepout
Reachability Range
(1)

Radial Reach:
See Central Angle, 23 Sep' 73
(2)

Radial Set:
See Vector Equilibrium, (I)

AAT
RBF DEFINITIONS
Radial Symmetries:
"
... Each chemical elements atoms are characterized by
unique frequencies, and unique frequencies impose unique
radial symmetries, this variety of radial dimensionality
constitutes one prime diffrence between nuclear physics
and chemistry.
"
Citation and context at Physics: Difference Between Physics
And Chemistry, 22 Jun 72

Radial Symmetries: Radially Symmetric:
See Mites Make All Regular Polyhedra, 27 May 72
Physics & Chemistry: Difference Between, 22 Jun'72*

Radial Unity:
See Prime Vector
Unit Radius:
Unit Vector Radius
(1)

Radial Unity:
(2)
See Rhombic Dodecahedron, 13 Apr' 77

Radial Wave Modular Growth:
See Vector Equilibrium:
Einstein Equation:
E
Field of Energy, (C) (D)
Mc², 1959
SE

Radial Wayes:
See Nuclear & Nebular Zonal Waves
(1)

Radial Waves:
See Gears, (p.89) May172
(2)

Radial:
See Nonradial
Omniradial
Radial-circumferential
Radius
Rain as Radial
Omnidirectional: Physical Existence Environment
Surrounda
Zenith Constancy of Radial Coordination
(1)

Radial:
(2)
See Dimension, 16 Nov'72*
Einstein: General Theory & Special Theory, 4 Mar 73
Hexagonal Vector Patter, 8 May '72
Omnidirectional, 1954
Omniintertangency, 17 Feb'73
Sweepout, May 72

Radial:
See Radial-circumferential
Radial-circumferential Accelerations
Radial circumferential Coordination
Radial-circumferential Modularity
Hadial-circumferential Modular Growth
Radial Line
Radial Line as Tetra Edge
Radial & Orbital
Radial Reach
Radial Set
Radial Symmetries
Radial Waves
Radial Unity
(3)

Radian:
See Pi, 8 Feb 73
Hexagon, Nov'71

Radiantly Alternate Vertexes:
See Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov' 72
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 30 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiant Valvability of IVM-defined Wavelength:
"We can resonate the vector equilibrium in many ways.
An isotropie vector matrix may be both radiantly generated
and regenerated from any vector-centered fix origin in
Universe such that any one of its vertexes will be congruent
with any other radiantly reachable center fix in Universe;
i.e., it can communicate with any other noninterfered-with
point in Universe. The combined reachability range is
determined by the omnidirectional velocity of all radiation,
within the available investable time."
[40]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 426.**, 30 Nov'72

Radiant:
See Omniradiant
Potential vs. Radiant
Latent vs, Radiant
Convergent vs. Radiant
(1)

Radiant:
See Convergence, 16 Nov'72
Earth, Jun'66
Geodesic Dome, 12 Mar' 74
Frequency, 22 Jun 72
Hexagonal Vector Pattern, 8 May 72
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov' 72
Radiation-gravitation, 12 Jun 74
Spherical Interstices, 18 Nov' 72
Halo, 1938
Nucleus, 13 Nov' 75
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"Radiation is special case, systematically centered, and
discontinuously islanded....
"Electromagnetic radiation is distributive and entropic;
its frequency magnitudes represent multiplication by
division."
Citation & context at Radiation-gravitation, 11 Feb' 76

440
RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"The symmetrical expansion of radiation is a divergent
phenomenon.
"
Citation & context at Quantum Sequence, (2), 23 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"Radiation distributes energy systems outwardly in omnidia-
metric directions. Radiation fractionates whole systems into
multidiametrically dispatched separate packages of the whole.
The packaging of spherical unity is accomplished by radii-
defined, central-angle partitioning of the spherical whole
into a plurality of frequency-determined, simplest, central
divisioning, thus producing a plurality of three-sided
cornucopias formed inherently at minimum limit of volumetric
accommodation by any three immediately adjacent central angles.
The threefold
of any sphere of any omnitriangulated polyhedron.
central-angle vertex surroundment constitutes the inner vertex
definition of a radially amplified tetrahedral pack of energy;
while the three inner faces of the package are defined by the
interior radial planes (there is a great-circle plane common
to any two radii) of the sphere of omnidiametric distribution;
and the fourth, or outermost, face is the spherical triangle
surface of the tetrahedron which always occurs at the radial
distance outwardly traveled from the original source at the
speed of radiation, symbolized as lower-case c.
18
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 541.01, 23 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"Radiation is pushive, ergo tends to increase in curvature....
Radiation tends to increase in its overall curvature
(as in the 'bent space' of Einstein). The pushive tends to
arcs of ever lesser radius (microwaves are the very essence
of this)..."
Citation and context at Curvature, 23 Sep173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"Euler deals with the physical Universe as radiation, or
it 'coming apart' phase.
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1054.12, 6 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"When adequate acceleration
Is imparted to micro aggregations
Of atoms
Sufficient for them to escape
The critical limits
Of both mass attraction
And precession intereffects
Then radiation
At 186,000 m.p.8.
Of the separate energy quanta
Ensues
Which phenomena we speak of as fission
Or fusion
And the generalized behavioral law
[Governing fission or fusion
And radiation in general
Is that cited by Einstein
Of Emc. 1
RBF SAYS THESE
TWO
SANIT
BE RESTORED
SHOULD
DELETED
IN FINAL
DRAFT
Cite INUITION –
pp.37-38 May 172
15

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"It is also characteristic of these waves
And of all radiation
That when the wave propagation
Is beamingly aimed
Perpendicularly outward from Earth's surface
They experience little or no interferences,
Once outside our atmo-, strato, and ionospheres,
Other then by collision with meteorites
And other celestially traveling objects.
"There seems to be no impedance
And no inherent limitation to the distance
which such electromagnetic wave signals can go
Once outside the Earth mantles.
As far as we know,
The waves can go on forever in Universe--
Unless they hit some object,
And when they hit an object they lose some energy
Then bounce away
And keep going
In a new direction."
-
Cite BHAIN & MIND, pp.158-159 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"The star tetrahedron's entropy may be the basis of
irreversible radiation.
"Antitetrahedron,"
- Catation & context at Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"Radiation is physical, entropic, incoherent,
propelling, disassociative, pushing."
Cite DOXIADIS, p. 310, 20 Jun'66

150
RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"Wave magnitude and frequency are experimentally
interlocked as co-functions and both are experimentally
gear locked with energy quanta."
Citation at Frequency, Jun'66
Cite NASA Speech, p. 100,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"... c² (radiation) means; All the Universe's
nonselfinterfering complexes having eccentrically
interprecessing, omnidirectionally diffusing patterns
resulting in comprehensively degenerative negative
limits of dissociabilities as negative (inside-out)
de-structures."
-
Cite INTRO. to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.126, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
"Radiation is generalized compression..."
-
Citation and context at Generalization: Second Degres, 1959

RBP DEFINITIONS
Radiation Sequence:
*And we've got no help at all from the stars because they're
all areas where the Universe is increasingly disorderly,
giving off enormous amounts of radiation in strange kinds of
Sun rays, and so forth-- great Sun spots, which we begin to
find have some regularity. But you and didn't know that
regularity before because, in a sense, it was so infrequent--
whatever it might be. We didn't have observation to know
there were Sun spots up to yesterday.
• •
"Then all the physical is the visible, astronomical world
where we use the optical telescope to give us the information.
Optical means we're using that disorderly radiation to
identify the positioning of the stars. So, looking around
for some phase of Universe where energies are contracting
and becoming increasingly orderly, we find the only example
that we really know much about is our own Earth. We do know
that in the last International Geophysical Year that we're
collecting somewhere around 100 tons of stardust daily.
And we're finding our radiation from all the stars, the
cosmic radiation-- and primarily from the Sun-- is not just
bouncing off our Earth at all, but being impounded as energy.
The radiation to start off with is in the Van Allen belts."
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation Sequence:
" •
(2)
"Then the atmosphere bends that radiation very readily so
that it gives us the red-yellow-orange-green-blue-violet
colors themselves. Then when the radiation gets to the water--
three-quarters of the Earth being covered with water-- you see
how much it is bent simply by putting a pole into the water
and looking at the bending of it. There's bending,
bending, bending until finally the radiation is so bent it
gets now impounded horizontally into the surface of the water
around our Earth, and we get these horizontal moving streams
such as the Gulf Stream, the great warmth. We have then the
enormous impounding of the energy of the Sun in just the
heating of the atmosphere, bringing about all our storms,
the various low pressures and high pressures depending the
heating is being impounded by large moisture concentrations
or low.
"And so this enormous energy is being collected here, and
this radiation then is atomizing the ocean, and then it gets
dropped back again, pulled back by gravity as rain. And we
find then vegetation operating; vegetaion on the dry land and
algae in the sea, impounding the energy of the Sun by photo-
synthesis."
Cite Rbf to World Game, Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiational Constant:
The gravitational constant... is always... more
powerful in syntropically cohering the Universe than is
the radiational constant of 6.6666665 in entropically
disintegrating the Universe by explosion."
Citation and context at Universal Integrity: Principle Of,
8 May 72

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

Radiational Constant:
See Icosahedron as Electron Model, 7 Mar 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation vs. Crystal Model:
" ... In addition to its heat-transmitting properties, the
radiation is also a yes-no, frequency programmed, information
carrier-- which precessionally transforms the three tetrahedral
quanta of radiation into the four-quanta octahedral crystals
in the atomic formation of the hydrocarbon molecules."
- Citatio
& context at Radiation as Information-carrier,
Jun

Radiation vs. Crystal Model:
See Information Transmitting & Nontransmitting Model

Radiation as Entropy:
See Instant Universe, (1)(2)
Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-gravitation:
"Radiation is special case, systematically centered, and
discontinuously islanded. Gravity is continuous tension
omni-inter-between all systems. Because gravitational
intertensional intensivity varies as the second power of the
arithmetical interdistancing variations, whose unique
variations are locally periodic, it manifests periodic
intensities of tidal pulls, but the overall tensional
integrity is constant independent of local intensity vari-
abilities.
"Electromagnetic radiation is distributive and entropic;
its frequency magnitudes represent multiplication by division.
Gravity is nondivisive and syntropic; its conservation ie
accomplished by holistic embracement of variable intensities.
Gravity is integral. Holistic gravity has no frequency."
Citation & context at Islanded Radiation & Tensional
Constancy, 11 Feb 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-gravitation:
"All bodies of Universe interaffect all other bodies in
varying degrees; and all the intergravitational effects are
precessionally angular modulations and all the interradiation
effects are frequency modulations."
(For earlier version of above see Precession, Oct '66)
Cite SYNERGETICS 2nd. Ed. draft at Sec. 533.07, 15 Nov 174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"Electromagnetic radiant energy is entropic; gravitational
energy is syntropic."
NO
Citation & context at Gravity (d), 12 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"Radiation is disintegrative; gravity is integrative."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 541.05, 23 Sep*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"Radiation has shadow while gravitation does not."
Citation and context at Fuller, R.B.: Meeting with
Fernandez-Moran (2), 5 Apr 173

452
RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"The generalizations are of the mind and are omniembracing
and omnipermeative. Like the rays of the Sun radiations are
radii and are focusable. Gravity cannot be focused; it is
circumferentially embracing. Radiation has shadows; gravity
has none. Radiation produces the phenomenon known to
Einstein as the bending of space, the gravitational field."
[97]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.98, 8 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"Physics hasn't really associated radiation with (+)
and gravitation with (-), but that's what they are."
Cabo RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington-DU,
Citation and Plus and Minus, 25 Jan '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"Gravity is circumferential.
All the superficial surface
angles are the gravity. Central Angles are the radiation."
* Cite RBF to EAJ, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"The differences between the central angles and surface
angles' functionings are identifiable with radiational
and gravitational functionings.
Radiation identifies
with central angles. Radiation is outwardly focusable."
Citation & context at Gravity, Aug'71
-
Cite Synergetics
raft, Sec. 870, August 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"The coming apart phase of critical proximity is
radiation. The coming together and holding together
phase is emphasized in our ken as gravity."
Cite RBF insert to SYNERGETICS (Conceptuality, Critical
Proximity), Chicago, 1 June 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
11
•
Radiation-Gravitation:
I give you then a tetrahedron which has an
external and an internal: a terminal condition . .
You get to the outside and you turn yourself inside out,
and come the other way. This is why radiation then does
not go off into a higher velocity. Radiation gets to a
maximum and then turns itself inwardly again-- it becomes
gravity. Then gravity comes to its maximum concentration
and turns itself and goes outwardly-- becomes radiation."
Gite RHF Tape to Ell & BO'R, Blackstone, Chicago,
31 May 1971. Pp. 17-18.
Citation and context at Zero, 31 May'7}

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
"Radiation can be focused;
explosions can be linear.
Gravity cannot be focused;
it is circumferential contraction."
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Sarasota, Florida
7 February 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
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."
-ette H HITTLE I KNOX,
Dct166
-
Citation & context at Precession, Oct 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation:
Gravity is swifter than radiation, therefore, Universe
collects its masses in ever tighter concentrations."
Citation and context at Point: Outbound Point, circa 1948

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation Sequence: (1)
"The complementarity of the great regenerative pattern is
geometrically omnimanifest as gravity and radiation. The radiation
radiates inrays, or lines, of spherical, energy-source radii.
These may be cross-sectionally conceptualized as the radially
packed staves of a wooden barrel that try to escape outwardly
from the barrel's center. Gravity, however, like the steel
bands encircling the barrel's girth, operates embracingly. The
individual barrel stays, like the radii, try to go out, to
disintegrate; but the finitely closed, circumferential gravity
hoops operate integratively, embracingly. The 92-million
miles distant Sun's rays impinge approximately in parallel on
only one hemisphere of the Earth at a time, while gravity
embraces our entire planet, all cosmic systems from all around
being equally effective, for instance, on the shadow hemisphere
of Earth. Gravity has no shadow. Gravity is uninterferable;
radiation is interferable. Gravity is omnidirectional, mass
interattraction, which, as Newton discovered, is directly
interproportional relative to the respective mass involved, and
varies as the second power relative to the interproximities of
the respective bodies considered: Halving the distance between
any two will fourfold their interaction."
Cite "No Title," (Part II), WORLD Mag., p.39, 5 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation Sequence:
(2)
"All the Universe is in motion, and all the effect of bodies
in motion on other bodies in motion are what we call 'precess-
ional.' Precession and mass-attractive gravity convert
centrifugal into orbital motion. And precession always affects
the motion of other bodies in directions other than 180 degrees,
not toward or away from one another but at approximately 90
degrees to the line between the most powerfully interprecessing
of the bodies. Holding a string in your hand, which, like mass
attraction, is fastened to a weighty object on the other end,
you precess this object into orbit around you by axial rotation
of your body. Thus the precessional effect of the axially
rotating Earth on the Moon is to make the lesser mass go into
orbit around the greater.
"Mass attraction and precession cooperate synergetically to
affect all of the Universe: 99.9999 percent of all entities of
the Universe are in orbit around some other spinning entity,
macro- or micro- cosmic in scale. And once in a while some of
the entities accelerate so congruently close to one another
that their inter-mass-attraction renders the precessional
effect negligible, and the lesser body falls into the greater."
Cite "No Title," (Part II), WORLD Mag., p.39, 5 Jun 173
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation Sequence:
So too is
(3)
"You and I are going around the Sun at 60,000 mph.
the Earth. We are so close to our Earth that gravity makes us
'fall in' in orbiting company. Little children find gravity
forever pulling them in toward the Earth's center; although they
know nothing about gravity they feel it pulling them to the
floor. All of the Earth's biological or anisms respond so
powerfully in a linear manner to the gravitational effect that
it is much like the organisms being linearly programmed to a
specialized behavioral program. Thus we fail to realize that
gravity really works as circumferential embracement. We find
everything operating at 90 degrees tangent while humanity fools
itself into thinking that it accelerated the object in a 180-
degree direction. Because of this, humanity has come to think
illogically in 180-degree, straight-line, ways. The fact is
that entities are always traveling away at 90 degrees from the
direction at which we are aiming.
"All the cosmic generalized principles are omniembracing-always-
true. Truth, like gravity, is nonlinear; it is omni embracing.
And of all the creatures on our planet, only humans have
demonstrated the ability to discover such truth. 際
- Cite "No Title," (Part 11), WORLD Mag., p.39, 5 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS.
Radiation-gravitation:
Angular Functions:
"The differences between the central angles' and surface
angles' functionings are identifiable with radiational and
gravitational functionings. Radiation identifies with central
angles. Radiation is outwardly divergent. Gravity identifies
with the three surface angles' convergent closure into the
surface triangle's finite perimeter. Gravity is omni embracing
and is not focusable. Gravity is Universe-conservingly
effective in its circumferential coherence."
WE
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1051.40, 9 Jan '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-gravitation: Harmonics:
"The second-power rate of interattractiveness gain occurring
with each halving of the intervening distance of two heavenly
bodies recalls Pythagoras'a whole, rational number, harmonic
octave integrity progression (or regression) occurring with
each halving of the length of the tensed cord (with thirding
resulting in sharping or flatting key progressions); wherefore
gravitational-radiational second-power, spherical surface rate
of gain in respect to radial linear rate of identification of
Omnidirectionally propagated sound waves at a gain of the
second power of the linear. This gravitational omnisurface-
embracement mathematics apprehending coincides with harmonic
resonances:
Arithemtical rate
of symmetrical
system's radius
E = ass
linear radial
shortening with
system contraction
Newton's gravita-
tion
Hass
linear radial
Einstein's radiation
lengthening with
system expansion
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1052.68, 3 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation-Gravitation Model:
"The radial arrangement of unit tetrahedral volumes around an
absolute radiation center (the vector equilibrium) constitutes
a prime radiation-gravitational energy proclivity model with
a contaniment value of 20 tetrahedra (where cube is 3 and
tetrahedron 1)."
Cite SYNERGETICS TEXT AT SEC. 223.73, 26 Sep'73

Radiation Gravitation Model:
See Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model
Jitterbug Model
(1)

Radiation-gravitation Model:
See Jitterbug, 11 Oct 71
Vector Equilibrium, 15 May 73
(2)

Radiational Gravitational:
See Radiation-gravitation, circa 1948
Boltzmann Sequence, (3)
Universal Integrity:
13 Nov'69
Principle Of, 8 May 72; 24 Mar 71;

Radiation-gravitation:
See Eccentric-concentric
Energetic Functions
Intereffects
Radial-circumferential
Universal Integrity
Electromagnetic Membrane
Coming Apart & Holding Together
Balance of Universe
(1)

Radiation-gravitation:
See Bow Ties, 6 Oct '72
Building Industry, (11)
Coherence, 11 Feb 73
Convergence & Divergence, 6 Jun'75; 1 May'77
Cosmic Limit Point, 3 Nov 73
Cosmic Vacuum Cleaner, 16 May '75
Dimensionality, (1)
(2A)
Fourth-dimensional Synergetics Mathematics, 14 Dec'76
Gravity, (d)*; 6 Apr 75
Gravity: Speed Of, 21 Oct'72
Growthability, 6 Mar' 73
Interference, 5 Jun'73
Interrelationship Twoness, 27 Dec'74
Islanded Radiation & Tensional Constancy, 11 Feb*76*
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Nov 72

Radiation-gravitation:
See Limit Point, 9 Jun '72
Love, 23 Oct 77
Metaphysical & Physical, 19 May'75
Nuclear Pattern of Growth & Decay, 8 Dec'75
Nucleus, 13 Nov 75
(2B)
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (A)-(E); 11 Dec'75
Plus & Minus, 25 Jan'72*
Point: Outbound Point, 1948*
Powering: Fourth Powering, 15 Oct 72; 9 Sep'75
Precession, (a)(b); Oct'66*
Pulsation, 9 Nov 72
Rain, 11 Feb 76
Series vs. Parallel Circuitry, 11 Dec '75
Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct:71
Structural Sequence, (B)
Star Tetrahedron & Vector Equilibrium, 9 Nov'73

Radiation-gravitation:
See Structure, Nov 71
Synergetic Hierarchies, (C)
Synergetics, 14 May 73
Syntropy & Time, 14 May '75
Two Kinds of Twoness, (B)
Vector Equilibrium, 3 Jan'75
(2C)

Radiation-gravitation:
See Radiation-gravitation: Angular Functions
Radiation-gravitation Model
(3)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Radiation as Information-carrier:
"What has not been understood thus far by human scientists
regarding the transmittal of energy from the Sun to support
biological life on planet Earth as accomplished through the
photosynthesis of Sun radiation to produce hydrocarbon molecules
by terrestrial vegetation and alage, is that in addition to its
heat-transmitting properties, the radiation is also a yes-no,
frequency-programmed, information carrier-- which precessionally
transforms the three tetrahedral quanta of radiation into the
four-quanta octahedral crystals in the atomic formation of the
hydrocarbon molecules. Photosynthesis is meaningful communicat-
ion whereby metaphysical rules the physical (Like the Federal
Reserve Bank) by issuing or withdrawing complex coding-identif-
ied quanta' currency from the overall, cosmic, transforming
and transaction system's accounting."
-
Citater,&context at Man:
Interstellar transmission of Man,

Radiation as Information-carrier:
See Electromagnetically Transmittable Logistics
Cosmic Transmission
Transmission

Radiational Mensurability:
See Vector Equilibrium, (2)

Radiation: Minimum Increment of:
See Photon
(1)

Radiation: Minimum Increment of Radiation:
See Unit Radius, 17 Jan'74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation: Speed Of:
"Wavelength times frequency is the speed of all radiation.
If the frequency of the vector equilibrium is four, its
vector-radius, or basic wavelength = 186,000/4 miles
Electro-
reachable within one second = 46,500 reach-miles.
magnetically speaking the unarticulated vector equilibrium's
vector length is always 186, 282.396 miles."
(For later version & context of
see Vector Equilibrium: Unarticulated VE,
2 Nov'73)
[44]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft it Sec. 426.45, 30 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
Speed Of:
"The speed of light, at the limit case, becomes the time.
The speed of radiation is the limit case, but it is the
initial limit. It always comes back to itself."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NY, 22 Jun 172

MBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation: Speed Of:
"The speeds of all the known different phases of measured
radiation are apparently identical despite vast differences
in wavelength and frequency. Einstein's adoption of
electromagnetic radiation expansion-- omnidirectionally in
vacuo- as normal speed suggests a top speed of omnidirectional
entropic diorder increase accommodation at which radiant
speed reaches its highest velocity. This highest velocity
is reached when the last of the eternally regenerative Universe
cyclic frequencies of multi-billions of years have been
accommodated, all of which complex of nonsimultaneous
transforming multivarietied frequency synchronizations is
complementarily balanced to equate as zero by the sum totality
of locally converging orderly and synchronously concentrating
energy phases of scenario Universe's eternally pulsative,
and only sum totally synchronous, disintegrative, divergent,
omnidirectionally exporting and only sum totally
synchronous, integrative, convergent and discretely
directional individual importings."
-
Cite RBF in response to a request to repeat his
"brief sentence" on the sphere as a meeting of
convergences. See SYNERGETICS, "Scenario Universe,"
Sec. 325., and "Tension and Compresssion," Sec. 614.08.
Oct171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation: Speed Of:
"The speed of light had been measured linearly
in a tube- this is the speed of light in any one
direction from its source.
But radiation is called radiation
because it goes in all directions from its source
unless reflectively beamed.
When we double the linear dimensions of any object--
the surface of the symmetrically amplified system
grows as the second power of the linear.
Science had to choose the lower-case letter c
to represent the speed of the radiation linearly,
to arrive at the rate at which it grew in an
omnidirectional spherical way-- the rate at which the
surface of the omnidirectional radius increases as
2 "
the second power of the radius-- or linear speed: c.
Cite RBF to EJA, Sarasota, Florida,
7 Feb '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
Speed Of:
"There are no instant lines--
Reaching instantly to eternity%;B
For the concepts
Of instantaneity, simultaneity, and eternity
Were anulled by the discovery
That light and all radiation
Have an approximately discrete speed
Of seven hundred million miles an hour,
which, of course, is too fast for man's
Perceptive detection,
But accounts lucidly
For humanity's assuming erroneously
That his sight experience
Is instantaneous.
Prior to the Michelson-Morley experiments--
Throughout all past history--
On every clear night
Man could seemingly witness for himself
The 'instantly eternal' stars.
"However, with the measurement of light's
And of other'
- Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.5, 28 Jan'69
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
THEIR
Radiation: Speedo:
"Electromagnetic radiations' speed
We learned that it took
Eight minutes for light
To reach us from the Sun
And two and one-half years
From the next nearest star,
And an astronomical variety of other
Greater and different time lags
For light to reach us
From each of the other
Myriads of stars.
"These time lags were far different
From instantaneaous and simultaneous.
And experiments made evident
That such light sources
Are always exhausting
local energy concentrations,
Wherefore they cannot be eternal.
"Prior to that measurment
The illusion of instantaneity
Induced false concepts
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.5, 28 Jan'68
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
Speed Of:
"Which man formalized into statements
And labeled as axioms
Holding them to be self-evident and a priori,
Ergo fundamental, characteristics of nature
Reduced to their respective simplest degrees.
"Typical of such
Axiomatic illusions
Were the concepts
Of solids, continuums,
at rest,
Surfaces, and straight lines
That reach instantly to infinity;
All of which concepts are contradicted
By experimental physics
Which has found only
Discontinuity and
Nonsimultaneity
As, for instance, is witnessible
In the discontinuity of the stars
In the Milky Way,
And is instrumentally discoverable
In the remoteness of electrons"
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, pp. 5-6, 28 Jan'69
(c)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation:
Speed Of:
"From their nuclear protons
Which remoteness is equal
To the star spacing
In relation to their respective
Relative activity diameters.
"We have learned experimentally
That lines are always energy events
And because of their ever variant
Complex of other energy events
Of the total environment
There are always a myriad
Of precessionally steering
Which result in curvilinear
Orbits, rotations, pulsations,
effects
Implosions, explosions, and torations.
"Lines are finitely developed events.
And their durations
Are always relative
To some cyclic experience in time.
Size and time are synonymous. "
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.6, 28 Jan169
(D)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiation: Speed Of:
17
c2 radiation equals all the eccentrically
disassociative individual patternings of all energy
(C being the radial or linear speed of radiant energy,
which is appopximately 186,000 mps)."
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, P.124, 1959

Radiation: Speed Of:
See Absolute Velocity
Light: Speed Of
Radiant Valavability
Relativity: Special Theory
Spherical Wave Terminal Limit Velocity
Shunting: Relative Motion Patterns
Top Speed: Top Velocity
(1)

Radiation: Speed Of:
See Central Angle, 23 Sep' 73
Conscious World, 1938
Engineering, 13 Nov 69
Intellect, 27 May 172
Light, 22 Nov 73
Limit Reach, 17 Jan 174
Nuclear Sphere, 16 Dec '73
Omnidirectional, 1965
Time, 30 Nov 72; 22 Jun 72
Unit Magnitude, 13 May'73
Visual Symphony (1) (2)
New York City (10)
Eyes, 1964
(2)

Radiation:
T Quanta Module
Einstein Equation:
See Biosphere
Black Body
Broadcast
(1)
E =
Mc²
Center of Radiation
Exporting
Impoundment
Interradiation
Intellect vs. Radiation
Matter vs. Radiation
Omniradiational
Photon
Photosynthesis
Radiation-gravitation
Ecology Sequence
Energy-as-radiation
Concentration vs. Radiation
Visible Light vs. Electricity
Electromagnetic-photosynthetic Programming
Coming Apart Phase
Islanded Radiation
Celestial Radiation Accumulators

Radiation:
See Chemical Phenomenon, May 72
Colloidal Chemistry, 1938
Curvature: 23 Sep 73*
Energy, 1960; Apr168; Jun'66; 18 Mar'65
Frequency, Jun'66
Generalization:
Second Degree, 1959*
Package, 23 Sep*73
Point: Outbound Point, circa 1948; 23 Sep'73
Star; Dec 72
Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct'71*
Stardust, (2)
Setrahedron, 23 Sep 73
Wind Power Sequence (4); (c)
Quantum Sequence, (2)*
Visual, 22 Feb'77
(2)

Radiation:
See Radiational Constant
Radiation as Entropy
Radiation-gravitation
Radiation-gravitation Model
Radiational Mensurability
Radiation: Minimum Increment of Radiation
Radiation: Speed Of
Radiation as Information-carrier
Radiation vs. Crystal Model
197
(3)

Radical:
See Assumptions, 1946

Radio Ham Language:
See World-around Language, (1)

Radio Set is Not the Music:
See Telephone is Not the Information
(1)

Radio Set is Not the Music:
See Invisible Architecture, (C)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radio Tuning Crystal:
"The first radio tuning crystal must have been a rhombic
dodecahedron.' "
Citation and context at Rhombic Dodecahedron, 30 Nov 72

Radio: Radio Waves:
See Ball at the Center
Broadcast
Invisible Operation of Thousands of Radio Programs
Tunability
(1)

Radio: Radio Waves:
See All-acceleration Universe, 20 Jun'66
Ball at the Center, 9 Mar 73
Visual Symphony, (f)
Seeing vs. Hearing, 22 Jan'75
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (3)
Lasso, 1946
(2)

Radioactivity:
See Stars: Implosive Forces Of
Superatomics
Strange Particles
(1)

Radioactivity:
See Now, 14 Feb172
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiolaria:
"The micro animal structures, the radiolaria, if you study
them, will always show that they are based on either the
tetrahedron, the octahedron, or the icosahedron. This
picture (R-4-1) was drawn by English scientists almost a
century ago as they looked through a microscope at these
micro-sea structures.
(1)
"Today I have given you some fundamental structural principles
and subsequently shown you their use by nature. I didn't,
however, start by studying thses structures of nature seeking
to understand their logic. The picture of the radicaria has
been available for 100 years, but I didn't happen to see it
until after I had produced the geodesic structures from the
mathematical sequence of developments which I reviewed with
you earlier. In other words I did not copy nature's
structural patterns. I did not make arbitrary arrangements
for superficial reasons. What really interests me therfore
in all these recent geodesic tensegrity findings in nature
is that they apparently confirm that I have found the
coordinate mathematical system employed in nature's structuring.
I began to explore structure and develop it in pure mathe-
matical principle out of which the patterns emerged in pure"
SYNERGETICS-SEC 203.091
_ Cite REXICO 163, pp. 58-59, 10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radiolaria:
"principle. I then realized those developed structural
principles as physical forms and in due course applied
them to practical tasks. The reappearance of these
structures as recent scientists' findings at various levels
of inquiry are pure coincidence-- but excitingly validating
coincidence."
(2)
-
Cite MEXICO 163, p. 59, 10 Oct 163
SYNERGETICS SEC. 203.091

Radiolaria:
See Invention, 3 Oct'72; Dec'61

Radionica:
See Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr 43

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radius:
"It is very easy to be greatly misled when you see two
spheres in tangency. There is only one line between the
two. This is where you see that unity is two because
the line breaks itself into radii of the two spheres."
->
Cite RBF tape Blackstone Hotel, Chicage, 31 May 1971,
-
Citation and context at Tangency, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radius:
"As a chord turns into an are the radius contracts."
-
For citation and context see Vector Equilibrium:
and Spaces, 31 May 171
Spheres

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radius:
"Omniconvergent
is the opposite of radius."
Cite RBS
Saranose, Plorida
2 February
Citation at Omniconvergent, 7 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radius:
"Tension tends towards arcs of increasing radius;
compression tends towards arcs of decreasing radius.
ventory of Concepts, June 1967
-
Citation at Tension & Compression, Jun'67
"

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

Radius:
See Edge vs. Radius
Frequency - Radius
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Local Radius
Omniradial
Radial
Unit Radius
(1)

Radius:
See Frequency, 11 Jul'62*
Geometry of Vectors, Aug'71
Omniconvergent, 7 Feb 71*
Powering: One Dimension, 15 Oct 72
Radiation, 8 Mar' 73
Rotate, 6 May'48
Tangency, 31 May'71*
Tension & Compression, Jun'67*
Vector Equilibrium: Spheres & Spaces, 31 May'71*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
(A)
They
"This is one of the geodesic radomes tested for the Arctic.
are made out of polyester fiberglass and the diamond-shaped, pan-
edged pieces are made with bolt holes in their adjacent flanges.
All the mathematics must be done very accurately to permit these
pieces to be interchangeably bolted together. We hold our
spherical trigonometry calculations to an accuracy of 1/1000 of
a second of circular arc. The geodesic radome structures go up
in an average of 14 hours each in the Arctic.
"Our Air Force Radomes were installed in the Arctic mostly by
Eskimos and others who had never seen them before. The mass
production technology made assembly possible at an average rate
of 14 hours each. One of these radomes was lent by the U.S.
Air Force to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for an
exhibition of my work in 1959-1960. It took regular building
trades skilled labor one month to assemble the dome in New York
City.
"American labor fought a great and worthy battle to win the
working man's share of the synergetic productivity of industry.
Labor's battle proved doubly worthwhile because it inadvertently
brought about mass consumption. Without mass consumption you
cannot maintain mass production. You cannot have the mass'
-Cite RBF photos caption, Fig. 177, dome photos, about 1960.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
(B)
"production of industrialization without an original investment
of vast capital effort of work and that original capital came
first and long ago from serfdom or outright slavery. In order to
bring industrialization to benefit comprehensively emancipated
man, you must have mass purchasing power, which in due course
will underwrite automation, which in turn will eventually
produce so much wealth as to be able to free man's time for
further education and research to increase the wealth long
generated by unimpeded automation. American labor will not yield
that unimpedement until it is clearly demonstrated that all men
will prosper directly by doing so. American labor did
bring
about the vast purchasing power in industry, but in so doing it
established all kinds of rules which inadvertently protected the
obsolete inefficiencies of building.
-
"When the kind of structure which goes up in the Arctic in 14
hours takes a month in New York City, clearly there has been an
inordinate shunting of social wealth in a direction in which
This is an
legitimate value was not added to the product.
indirect, illogical, and therefore indefensible way of distribu-
ting wealth for it hides the new advantages and therefore retards
the growth of those advantages as wealth generators of the "
Cite RBF photo caption, Fig. 177, dome photos, about 1960.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
(C)
"commonwealth. We must be very careful in judging the new,
high production technology structural experiments so as not to
have our fundamental tactical information distorted by ill
conceived labor tactics. We have very real social problems which
must be solved by realistic acceptance of the facts rather than
deferred from realistic consideration of the inherent new wealth-
generating advantages by hiding the new technical advanatage
under the wing of individually conceived palliatives which are
operated by old rules that do not permit the real advantages to
be recognized by the labor movement's management. We are going
.to have to bring industrial mass purchasing ability to all of
humanity. But first we are going to have to get labor rates
evened up all around the world in order to have every man's raw
time worth as much as any other man's time when translated into
purchasing power per kilowatts or pounds of specific metal goods.
Next we are going to let automation take over after we find ways
to pay everyone dividends from its wealth making to keep up
purchasing power at a maximum and thereby to regenerate the
industrial evolution advance."
Cite RBF photo caption, Fig. 177, dome photos, about 1960.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
(1)
"A radome unit provides means for automatically excluding the
weather. It must admit the widest electronic wave frequency
spectrum. It requires greatest strength with minimum structure
and minimum site assembly operations.
Omni-
"Omnitriangulation is implicit for structural stability.
orientation of focal points of structure is at most symmetrical
equivalance of interdistancing.
"Light (as a 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 around one
vertex. It can have three, four, or five equilateral triangles,
but cannot have six or more equilateral triangles in a finite
system.
"Touch = tex of ver-tex, 1.e., converging toward touchability,
meaning a frequency-complex clustering whose frequencies
interfere, or tune in, with the frequency array of the molecular
complex of the atoms altogether constituting the Galaxy of"
-Cite typescript "Definitions by RBF," Pp. 1A, 2a,1, 29 Dec'58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
"frequencies of our life cell tissues or Milky Way nebulae
of locally regenerative frequency, locally recurrent through
self-interference patterning.
It is
(2)
"Mass is a word of inherently synergetic connotation.
a behaviorist word popularly mistaken and used as a static word.
Mass recognizes an inherent plurality of unique consequences
resultant upon any infra- or ultra-sensorial recognizable, i.e.,
timable, collection of regenerative systems of precessionally
self-associative energy-vector events. All the atoms and stars,
as well as all the macro-remote astronomical cluster nebulas
and remote micro-molecules, are such unique synergetically
regenerative, infra-ultra-sensorial, unique multi-atomic mass
clusters.
"A system is a man-thinkable, tune-in-able constellation of
generalized experience event cluster foci. Energy-cluster
foci are starts, or topological ver-texes, which are only the
as-yet-nonanalyzed group phenomenon whose energetic point
centers of event clustering locals are as yet too remote for
the present observer's position. Systems are star inter-
relationship considerations which logically continue to return
upon themselves due to the related preoccupying importance of
Cite typescript "Definitions by RBF," p.1, 29 Dec*58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
"locally dominat event frequency proximities which altogether
function as a fundamental, i.e., simplest or most unique,
geometrical set which inherently subdivides the total Universe.
The cell-time-man-experienced events fall into two main and
clearly distinguishable classes:
(1) All those relatively too large or macrocosmic
events of Universe which must clearly occur outside the
presently thought-considered tunable range capabilities
and are therefore outside the timable system set; and
(2) All those relatively too small, negligible,
microcosmic clan which occur inherently within and infra to
the tunable frequency and relative size ranging of the
considered set.
(3)
"We may define structure as a local and finite system of energy
events of physical Universe consisting of a patterning of
interaimed or intervectorially frequency-synchronized, associ-
ative and disassociative interferences omniprecessionally
resulting as a pattern-regenerative constellation of system-
inward-angled vectors, in dynamically symmetrical, precessional
constellar equilibrium."
Cite Typescript "Definitions of RBF," p.2, 29 Dec'58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
"The energy proximity economy of ideal structuring as
vectorially interaimed and synchronized energy, ergo energy-
balanced interference patterns, comprise system complexes
whose discrete angle and frequency modulations are, in turn,
tunably controllable by man to provide a local energy-
environment controll means for interference. Shunting of the
known, relatively-important-to-man patterning and random
local event program and angle patterning of Universe into
orderly, man-preferred, locally regenerative program and angle
patterns: this is local energetic environment controlling by
anticipatory design science.
"Energy events of structure is a local and finite system of
regenerative Universe consisting of a constellar patterning of
interaimed and frequency synchronized, associative and dis-
associative interferences resulting as a net set of inwardly
angled, precessionally interaligned, vectorial resultants.
vectorial interaimed events must be
Resultants of
to provide a local control of discrete frequency and angle
modulation to control local energy-- to be known as local
energetic environment controls, i.e. radomes.
- Cite typescript "Definitions of RBF," Pp.2-3, 29 Dec 58
(4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
(5)
"Radomes provide means for automatically excluding weather and
including local warmth and dryness. They should admit the
widest possible spectrum of electronic wave frequencies.
"Omnitriangulation is implicit in the requirement for greatest
strength with minimum structure. Omni-orientation of focal
points of structure is at the most symmetrical equivalence of
interdistancing. The strucrure's vectorial components converge
at the vertexes, i.e. points, of the system. The triangular
relationship of all points of any system show a constant
relative abundance in which, of the total number of points, two
are recognized as the poles of the system.
"The principle of constant relative abundance of topological
features of all omnitriangulated systems, provides:
-
N2 = number of nonpolar vertexes;
(N 2)2 = number of triangular faces
N 2 number of diamond faces
(N = 2)3
-
tensional vectors
number of edges, i.e.. compressional or
Cite typescript "Definitions of RBF, "Pp.2A,3, 29 Dec 58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
"Whereas compressional functions of structures are inherently
the most dense and obstructive of electric wave trapping,
convergence should be kept at a minimum with the vector edges
leaving the maximum number of wholes. Triangles are minimum
holes. We can however have triangular
This
(6)
interconnected hex-pent holes. The frequency of triangular
relationships of approximately symmetrical point systems may
be elected over a wide range. Therefore we choose a layout of
triangles which will provide maximum weather exclusion and
nondeterioration of structures and optim installability.
calls for low frequency tensile integrity and islanded
compression with booms which are optimum to site handling gear,
in respect to which pneumatic lozenges can be omni-interconnected
and applied into a unitary double skin.
"Whenever or wherever compressional functions (or vectors) of
structures are inherently most dense and compoundingly self-
impending (sic) at second power, or relative proximities in
respect to local electromagnetic wave frequency, the geodesic"
-
Cite typescript "Definitions of RBF," Pp, 2A,3A,3, + 4, 29 Dec'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Radome Sequence:
"frequency design traffic should keep compressional compo-
nentation and its interconvergece at minimum, i.e., in
edge or vector function leaving a maximum pattern of holes
(i.e. hex-pent triangular faces). . .
Cite typescript "Definitions of RBF," p.4, 29 Dec'58
(7)

461
Radome:
See Dome entries
DEW Line Radomes

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rafti
"The raft is tangent to the sphere at midpoint. The early
navigators all knew this. They saw the islands disappearing
over the horizon in the distance and they were all very
conscious of a spherical world."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Michael Denneny & Arthur Morey, at Belmont
Stakes restaurant breakfast, NYC, 3 Apr'75

REF DEFINITIONS
Raft:
"The origins of the raft are simple: take a man standing
on the bank of a river. He falls in but he doesn't know
how to swim. If he grabs a stone he will sink but if he
hold on to a large enough piece of wood it will support
him. Next we take a man climbing on to a floating log.
He notices that it rolls so he tumbles back into the water.
But if it has a big enough branch or a smaller branch that
falls across another log, he will be able to stand up.
This is a basic raft. If this raft consists of two logs
separated by a distance like an outrigger, the resistance
is much less if the wind is blowing on the sides.
Therefore it will move in that course since everything
goes in the direction of least resistance."
Cite NAGA TO THE INVISIBLE SEA, p. 12. 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rafts: Early World Drifting on Rafts:
"If you were part of the very early world that drifted
on rafta, with currents and with the winds, you just rarely
came back to anything that you were familiar with. The
patterns were very, very large and you just kept sweeping on,
and you could say goodbye to those people and you never ever
saw them again. Because you were saying goodbye to people
and never seeing them again, the phenomena really of life
and death-- you are alive and they are alive, but you never
see them again-- so life and death to those people did not
have the distinction that it had later on. If you never
came to anything that you recognized, you would not then
recognize any really fundamental pattern.
Furthermore,
there were some patterns of stars in the sky, but you
didn't get the same orientation of them ever again, so you
don't tend to recognize that pattern. If you were, however,
some of the early people who went offshore and accomplished
some of the sailing with the beginning ofthe ability to
navigate to witward, when sailing ships first developed the
ability to work to windward, you could retrace your steps,
and if you did retrace your steps, you would then begin to
get the same star patterns that you had before. You
wouldn't have any islands or anything around you, but one
thing that would be familiar is that you would get the same
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rafts:
Early World Drifting on Rafts:
"stars around you. And anyone who does any amount of sailing
knows how very familiar those stars become in the different
aspects."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp.251-252, 11 Jul'62
(2)

Rafts Early World Drifting on Rafta:
See Death, 1970
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity,
(2)

Raft:
See Basic Raft
(1)

Raft:
Rafts:
See Four-dimensional Reality, 30 Apr' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
Of A Sphere:
"The vector equilibrium railroad tracks are trans-world--
like being in an airplane; you can go anywhere. But the
icosahedron is stuck locally with no way to get to another
continent. The vector equilibrium is how you go from one
sphere to another, from Earth to Mars."
Citation and context at Icosahedron As Local Shunting
Circuit, 22 Jun 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
Of A Sphere:
"Now I have found that nature insists on doing things most
economically. We find that energy insists on following the
convex surface. It has to follow the great circles. We
find the 25 great circles of symmetry of the VE have a very
interesting characteristic: every one of them goes through
the 12 vertexes. The 12 vertexes are made out of spheres in
closest packing, packed 12-around-one. These are the points
of tangency of spheres in closest packing. We have here 25
railroad tracks by which energy can go from here to there
anywhere in the Universe in the shortest possible way and it
is the only way it will go. Thses are the only possible
transfers from here to there. So then if you want to go from
here to there in the Universe, you have to follow these
surfaces and you have to go through these contact points.
So these 25 great circles represent a very special set of
events because some of them, for instance the four great
circles go through six vertexes; three great circles only go
through four vertexes, etc.; they have different opportunities
to peel off. They require different frequencies. I think"
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 2, pp.8-9, 25 Feb *69
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
Of a Sphere:
"if you follow different great circles and their frequencies,
incidentally, every one of the chemical elements has been
identified by four different frequencies which absolutely
leads to that chemical element.
"This has all the symmetries there are.
"Now the same sphere could become the icosahedron.
It has
the only great circles we have which don't go through the
transfer points. Then they are not in agreement any more.
When they get into an icosahedron you can shut off the energy
supply and any waves would start going through the system and
vector equilibrium would go through it."
-
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 2, p.9, 25 Feb'69
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
(1)
Railroad Tracks:
Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
of a Sphere:
"The shortest distance between points on the surface of a
sphere are the great circles. They are called the geodesic
lines and inasmuch as there is no such thing as a straight
line and we are working in some kinds of developing surfaces,
the great circles are called geodesic lines. We are now
getting into the axes of spin which are inherent in any
system. We found that systems could be joined up See Rubber
Tires and they develop axial aspects, but they don't
frustrate the rest of the Universe.
"Now we are very interested in the kinds of great circles
which are developed by the various spins because they must
have some kind of important relationship. We saw that if
we had twelve spheres in what we call closest packing--
if you wanted to go the shortest distance between points on
the surface of spheres-- supposing you were an electric
charge, an electron. We make great copper spheres, the
old Van de Graaff generators and so forth, you could build
up enormous charges of electricity on the surface of this
sphere."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 266. 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
of a Sphere:
(2)
"The charges never try to go on the concave side of this
sphere. They always stay on the convex side. You run into
this kind of behavior just in trying the electroplate
phenomenon. You will find that you cannot plate the concave
side. You automatically electroplate the convex side. The
convex side goes into higher tension which means that it is
actually thinner and therefore less resistant and therefore
the energy tries to follow the convex surfaces. Supposing
you were the kind of energy that always follows the convex
kind of surfaces and yet, being energy, you always have to
do it the shortest way. You want to go from sphere to sphere
on the surface of the sphere so you would have to take the
great circles at the points where the spheres touch one another
and therefore you would take the great circles of them.
Therfore those 25 great circles are very important because
they are all the possible great circles that carry all the
traffic between the twelve points-- they are all the possible
geodesic railroads. With that kind of energy which always
has to follow surfaces, these are the railroad tracks that
you would have to follow.
-
•
•
11
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 266-267. 11 Jul'62
SYSTEM-SEC. 452.03

HBF DEFINITIONS
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
of a Sphere: Convex and Concave:
"Dr Einstein pointed out that you could be the little man in
the Universe who always went from sphere to sphere and
through the points of tangency. You lived inside the
concave surface of a sphere and you could get to the point
of tangency in the next sphere, and the next sphere,
concavely, and you could go right through the Universe that
way. Or you could be the little man who lived on the
outside of the sphere, and always lived convexly, and you
came to the same point of tangency and you went on. This
is one way of looking at Universe and the sphere is another
way of looking at Universe. This is typical of not being
fooled by just looking at the spheres-- or just looking
at the little triangle locally on the surface of your big
sphere where you had your big triangle. This is beginning
to give us ways of seeing the complementarity at all times."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 258. 11 Jul'62
SYSTEM SEC 452.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
of a Sphere: Foldability:
"This may be pure accident but I could say something to
you now categorically that is really very fascinating,
that is, I found that you could fold and make all the 25
and 31 great circles. There are no other circles though
that I know how to fold and make any other kind of great
circle patterns on spheres. They and they alone seem to
be foldable into these conditions. This seems to be a very
strange kind of control because if they did they all relate,
they are the ways of the grand central station and all the
shortes, most economical railroad tracks between all the
points in Universe-- flying either concave or convex."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 271. 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Railroad Tracks: Triangular Systems of Energy Networks.
"In any network high energy charges refuse to take the
long way round to their opposite pole. They tend to push
through, the separating space, striving to 'short.' Thus
energy will automatically triangulate via a diagonal of
a square, or via the triangulating diagonals of any other
polygon to which the force is applied. Triangular systems
represent the shortest, most economical energy networks.
The triangle is the basic unit of energy configurations,
whether occurring as free energy or as structure."
-
Cite R.W. KARKS, p. 43. 1960
SYSTEM. SEC. 452.04

Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface:
of a Sphere:
See Foldability of Great Circles
Frequency: Alternate Wavelength Frequency
Grand Central Station of Universe
Holding Circuit
Kissing Point: K:
Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections
Vector Equilibrium:
Great Circles Of
(1)

Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on the Surface
of a Sphere:
See Allspace Filling: Octa & VE, 1967
Gravitational Constant (1)(2)
Omnidirectional Typewriter (2)-(4)
(2)

Railroads:
Railroad Tracks:
See Airplanes vs. Railroads
(1)

Railroada: Railroad Tracks:
See Dymaxion Airocean World, (I)
Convergent vs. Parallel Perception, 13 Nov'75
(2)

Railway Traina: Loosely Coupled:
See Diesel Ship at Sea, May'72

KEF DEFINITIONS
Rain:
"Earth's biospheric inventory of water is radially
dispersed outwardly by vaporization and omnilocally
condensed as inwardly 'falling drops of rain, which are
gravitationally and convergently collected as ocean."
-
Citation & context at Islanded Radiation & Tensional
Constancy, 11 Feb 76

Rain as Radial:
See Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (3)
Ecology, 16 Feb'73
Precession, (I)
Rain, 11 Feb' 76

Rain:
See Ecological Pattern, 19 Sep'64
Ecology Sequence, (a)
Radiation Sequence, (2)
Trespassing, (1)
Water, May 65
Wind Power Sequence, (5)
Islanded Radiation & Tensional Constancy, 11 Feb'76*

Rainbow:
See Optical Rainbow Range

RBF DEFINITIONS
Raison d'Etre:
"The illogically developed stigma*
Which misinforms millions today
Is being swiftly eradicated
As its championship raison d'etre
Is manifest in world athletics.
[* of race]
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan 172, p. 15

RBF DEFINITIONS
Raison d'Etre:
"Environment is the whole raison d'etre of man's
•
existence. This is why I became preoccupied with
environment: how do we protect the infant, being born
a genius, from being de-geniused by his environment.
11
Studente Int
amberet, 22 July 1971.
- Citation at Environment, 22 Jul*71

Raison d'Etre of Boast & Fear:
See Superstition, May'49
Ignorance, (1)(2)

Raison d'Etre of Going Awayness:
See Repulsion, 7 Feb'71

BBL PRINTTIONS
Raison d'Etre:
(1)

Raison d'Etra:
See DNA, 31 May'71
Environment, 22 Jul 71*
More With Less: Sea Technology,
Building Industry, (12)
Propaganda, 29 Mar' 77
(4)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ramify:
"Unlike Siddhartha
•
I decided to ramify the ramifiable."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Governor House Motel, Bethesda, 28 April 1971
after reading Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha" the night before,
given him by Mary Cohen.

Ramify the Idealistic:
See Now, 14 Feb172

Ramify:
See Multiramifications
(1)

Ramifya
See Capabilities 20 Apr' 72
Thinking,
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (5)
(2)

Random Element: Law of Increase of The:
See Entropy
Expanding Physical Universe
Thermodynamics: Second Law Of
(1)

Random Element: Law of Increase of The:
See Antientropy, 10 Oct'63
Man as a Function of Universe, (B)
Sorting, May'65
Stardust, May' 65
(2)

Random Element:
See Inadvertence - Random Element
(1)

Random Element:
See Inadvertence, 1938
Man as a Function of Universe,
Profess: Profession, 22 Apr 61
Stardust, May'65
Wow: The Last Wow, 22 Apr171
(B)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Randomness:
"All stars radiate energy in a random manner.
Randomness
begets increasing disorder which is self-expansive.'
-
Citation and context at Boltsmann Sequence (5), Dec'72

166
RBF DEFINITIONS
Randomness:
"Randomness of lines automatically works back to a
set of interactions and a set of proximities which begin
to triangulate themselves. . . . The most comfortable
condition of triangles is equilateral so there will be a
tendency for them to try to become equilateral.
This effect goes on in depth and in to the tetrahedra or
octahedra."
-Cite Carbondale Draft
Nature's Coordination, p. Vist
Cite Ledgmont Lab, p.20, 15 Oct164

RBF DEFINITIONS
Randomness:
"Entropy is not random; it is always one negative
tetrahedron."
· Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 157, 1960
Citation at Entropy, 1960

Random: Randomness:
See Brouwer, L.E.J:
Coincidental Articulation Sequence
Intercept the Random Event
Omnirandomness
Order Underlying Randomness:
Probability
Rearrange Random Receipts
Entropy Randomness
Principle of
Happen: Happening: Happenstance
(1)

Random: Randomness:
See Boltzmann Sequence (5)*
Entropy, 1960*
Nebula, 29 Oct 72
Space Technology (7)
Triangle, 8 Oct'64
Biological Life, (1)
Thinking, 6 Novi 73
Light on Scratched Metal, 9 Nov' 73
(2)

RBY DEFINITIONS
Range Finder:
"Dual personality... provides two viewpoints... equivalent to
the eyes of a range finder, an instrument which mechanically
widens the distance between the two human eyes...
Citation and context at Genius, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Range Finder: Range Finding:
See Convergent va. Parallel Perception, 13 Nov 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rate:
Rate is a modulation
*Rate occurs only when there is terminal.
between terminals. With termination, a system's integrity is
brought about by the individually covarying magnitudes and the
omnidirectional experience pulls on the system.
1
Cite SYNERGETICS taxt at Sec. 411.37; galley rewrite, 2 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rate:
Rate is a
"You don't get rate until there is terminal.
modulation between terminals. With termination of a
system's integrity is brought about by the individually
covarying magnitudes and the omnidirectional experience
pulls on the system.
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, incorporated in SYNERGETICS
draft At Sec. 411,8, 9 Nov '72
[37]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rate:
"...Rate being the inseparable relationship of time and space."
- Citation and context at Conscious World, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rate:
"Speed is a unit of rate which is an integrated ratio of
both time and space and no greater rate of speed than that
provided by its cause, which is pure energy, latent or
radiant, is attainable."
Citation & context at Einstein Equation: Telegram to Nogucahi,
1938

Rates & Magnitudes:
See Fast & Slow
Big & Little
Universal Integrity:
Second-power Congruence of
Gravitational & Radiational Constants
Frequency & Magnitude
Slower & Closer vs. Faster & Far Apart
(1)

Rates & Magnitudes:
See Integration, 29 Aug'64
Shunt, Jun'66
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, 15 Oct'64
Time, 23 May'72
Time-energy Economics, 15 Jun'74
Pollution Control (2)
Gravity: Circumferential Leverage, (4)
Historical Event Cognition, 2 Mar'68
Vector Equilibrium, 3 Jan 75
Periodic Experience, (9)
Intellect: Equation Of, (A)(B)
Hyperbolic Paraboloid, 14 May'75
Structural Sequence, (B)
Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov'75
Flywheels, 11 Dec 75
Gestation Rate, 1 Mar' 77
(2)

Rate & Terminal:
See Rate, 2 Novi 73

Rato & Terminal
See Terminal Rate

Rate:
See Degree of Freedom Rate
Expansion-contraction System Accumulating Rates
Frequency
Lag Rates
Melting: Rate Of
Rates & Magnitudes
Tetrahedron:
Terminal Rate
Dissimilar Rate of Change Accomodation
Omnidifferentiated Rates
Third-power Rate of Variation Model
Nuclear Propagation Rate
Recall Rates
Point Growth Rate
Shell Growth Rate
(1)

Rate:
See Change, 9 Nov'72
Comprehensive, 1960
Conscious World, 1938*
Future of Synergetics, 22 Apr'68
Good & Evil Sequence, (1)
Pythagoras, (1)
Subset, 1960
Synergetics, 26 May'72
Tidal, May 72
Calculus, Mar 71.
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
Life, 25 Mar' 71
Machines vs. Structures, 13 Nov' 75
(2)

RATIOS: CHECKLIST
See Volume-energy Ratios
Volume-number Ratios
Volume-quanta Ratios
(1)
Volume-surface Ratios
Volume-weight Ratios
Twentyness in Mass Ratio of Electron & Proton
Universal Integrity: Vector Equilibrium & Icosahedron
Vector Equilibrium: Ratio of Volume to Quantum
Oravitational Constant
Quantum Values:
Potential Ratio of Volume to
Realized Quantum Values
Universal Integrity: Manifest Ratios & Potential
Ratios
Slenderness Ratio
Length-to-girth Ratio
Coordinate Abundance Ratios
Surface-mass Ratios

Ratios:
Ratio-ing:
See Cartilage vs. Bone,
Dec '61
Efficiency, 22 Jan 75.
Greater Intellect, (2)
Inverse, 11 Jul 62
Trigonometry: Spherical Trigonometry, (1);
11 Jul 62
(2)

Rational Action in a Rational World:
See Dymaxion, 1967

Rationality by Complementation:
See Icosahedron & Vector-edged Cube

Rational Concentricity:
See Unified Operational Field, 30 Dec '73

Rational Fractions:
See Modules: A & B Quanta Modules
(1)

Rational Fractions:
See Vector Equilibrium Field, 20 Dec'73
(2)

Rational Relational:
See Reason, Aug'73

Rationalization of Selfishness:
See Propaganda, 29 Mar! 77
News & Evolution, (3)
Technology:
Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (3) (4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rational Whole Numbers:
"Rational values
a whole number.
•
can be expressed as a ratio of
Now here in" Synergetics "is it
necessary to introduce irrational numbers such as pi,
(3.14159..+)."
* Cite MARKS, pp 47-48, 1960

Rational Whole Numbers:
See Low Order Prime Numbers
Asymmetry: Plus & Minus Magnitudes as Rational
Fractions
Prime Rational Integer Characteristics
Single Integer Differentials
(1)

Rational Whole Numbers:
123
(2)
See Simplex, 1965
Vector Equilibrium (1)
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, Dec'61
Energy Has Shape, 24 Sep*73
Absolute Network, 10 Nov '74
Omnihalo, Nov 71
Module: A Quanta Module: Introduction of,
22 Feb 77
Multiplication by Division, 20 Jan' 77.
Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (1)-(3)
Trigonometry, 26 Sep'77

Rationality: Rational:
(1)
See Omnirationality
Prime Rational Integer Characteristics
Reason
Nuclear Geometrical Limit of Rational Differentiation

Rationality:
See Cosmic Accounting, 20 Dec'73
Dymaxion, 1967; 1960
Oscillation, 21 Dec171
Powering: Second Powering, 21 Dec171
Vector Equilibrium, (1) (2)
Triacontrahedrong 3 May' 77
Min
-
max Limits, 8 Aug'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rationalization Sequence :
"Upon the premise that the sumtotal human desire to survive
is dominant over the sumtotal
of the impulse to destroy,
(1)
this book is designed. it does not seek to provide a formula
to attainment. To do so would develop dogma and nullify the
process of individual rationalization that is utterly essential
for growth.
"Rationalization is an act similar to walking through a half-
frozen, marshy, unexplored country to mark out a trail that
others may eventually follow. It involves not only the
familiar one-two progression of shifting the weight and balance
from one foot to the other, but an unknown quantity progression
of selective testing to avoid treacherous ground before putting
full weight upon the forward foot.
"Rationalization is a time-word to replace 'thinking, which is
an ancient, mystically evolved word tentatively signifying an
attempt to force the power of god into one's self. Rationaliza-
tion connotes a constant, selective balancing of relative values,
gained from experience, for the purpose of harmonious, inclusive
recomposition and subsequent extension.
-ve
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE ON, p. ix, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rationalization Sequence:
(2)
"It is central to my philosphy that everything in the Universe
is constantly in motion, atomically if not
visibly,
and that opposing forces throughout this kinetic picture are
always in neat balance; furthermore, that everything invariably
moves in the direction of least resistance.
"The history of man's creative effort is the story of his
struggle to control 'direction' by the elimination of known
resistances.
"To the degree that the direction of least resistance is control-
led by vacuumizing the advance and de-vacuumizing the wake, the
course of society can be progressively better charted and
eventually determinable with a high degree of certainty.
"The creative control, or streamlining of society by the
scientific-minded (the right-makes-mightist) is in direct
contrast to attempts by scheming matter-over-mindists (the
might-makes-rightist) to control society by increasing, instead
of lessening, resistance to natural flows through such devices
as laws, tariffs, prohibitions, armaments, and the cultivation
of popular fear.
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE HOON,
p.x,
1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rationalization Sequence:
(3)
"By controling direction it becomes possible, scientifically,
to increase the probability that specific events will happen.'
"Preparation of the material herein set forth dates from the
very beginning of my experience. Up to a point in that ex-
perience i lived by the common code of loyalty and good fellow-
ship with all of its convincing and romantic 'tradition.'
Then,
through my own particular quota of important slaps in the face,
it became apparent that in 'tradition' lies fallacy, and that to
be guided in conduct and thought by blind adherence to tenets
of tradition is, as said in slang, bravely to 'stick the neck
out.'
I realized that experience is the vital factor, and that,
since one can think and feel consciously only in terms of
experience, one can be hurt only in terms of experience.
When
one is hurt, then somewhere in the linkage of his experience
can be discovered the parting of the strands that led to the
hurt. Therefore it follows that strict adherence to rationaliza-
tion, within the limits of self-experience, will provide.
corrections to performance obviating not only for one's self,
but for others, the pitfalls that occasion self-hurt. By
cultivating the ability to rationalize in the absolute, one
acquires the power of so ordering experience that truths are"
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE LOUN, p.x, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rationalization Sequence:
(4)
"clarified and susceptibility to self-hurt is diminished to the
point of negligibility. Through rationalizations anyone may
evolve solutions for any situations that may arise, and by the
attainment of this ability through experience one obtains his
license to be of service to mankind.
"nationalization 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, flat
iron, 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.
"The substance of this book develops my conviction of these
truths. In a final chapter I have recorded certain thought="
Cite NINE CHAIRS TO THE RUN, pp.x-xi, 1938

KBF DEFINITIONS
(5)
Nationalization Sequence:
The
"processes and results of abstract intuitive thinking which
would be obscure without reading the preceding sections.
reason for exposing myself to possible suspicion of 'mysticism'
is to show how important it is to transcribe the faint thought
messages coming into our personal cosmos at the time of
occurrence- sketchy and puzzling though they may be-- because
time,
if well served, will turn them into monkey-wrenches and
gas torches..
"The title Nine Chains to the Moon' was chosen to encourage
and stimulate the broadest attitude toward thought. Simulta-
neously, it emphasizes the littleness of our Universe from the
mind viewpoint. A statistical cartoon whould show that if,
in imagination, all of the people of the world were to stand
upon one another's shoulders, they would make nine complete
chains between the Earth and the Moon. If it is not so far
to the Moon, then it is not so far to the limits-- whatever,
whenever, or wherever they may be.
"Limits are what we have feared. So much has been done to make
us conscious of our infinite physical smallness that the time
has come to dare to include the complete Universe in our"
- Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, p.x1, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rationalization Sequence: (6)
"rationalizing. It is no longer practical to gaze at the
surfaces of 'named' phenomena within the range of vision of
the smoking car of the 5.15 with no deeper analysis of their
portent than is derivable from a superficial
exchange of complexed opinion-notions with fellow-commuters.
"'After all,' Jeans said, 'it is man who asked the question.'
The question is survival, and the answer, which is unit, lies
in the progressive sumtotaling of man's evolving knowledge.
Individual survival is identifiable with the whole-- as
extension or extinction. There is no good country doctor on
Mars to revive those who, through mental inertia, are stream-
lining into extinction.
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, p.xi, 1938

Rationalization:
See Political Mandates: Inventory of, 27 Dec '73
Selfishness, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Razor:
11
The blade of a razor is a randomly dumped breakwater
of spherical rubble."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.41, 10 Beb'73

Reachable Point:
See Vector Equilibrium: Unarticulated VE, 2 Nov' 73

Reach-miles:
See Radiation: Speed Of, 30 Nov'72
Vector Equilibrium: Unarticulated Ve, 2 Nov' 73

Reach: Reachability Range:
See Limit Reach
Radial Reach
Radiant Valvability of TVM-defined Wavelength
Sweepout
(1)

Reach: Reachable:
See Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov'72
Point, 16 Nov'72
Time, 30 Nov'72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reaction:
"While the human's actions are antientropic, his reactions
are entropic, ergo unpredictable."
Citation and context at Individuality, May'65
-
0ite RBF in AAUW Journal,
176, May 165.

Reaction:
See Action
Action-reaction-resultant
Resultant
2 Cobras
(1)

Reaction:
See Sixty Degreeness, 8 Dec' 72
(2)
63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reading:
"We don't know how we retrieve information from our brain.
The conscious part does some triggering; it acts as a valve;
it can be a brake or it can be an accelerator. But the
conscious part is less than one-millionth of the retrieval
process. The rest is subconscious. There is an automatic
process. When we can't remember a name the brain doesn't
forget we asked the question, although maybe we have forgotten.
But the lags are variable, and therefore the feedbacks are
not orderly. The only coscious part is the holding back of
irrelevancies. And this is true of reading, too."
Cite RBF in tape interview with Mike Bandler, Wash. Post,
"Portrait of a Man Reading," 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 29 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reading:
(1)
Q. "Mr. Fuller, you're quite a traveler. Where do you find
the time and the places to read?"
A. "Obviously airplanes and airports are great places, as
are hotel rooms very late at night. I'm convinced you can't
put out if you don't put in. In other words, thinking does
come from experience. Reading increases the number of
experiences from which you may gradually adduce generalized
principles. I am now fairly aware of what my conscious part
is in this very complex system called thinking. That conscious
part, which is only one-millionth of the picture, can do
some triggering, can be a brake or an accelerator, a valve
that can shut off or turn off a process.
"We experience different rates of retrieval of information,
Even in my vocabulary and in my reading, there are lags, and
when people talk about speed reading, it's really just a means
of diminishing the lag. I'm not interested in speedreading,
but rather in content and understanding. But I find the
subconscious is very powerful.
"During 1938-1940 I was consultant in science and tech-
nology to the editor of Fortune magazine, and my function
was to emphasize the science foundations of great industry.
Cite Michael Bandler Interview, BOOK WEEK, 11 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reading:
(2)
"I read 'Patent Gazette,' and I could literally spin the
pages, and when my eyes saw something I wasn't familiar with
they would stop me. They recognized absolutely everything
I wasn't familiar with. So when I read today I don't have
to process the material. I know my subconscious will stop
me when I'm not familiar with something. Everybody has that
capacity, but not
everyone uses it."
Cite "Books and Buckminster Fuller," Interview by Michael J.
Bandler, BOOK WEEK, 11 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reading:
Escapist Reading:
Q: "What do you do in the way of what might be called
escapist reading?"
A:
"I have nothing to escape. I'm really so fascinated
with life."
Cite query from Mike Bandler, Wash. Post, "Portrait of a Man
Reading," to RBF in tape interview, 3200 Idaho, 29 May' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reading Out Loud:
"We read all of Dickens out loud. In reading out loud your
eye really goes several lines ahead and you can anticipate
the meaning and inflections. Out loud reading went right on
through the time of World War I, but it went out just like
that when popular radio came in."
Cite RBF in tape interview with Mike Bandler, Wash. Post.,
"Portrait of a Man Reading," 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 29 May'72

Reader: Reading:
See Child Sequence, (3)
Fuller, R.B: Books Read in His Youth, 1971
Semantica, 20 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Real:
"
Vectors being the product of physical energy
constituents, are 'real,' having velocity multiplied
by mass operating in a specific direction%; velocity
being a product of time and size modules; and mass being
a volume-weight relationship."
Citation at Vectors, 27 May' 72
CIL SYNERGES draft, Sec. 410.05, HBF

Real:
See Ideal vs. Real
Realm: Real:
Royal
Real Models of Reality
Real Universe
(1)

Real:
See Principle, May149
Vector, 27 May'72*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Real Estate:
"Big money has left all the sovereignly locked-in, local-
property-game players holding the unmovable bags of real
estate....
->
Citation & context at Transnational Capitalism & Export
Of Know-how, (1); 20 Sep'76

HBF DEFINITIONS
Heal Estate Development:
"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."
- Orte HBF queted by Hal Aigner, in Holling Stone, 10 June-1941
-
Citation and context at Politics, 10 Jun'71

173
Real Estate: Real Estate Development:
See Building Business
Realm: Real: Royal
Whitehead's Dilemma
Land Exploitation
Deed: (Property Deed)
Miniature Castle Building
(1)

Real Estate:
Real Estate Development:
See New York City (12)
(2)
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how, (1)*
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep'76

TEXT CITATIONS
Realistic:
Synergetics draft at Sec. 1001.14, 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"The reality is always orbital."
Citation & context at Orbit
-
Circuit, 10 Sep' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"Reality is always indeterminate."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 5 May'74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"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."
-
Citation and context at Sphericity of Whole Systems, 26 Sep' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
What we call reality is always a positive or
negative set of the whole. "
(This is in the context of a description of
zero vector equilibrium.)
-
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron (3),
11 Jul 62
Cite Carbondale Draft
Naturals Coordination,
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 236. 11 Jul 162
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 441.23, 9 Jun172
See RBF rewrite on galley at Sec. 441.23, cited at Physical
Reality, 4 Nov 73°

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"What the mathematicians have been calling abstraction
is reality.
When they are inadequate in their abstraction
then they
are irrelevant to reality. The mathematicians
feel they can
do anything they want with their abstraction
because
they don't relate it to reality. And, of course,
they can really do anything
they want with their abstractions
but, like
masturbation, it is irrelevant to the propagation
of life.
"The only reality is the abstraction of the principles, the
eternal generalized
principles. . . Most people talk of
reality as what
are just the after-image effects-- the
realization
lags, which register superficially and are
asymmetric and off
center. (The principles themselves have
different lag rates
and different interferences.)
get
to reality it's absolutely eternal.
When we
"The inherent inaccuracy is what people call the reality.
Man's way of apprehending
is always slow: ergo the super-
ficial and erroneous
impressions of solids and things, which
can actually be
explained only in principle."
tite Hip
Citation at Abstraction, 24 Feb 72'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"The principle is more of a reality than the qualities
they produce."
Gite RBF to BJA, 3200 Idaho, DG, 22 Feb 172-
- Citation and context at Principle, 22 Feb172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
...There is no straight line; only the wave coincides with
reality.
19
-
Citation & context at Now, 14 Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"The nonsimultaneity and dissimilarity
Of the complementary interpatternings
Produce what we sense to be reality,
Otherwise they would cancel one another
And there would be no sensoriality."
Citation at Senses, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"
Not until we have size, not until we have energetic
experienceablity, i.e., not until we have reality, do
we have structural stabilization of the nuclear 12 [ balls
of the vector equilibrium J."
-
sland, 23 August 1971
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium, 23 Aug 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"Conceptuality is metaphysical and weightless.
"Reality is physical."
- fite co-RJA, Somerset Club, Deston
1971
Citation & context at Conceptuality & Reality, 22 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"All of the weightless metaphysical thoughts concerning
reality are mentally understandable independently of any
special-case physical sense experience. All such weightless
thoughts can be imaginatively described by one person either
to himself or to another person by weightless conceptions.
Such weightless thinking-- independent of physical sensing--
plus our scientific discovery of the great infra- and ultra-
to-human-sense-ranging of physical energy's electromagnetic
spectrum regularities altogether combine to both establish
and confirm that less than one-millionth of reality is
now directly apprehensible by the human senses."
-
Cite ARCHITECTURE AS ULTRA INVISIBLE REALITY, p. 150, Dec. '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless
generalized principles."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p.41, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"Every chemical element has its unique frequencies. That
became the way that you know, this is what you mean by that,
mathematically and scientifically this is the element, this
is the reality. Copper is real, and copper was those
frequencies.
"
-
Cite RBF Address THE HABITABLE CITY, 14 Oct 169.
UNIQUE FREQUENCIES
SEC. 418.12 REJECTED BY RBF, 11 Nov 'TH

475
RBP DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"...Everything we know as reality has to be either a positive
or negative condition."
Citation and context at Nature, Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality:
"Pure science events represent openings of windows
through the wall of ignorance and fiction, to reveal
the only reality-- the behavior of the naked Universe
that always was, is, and will be. True it is that the
first glimpses may be hazy and imperfect, but the behavior
itself is absolute and progressively clarified.
Citation and context at Science, p.13, 1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality: Fuller's Reality vs. Popular Reality:
"I really very clearly differentiate today what I call
reality and what most people call reality.
Their reality
is that you have got to make money and you have got to pay
your bills. I consider that really a game. So it is part
of my reality that man is hooked with a game, which makes
it very inconvenient for me where they are not dealing with
reality. The game includes social standings, reputation...
that there is a place called Chicago... because in my reality
there are probably no names.
H
Citation & context at Interrelatedness vs. Names, (1);
20 Feb 77

Reality: Fuller's Reality vs. Popular Reality:
See Earning a Living

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality vs, Generalization:
"There are a lot of different realities. That is the
difference between reality and generalization. There is
only one generalization."
-
Citation & context at Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (3)
17 Jun 75

TEXT CITATIONS
Reality
8543.05
Inexactitude

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles:
"The relative abundances of reciprocally patterning
principles everywhere constitute the so far discovered
inventory of mimally complex, ergo fundamentally differentiable
structurally regenerative universal governance. The complex
of interactively accommodating principles and their relative
abundance accommodation are reality-- the only reality. What
man, in his sensorially preoccupied misapprehending, has termed
'abstract, in contradistinction to sensorial, as well as
that which man has designated as metaphysical in contradis-
tinction to physical, are altogether one reality. The fact
of meagerness of the experience-generated knowledge of
man in respect to the omniregenerative structure of reality
and the observational facts taken in the twilight zones
between the meager known and the as-yet-unexperienced, in
no way alters the unitary integrity of the utter interaccomo-
dation of complex structural interaction of the principles
as so far sum totally inventoried by the faithfully reported
experiences of man.
-
Cite I&I, DOMES, p. 147. 1963

Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles:
See Universe (p.131) 1960
Airplane, May'49
Periodic Experience, (7)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reality: Structurings as the Only and Inescapable Reality:
"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."
Cite I&I, DOMES, p. 147. 1963

Reality & Unreality:
See Dynamic Equilibrium, 24 Apr'76

Reality:
See Common Sense Reality
Conceptuality & Reality
Cosmetry
Earth: Let's Get Dow to Earth
Game of Reality
Geometry of Reality
Ideal vs. Real
Invisible Reality
Local Reality
Mind as Reality
Minimum Reality
Nonreality
Official Reality
Perceptual Peephole
Physical Reality
Residual Reality
A Priori Four-dimensional Reality
Mind-over-matter Reality
Temporality
Tempo-reality
Time-reality
(1A)

Reality:
See Sensorial Identification of Reality
Spherical Reality
Superficial Reality
Wellspring of Reality
Vectors Are Real
Four-dimensional Reality
Momentary Reality
(1B)

Reality:
(2A)
See Abstraction, 24 Feb 72*
Apprehending, 22 Nov 173
Benday Screen, 28 Oct 72
Conceptuality
Dream, 1968
God, May 68
Reality, 22 Apr171*
Invisible Colors, 4 Mar'69
Imaginary Universe vs. This Universe, 22 Feb'72
Magic, 18 Nov 172
Mother: Infant Nursing at Mother's Breasts, 18 Nov'72
Nature. Jun'66
One, 20 Dec'73
Now, 14 Feb 72*
Positive & Negative, 11 Jul'62
Principle, 22 Feb 72*
Quantum Mechanics, Jun'66
Responsibility, 14 Oct '69
Science, 1947*
Sphericity of Whole Systems, 26 Sep'73*

Reality:
See Vector Equilibrium, 23 Aug 71*; 1 May' 71
Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron (3)*
Velocity, 12 Jul*62
Senses, 1971*
Orbit Circuit, 10 Sep*74*
Principle, 6 Apr* 75
Thought, May'49
In, Out & Around, Nov' 71
Multidimensional Accommodation, 11 Dec 75
Life & Death, 26 Jan'76
Me, 18 Dec'76
Life is Not Physical, 20 Feb'77
Conceptual Limits, 22 Jun 77
(2B)

Reality:
See Reality: Fuller's Reality vs. Popular Reality
Reality vs. Generalization
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles
Reality: Structurings as the Only & Inescapable
Reality
Reality & Unreality
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realizable:
"Physical interferences of our sensibilities are alike
true and real, or realizable, only in principle."
Citation and context at Principle, May'49

RBP DEFINITIONS
Realization:
"...All physical realisations are always disequilibrious.*
Citation and context at Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium
120 LCD Triangle, 20 Dec 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realization:
"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
Realization:
"Realizations are always imperfect."
-
Citation and context at Physical Is Always the Imperfect, 14 Feb
172
-Cite HBF marginalis at beoles, Facing Reality, D.
.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realization:
"Potential lines are metaphysically straight,
all physically realized relationships are
geodesic and curved trajectories.' It
-
„Cité SYNERGETICS Vorstartes
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realization:
"Realization is objective integrity."
Cite I&I, PRIME DESIGN, p. 245. May'60

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realization:
• •
"The new reliable understanding of meaning.
requires the revision not only of semantics but also of
their complex aspect as thought habits employed to
describe experience with accuracy, such as.
°
the substutution of the word 'realization for the very
inaccurate use of the verb 'to create.' Man creates
naught. If he comprehends in principle, he rearranges
locally in Universe by realization of the interactions
of principles."
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, P.234, May149
Citation & context at Meaning, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realization Lag:
"Where all the local vectors are approximately equal
we have a potantially local isotropic vector equilibrium,
but the operative vector complex has the inherent qualities
of both proximity and remoteness in respect to any
locally initiated action, ergo, a complex of relative
velocities of realization lags.'
Citation at Proximity, Oct159
Cite SYNERGETICS, Corollaries, Sec. 240. 1971)

Realization Lags:
See Abstraction, 24 Feb'72
Local Vector Equilibrium, 2 Nov* 73.
Metaphysical, 14 Feb 72
Proximity, Oct!59*
Time, 23 May 72"

430
Realization: Realizable:
See After-image
Conceptual Genesis
Creativity
Cyclic Realization
Discovery
Potential vs. Realized
Pulsivity of Realizations
Regenerative Design:
Quantum Values
Self-realization
Time-somethingness
Systematic Realization
Law Of
Operational Realizations
Comprehensive Realizer
Operational Physically Realized
Temporary Realizations
(1)

Realization: Realizable:
(2A)
See Basic Triangle:
Basic Disequilibrium 120 LCD
Triangle, 20 Dec173*
Conceptuality & Reality, Jun'66
Experience, 1960
Four, 26 Jan*7]
Frame of Reference, 4 Oct 72
Interference, May 49
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 6 Mar 173
Isotropic-vector-matrix Field, 20 Dec'73
Meaning, May'49*
Metaphysical & Physical, 1971*
Physical Is Always the Imperfect, 14 Feb 72*
Principle, May'49*%; 7 Oct 75
Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness, 28 Dec '73
Timeless, 1 Apr 72
Time-sizing, 30 Nov 72
Vector, 26 May 172*
Wavilinear, 28 Oct 173
Radial Depth, 20 Feb'74

Realization: Realizable:
11 Dec'75
See Special Case, 27 Dec*74
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry,
Children as Only Pure Scientists, 28 Apr$77
(2B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realm: Real: Royal:
"All of us really carry on much on a really safe basis,
going back again to people with swords and farming the land.
de go back to somebody with weapons more powerful than
other people saying, 'I claim this and don't anybody say No.'
If nobody said 'No' then you called your officers to write
the deeds... We have our deedings going back to whoever is
the sovereign of that land. The word real in Spanish is
the word royal or our word real-- coming from is it valid
to the king... Our real estate going back to royalty's
estate. Valid to the king-- comes back to the deeds of the
king. Then we have man monopolozing the physical.
Fanatas-
tic laws we have protecting the land and almost no laws
protecting man's ideas, the metaphysical. We protect the
physical. It is the underlying financing of the building
in terms of the land. This land exploitation is very
dominat in the building world, making the equities of land
more and more, not thinking at all about the fundamentals
of how do you really serve man. 1
(Edited and slightly
rearranged.)
Cite Transcript Univ. of Alaska Address, p.2, 20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Realm:
Real: Royal:
He
"The great pirates came into the various lands and picked
the strongest man in each to be their local head man.
became their general manager of the local realm (realm =
real-m). Real (pronounced re-al) means royal in Spanish.
Hoi means king (French). Hoy means grand ruler (India).
All are derived from Ra or He: Thu sun gods of India,
China, Mesopatamia, and Egypt. From this comes the real
thing, realization, and reality, 1.e., the commonly recog-
nized experience-- ergo, real estate which was certified
under royal deeds issued by the original sovereign claimant
of the land. There is an official reality which is
sometimes unnatural."
-
Cite ENVIRONILNT AND CHANGE, Ed. W.R. Ewald, P. 350.
Above passage omitted from OPERATING FANUAL FOR SPACE*
SHIP EARTH text at P. 28. 1968

Realms vs. Surface:
See Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar' 77

ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY (WEEKLEY)
Realm:
OF reame, reeme, L. regimen, later becoming realm reiaume
(royaume under influence of real, royal. Mod. form, later
influencing pronunc. is due to influence of ME real, royal,
usual early forms being
reame, reme.

Real:
ETMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY (WEEKLEY)
Adj. F. réel, Late L., realis, from res, thing.
As trade description perh. influenced by ME real, rial (royal),
stock epithet for superior merchandise.

Realm: Real: Royal:
See Religion: Related to 'Reglio
↑
or Rule

Real Models of Reality:
See Grand Central Station of Universe
Local Vector Equilibrium
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks on
The Surface of a Sphere
(1)

Real Models of Reality:
See Graphable, 27 May'72
(2)

Real Universe:
See Real World
(1)

Real Universe:
See Graphable, 27 May 172
Probability, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Real World:
"The real world is a special case.
RBF confirmed his authorship of above bumber sticker by
leaping out of EJA car on 34th Street in Georgetworn en
route to a State Dept. Meeting. RBF chatted with woman driver
of DC license # 160-585; she also attributed statement to
RBF; 12 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rearrange Elemental Order:
"Energy is the capability or the capacity to rearrange
elemental order.
Citation & context at Energy, 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rearranging the Environment:
"I'm experienced in going from original conceptions, i.e.
inventions-- ergo, unknown to others-- to altering the
environment in a complex of ways which are omni-considerate
of all side
effects on the altered environment. I am
accustomed to starting from primitive conditions, where as
far as one
can see no other man has explored. I have
learned how to rearrange the environment in such a way that
it
does various things for our society that we could not
do before, such as building a dam which in turn produces a
pond..."
Cite RBF Introduction to Victor Papanek's "Design for the
Real
World," 9 Apr '71

100
Rearrange the Environment:
See Success, Kay'72
Wealth, 8 Dec175

Rearranging the Furniture:
See Furniture

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rearrange the Landscape:
"It is only the metaphysical that can rearrange the physical
landscape to human advantage....
Cite Nehru Speech, pp.46-47, 13 Nov'69

Rearrange Locally;
See Comprehension
-
Rearrange Locally
(1)

Rearrange Locally:
See Hammering Sheet Metal, (1)
Realization, May'49
(2)
223

Rearrange Random Receipts in Molecular Chaing:
See Antientropy 66
Earth,
(A)(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rearrange the Scenery:
"To date, we have gained vast inventories
Of trial-and-error experience
From all of which information we have developed
A family of generalized scientific principles
Which are weightless pattern concepts.
Being weightless they are metaphysical.
From the metaphysics
We have in turn designed
Rearrangements of the physical behavior constituents
Of our omnikinetic environment scenery.
We have rearranged the scenery
In the pattern of world-around occurring power-driven tool networks
All of which teleologic process
Has produced an ever-increasing survival advantage for humanity."
Cite BARIN & MIND, p.92 May 172

RBP DEFINITIONS
Rearrange the Scenery:
.
•
(1)
"I'd like to answer one more sort of challenge we had a
little earlier, and that is that I've learned not only this
grand strategy of not trying to reform the individual; to
assume that the individual can concentrate entirely on re-
arranging the scenery in permitted ways to make it more
favorable for life-- to demonstrate its capabilities.
I have
also learned that where you see things that need to be done--
you can see the scenery can be rearranged. Your experience
tells you that scenery can be rearranged to a higher advantage
for man. .
And there's nobody to tell you to do it. .
You
will try to do something about it, to rearrange it, and then
he says,
'What have you done?' And then you explain what you've
done and how it works, and then he says 'Well, that's very
interesting,' but then goes right on about his regular
business. Then I find that there's always an emergency, when
you have to have something waiting there. So my whole
strategy is-- and I've been able to live now on the frontier
without anybody guaranteeing me anything, or telling me what
to do taking the economic initiative and trying to find out
what nature needs to be done."
-Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 68-69.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rearrange the Scenery:
(2)
"When you can't go any further with one thing, then you look
over to another one that needs attending to, and you keep
shifting from one to the other. So, at any rate, I've learned
how to survive there. One of the things I do is never try to
persuade anybody. I don't try to sell anything. You see what
needs to be done and you do it. And you wait until a man
says "What is that?' and then you tell him what it is. For
instance, I've learned that there's no use going around with
pulmotors dor-to-door like a Fuller Brush man and say 'I'd
like to self pulmotors.' But all of a sudden there's some
suffocation and you have to have a pulmotor in a hurry, and
then it's lucky you did it. So I find that society has its
emergencies. So you have what I call emergence by emergency.
And that's what is really going on at this table with the
individuals really beginning to find out how you do do it.
That's the thing, not talking about it theoretically, but just
really looking at what can be done-- and more than just
getting the figures. This then leads to design: What are the
things that need designing?"
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 69-71

Rearrange the Scenery:
See Environment: Altering the Environment
Furniture entries
Individual Economic Initiative
Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man
(1)

Rearrange the Scenery: Rearrange the Landscape:
See Biosphere Inventory, 15 Nov' 74
Copper, (1); (A)
Leonardo Type, 13 Nov'69
Man as a Function of Universe, Jun'69
Comprehensive Realizer, May'49
(2)

Rearrange:
Rearrangements:
See Hammering Sheet Metal, (1)
Invention, 27 Dec 73
Pattern, 3 Oct 72
Windows of Nothingness, (2)
(2)

Rearrange:
See Rearrange Elemental Order
Rearrange the Environment
Rearranging the Environmental Furniture
Rearrange the Furniture
Rearrange the Landscape
Rearrange Locally
Rearrange Random Receipts
Rearrange the Scenery
E3
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reason:
"Reason Cause. (See Introduction to "Nine Chains to
the Moon".)*
"Rational
Relational."
[*N.B.
Passage from Introduction to NINE CHAINS
TO THE MOUN cited in this file as Rationalization
Sequence (1)-(6). J
Cite RBF marginalia at Foundations of Physics, Vol. 1.
11871, PP. D. Bohm
:
of a New Urder in Physics."
Quantum Theory as an on

Reason Cause:
See Reason, Aug* 73

Reason: Reasonable: Reasoning:
See Faculty: Conceptual & Reasoning Faculties
Knowing vs. Reasoning

Rebirth:
See Centers of Energy Rebirth
Eternal Rebirth System
(1)

Rebirth:
See Eternal Slowdown, (2)
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Nov '72
Time-sise, 20 Dec173
(2)

Rebonding:
See Unbonding-rebonding

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recall Lage:
"The whole of Universe is a consequence of our not seeing
instantly. As a result of the recall lags the physical is
always imperfect."
-Gxt fibf to Ed, 3200 Idaho, Mush De, 26 May 172
(Citation and context at Equanimity Modal, 26 May '72)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recall Momentum:
"Again reviewing for recall momentum...
11
-
Cite RBF marginalis on SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 954.55,
28 Dec 73

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recall Set:
"Brains differentially correlate the succession of special
case informations communicated to the brain by the plurality
of senses. The brain distinguishes the new, first-time-event,
special case experiences only by their comparison with the
set of all its recalled prior cognitions.
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.015; 28 Apr' 77

Recall Set:
See Set, 5 Jul'62

Recall: Recall Laga:
See Afterimage
Double Take
Experience Recalls
Physical Experience Recalls
Memory Call-ups
(1)

Recall Recall Lags:
See Brain, 5 Jun'75
Equanimity Model, 26 May* 72*
Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov' 75
Happening Patterns,
6 Nov' 73
Life, 25 Mar 71
Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta,
25 Mar' 71
Pattern, Jun' 66
Thinking, (A) (B); 22 Oct' 72; 7 Nov* 73
Thought, 31 May'71
Unitary Conceptuality, 22 Oct 172
(2)

Recall:
Recall Lags:
See Recall Lags
Recall Momentum
Recall Playbacks
Recall Set
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recede:
"The external crossing points of the system continually
recede.
-
Cite RBF 16 Feb citation Surface as re-written 17 Feb 172 (Q.V.)

Recentering:
See Structure, 3 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reciprocal:
"It is very interesting to consider
... a total
inventory of the relative abundance of different
patterns remembering that the patterns are reciprocal."
Cite OREGON Lecture-
9 Jul 62
-
Citation at Pattern, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINTIONS
Reciprocal:
"Since universe is the minimum perpetual motion machine,
there is a minimum set of patterns that is a consequence
of this set of patterns reacting with that set of
patterns."
-
Gite OREGON University Lecture #5
167, 9 Jul162
- Citation and context at Minimum Set, 9 Jul'62

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

181
Reciprocal Involvement of Experiences & Principles:
See Simplicity, 1954

Reciprocals of Permissible Viewpoints:
See Pattern, 1954-59

Reciprocal Self-precessors:
See Omnidirectional, 1954
Zoneness: System Zoneness, 8 Jan'55

Reciprocating Engine:
See Cosmic Accounting Sequence, (4)

Reciprocating Sub-sota:
See Relativity, May 49

Reciprocating Torus Model:
See Rubber Tires, 24 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reciprocity: (1)
"But as we come to explore for the fundamental principles
of interpotentials and interactions called atoms, we find
that despite the astronomical number of aspects and events,
only a few principles of behavior pervade the whole of
Universe as, for instance, 92 tendencies to self-impoundment
of energy; a fundamental inwardness and outwardness relative
only to the 'system' center of observation; the corollary
principles of inherent first tendencies to inward-outward
pulsations and to precession, and the principles of inside-
outing convergence-divergence, spin and counterspin,
torque and countertorque tension and pressure, the biological
reciprocals of Universe (and diaphragming).
"Relativity leads us toward fundamental classification of
our experience and observation, in the terms of a few
hierarchies of dynamic interactions and principle transforma-
tions of an all-energy, continuous-discontinuous, synchronous-
dissynchoponus Universe tensionally cohered, precessional
of local compressive spherical energetic collections-- as
(Suns) stars or planets or moons or asteroids or meteorites;
and the progression of within-ward sub-sets of events of
interactions at planet crust, etc., and inward to "
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, pp.235-236, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reciprocity:
(2)
"the 92 common principles of atomic convergence of energy in
principle, and the pervasive sets of dynamic associations
by contraction, expansion, spin, orbit, torque, push, and
pull, and precession. This all brings us by progressive
collections of thoughts into a fundamental twoness of
ultimately
dynamic reciprocities which, internally paired,
become one with outwardly paired principles of reciprocity.
"The becoming one of both the finity inward with the finity
outward indicates a sensibility of experience preoccupying
man as a superficial reality which only occurs at middling
dimensions of Universe and appears schematically as a
magnetic field. Its flux patterns, like two tangent balls,
include every size of particle, as their hour-glass-like
tangentially
linked inwardness, displays both
inwardly and outwardly mingled sets of fountain and reverse
fountain flows-- concurrently at both ends-- and through the
middle. Periodically, the whole double-bulbed dynamic flux
contracts axially, as the two bulbs of dynamic flow merge
progressively, and then merge completely, and again separate
axially. It is obvious that inasmuch
as the whole system
was always in flow, that the new bulbs of flux are of necessity"
->
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.236, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS'
Reciprocity:
"new and are therefore only identifiable in principle with
the previous comprehensive duality of shapes.
The system
has inherent yet empty twoness.
(3)
"The reality is real-- or realized-- in principle only, by
events of relative interaction transpiring only in principle.
The whole of the above pulsive-waveful-dynamic-duality is
schematic, and is in principle clarifing only, for, though
it progressively groups all-energy Universe into an oscillating
the
binary system, it must be understood that
whole scheme cancels out by virtue of a super paradox which
finds that the infinity inward and the infinity outward of
an infinite plurality of centers must be identical, and one
with the infinity inward, of an infinite plurality of centers,
and that 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. Postive and negative cancel as the
principle zero.
"It is discovered in principle that probability probing of
physical Universe on å statistical basis is now becoming of"
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, PP.436-237, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reciprocity:
"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.
(4)
"It is necessary that the comprehensive designer explore in
principle for verification of this significance of relativity,
whereby it is discovered that in the consciously realizable
comprehensive binary, truth may not be dealt with as isolated,
but only as relative relationships of interaction governing
in principles the interactions of specially nonsimultaneous
sets of dynamic principles. The comprehensive realizer thus
will come, with acceleration, to competence in rearranging
forwardly anticipated events, measured in principle, and
forwardly projected, in associated principles of reciprocal
interaction and juxtaposition to the anticipated energetic
magnitudes of variable stresses and flows. These interactions
are known as structures and mechanics.
"Thus it is discerned how the comprehensive realizer of
relativity may become competent as an integrator of the
until-then- threatening chaotic dissipation of common"
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p. 237, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reciprocity:
(5)
The comprehen-
"advantage of men in Universe brought about by runaway,
diametric preoccupations of specializations.
sive realizer becomes a synergist."
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.236, May'49

Reciprocate: Reciprocity: Reciprocal:
See Axes of Corotation
Design Reciprocity
Energetic Functions
Gear Train: Locking & Blocking
Motion Reciprocity
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles
Structural Functions
Twoness of Dynamic Reciprocities
Complementary & Reciprocal
Alternate: Alternative
Mutual: Mutuality
Bicycle Wheel Model
(1)

Reciprocal: Reciprocate:
Reciprocity:
See Automation, 4 Mar 69
Intellect, 16 Aug 50
Minimum Set, 9 Jul162*
Pattern, 1954; 9 Jul'62*
Prime Dichotomy (2)
Simplicity, 1954
Spaceship, 26 Sep'68
Technology 12 May 39
Tidal, Dec 61
Hierarchy of Patterns, 1954
Zoneness: System Zoneness, 8 Jan 55
Simplicity, 1954
Ninety-two Eelements, 15 Jun'74
Jitterbug, 1 Dec165
Synergetics Constant 10 Dec' 75
Fourth Dimension:
22 Jun 77
VE as Fourth-dimension Model,
(2)

Reciprocal: Reciprocate: Reciprocity:
(3)
See Reciprocal Involvement of Experiences & Principles
Reciprocals of Permissible Viewpoints
Reciprocal Self-precessors
Reciprocating Engine
Reciprocating Subsets
Reciprocity

Recirculation:
See Ecological Balance
Metals: Recirculation of
Roundtrip
Scrap Sorting & Kongering
Recycling

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recognition:
"Everything that you have ever recognized in Universe as a
pattern is re-cognited as the same pattern you have seen
before. Because only the triangle persists as a constant
pattern, any recognized patterns are inherently recognizable
only by virtue of their triangularly structured pattern
integrities. Recognition is as dependent on triangulation as
is original cognition....'
"
Citation & context at Omnitriangulation; 3 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recognition:
"We have an expression, something we say very often, 'I
recognize that.' Recognition means that you have seen
that pattern before. You have probably seen its several
time before you say, 'I recognize it.' Recognizability
of pattern would depend upon the stability of the pattern;
it would have to have some fundamental shape. Only a
So I say
triangle has any reliability of pattern.
everything and anything that you and I ever say 'I
recognize,' must go back to a triangle. Only triangle is
structure.
"t
Cite RBF Address at National Conference for Philosophy
of Creativity at SIU, Carbondale, Ill., 16 Oct. 169.
-
P. 64.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recognition:
"Everything that you have ever recognized in the
Universe as a pattern is re-cognited as the same pattern
you have seen before. Because only the triangle persists
as a constant pattern any recognized patterns must be
recognizable only by virtue of being a triangle or a
complex of triangles." This is the only possible basis
of recognition."
->
Cite NASA Speech, p. 54. Jun*66

Recognition Lags:
See Mind, 24 Feb'72
Tunability, 24 Apr' 76

KBF DEFINITIONS
Recognizability:
"Everything you say you recognize, means that you
recognize a pattern.
The recognizability of the
pattern must go back to some triangles."
->
Cite RBF at SIMS Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 171,
Transcript D. 18

Recognition: Recognizable:
See Pattern Cognition: Pattern Cognisance
Unrecognized
Cognition vs. Recognition
(1)

Recognition:
Recognizable:
See Experience, 1971
Mass, 29 Dec 58
Thinkable You (1)
Triangle, 25 Feb'69
Understanding, 1960
Minimum Awareness, (1)
Identity, 2 Jul 75
Local System, Jun'bb
Omnitriaagulation, 3 Oct 72
(2)

Recollect:
Recollections:
See Design Covariables:
Words, 2 Jul'62
Principle of, 1959
Conceptual Systems, 27 May 175

Reconsider: Reconsideration:
See Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta,
25 Mar 71
Thought, 31 May171
Conscious & Subconscious,
In, Out & Around, Nov 71
Nonsimultaneity, 7 Nov 73
1960

Record: Off the Record:
See Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi, 15 Jun '74

Recourse:
See Survival Recourse

Rectification:
See Social Adjustment, Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rectilinear Frame:
"A vectorial evolvement in no way conforms to a rigid
rectilinear frame of the XYZ coordinate analysis which
arbitrarily shuns most economical directness and time
realizations-- by virtue of which calculus is able only
awkwardly to define positions rectilinearly, moving only
as the chessman's knight. Nature uses rectilinear patterns
only precessionally; and precession brings about orbits
and not straight lines."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 540.09, 24 Sep'73

Rectilinear Grid Systems: Rectilinear:
See Grid: Crisscross, Right-angle Grid in Civil &
Agrarian Law
Local Squareness
Ninety Degreeness
Two-way Rectilinear Grid
XYZ Coordinate System
Right Angle
Square
Two-way Crisscross
(1)

Rectilinear dectilinear Grid Systems:
See Air Space, Nay'65
Frame of Reference, 27 Feb 72
General Systems Theory, 8 Nov' 73
Nucleus, (1)
Spherical Triangle: Equator as Square, (3)
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom: General
Systems, (III)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Recyclings:
" The integrity of Scenario Universe's
Never exactly identical recyclings."
-
Citation and context at Metaphysical, p.152 May 172

Recycling:
See Junkyard
Metabolic Flow
Recirculation
Spiral
(1)

Recycling:
See Time, circa 1970
221
(2)

Redemonstrable:
See Children as Only Pure Scientists, 28 Ape'77

Redesign Cycle:
See Energy & Intellect, May'49
Improvement, May'49
Periodic Experience, (6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reductio ad Absurdum:
"The deliberately nonstraight line of synergetics employs the
mathematicians' own invention for dealing with great dilemmas:
the strategy of reductio ad absurdum. Having moments of great
frustration, the mathematician learned to forsake looking for
local logic; he learned to go in the opposite direction and
deliberately to choose the most absurd. And then, by progress-
ively eliminating the degrees of absurdity, he could work back
to the not too absurd. In hunting terms, we call this
quarrying his objective. Thus he is able at least to learn
where his quarry is within a small area."
"
->>>
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 522.03; Nov: 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reductio ad Absurdum:
"Having demonstrated to the mathematician that his
imaginary straight line gets worse and worse-- every time
he gives me an example, i am going to employ the
mathematician's own strategy of dealing with the great
dilemmas as invented by Boole-- the reductio ad absurdum.
Where now a Jeliberately Non-Straight Line / 9.v. /.
"The mathematician having moments of great frustrations
learned to forsake looking for local logic by going in the
opposite direction and choosing the most absurd, and then
progressively eliminating the degrees of absurdity and
working back to the not too absurd. And he is liable to
be able at least to learn the quarry, where his quarry is
a small area. What we call quarrying is objective.
These are hunting terms."
Cite Tape transcript RBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, 1 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reductio ad Absurdum:
"When scientists and mathematicians fail to find positive
clues leading towards solution of their problems, they
sometimes reverse their frontal strategies and employ
reductio ad absurdum, which by a process of eliminating all
the impossibles and improbables, leaves a residue of least
absurd, ergo most plausible solutions, which may be reduced,
by physically testing to unequivocable answers.
ft
-Cite RBF foreword to Samuel Rosenberg's "The Come As You Are
"
Masquerade Party. 1970

Reductio ad Absurdum:
See Boole
Absurd
Boolean Algebra
Twenty Questions
(1)

Reduction By Bits:
See Bits: Bitting

100
Reduction of Myriadness to Unity:
See Fractionating the Whole
(1)

Reduction of Myriadness to Unity:
See Metaphysical & Physica;, Jun'66
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reduction to Practice:
"There is no use talking about bright ideas. Everyone has
bright ideas. But there is no use talking about the artifact
until we reduce it to practice, until we see whether nature
permits it, whether society permits it-- including worldwide
distribution."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reduction to Practice:
"Back in 1932 then thinking that I would commit myself to
only
alterations of the environment-- not to 'multidisciplines'
and so forth. I must never then 'talk about' anything.
Whatever ideas I have I must find out how to translate them
into some effect on the environment, in principle, and I
must not talk about them until I have reduced them into
practice and have discovered advantage for man. And I've
really been able to prove to myself-- I find that bright
ideas are so profuse-- but they don't get reduced to practice,
you don't really know what the interactions are with the
times and other environmental events.
So I would never
talk about it until I have reduced it to practice: something
physical. And somebody would say: What is that? And then I'd
have the responsibility of telling them what it was. But I
mustn't even ask them to look at it. I've really held very
tightly to these disciplines, because I was interested in
what the individual could do on behalf of his fellow man.
even in a very few years."
•
-
Cite RBF lecture at Wistar Inst, U. of Penn. EJA transcript
pp 8-9, 19 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reduction to Practice:
"A trim tab is a physical environmental control device in a
Universe where change, motion, and evolution are inexorable....
You must not just have a theoretical idea but reduce it to
practice. That is my strategy."
Citation at Trim Tab, 22 Jul 71

Reduction to Practice:
See Development
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politics
Sequence
Prototype
Artifact
(1)

Reduction to Practice:
See Dome: Rationale for the Big Dome (A)
Generalized Principle, 5 Jul 62
Intuition of the Child (3)
Inventability Sequence (2)
Invention Sequence (B) (C)
Omnidirectional:
Surrounds (2)
Physical Existence Environment
Philosophy, 21 May 28; 1946
Surfing: Surfboarding, 5 Jul'62
Trim Tab, 22 Jul 71*
Design Science (A)
Navy Sequence (2)
Artifacts, 17 Sep'74
Icosahedron:
Subtriangulation, (2)
(2)

Redundant Excess:
See Norm: Tetrahedron as Norm, 15 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Redundancy:
"Edges and vertexes do not come together as the same
number system. You can describe the world both ways
and not be redundant.
The world as seen by a child and
the world as seen by an old man could not be redundant
descriptions."
Augus
-
Citation at Description, 25 Aug'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Redundancy:
11
Redundancy being a temporal consequence of brain
lagged dullness of comprehension and ignorance."
Citation and context at Differentiation, 27 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Redundancy:
"Redundancy cannot be determined by energetic observation
of behaviors of single struts, (beams or columns) or any
chain-linkage of same which are less than six in number,
or less than tetrahedron."
- Citation & context at Strut, 1950's
BBL undated holo
pad (1950US)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Redundancy: Reduction of:
"In the Greek temple each column carries its share of the stone
on top of it. Figuring the ultimate compressive weight of the
stone as 50,000 psi-- which equals 25 tons-- the result is that
each column can carry 1000 tons when it only has to carry 25
tons. The rest of the column is unnecesary except for stability.
We can make it a cone or a tripod, like a camera tripod.
ron....
the
"We find the only thing holding up Greek column was a tetrahed-
The thorns and buds of trees are tetrahedra: concentric
cones-- the wing roots of the limbs. Goethe spoke of trees as
waves.
This is
"Only the tetrahedron can become visible and invisible.
life: life is male & female, visible and invisible, but immortal.
"Hydraulics, mechanics, and the wave connection cofunction as the
bio-connection: bio-logic. (A nice name.)"
Cite composite of RBF holographs drawn for EJA at Somerset
Club, Boston, 22 Apr171

Redundancy: Redundant:
(1)
See Necklace
Nonredundance
Safety Factor
AC

Redundancy: Redundant:
See Antipathy, 15 May' 72
Cube, (1)
Description, 25 Aug'71*
Differentiation, 27 May172*
Knot: Square Knot, 20 Oct 172
Strut, 1950's*
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegrities, (9)
Triangular Topology Integrity, 15 May'72
Minimum System:
Minimum Structural System, Nov'71
(2)

Reef:
See Coral Reef

Real:
See Fish: Playing the Fish on a Reel

401
Reel of Tape Recorder:
See Hole in the Victrola Disc
(1)

Reel of Tape Recorder:
See Axis of Spin, (1) (2)
(2)

Re-exterior:
See Obverse
(1)

See Brouwerts Theorem, 1 Jan'75
Re-exterior:
(2)
1231

Reference:
See Axis of Reference
Cyclic Reference
Frame of Reference
Scheme of Reference
Sphere of Reference
(1)

Reference:
See Size, 22 Jun'72
(2)
221

Referendum:
See Electronic Referendum

Refinement: Refining:
See Relativity, May149
Truth, 10 Nov' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reflection:
It is possible
To conserve energies by reflection
As well as to reach
Great distance by beaming.
11
•
Citation & context at Eye-beamed Thoughts (I), May 72
>
Cite BRAIN & HIND, D.163 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reflection Sequence: Apple: (1)
"I see an apple.
"The light of the Sun is reflected from the surface of an apple,
after the occurrence of the spectroscopic action of light
segregation through the medium of crystals on the surface of the
apple.
"Not all of the energy ray tones are reflected, however. Those
that are useful to the apple are absorbed by it, while the
remainder, i.e., the non-useful, or nondigestible, or, more
specifically, non-chemically combinable ray tones are reflected
from the surface of the applew through the air to and through
the lens of the human eye, where they are analyzed by the
retina and telephotographed to the brain of the beholder.
"Incidentally the light that the apple gives off is a negative,
that is, the opposite of the light complementary to the growth
phenomenon 'apple.' It is not one of the chemical apple's
actual constituents. This is something like the phenomenon of
the camera film negative except that the latter is more honest
than the eye's for the eye reverses light and shadow instead
of properly appraising them as does the camera. In printing,"
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, pp. 42-43, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reflection Sequence:
Apple:
(2)
"the black and white of the film have to be reversed in order
to represent the illusion of the apple as the eye sees it. Many
apples are probably blue, having taken blue from the spectrum,
but the eye, taking up the rejected red, 'sees' the apple as red.
"Whether or not the eye sees a negative or a positive of the
apple, light absorption and reflection are mechanical consider-
ations because neither life nor mind activity is involved until
the essence of the picture has been articulated in the 'brain'
and has been automatically referred to the memory filing depart-
ment (the system of which is even more complicated than the
worldwide Bertillon system of finger-print identification) for
comparison with all of the apple experiences of the 'see-er.!
The new picture of 'apple' is laid out on the table for comparison
with the whole reference file by the executive officer 'brain,'
who never sees the phantom captain although under his permanent
orders to lay out the file in the captain's outer study.
Then
'brain' retires through the front door, closes it behind him,
and the phantom captain enters from his inner sanctum to peruse
the exhibit.
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.43, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reflection Sequence:
Apple:
"If interested at all-- generally he is not-- the captain
considers the progression of apple phenomena, as indicated by
the pictures in the file, and decides that the latest addition
is a better or worse apple, i.e., it is an apple that would,
or would not, be useful as fuel for his ship, in the cleansing
process of his machinery, or as bait. Having decided 'yes' or
'no, he leaves a message for 'brain' beside the exposed file
and retires.' "
t
(3)
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, pp.43-44, 1938

Reflecting Lake Waters:
See Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec 73

Reflection:
See Beamable:
Beaming
Bounce Patterns of Energy
Focal: Focus
Interference
Light on Scratched Metal
Hadar Reflector
(1)

Reflection:
See Broadcast, May'72
Eye-beamed Thoughts, (I)*
Interference, (2)
Radiation, pp.158-9) May172
Sight, 1 Apr 49
Vertexial Spheres, 8 Apr$75
Cloud Chamber, Nov 71
Octahedron: Eight-octahedra, (3) (4)
Visual, 22 Feb 77
123
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reflexes:
"In 1927 when I was starting to re-educate myself,
that I had proven not to be
80,
trying to unlearn all the things that I'd been taught
to be so,
I tried to
get my reflexes disconnected from the false reactions
or the unfavorable and the hard reactions and try to
become sensitive again."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 6. 2 Jun*71

102
RBF DEFINITIONS
Reflexes:
11
The designing capability . . .of human organisms
to offset the gamut of non-thinking conditioned
reflexes of all biological systems."
-
Cite Museums Keynote Address, p. 14. 2 Jun 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reflexes:
"Probably our most polluted resource is that of the
tactical information to which humanity spontaneously
reflexes."
-
Citation at Information:
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p.
Tactical Information, 13 Nov''69
3 Nov 169-

Reflex: Reflexes:
See Automatics
Bias on One Side of the Line
Common Sense: Official News
Conditioning
Conditioned Reflexes
Decondition My Subconscious Reflexing
Feedback
Ignorance
Knowledge as Reflexes
Mine: That's Mine
Nonthinking
Muscle & Reflex Jobs
Planar Reflex
Sensorial Reflex
Structure vs. Reflexes
Quickness
Habit Reflexes
Mind vs. Reflex
Crowd-reflexing
Proclivities: Basic vs. Secondary
(1)

Reflex: Reflexes:
See Antithinking, 2 Jun'71
Awareness, Feb 50
Computer, (B)
Ecology Sequence, (H) (I)
Enviament Events Hierachy, (2)
Fighting, 7 Nov'67
Gross World Product Sequence, (1)
Information: Tactical Information, 13 Nov'69*
Intuition, 22 Jun'72
Fuller, R.B:
Crisi of 192774
Life Is Not Physical, 13
Mind, 26 Nov 72
Poverty, May 72
Spaceship, (D)
Space Technology, (2)
Survival Sequence: Love, (1)
Telepathy, 29 Jun 72
War: Official & Unofficial, (1)
Semantics, 20 Feb'73
Death, 29 Mar 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man:
"My discipline is to reform the environment in ways favorable
to the success of all humanity with confidence that propitious
environmental circumstances induce spontaneously pro-social
behaviors. 1
Citation and context at Design Science (1), 29 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man:
"I developed a fundamental philosophic concept in 1927
which was that it is posssible, instead of trying to reform
man, to reform the physical patterns-- to reform the
environment in such a way as to make the physical environ-
ment patterning more favorable to the new life being born
into it. It seemed possible that the new human generation,
born into the streamlined environment, might quickly react
by re-employing the newly designed advantages, and in so
doing might establish a new level of integrity of human
response to environmental stimuli whereby society might
come to act in creative spontaneity to continually convert
the highest knowledge born of the cumulative experience of
man toward the direct enhancement of the life processes,
instead of, as at present, leaving the prime social
initiative for the weaponry exploiters who derive their
mandate only from the negative fears born of ignorance,
and the congealing inertia of that ignorant fear."
Cite MEXICO 163, p.18, 10 Oct 163

Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man:
See Blind Date with Principle
Design Revolution
Design Science
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927
Fuller, R.B: His Decision that he must not be a
Persuader but a Doer
Fuller, R.B: What I Am Trying To Do
Individual Economic Initiative
Inventions as Lifeways of Human Behaviors
Leonardo Type
Rearrange the Scenery
(1)
3

Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of Man:
See Artifacts (1) (2); 17 Sep174
Bridge, 13 Nov169
Design Science, (1); 29 Jun 73; (A)
Environment, Nay'65
Trim Tab 8 Jan'66
Fuller, R.B:
I am Apolitical, 15 May$75
(2)

Reform: Reformers:
See Trim Tab Sequence, (1)
Political Revolution, 10 Oct 63
Success, 10 Sep' 75

Refraction:
See Interference
Manifest:
Two
Color Spectrum: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue, Violet
(1)

Refraction: Refractive:
See Boltzmann Sequence, (5)
Interference, (2)
Radiation Sequence, (2)
Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout, (1)
Van Allen Beit, May' 72
Bendings, 23 Jun175
Wind Stress & Houses, (9)(10)
Cloud Chamber, Nov'71
Halo Concept, Jun'71
221
(2)

Refrigeration:
See More With Less: Sea Technology, (3) (4)
Human Unsettlement, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regeneration:
"The significance of Einstein's electromagnetic radiation's
top speed unfettered in vacuo is that there is a cosmic limit
accommodation point of complete regeneration by which Universe
is the only and minimum perpetually self-regenerative system. "
Citation at
Absolute Velocity, 30 Oct'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regeneration:
"The Universe is
The min-max, self-regenerative organism.
The regeneration is
A nonsimultaneous sequence
Of only partially overlapping
Physical transformation events--
Occurring in a vast range
Of ever-and-anon, synchronizing,
Pulsative frequencies
With associative concentrations
Here and there
Nonsimultaneously accommodating
Disassociative dispersals
In other heres and theres--
Like the 'high' and 'low' interalternations
Of the forever changing atmosphere's 'weather.'"
Cite Dreyfus Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, pp. 1-2.
Citation & context at Universe, 28 Apr 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regeneration:
"Universe is the minimum as well as the maximum closed
system of omni-interacting, precessionally transforming,
complementary transactions of synergetic regeneration.
-
Citation & context at Universe, 1960
Cits UENIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 135, 1960
賣

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative:
The isotropic vector matrix "coordinate system is
ever regenerative in respect to the nuclear centers
all of which are rationally accounted for by synergetics."
-
Citation and context at Omnisynergetic, 30 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative:
"Regenerative means local energy-pattern conservation."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 600.04, 3 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative:
"Regenerative means local energy pattern conservation.
"Regenerative means local conservation of energy events
interpatterning.
"Structures are pattern conservations."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 15 Mar'71
STRUCTURE - 600.04 + 601.02)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative:
"I use the term regenerative because in an all-motion
universe (which Einstein posited and the physicists in due
course
found to be true), all the patterns of the universe
are continually
but non-simultaneously affecting all the
other
patterns of Universe in varying degrees and are
continually reduplicating themselves in unique local
configurations.
"These patterns may be described as constellar because
their component events stand dynamically together like
star groupings, and any event patternings which become
locally regenerative are constellar patterns. It is a tendency
for patterns either to
repeat themselves locally or for their
parts
to separate-out to join severally or singly with other
patterns
or to form new constellations."
_ Cite KEPES, -66, 1965-
Citation and context at Structure Sequence (1)(2), 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative:
"Universe... a closed system of complementary patterns that is
regenerative, that is, adequate to itself...."
"
Citation and context at Chess: Game of Universe, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative:
"Regenerative means multiorbital, cyclic, pre-
cessionally concentric.
"Regenerative means the ability to display one form,
then another, in a gamut of phases; each phase, however,
like a tree ring, or a wave generated by a stone
thrown
into water, has its own orbit; and the various
orbits
progress outward or inward in concentric circles
or
shells.
"A seed is regenerative. A crystal is regenerative.
Energy itself is an ever-regenerative patterning entity
.
Its forms are protean. It can appear as the breath
of
a
hawk or coign of a cliff. It can cloak itself
as
radiation,
And
as mass, as design, and as the wellspring of
work.
since by fundamental law, energy can neither
be
created
nor destroyed, its fate in the cosmic scheme is
to
meander
through eternity in persistent, regenerative
bliss."
-Ci.e MARKS, F. 8 1960.
10

REF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative:
"If the spheres are close packed" to form a vector
equilibrium, "and the center sphere is removed or compressed,
the remaining spheres close in to form a 20-sided 'solid,'
the icosahedron. From this it follows that a vector equilibrium
can be translated into an icosahedron and vice versa. They are
close relatives. Each has twelve vertexes and the same number
of surface-defining spheres. And each is a model of symmet-
rical regularities. Each, in fact, has a place in a family of
relationships which is capable of cycling through a sequence
of phases, hence
.
.
regentative."
Cite MARKS,
p. 41, 1960

Regenerative Birth:
See Duality of Universe, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative Design:
Law Of:
"The prime eternal law governing design science as thus-far
accrued to that of the cosmic law of generalized design science
exploration, is realizability and relative magnitude of
reproducibility which might be called the law of regenerative
design: which is, that the relative physical time magnitude
of reproducibility is proportional to the order of magnitude
of generalizability. Because the higher the order of
generalization the more embracing and simple its statement,
only the highest orders can embracingly satisfy the plurality
of low-order interaccommodation conditions.
(1)
"There are several corollaries to the prime law of regenerative
design durability and amplitude of reproducibility. Corollary
A is: The simpler, the more enduringly reproducible. Corollary
B: The special-case realizations of a given design complex
correlate as: the more symmetrical, the more reproducible.
Corollary C: There being limit cases of optimum symmetry and
simplicity, there are simplicities of conceptual realization.
The most enduringly reproducible design entities of Universe
are those occurring at the min-max limits of simplicity and
symmetry."
-Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in SYNERGETICS
at Secs. 166-7, 13 Mar 73

106
RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative Design: Law Of:
(2)
"Corollary D: There being unique minimum-maximum system
limits governing the transformation of conceptual entities in
Universe which differentiate the conceptually unique entities
of Universe into those exceptions occurring exclusively
outside the system considered and all of the Universe inside
of the conceptual entity, together with the structural pattern
integrity system separating the inside from the outside, there
being a minimum limited set of structural and operating
principles eternally producing and reproducing recognizable
pattern integrity. And there are likewise a minimum set of
principles which interact to transform already orderly
patterns into other structured patterns, and there being
minimum constituent patterns which involved the complex
intertransformings and structural formings of symmetrical
orders and various magnitudes of asymmetrical deviations
tolerated by the principles complexedly involved. There
are scientifically discoverable nuclear aggregates of
primary design integrity as well as complex symmetrical
reassociabilities of the nuclear primary integrities and
deliberately employable relationships of nuclear simplexes
which designedly impose asymmetrical-symmetrical pulsative
periodicities."
-
Cite HBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated
in SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 168, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative Design: Law Of:
"Corollary E:
The more symmetrical and simple and nuclear,
the more frequently employable; ergo more frequently occurring
in eternally regenerative Universe transformative problem
solutions.
(3)
"Corollary F: The smaller and simpler, more symmetrical,
frequently-occurring in Universe and the larger and more
complex, less-frequently originally occurring, and periodically
re-occurring: for example, the hydrogen limit minimum simplex
constituting not only nine-tenths of physical Universe but
most frequently and most omnipresent in Universe; with
asymmetrical terrestrial battleships (fortunately) least-
frequently and compatibly recurrent throughout the as-yet known
cosmos, being found only on one minor planet in one typical
galaxy of one hundred billion stars amongst already-discovered
billion galaxies, there having been only a few score of such
manmade battleships recurrent in the split-second history of
humans on infinitesimally minor Earth."
-Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in Synergetics
text at Secs. 169, 170, 13 Mar 73

Regenerative Desigh: Law Of:
See Reproducibleness: Law Of
(1)

Regenerative Design: Law of:
See Design, 1938
(2)

Regenerative Economic Sustenance:
See Money: Making Sense vs. Making Money, 22 Jun 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerative Intersupport: Equation of:
"Precession + ecology
regenerative intersupport."
Cite RBF to State Dept. Senior Seminar, Rosslyn, Va., 22 Dec'74

Regenerative Intersupport:
See Equation:
Equation of:
Philosophical Equations

Regenerative Organica:
See Gonads, 22 Sep'71

Regenerative Precession:
See Spiralinearity, Nov'71

Regenerative Stimulations:
See Discovery, 20 Dec'71

Regenerative System Integrity:
See Organic, 26 May' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerativity:
"The regeneration may be that of a complete new baby
or the local regeneration of cells in an ongoing organism.
Rebirth is continual. The overall growth and refinement
of information and comprehension by continuous humanity
transcends the separate generations of life and steadies
toward eternal unalterability; the special case physical
experiences and the identification of their significance in
the overall scheme of eternal cosmic regenerativity ever
accelerate as the information bits multiply exponentially;
wherefore the overall rate of gain of metaphysical compre-
hension of the physical behavior in general accelerates
exponentially in respect to such arithmetical periodicities
as that of the celestial cycles of the solar system."
(81052.67)
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1052.67;
17 Jan 75

Regeneration: Rgenerative:
See Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes
Biologicals
Center of System Regeneration
Epigenetic Landscape
Integrity Coherence
Local Regeneration
Metabolic Regeneration
Minimum Regenerative Set
Ninety-two Elements
Rganic Model
Origin
Primitive Regeneration
Procreation
Rebirth
Self-regenerative
Cosmic Regeneration
Nuclear Regenerative
Eternally Regenerative
Infinite Eternally Regenerative
Syntropy
(1)
10

Regenerativity:
See Concentricity, 1959
Ecology, 16 Feb 73
Petal: Tetrahedron as Three-petaled Flower Bud,
11 Feb 73
(2)

Regeneration: Regenerative:
See Absolute Velocity, 30 Oct'73*
Chess: Game of Universe, 9 Jul'62*
Cosmic Accounting Sequence, (1)
God, 26 May 72
Infinite, 15 Oct:72
Intertransformation, 22 Jul 71
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov 72
Metaphysical & Physical, 2 Jun'74
Konkey Wrench, 30 Oct 73
Nuclear & Nebular Zonal Waves, 1955
Octet Truss, 1955
Omnisynergetic, 30 Jan'73*
Principle, (1)
Push-pull, 22 Feb 73
Spaceship, 26 Sep'68
Star, Dec 72
Structure Sequence, (1) (2)*
Tactile Sequence, (2)
Universe, 28 Apri71*; 1960*
Wow:
The Last Wow, 22 Apr'71
(2A)

Regeneration:
Regenerative:
See Technology, 20 Jan 75
Quantum Mechanics: Grand Strategy, 10 Apr 75
Constellar, May 71
Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)
Cosmic & Local, 3 Oct 75
Object, 9 Nov 73
Great Circles, May 44
Self-discipline, 28 Mar 77
Electron, 12 May 77
Identity, 16 Feb 78
(2B)

100
Regeneration:
Regenerative:
See Regenerative Design:
Law Of
Regenerativity
Regenerative Organics
Regenerative Stimulations
Regenerative System Integrity
Regenerative Intersupport: Equation of
Regenerative Birth
Regenerative Precession
Regenerative Economic Sustenance
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenerativity:
"I've been looking for the word to take the place of
creativity and it's regenerativity . . it suggests not
•
the creation of something new but simply the reorganization
of something that was always there."
Cite RDF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 14 Feb 172

Regenerativity:
See Creativity
Feedback
Rebirth
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regenius:
"Man shows synergetic regenius inferior to nature's regeneration."
-
Citation & context at Charting Alternating Experiences of Man &
Nature (1), May'4y

Regression:
See Progression & Regression

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regularity:
"Regularity is eternal. But the regularities are eternally
omni-interaccommodative, permitting approximately limitless
freedoms of selectable alternative developments involving &
vast plurality of time-dimensioned frequency involvements."
(32)
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 780.33, 2 Nov 72

Regular Polyhedra:
See Mites Make All Regular Polyhedra
(1)

Regular Polyhedra:
See Planck's Constant, (A)
Subvisible Discontinuity, 19 Oct 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Regular Tetrahedron:
"The four obtuse central angles of convergence of the four
perpendiculars of the regular tetrahedron pass convergently
through the center of the
tetrahedral
volume at 109° 28'."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 966.22, 29 Nov*72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Regular Uniangular:
"The regular--regular means absolutely uniangular--tetrahedron
is absolute and generalized, and thus never physically
realized."
(Sec. 532.18, 2nd. Ed.)
-Citation & context at Crystallography, 11 Dec'75

Regularity:
See Harmonic:
Harmony
Ninety-two Elements: Periodic Regularities Of
Reproducible
(1)

Regular: Regularity:
See Conceptions, Dec'69
Cryogenics, 28 Oct 72
Einstein:
Cosmic Religious Sense, (2)
B-
Environment Controls, (1)
Solid State, 13 May'73
Eyes, 1964
(2)
C:

Reinforced Concrete:
See Prestressed Concrete

Reintegrative:
See Heres & Theres, 4 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reinvestable Time and Survival Needs:
"The most incredible thing is that in the areas where all
the people are there is no power or food. You need food
so everything comes back to electrical power.
•
. .
These figures on the Dymaxion Airocean World Map projection
Each of the people have their hands raised and they
have a number of fingers on each hand indicating how much of
their time is reinvestable and how much they have to devote
to survival needs. The people in this area have no time:
their hands are in their fists. In the areas in the United
States they have all their fingers up: they have their whole
life to reinvest in the way they want to reinvest it.
So it begins all of a sudden
just thinking about
mobile areas and politics, you begin to see a whole Earth at
once and how man is doing on whole Earth."
•
.
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul 69,
from Saturn Film transcript, Sound 1, Take 1, pp.24-26.

Reinvestable Time & Survival Needs:
See Electable:
Elective
Lifetime: Personal Lifetime Experience for
Elective Experience

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
"I am not sure that there are relationships; maybe
there are only interrelationships."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC; 24 Apr' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationship:
"A point is not a relationship. A line is the simplest
relationship.
"
Citation and context at Line, 7 Nov '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationship:
"Relationships are local to pattern. Patterns are
comprehensive to relationships."
\sout{Cite RBF to EJA, $200 Itho, Ave NW, Wash. DC, 20-DEC 71.}
Citation at Pattern, 20 Dec 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
"We have relationships-- but not space."
*Citation and context at Space, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
"We have time relationships but not static space relationsips."
Citation & context at Space, May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationship:
"Abstractions may be stated in pure principle of
relationship."
Citation & context at Abstraction, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
•
"I have two events and they have one relationship.
I have
three events and they have three relationships.. Four
events and we have six relationships. And five events, we
have ten relationships. Six, it will be fifteen relationships.
So the numbers of relationships are not the same as the
numbers of events at all. They are a different progression.
Of course these events can be in any kind of an array
and need not be simultaneous, yet they will have their
relationships.
•
•
"You will find that the relationships are triangular. .
look at the stars. You will find that every one of the
sets of relationships will always be triangulatable. There
is no case where they are not.
->
"
Cite LEDGER LAB. Lecture, 15 Oct. 164, pp 14, 15

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
"In a nonsimultaneous Universe all the relationships are
geodesic."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 112. 5 Jul'62

FOL
HBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
"Generalized systematic conceptuality's
omni-
directional relationships are only angularly configured
and are independent of size or dimension."
- Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 135, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
"Relationships which have definite integrity and
independence of size are conceptual principles of abstract
thought independent of physical realization."
-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 146, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationships:
"The whole of Universe is the minimum consideration
and the relationship of its regenerative subsystem
functionings are alone elementary."
· Citation and context at University, 15 Apr '55

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationship:
"There are no empty sets but only generalized group or
system synergetical relationship chracateristics.
-
Cite REF Synergetics notes, Feb'50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationship Analysis:
"We look at the stars and they look very random scattered
throughout the sky. I will tell you then that the numbers of
relationships between all the stars is always N - N and
2
this chart tells you quite clearly and simply that I am math-
ematically justified in doing so. This will give you a
personal sense of the power of the infinitely tiny human's
mind in the presence of that vast array of stars whose distances
and occurrences can only be identified in terms of millions and
billions and higher numbers of years and miles away.
(1)
"This relationship analysis discloses the omniuniversal order-
liness that scientific man finds to be always underlying all
superficial randomness of experience. This tells us that the
seeming disorder of physical entropy is only superficial and
explains why metaphysical thought can always find the orderliness
that engulfs the disorderliness. Disorderliness is nonthinking.
Brain, which stores the memories of all special case experiences,
does not find the relationship any more than a library in
itself can find or does find the interrelationships of the data
that it houses. Only mind, the great metaphysical, pattern-
seeking function, has demonstrated to us the capability to"
-
Cite Nasa Speech, pp.94-95, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relationship Analysis:
"interconnect the experiences and to find the generalized
patterns and orderly principles underlying all our randomly
encountered experiences. "
-
Cite Nasa Speech, p.95, Jun'66
(2)

Relationship Analysis:
See Connections and Relatedness
Order Underlying Randomness
Number: Tetrahedral Number
Process Relationships

Relation: Relationship: Relatedness:
See Absolute Relationship
Arelational
Behavioral Relationships
Connections & Relatedness
Envelopmental relationship
Epistemological Stepping Stones
Nonrelationship
Order Underlying Randomness
Number: Tetrahedral Number
Process Relationships
Omniinterrelationships
Rational Relational
Interrelationships
(1)

Relation: Relatedness:
Relationship:
(2)
See Abstraction, 1971*
Constants, 26 Sep*73
Line, 7 Nov 72*; 9 Jun 75
Pattern, 20 Dec'71*
Potential, 1963*
Reason, Aug*73
Space, Nov 71*
Thinkable You, (1)
Time & Space, May'71*
University May 72
15 Apri55*
Twoness,
Threeness, 27 May 172
Human beings & Complex Universe, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relative Abundance:
"I began to play a game of looking at relative total
abundances of various patterns in various systems and
looking at a daisy and looking at a tortoise
and looking at a waste basket, I find that the relative
abundance of the fundamental patterns called chemical
elements vary quite greatly. I sort of began to play a
game of relative abundance because this is a nice 100 per
cent game and that is the kind of game that the physicist
learned to do so ably as a synergetic capability because
he was always dealing in 100 per cent. Remember that when he
had an unknown percentage showing in an experiment, that
is what gave him his clue to meson or whatever it might be.
I found it very interesting to look at the total pattern
man.
->>
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
p. 168, 9 Jul'62

Relative Abundance:
See Constant Relative Abundance
Euler
Man: Relative Abundance of Chemical Elements In
han & Universe
(1)

Relative Abundance:
See Gravity: Circumferential Leverage, (3)
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles, 1963
Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout, (2)
(2)

Relative Activity Diameters of Stars & Electrons:
See Atom as Solar System
Astro & Nucleic Interpositioning
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions
Nuclear & Nebular: Nucleus & Galaxies
(1)

Relative Activity Diameters of Stars & Electrons:
See Gravity: Circumferential Leverage, (2)
Radiation: Speed Of, (C) (D)
22:
(2)

Relative Activity Diameters:
See Orbiting Magnitudes

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relative Asymmetry Sequence:
"Observing that there is a fundamental complementarity, and
that the complementations are rarely mirror images of one
another, we find that the physical Universe is always
locally entropic-- that is, it is always giving off energy
in one way or another. Because each local system has its
own orbiting, and its own frequencies and so forth, the ways
in which they give them off are not synchronized with the
others. Therefore, as they're given off, they're relatively
disorderly.
And actually calculably disorderly; they're
not infinitely disorderly at all. They're not something we
might call chaos. It may look disorderly to you as you look
at the turbulence of a waterfall, and the water's going down
there, But I've become very fascinated with the fact that
I'm beginning now to understand what the different turbu-
lences are.
I can begin to see what the vortex is and all
the interprecessional effects.
"It's no longer looking quite as disorderly to me as it used
to look. Our word disorder' is a relative matter: it gets
to be relatively asymmetrical. Relative to the symmetry of
equilibrium it gets to be relatively asymmetrical, and I
find that it goes to a maximum asymmetry and then comes back"
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'68
(1)

502
RBF DEFINITIONS
Relative Asymmetry Sequence:
"to symmetry again.
.
"I think this is why we might have something we call
octaves in music. There are sort of octaves in our
thinking. We think octavely. . We say the atom has its
nuclear arrangement, has its own synergetics, which is how
they associate to form molecules and the molecules associate
to form cells and how the cells associate to form living
organisms, and so forth."
Cite RBF to World Game at New York Studio School, 12 Jun-
31 Jul 69, from Saturn Film transcript, #327, pp.3-4.
(2)

Relative Asymmetry:
See Asymmetric Pulsation
(1)

Relative Asymmetry:
See Entropy, Jan'72
(2)

Relative Volumetric Frequency & Interval:
See Mass, 12 May' 77

Relative:
See Constant Relative Abundance
Relative Abundance
Shunting: Relative Notion Patterns
(1)

Relative:
See Avogadro: Generalized Avogadro System, 1959
Description, Jun'66
Epigenetic Landscape, May'49
Functions, 26 May '72'
Synergetics, undated
Unique Frequencies, 9 Jul'62
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"Lines are relativity. A line is the first order of
relativity: the basic sixness of minimum system and
cosmically constant sixness of relationship identifies
lines as the relativity in the formula N
- N."
Citation and context at Line, 7 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"Size is where relativity becomes generated. The eternality
of synergetics is conceptually experienciable independent of
the successive experiences of relativity of time and size."
Citation and context at Size, 22 Jun'72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"I have a railroad train going west through the desert and
a man leans out the window and drops a flaming apple. Ho
sees it go East. He has a sextant and a stopwatch with him
and measures the angle and the amount of time, and so forth.
But he sees that he himself is standing still. He is like
all of the people standing on the surface of the Earth not
realizing that the Earth is going around the Sun at 60,000
miles per hour. And so for him the apple seems to go in an
easterly direction.
"Another man standing at a great distance simply sees the
apple descend toward the Earth.
"Then a man standing very much to the north sees the apple
go west-- with the motion of the train.
"All these different observers then come out with different
results concerning the same experiment."
Cite HBF to BO'R, Kent, Ohio, 23 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"Is is always special case relativity."
Citation and context at Is, 24 Apr 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"We cannot have relativity
Without at least two phenomena to be differentially related.
There is also the word complementarity.
We cannot have one phenomenon complemented
By less than one other phenomenon.
The words complementarity and relativity
Do not identify identical physical phenomena.
We need to discover
Whether there exists a generalized concept
Which embraces both phenomena
And we find that the ponderable physical energy Universe
That is, physical Universe,
In contradistinction to the Universe's
Weightless, metaphysical aspects,
Does embrace both complementarity and relativity."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.135 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"Time, relativity and consciousness
Are always and only coexistent functions
Of an a pripri Universe.
19
•
Citation and context at Consciousness, p. 12, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
•
What Einstein realized has not as yet been
comprehended in any important way except that of developing
the atomic bomb. . .
"Einstein intuited from scientific observations, such
as that of the Brownian Movement in water, and black body
radiation. that the physical universe is always transform-
ing complexly. Masively twisted, the geology of our
Spaceship Earth's crust makes clear how severe have been
the great transformings of its history."
UNESCO TIFLIS 1968, p. 9

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"The theory of functions holds for Universe itself. Universe
consists at minimum of both the metaphysical and the physical.
The fundamental twoness of physical Universe was embraced in
Einstein's one word, 'relativity,' and in a more specific and
experimental way in the physicists' concept of complementarity."
Cite NASA Speech, p.68, Jun'66
Carbondale Draft
nto Modelability, pr

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Relativity:
"Time can be expressed only
as
'relativity' in the terms of relative frequency of reoccur-
rence of any constantly recycling behavior of any chosen
sub-system of universe."
Citation at Time, Jun'66
- Gite NASA Speech,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"Science states that the entire physical universe
is energy.
E =
mc2."
- Cite HOW TO MAINTAIN MAB AS A SUCCESS, p. 228 Mar'65

505
RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"Relativity leads us toward fundamental classification of
our experience and observation, in terms of a few hierarchies
of dynamic interactions and principle
transformations of
an all-energy, continuous-discontinuous, synchronous-
dissynchronous Universe tensionally cohered, precessional
of local compressive spherical energetic collections--
as (Suns) stars or planets or moons or asteroids or meteorites;
and the progression of within-ward sub-sets of events of
interactions at planet crust, etc., and inward to the
92 common principles of atomic convergence of energy in
principle, and the pervasive sets of dynamic associations
by contraction, expansion, spin, orbit, torque, push, and
pull, and precession. This all brings us by progressive
collections of thoughts into a fundamental twoness of
dynamic reciprocities which, internally paired, ultimately
become one with outwardly paired principles of reciprocity."
-
Citation and context at Reciprocity (1) + (2), May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"The concept of relativity involves high frequency of re-
established awareness, and progressively integrating con-
siderations
of the respective, and also
integrated, dynamic complexities of the moving and trans-
forming frame of reference and of the integrated dynamic
complexities of the observed, as well as of the series of
integrated sub-dynamic complexities, in respect to each of
the major categories of the relatively moving frames of
reference of the observer and the observed. It also involves
constant reference of all the reciprocating sub-sets of the
comprehensive totality of nonsimultaneous Universe, from which
naught may be lost."
-
Citation and context at Dynamic Frame of Reference (5), May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"Relativity treats with concepts in principle; therefore,
it can be treated in words as well as in mathematical
phrasing. Relativity is inherently convergent, though
convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract
truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement,
and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental
reliability, which refers, as directional or angular
sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship."
Citation & context at Words, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity:
"The invisible structure was E = mc²."
-
Cite PREVIEWS, I&I, p. 211
1 Apr 49

Relativity: Marriage of Social & Natural Law:
See Air Space, May165

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relativity: Special Theory of Relativity:
"The Special Theory of Relativity states that (1) the
laws of physical phenomena are the same for all inertial
systems, and (2) the velocity of light in any given
inertial system is independent of the velocity of
that system. 19
-
Cite RBF Glossary of terms bound with "The Live Book Squad,"
1967. (Recontrimed by HBF, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 15 Jul 73.)

Relativity:
See Dynamic Frame of Reference
Einstein
Generalization: Fourth Degree
Generalizations Reduced to One Word
Synergy: Metaphysical Synergy
Stars as Live Shows Billions of Years Ago
(1)

Relativity:
See Complementarity, Jun'66
Consciousness, May 72*
Dynamic Frame of Reference, (5)*
Is, 24 Apr 72*
Line, 7 Nov 72*
Reciprocity, (1) (2)*
Size, 22 Jun 72*
Tetrahedral Dynamics, (1)
Time, 23 May 72; May 72; Jun'66*
Words, Fay 49*
Time-angle-size Aspects, 30 Apr' 77
Mass, 12 May' 77
(2)

Relax: Relaxed:
See Hexagon, 30 Dec '73

Relay: Relaying:
See Noninterference Relaying
Precessionally Shunted Pattern Relay
Social-industrial Relay
Substitutional Relaying
Telemation:
Satellite-relayed
Interference-noninterference Relaying
Valvability
(1)

Relay: Relaying:
See Ecological Pattern, 19 Sep'64
Eye-beamed Thoughts, (I)
Manifest: Two: 1963
Dynamic vs. Static, 12 Nov* 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relevance:
(What is
"Relevance is systematic; a relatedness; something going on
around the intertriangulation of the six vectors.
the structure involved?)"
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NY, 22 Jun' 72

Relevant: Almost Relevant:
See Twilight Zone

KBF DEFINITIONS
Relevant:
•
Lucidly Relevant Set:
All irrelevancies fall into two main categories
or 'bits.t One set embraces all the events which are
irrelevant because they are too large in magnitude and too
delayed in rate of reoccurrence to have any effect on the
set of relationships we are considering. The other set of
irrelevancies embraces all the events that are too small
and too frequent to be differentiably resolved at the
wave length we are tuned in at in any discernible way
to alter the interrelationship values of the set of
experience relationshipe we are considering. Having dis-
missed the two classes of irrelevances there remains the
lucidly relevant set to be studied. "
CONSIDERABLE SET-SEC 509.03
Cite NASA Speech, p. 40, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Kelevant.
Lucidly Relevant Set:
"Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
relevants.
There is a twilight zone of tantalizingly almost
There are two such twilight zones-- the macro
and the micro-- tantalizingly almost relevants. Between
them there is always a set of extraordinarily lucid items
relevance."
of
SUMMARY VIST
-
Citation at Thinking, Oct '65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Relevant:
Lucidly Relevant Set:
"Thinking consists
"
of a self-disciplined deferment
of conscious consideration of any incoming information
traffic other than that which is lucidly relevant to the
experience intuited quest for comprehension of the signif-
icance of the emergent pattern under immediate priority of
consideration."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 136, 1960
CONSIDERABLE SET
SEC 50904

Relevant System Potential:
See Vector as 1/12th of Relevant System Potential

Relevant: Relevance: Relevant Set: Lucidly Relevant:
See Corelevant
Bits: Bitting
Irrelevancies:
Irrelevancy
Stark
Dismissal of
Thought Relevant Set
Omniinterrelevant
Exterior Relevants
Interior Relevants
Star Events
Zone of Lucidity
Interrelevant
(1)

Relevant Relevance: Relevant Set: Lucidly Relevant:
See Part, May'72
Powering: One Dimension, 15 Oct'72
Stark, 29 May 72
Thinking, Oct 65*
Repetition, (1)"
Halo Concept, Nov 71
Omnihalo, Nov 71
Pronouns: I = We = Us, (2)
Human Beings, 22 Jun '17
(2)

Reliable: Eternal Reliability:
See A Priori Mystery, 22 Jul171
Integrity, 25 Jan'72
Inherent, 3 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Religion:
"I do not want to inaugurate another religion and persuade
people to believe in a set of rules. I am convinced that the
Almight does not need anybody to promote God."
citation & context at God, May'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Religion:
"...Another young lady came to me and said was I going to talk
some more about these religious ideas. I really had talked a
whole lot about it to you but... I had never really used the
word religion. I knew what she was talking about because she
spoke about some kind of faith, some confidence in an integrity
and a meaning in our experience of life... The word really is
'religio. They had come out of a set of rules of dogma,
interpretations at second-, third, and fourth-handings, some-
times very remote, a thousandfold secondariness of experiences
of others and thought which have occurred spontaneously to
original explorers.
(1)
"I myself am quite confident that the more we know about who
specifically inspired religions-- Christ, Mohamed, Buddha, and
Confucius- these may be generalized characters, but there was
one or several men who at various times in history tended to have
the kinds of experiences that are accounted for word by word,
mouth by mouth, word of mouth. These experiences are experiences
of individuals who have extreme confidence in the integrity of
the invention man and the invention Universe, who in every
instance find this integrity to have great power, to be a priori
to human intellect. tt
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 160, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Religion:
(2)
"None of them ever account experiencing a god in the image of
man. That is one thing that Einstein was talking about in his
nonanthropomorphic concept of the scientists. At any rate, they
are people who experience an a priori integrity, a comprehensive
anticipatory intellectual integrity greater than that of man.
And they have enormous confidence in it, great faith in it, and
try to help others to understand the success that they have
experienced through their confidence in that integrity.
At any
rate, apparently these people have had such success as to have
excited people by various patterns of experiences that have
occurred. There are many then who in their day were excited,
really very blindly and superstitiously, into subscribing to
what was going on. This man was a man of powrs without their
trying to understand what those powers were. When they die then
there were those who do better than others and they tend to
become the authorities; and while they are alive they then are
asked to make various recordings of what they think had been
said and what the rules were. Gradually this gets thinner and
thinner and we have official custodians of the information and
interpretations and that is the way our religions have developed."
Cite Orgeon Lecture #5, p.161, 9 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Religion:
"As these individual explorers of the sciences went off
into their laboratory and went down with their blinders on,
men of enormous integrity, they said they never found anytthing
in that particular area that seemed to confirm any of the
given religions. Therefore, atheism began to develop, not
as something you profess-- but there was sort of a double
life. These men tended to honor their forebears, honor the
literature, honor the humanism, and they would say probably
the trouble is that I am such a narrow person from being in
such a narrow field, that I just don't understand your
other things. But there is nothing that 1 am doing
experimentally here that seems to tell me that what the
people have said about how the Universe was put together and
the way it works, particularly from a religious
I think
these people over here are dear muddleheaded people, but
1 am just going to have to leave them alone for my own
professional part. So what has been thought of as an
atheism is really just an evasion. It wasn't a declaration
of againstness, and was not something against religion, but
there seemed to be nothing to take its place."
viewpoint, that really seems to be valid.
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 130. 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Religious Edifices:
"... The enormous credit and physical investment of local
undertakings in the most transcendental class as mystical
insurance for eternal equanimity as built into the great
religious edifices by the local communities, as representing
the most generalized problem treatment and infinite range
planning known to man's history.'
18
-
Citation and context at Ships (1), 1954-59

Religious Edifices:
See Permanent Symbolic Communications Devices

Religion as Make-believe:
See Synergetics, Apr172

MBF DEFINITIONS
Religion: Related to 'Reglio' or Rule:
"1 personally interpret the word religion as being
related to 'reglio' or rule, You begin with the assumption
that everyone is very ignorant, and somebody much wiser
comes along and says, "Darling, you're not old enough to
understand. I do understand however, and i want you to
beleive every word I say." And you say, "All right, father,
I know you love me and wouldn't mislead me or cause me harm,
So I believe you. There you have an exchange that i'd call
religious. it is built on subscription to dogma. You're
told what to believe and you learn how to repeat it."
Feb172
Cite RBF in Barry Farrel Playboy interview Transcript, Pp. 19-20

Religion:
ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY (WEEKLEY)
F., L. religio-n, from religens, careful, opposite of
negligens, and prob. cogn, with diligens.

TEXT CITATIONS
Religion:
Oregon Lecture #5
pp. 160-163 9 Jul*62
203.10
8531.05
1056.20 (24)

Religion: Religions:
See Catholic Church
Christian Legend & Philosophy
Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense
Faith
God
Belief
(1)

Religion: Religious:
(1)
See A Priori Mystery, May 72
Child Sequence,
Modelability, (3)
Synergetics) 19 Jun 71
Thinking Oct 75
Iceland,
Word Trends, May'44
Belief, 20 Feb'77
Greater Intellect, (2)
(2)
22:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Remember:
"To be remembered, it must first be membered, to be
membered it must be structured, to be structured it
must be triangulated."
Cite RBF to BO'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 20 Feb 172

Rememberable Entity:
See Member
9 Nov' 73
Dodecahedron, 23 Feb'72

Remembering Names:
See Subconscious, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rememberable Numbers:
"When nature gives us a number we can remember, she is
putting us on notice that the cosmic communications
circuits are open: you are connected through to many
sublime truths!"
->>
Cin addition to Syperetics Galley at Sec. 1234.02,
Santa Monica,

Rememberable Number:
See SSRCD
Scheherazade Number
(1)

Rememberable Number:
See Prime Number, Oct171
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Remembered:
"Experiences remembered by none are, in effect, nonexistent--
may never have occurred.
- Citation and context at Experience, 1968

Remember:
See Memory
Pattern Cognizance
Trail Kaking & Trail Remembering
Furniture of Remembered Experiences
Unremembered
- Nonexistent
(1)

510
Remember: Remembering:
See Model, 22 Jan'75
Universe, May 172
Minimum Awareness, (1)
Environment, (B)
(2)

Remergent Synchronization:
See Hot Line of Intuition, 15 Aug'72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Remote:
"The remote aspect of a spiral is a wave because there are
no planes."
Citation & context at Spiralinearity, Nov'71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Remote
Intellectual:
"The more remote the function the more intellectual the
perspective we have on it and the greater the speed with which
we accelerate its adaptability into our economic life. "
->
Citation & context at Intellectual Perspective, 1 Jul'62

Remote - Intellectual:
See Largest Pattern

Remote: Remoteness:
See Maximum Remoteness
Proximity & Remoteness
Remote = Intellectual
Cosmic & Local
(1)

Remoto: Remoteness:
See Energy, 6 May'48
Physical, 27 Dec 74
Spiralinearity, Nor171*
Structure, 15 Oct 64
(2)

Renting:
Rental:
See Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing
Service Industry
(1)

Rent: Rental:
See Service Industry, 15 May173
Mobile Homes, (1)(2)
Dome House Grand Strategy:
Building Industry, (8)
1927-1977, (3)
Energy Environment-harvesting Machines, 27 Jan' 77
(2)

(1)
Reoccur: Reoccurrence:
See Cycle: If You Wait Long Enough the Cycles All Reoccur

Reoccur: Reoccurrence:
See Entropy, 16 May'72
(2)

Reorganize:
See Rearrange

Reorientation:
See Tools of Reorientation

Re-origin:
Re-originatable:
See Origin
Regenerative

Repelling Fields:
See Domains of Actions, 9 Jul'62; 21 Dec171
Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repetition:
"In a recent study of the use of repetition in literature,
Bruce F. Kawin observes that 'Events whose repetition is not
extraordinary do not seem worth recording, in fact, hardly
seem worth noticing.' This statement is very close to what
has been the strategy of my life. This is what it means to
dare to be naive. The preoccupied search for the extraordinary
pattern cannot fail to obscure the larger and more obvious
ordinary patterns-- so obvious that they always seemed to be
missed."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. front matter, Author's Note on
Rationale for Repetition in This Work, p.xx1, 2 Jul*75

510
RBF DEFINITIONS
Repetition:
"Le Corbusier told the whole story on the first page. And
then he told it again in a few pages. And then he told it
again in the whole book. And that's the only way people can
really understand it. You have to keep retelling it.
is the way Le Corbusier did it in his book called
...
and everyone loved it that way.
This
"This gives me another metaphor.... It is all part of the
grand strategy. You know how a pole vaulter can't do it all
the first time. He has to run over the same cinder path
hundreds and hundreds of times before he gets to his new
record. And that's the way we should tell it in the book."
Cite RBF to EJA, by telephone from Philadelphia, 8 Mar' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repetition:
(1)
This
"It is the writer's experience that new degrees of comprehension
are always and only consequent to ever-renewed review of the
spontaneously rearranged inventory of significant factors.
awareness of the processes leading to new degrees of
comprehension spontaneously motivates the writer to describe
over and over again what-- to the careless listener or reader--
might seem to be tireless repetition, but to the successful
explorer is known to be essential mustering of operational
strategies from which alone new thrusts of comprehension can be
successfully accomplished.
"To the careless reader seeking only entertainment the repetit-
ion will bring about swift disconnect. To those experienced
with the writer and motivated by personal experience with
mental discoveries-- co-experiencing comprehensive breakthroughs
with the writer-- are not dismayed by the seeming necessity to
start all over again inventorying the now seemingly lucidly
relevant.
"Universe factors intuitively integrating to attain new
perspective and effectively demonstrated logic of new degrees
of comprehension-- that's the point! I have not forgotten that"
-
SYNERGETICS front papers; RBF to EJA, Wash. DC, 30 Oct' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repetition:
221
(2)
"I have talked about these things before. It is part of the
personal discipline, no matter how formidable the re-invent-
orying may seem, to commit myself to that task when inspired
by intuitive glimpses of important new relationships--
inspired overpoweringly because of the realized human potential
of successful escape from ignorance.
te
Cite SYNERGETICS front papers, "Apthor's note on Rationale
for Repetition in this Work,
P. xx1
from notes of RBF
to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 30 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repetition:
"Of course it can be abused, like cast iron souvenir statuss
of G.I.'s. where the motive and integrity is so low the effect
is cloying. But repetition has a very high function."
- Citation & context at Reproducible, 30 May'72
*

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repetitiva:
"Metaphor is repetetive. Wave function and frequency are
inherently repetitive. Sight, the awareness of all the
electromagnetic-spectrum reality, is identified only by its
unique frequencies of reliable repetition. Identity results
only from a family of uniquely repetitive frequencies."
Cite RBF to EJA and RBF marginalis in Bruce F. Kawin, "Tell-
ing It Again and Again," p.5; 28 May 75

Repetition: Repetitive:
See Reproducibleness
Standardization
Nonidentically Repetitive
Pole Vaulter
(1)

Repetition: Repetitive:
See Interval, 6 May'48
Reproducible, 30 May' 72
Generalized Principle, (1)
Scenario, 2 Jun'71
Harmonic Interval, May'49
Identity, 2 Jul 75
Metaphor, 2 Jul 75
Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)
(2)

Reprecession:
See Regenerative Precession
(1)

Reprecession:
See Two Kinds of Twoness, (B)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reproducible:
"The more symmetrical: the more reproducible.
asymmetrical, the less it fits Universe.
design in Universe is the hydrogen atom.
The more
The most successful
The more adequate
the prototype,
There is an unfortunate tendency to abhorency of the plastic.
Our fingernails are plastic. Our eyes are plastic.
the better it fits Universe....
Cf
course it can be abused, like cast iron souvenir statues of
G.I.'s, where the motive and integrity is so low the effect
is cloying. But repetition has a very high function."
Cite RBF to Bill Whitehead, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 30 Fay'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reproducible:
...The Sun energy impounding functions of the billions
times billions of blades of grass around its spherical
surface are essential to the regeneration of life aboard
Spaceship Earth, ergo Whitman's 'Blades of Grass' are
almost infinitely reproducible."
Cite GENERALIZED LAWS OF DESIGN, pp. 2-3, 22 Apr '68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reproducible:
"It seems to be a law of nature that the more fundamentally
simple and biologically propitious an evolutionary growth may
be, the more aesthetically satisfying and lastingly acceptable
is its multireproduction, e.g., roses, stars, and blades of
grass."
Cite ARCHITECTURE: THE PRESENT SCENE, Newsweeek, 1968

Reproducibleness: Law Of:
See Harmonic, 22 Apr168

Reproducible: Reproducibility:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity
Mass Production
Prototype
Regenerative Design; Law Of
Simplicity
Standardization

Reproduction:
See Procreation
Sex
Survival Sequence:
Tactile Sequence
Love
Aesthetics of Reproduction
(1)

Reproduction:
See Reproducible, 1968
Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)
(2)

Repro-shelter Industry:
See Industrial Hypocrisy, Kay'32

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repulsion:
When humans "repel one another physically
The least strong is rocketed
Into remote system orbit."
- * Catation and context at Precession:
and Social Behavior, May 72
Analogy of Precession

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repulsion:
"Repulsion, or the raison d'etre of going awayness..."
-
Citation and context at Gravity (1), 7 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Repulsion:
In the kinetics of gas under pressure "there are
critical proximities tensionally and critical
proximities compressionally, that is, there are
repellings.
.
as we would find out in electromagnetics
so there are domains of actions.
"
•
Cit DRECON Lecture-
= p. 186, 9 Jul 62
Citation & context at Domains of Actions, y Jul'62

Repulsion:
See Repel: Repelling
(1)

Repulsion:
(2)
See Domains of Actions, 9 Jul*62*
Geometry of Vectors, Aug'71
Gravity (1)*
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior,
May' 72*
Structure, Nov 171

Require: Requirements:
See Need: Necessity
Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage

RBF DEFINITIONS
Re-rewarding:
"Exploration in principle is re-rewarding."
-
Citation and context at Probability, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Research:
(1)
"We must break a barrier in the kind of thinking we've been
You have to have search before
doing about the word 'research.'
The word research came into use in
you can have research.
industry and business during the '20's. They started going,
over the things they were throwing away. They began to apply
new technologies. So you searched once and exploited your
findings; then you researched what you'd done and exploited it
again. It was very spottily done between 1900 and World War I;
research really begins in 1929. Today it covers all kinds of
things. When we talk about research in a university, that's
new too. The research professor is something very new. You had
large corporations paying for a chair in the chemistry depart-
ment and it was really a racket because what it meant was that
you had a large number of people, graduate students working for
you for nothing. You had a research professor giving your
The ulterior motives are frequent-
company very special benefits.
ly visible.
He
"A researcher is always someone who goes over things again.
is a technician staying in one area to see what he can find.
Research is very different from pure science exploration and
invention. Research can just be processing and refining without"
RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island, Tape #7, Side A, Transcript
P.4, 18 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Research:
"initiating anything. I don't expect people to initiate very
much, very often. The whole technique is to find what are the
first things first in Universe."
RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island, Tape #7, Side A; transcipt
p.4, 18 Aug' 70
(2)

Research & Development:
See Fellowships:
Development
Prototype
Life Fellowships in Research &
Buggy Industry Could Never Invent Automobile
Adoption of the New Only as Last Resort
Dome House Grand Strategy
(1)

Research & Development:
See Ephemeralization, 1 Jun 49
Invention Sequence (A)-(D); (b)
Everybody's Business, (1)
(2)

Research Fellowships:
See Fellowships: Life Fellowships in R & D

Research:
See Fuller, R.B:
Personal Resaerch File Colors
Search vs. Research
(1)

Research:
See Labor: American Labor, 1960
(2)

Reserve: Reserves:
See Complementarity Reserves

Reservoir:
See Cosmic Reservoir
(1)

Reservoir:
See Shunt, Jun*66
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Residual Error:
"There will always be residual error to surprise man,
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 viewpoints, 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 macrocosmic and microcosmic irrelevancies. Ergo,
thought identification and communication to self or others
must tune in a zones system, with inherent center-of-zone,
equilibrium 'sphere,' and therefore possessed of inherent
wave propagative inward-outward tendency between the
unstable variable limits, or infra-ultra twilights
confining the clearly tunable mean interior-exterior
zone limits occurring between the ultra-tunable macro-
cosmos and the intra-tunable microcosmos.
It
-
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

Residual Error:
See Observing & Articulating, 4 Aug 75
Cybernetics, 7 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Residual Ignorance of Temporality:
"Only residual ignorance of temporality dulls the growing
comprehension and allows fear to corrupt the child's innately
absolute trust in love."
Cisation and context at Death, 11 Sep' 73

Residual Ignorance:
See Understanding, 1 Apr'49

Residual Reality:
See Specialization, Dec'69

Residual:
See Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual Error

Residual:
See Exactitude, May'72
Historical, 1971
(2)

Residual:
See Residual Error
Residual Ignorance of Temporality
Residual Reality

Resilience:
See Bend: Bending
Rigidity vs. Resilience

Resistance:
See Least Resistance
Passive Resistance
Precessionally Shunted Pattern Relay
(1)

Resistance:
See Tunability, 1960
(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
Resolution:
"Things in parallel never get resolved. Convergent things
get beautifully resolved; they get exactly... they get
nature into a corner.
-
Citation & context at Convergence & Divergence, 1 May'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resolution:
" ..The resolution is not linear nor planar; it is
omnidirectional; it is hierarchical in ascending or descen-
ding hierarchies."
Citation & context at Minimum Limit Case, 12 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
-
Resolution:
"Vectors are not abstractions: they are resolutions."
Citation at Vector, 21 Dec 71
Gite RBE to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resolution:
"Points are complex but nondifferentiably resolvable to
superficial inspection."
->>
Cite HBF to Ed, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.
-
Citation & context at Point, 19 Jun '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resolution:
"A star is something you cannot resolve. We call it a
point, playing Euler's game of crossings.
One star
does not have an outs.deness and an insideness.
It is
a point because you cannot resolve it."
Cito XBF to JA, Carbondale, 2 April 1971.
Citation & context at Point, 2 Apr*71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Resolution:
Think about some of the limits of thinking of
what we call resolution. Just look at this ruler
it is divided into centimeters and it is down to tenths
of centimeters. . . Or if you take an engineers' rule
and get down to hundredths of an inch a good eye can
see and resolve the black from the white, but beyond that
you stop operating and you sec gray. These are
frequencies. From now on we really get into the phenomena
of frequency-- and then you see pink and yellow.
I want
you to realize you are seeing something to do with
frequencies, where you do not have resolution of separation
and this is not at all mysterious. We realize how very
limited we are, and then when we begin to see things
superficially-- they are tactile-- we don't realize how
much confusion we are having on an extraordinary set of
frequencies.
"
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 1-100. 5 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resolvability Limits:
"The visual limits of 'now-you-see-it-now-you-don't,'
yes-no-yes-no, something-nothing-something-nothing, dot-dash-
dot-dash are relative size-scale discernabilities spoken of
technically as resolution. These resolvability limits of
the human eye may be pictured as follows:
one inch
1/2
The
tenths
Engineers'
thirtieths
Scale
fiftieths
hundredths
"The finest 'smooth' surface, intercolor-crossblending,
continuum photogravure printing is accomplished with a benday
screen which employs 200 unique color dots per each square
inch of printed surface."
"
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.031; 30 Apr* 77

Resolution: Resolvability:
See Benday Screen
Differentiation
Point
Tunability
Abstraction vs. Resolution
Unresolvable
Frequency Islands of Perception
Invisibility of Macro- and Micro Resolution
Conceptual Genesis
(1)

Resolution: Resolvable:
See Female Leg, Aug'64
Point, 6 Nov 73; 19 Jun 71*; 2 Apr'71*
Prime Otherness, 24 Sep'73
Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, Nov1 71
Vector, 21 Dec'71*
Clusters, 7 Nov' 73
Minimum Limit Case, 12 May'75*
Convergence & Divergence, 1 May' 77*
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1)(2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resonance:
Lines are always curvilinearly realized because
of universal resonance, spinning, and orbiting."
Citation and context at Line, 7 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resonance:
"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 characteristic-
ally flat resonance really governing the interactions of
frequencies. The resonances are the key to much of modern
physical exploration."
Citation and context at Pythagoras (2), 18 Jun'71

519
RBF DEFI.ITIONS
Resonance Field:
"...Employing as a resonance field all the intertransforming
spheres and between-sphere spaces; and employing the myriadly
selectable, noninterfering frequencies of such propagatable
intertransformation resonance...
"t
Citation and context at Atomic Computer Complex (8), 13 May173

Resonance: Resonatability:
See Feedback
Omniinterresonated
Oscillation
Pulsation
Synchro-resonance
Tidal
Zone of Neutral Resonance
Omniresonant
Heard & Unheard Resonances
Wavelength, Frequency & Resonance
Harmonic: Harmony
Tensed String
Chords & Notes
(1)

Resonance:
Resonatability:
See Integer, 15 Oct'72
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 16 Nov'72; 30 Nov 72
Line, 7 Nov172*
Music, 4 Mar 69
Observing vs. Articulating, Mar171
Octave, 18 Jun'71
Point, 16 Nov 72
Pythagoras, (2)*
Synergetics Calculation, 30 Oct'72
Time-size, 20 Dec 73
Tunability, 19 Oct 72; 16 Nov' 72
Radiation-gravitation: Harmonics, 3 Jan'75
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, 13 Dec'73
Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta,
25 Mar 71
Energy Involvement of 92 Elements, (1)
Metaphysical & Physical, 13 Nov' 75
Aural, 22 Feb' 77
Olfactoral, 22 Feb'77
Mites & Quarks as basic Notes, (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resources:
"If there's so little of it, it must be used in a broad sense.
I must never have helium in a retail pub; it must be in the tools
that serve the tools....
"I want to really do something, but I don't want to sell boron
on the street-corner to use for toothpicks. I want to see
that everything is used where it's meant to be used."
1st. Para
-
Cite Scrap Sorting & Mongering (3), 15 Jun '74
2nd. Para Cite Tape transcript, p.4%; RBF to W. Wolf, 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resources:
"...All the 'cream rich' initial discoveries of original
resource geography lodes become exhausted..."
Citation and context at Womb of Permitted Ignorance, 13 Dec'73,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resources:
"... Spaceship Earth's prime resources belong to everybody."
Citation and context at Young World (10, 4 Jul 72

Resource Effectiveness:
See Industrial Man, 10 Oct'63
Revolution by Inadvertence, 10 Oct '63

Resources:
Fresh va, Waste:
See Outbound Packaging of Human Food Waste
(1)

Resources: Fresh vs Waste:
See Biological Life, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resource Inadequacy:
"I also realize intuitively
That the elimination
Of the condition of resource inadequacy
And thereby the elimination of human want
May probably eliminate war
Or quick death--
Which is always consequent to the overlong protraction
Of the slow and more anguished poverty's
Slow dying
As brought about by lethal ignorance
In respect to the design revolution potentials
As society takes its only known recourse
In political actions..."
->
Cite INTUITION, pp. 63-64 May 172

Resource Inadequacy:
See Inadequacy of Life Support
Scarcity: Not Enough to Go Around
(1)

Resource Inadequacy:
See Political Revolution, 10 Oct '63
Selfishness, 22 Jun 75
(2)

Resource Integration:
See Leaders: Take Away the Leaders, 4 Jul172

Resource Inventorying:
See Satellite: World Satellite Sensing
(1)

Resource Inventorying:
See Biosphere, (1)
Problem: Statement Of,
Aug' 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resource & Principle:
"Inventions are extemporanious. They represent trial
balances of resource and principle drawn off in the light of
shifting needs."
Citation & context at Inventions, 1947

501
Resource: Resources:
See Pollution Control
Wilderness Resources
(1)

Resource: Resources:
See Biological Life, (1)
Biosphere, (1)(2)
Leaders: Take Away the Leaders, 4 Jul'72
Miniature Earth, 28 Apr' 74
Wealth, 1947; 20 Sep' 76
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, 13 Dec'73*
World Game: Grand Strategy, 2 Jun'74
Young World, 4 Jul 72*
Intellect, 21 Jun 77
(2)

Resource: Resources:
See Resource Effectiveness
Resource Inadequacy
Resource Integration
Resource Inventorying
Resource & Principle
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Responsible:
"We have to take the responsibility of being responsible.
So far we have not been very responsible. You don't say
to a new child, 'You'd better go back in there, you're
not very responsible...' They're just using words-- foxes
and daisies... I say: What might I do that made it logical
for man not to do these things? That's what I'm caring
about. That's what design science is."
-
Citation and context at Spaceship (C), Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Responsibility:
"Our history of social customs indicates that until very
recently, when Freud offered evidence to the contrary, man
thought of his awake self as being utterly conscious.
The
laws held people absolutely responsible for all their awake
acts. Reality was what could be seen, smelled, touched,
tasted, and heard. There was no popular awareness of sub-
or ultra-visible reality. There were beliefs of invisible
gods or demons playing tricks on the humans.' ་་
-
Cite ARCHITECTURE AS ULTRA INVISIBLE REALITY, p. 149, Dec. '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Responsibility:
"We are all equally responsible not only for the big
complementary surface areas which we develop on systems by
our every act. We are inherently responsible for the
transformation of Universe, inwardly, outwardly, and all
around every system which we alter.
• •
-
Citation and context at Spherical Triangle (4), 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Responsibility:
TPP
Freud
Up to the nineteenth century, or the beginning of the
twentieth century, what we could smell, see, hear, and
touch was what he meant by reality. I think to many in our
society today that is still what you mean by reality.
and Mesmer shook society's concept of this kind of reality,
because man up to this time had been saying, because thatis
reality, every human being knows just what he is doing.
If
he is of sound mind, when he is awake, then he knows just
what he is doing. Therefore, he must be entirely responsible
for his every act. So as we developed laws, we made man
utterly responsible for his every act. But Freud and Mesmer,
through their hypnotism, were able to disclose behaviors of
human beings for which the human being was not responsible
at all. So this shook theidea of the courts, and we have
had to have psychiatrists and others come in to bring you a
reconsideration of the responsibilities of human beings.
Now, what has really not been paid attention to in our
society, again because we are all so specialized, is that
there is almost no tendency to look at the whole and to really
understand the whole."
Cite RF Address, The HABITABLE CITY, 14 Oct. '69.

Responsibility:
See Man's Conscious Participation in Evolution
Doing What Needs to Be Done
Everybody's Business
(1)

Responsibility:
See Design Scientist, 30 Jan'75
Publishing, 30 Jan'75
Success, 10 Sep'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rost: At Rest:
"The words 'at rest,' artificial, and failure are all
meaningless.
- Citation and context at Meaningless, Oct'66

Heat: At Rest:
See Immobility
Instant Universe
Newton's Cosmic Norm of "At Rest"
No Change
No Speed
Static
(1)

Reat: At Reat:
See Norm of Einstein as Absolute Speed, Jun'56
Radiation: Speed Of, (C)
Future: Man Backs into His Future, May'49
Dynamic Equilibrium, 24 Apr' 76
(2)

Restlessness:
See Energetic Functions, 8 Aug'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rest of the Universe:
"The complementarity of the octahedron with the vector
equilibrium permits us to get down to the local and not
be afraid of missing the rest of the Universe, because we
know the fundamental complementations of macro tetra and
micro tetra. We were always looking at the XYZ quadrant--
focusing on the quadrant at the center of the octahedron,
rather than on the functioning of the covariations."
Citation and context at Trigonometric Limit, 22 Jun '72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Rest of the Universe:
11
.
•
You and 1 are matched by the rest of the Universe.
There is an invisible hole-- a matrix of you and I sitting in
the Universe. So it really isn't annihilated, but it is
nonlocally identifiable. . . "
Citation and context at invisible Hole, 16 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Best of the Universe:
"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."
-
Citation at Platonic Solida, 12 Jul'62

Rest of Universe Other than Earth:
See Spherical Triangle Sequence, (111)

Rest of Universe:
See Local Change
Motion Freedom from Rest of Universe
Nonconceptuality
(1)

Rest of Universe:
See Allspace Filling: Octahedron & Ve, 22 Jun '72
Eternity: Equation Of, 27 May172
Event, 1968
Invisible Hole, 16 Jun 72
Local Entity, 1960
Nonmirror Image, 13 Jun 74
Orbiting, 5 Jun 73
Key-keyhole Sequence, (1)(2)
Platonic Solids, 12 Jul 62*
Plus One, 9 Jul 62
Rubber Tires, (4)
Sphere, (1)
Tetrahe iron:
Coordinate Symmetry, 10 Jul'62
Thinkable System Takeout, (2)
Thinking, (1)
Trigonometric Limit, 22 Jun*72*
(2A)

Rest of Universe:
See Universal Joint: Tetrahedron, 9 Nov'73
Minimum Sphere, Aug171
Quantum Sequence, (5)
Time is Only Now, y Jul*76
In, Out & Around, 17 May 177
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4)
(2B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Restraints:
"Six restraints are essential to structure and pattern
stability."
Cite RBF marginalis to SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 400.664;
8 Aug'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Restraints:
"Nothing stands in a vacuum of Universe. Nothing can change
locally without changing everything else. We have to look
for conditions where there is permitted transformability and
where there is some really great unanimity of degrees of
freedom. We see that certain kinds of patterns accrue from
certain numbers of restraints. You could see how planar
things could happen as a consequence of two restraints and how
linear things could happen as a consequence of three
restraints. (See Sec. 401, Twelve Vectors of Restraint Define
minimum System.) We see, then, that we are in a Universe
where there is a certain limited number of permitted freedoms.
Synergetics discovers that whatever is rigidly related to
anything elso discloses 12 restraints. There are a minimum
of 12 restraints in developing anything we might call a
rigidly related set of events."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 537,01; RBF modified and
deleted much of text on galley, 7 Nov 73, but EJA
reinstated text to conform to manuscript of Dec*71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
SYSTEM
Restraints:
"I've got a way of checking degrees of freedom. I said
there is myself and the universe, and I see a hole in the
stars. I try to shoot out through the stars. I go like
the Pleiades; the stars get closer and closer together I seem
to be very far. All the stars in the rest of the universe
are in one huddle, and I am over here.
•
"
"I can't get away from the universe: one tension restraint.
I can do as a tetherball; you hit it and make any kind of a
spherical form that you want. I give myslef now two
restraints, I only had one restraint, now I have two
restraints, not as if I were a ball in the middle of a
music string. I can still move but I can only move in a
plane.
I give myself a third restraint: I am in a drumhead;
I can still move, but only in a line. Then I give myself a
fourth restraint and first I am pulling the drumhead in
one direction and I seem to be immobilized.
I found
that even though semi-immobilized, you could put a monkey-
wrench on it and it would contort.
"I had to get each one of the four restraints; they had to
be three-folded and come in tangentially, making a total of 12.
There would be six positive and six negative, corresponding
SEC 408.1+243) Cite Ledgemont Lab. Lecture, p.52, 15 Oct'64
-
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Restraints:
"to the six edges of the tetrahedron, negative and positive...
They keep showing up in these models.
"You are trying to make a wire wheel. How many spokes does it
take? You have to have three out this way and three out that
way to keep the hub from shimmying. You have to take care of
the rotation and the torque-- that way and this way-- we had
six... multiply each of these
by two... comes 12.
You cannot have a wire wheel with less than 12 spokes."
Cite Ledgemont Lab. lecture, p.53, 15 Oct 64
(2)

524
RBF DEFINITIONS
Restraints:
"The Platonic Solids do not stand
Estanis in a vacuum of Universe, Nothing can change
locally without changing everything else. We have to look
for conditions where there is permitted transformability
and where there is some really great unanimity and I have
been looking for degrees of freedom-- ways in which this
could happen, the kinds of patterns that accrue to one
restraint, two restraints and so forth. You could see how
linear things could happen as the consequence of three
restraints and how planar things could happen as the
consequence of two restraints, and so forth. We then get
into a Universe of a certain numberof permitted freedoms
and I have discovered that nothing was-- you might say--
rigidly related to anything else unless there were twelve
restraints so there was a minimum of twelve restraints to
develop anything we might call rigidly related set of events."
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 285. 12 Jul 62
12 DECREES OF FREEDOM - SEC. 537.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Restraints:
"Here are those degrees of freedom that I spoke about and
illustrated where we have the single ball able to move to
all kinds of patterns, but when there are two restraints they
can only move in a plane, when there are three restraints
they can only move in a line, and with four restraints it
stays fixed, but it can rotate locally."
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 208,10 Jul'62

Restraint Focus:
See Aberration, 19 Dec 73

Restraints:
See Degrees of Freedom
Inventions which Decrease the Degrees of Freedom
Mast in the Earth
Me Ball
Otherness Restraints
Vectors Restraints
(1)

Restraints:
See Lifetime: Personal Lifetime Experience for
Elective Investment, 31 May'74
Ellipse, 20 Jan 75
(2)

Restructurings:
See Unstructurings & Restructurings

RBF DEFINITIONS
Resultant:
"The resultant was not recognized until it was realized that
light had a speed."
-Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia, PA.,
20 Jan 75

HBF DEFINITIONS
Resultant:
"Now, up to the speed of light measurement, engineers spoke
of every action as having a reaction and it was thought by
the engineers-- because the public didn't understand-- that
every action had a reaction. Little man is so small, and
Earth is so big, he doesn't realize that when he steps this
way,
he's pushing the Earth the other way. But you can feel
it in an automobile when it accelerates rapidly, shoving the
pebbles in the opposite direction. Now with the speed of
light measurements. we discover while the speed of light is
very great, say 700 million miles an hour.
While, That's
very fast it is very slow in contrast to no time at all.
And the engineers have not updated their thinking since the
speed of light. They hadn't realized the speed of light had
anything to do with their action and reaction. But
because there is now no instantaneity, no simultaneity,
there is always some energy lag, and time is involved here.
Therefore every action not only has a reaction but it has
its resultant, and the resultant and the reaction are not
the same. So we now realize that every energy event is
characterized not only by a reaction but also by a resultant."
-
Cite RBF at SIMS, U.lass, Amherst 22 July '71, pp 19-20

Resultant as Disturbance Diminishing:
See Precession & Degrees of Freedom, (1)

Resultant:
See Action
Action-reaction-resultant
Interference
Reaction
2 Cobras
Integrated Vectorial Resultant
Vectorial Model of Interference
(1)

Resultant:
See In, Out & Around, Nov' 71
(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
Retirement:
"Retirement was invented by the insurance companies.
There are 9,000 Ph.D.'s in physics today and only 2,000
of them have jobs."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

Retirement:
Retiring:
See Squatters, (1) (2)
Building Industry, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Returning Upon Itself: Systems
Return Upon Themselves:
"To be able to return upon itself is a chracteristic of
all systems.
A plane would go on to infinity, so to form
a system you would have to take an angle out."
-
Cite RBF at Students International Meditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 Jult '71, p. 10
SYSTEM SEC. 400.081

Returning Upon Itself: Systems Return Upon Themselves:
See Closed System
Embracement
Finite
Geometrical Integrity
Nature Always Comes Back on Itself
Patterns of Experience Return Upon Themselves
in All Directions
Wave Returns Upon Itself
(1)

Returning Upon Itself: Systems Return Upon Themselves:
See Closed System, 26 May '72
Comprehension, Dec 61
Congruence, 25 Jan172
Considerable Set, 1959
Finite, 13 Nov'69
Gears, 7 Nov 73
Geometrical Integrity, 25 Kay'72
Infinity & Finity, Jun'66
Interference, 15 Oct'64
Motion, 4 Feb'68
Omnidirectional, 23 Sep 173
Polygon, Jun'66
Prime Structural Systems, 11 Jul'62 ; 3 Nov 73
Radiation: Speed Of, 22 Jun '72
Simultaneous, 5 Jul 62
System, (1)(2)
Thinkability, 1 bay'71
Triangle, 5 Jul 62'
(2A)

Returning Upon Itself: Systems Return Upon Themselves:
See Vector, 25 May '72
Vectors Are Real, 23 May'72
Vertexes, Faces & Lines, 1 Jan'75
Plane, 19 Feb 72; 13 Nov 69
General Systems Theory, (A)
(2B)

Return to Modelability:
See Modelability
Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities
(1)

Return to Modelability:
See Artist, 6 Jul'62
Powering, (1)(2)
Synergetics, Dec 72; 30 Dec 73
Xyz Coordinate System, 1965
(2)

Reverify: Reverifiable:
See Unknown: All the Unknown, 13 May '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reverse Atomics:
"Maybe we ought to try to capture lightning in electrostatic
generators
underground: build up charges of lightning and then
release it later
"We might really reverse our atomics: instead of learning how
to
release atomic energy we could learn how to make the atoms
and how
to employ the exponential increase of their gravitational
energy as their components
are allowed to self-assemble them-
selves.
Cite tape transcript, DSI Project; RBF to W. Wolf, pp. 10-11,
28 Apr 74; as rewritten by
RBF at 3200 Idaho, 10 Sep'74

Reverse Atomics:
See Electrostatic Generating
(1)

Reverse Atomics:
See Lightning & Atoms, 28 Apr174
(2)

Reverse Fountain Flow:
See Wind Stress & Houses, (9)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reverse Optimism:
"Optimism is usually thought of as constituting a mildly
unwarranted hopefulness in respect to the future. But there
is a reverse projection of optimism in the nostalgia-
generated myths that recall only the rare and sublime moments
of yesterday. Forgetting the negative, reverse optimism
overemphasizes, thus deliberately shuts its eyes to reality,
and is therefore unable to see the values immediately present.
"I am convinced that we are swiftly emerging from the abysmal
conformities of yesterday's illiterate, spit-punctuated
profanity and
monosyllabic verbalism, in which rags, filth,
diseased bodies, prevalent stenches, devastating superstition,
and
local bias reigned supreme.'
(Compare with Conformity, 10 Oct'63
Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, WDSB Doc. 3, p.74, Aug'64
-
EJA)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reversibility:
". . . The syntropic vector equilibrium's reversibility--
inwardly outwardly-- is the basis for the gravitationally
maintained integrity of Universe."
-
Citation at Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct'71
CICE SYNERGETICE draft "Antitetrahedron," 8 Oct. 171, p. 8.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Reversibility:
"Each vector is reversible having its negative alternate."
-Cite SYNERGETICS. Corollaries, Sec. 240. 1970
Citation & context at Vector, Oct'59

Reversibility:
See Inward & Outwardness
Irreversibility
Obverse & Reverse
Opposite: Opposition
Moving Picture Run Backwards
Negative
Future: Man Back Into His Future
Mirror Reversal
Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way
Enantiodromia
(1)

Reversibility: Reverse:
See Energy, 16 Sep'67
Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct'71*
Star Tetrahedron & VE, 9 Nov'73
Vector, Oct 59*
Vector Equilibrium, (I); 8 Oct'71
Implosion- explosion, Jun'66
Octa he iron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 May 175
Error, 30 May'75
(2)

Review:
See View & Review

RBF DEFINITIONS
Revolution:
"The revolution is not being effected by pulling the top
down. It is being effected by pulling the bottom up. It is
being effected by doing more with ever less in such a manner
as to take care of all without taking away the functional
capabilities and fundamental advantages of any. The surprise--
constantly doing vastly more with ever fewer physical
resources per function-- is our legacy from the millenia-long
armaments struggle to do more with less in a world where a
pea-size transistor now does more than an army of yesterday
and a fistful of atomic fuel takes a large ship around the
Earth."
Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, WDSD Doc. 3, p. 65, Aug'64

Revolution:
Design Science Revolution vs. Global
Political Revolution:
See Montreal Expo'67 Dome, (B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Revolution: Hard Revolution + Soft Revolution:
"The exponentially accelerating rate
of a new world order realization
is irreversibly emergent
through chain reaction emergencies
transpiring as a primarily invisible
soft revolution
As omni humanity's critical thoughts
break out as news events,
with the break-outs too swiftly shifting
their geography
and too frequently multiplying and altering
their run-off routes
to develop any local power clotures
and consequent burst-out bores
of sufficient local magnitude
to detonate full scale hard world revolution,
yet so far out-performing hard revolutions
in omni egalitarian social advancement--
by elevating the bottom
instead of depressing the top--
Thereby arriving at a world's socio-economic ocean
which levels spherically
to contain any magnitude of local energy outbursts
as storms or volcanoes
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Revolution:
Soft Revolution + Hard Revolution:
"whose violence is swiftly dissipated
by circumferential hydraulic wave displacements.
The brimming ocean wave of commonwealth
is bound radially by gravity
in spherical mantle unity.
Thereafter, the ocean will pulse
only in world tidal integrity
as an omniliterate, closed sphere system democracy
consciously, spontaneously, instantly
rearticulating its responses
to world around electro-telepathetic info-waves.
(2)
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH, Jan. 172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Revolution By Inadvertence:
"Each nation has been looking out for itself and each man
within the nations has been looking out for himself and his
family! Therefore the surprising and continual increase in
the proportion of world humanity being served at ever higher
industrial standards . . . cannot be attributed in any way
to any consciously organized effort of humanity to make the
resources go further. It is in no way attributable to
chariable gifts.
"Forced to look elsewhere for an explanation, we find that
the increase in the world's numbers who are prospering has
been brought about entirely by indirection and inadvertence
as the consequence of man's earlier heavy and prime subsidy
of weapons race evolution."
-
Cit MEXICO 63, p.8, 10 Oct 163

Revolution by Inadvertence:
See Evolution by Inadvertence
(1)

Revolution by Inadvertence:
See Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour
Production, (2)
Geosocial Revolution, (1)
Ignorance, (1)(2)
(2)

Revolution:
See Communications Revolution
Design Revolution
Education Revolution
Geosecial Revolution
Political Revolution
(1)

Revolution:
See Birth, 22 Dec 74
News & Evolution, (3)
(2)

Rewarding:
See Re-rewarding
Operant Psychology

Re-wow:
See Wow: The Last Wow

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The total space is 24--with the vector equilibrium's
Eighth Octahedra extraverted to form the rhombic dodecahedron.
"For every space there is always an alternate space: this
is where we get the 48-nesss of the rhombic dodecahedron as
the domain of a sphere.
2 x 8
2 20
6 x 8
-
48
(Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1033.184)
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC: 12 May'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron is the domain of omni-closest-
packed spheres; the middle of its diamond face is the
control point for the sphere's radius, the unity vector."
* Citation & context at Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular
Polyhedron, 13 Apr 77"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron, like the cube, fille all space.
It has a volume of six. It is the epitome of the behavior
of closest packing. The rhombic dodecahedron is the domain
of a sphere = spheric."
-
Citation & context at Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (20,
27 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron contains the most volume with the
least surface of all the all space-filling geometrical forms,
ergo, rhombic dodecahedra are the most economical allspace
subdividers of Universe. The rhombic dodecahedra fill and
symmetrically subdivide all space most economically, while
simultaneously, symmetrically, and exactly defining the res-
pective domains of each sphere as well as the spaces between
the spheres, the respective shares of the inter-closest-
packed-sphere interstitial spacem."
"
- Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 426.21,
2 Nov 73

RLF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron is the most faceted, identical
faceted (diamond) polyhedron and .accounts, congruently and
symmetrically, for all the isotropic-vector-matrix vertexes
in closest packed spheres and their 'tween' spaces, Each
rhombic dodecahedron's diamond face is at the long-axis center
of each coupler (Vol. = 1) asymmetrical octahedron, with each
of the rhombic dodecahedra sharing it 12 omni-adjacent
spherics..."
-
Citation and context at Coupler (1)(2), 22 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The fact that the rhombic dodecahedron can have its 144
modules oriented as either introvert-extrovert, or as
three-way circumferential, provides its valvability between
broadcasting-transceiving and noninterference relaying.
The first radio tuning crystal must have been a rhombic
dodecahedron."
[42]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 426., 30 Nov*72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron symmetrically fill allspace in
Each
symmetric consort with the isotropic vector matrix.
rhombic dodecahedron defines exactly the unique and omni-
similar domain of every radiantly alternate vertex of the
isotropic vector matrix as well as the unique and omnisimilar
domains of each and every interior-exterior vertex of any
aggregate of closest packed, uniradius spheres whose respective
centers will always be congruent with every radiantly alternate
vertex of the isotropic vector matrix, with the corresponding
set of alternate vertexes always occurring at all the inter-
tangency points of the closest packed spheres."
120]
= Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 426.24, 30 Nov 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron six is entirely outside, but
twelvefoldedly tangential to, the initial sphere..."
Citation and context at Constant Relative Abundance, 29 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron can be put together with MITE's
and so it is all-space filling.
"The symmetrical arrays of the rhombic dodecahedron may
explain the chemical compoundings of periodic atomics."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 25 Feb '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"Nature always starts over again with the isotropic vector
matrix. Energy is not lost; just not available.
"At the heart of the vector equilibrium is the ball in
the center of the rhombic dodecahedron at the core-- the one
sphere all by itself. You put 12 rhombic dodecahedra around
one central rhombic dodecahedron and you get the vector
equilibrium.
"This is why synergetics can investigate nuclear symmetries:
it all comes out absolutely discretely. And it does have
both the A and B Quanta Modules in it. Look at the picture
HARKS, p. 167, Pl. L.8.7 which shows the one-half of the
Thombic dodecahedron. Of all the polyhedra nothing really
falls into a group so easily as the rhombic dodecahedron,
the most common polyhedron in nature."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 24 Feb. 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron is fundamentally associative.'
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 24 Jan 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"Sixth powering is all the perpendiculars to the
rhombic dodecahedron which is all the internal
truncations of the tetrahedron."
-
Cite RBF-to-EA, Bear Island, 25 August 1971.
Citation at Powering: Sixth Powering, 25 Aug'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron:
"I employ
the icosahedron and the rhombic dodecahedron
in almost all the geometrical forms where one or another
provides unique economic advantage. I use the rhombic
dodecahedron as the hub of my octahedron-tetrahedron truss--
the octet truss. Its twelve facets represent the planes
perpendicular to the six fundamental degrees of freedom."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Steve Baer, 19 Apr166
ISOTROPIC VECTOR MATRIX
-
SEC. 426.04

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic-Dodecahedron:
"The rhombic-Dodecahedron" has a volume of "six."
The rhombic-Dodecahedron is an all space filler like the
cube. . . .
This is one of the most common naturally
occuring crystals."
- Gite Carbondale Draft
Nature's Coordination,
Cite Oregon #, p.224, 11u1'62
VI.20

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron #1: United Sphere:
"In the rhombic dodecahedron #1 there is one sphere
integrated at the center. The A and B Quanta Modules
as viewed at the peak from above are arrayed around a
united sphere. It represents the proton model."
a A's
B's
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 24 Feb 72 + 22 Feb holo-
graph.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rhombic Dodecahedron #2:
Fractionated Sphere:
"In the rhombic dodecahedron #2 there are a large variety of
asymmetrical interior aggregations. There is one sphere
disintegrated into six symmetrically deployed parts. The
A and B Quanta Modules as viewed at the peak from above are
arrayed around a fractionated sphere. It represents the
neutron model."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC, 24 Feb '72
+RBF Holograph of 22 Feb 172.
• A's
8's

Rhombic Dodecahedron:
See Dodecahedron
Spheric
Spheric Domain
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain
Minimum Limit Case: Hexagon & Rhombic Dodecahedron
(1)

Rhombic Dodecahedron:
(2)
223
See A & B quanta Modules, 10 Jul'62
Constant Relative Abundance, 29 Nov 72*
Coupler, 5 Apr 73; 20 Dec 73; (1) (2)*
Isotropic Vector Matrix, Feb 72
Octet Truss, 1959
Powering: Sixth Dimension, 9 Nov'73
Powering: Sixth Powering, 25 Aug 71*
Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry,
(2)*
Mite: Positive & Negative Functions, (1) (2)
Domains of Interferences, 7 Nov' 73
Domain of a Point, 7 Nov 73
Stable & Unstable Structures, 7 Jun '72
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 11 Dec175
Quantum Mechanics: Minimum Geometrical Fourness,
(2)-(4)
Triclinic, 31 Aug176
Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron,
13 Apr 77 *
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (2)
Triacontrahedron, 13 Kay'77
Vector Bayilibrium: Potential & Primitive Tetravolumes,

Rhombic:
See Antirhombic
(1)

Rhombic:
See Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegrities, (2)
(2)
13

Rhythm:
See Pulse Pattern
(1)

Rhythm:
See Montessori System, 1928
Pole Vaulter, 2 Jul 75
Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine, (1)
(2)

Ribbon:
See Pattern Strip
Wrapability
Tetrascroll

Rich Man Drowning in Shipwreck:
See dealth, (A)(B)
Wealth as "Know-how", (1)

Richter Transformation:
See Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, (4)
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (D)

Richter: Don:
See Curvature: Compound, Aug'72
Triacon, 22 Jun 72

TEXT CITATIONS
Riemann, G.F.R:
Robt. W. Mors, p. 44: 1960
Synergetics : Sec. 522.22

Riemann
George Friedrich Bernhard: (1826-1866)
See Spherical Triangle Sequence, (V)
Geodesica, (1)(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Right:
"Now, what we call thinkable is always outside-out.
What we call space is just exactly as real, but it is
inside-out. There is no such thing as right and left!"
- Gite Tape transcript RBF to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, 1 May 1971.
-
Citation at Parity, 1 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Right Angle:
"The Greeks knew a right angle, but they never called it
90 degrees."
RBF on telephone to EJA from Philadelphia, 25 Nov*73

Right Angle:
See Ninety Degreeness
Rectilinear
Roads Turn at Right Angles
No Right Angles in Nature
(1)

533
Right Angle:
See Tidal, 15 Oct164
Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas, (1)
(2)

Right to Live: Proving Your Right to Live:
See Earning A Living
(1)

Right to Live: Proving your Right to Live:
See Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927, 26 Sep'68,
Superstition of Social Superiority, 1946
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Right Makes Might' Dominance:
"Great historical leaders have always hoped that we may be
trending from 'might makes right' to 'right makes might'
dominance, which means from a rooted, programed creature,
a 'specialist'-- just going after its own honey and stinging
others who interfere with its program-- to an ecologically
cognizant, spontaneously synergetic, omni-integration of
cosmic functioning.
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (G), 5 Jun'73

Right-over-Might:
See Individual Rights
Lincoln
Metabilical Cord
Might Makes Right
Mind-over-Matter
Mind-over-Muscle
Metaphysical Transcendent of the Physical
(1)

Right-over-Might:
See Continuous Man (5)
Design Revolution, 6 Mar' 74
Ephemeralization, 1938
Rationalization Sequence (2) (3)
Society: Control Of, 1938
Superstition of Social Superiority, 1946
(2)

Right:
See Doing Right things for Wrong Reasons
Left & Right

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rigid:
"Rigid means 'sized' -- arbitrarily sized. 'Rigid' is always
special case.
"
Citation and context at Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rigidity:
D. Bohm, Foundations of Physica, Vol. 1, No.4, 1971, p.369:
"The new order and measure introduced in relativity theory
implies new notions of structure, in which the idea of a
rigid body can no longer play a key role."
RBF Comment:
*Generalization of tetrahedra utterly independent of rigidity."
Cite RBF marginalis at QUANTUM THEORY AS INDICATION OF NEW
ORDER IN PHYSICS, p.369, done Aug '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rigidity:
"This thirty strut tensegrity dome is made out of
steel turnbuckles and could be tightened into a very tight
structure. As you tighten it up it
In other
simply means that
the frequencies increase, it gets higher and higher pitched,
and finally gets to a point where you don't seem to have
any audible tone at all and you call it rigid.
words then, what we call the rigid structures are not
because they are redundant in nature, the atoms, but
because they are at a non-aurally tunable frequency."
->
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
P. 181
9 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rigidity vs. Resilience:
"Rigid structural systems consist of whole or truncated
interior tetrahedra. If the truncated tetrahedra are shoal
enough and if the frequency of the system is high enough, the
surface's structural triangles' edge legs may permit resilient
bending which will allow an exterior vertex to dimple inwardly
of the structural system."
"
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1071.24, 20 Dec'74

Rigid Sized:
See Sceme of Reference, 24 Sep' 73

Rigid: Rigidity:
See Crystal: Crystalline
Inflexibility
Rigidity vs. Resilience
Rigid Sized
(1)

Rigid: Rigidity:
See Chemical Bonds, May 72
Rectilinear Frame, 24 Sep 73
Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep' 73*
Triangle, 8 Oct'64; 1960
Prime Nuclear Structural Systems, 27 Dec 74
Chemical Bonds: Triple Bond, 19 Dec 73
Light on Scratched Metal, 9 Nov 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ring:
"Rings are lines. . . which are all inherently curved
and must eventually meet or rejoin their ends."
Citation, context, and sketch at Two (2), 10 Jan'50

Ring:
See Moebius Strip, 10 Jan' 50
Two, (2)*

RBF DEFINITIONS
Hiver: You Might as well Jump in the River:
People who like to be prosaic and like to make man
feel so small can say everything is just going to turn out to
be inanimate chemistry and you are all the consequence of
probabilities and you might as well jump in the river."
Citation and context at Threshold of Life, o Jul'62

River:
See Boats at Anchor Retard the River's Flow
Bridge
River:
You Might as Well Jump in the River
(1)

River:
See Lever (II)
Naga, (3)
(2)

Roads Turn at Right Angles:
See Local Squareness, 9 Jul'62

Roads: Roadway Systems:
See Automobile as Only Half the Invention
Freeways
Highways
(1)

Roads: Roadway Systems:
See Tools: Craft & Industrial, (2)
(2)

Robertson, Donald, W:
See Invention Sequence, (A)-(D)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Robin Hood Sequence:
"The chronofile persuaded me ten years after its inception to
It
start my life as nearly new as is humanly possible to do.
persuaded me to dedicate my life to others instead of myself.
Not on an altruistic basis but beachse the chronofile for the
first 32 years of my life clearly demonstrated that I was
positively effective in producing wealth only when I was
dedicated to others. Further chronofile observations then
showed me that the larger the number for whom I worked the
more positively effective I became.
(1)
"Thus it became obvious through the chronofile that if I worked
for all of humanity I would be optimally effective. Setting out
to start life all over again, I did not try to make myself a
new, or a different, man, another man. I sought only to allow
myself to articulate my own innate motivational integrity
instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's prefabricated
credos, educational theories, romances, and mores that had
occurred in my first life.
"One basic tenet of my new volition was that whatever was to
be accomplished for anyone must never be at the cost of another.
Robin Hood was a story my father read aloud to me when I was"
Tape transcript /6, Side A, p.17; RBF to Barry Farrell;
Bear Island, 16 Aug170

526
RBF DEFINITIONS
Robin Hood Sequence:
(2)
"very young, not long before my father died. Robin Hood became
my most influential early years' mythical hero. This meant that
in my first life I had improvised methods in general to effect
swift moral and romantic justice for those whom I'd found in
trouble or danger. Foolishly self-confident in my first life,
I had often rushed thoughtlessly to assume responsibilities
beyond my physical and legal means. This rashness led me into
complex dilemmas, for in an attempt to keep my assumptions of
responsibility legal, I inadvertently borrowed from my unwitting
family dragging them into preposterous financial sacrifices
"In inaugurating my new life I took away Robin Hood's long bow
and staff and gave him only scientific textbooks, microscopes,
calculating machines, transits in industuralization and a
network of tooling in general: I made him substitute new and
inanimate forms for animate reform. I did not allow Robin any
further public relations professionals or managers or agents to
promote or sell him. It seemed obvious that if the new tools
that the new Robin Hood did develop could provide valid man
advantage increases, they would inevitably be adopted by
society in general as the inexorable emergencies which dictate
the proper rate of regenerative gestation of evolution took place."
-
Tage transcr pt.
* Be a r³ ³ an an à p t
18ª Aug28 A. pp. 17-18; RBF to Barry Farrell;
16"

Robin Hood Sequence:
See Consideration for Others
Golden Rule

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rock:
"I begin to look at all these rocks, and it doesn't look like
anything. Then I begin to pick them up, and I pick up any
rock, and I find it has a beautiful face here, and then
another beautiful face, another beautiful face... These are
not carelessley done. You begin to study these rocks a little
more, and you find face, face, face, face. Their corners
have been knocked off...but all of these racks were once
tetrahedrons.' "
Cite RBF to Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, Dec'72

Rocks Don't Love:
See Youth, Truth & Love, 1 Apr 173
Fuller, R.B: On Christopher Morley, 22 Jun 77

Rock: Rocka:
See Pebble
Roundness
Stone
Gibraltar: Rock Of
Scenario of the Child
(1)

Rock: Rocks:
See Artifact, 26 Jan*75
Weather, Feb'73
(2)

Rockabye Baby:
See Fear, 1938

Rockefeller, David:
See Cosmic Accounting, 2 Jun'74

Rocketable Logistics:
See Airspace Technology, 20 Sep' 76

Rockets: Steerable Rockets:
See Tracer Bullet Sequence
(1)

Rockets: Steerable Rockets:
See Locality, May 171
Measurement, Jun'66
(2)
21

Rockata: Rocketry:
See Four Nosimultaneous Rocket Bursts.
(1)

Rockets: Rocketry:
See Buildings 28 Machines, (2)
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe, (A)
General Systems Theory, (B)
(2)

Rods:
See Closest Peking of Rods

Rogers, Will:
See Funambulist, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rollability of Polyhedra:
"The more evenly faceted and the more uniform the radii of the
respective polygonal members of the hierarchy of symmetrical
polyhedra, the more closely they approach rollable sphericity.
The four-facet tetrahedron, the six-faceted cube, and the
eight-faceted octahedron are not very rollable, but the
12-faceted, one-sphere-containing rhombic dodecahedron, the
14-facted vector equilibrium, and the 14-faceted tetrakaideca-
hedron are easily rollable.
Cite RBF insert at SYNERGETICS galley, Sec. 942.70, 20 Deci73

PAQ
RBF DEFINITIONS
Rolls:
"We want to think about production and getting then films
and environments under controls, separating from outside to
inside. There is no way man develops such high speed
production as in rolling devices that produce sheet steel
at fantastic rates coming out from those rollers-- and film
which can be such barriers. And the other one is paper-
making. You make a number of rollers of paper and you have
two of them coming together and corrugated ones in between
and gluing them together, making the corrugated paper board
out of half paper is very good; it has a very high wet
tensile strangth-- doesn't bother it at all if it gets wet.
But as you have something coming out of rolls, the roll
going around, and you have another roll, and there's a
printing press. So you can get some newspaper coming out.
And so you can print information. Any kind of shapes
you want, any picture. So I find then you can do any complex
kind of work you want and print it right out on your paper-
board as it comes out at fantastic high speed, and not only
print it, you can put a little groove in it. You press the
paper down, and that's the way you want it to fold. And
paperboard domes can really be produced at a fantastic rate."
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, pp.39-40, 20 Apr 172
•

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rolls:
"Of all the materials that man can produce fast
the things that come out of rolls are the fastest.
Newsprint is the fastest thing he can produce."
Cite RBF tape of CHARLAS Script
14 March 1971

Roll: Rolla:
See Cleave-roll
Log: Fireplace Log
(1)

Roll: Rolls: Rolling:
221
(2)
See Invention Sequence (B)
Evaginating, 22 Jun 75
Tetrascroll, (1)
Hex-pent Sphere:
Transformation into Geodesic
Spiral Tube, (1) (2)
Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms, 2 Nov'73
Membranes, 21 Jun'77

RBF BEFINITIONS
Romance:
"There's nothing you have to do that isn't fascinating.
Whether you're a plumber's helper and have to wipe a joint
or whatever it is."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 30 Jan'75

Romance of History in the Making:
See New York City, (5)

BF DEFINTIONS
Romantic:
"I find that universe has not lost one iota
of its romance for me. I find living now quite
as satisfactory as ever."
HBF to EJA in mid fast stride at
corner of 44th and Vanderbilt,
New York City 12 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Romantic:
"Over a very large period of time, I think that the total
data recorded by Charles Fort from around the world may
prove of great scientific worth. Above all this there is
something extremely inspring about Fort's interest in his
Universe. His interest is very romantic. It isn't written
in romantic terms at all, but man is full of dreams-- dreams
of significance. Fort was in love with the world that
jilted him. Fort, humanity was looking for significance
in experience. Fort is becoming increasingly popular with
the university students who all around the world are looking
for significance. Billions of young people are in love
with a world whose complexity seems to be trying to jilt
them. I don't think their love will be unrequited.
superb humor and tenderness are communicated with
economically telling skill is rarely equalled."
Fort's
Cite RBF, "Charles Fort Introduction," p. 11. Draft 1969

Romance: Romantic:
See Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927, 14 Apr170
Robin Hood Sequence, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rootless:
"I don't like the word 'rootless because it shoudn't
suggest running away from things. I'm not leaving town.
My backyard is just getting bigger."
-
Cite RBF to Elizabeth Drew, WETA-TV, Wash. DC, 19 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Roots:
"Biological life... would be dehydrated were it not
osmotically watercooled by its root-connected hydraulic
circuitry of Earth waters' atomization for return into the
sky-distributed, fresh-water-regenerating biological
support system, which rooting frustrates integral
procreation of the vegetation..."
-7
Citation and context at bumblebee, 6 Nov 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Roots:
"At one time people thought of themselves as having roots.
Why? Because in order to survive they had to be near the
vegetation. And the vegetaion had to have roots so it
could be water-cooled, and the animals fought the people
for it. But now we have the refrigeration which preserves
the food, we have the canning and the other processes, and
nobody has to be near the roots anymore. They can live
anywhere they want. They do have legs and they can go
round this world, and the food will be brought to them and
none of us has to perish. We can free ourcelves from these
other kinds of roots just as simply, merely by recognizing
that the necessity no longer exists."
Cite RBF tape transcript for Barry Farrel Playboy Interview
Feb '72. Above passage omitted from final text.
See
transcript p. 61.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Roots:
"As the prime energy impounder,
The vegetation on the land has to have roots
In order to get enough water to cool itself
So that it will not be dehydrated
While it photosynthesizes the radiation energy of the Sun
Into the beatiful molecular structures
That provide the metabolic energy exchange functions
Of terrestrial life support."
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.110 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Roots:
"Man is born with legs, not roots."
-
Citation at Legs, 26 Aug 66
-
Cite-bdw...C Higbee-introduction,-26 Aug. +66, quotung RBF.

Roots vs. Blossoms:
See Good & Evil Sequence (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Roots: (In Mathematics)
"In
synergetics 'square' roots and 'cube' roots are
treated as triangular and tetrahedraal roots.
Therefore,
we do not lose the radical. The root becomes rational,
The fractions will come out rationally with
as 4.
triangular and tetrahedral roots."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 14 Sept. 1971.

Roobs: Rooted:
See Roots vs. Blossoms
Trees
Legs: Man Born with Legs not Roots
(1)

Roots: Rooted:
See Bumblebee, 6 Nov' 72*
Ecology Sequence, (G); (a)
Lags, (1)
Legs 26 Aug 00*
Manifests (1)
Organic Model, Oct166
Sovereignty:
Elimination Of, 2y Jun* 72
United States: One of the Most Diffcukt Sovereignties
To Break Up, 28 Jun 72
Redundancy: Reduction of, 22 Apr171
Human Unsettlement, (4)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rope:
"There is much within the critical proximity environment
which demonstrates the normal-- where the disparate mass
relativities are not operating, as, for instance, when a rope
is tensed and reacting at 90° to the direction of the
tensing and thus becomes tauter. Compression members
precess to bend."
Citation and context at Normal, 6 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rope:
"To present my scientific differentiation
Of brain and mind
I proceed as follows--
First I say:
'I take a piece of rope and tense it.'
As I purposely tense it
I inadvertently make it tauter.
But I was not tensing the rope
For the purpose of making it tauter,
I was only trying to engate the rope.
Its girth is inadvertently contracting and
The rope is also inadvertently getting harder.
"In contracting and getting harder
The rope is going into radial compression
In a plane at ninety degrees to the axis of
My consciously purposeful tensing...
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.124 May '72
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rope:
"As recounted before,
Saying, 'Let us take a piece of rope...
To demonstrate the generalized rope concept--
I am drawing on
A multiplicity of special-case rope experiences
As a brain-stored resource of that audience,
Probably amounting to over a hundred experiences each:
With different kinds of pieces of rope,
Ergo- I am drawing upon a memory resource
Of more than one hundred thousand experiences
With as many different pieces of rope,
When I speak to an audience of one thousand."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.146 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rope:
"I started out our brain-mind differentiation
By saying, 'I take a piece of rope.'
I've done this before many audiences,
And no audience has ever said,
'You don't have a piece of rope.
But the fact is I didn't have a piece of rope.
Nor has anybody ever said,
'Is it nylon, manila or cotton?'
What is its diameter?'
Or,
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.136 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rope:
"Each fiber in the rope is randomly spiral. The larger
braided strands are also spiral together into three final
spiral bundles which, in turn, spiral together as a piece
of rope, clearly the rope is an aggregate on-straight lines
of many varieties of spiraling curvature. The design final
twisting of the rope, when its ends are spliced together,
will expose a unique number of profile humps. If the twist
of the rope has 1/16th inch humps per quarter-inch of rope
length, and 64 profile humps per inch, and 768 per foot;
then there will be 768 times 64, or 49,152 humps in its
total peripheral horizon, inside or outside: that 's &
great complex of wavilinear integrations."
Cite RBF dictation to Alexandra Snyder, Ashoka Hotel, New
Delhi, India, Dec. '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rope:
"Physicists have never discovered any straight lines in
Universe. They have discovered only waves which are inherently
curvilinear, that is, they are corkscrew or spiral traceries
between covariable events, such as You and Me, with our
relationship identified by a rope stretched between us with
two reels at each end to pay out as we move independently
with varying lags in the rate of the rope's response to other
forces acting upon it than thos of our two independent pulls,
as for instance the effect of wind on the rope; or the Earth's
gravitational heated expansion of the rope; and the lag or
inertia of the rope in changing the rope's shapes given it
progressively by You, Me, the wind, gravity, Sun, and atoms.
of which the rope itself is composed, whose behaviors are
very directionally discrete in order to give the rope its
unique recognizability."
Cite RBF dictation to Alexandra Snyder, Ashoka Hotel, New
Delhi, Dec. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Hope:
"I take a piece of rope and I tense this piece of rope as
vigorously as I know how. And the more I tense it the tauter
it becomes. When it becomes taut, it means it is contracting
in its girth. This means that while I am purposely tensing
it in its linear axis, it is going into compression at 90
degrees to my purposeful tensing. Compression is occurring,
though I am only applying tension. You understand that?
rope is contracting, going into compression, as a
of my pulling it."
The
consequence
Cite RBF at Students International Meditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '
p. 8
"
71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rope:
"Parallel lines can be torqued. So may the parallel lines
A rope
of a cylinder be twisted as we see them in a rope.
and a cone are both forms of simple curvature.
"1
-Cite II, p. 217, Preview of Building, Apr-149
Citation at Torque, 1 Apr '49

Rope: Knots vs. Coils:
See Matter vs. Radiation, 7 Nov 73

TEXT CITATIONS
Rope:
Univ. of Alaska Address, p.11ff, 20 Apr 172
Approaching the Benign Environment. p. 82. 1970 (also p.86-cited)
506.01-506.15
522.04-522.09
640.60
644.01
711.01-711.04
1005.30
1054.61
8326.22
8535.22
8936.11

Rope:
See Deliberately Nonstraight Line
Dog Pulling on a Belt
Funambulist
Generalizations:
Knot
First Degree
Metaphysical Disconnect
Pattern Integrity
Waterspout
(1)
51

Rope:
(2)
12:
See Abstraction 10 Dec'64
Civil War, "(2)
Intellect: Equation Of, (1)
Normal 6 Kar'73*
Pull, 2 Jul 62
Tension, (1)(2)
Pattern Integrity, 22 Jan'75
Tidal, May 72
Torque, 1 Apr'49
lex-pent Sphere:
Spiral Tube, (1)
Transformation into Geodesic

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rose:
n
Packages consist of complexedly interrelated and not
as-yet differentially analyzed phenomena which, as initially
unit cognitions, are potentially re-experienciable. A rose
for instance, grows, has thorns, blossoms, and fragrance,
but often is stored in the brain only under the single
word
'rose.'
"As Korzybski, the founder of general semantics, pointed
out, the consequence of its single-tagging is that the 'rose'
becomes reflexively considered by man only as a red, white,
or pink device for paying tribute to a beautiful girl, a
thoughtful hostess, or last night's deceased acquaintance.
Thetagging if the complex biological process under the
single title 'rose' tends to detour human curiosity from
further differentiation of its integral organic operations
as well as consideration of its interecological functionings
aboard our planet. We don't know what a rose is, nor what
may be its essential and unique cosmic function. Thus for
long have we inadvertently deferred potential discovery of
the essential roles in Universe which are performed comple-
mentarily by many, if not most, of the phenomena we experience...'
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, Chronicle, pp. 3-4, from Nehru Speech,
as rewritten by RBF 3 Jun172

RBF DEFI.ITIUS
Rose:
"Biology, chemistry, and physics can explain some of the
characteristics of the mechanics and processes that constitute
the composite, constantly changing living-machine rose, but
neither Julia nor the scientist could presume to tell little
Tam what a rose 15.
n
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, p.10, 1938

12
Rose Bushes:
See Privacy, 22 Apr'61

Rose:
See Brain, 3 Jun'72*
Design, (1); 1938
Reproducible, 1968
Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rotate:
"One thing we have learned about all systems when isolated
from other systems, is that they have the ability to be
rotated or for things to rotate around them."
Citation and context at Axis of Spin (1), 11 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rotate:
"Radii must grow from point to surface.
therefore, spherical irregular tetrahedra
(irretetra), therefore as spheres are interacting and
spinning and energy is both local and remote as radius
expands it, or generates unfolding leaves.... Because
man rotates he has fingers and toes. Maybe hen rotates
around egg with a nuclear gyro."
199
Cite RBF holograph, 6 May' 48

Rotational Aberrating Limit:
Sea Basic Triangle: Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle,
17 Dec 73

Rotation of Night as a Shadow:
See Sleep, 1963

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rotation of Spheres:
"A single sphere is free to rotate in any direction.
"Two spheres although free to rotate in any direction
must do so cooperatively, assuming no slippage between
the touching spheres.
"Three spheres can only rotate copperatively about
respective axes which are parallel to the edges of the
equilateral triangle defined by joining the sphere centers,
that is, each sphere rotates toward the center of the triangle.
"Four spheres lock together. No rotation is possible,
making the minimum stable system: the tetrahedron."
(See Illustration #8.)
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS caption #8, 1967

Rotative Systems:
See Associability, 21 Mar 73

Rotation: Rotatability:
See Axis of Inherent Rotatability
Co-rotation
Wind Power:
Effect of Earth's Rotation
Vertex-vortex Rotations
(1)

Rotation: Rotatability:
See Axis of Spin, (1)*
Omnidirectional, 2 Jul'62
Radiation: Speed Of, (D)
Cybernetics, 7 Nov' 75
223
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Roundness:
Imagination "means man's communication of what hethinks
it is that he thinks his brain is doing with the objects
of his experience. His discovery of general conceptual
principles characterizing all of his several experiences--
as the rock, having insideness and outsideness, the many
pebbles, having their corners knocked off and developing
roundness: the thinks there could be pure 'roundness' and
thus imagined a perfect sphere."
Citation at Sphere, 22 Apr'71
BOSTO

Round:
Roundness:
See Experience in the Round
Omnidirectional
Pebble
Rock
Sphere
Sphericity
Stone

Round Trip:
See Circuit
One Way vs. Round Trip
Two-way Feedback

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rowing Needles:
"I'd like to make good rowing available to the average man.
He'd soon get tired then of having an outboard motor and just
putt-putting from here to there. But the average rowing boat
is a very awkward affair, so you can't blame people for
staying away from them. But with rowing needles it's easy.
Three good pulls, and I'm out of the harbor. The satisfaction
is enormous.
"The bows are domed. With a sharp point you've got a plow
pushing the water out ahead of you. This does exactly the
opposite: the molecules roll off and they roll off in all
directions and because they're rolling in all directions they
exhaust the cone of entry and it builds up a vacuum.
(1)
"Watch a little, tiny guppy in a great tank. He gives a kick
of his tail and it builds up low pressure on his nose and it
sails right across the tank without any more effort at all. It
opens its mouth and builds up that low pressure a little higher
and it pulls it right across. I want to really exploit that
capability. The bows on atomic submarines are also spherical
for the same reasons. As the molecules roll, they take up more"
B
Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #1, pp.5-6;
Bear Island, 10 Aug'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rowing Needles:
"and more of their own medium and the vacuum builds up and
just pulls you forward. Today, if you want to punch through
steel, you don't use a sharp point. This form is it. Atoms
are discontinuous and you want to push between them, not
obliterate them. You can't obliterate them."
-Cite transcript of RBF tape to Barry Farrell, Tape #1, p.6;
Bear Island, 10 Aug170
(2)

Rowing:
See Lever, (b)

Royal:
See Realm: Real: Royal

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rubber Glove:
"Entropic dispersal.
•
and syntropic association.
Between the two they work very much like the
rubber glove. There really is an annihilation into
eternity with no time and dimensioning-- these are
only in our temporal relativity."
Citation and context at Eternity (1), 23 May 172

RBP DEFINITIONS
Rubber Glove:
"The glove is secability, experiencfability-- we go
through the invisible. The annihilation is the invisible
and the timeless.
"There is no geometry of space-- only of local aggregates
of principles, of special cases.
"The lag is the whole of life. It is lag and aberration.
"1
Cite RBF to BO'R, Kent, Ohio, 23 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rubber Glove:
"If you have a rubber glove on your left hand and strip
it off, it now fits your right hand. There's only one
rubber glove. The left hand has been annihilated.
That's
the way our Universe is. There are the visibles and the
invisibles of the inside-outing nonsimultaneity."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 10. 2 Jun 171
CONCEPTUALITY- PARITY - SEC 507.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
CONTIDA INTEGRI
Rubber Glove:
"The rubber glove stripped inside-outingly from off the
left hand now fits only the right hand. First the left
had was conceptual and the right hand was nonconceptual.
Then the process of stripping off inside-outingly seemingly
annihilated the left hand and created the right hand--
then vice versa as the next strip off occed. When physics
finds experimentally that a unique energy pattern--
erroneously refered to in archaic terms as a particle--
is annihilated, that annihilation is only of the rubber
glove kind. The positive becomes the negative and the
positive only seems to have been annihilated.
We begin
to realize conceptually the finite, yet nonsensorial out-
ness which can be converted into sensorial in-ness by
the Inside-outing process, ego, Novent is the finite
but nonsensorial continuum.
"
THE EXPENSE OP LOSING
BUT ONLY AT
OF 7115 PREVIOUS SENSE VIPERILUCAO
CONCEPTUAL FIXATION
AFTERIMACE
CONCEPTUALITY
PARITY
SEC. 507
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p 12. 13 Nov169
INSERT FROM ABE
MARCINALIA ON StucketIKS DRAFT
INSIDE-BUTING)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rubber Glove Sequence:
"So we find that complementarity is even more complex; that
there had to be not only the keyhole, but that the keyhole
had to be in something. The keyhole that was in something
had to be related to the rest of the Universe. So then
we had a rubber glove which was stripped off this hand,
which we called the left hand, fairly ignorantly, and now
it fits the other hahd. So where has the other one gone?
Then I strip it off here and there goes the other hand.
"Quite clearly, both were there all the time, but only one
of them could we detect. So there is not only the glove,
which could have a keyhole, and we could put the key in
that, but it would have to be in something of the rest of
the Universe as well as the system we can see by. There's
always a conceptual system, and there's the rest of the
Universe which is noncenceptual because it's a scenario
Universe and not a single frame Universe."
->>
Cite RBF to world game
at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript #327, pp.2-3.

Rubber Glove:
See Annihilation
Key-keyhole Sequence
Novent
Parity
Other Side of the Universe
(1)

Rubber Glove;
See Equilibrium, 25 Feb*69
Eternity, 1)**
Invisible Hole, 16 Jun 72
Irreversibility, 4 May'57.
Superatomics Sequence, (1)-(5)
Nuclear Domain & Elementality, (1)(2)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4)
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Rubber Tirea:
"Miniature rubber automobile tires may be substituted for
the triangles of the vector_equilibrium to provide a model
of reciprocating toruses. The eight wheels should be
independently journaled but touching one another with
sufficient friction so that when you move any one of them
all of the eight will rotate reciprocally. We can also
consider each rubber tire as a torus and we can see how they
can involute and evolute at the same time the wheels are
This provide a model of what
reciprocatingly rotating.
turbulence really is."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell studios videotaping marathon, Phila-
delphia
, PA., 24 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rubber Tires:
You
(1)
"You can make this model out of little automobile tires
and you can run them up on the shaft and use tape to act as
a thrust bearing to keep them from coming outwardly.
brought them in until each of these tires are barely touching
the other tires in three points-- so it really is a triangle.
"Remember how gears work. We have a train of gears where
around any hole there are always four gears, so as this wheel
goes one way the other wheel can go that way very comfortably.
And since there are four we find that the trains reciprocate.
There is no blocking anywhere. All of the holes are four-
sided so it is an even-numbered train of gears. When I
rotate one wheel inthis whole system all the other wheels
move very neatly. They are in friction to one another. I can
also hold on to one of the wheels and turn the system
around it. If I do that a very interesting thing happens.
A rubber tire can be mounted like a torus, or can be
rotated outwardly like the big atomic bomb mushroom cloud--
opening in the center and coming in at the bottom.
what we call an evoluting or involuting torus.
These rubber
tires could do that-- and not only could they rotate around
on each other this way, but it is quite possible to make
Cite Oregon Lecture, #7, p. 262, 11 Jul162
That is

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rubber Tires:
(2)
this wheel in such a way that it has little roller
bearings along its rim and each of these roller bearings
allows the rubber tire to rotate in the rim so that the
tire could be involuting and evoluting. Therefore, if
any one tire started to evolute all the other tires
reciprocate."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 262-263. 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rubber Tires:
R
It is quite possible to make an automobile tire and
mount it in such a way that it looks triangular.
That is,
(3)
it gets to a very small radius on its corners. I can simply
take the same rubber tire and stretch it onto a triangular
frame and also have the samee little roller bearings so it
can involute and evolute. . . The triangular tires pump
from being the vector equilibrium into being the octahedron,
the way we saw it before, in and out again. If I were then
to immobilize one part of it, if I were just holding it with
one finger like this, doing this means that I won't let this
one involute and evolute-- but the rest of the system, due to
the rotation, is contracting to become an octahedron so it
makes all the others reciprocate-- involuting and evoluting
so that I am able to immobilize one axis and the rest of the
system can work comfortably."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 264. 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rubber Tires:
(4)
"What we are learning here is something very fascinating and
it means the following: That in an omnimotional Universe
it is possible for me to take two moving systems-- if you
have two systems-- which move four dimensionally, comfortably,
the way you see those four sets of wheels, eight wheels
altogether moving perfectly comfortably, but I can fasten
one vector equilibrium to another by a pair of wheels,
immobilizing one of them and gettting one of theses axes--
the axis which is immobilized but on which the rest of the
system can keep right on rolling around. By fastening one
such part of the Universe literally, you don't stop the
rest of the motion of Universe. That is what we are
learning here.
"In all the other kinds of mechanical systems that you will
ever run into on a three-dimensional basis, if anything is
blocked then everything is blocked. In a four-dimensional
system this is not true at all. You are able then to have
one local thing occur. You can have two atoms join one
another perfectly well and the rest of Universe can go right
on in its motion. Nothing is frustrated but they themselves
do certain polarized things in relation to one another, which
begins
to explain a lot of the basic joinings."
-
**
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 264-265. 11 Jul'62

Rubber Tires:
See Gear Train

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rudder:
"The interesting thing about a rudder is that the ship has
already
gone by, all but the stern, and you throw the rudder
over, and
what you're really doing is to make a little
longer
distance for the water to go round; in other words,
you're
putting a low pressure on the other side, and the
low pressure
pulls the whole stern over and she takes a new
direction
. The same in an airplane-- you have this great big
rudder up there,
with a little tiny trim tab on the trailing
edge, and by
moving that little trim tab to one side or the
other
you throw a low pressure that moves the whole
airplane. The last thing, after the airplane has gone by,
you just move that little tab."
-
Cite Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 8 Jan 66, P. 64.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ruddering:
Rudder Concept:
"Order is achieved through positive and negative,
magnitude and frequency-controlled alteration of the
successive steering angle. We move by zigzagging control
from one phase of physical universe evolution to another.
The rudder concept of social law is most apt. Norbert
Wiener chose the word 'cybernetics,' derived from the
Greek roots of 'rudder,' because Wiener, Shannon and others
in communication theory were exploring human behaviors and
their brain-controlled 'feedback,' and the like, as a basis
for the design of computers, and it became evident that the
human brain steers man through constant change."
The identical text to the
above appears in blank verse
form in "How Little I know."
Fage 71, 1966.]
- Cite AAUW JOURBAL, May 1965, P. 176

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ruddering Sequence:
(1)
"Within the grand strategy of anticipatory problem solving
to be accomplished exclusively through design transformations
of human ecology's physical environment apparatus, the
design strategems range from powerful to subtle. For
instance, instead of attempting to push the bow of an ocean
liner from one side to the other in order to steer it (as we
do the front ends of automobiles, as well as of social trend
fronts) inasmuch as the great seas also try to push the bows
to one side or the other thus tending to throw the ship out
of control, the naval architect must design in such a way that
the ship's course will not tend to be diverted by heavy seas,
yet will be steerable. To do this he designs a ship's hull
with the hinge or pivot point of the ship occurring
forwardly under the step of the bow. This makes a long
lever arm aft and a very short lever arm forward of the
pivot, and the long lever overpowers the short one as in a
weathervane 'ship.' Thus the naval architect makes the
stern of the ship (rather than the bow) swing to one side or
the other of the course. The course tends to be held
steadily by the bow. The stern tries to follow the bow in
a straight course. The keel then makes the stern follow the"
Cite NEW FORS VS. REFORMS, WDSD.#1, p.52, 1963

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ruddering Sequence:
"bow when the ship is in motion. In order to change course,
the stern is deliberately swung to one side or the other.
This is done by the rudder at the stern which is so small as
to be easily manipulated. The rudder, by making a small
drag angle, creates a partial vacuum on the side of the
rudder opposite to that of the direction in which the rudder
is moved. This partial vacuum starts to pull the stern of
the boat, which causes a much larger partial vacuum to build
up on the stern quarter of the ship on the side toward which
the stern swings as the ship moves through the water in this
askew attitude. This vacuum is built up for the same reason
that the horizontal askew attitude of a wing foil in motion
through the air creates the lifting vacuum on its cambered
or top surface. The reason is that it is a longer distance
around the cambered askew side for the parted water to
reach, as suddenly displaced by the ship's motion, which
makes the longer-way-reach tense the air-interspersed water
molecules creating a partial vacuum. So powerful is this
partial vacuum, or negative pressure, chain reaction buildup
that it can, for instance, suck-pull the 30-knot speeding
hull of the 85,000 ton, Empire State Building-sized Queen
Mary into a new angle in respect to the directionally fixed"
-
Cite NEW FORMS VS REFORMS, WUSD Doc. #1, p.52, 1963
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ruddering Sequence:
"momentum of her bow-pivot center, which thus hinges the
Queen Mary into a new course attitude, which is fixed when
the rudder is returned past 'midship' to 'meet her,' or
break the vacuum buildup, and then returned to midship
position.
(3)
This principle of creating vacuums with minimum effort that
will self-regenerate to build up large vacuums to govern very
large pattern-transforming work is even more dramatically
emphasized in the case of the giant jet airliners where,
literally, postage-stamp size trim tabs in the trailing edges
of the large vertical and horizontal ruddering surfaces are
all that are used by the automatic gyro-pilot servomechanisms
to keep these 100-ton sky giants hurtling along at 600 miles
per hour on accurate multidimensional course despite invisible
atmospheric turbulences far greater in size and velocity
magnitude than those of the water ocean.
"My philosophy takes primary heed of the fact that all in
Universe is in constant transformative complex motion and
all transform in patterns of least resistance. Therefore,
philosophically, it became evident that by subtly designed"
wall
Cite NEW FORM VS. REFOIS, WDSD Doc.#1, p.53, 1963

RBP DEFINITIONS
Ruddering Sequence:
"trim-tab' size inventions we could, with least physical
effort, control the least resistant directions of various
fundamental transformings. This could be done by devices
which would so control the angle and frequency occurrences
of little vacuums and tension which could cause man's
ecological patterning to evolve in preferred patterns.
Designs could also detect and discretely vitiate specific
subtle vacuums chain-reacting into largervacuums and thereby
holding certain transforming systems on socially deleterious
courses.
"How much more powerful is the minuscule ship's rudder when
in good order than a squadron of ships trying to move a
rudderless ship in a heaving Bea by attempting to push the
rudderless one with their plunging bows in preferred
directions as do tugs maneuver a big ship in still water
when the ship is moving too slowly to have steerage way!
Alo how futile are shouted words of warning and exhorta-
tions in such situations! Only the rudder and the brain
that directs the rudder are effective. No wonder Norbert
Wiener included the Greek name for rudder in coining his
cybernetics' to identify the newly emergent computer's"
-
Cite NEW FORMS VS. REFORMS, WDSD Doc #1, p.53, 1963
(4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ruddering Sequence:
"feedback system science. No wonder the early Egyptian and
Greek shipmasters stood in the stern of their ships facing
forwardly alongside the single-oar-steering slave as the
crew of backwards-facing slaves tensed at the banks of
vacuum fulcrumed oars. Here is the picture of society
straining at its slavishly accepted work, backing up blindly
into its future as an, often nearsighted, excursion captain
cons the course.
(5)
"My philosophy also takes heed of the approximately unlimited
ratio of length to girth of tensional controls 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.
OCLUR
"Philosophically it is clear that trim tabs in the trailing
edges of trailing devices-- in the tail-end of tail-end
events-- at the stern of the ship as the last event and not
at the bow as the first event. The bow is important to keep
the ship on a chosen course but the stern rudder puts and
holds it on the chosen courses. The real steering takes
place when the non-scientifically informed observer thinks"
-
Cite NEW FORMS VS. REFORMS, WUSD Doc. #1 pp. 53, 1963

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ruddering Sequence:
"everything is all over. But that final steering has to be
done from on board. Just having the last word from way
back in the wake of the ship is futile. Scientists have
often said that the most important part of their great,
discoveries occurred at the outset in the proper formulation
of the project's objectives, forgetting that those enlight-
ened formulations were really the afterimage inducements of
tail-end events of earlier and seeming, failures of experi-
mentation."
(6)
Cite NEW FORMS VS. REFORMS, WDSD Doc. #1, p.53, 1963

Rudder: Ruddering:
See Cybernetics
Trim Tab
Servomechanism
Zigzag: Right-left: Halfway Averaging
(1)

Rudder: Ruddering:
See Omnimedium Transport Sequence, (3)
Feedback, 7 Nov' 75
(2)

5A7
Ruler:
See Straightedge
(1)

Ruler:
See Resolution, 5 Jul'62
(2)

RULES
Rule of Communication:
"At this time I developed a thought which has been very powerful
in my theory of communication ever since. I said, 'I don't care
if I am not understood as long as I am not misunderstood. For
if I am misunderstood the captain of a ship may do the wrong
thing with fatal consequences, but if he does not understand me,
he queries the message and you give it to him again until he gets
it right." This principle became absolutely fundamental in
my life from then on."
->
Cite RBF to Alden Hatch in "RBF: At Home in the Universe,"
p.65. From Hatch's 1972 tape recapitualting RBF
formulation of 1918.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Rule of Communication:
"I made up my mind as a Rule of Communication
that I wouldn't care if I was not understood
so long as I was not misunderstood."
--
RBF to EJA and assembled
company, Carbondale, Illinois
2 April 1971.
See also Intro, to Gene Youngblood

Rule of Communication:
See Misunderstanding, i.e., Being Misunderstood
(1)

Rule of Communication:
See Comprehension, Sep'72
221
(2)

Rules of Interval:
(1)
See Orbiting agnitudes
Vertexial Connections: Rules of Never-quite-touching

Rules of Interval:
See Coherence, 10 Feb 73
(2)
221

Rules of Operational Procedure:
See Whole System, 28 May '72

Rules of No Actual Particulate Solids:
See Coherence, 10 Feb 73

Rules of Never-quite-touching:
(1)
See Vertexial Connections: Rules of Never-quite-touching

Rules of Never-quite-touching:
See Coherence, 10 Feb 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
The Rules of Universe:
"It's not an either/or condition over-- so much is permitted
by the rules of Universe.'
-
Citation and context at Degrees of Freedom, 9 Dec*73

Rules of Universe:
See Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (4)
Fuller, R.B: On Drinking Liquor, 22 Jun'77

Rule: Regulation:
See Conformity
Law: Laws
(1)

Rule: Regulation:
See Technology, 13 Mar'73
(2)

Rule: Regulation:
See Rule of Communication
Rules of Interval
Rules of No Actual Particulate Solids
Rules of Never-quite-touching
Rules of Operational Procedure
Rules of Universe
(3)

Rule: Ruler:
See Realm
Religion:
Related to "Reglio"
or Rule

Runaway of Ignorance:
See Problem: Statement Of, Feb'72

Russia:
See Soviet
USSR