
S

See Structuralism in Language, 1 Feb '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
S Quanta Module:
"When the icosahedron is extracted from the octahedron
the remaining corners fractionate into 24 S Modules."
Cite RBF to EJA, by telephone from Philadelphia; 3 Oct'77

S Quanta Module:
See T Quanta Module

RBF DEFINITIONS
S Quanta Module:
"The A and B Quanta Modules also have their volumetric
counterparts in the nonnucleated icosahedron in the form
of the 5 Quanta Kodules--each of which is 1/120th tetrahedron
of which the triacontrahedron is composed. This makes the
S Quaneta Modules probable electron complements of the
nucleated system-halvings fractionated 459 times, i.e.,
4 x 459 1836."
-
Citation & context at Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (1);
4 Jun 77

TEXT CITATIONS
S Quanta Hodule:
$100.322
$100.105
sTable 987.121
8987.413
3987.988.00-112

RBF DEFINITIONS
S-Curve:
I have
"Our S-curve is a very interesting kind of form.
two S-curves and one could get in a critical proximity at
one end and we would call it a triangle. We know triangles
can be open-ended, as there has never been a closed
triangle; it has always been a spiral"
"The middle positive sector of the S-curve is opposite
the middle negative vector, each with its axis rotated at
90° to the other by inter-precession."
-
Gite CARBONDALE BRAFT Pp. IV.32 + IV.36
Cite Nasa Speech, pp.53+56, Jun'66

S Curve:
See Z Cobras
(1)

S Curve:
See Yin-yang, (2)
Propeller, Dec171
(2)

§: Six Sie:
See Architectural Aesthetics: Six S's

RBF DEFINITIONS
Safety Factor:
The big geodesic domes thus far erected have been way
overbuilt by many times their logically desirable
two-to-one safety factor.
"While the building business uses safety factors of four, five,
or six-to-one, aircraft-building employs only two-to-one or
even less because it knows what it is doing. The greater the
ignorance in the art, the greater the safety factor that must
be applied. And the greater the safety factor, the greater
the redundancy and the less the freedom of load distribution.'
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 703.07 +.08, 25 Sep'72

Safety Factor:
See Fail-safe: Fail-safe Advantage

Safety Valve:
See Dome: Rationale For (III)

Safety:
See Scaffolding, 20 Apr'72

Sailing with the Wind: Sailing into the Wind:
See Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences,
(1)(2)

Sailing Ship: Sailboats:
See Geodesic Spinnaker
Intuition: RBF Sailing Yacht "Intuition"
Water: Trend toward Living on Water
Boats
Fleet of Sailboats
Beating to Windward
(1)

51
Sailing Ship: Sailboats:
See Pull, 2 Jul'62
Octahedron:
Eighth-octahedra, (2)-(4)
(2)

Saint:
See Engineer-saint

Salmon:
See Social Breakout from Barnacle to Salmon

Salvation vs. Self-discipline:
See Macro-micro, 1964

Sameness:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity, Kay'28

Sand:
See Sixty Degreeness, 1965

Sandwich:
See Earth as a Sandwich

Sanity:
See Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4)

Santa Sophia:
See Pneumatic Structures, (3)

Saran:
See Hex-pent Sphere: Transformation into Geodesic
Spiral Tube, (2)

Satellite-linked Computers:
See Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep' 76

Satellite Environment Controls:
See Floating City
Space Structures
Habitable Satellites
(1)

Satellite Environment Controls:
See Balloon (2)
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegritis, (1)
(2)

Satellite: Telescopes mounted on around-Earth, fixedly-
Hovering photo-satellites:
See Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial
Sphere, (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Satellite: World Satellite Sensing:
"With omnidirectional complex computerized world satellite
sensing, comprehensive resources inventorying and inter-
routing, the triangular geodesics transformational projection
can alone bring visual comprehending and schematic network
elucidation."
Citation and context at Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot
Celestial Sphere (11), 25 Jan173

Satellites: Satellite Sensing:
See Communications Satellites
Habitable Satellites
Space Structures
Telemation: Satellite-relayed
(1)

56
Satellites: Satellite Sensing:
See Sovereignty, (20
Planetary Democracy, (6) (7)
Communications Hierarchy, (3)
(2)

Satisfaction:
See Performance: Equation of
(1)

Satisfaction:
See Inventions as Lifeways of Human Behaviors, 1965
Life, 22 Apr'68
Performance Per Pound, 30 Apr'74
Survival, May'65
(2)

(To) Save Time, Tape, & Type:
See Creativity, May'65

Savings Account:
See Energy Capital
Energy Savings Account

RBF DEFINITIONS
Savings:
"During each one-second heartbeat of time humans were making
and saving' $1 net.
'
They were in fact saving memories of
experiences, which ever multiply, from which accumulate
metaphysical know-how that has never been entered into the
ledgers of world-wealth accounting... "
-
(Adapted)
Citation and context at Gross World Product Sequence (1),
13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scaffolding:
"I like to give you components to go out into the field
where no man has to wait for any other man to help him--
where any part ought to be so light that one man has the
other hand free to fasten it into place. You must do
things in such a way that nobody is going to get hurt.
Make it possible then to work from the ground up. You make
a structure where you keep climbing on. to it and adding
to it being absolutely safe in making its own scaffolding."
-
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.39, 20 Apr 172

Scaffold: Scaffolding:
See Cube as Scaffold
Four-square Scaffold
(1)

Scaffold: Scaffolding:
See Pyramid Technology, Dec'71
(2)

Scale:
See Uniform Boundary Scale
Chords & Notes
(1)

Scale:
(2)
123
See Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (1)

Scalene:
See Proton & Neutron, (p.134) May '72
Semisymmetry, 15 Oct'72
Dynamic Symmetry, (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities:
Q.
RBF:
"What is the connection between synergetics and
teleportation?"
I know of no connection between such phenomena and
synergetics. Synergetics is a frame of reference for the
intetransformings--I don't connect it with the metaphysical.
We can identify synergetics with the electromagnetic wave
propagation and that may turn out to have something to do
with the physical...It's a good question. No, since I don't
'good' or 'bad', we'll say an interesting question.
use
"We can scan. We have pattern integrities. The patterns can
be recognized. You might be scannable like the Broadway
electric light signs--in which each of the closest packed
spheres might be a lightable light. It might scan your
organisms but I wouldn't expect the physical body to be moved--
just the events.
Cite RBF in renly to question by Dr, ilichael Bruwer at World
Game Workshop 77; Phila., PA; 22 Jun 77

Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities:
See Electromagnetic Transmission:
Conscious
Atomic Computer Complex
Billboard Model
Pattern Processing Machines
Subjective &
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man
Information Control System

Scanning:
See Electromagnetic Transmission
Billboard Model

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scarcity:
"We have millions of people who no longer have anything to
do on farms. We keep plowing it under. We run only eight
hours on the machinery instead of 24, when it could perfectly
well run 24 hours. We are doing everything we can to keep
scarcity because the only thing we are familiar with is
scarcity. I simply say to you that we're in an absolutely
inadequate accounting system, which did relate to yesterday's
agricultural perishability. The agricultural did automatically
depreciate. We are now in an entirely new economy where the
wealth consists of energy, the metaphysical and the physical.
. . They are not on the books of any of the corporations
anywhere.'
-Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, p.9, 28 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scarcity:
"All economics is committed to a fundamental formula of
scarcity-- even to the point where it may be necessary to
inventscarcity. 11
- Cite RBF to Henry Liberman, NY Times, 22 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scarcity:
"Scarcity, the fundamentalithesis of all our statecraft,
in invalid."
Cite RBF at Corcoran Gallery Address, Washington, DC,
23 Feb
72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scarcity:
Not Enough To Go Around:
"It is very logical that man should fight to the death when
he thinks that there's not enough to go around.
In a fire,
he loses all reason, goes mad, and tramples his fellow men
to death as he competes for air. It is also very logical
that man won't fight when he knows there's enough to go
around. It is logical. It is logical. It is logical."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scarcity:
Not Enough to Go Around:
"We are not educatable fast enough to realize that scientists
could bring us enough to go around."
Citation and context at World Game (II), 25 Feb'69

Scarcity: Not Enough to go Around:
See Design Revolution:
Earning a Living
Pulling the Bottom Up
Inadequacy of Life Support
Making the World Work"
Resource Inadequacy
Watergate
You or Me
Human Tolerance Limits

Scarcity: Not Enough to go Around:
See Design Science, 8 May 171
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927 (1)
Nonproduction, 12 Jun'69
Politics (1)(2)
World Game (II)*
Thinking, 10 Dec 173
Young World (1) (2)
War, 13 Dec'73
Lying, 22 Jan'75
Humane City, (2) (3)
Doing What Needs to Be Done, (2)
Selfishness, 20 Sep' 76
Building Industry (11) (12)
Jan
No Energy Crisis, (2)
Man as a Function of Universe, 30 Apr'78
(2)

Scarcity: Economy of Scarcity:
See Economic Accounting System, 29 Jun 72
Marx, Karl, 7 Aug170
Obsolescence, Apr 72
Political Revolution, 10 Oct'73
Politics, 4 Jan 170
World Game, (II)

Scarcity as an Invention:
See Economics, 22 Jun'72

560
Scavage: Scavaging:
See Self-scavenging

REF DEFINITIONS
Scenario:
Q.
RBF:
How can an event be a finite energy package?
"Say quanta instead of packare. Events discontinue.
Scenarios stop and go. The continually flowing reality is
not end-to-end but a partially overlapping continuity."
Cite RBF in videotaping session, Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario:
"Yesterdays and now
Are neither simultaneous
Nor mirror-imaged;
But through them run themes
As overlappingly woven threads,
Which though multipliedly individualized
Sum-totally comprise a scenario."
* Cite BRA IN & MIND, p.131 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario:
"In scenarios you have to have a pretty long sequence
run in order to get any clue at all to what is going on.
You cannot learn what it is all about from a single
picture. You cannot understand life without much experience."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 10.2 Jun'71
CITE SYNERCETICS SCENARIO UNIVERSE SEC 322.2

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario:
"We can clarify the accurate but formidably complex definition
of scenario Universe. A moving picture scenario is an aggregate
of nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping events. One
single picture-- one 'frame'-- does not tell the story. The
single picture of a caterpillar does not tell or imply the
transformation of the creature first into the chrysalis stage
and much later into the butterfly phase of its life.
"When people say of Universe, 'I wonder what is outside of
outside? they are trying to conjure a unitary conception and
are asking for a single picture of an infinitely transforming
nonsimultaneous scenario. Therefore their question is not only
unanswerable but unrealistic and indicates that they have not
listened seriously to Einstein and are only disclosing their
ignorance of its significance when they boastfully tell you that
the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second."
Cite WHAT QUALITY ENVIRONMENT, 24 Apr 67
SCENARIO UNIVERSE - SEC 322.1

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario:
"An aggregate of non-simultaneous
And partially overlapping
Ever complexedly transforming experience,
Is an evolutionary sequence
Which is defined as a scenario.
"The totality of experience
Which is scenario Universe
As a serially transformative cognition
Of individually different
And scenically static individual pictures,
Conceptual frames,
Is inherently non-unitarily
Or momentarily conceptual."
- Cite RBF Draft, BRAIN & MIND, pencil
1970

Scenario of the Child:
See Children as Only Pure Scientists
Goldilocks
(1)

Scenario of the Child:
See Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1)-(6)
(2)

Scenario Model:
(1)
See Pendulum Modal vs. Scenario Model

Scenario Fodal:
See Truth, 10 Nov 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Principle:
"I have found a general law of total aynergetical structuring
which we may call the scenario principle. This law discloses
that 'Universe' of total man experience may not be simultane-
ously recollected and reconsidered but may be subdivided into
a plurality of locally tunable event foci or 'points' of which
a minimum of four positive and four negative points are
required as a 'considerable set'; that is, as a first finite
subdivision of finite Universe."
SYNERCETICS
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.125, 1959;
the above passage described the general law as "The Law
of Structure," the same title given to a second law on
the same page. To anticipate SYNERGETICS the caption
was changed to "Scenario Principle" in the 1971 Doubleday
edition of NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD with approval of RBF.--EJA.
SEC. 228.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry:
"Symmetry is systemic. Symmetry has nothing to do with the
scenario series; it has nothing to do with local, special
caso realizations. You can find balances in series--positive
and negative energies--but absolute symmetry is character-
istic only of generalized systems."
(Sec. 532.17)
-
Citation & context at Symmetry & Asymmetry, 11 Dec 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"Universe is a scenario. Scenario Universe is the finite
but nonunitarily conceptual aggregate of only partially
overlapping and communicated experiences of humanity.
"Uni-verse is a momentarily glimpsed, special case, systemic
episode takeout.
"When we start synergetically with wholes we have to deal
with the scenario within which we discover episodes--like
the frog the snake is swallowing.
"Time is only now. Time and size are always special case
asymmetric episodes of now whose systemic aberrations are
referenced to the cosmic hierarchy of primitive and
symmetrical geometries through which they pulsate actively
and passively but at which they never stop. The rest of
Scenario Universe is shapeless: untuned-in."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of 19 Jul' 76; incorporated in SYNERGETICS,
2nd. Ed. at Sec.
321.04 and 321.05.
561

RBP DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"Universe is a scenario. Uni-verse is a static takeout.
what we do when we start with wholes. When we start with
wholes we have to deal with the scenario--like the frog the
snake was swallowing.
"Time is only now.
Time and size and
special case
are now, as referenced to the cosmic hierarchy of geometries
through which they pulsate and never stop. The rest is
shapeless not tuned in."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC: 18 Jul*76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"We are dealing with the Universe and the difference
between conceptual thought (see Systems) and nonunitarliy
conceptual Universe (see Scenario Universe). We cannot
make a model of the latter but we can show it as a
scenario of conceptual frames."
(81007.21)
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1007.21;
18 Sep'74

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

KL
RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"Einstein started Holistically
With the concept of Scenario Universe
As an aggregate
Of nonsimultaneous,
Complexedly frequencied,
And only partially overlapping
Ever and everywhere
Methodically intertransforming events
which conceptioning
Is superbly illustrated by an evening
Of overlappingly frequenced fireworks."
Cita INTUITION, p.48-May '72
Citation & context at Fireworks (1), May'72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"The definition of Universe as a Scenario of nonsimultaneous
and only partially overlapping events, all the physical
components of which are ever transforming, and all the
generalized metaphysical discoveries of which ever clarify
more economically as eternally changeless."
-
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, 26 Jan '72
Cite RBP marginalis, 26 Jan 172, incorporated in SYNERGETICS
draft at Sec. 251.17, Feb 172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"
the cosmically eternal totality
of interminable Scenario Universe."
Citation & context at Entropy, Jan' 72
Jan 172,
975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE FARTH

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"Beginningless and endless scenario Universe
With its vast frequency ranges
Of omni-interpulsative
Yes-no, give-and-take
Radial expansions and circumferential contractions."
-
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH, Jan. 172.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"The Universe can only be thought of competently in terms
of a great unending but finite scenario whose as-yet
unfilled film strip is constantly self-regenerating."
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 10. 2 Jun' 71
SYNERGETICS - SCENAUD UNIVERSE SEC. 322.11
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
SYNERGETICS
Scenario Universe:
"Einstein's adoption as normal speed, the adoption of
electromagnetic radiation expansion-- omnidirectionally
in vacuo-- because the speeds of all the known different
phases of measured radiation are apparently identical,
despite vast differences in wavelength and frequencies,
suggests a top speed of omnidirectional entropic disorder
increase accommodation at which radiant speed reaches
highest velocity 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 to EJA in response to a request to repeat his
'brief sentence' on the sphere as a meeting of convergences.
See SYNERGETICS draft, 'Tension and Compression,' Sec. 614.08.
SCENARIO UNIVERSE
1971
SEC 325

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"The Heisenberg indeterminism implies eternity to be
persistent within the physical and metaphysical ever-
evolving continuity-finitness of scenario Universe, in
which the myriads of nonsimultaneously shaken kaleidoscopes
are never either simultaneous or identically repetitious."
-
Citation and context at Measurement (1), Dec '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
"In the endless, but finite and never exactly repeating
(Heisenberged) film strip' scenario of Evolutionary Universe
after the film strip has been projected it goes through a
'molten' phase and congeals again to receive the ever latest
self-intertransforming patterning just before being again
projected. The rate of change and numbers of special case
self-retransformings of physical evolution tend ever to
accelerate, differentiate and multiply; while the rate of
change and numbers of self-remodifyings of generalized law
conceptionings of metaphysical evolution tend ever
to
decelerate, simplify, consolidate and ultimately unify."
-
Cite Generalized laws of Design, p
Citation at Metaphysical, 22 Apr168
SYNERCETICS-
SCE MARID UNIVERSE
SEC. 3231
22 Apr 68-

Scenario Universe vs. Big Bang Theory:
See Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar' 77

RBP DEFINITIONS
Scenario Universe:
Physical Evolution Scenario:
(Mind enables humans to discover and employ
generalized principles brought from Eternal Universe...)
"Brought into
Time and energy synchronized consciousness
Of the physical evolution scenario.
1
•
Citation and context at
Brain & Mind (3), Feb 72

REVEDER HAITIONS
Scenario Universe:
See Afterimage
Brain's TV Studio
Continuous Man
Nonunitarily Conceptual
Moving Pictures
Conservation of Scenario Universe
Universe as a Kaleidoscope
Serial Universe
Overlapping
(1)

Scenario Universe:
See Allspace Filling, 2 Nov' 72
A Priori Intellect, (1)
Communication, Oct 70
Conceptuality, 1965; 22 Oct 72
Education, May 72
Einstein, 23 May' 72
Entropy, Jan' 72*
Fireworks, (1)*
Future of Synergetics, 23 Dec'68
Key Keyhole Sequence, (2)
Measurement
(1)
Metaphysical, May 72*; 22 Apr 68*
Metaphysical & Physical, 26 Jan'72*
Motion, 4 Mar'69
Omniinteraccommodation, May 172
Spherical Field, Aug173
Invisible Tetrahedron, 13 Nov'69
Time-sizing, 13 Nov'
'72
Two Kinds of Twoness, (B)
Vacuum, 19 Feb'72
(2A)

Scenario Universe:
See Spheres & Spaces, 14 May'75
Words & Coping
Space, 9
7 Nov' 75
Tunability, 24 Apr176
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4) (5)
(2B)

Scenario:
See Afterimage
Allspace Filling Scenario
Brain's TV Studio
Continuity finiteness
Finite Eevent Scenario
Improve the Scenario
Moving Picture Continuity
Overlapping
Model vs. Scenario
Periodic-continuity
Pre-Scenario
System vs. Scenario
Visual Symphony
(1)

Scenario:
See Packaged, Jun'66
We-Me Awareness, 31 May 174
World Game:
Grand Strategy, 2 Jun174
Tetrascroll, (1)
(2)

Scenery: Rearrange the Scenery:
See Rearrange

Scenery:
See Finite Event Scenario, 23 Jan'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheherazade Number:
"I think the Arabaian priest-mathematicians and their Indian
ocean navigator ancestors knew that the binomial effect of
1001 upon the first four prime numbers 1,2,3, and 5, did
indeed provide comprehensive quotient accommodation of all
the permutative possibilities of all the possible 'story-
telling-taling-tallying,' or computational systems of the
octave system of integers.... Suffice it to say that the
functions of the Grand Visier to the ruler was that of the
mathematical wizard, the wiz of wisdom; and the wizards
kept their mathematical navigtional ability to go to faraway
strange places and to bring back strange miracle objects,
was here involved."
-
[+230.30]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1210-05, 18 Jul 72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Scheherazade Number:
"It is probable that this fifth power comprehensive quotient
number can also accommodate all the interpermutations of
all atomic structuring (stable integration) or destructuring
(unstable
disintegration)."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1210702, 18 Jul172

RBP DEFINITIONS
Scheherazade Number:
"The Scheherazade Number is the product of three prime
numbers: 7 x 11 x 13 - 1001.
"1001 x 1001 = 1002001." It is palindromic.
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 22 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheherazade Number:
TEN-ILLION Mon
EIGHT-ILLION S
-
Geometrical Manifestations;
Manifest in the spherical Octahedron.
Manifest in the vector equilibrium

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheherazada Numbers: Declining Powers Or:
"The reoccurrence of the prime number two is very frequent.
The number of operational occasions in which we need the prime
number 43 is very less frequent than the occasions in which
the prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11 occur. This Scheherazade
Number provides
an abundance of repowerings of the lesser
prime numbers characterising the topological and vectorial
aspects of synergetics' hierarchy of prime systems and their
seven prime unique symmetrical aspects (see Sec. 1040)
adequate to take care of all the topological and trigonometric
computations and permutations governing all the associations
and
disassociations of the atoms.
"We find that we can get along without multirepowerings after
the second repowering of the prime number 17. The prime number
17 is all
that is needed to accommodate both the positive and
negative octave systems and their additional zero-nineness.
You
have to have the zero-nine to accommodate the noninterfered
passage between octave waves by waves of the same frequency.'
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Secs. 1238.41-.42, 22 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheherazade Numbers: Declining Powers Of:
"My intuition about the declining powers of the primes
factorial is that they reflect the way the patterns appear
in nature. From my early hand and pencil calculations
it is clear that you have to use the prime number five
and the prime number three more often in your calculations
than you use the higher number primes. And you use the
three more than you would the five. Hence 3 to the 8th power
and 5 to the 5th power to work out all the possible nuances
within the 45-degree limit. This might be the pattern of
reducing from Universe in a binary way.
"The higher powers for the first primes are to accommodate
the very large numbers of calculations necessary to come
up really sharp! You have tetra = 1; and octa = 2; and 5 is
both the vector equilibrium and the icosahedron.
This
relates to the rate at which the outer shells accumulate:
the prime number times two plus two. By providing enough
moves for each of the low number primes you should be able
to work it out by bitting with sharp results.
Such a
discrete method would be more elegant than a probability approach."
-
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Miami, 17 Mar '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheherazade Numbers: Declining Powers Of:
Q: (EJA)
RBF:
In the factorial primes of the Scheherazade Numbers
why do you have high, but declining, powers in the
first primes and no powers in the higher primes at
the end of the series?
"Well the reoccurrence of the number two is very
frequent. We have to provide a lot of powers for 3, 5, and
7 to take care of all the computations and permutations.
But the number of times you need 43 is very low compared to the
number of times you need the number 11. The powering really
stops at 17, which is all you need to accommodate the octave
system from 0 through 9. You have the zero to accommodate the
waves. But 17 gives you all the primes up to 18 which
accommodates the two nines."
1238.41.4+2)
· Incorporated in SYNERGETICS
2nd. Edition draft at Sec.
+223 Cite RBF to EJA in videotaping session, Phila-
delphia, PA, 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheherazade Numbers: Declining Powers Of:
"ynth
12th
2
38th,
55th
4th
7
3rd
11
3rd
2d
13
17
'
This descending order of powers embraces the first eight
primes (seven positive and seven negative primes.) These
represent the spaces between the spheres.
"These powers have to do with the number nucleations
required to accommodate 17. Seventeen is the outer shell.
There are seven different magnitudes of powers involved.
"450 is the limit."
(Above relates to Ten-illion SSRCD-- which did
not survive in SYNERGETICS : It is
48,521,045,268,603,838,698,691,521,290,000)
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NY, 22 June'72

Scheherazade Numbers:
See SSRCD

Scheme of Behavioral Reference:
See Sheme of Reference, 24 Sep'73; 26 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Schematic of the Principles:
"Conceptual systems like that of the vector equilibrium are
subsize and pretime and yet provide a schematic of the constant
interrelationship of all the principles involved which may be
treated mathematically as topology."
Citation & context at Synergetic vs. Model (D), 10 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheme of Reference:
**Multioptioned, omniørderly scheme of behavioral reference.'
That's what we should say instead of 'frame of reference. **
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 26 Sep'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Scheme of Reference:
"I do not like the word frame. What we are talking about is
the multi-optioned omni-orderly acheme of behavioral reference;
simply the most economic pattern of evolvement. Pattern of
evolvement has many, many equieconomical intertransformability
options. There are many transformation patterns, but tetra-
hedron is the absolute minimum limit case of structural system
interself-stabilizing. A tetrahedron is an omnitriangulated,
four-entit, six-vector interrelationship with system-defining
insideness and outsideness independent of size; it is not a
rigid frame and can be any size. Rigid' means 'sized'--
arbitratily sized. 'Rigid' is always special case. Synergetica
is sizeless generalization."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 540.04, 24 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scheme of Reference:
"Synergetics is not a frame at all but a pattern of most
omnieconomic (ergo, spontaneous) interaccommodation of all
observed self-and-otherness interexperiencing (ergo, geodesic--
geodesic being the most economical interrelationships of a
plurality of events)."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 540.05, 24 Sep'73

Scheme of Reference: Schemata: Scheme:
See Field
Frame of Reference
Frame of Reference: Six Schemata

Schizophrenia:
See Equilibrium & Disequilibrium, (1) (2)

Scholarships:
See Fellowsips

School:
Schoolroom:
See Education
Kindergarten
Teaching
(1)

School: Schoolroom:
See Fuller, R,B: Moratorium on Speech, (1)
(2)
123

Schoolg: Shoals:
See Cosmic Fish, 8 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Schoolroom:
"The least favorable environment for study is the schoolroom
and closely-packed desk prisons. The real schoolhouse is
in the home and outdoors."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB
. Bantam, 1970

Schoolroom:
See Study, May 170

School:
See Architectural Schools
Education
Learning
University
(1)

School: Schooling:
See Self-education, 1974
Convergence & Divergence, 1 May 177
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
*Science begins with the awareness of the absolute mystery
of Universe."
-
Cite RBF in Barry Farrell Playboy Interview, 1972
Draft. p. 21.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Science identifies as subjective and objective, respectively,
the inadvertently experienced stimulations of life, on the
one hand, and the deliberately initiated and experimentally
instituted responses to the subjective stimulations...
-
Citation and context at Subiective and Objective, 14 Sep'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Experience is the raw material of science."
Citation at Experience,
CECO RBF Lecture
Tomb Hall, New York
12 arch 1971
12 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Everything that constitutes science
Is unteachable.
And we recall that
Eddington said: 'Science
Is the earnest attempt
Of individual initiative
To set in order
The facts of experience.'
Scientific routines for specialized technicians
And scientific formulas for their reference
Alone are teachable."
-
Cite HOW LITTLE I KNOW, Oct. 166,
P. 65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Science is metaphysical.
"My definition of universe embraces both the physical
and the metaphysical, the latter being all the weightless
experianees of thought which include all the mathematics
and the organization of the data regarding all physical
experiments, science, both first and last, being meta-
physical.
-
Cite DOXIADIS, P. 309, 20 Jun*66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Many years ago I developed a system of question
asking in which I ruled that I must always answer the
questions from experiance. My answers must not be based
on hearsays, beliefs, axioms, or seeming self-evidence.
"It has been part of my experience that there are
others who, while experiencing what I was experiencing,
were able to describe what we mutually were experiencing
equally, well, or better than I could. Therefore, my
experience taught me that I could trust the reporting of
some others as reliable data to be included in my
'answering' resources. For instance, I could include the
experimentally derived data of scientists."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 31,
Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Science has always been a complex of independent and
subjective economic slave disciplines, primarily concerned
with the harvesting of information, rather than with the
practical application of that information."
-
Citation and context at Space Technology (6), 10 Oct'63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"The function of science is to prospect for total
Bociety by taking the universe apart, that is, resolve it
into primary factors and elements by progressive isolation
and subsequently to obtain precise measurements of the
behavior characteristics of the isolated events or components.
"For example, science isolated the phenomenon fire
from extraneous factors, and by isolating the constituent
events and the product of events discovered that fire is
not in itself an element but an accelerated combining
process of a newly recognized primary element, that is,
oxygen, combining with carbohydrates in ever-constant
arithmetical proportion. Thus the isolation of the fire
caused the subsequent isolation, recognition and naming
of the new elements oxygen and hydrogen, and provided
behavior measurements of the latter, by which man could
predict events of combustion in such a way as to make
combustion an accurate tool of technical advantage.
Cite DESIGN FOR SURVIVAL, I&I, pp.188-189, Jan'49
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
(2)
"As water and vapor are H₂O events, the comprehensive event
was a precise mathematical process. This was the beginning of
purposefully produced steam as a tool. The steam engine was &
victory of chemical science, not of mechanics as we have
popularly supposed. However the functions of science ended
with the separating out of the newly discovered elements from
the universal matrix and with the measurement of the unique
behavior characteristics of the respective elements (it being
the unique behavior that constitutes elementality). It is readily
seen that the present invocation of science to put together
again the world it has taken apart, is futile inprinciple.
Summarizing, it is the essential function of science to take
the Universe apart and measure the parts and sort them into
usable categories. The functioning of science is exclusive."
Cite DESIGN FOR SURVIVAL, I&I, pp.188-189, Jan'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Unlike inventions,
pure science events are absolute and irrevocable.
Pure science events represent openings of windows
through the walls of ignorance and fiction,
to reveal the only reality:
the behavior of the naked
universe that always was, is, and will bf
True it is that the first glimpses may be hazy and imperfect,
but the behavior itself is absolute and is progressively clarified.
Therefore, this comprehensive curve
of the chronological rate of acquisition of knowledge
concerning the pure science absolutes
separated out from all other events of history
may be inspected as the basic means of prediction
of inherent technical and social events--
immediate or somewhat distant."
-
Cite Part II of Earth, Inc.
Fuller Research Foundation
Yellow paper draft, p. 7
1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Science works equally well
under private or public subsidy
while industry is the pure product
of free enterprise, imagination and personal risk
of the individual or small groups of individuals."
Cite Part II, Earth, Inc.
Fuller Research Foundation.
Yellow typescript,
Citation at Industrialization, 1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"Science has hooked up the everyday economic plumbing
to the
cosmic reservoir
•
"Science continually does more with less
each time it obsoletes and scraps old inventions."
Cite Part II., Earth, Inc.
Fuller Research Foundation
Yellow typescript, p. 10,
1947

ABF DEFINITIONS
Science:
Cause of Science for Man:
"Science really hasn't done anything about looking out
for man. Science has found out how to make great explosives
and great guns calibrated with little control instruments
so any ignoramus could learn to fire it and hit pretty well
in a couple of days experience. But science didn't have to do
unitl the space age_
anything about the man/because the air was waiting there to
be breathed and water was pretty handy.
going out into
space for the first time you have to really know what a
man needs."
-
Cite RBF taping CHARAS Script
14 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
The Cause of Science for Man:
"I figure that when the environment is scientifically
conceived and rendered, that the human occupants can then
divest themselves of the necessity of onerous and puritanic
hardship of conduct and yet accomplish successful and happy
living in naturally engendered sanity."
(N.B.
Christopher Morley's phrase for the Dymaxion
philosophy was "Pleading the cause of Science for Man.)
-
Cite extract from RBF writings submitted by EJA
Wichita, Kansas 1946
to Morley
--

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
"
Comprehensive Interration of the Sciences:
The vastly increasing genetic knowledge and the
omni-integration at the virology level of cross discipline
teams of physicists, genetecists, chemists, biologists,
mathematicians, each and any one of whom may broaden the
scope of his interests to include all or some of the others'
logic."
-
Cite HYPER, World Mag., 4 Apr 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Comprehensive Integration of the Sciences:
"Many scientists of Darwin's time felt there were many parts
and aspects of the Universe which had nothing to do
scientifically with other parts of the Universe. In contrast
to that century-ago viewpoint, the overlap of the once
separate sciences now is so great that, for instance, both
chemists and physicists are now primarily concerned with
atoms. World War II witnessed the introduction of hyphens
between the scientific categories-- bio-chemistry, for
example. Now the trend to comprehensive integration is
far advanced. . .
"The trend to specialization is being abruptly reversed.
We are coming to a comprehensive reintegration of our
knowledge. That is why suddenly the most advanced scientists
are becoming comprehensivists. This will overnight make
obsolete 90 percent of the overspecialized professional
teachers."
-
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 175, May 65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Comprehensive Integration of the Sciences:
This "Scientists, having developed double names for their over-
lapping work (biochemistry, biophysics, etc.), are now
finding their total field interconnected and unitary.
is a general trend of science. And so many scientists are
now being educated that it may be forecasted that within
the next half century, not only all science but much of what
educated society will have come naturally through its own
explorations and experiences to discover the comprehensive
order of the Universe."
Citation and context at Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense,
(3), 19 Sep 64

Science: Comprehensive Integration of the Sciences:
See Hyphenated Sciences
(1)

Science: Comprehensive Integration of the Sciences:
See Twenty Questions, (2)
(2)

Science: "Foreign-hieroglyphicking" Science:
See Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities:
"There is excitement in the air as we undertake this last
phase of a fifty-year search for the re-bridging of the
gap between Science and the Humanities-- created when
(1)
science, abandoning fundamental conceptual modeling, started
a century ago to 'fly' exclusively 'on instruments.
We have,
I am confident, the new conceptual bridge between the sciences
and the humanities. Because the instrument- and mathematical-
symbol-conditioned world of science has great momentum and
competence in 'blind flight, it is not going to take quickly
to our new tools-- so you are the bridge builder from me to
the rest of science.
"I would like you to say what I say-- in my explorer's half-
century-developed, experimentally formulated language-- to
the scientists, in their language. Our terms often coincide
but are ambiguous and, at times, contradictory. I think you
can easily smooth out the differences.
"I am confident that I can talk lucidly to the public and
particularly to the young world. I know that you and I can
talk lucidly to one another. I am therefore confident that"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Muphur Loeb, 6 Jan'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities:
(2)
"we have not only discovered the comprehensive, omnirational,
omni-intertransforming coordinate system most economically
employed by physical energy Universe, but also that we have
developed a communications relay system of high integrity
with which most effectively to speed the realization by
society of the advanatges accruing to the rewedding of the
Sciences and Humanities which, Lord Snow agreed with me, is
accomplishable by our Synergetics and its omniconceptuality."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Dr. Arthur Loeb, 6 Jan'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities:
"With the return to valid, rationally computable conceptuality
of nature's dynamic formulating, there returns to literary
man the ability to re-establish the communication integrity
of science and world society. The rate of re-establishment
of conceptual comprehension of scientific frontiering and
its technical, ergo economic, ergo practical significance,
will be painfully slow to those who now have discovered
nature's sublimely rational comprehensibility.
it may take
a whole new generation but that is an historically short
period for so vital a recovery from world society's present
intellectual comprehension tail-spinning."
- Cite KEPES, p. 81. 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
Gap Between Science and the Humanities:
" There has been the thought of nonconceptuality in the
录
area you explored and it seemed to be just purely mathematical.
It didn't seem to be easy to communicate between science and
the general public and the literary man has been the man who
was supposed to explain what is going on to the public. He
is the fellow who communicates but he couldn't understand.
The scientist said: you can't follow, and that in a sense, is
what Snow is writing about-- about the real chasms that have
grown up between the scientist and the people. He speaks about
it in the terms of the literary man because he is a literary
man and there is nothing he can explain to people of what is
going on in science. I will make a prediction to you that in
this next half century you will see a development of comprehen-
sion of science by everybody. Science is comprehending in the
terms of conceptuality...
(A)
"In the period we speak of as the gay nineties, about that era
of time, the physics was moving ahead rapidly and we are
coming out of the time of Clerk Maxwell and Hertz and the
development of the electromagnetic wave, the phenomenon
electricity is beginning to come along, and this is the beginning
of the era of dynamos, and so forth. Principles are being"
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, pp.130-131, 6 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities:
"discovered that are operative in the electricty. There is
electrical engineering. in the mathematics, the the coordinate
system of XYZ coordinates we had identified what we call
powering, the development of dimensions that required a unique
perpendicularity to a plane not already in the system.
"We had the first dimension all right, and the second and third
dimension. But we couldn't seem to find any fourth dimension.
The trouble was that in the gay nineties fourth power relation-
ships were beginning to show up in the physics and in relation
to electromagnetic phenomena. But you couldn't make a model of
2t.
What the mathematicians found yoy could do was fairly
nifty because in dealing with 90-degreeness you just think
about your XYZ coordinates; you think about your 90-degree angle
and you have lines going out so many units from the centers.
In XYZ coordinates, they were also called the quadrants; 90-
degrees four times, you might call it a clock with four hours.
"One of the things the mathematicians found you could do to
accommodate the seeming phenomena that was going on in electro-
magnetics where physical Universe secmd to be using the fourth
power you could handle the fourth power simply by borrowing"
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p.131, 6 Jul'62
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
Gap Between Science and the Humanities:
(C)
"a little from the clock. You could go around the clock and
borrow a little from tomorrow or you could go backwards on the
clock and borrow a little from yesterday. It is kind of like
going to the bank and you accommodate it on a time payment
affair. This is called imaginary number, complex number, where
the square root of minus one is going into yesterday one quadrant.
They found they could accommodate the fourth power mathematically
but they couldn't make a model of it.
"In the nineties, then, it began to happen thatthe scientists
said: We are sorry. We have had models up to now, and you asked
me to explain what we are doing in science, and there was a model
but suddenly models seemed to be invalid. Mathematics could
carry on so you gave un models. That is what happened in the
nineties. Not everybody knew this right away. This was not
such a big fashionable thing. There were no decrees along these
lines but it gradually became known that the scientists were
carrying on a purely with mathematical notation and were
getting along very well and they could handle invisible phenom-
They simply said: all this stuff that's invisible here is
also nonconceptual. There are no models."
ena.
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, pp. 131-132. 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Cap Between Science and the Humanities:
It
(D)
"This irritated a great many other human beings, as for instance,
artists who are philosophers in cry. They may not have had very
much mathematics, but they are human beings-- who possibly may
not have done very well in school-- but they really are full of
a sense of importance of the Universe. And there were many
principles to be discovered so they could persist. The artist
said: 1 could deal in abstracts, and so they felt they could deal
in principles. So we have the leaving to the nonrepresentational
art. That is a move that comes along with the invalidity of
models in science. It is something we call abstraction.
really wasn't very abstract; many times it was a principle.
An artist really did learn it was a principle and there would
be inversions of equations and things like that. They were
intuitive that conceptuality was there all the time. They had
felt that there was something, inadequate in the matheamtics,
that's all... 1've found time and again that artists have very
powerful intuitions. They hadn't quite learned their way around
well enough in the languages of the various sciences, but 1 am
sure they have been::intuiting that theree was conceptual
validity so they insisted on trying to make conceptual arrangements!*
-Cite Orgeon Lecture #4, pp. 131, 132, 6 Jul'62

Science: Cap Between Science & the Humanities:
See Blind Man's Bluff
Generalizations: Mathematical vs. Literary
Return to Modelability
Snow, C.P.
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment
Instruments: Science Blind-flying "On Instruments"

Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities:
See Algebra, 28 Oct'64
Artist, Sep' 71
Conceptuality, 1965.
Fourth Dimension: Borrowing from Tomorrow's
Clock, 22 Jul171
Joyce, James, 1965
Modelability, Jun'66
Synergetics, 'Dec 72; (B)
Wealth, (E)
XYZ Coordinate System, o Jul'oz
Synergetics, 7 Apr'75°
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: The Great Design:
"Contact with the great design: this is the most mysterious
of all experiences we know. I find the design of a
regenerative Universe must inherently have very complex
problems, local problems. And I think that the human has
been given access to the great eternal mind in order to be able to
cope with the extremely difficult local problems of the
regeneration of the Universe. It becomes a very thrilling'
realization of our responsibility.
"Science, at its beginnings, starts with a priori, absolute
mystery, within which there loom these beautiful behavior
patterns of the physical Universe where the reliabilities
are eternal."
Cite RBF at SIIS Conferance, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71
As quoted in Symposium publication, Ed. by Mylo Housen

Science:
The Great Design:
See A Priori Great Design
Eternal Designing Capability

30
RBF DEFINITIONS
Science Opened the Wrong Door:
"Now we suddenly find elegant field modalability and conceptuality
returning. We have learned that all local systems are conceptual.
Because science had a fixation on the 'square, the 'cube,' and the
90-degree angle as the exclusive forms of unity, most of its
constants are irrational. This is only because they entered nature's
structural system by the wrong portal. If we use the cube as
volumetric unity, the tetrahedron and octahedron have irrational
volume numbers."
SYVERGERIGS TA
Citation & context at Synergetics, 30 Dec'73

Science Opened the Wrong Door:
See Oversight
Starting with Parts: The Nonradial Line
Attic Window
Earth Fault:
Fault
Society is Living in a Sort of Earth
(1)

Science Opened the Wrong Door:
See Flatland 1 Oct-'71
Synergetics, 30 Dec 73*
XYZ Coordinate System, (p.96) Jun'66
Quantum Sequence, (2)
Fourth-dimensional Synergetics Mathematics, 14 Dec' 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: History of Science:
"This explains why
The history of science
Is a history of
Unpredicted discoveries
And will continue
So to be."
Cite INTUITION, p.39 May 172

Science: History Of:
See Babylonian Mathematics
Navigators: Early Navigators
(1)

Science: History Of:
See Modelability, (3) (4)
Teaching, 2 Apr 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
Left Hand and Right Hand Sciences:
"To adopt themselves to change has now been pronounced in
Washington as 'creativity.' Philip Morrison, Cornell's
head of the department of nuclear physics, talks about what
he calls 'left hand' and 'right hand' sciences. Right hand
science deals in all the proven scientific formulas and
experiments. Left hand science deals in the unknown and
unproven, and the intellect, intuition, and imagination
required in man to make it known.
"The great scientists were great because they dealt
successfully with the unknown: They were left-behind
scientists. Morrison says that we have been extending only
the right-hand science, making it bigger and sharper. How
could Congress justify appropriation of billions for dreams?
For the billions went only for the swiftly obsoleting bigger,
faster, and more incisive modefications of yesterday's
certainties."
Cite RBF transcribed in AAU Journal, p. 173, May 165

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
Pure & Applied:
"My chart of the isolation of the isolation of the 92
chemical elements shows" that innovation and discovery
require aesthetically motivated curiosity, "in re scientific
breakthroughs which always slow down in war and accelerate
in nonwartime."
47
Cite RBF marginals at Cyril Stanley Smith Article, NY Times,
24 Aug 75; done by RBI, Wash. DC, 8 Sep'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Pure and Applied Science:
"When science discovers order subjectively it is pure
science. When the order discovered by science is objectively
employed it is called applied science."
-
Citation and context at Order, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Pure & Applied:
"Pure science seeks to find mathematical order permeating
the subjectively acquired data; and applied science employs
objectively the mathematical orders discovered in formulating
them into special design uses.
"Both the pure science analysis of the subjectively acquired
data and the applied science employment of the relationships
involves mathematically patterned identification of the
pertinent special-case use data in respect to a universally
coordinate dimensioning system and a transformational frame
of reference.
-
Cite RBF holograph (edited), Beverly Hotel, NYC 14 Sep'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science: Pure and Applied Science:
"Applied science is physical.
metaphysical."
Theoretical science is
for RET foreword, 1967
Citation & context at Metaphysical & Physical, May'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science:
Pure & Applied Science:
"Pure science does not prosper in time of war--
which is contrary to all popular notions. Scientists
are made to apply science in wartime, rather than to
look for fundamental information.'
Cite THE YEAR 2000, San Jose State College,Mar'66

Science: Pure & Applied:
See Know-how & Know-what
(1)

Scince:
Pure & Applied:
See Metaphysical & Physical, 1967
Universe as Energy & Information, 11 Nov 74
Communications Hierarchy, (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science-Technology-Economics-Politica Sequence:
"The rate at which man found chemical elements seems
to be the key controlling the development of the
application of science to technology, and, following
from this, the application and effect of that technology
on economics and, utlimately, the effect of the new
technology on society itself."
Cite THE YEAR 2000, San Jose State College, Mar'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science-Technology-Industry-Economica-Politics Sequence:
(1)
"My philosophy... requires the attempt to solve problema by
inanimate invention of comprehensive anticipatory design
science, rather than yielding to the easier behavior of problem
discovery and the exhortation of others to solve these problems.
Ideas come readily to all. Translation of ideas into theoreti-
cally effective physical design takes considerable self-
disciplining to be effective. Reduction of such theoretically
effective designs into physically operating structural and
mechanical advantages requires even greater self-disciplining.
Reduction of the physical mechanical advantage into timely and
spontaneous inhibitability by our contemporarily evoluting
society requires patience as well as self-discipline.
"These coordinate self-disciplines are inherent in the
inventory of faculties with which we are endowed and are poten-
tial of realizations in the inventory of reported experiences
that we have inherited from all men before us. The individual
intellect disciplinedly paces the human individual.
"The individual disciplinedly paces science.
"Science disciplinedly paces technology by opening up both"
-
Cite Intro. to NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, p.ix, 9 May 162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science-Technology- Industry-Economics-Politics Sequence:
R
"Widened and refined limits of technical-advantage genrating
knowledge.
"Technology paces industry by progressively increasing the
range and velocity inventory of technical capabilities.
"Industry in turn paces economics by continually altering and
accelerating the total complex of environment controling
capabilities of man.
(2)
"Economics in turn paces the everyday evolution acceleration
of
man's affairs. The evryday patterning evolution in turn
poses progressively accelerating problems regarding the
understanding of the new relative significance of our extra-
ordinarily changing and improving degrees of relative advantage
in respect to controling our physical survival and harmonic
satisfaction. Happily realized augmentation of forward
capability is all that we mean by wealth.
"The unfamiliar complex of the new wealth accounting require-
ments of the evoluting human experiences emerges as an aggregate
of unique and
popularly discerned everyday 'news' problems.'
Cite. Intro. to NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, pp. ix-x, 9 May'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politica Sequence:
"In turn the popularly discerned inventory of problems
altogether provides the raw material to be processed by the
machinery of politics. It is the purpose of politics to
digest the problems and to provide adequate accounting and
readjustments to the unexpected and often disconcerting changes
in the patterns of technical advantage realizations. Politics
must thus implement life's continually increasing sweepout
and penetration of Universe with a continually changing set
of operational rules and accounting conventions."
(3)
Cite Intro. to NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, p.x, 9 May'62

EJA COMMENT
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politics Sequence:
The total sequence involed is approximately as follows:
Man's participation in evolution (individual intellect)
paces design pattern strategies for survival;
Ideas pace physical design;
Self-disciplining paces structural and mechanical advantage;
Intellect paces the individual;
The individual paces science;
Science paces technology
Technology paces industry;
Industry paces economics;
Economics paces wealth; wealth paces politics; politics paces
accounting readjustments for increasing sweepout of Universe.

Science-Technology-Industry-Economics- Politics Sequence:
See Making the World Work
(1)

Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politics Sequence:
See Industrial Lag, 5 Jul 62
Politics, Jan 62; Kay'28
Technology, 1960
Mutual Survival Principles, (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Science as a Tool:
IT Science and technology are only manipulative tools,
like
inanimate and cut-offable hands which may be turned
to structuring or de-structuring. How it is to be
employed is not a function of the tool but of human
choice. The crisis is one of the loving and longing
impulse to understand and be understood which results as
informed comprehension. It is the will to structure versus
ignorant yielding to fear impulsed reflexive conditioning
resultant to being born utterly helpless. Intellectual
information accumulating processing is necessary and
anticipatory faculties to be only slowly discovered as
exclusively able to overcome the ignorantly feared
frustrating experiences of the past. Science must be seen
as a tool of fundamental advantage for all, which Universe
requires that man understand and use exclusively for the
positive advantage of all humanity, or humanity itself
will be discarded by Universe as a viable evolutionary
agent.
To
Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec.826.05, Sept 72

Science:
See Applied Science
Exact Sciences
Experimental Demonstrability
Hyphenated Sciences
Inexact Sciences
Invention vs. Pure Science Events
Operational Science
Physical Science
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politics-
Sequence
Social Sciences
Source of All Scientific Knowledge
Hierarchy of Patterns
Generalizations: Mathematical va. Literary
Instruments: Science Blind-flying "On Instruments"
Overspecialization of the Sciences,
Children as Only Pure Scientists
(1)

Science:
(2)
Chart of Rate of Acquisition (2)
See Mathematics, undated
Ninety-two Elements:
Experience, 12 Mar 71*
Industrialization, 1947*
Subjective & Objective, 14 Sep'71*
Space Technology (6)*
Tenure, 28 Jun '72
XYZ Coordinate System (A)
Unknown: All the Unknown, 13 May'73
Nonthing, 11 Sep 75
Closed System, 10 Nov 75
Metaphysical & Physical, 22 Jun '77

Science: Scientific:
See Science:
Sciences:
Science:
Cause of Science for Man
Comprehensive Integration of
"Foreigh-hieroglyphicking" Science
Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities
Science: The Great Design
Science Opened the Wrong Door
Science: History Of
Sciences:
Science:
Left Hand & Right Hand
Pure & Applied
Science-Technology-Economics-Politice Sequence
Science as a Tool
Scientific Events Appearing in Fun & Play
Scientific Generalization
Scientific Laws
Scientific Words
(3)

Scientific Events Appearing in Fun & Play:
See Funambulist, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scientific Generalization:
"The scientific generalizations are always mathematically
statable as equations with one term on one side of the
equation and a plurality of at least two terms on the
other side of the equation.'
Citation and context at Order, 13 Mar 73

Scientific Lawa:
See Synergetics Principles

Scientific Words:
See Energetic Words

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scientist:
"The pure scientist is just like an egg-laying hen.
Take the egg away-- and no matter.
That's just it."
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
14 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scientists:
"Scientists differ from people who just make lists by
trying to set them in order."
Cite OREGON Lecture #232
p. 692 Jul'62

HEZINITIS FILE INDICATORS
Scientists: Scientists Cited in RBF Works:
Avogadro.
Democritus
Euler
Euclid
Newton
Kepler
Copernicus
Heisenberg
Einstein
Pythagoras
Eddington
Waddington
Darwin
Percival Bridgeman
Frankland, Edward
van't Hoff, Jacobus Henricus
Pauling, Linus
Grebe, Dr. John
Hilbert, David
Poisson
Brouwer, L.E.J.
Eccles, J.C.
Pauli
Jeans
Planck
Galileo
Dalton
Boole
Mach
Teller, Edward
Aston
Lavoisier
Bernouilli
Dirac
Smith, Cyril Stanley

Scientists:
(1)
See Artist-scientists
Chaos: Myth that Scientists Wrest Order from Chaos
Leonardo Type
Eggs: You Just Lay Eggs

Scientists:
See Dwelling Service Industry (5)
Generalization Sequence (3)
Industrial Lag, 5 Jul 62
Integrity of Universe, Feb 72
Retirement, 28 Jan175
Child Sequence, (1)
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 4 Oct 75
Universe is Technology, (1)
Cosmic Fishing, (B)
(2)

Scissors Held in Fixed Opening:
See Scribing
(1)

Scissors Held in Fixed Opening:
See Necklace, (1) (2)
(2)

Scoring: Score-guessing:
See Brain's TV Studio, 1960

HBF DEFINITIONS
Scrap Sorting & Mongering:
"We are going to have to keep track of the 92 regenerative
chemical elements but not just as elements because we have
them in literally thousands of millions of compounds and
different complex structures as they are used in various
industrial processes. We won't be using the elements by them-
selves; we'll be using the various compounds. I am interested
in the concentrates. And I see buildings as high and low
grade. I see my 92 chemical elements rarely in the pure
condition; in a more complex way they are in practical
dissociability for further realignment.
"When we talk about all the aluminum or the bauxite some is
below grade in the mines and some is already in use and
recirculating. There are really two classes. There is a
recirculating group. When they're pulling a building down
there's part of the steel that's no longer in the building
holding it together, but it may not have been put on the
market yet as scrap. But it's what they call high melting
scrap and should go right into the furnace; it will command
a much bigger price than the small stuff.
"
(1)
- Tape transcript #4, pp.8-9, RBF to W. Wolf; Phila. PA., 15 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scrap Sorting & Mongering:
(2)
"Scrap sorting is going to be one of the great sciences now.
It is one of the typical social changes from the linear patterns
of the honey-bee to the precessional circulatory patterns.
To man's old way of thinking he was going to build this building
and it's going to stay there forever. All the architects are
that way.
It was like a one-way street. But nature found that
the metal didn't get destroyed and so it resulted in the monger.
"The monger was sort of a low-grade character because everybody
thought the materials had deteriorated, that the iron was all
rusting and that everything would really rust and go away. But
the monger was sitting in there and society found that things
were not getting eaten up. Now the mongers are getting all
their dung and really turning it into something. There's a
scandal now in Philadelphia about their sewage and waste
removal because some of these guys are beginning to turn some
of this tonnage into money. They had been throwing out the
dung but now they are beginning to process it and they find
that it really pays them.
"One of the big changes around here is when the monger is no
longer a low calling. But the mongers tend to sit on it and"
23
Tape transcript #4, pp.9-10%; RBF to W.Wolf, Phila. PA., 15 Jun '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scrap Sorting & Mongering:
wait for a good market. That keeps enormous powerful heaps
of junk in sight. We don't have to have those unsightly places.
This is where the government should start to take over the
function of recirculation. That's what society is not doing;
it's not taking care of any of its recirculation. Everybody
is trying to disconnect and make their money. So one of the
big functions of government is going to be changing the scrap
sorting from a one-way street into the circulatory system.
I don't think anything could be more visible from the World
Game point of view.
"I am going to account for everything. There are going to be
some priorities. Because there are a number of these materials
that are so relatively scarce thay have to be of absolutely
high priority. If there is so little of it it must be used in
a broad sense. I must ver have helium in a retail pub; it
must be in the tools that serve the tools.
(3)
"Incidentally, I see tools having a hierarchy just like our
own guts: things that are glandular, there are energy secretions,
there are pumping stations, and so forth. Purifying things
like the lungs and livers áre all big recirculatory systems:
-
Tape transcript #4, pp. 10-11; RBF to W.Wolf; Phila. PA, 15 Jun*74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scrap Sorting & Mongering:
"Nature takes great pains to separate the liquid from the solid
matter. When nature takes the great trouble to separate things
like that it's a very expensive matter. But then we, as people,
put them right back together again. It's incredible. Nature
has its little dogs pissing on the tree groups that need the
water and crapping over there for the fertilizer.'
(4)
-
· Tape transcript #4, p.11; RBF to W.Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun'74

Scrap Sorting & Mongering:
See Metals:
Junkyard
Recirculation of Metals
Pollution Control

Scratch-chorded:
See Light on Scratched Metal, 9 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Scratched Surface:
"You look at any scratched surface and you will always see
circles. Where there is light present there are lines that
get lit up since they are precessional to the direction of
the light. This gives you the sunburst effect in a hubcap
or fender."
Citation & context at Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (2),
27 Jan 75

Scratched: Saratched Surface:
See Light on Scratched Metal

Screen:
See Benday Screen
Membrane
Walls

RBF DEFINITIONS
Screwing:
"People who listen to me say, 'Here's a man who's selling
screwdrivers... they don't realize how mysterious screwing is."
Citation and context at Fuller, R.B.: RBF Modus Operandi,
Feb173

Scribing:
See Drawing
Spherical Reality Scribing
Scissors Held in Fixed Opening
Tools of Geometry
Severance-tracing
(1)

Scribing:
See Otherness, 8 Feb 76
(2)
123

Scroll:
See Tetrascroll

Scrutability: Magnitude Of:
See Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial Sphere,
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sculpture as Single Frame:
"I'd then like to point out that if you say I wonder what's
outside outside, you're asking a single frame picture. You
have a sculpture in mind. The Universe is a sculpture.
These are where the stars are in sculptural array. So that
and we realize that no
question is a single frame.
single frame gives the meaning. "
-
Cite RBF to SIMS, U.Mass., Amherst, 22 July 71, p. 27

Sculptor vs. Engineer:
See Soleri, Paolo, 10 Sept 75

Sculpture; Sculptor:
See Sculptor vs. Engineer
(1)

Sculpture: Sculptor:
See Design, 23 Jan '72
Fuller, R.B: His Writing Style, 22 Jan 75; 26 Apr' 77
News & Evolution, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sea:
"In 1961... three jet airplanesin one year outperformed the
Queen Mary and the steamship United States at a very much
less cost; and suddenly the sea became obsolete as a way in
which human beings would get from here to there."
-
Citation & context at North-south Mobility of World Man, (1),
10 Sep'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sea: The Sea:
*The sea's curvature enabled her to keep her secrets.
"
Cite RBF videotaping, Penn Bell Studios, Phila., PA, 23 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sea: The Sea:
"Playboy: It seems a very melodramatic kind of evolution
that would have man verge so close to extinction before
discovering his function. Do you think that risking extinction
may be part of the process of discovery?
There was
"RBF: He's done it all the time. He kept going to sea,
kept going after those fish, and his boat was inadequate and
he was lost. Of all the people who have gone to sea
historically, I imagine that very few returned.
such loss in the beginning. But out of it man began gradually
to learn his engineering, to learn how to anticipate the
enormous stresses, the constant peril. And he began to
develop beautiful fibers, better ropes, better sails,
I think our breakthroughs always come to the people who were
risking themselves very close to the brink."
-
Cite RBF in Barry Farrell Playboy Interview, 1972
-
Draft. p. 15.

KBF DEFINITIONS
Sea:
The Sea:
"Laws are not extendable over the surface of the water.
The sea offered secrecy because its curvature meant
that you only had to get 14 miles away to be out of sight.
•
to disappear over the horizon and then reappear. .
•
only the navigators could do it."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Chex Wolf.
18 Jun 171

Sea Gulla:
See Feeding a Flock of Sea Gulls

Seaports:
See Unsettling vs. Settlements, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sea Power:
"The British Isles were used as unsinkable flagships.... Sea
power was determined in the first few seconds of contact:
after the first or second salvo you knew who was going to
run
the world for the next 25 years.
"Blitzkrieg was just sea warfare brought up onto the land.
"There is no such thing as a secondhand navy."
Cite RBF videotaping, Penn Bell Studios, Phila., PA, 23 Jan 75

Searchlight:
See Octahedron: Eighth-octahedra, (3) (4)

RAF DEFINITIONS
Sea Technology:
"You get at least twice as much experience at sea because
you're at work 24 hours a day. On the sea it's a flood all
the time and you have to stay on top of it.'
Cite Rb at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
23 Jan 75

Sea Technology Conversion to Land Technology:
See Dymaxion Airocean World, (I)
Tank, 23 Jan' 75
Electric Lights, 15 Oct'64
Wealth, (C)
Bicycle Wheel, 29 Jan'75
Sea Power, 23 Jan'75

Sea Technology:
See Battleship
Displacement of Ships and Buildings
Electric Lights
More With Less: Sea Technology
Navigation
Navy Sequence
Refrigerator
Sea Technology Conversion to Land Technology
Weapons Technology
Air Delivery & Submarine Cities
(1)

Sea Technology:
See Civil War, (2)
Engineering
Size,
9 Dec 73
Dome House Grand Strategy:
Human Unsettlement, (2) (3)
1927-1977, (2)
(2)

Sea:
See Ocean
S.O.S.
Waterocean
Naga
Swim: Dynamic Sea Where Man Must Swim
(1)

Sea:
See Male & Female, 12 Jan'74
North-south Mobility of World Man, (1)*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
VS.
Search Research:
"In the early 1930s, in my Saturday Review and three-hours-
for-lunch-club days, I introduced a deprefixing logue and
logue dialogue. Chris Morley, Bill Benet, Don Marquis and
others were intrigued with its revealed, vealed trigues which
are tri- or triangular involvements.
"You had to search before you could research. Search pioneers:
research is routine exploitation.
"You must view before you can review, overview a powerful world
geoview... copyrightable, trademarkable, markably remarkable
."
Cite RBF holograph initiating "Eccles Piece" on Barclay Hotel,
Phila, writing paper, 14
Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Second:
"Minimal consciousness evokes time,
As a nonsimultaneous sequence of experiences.
Consciousness dawns
With the second experience.
This is why consciousness
Identified the basic increment of time
As being a second.
Not until the second experience
Did time and consciousness
Combine as human life.
Time, relativity and consciousness
Are always and only coexistent functions
Of an a priori Universe,
Which, beginning with the twoness of secondness,
Is inherently plural."
->
Cite INTUITION, p. 12, May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Second:
Consciousness
Identified the basic increment of time
As being a second.
Not until the second experience
Did time, consciousness--
which is human life--
Begin.
Time, relativity and consciousness
Are always and only coexistent functions
Of an a priori universe
Which beginning with the twoness of secondness
Is inherently plural."
"As a nonsimultaneous sequence of experiences,
Consciousness begins at minimum
As a second experience.
This is why .....
-
I
Cite INTUITION, Draft Feb 171, p. 1-2.

570
HBF DEFINITIONS
Second:
"Early humanity's concept of the minimum increment
of time was the second, because time and awareness
begin with the second experience after the other."
-Cite RBF marginalis on Synergetics draft, See 223.34- 19 Jun *71.
Citation & context at Time, 19 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Secondhand:
"I... had had mechanical training and was very much impressed
with the wonderful equipment that was put at the disposal of
the Navy. It was a world in which there was no such thing as
a secondhand battleship. You cannot win a war on secondhand
It
equipment; we have had this well demonstrated recently.
was equally impressive to me later when I left the Navy and
went into the building world and discovered how unscientific and
secondhand most of the approach to housing was-- how people
really drifted from one old house to another, and the few new
houses that were built were without any benefit of engineering."
-
DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.149), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Secondhand Gadgetry:
"We find ourselves continually advancing in domestic technology,
but only as the second-hand gadgetry, by-producted by the
cast-off segments of the weapons industry."
For sitation and context see Weapons Technology, 10 Oct 163

Secondhand Gadgetry:
See Electric Lights, 15 Oct164

Secondhand God:
See Religion, (1)

Secondhand:
See No Secondhand Battleship
No Secondhand God
(1)

Secondhand : Second Hand:
See Copper
Lags,
9 Dec 173
(1)
Sea Power, 23 Jan '75
(2)
223

Second Hand:
See Laga (1)

Second Layer:
See Icosahedron: Inside-outing Of, 10 Jan' 50
Primary Structure, 10 Jan'50

Secondness Otherness:
See Somethingness & Bothingness, 7 Oct 75

Second Power: Second Dimension:
See Powering: Second Powering
Two-dimensionality

Second:
See Intuition:
Second Intuition
Vector: One-second Vector Length
(1)

Second:
See Awareness, 24 Apr 72
Heartbeat, 13 Mar 73
Time, 19 Jun 71*
Time-sizing, 30 Nov'72
(2)
21

BBE DKEINITIONS
Secrecy of the Artist:
See Artist, May'65, Jun'66, 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Secrecy:
Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge:
"I am quite confident that the early navigators knew a
great deal about the Earth and that they were doing just
what navigators and others were doing in my day in the
Navy when the Navy instructions were when I was Commanding
Officer, that if anybody was about to take my ship the
first thing I would do would be to go to the rail and take
all the leaded books, anything of importance was covered
in lead, and throw them overboard. Men had been hiding
their secrets in the sea for great ages, so I felt that many
people carrying on their navigation could remember some
of the principles in their head but much of the important
record couldget lost."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 251. 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Secrecy:
Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge: Navigation:
(1)
"I said to myself, I think that the first mathematics
which related to a plurality of stars, and where you are,
the first triangulation, occurred in relation to the
navigators. I think then that the people who sailed into
the windward, who started going into the prevailing winds
westward, became the first inventors of the navigation.
You cannot invent navigation unless you have something that
you became familiar with. I think then that the people who
invented the navigation invented the first really important
kinds of mathematics dealing in triangulation, in major
patterns. And so I think that mathematics and navigation
developed in a very high way on the sea, and later on came
up onto the land. But people who knew their way about the
sea knew how to get to very important resources, and there
were great premiums paid for what they could bring in a
very secret kind of a mind-- and they began to guard their
secret of navigation very carefully. I think that the
great mathematical secrets were really very progressively
hidden. When the navigators were going westward out of
the Straits Settlements areas, and so forth, and finally
negotiated across westward of the Indian Ocean to the
eastern shores of Africa and the southern shores of

RBF DEFINITIONS
Secrecy:
Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge:
(2)
Navigation: (Cont.)
Mesopotamia. And they began to memorialize their
navigational capabilities upon the land. They go up on the
land and using the same kind of navigational capabilities
they navigate across the land to get to the Mediterranean.
Then they go northward down the Nile and they come to the
Mediterranean. And there they build the same kind of boats
built out of the patterns they can carry in their head.
And they go on with what we call this lateen sailing in the
Indian Ocean and it gets into the Mediterranean.
We find,
then, this navgating moving westward, and the men who
became the great
priests are the men who are monopo-
lizing this very secret information which makes it possible
to do this very powerful wealth making through trade which
is controlled through navigation. You can take a lotof
sailors to sea with you but they don't know where they have
been just in a lot of water. So it is very easy to keep
your secret. So these navigators began to make pyramids
and other forms. You will find them in India and we find
in Babylon, the beginnings of our very impotant kind of
mathematics: of the 60-degree angles, of the 360 degree
concept, of the 60-minute seconds, and so forth. The first
real handling of time and angles-- which are the very

RBF DEFINITIONS
(3)
Secrecy: Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge: Navigation: (Cont.)
essence of the navigation. I think that these secrets were
deliberately hidden by the priests and kept from the people,
even possibly from the kings.
"At any rate the priests of the Roman Catholic Church began
to tell me that this is a hierarchy of Heavenly Host
we have all kinds of legends mixed up here, but I think that
this is one way that the priesthood found a way of carrying
very important mathematical information."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 252-253. 11 Jul'62

Secrecy of Fathematical Knowledge:
See Vizier: Grand Vizier
Wizard
(1)

Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge:
Sea Technology, (1) (2)
See Malthus, 23 Feb'72
More with Less:
Pythagoras, 18 Jun'71
Sea, 18 Jun'71
Yin-yang, (2)
(2)
22:

Secrecy:
See Chronofile, (1)
Dymaxion House, 13 Jul 74
Navy Sequence, (3)-(6)
Sea, 18 Jun 71; 23 Jan'75
Ship, (3)
Spaceship Earth, (c)
"
Understanding, Apr 49
58

Secret: Secretion:
See Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, May'49
Duality of Universe, May'49

BSFINITIONS
Sectionless Tensioning:
See Length-to-Girth Ratio
Co-orbiting of Earth & Moon Around Sun
(1)

Sectionless Tensioning:
See Chemical Bonds (2)
Coherence, 9 Jul'62
(2)

82
RBF DEFINITIONS
Secability:
"Our seeability is so inherently local that we never see
anything but the asymmetries."
-
By to EJA, Blacks some Hotal, Chicago, 31-May 1971
Citation and context at Asymmetry, 31 May' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Secability:
"That's what I've been gibing you all the time, with the
positive and the negative: I've been giving you the visible
and the invisible. That's exactly what we've been accounting.
So you can only see the locally asymmetrical. You can't
see the total.
You'll never see anything but the
asymmetrical, because we are so local. Our secability is
inherently local."
-
Cite tape transcript RBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, 31 May '71.

See: Seeability:
See Seeing
Sight
Unseeable: Unseeability
Visibility: Vision:
Visual
(1)

See:
Seeability:
See Asymmetry, 31 May171*
Rubber Glove, 23 Kay'72
Symmetry & Asymmetry, Dec 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seed:
"...The vegetation imppunds the Sun radiation by exquisitely
orderly photosynthesis and produces beautiful orderly molecular
structures, thus converting very random, cloud-interrupted
radiation into orderly molecular growths as little seeds,
transforming into trees, lambs, and a myriad of other highly
regular organic species."
Citation and context at Boltzmann Sequence (5), Dec172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seed:
"Nature is always shipping tension by seeds.
compression comes in locally."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 30 Oct 72
The

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seed:
"Nature makes many potential 'starts.'
As for instance
All the vegetation which impounds the Sun's energy
Must be regenerated and multiplied.
But it cannot have its progeny
Within its immediate vicinity,
As the trees shadow
Would prevent its young
From impounding the Sun's radiant energy.
"Wherefore all the trees
Launch their seeds
Into the air or upon the waters
To drift to chance landings,
Where the seeds may be favorably nourished
And grow.
The chances of such auspicious landing
Are so unfavorable
That nature must send
Billions times billions of seeds away
From the parent vegeation,
Which, though potential of complete success,
. Cite BRAIN & MIND, pp.153-154 May '72
"
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seed:
"hay never germinate and prosper.
The airs and waters
Of the planet Earth
Are filled with the aimlessly migrating seeds.
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.154 May '72
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seed:
"We find that in the seed nature provides a blueprint
pattern tightly folded up in a triangular tension grid."
- Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes,
1965, p. 85.

Seeds:
See Ecology Sequence
Tensile Bluebrints
Gestating Seed
Nature Ships Tension
(1)

Seeds Seed:
See Boltzmann Sequence (5)*
Trees (c)
Fire (A)
Regenerative, 1960
Shadow, 1970
Male & Female, 1 Feb'75
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seeing:
"... Man has sensorial tunability and is sensorially aware
of only one-millionth of physical reality. The little rainbow
color band of human 'seeing is less than one-millionth of
the stretched-out reality of the invisible colors of all the
92 regenerative chemical elements of associative energy or
of the various radiations."
Citation and context at Optical Motion Spectrum (1), 4 Mar 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seeing vs. Hearing:
"Seeing is universal vs. hearing which is ethnic, like languages.
Hearing is 700 m.p.h. and seeing is 700 million m.p.h.
Television is a million times greater than radio."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
22 Jan 75

Seeing the Whole World at Once:
(1)
See World Looks at Itself

Seeing the Whole World at Once:
See Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (1)
(2)

Seeing:
See Optical
Seeability
Seeing vs. Hearing
Sight
Visión
(1)

Seeing:
See Moving Picture Continuity, Jun'66
Perception, Jun'66
Picture, 1938
(2)

Segment of Inclusion: Segment of Conclusion:
See Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol, 1938

Selectable: Selective:
See Electable
Elective
Options
Size-selective
Tunability
(1)

Selectable: Selective:
See Resonance Field, 13 May'73
Spherics, 30 Nov 72
Modulations, 17 Jun '75
(2)
623

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self:
"Self is not a priori evident."
40
Context and citation at Synergetic Strategy of Commensing
With Totality, 28 May 72

ABF DEFINITIONS
Self:
"To
human environment is everything that isn't me.
And Universe is 'everything that isn't me' and me--
environment and me."
Gite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
15 March 1971
Citation at Environment, 15 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self:
"And self which is entirely metaphysical
Is not the metaphysically observable
Biological organism
With which it is intimate
Any more than is the telephone
The self of those who communicate
With one another
By means of the telephones observable
Frequency differentiating capability
As it relays its tunable patterning
To the physical nervous system's tuning
To be arrayed for consideration
By the metaphysical self, the mind."
Cite RBF Draft BRAIN & MIND, pencil, 1971

Self-annihilation:
See Economists, Jun'66
Television: Third Parent, May'65

Self-awareness:
See Complementary, May 72

Self-balancing:
See Humans as Machines, (1)

Self-bounding System:
See Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, 28 Jan'73

Self-chilling:
See Ghana Dome: Self-chilling Machine

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-communicate:
EJA:
RBF:
"How can you communicate without culture?
you have language without culture?"
How can
"You don't need language to communicate with self.
It can be nonverbal; that's the point. We may not
know the name for a 'circle' but we would recognize
it absolutely every time.
"Children self-communicate putting blocks in alots
with no words about it at all."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC., 8 Apr'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-communicate:
"Communication will probably be accomplished by thinking
alone, ergo more swiftly and realistically than by sound
and words."
Citation & context at Individuality, 9 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Communicate:
N.Y, Times, 15 May'72, H.M. Schmeck, Jr. "Immunology: A Code
Spelling Life or Death": "The populations of cells communicate
with one another and trigger into activity any of several kinds
of immune response.
th
R.B.F. Marginalia: "Only number can self-communicate as
structural or destructural associabilities.
n
Cite RBF Marginalia presumably 15 May 72

Self-communicate:
See Communication to Self or Others
(1)

See Zoned System: Zone Limits, 1954
Individuality, 9 Jan'75*
Self-communicate:
223
(2)

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Self-Congruence Packing:
"The openmost condition or single bonding corresponds in
The
flexibility or mutability with the behavior of gases.
medium packed condition or double bondinged hinged arrangement
The closest
corresponds to the behaviors of liquid aggregates.
packing triple bonded fixed-end arrangement corresponds with
rigid structural molecular compounds; the closest packing
concept which was developed in respect to spherical aggregates
only with their concave octa and vector equilibrium spaces
between spheres, overlooks a much closer packed condition of
energy structures, which however had been comprehended in
organic chemistry, that of quadrivalence and four-fold
bonding which corresponds to outright congruence of the
actahedra or tetrahedra with themselves. When carbon transforms
from its soft, pressed cake, carbon-black, powder, or
charcoal arrangement to its diamond arrangement it converts
from triple bonding or so-called closest arrangement to
quadrivalence. We might call this self-congruence packing, as
a single tetrahedron arrangement in contradistinction to
closest packing as a neighboring group arrangement of spheres."
-9
Cite RBF Ltr. to Prof. Von Hochstetter, 28 Oct 164, p. 2.

Self-congruence Packing:
See Self-packability
Clear Space Polyhedra
Multiple Self-congruence

Self-congruence:
See Multiple Self-congruence
Self-packability
(1)

Self-congrunce:
Self-congruent:
See Octahedron, 10 Dec'75
(2)
123

Self-consciousness:
See Life, pp.8-9) Jan '72

Self-considerate Society:
See Austranesia, 10 Aug 75

BBB FINITIONS
Self-consideration:
See Tetrahedron Discovers Itself and the Universe
Universe Considers Itself
World Looks at Itself
Parts: Each Part in View of the Others
Self-considerate Society
(1)

Self-consideration:
See Plane, 19 Feb 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Debiasing:
"First your members can develop an effective anticipation
of the things that are to happen. Though it is impossible
to anticipate the precise set of transitional events, you
can be in the vicinity of important event occurrences.
Your most important task is to help your members become
comprehensive by intellectual conviction and self-debiasing,
not as an ignorant Alding, but as a progressively informed
displacement of invalid assumptions and dogma by discovery
of the valid data. In this development the young will lead
the old in swiftly increasing degree."
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, Pp. 177-8, May 165

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Deception:
"The degree of self deception is proportional to the width
of the angle of disagreement."
Cite RBF in "The Listener" transcript by John Donat, 26 Sep'68

Self-deception:
See Omission vs. Admission
(1)

Self-deception:
See Possession, 10 Jun'74
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (1)
Mistake, 7 Nov' 75
Sin, 7 Nov 75
Crowd-reflexing, 7 Nov'75
(2)

Self-definition:
See MIT Sequence, (1)

Self-development:
See Man as a Function of Universe, (2)

Self-dichotomizing:
See Star Tetrahedron & VE, 9 Nov*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-discipline:
Q.
"Which of the disciplines do you think are the most
critical for our current problems?"
RBF: "The only important one of all the disciplines is
self-discipline. At the front of one of my books I have
said 'Dare to be naive. That is what we must all dare to
be--to make our own choices from all the shams around us.
"Each of us must dare to go along with the truth as experience
teaches us and as our own intellect realizes its significance
only in relation to the welfare of all humans around their
local Universe functioning as information apprehenders and
articulaters in relation to the integrity of eternal regener-
ation."
Cite R3F to White House Fellow Anspacher; Watergate Hotel,
Wash, DC: 28 Mar 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Discipline:
"Today I see many engaging in yoga. I am sympathetic with
what they're trying to do, but I don't think you have to
be coached by yoga or anything else to learn self-discipline.
You've got to discover yourself. I don't think you can get
it from somebody else. I don't think you can get it by
having somebody else psychoanlayze you. I see many of my
students who go to psychoanalysts getting in more and more
trouble rather than getting out of it. And the ones who
don't go in for being psychoanlayzed I see learning to
understand themselves and consciously disciplining themsleves.
Self-discipline is the key-- and we've all got it if we want
to use it.
At the time I was going through this self-
discipline process I evolved a philosophy which assumed that
most problems of humanity can be solved.
...
-
Cite RBF quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview by Beverly
Russel, p. 199, May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Discipline:
"The fundamental self-discipline conceptioning
the only real educational process."
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 22, 13 Nov 169
is

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Discipline:
"Systematic conceptioning and recollected conceptioning,
both universal and local, which progressively traces,
relates, and compares nonsimultaneously observable
locally functioning entities, is self-disciplined."
-
OWN THIIRECTIONAL HALO Pa
Citation at Conceptioning, 1960

Self-discipline:
See Salvation vs. Self-discipline
(1)

Self-discipline: Self-disciplining:
See Conceptioning, 1960*
General Systems Theory, Jun'66
Periodic Experience, (8)
Plumbing, (1)(2)
Thinking, 1960; (A) (B)
World Game, Jun'66
God, 7 Nov 75
Anger, (1)-(3)
(2)

Self-discovery:
See Tetrahedron Discovers Itself
Universe Considers Itself
(1)

Self-discovery:
See Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality,
28 May172
(2)

Self-divisioning:
See Triacontrahedron, 31 Jul'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-education:
"The highest priority of education should be to accommodate
humanity's innate, chromosomically programmed, intellectual
appetite for comprehending the interrelationships between all
the events of which their senses progressively inform them.
Our schools have failed to adequately satisfy those appetites.
They have failed to inspire because inspiration springs from
realization of the interrelated significances....
"Alternative education provides opportunities for the sponta-
neous learner to apprehend the whole picture and thus to
become a comprehensivist. This is what young people instinct-
ively desire....
"One of the most important events of the education revolution
now under way is the discovery that each of us is born compre-
hensively competent and spontaneously coordinate, quite capable
of treating large quantities of data and families of variables
from the start. A child spontaneously integrates total_infor-
mation. It craves to understand and be understood.... For half
a century I have explored self-educating ways for making the
world work for everyone. It is exciting to witness groups of
dedicated young people... peeling of and investing their time
in alternative routes... which hold high promise for them.
Cite RBF Introduction to Guide to Alternative Colleges, 1974

Self-education:
See Self-teaching
(1)

Self-education:
See Education. 20 Jan 75
Conceptual Mathematics, (2)
Learning, 18 Jul176
(2)

Self-embracement:
See Vectc. Equilibrium, 22 Jun'72

Self-entrapment:
See Word Trends, May' 44

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Evident:
"Self is not a priori evident."
Citation and context at Synergetic Strategy of Commencing
With Totality, 28 May172

Self-evident:
See Axiomatic
Obvious

Self-expansive:
See Randomness, Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-experience:
"So the strategy I was employing, and the tiny little capital
you and I have, which is just our experience. Self-experience.
Beautiful equipment. . And how it can really be
•
turned to the powerful advantage of the many."
"
Citation and context at Individual Economic Initiative, 19 Feb 73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Self-experience:
...Experience is the vital factor... 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 rationalization, 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...."
-
Citation and context at Rationalization Sequence (3), 1938

BBE DEFINITIONS
Self-experience:
See Time Vector, 24 Sep'73

Self-expression:
See Architecture, May'70

Self-halving:
See Triacontrahedron, 31 Jul'77

Self's Honey-seeking Preoccupation:
See Bee, 9 Nov* 72

Self-hurt:
See Self-experience, 1938

FOL
Self-inexplicable:
See Progressions, May'49

Self-inside-outable:
Self-inside-outing:
See Octahedron Model of Doubleness of Unity, (1) (2)
Octave Wave, 5 Mar'73

Self-interdeterioration:
See Tensegrity: Miniature Masta:
Dec 61
Positive & Negative,

Self-interference:
See Non-self-interference
Pattern Integrity: Atomic Knots
Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy
(1)

(2)
6233
Self-interference: Self-interfering:
See Design Covariables: Principle of, 1959
Mass, 1959
Matter va. Radiation, 7 Nov! 73
Ninety-two Elements, 25 Aug 71
Pattern Integrity, 25 Aug'71
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities, 19 Deci73
Tetrahedral Dynamics, (2)
Touch, 29 Dec 58
Unique Frequencies, 9 Jul'62
Structure, 3 Oct 72
Object, 9 Nov 73
Einstein Equation:
E = Mc², 1959

Self-interstabilizing:
See Prime Otherness, 24 Sep'73
Tetrahedron, Aug 72; 24 Sep '73

Self-invertable:
See Octave Wave, 5 Mar*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-ish:
"If one wishes to obtain a definite answer from Nature
one must attack the question from a more general and
less self-ish point of view."
-
Cite RBF holograph, undated, in Max Planck's "Survey
of Physics," London & NY.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Selfishness:
...Vastly wealthy interests... were continuing to do what
money had done in the past: 1.e., to rationalize selfishness.
Assuming the political concept of fundamental inadequacy
of life-support for all the humans around our planet,
selfishness had been able to say, 'I have those for whom I'm
responsible and because there is not enough life-support
for all, I am obliged to do various things that are utterly
and completely selfish,"
1
"
"I felt that the Club of Rome's pronouncement of the 'Limits
to Growth' represented history's last attempt on the part
of organized capitalists' selfishness to justify to the
world public why their wealth should be unable to do anything
about the third world."
Citation & context at Club of Rome: Limits to Growth, (A); (B),
20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Selfishness:
"My greatest discovery-- besides my mathematics-- is in
sociology: the realization that selfishness can no longer
be rationalized. The fears of resource inadequacy are no
longer valid. Probably only several hundred thousand
people know this. Nothing could be more critical than the
fact that the individual is now unbuttoned from his selfish-
ness."
-O
Cite RBF to EJA in Pagano's Rest., Phila. PA., 22 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Selfishness:
"Selfishness is a drive so that we'll be sure to regenerate.
It has nothing to do with morals."
Citation and context at Economics, 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Selfishness:
"Selfishness (self-preoccupation pursued until self loses
its way and self-generates fear and spontaneous random
surging, 1.e., panic, the plural of which is mob outburst
in umpremeditated wave synchronizations of the individually
random components."
Cite NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, "Universal Requirements of
a Dwelling Advantage." p. 49. (Anchor.) 1960

Selfishness:
See Anonymity
Enlightened Selfishness
Idea Stealing
Monofocus Upon Self
Pollution: Infinite Room to Pollute
Unselfishness
Rationalization of Selfishness
(1)

Selfishness:
See Antisynergetic, Jan' 72
Club of Rome: Limits to Growth, (A)(B)*
Economics, 16 Feb 73
Inflation, Sep' 73
Invisible Architecture, (F)
Obvious, Jan* 72
Pirates: Great Pirates, (4)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Selfist:
all the short-sighted, expedient 'things' applauded
by the most powerfully advantaged selfists, so swiftly
consigning man to extinction as 'unfit for survival.
•
Citation and context at Up and Down Sequence (2), 13 Nov'69

Self-knotting:
See Ninety-two Elements, 9 Apr 40
Pattern Integrity, 25 Aug' 71

Self: I Would Like to Be Myself:
See Identity, May 170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self & Nonself:
"Self is metaphysical and
All that self observes is physical
Which is not to say
That the environment
Which is also all the non-self
Is all physical
For all the non-observable experiences
Of abstract cognition,
Which consider and re-consider
The observable experiances, --
Are metaphysical."
Cite RBF Draft, BRAIN & MIND, pencil
1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Now:
*...Genius has the ability to fix events by the convergent
angle of two or more sight lines, not only in time (or space)
past, but also, in time (or space) ahead, from the central
perspective of self-now. Resultantly it becomes possible for
genius first to analyze teleologically such 'fixed' phenomena,
and then to objectify them in a precise time-energy composition.
Genius's dual or multiple personalities may be said to be
representative of a breadth of viewpoint, more-than-average,
highly worldly, and having an exquisite sense of Timeliness."
Citation and context at Genius, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Now:
"Macro-exquisite speed-of-light self-interfering radiation
patterns energetic self-tying into concentric
knots of relative mass in a mathematically
idealised variety of symmetrical-
asymmetrical atomic
assemblages whose
local micro-
orbiting
induces
NOW
which
multilpies by
progressive subdividung into
micracopically ever greater speeds of
transformation through insectine phase magni-
tudes dividing into the micro-organisms phase, and
then dividing progressively into molecular and atomic phases;
then phasing into radiactivity at 586,000 m.p.s, expanding once
more to micro-eternity of no-time.
Cite RBF holograph, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, Mar'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Now:
"The macro-microcosm of minimum frequency of omnidirectional interference
restraint exquisite speed of light 700 million m.p.h. self-interfering
radiation patterns energetic self-tying into concentric knots of
relative mass in a mathematically idealized variety of symmetric-
al-asymmetrical atomic assemblages whose local subvisibly
resolvable micro-orbiting induces the superficially
deceptive motionless thingness of
mini-micro-microcosm
of
NOW
which
progressive experience-won
knowledge multiplies by progressive)
intellectually contrived instrumentally implemented
exploratory subdividing into microscopically ever greater
speeds of transformation through insectine phase magnitudes
dividing into the micro-organisms phase, and then dividing pro-
gressively into molecular and atomic phases; then passing into
radioactivity at 700 million m.p.h. expanding once more into macro's
700 million at least macroceom
-
Cite RBF Holograph, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, Mar'72
50

Self-Now:
See Now Hourglass:
Cross Section of Teleological Bow Tie

Self-organizing Principle:
See Conceptuality, 19 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self & Otherness:
"Awareness the otherness saying 'See Me' to the observer.
Awareness the observer saying to self, 'I see the otherness.
Otherness induces awareness of self. Awareness is always
otherness inductive. The total complex of otherness is the
environment.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.011; 28 Apr 77

501
RBF DEFINITIONS
Self & Otherness:
"Experience is inherently omnidirectional; ergo there are
always a minimum of twelve 'others' in respect to the nuclear
observing self."
Citation & context at Experience, 19 Nov 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self and Otherness:
"Only through relationships with otherness can self learn of
principles; only by discovery of the relationships existing
between self and othernesses does inspiration to employ
principles objectively occur. There is nothing in self per se,
or in otherness per se, that predicts the interrelatedness
Only
behaviors and their successively unique characteristics.
from realization of the significance of otherness can it be
learned further that only by earnest commitment of self to
otherness does self become inadvertently advantaged to effect
even greater commitment to others, while on the other hand all
self-seeking induces only ever greater self-loss."
behaviorally
Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. 411.12,
2 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self & Otherness:
Four Minimal Aspects:
You have
"If you use the 'area' of Euler it doesn't work.
to convert the area to nothingness to arrive at the four
minimum aspects of self and otherness."
Cite RBF to EJA, Pagano Restaurant, U. Penn, 22 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects:
SEC. 505.71
"Life, minimally described is 'awareness, which is inherently
plural for at minimum it consists of the individual system
which becomes aware and the first minimum 'otherness' of which
it is aware, the otherness being integrally or separately
✓internal or external to the observing system's 14 integral
topologically componented subsystem: 4V + 4A + 6L.
SEC. 505.74
"Together the observer and the observed constitute two points
differentiated against an area of nothingness with an inherent
line of 'awareness'-interrelationship running between these
two points. Euler's generalized formula, which he named topo-
logy, says that the number of points plus the number of areas
will always equal the number of lines plus the number two,
which, Goldy finds to be at minimum 2P + 1A = 1L + 2, which
minmum set of awareness aspects of life adds to four:i.e.,
(a) the observer; (b) the observed; (c) the line of interrela-
tionship; and (d) the nothingness area against which the
isomethingness is observed.
SEC 505.63
"There are no experimentally demonstrable absolute maximum
limits. Only the minimum limit is demonstrably absolute. The
minimum, limit experienceable is always a system-- even when it
looks like a point."
Cite GOLDYLOCKS Ms. p.A3, 9 Jun 75

Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects:
See Minimum Awareness Model
Minimum Four Awareness Aspects of Life
Tetrahedron as Primitively Central to Life

RBP DEFINITIONS
Self-and-otherness Interbehaving:
"The octet truss is the evolutionary patterning... of the
ever-recurrent 12 alternative options of action, all 12 of
which are equally the most economical ways of self-and-otherness
interbehaving-- all of which interbehavings we speak of as
Universe.
Citation and context at Octet Truss, 24 Sep'74

Self & Otherness:
See Communication to Self & Others
Observer & Observed
Otherness: At Least One Other
Otherness: At Least Twelve Others
Minimum Awareness
Awareness
Tetrahedron Discovers Itself
Integral Otherness
Tetrasystem
Individual & Group Principle
(1)

Self & Otherness:
See Experience, 1971; 19 Nov*74*
Sdeme of Reference, 24 Sep'73
Initial Frequency, 6 Nov 72
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (1)
Love, 3 Apr 75
Background Nothingness, 2 Jun 175
Me, 26 Jan 72
Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System, (B)
Timeless, Dec171
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec 73
Awareness, 28 Apr 77
Freedom, Jan' 77
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (3)
(2)

Self-packability:
See Self-congruence Packing
Clear Space Polyhedra

Self-perpetuating:
See Inside, 26 Jan '73

Self-polarization: Self-polarizing:
See Three-way Great-circling: Three-way Grid, 15 Feb'66

Self-positionability:
See Star Tetra & VE, 9 Nov$73

Self purging:
See Hunger: Stones Do Not Have Hunger, 20 May 175

Self-querying: Self-questioning:
See Questions: Answering Questions
Question Asking
(1)

Self-querying: Self-questioning:
See Synergetics, 1959
Universe, 1959
(2)

Self-realizing: Self-realization:
See Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality,
28 May 72
Bridge, 13 Nov'69

Self-reassociation:
See Carbon, Jun'72

Self-rebuilding Telephones:
You & I as Pattern Integrities, 22 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Regenerative:
"The significance of Einstein's radiational top speed
is that there is a point of complete regeneration
by which our Universe is the only and minimum perpetually
self-regenerative system. It is a self-regenerative
Universe of fantastic complexities and sign of great
integrity in which the sum total of running through the
total film takes hundreds of billions of years before
it accomplishes its remotest re-wow.
18
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver, p. 13. 2 Jun'71

KBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Regenerative:
"Our universe is the only, and the minimum, perpetual
motion machine. It is self-regenerative."
-Cite RBF address Am. Assn of Museums, Denver, 2 June 1971.

Self Regeneration: Self-regenerative:
See Closed System
Ninety-two Elements
Perpetual Motion Machine
(1)

Self-regeneration: Self-regenerative:
See Irreversibility, Feb 71
Ruddering Sequence, (3)
Success, 1972
Omnitriangulation, 3 Oct172
Nuclear Domain & Elementality, (1)

Self-scavenging:
See Hunger: Stones Do Not Have Hunger, 20 May 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-seeking:
"Self-seeking brings a potential loss which engenders first
caution, then fear: fear of change, change being inexorable.
Fear increases and freezes. Self-seeking always eventuates in
self-destruction through inability to adapt."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 7 Nov 72; incorporated in
SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 411.24. Rewrite as of 8 Nov'72
411.23

RBF DEFINITIONS
Self-Seeking:
"Self-seeking brings a potential loss which engenders
first caution, then fear: fear of change, change being
inexorable. Self-seeking always eventuates in self-
destruction through inability to adapt."
Cita RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 7 Nov '72 incorporated at SYNERGETICS
draft at Sac.
411.2, 8 Nov'72
23

Self-seeking:
See Loss: Discovery Through Loss

Self-stabilisation:
See Inter-self-stabilising
Self-interstabilising
Structural Self-stabilisation
(1)

Self-stabilisation:
(2)
See Structure, 21 Dec 71; Nov 71; 8 Feb 71; 13 Nov'69; Mar' 71
Nacklace, (A)-(C)
Triangle, y Nov' 73
Stable & Unstable Structures, 7 Jun' 72
Omnitriangulation, 3 Oct'72

Self Starter:
See Main Engines of Universe
Group Starters
(1)

Self Starter:
See Biosphere, (3)
Brain's TV Studio, 1960
Energy Capital, (2)
Intellect: Equation Of, Dec'48
Social-industrial Relay, 1 Apr'49
Nonstate, 11 Sep175
(2)
123

Self-structuring:
See Icosahedron as Electron Model, 7 Mar 73
Universal Integrity: Ve & Icosa, (1)
Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (1)(2)

Self System:
See Extraorganic Travel, 26 May '72
Probability, 20 Feb 72

Self-teaching:
See Self-education
(1)

Self-teaching:
See Learning, (1) (2)
Dymaxion Artifacts, (1) (2)
(2)
123

Self-tightening:
See Knot, 7 Nov 73

Self-triangulating:
See Inter-self-triangulating
(1)

Self-triangulating: Self-triangulation:
(2)
See Probability, (1) (2)

Self:
See Bumblebee
Comprehensive:
De-selfed
Dualism of Self
Ego
Feedback:
I
Self-debiasing
Self-accelerating Feedback
History's Human Self-education
Identity
Individual
Loss:
Discovery Through Loss
Most Economical Way of Behaving Relative to Unity and
Self
Ninety-two Tendencies of Self-impoundment of Energy
Nonself
Matrix of You & I
Me, the Observer
Me
Other
Outsideness of Self
(1A)

Self:
See Personality
Synchro-resonance
Returning Upon Self
Starting with Self
Unselfishness
Monofocus Upon Self
Reciprocal Self-precessors
Unity & Self
Universe Considers Itself
World Looks at Itself
(1B)

Self:
See Annihilation, 22 Jun' 75
Apprehension Lags, 11 Sep'75
Communication, 13 May 73
Environment, 15 Mart 71*
Kissing, 1 May 77
Octet Truss, 24 Sep'73
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality,
28 May' 72*
Thinking, 1938
Whole System, 28 May' 72
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (3)
(2)

Self:
See Self Annihilation
Self Awarenesa
Self-bounding System
Self-communicate
Self-congruence Packing
Self Consciousness
Self-consdierate Society
Self Condideration
Self Debiasing
Self Deception
Self Definition
Self Development
Self-dichotomizing
Self Discipline
Self-discovery Process
Self Embracement
Self-evident
Self-expansive
Self Experience
Self-balancing
(3A)

Self:
See Self Expression
Self's Honey-seeking Preoccupation
Self Hurt
Self-inside-outable
Self-interdeterioration
Self Interference
Self-interstabilizing
Self-invertable
Self-ish
Selfishness
Selfist
Self-knotting
Self: I Would Like to be Myself
Self & Nonself
Self-Now
Self-organizing Principle
Self & Otherness
Self-perpetuating
Self-polarizing
(3B)

Self:
See Self-positionability
Self Precessors
Self Querying
Self Realization
Self-realizing Planet
Self Reassociation
Self-regenerative
Self Seeking
Self Stabilization
Self Starter
Self Structuring
Self Ssytem
Self Teaching
Self-triangulating
Self-education
Self is not A Priori
Self-chilling
Self-divisioning
Self-halving
(30)

Selling: Selling Anything:
See Obsolescence, Apr172
Mobile Rentabilyt vs. Immobile Purchasing, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Semantica:
That
"If you get too semantically incisive the reader loses
all connections with anything he has ever read before.
might not be a great loss. But I like to assume that the
reader can cope with his reflexes and make connections
between the old words and the new and better words..."
Citation and context at Sphere, 20 Feb'73

Semantics:
Sea Communication
Definitions
Koryzbski
Meaning
Verbs
World-around Language
(1)

Semantics:
See Babbling, 18 Mar 72
Realization, Kay'49
Sphere, 20 Feb 73*
Me, 26 Jan 72; 28 Oct 73
(2)

Semiautonomous Dwelling Facilities:
See House, 1971
Inventability Sequence, (1)

TEXT CITATIONS
Semihelix:
Synergetics text at Sec. 623.11

Seminataphorical:
See Verity, 29 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Semisymmetry:
"Semisymmetry means that out of the six edges of a
tetrahedron there are two pairs of symmetries.
"An isosceles is semisymmetric."
"Symmetry
Semisymmetric
Asymmetric
-
-
equiangle
isosceles
scalene
"People want to be either symmetric or asymmetric. They love
bias, but the don't like isosceles, the fence-straddler.
Real love is isosceles: inclusive but not exlusive. What
people seem to mean by love is they want the other to join
them: scalene. The real love includes the other; it is
omni-inclusive, semisymmetric, isosceles."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 15 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Senses:
"The range of the first three senses are so close together,
and sight is so different, that we may best rank them as
#1, touch, being a primary set; with both #2, olfactoral
coupled with #3, aural, as a secondary set; and #4 sight, as
a tertiary set: wherefore in effect, touch is the yesterday
set; while the olfactoral and aural (what you are smelling,
eating, saying, and hearing) are the now set; while sight
(what only may be next) is the future set. (We can seem to
see,
but we have not yet come to it.) Whereas reality is
eternally now, human apprehending demonstrates a large
assortment of lags in rates of cognitions whose myriadly
multivaried frequences of myriadly multivaried, positive-
negative, omnidirectional aberrations, in multivaried
degrees, produce such elusively off-center effects as
possibly to result in an illusionary awareness of an approx-
imately unlimited number of individually different awareness
patterns, all of whose relative imperfections induce the
illusion of a reality in which 'life' is terminal, because
physically imperfect; as contrasted to mind's discovery of
an omni-interaccommodative complex of a variety of different
a priori, cosmic, and eternal principles, which can only be"
-
Cite RBF addition to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 801.12,
22 Nov 73
[13]
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Senses:
"intellectually discovered, have no weight, and apparently
manifest a perfect, abstract, eternal design, the metaphysical
utterly transcendent of the physical."
-
Cite RBF addition to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 801.R,
22 Nov*73
[13]
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Senses:
"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."
Cite BRAIN & MIND draft, p.13, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Senses:
"The senses have to do with the brain. The senses, per se,
are nothing. Just the brain. And it's what began the
real metaphysical you-and-I, feel about what the brain is
saying. . . You take the senses away, then there is no
Consciousness comes from experience."
consciousness.
- Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 14, 19 Oct 170

RBFDEFINITIONS
Senses:
•
Fractional information is furnished only
by those wave frequencies which are directly apprehendable
exclusively within man's very limited
sensorial spectrum frequency bands--
tactile, olfactoral, aural and optical--
and these sensorial frequencies in turn occur
only as minuscule trace zones
and only at the middle ranges
of the now partially explored, obviously vast
and inferentially extensible
eloctromagnetic frequency spectrum"
-
Cite NO MORE SECOND HAND GOD, pp 86,87
9 Apr'40

Sense Disconnection:
See Dollar Bills: $200 Billion One-dollar Bills
Circling Around Earth, (2)

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

Sensibility:
See Naivete, 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensings & Eventings:
"The child's awareness of otherness phenomena can be apprehend-
ed only through its nerve-circuited sense systems and through
instrumentally-augmented, macro-micro, sense-system extensions--
such as eyeglasses. Sight requires light, however, and light
derives only from radiation of celestial entropy, where
Sunlight is starlight and fossil fuels and fire-producing
wood logs are celestial radiation accumulators, ergo all the
sensings are imposed by cosmic environment eventings."
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.014; 28 Apr'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensing, Storing & Intuiting Device:
"The metaphysical mind employs these organically regenerative,
subjectively interacting, sensing, storing, and intuitive
devices, as well as all the organism's unique, objectively
articulate faculties to harvest critically relevant information."
Citation & context at Life, 9 Jun 75

Sensing, Storing & Intuiting Devices:
See Humans as Machines

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensitivity of the Artist-scientista:
Education
"Scientists and artists haven't too many valves closed.
They are children with a great deal of experience.
can ruin real sensitivity to the Universe."
"
Cite RBF quoted by Noel FRackman in his review of the
Tetrascroll shows ARTS Magazine, Apr'77

Sensitivity of Childhood:
See Doing What Needs to Be Done, 17 Dec 74
Child as Laboratory, (1)

Sensitive: Sensitivity:
See Artist:
Histrionica
Intuition & Aesthetics
Intuition: Second Intuition
Valve of Sensitivity
(1)

Sensitive: Sensitivity:
See Artist: Histrionics (1)
Average Man (1) (2)
Intuition Sequence (6); 15 Jun174
Reflexes, 2 Jun171
Earning a Living, 2 Jun'71
Thinking, 10 Sep 75
Psychiatry, (2)(5)
Anger, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensorial Identification of Reality:
(1)
"From physics we learn that every fundamental behavior of Universe
Always and only coexists with a nonmirror-imaged complementary.
The nonsimultaneity and dissimilarity
Of the complementary interpatterning pulsations
Integrate to produce
The complex of events
We sensorially identify as reality.
Without the pulsative asymmetries and asynchronous lags
The complementations would cancel out one another
And centralize equilibriously,
And there would be no sensoriality,
Erago, no self-awareness, no life;
For we have also learned from physics
That all the positive and negative weights
Of the fundamental components of matter
Balance out exactly as zero.
Life may well be a dream,
A comedy and tragedy
Of errors of conceptioning
Inherent in the dualistic
Imaginary assumption
Of a self differentiated
From all the complex otherness
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, pp.96-97 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensorial Identification of Reality:
"Of reasonably conceivable Universe
For it must be remembered
That no human has ever seen directly
Outside himself.
What we call seeing
Is the interpretive imagining in the brain
of the significance and meaning
Of the nervous system reports
Of an assumed outsideness of self,
All of which organic design conception
May be that of a great intellect
Which is inventing Universe progressively
Evolving mathematically elegant
Integral equations
For each conceivable challenge
Including the invention
You and me.
But you and I cannot escape
And are given extraordinary faculties
Which we are supposed to use.
So here we go again
From right where we are Now."
diat
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.97 May 172
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensoriality:
"The omni-interactions impinge on your nervous system
in all mannner of frequencies-- some so high as to
appear solid' things, some so slow as seeming to be
'absolute voids.'"
-
Gite GYN
BBP marginal
DRAFT
April 1971
Citation at Halo Concept, 25 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensoriality:
"Sensoriality is a corporeally external phenomena --
reportingly relayed inwardly to the brain and therein
imaginatively scanned by the mind which conceptualized
independently in generalized formulations such as the
conception of a nuclear grouping around a nucleus, quite
independently of size."
Citation & context at Brain & Mind, 13 Nov 69
-Cite NEHRU SPMECH, p. 12. 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensoriality:
"Size and intensity are sensorial comparing functions of
the special case experiences by brain and not by mind.
Mind is concerned only with principles that hold true
independently of size yet govern the relative size
relationships."
-
Site MHRD SPI
-
Citation at Brain and Mind, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sendoriality:
"The word 'form' implies direct sensoriality.
The
word 'conformity' likewise implies direct sensoriality--
it means dealing only with forms."
Citation at Form, 10 Oct'63

500
RBP DEFINITIONS
Sensorial Model:
"Experience is always sensorial and so I can always get a
sensorial base or model."
Citation & context at Experience, 28 Apr174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensorial Reflex:
"Humanity's intellect and sensorial reflexes are completely
uncoordinated. We see clouds floating by, birds flying and
people moving, but we can't see plants or humans growing.
We can't see the economic charts realistically: Humanity gets
out of the way only when it sees the motion..."
"
"Like parrots, we learn to recite numbers without any sensorial
appreciation of their significance. We have yielded so
completely to specialization that we disregard the comprehen-
sive significance of information."
Citation and context at
Invisible Motion, 13 Mar' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sensorial Spectrum:
"Apprehension means information furnished by those wave
frequencies tune-in-able within man's limited sensorial
spectrum."
-
Citation at Apprehension, 1971

Sensorial-frequency-spectrum Inventory:
See Individual Universes, 28 Oct 73

Sensorial Spectrum:
See Invisible Reality, May 72
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom: General
Systems, (11) (III)

Sensorial & Nonsensorial:
See Inside-outing, 13 Nov'69

Sense: Sensoriality:
See Architectural Aesthetics: Six S'a
Abstract vs. Sensorial
Angular Sense
Aural
Common Sense
Common Sense:
Perceptual Peephole
Directional Sense
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Extrasensoriality
Human Sense Ranging & Information Gathering
Local Information-sensing Devices
Olfactoral Sense
Optical Tuning & Scanning
Hearing
Pattern Sense
Sensorial & Nonsensorial
Smellable
Spherical Sensation
Seeing: Seeabaility
Satellite: World Satellite Sensing
(1A)

Sense: Sensoriality:
See Sweepout
Sight: No Man has ever Seen Outside of Himself
Inventory of Sensations
Tunability
Form Sensoriality
Taste
Integral Functions of Man
Non-sensoriality: Infra & Supra
Tactile
Visual
(1B)

Sense: Sensoriality:
See Apprehension, 1971*
Brain & Mind, 13 Nov 169*
Disconnect, 13 Nov 69
Form, 10 Oct '63*
Halo Concept, 25 Apr 71*
Invisible Motion, 13 Mar'73*
Experience, 28 Apr*74*
Communications Hierarchy, (4)
Dynamic vs. Static, 12 Nov'75
(2)

Sense: Sensoriality:
See Sense Dosconnection
Sensibility
Sensitive:
Sensitivity
Sensorial Identification of Reality
Sensorial Model
Sensorial Reflex
Sensorial Spectrum
Sensorial & Nonsensorial
Sensing, Storing & Intuiting Device
Sensings & Eventings
(3)

SENSE PHRASES
See Attraction Link-up
Angularly Hinged Convergence
(A)

Sense Phrases:
See Bounce-impel
(B)

Sense Phrases:
See Cleave-roll
Coalescing Adherence
Corkscrew Spiral Traceries
Contact Coincidence
Critical Convergence & Flying Huddle
Critical Proximity Co-orbiting
Corner-converge
(c)

Sense Phrases:
See Democratically Coagulating
Distortion Massaged to the Center
(D)

Sense Phrases:
See Fibrous Crystalline Units
Fit: Pressured or Tensed Fit
Force-fluids
(F)

Sense Phrases:
See Girth-tensed Bonds
Glimpse-discover
Gear locked
(G)

Sense Phrases:
See Holding Patterns of Energy
(H)

Sense Phrases:
See Impact Extrusion
Invisible Trampoline
Instrumental Hook-up
Interface Couplings
Indrinking
Internestability
Intergeared Mobility Freedoms
(I)

Sense Phrases:
See Jet Stilts: Jet-stilting
(J)

Sense Phrases:
See Kiss: Locked Kiss
(K)

Sense Phrases:
See Omni embracing Squeeze
Ovational Gearing
Off-molded Offspring
Omnitriangularly Oriented Evolution
(0)

Sense Phrases:
See Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities
Precessional Peel-off
Pumping Fraction Factors
Push-pull Members
Perimeter Tangent
(P)

Sense Phrases:
See Reach-miles
(R)

Sense Phrases:
See Scratch-chorded
Severance-tracing
Shuttle-woven
Smell-discover
Spin-halving
Stretch-press
Swivel-moored
Self-scavenging
ST
(S)

Sense Phrases:
See Tastebuds of Sound
Tangential Avoidance
Thrust-throw
Touch-feel
Tepee: Half-spin Tepee Twist
Twist-sprung
Twist-pass
Torque Momentum
Tendril Curve
(T)

Sense Phrases:
See Unpeel the Gravitationals
Umrap the Orbitals
Unbandage the Sphere
(U)

Sense Phrases:
See Vacuum-fulcrumed Oars
Vectorial Near-mis8
Vertex-vortex Rotations
Variable Strands Braiding
Visual Symphony
3
(V)

Sense Phrases:
See Wedge-spread (Sec. 981.07)
Wrapability
(W)

Separating Out:
Separate:
See Ego: Separating Ego out of Omniscience
Time: Separating Time out of the System
Liquid vs. Solid
Differentiation: Differentiable
Dome House:
Separation of Mechanical Service
Core & Structural Shell
Membranes
(1)

Separate: Separating Out:
See Halfway-round-the-Worlding (1)
Plus One, 9 Jul 62
Stability, 18 Mar'69
Polyhedron, 1 Jan'75
Life, 16 Aug 50
Plumbing (1)
Boeing 747 Sequence, 22 Jun 75
Synergy, Nov. 71
Human beings & Complex Universe, (12)
(2)

SEQUENCES: METAPHORS
(A)
See Animate & Inanimate Sequence
Agricultural Accounting System
Air is Socialized
Airocean World Map
Airplanes: Far Apart in the Sky
Airplanes: Four Airplanes in the Sky
Airplanes Stacked Up For Landing
Airplane Flight As Lift
Airplane Stalled Airplane
Action-reaction-resultant
Aesthetics of Uniformity
Atomic Computer Complex
Autonomous Living Technology Packet
Average Human Being
Acres Per Individual Human Being
Advantage: Enjoyment of All Earth Without One
Individual Being Advantaged at Expense of Another
Atoms: All the Experiences with All the Atoms
Adoption of the New Only as Last Resort

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Berry Picking
Bird's Nest as a Tool
Brain's TV Studio
Boats at Anchor Retard the River's Flow
Blind Man's Buff
Boltzmann Sequence
Brouwer's Theorem
Brownian Movement
Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship Sequence
Brain's Alarm Clocks
Bullet: Synchronization of Bullets through
Airplane Propeller Blades
Building Blocks
Buddha: Christ:
Mohamed
Bottom: Pulling the Bottom Up
Brain as Library
Boeing 747 Sequence
Buggy Industry Could Never Invent Automobile
(B)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Child As Laboratory
Child: A Little Child Shall Lead Them
(C)
Child Pushes Spoon Off Edge of Table
Children's Pictures of the Sun and the Moon
Chain Stronger than its Weakest Link
Chaos: Myth That Scientists Wrest Order From Chaos
Collision: Ships Colliding on the Globe
Cul de Sac: Inuitively Inadvertent
Child Sequence
Coincidental Articulation Sequence
Closest Packing of Spheres Sequence
Cosmic Fish Sequence
Conversation Sequence
Cosmic Accounting Sequence
Charts: We Need Only Rotate Our Charts 90 Degrees
Computer Asks an Original Question
Continuous Man
Copper Sequence
Critical Convergence & Flying Huddle
Children as Only Pure Scientists

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Crossbreeding World Man
Custom: Lest One Good Custom Corrupt the World
Coin Toss in the Air
Common Sense: Perceptual Peephole
Communications Revolution
Communication to Self and Others
Comet: Around Comes the Comet Again
Chick Breaking Out of the Egg
City Management Concept of World Government
Community as Unit Mechanical Organism
(C)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence
Diesel Ship at Sea
Dollar Bills: $200 Billion One-dollar Bills
Circling Around Earth
Death: Weighing of People as they Die
Dog Pulling on a Belt
Darwin: Evolution May Be Going the Other Way
Dead Center of Universe
Death: Slow Death by Slums
Death: Weighing People as they Die
Decreasing Confusion:
Deficit Accounting
Law Of
Deliberately Nonstraight Line
Departments: Nature Has No Separate Departments
Design Science Revolution
Diminishing Chaos: Law Of
Dismissal of Irrelevancies
Dominoes: Tumbling a Set of Dominoes
Dwelling Service Industry
Dymaxion Airocean World Map
(D) 1

FILE INDICIATORS
Sequences:
Metaphors:
See Desovereignization Sequence
Doing Right Things for Wrong Reasons
Deceptiveness of Topology
Doorknobs as Disease Carriers
(D2)

FILE INDICATORS:
Sequences: Metaphora:
See Economic Accounting System
Energy Slave
Education Revolution
Earning A Living Sequence
Energy Income Sequence
Ecology Sequence
Eternal Designing Capability Sequence
Eternal Slowdown
Eternal Wellspring
Energy Capital Sequence
Earth: Let's Get Down to Earth
East-1s-East Theme
East-to-west Trend
Eddington's Proof of Irreversibility
Education: Knowing where the Bridges Are
Electric Lights in Battleship
Energy Has Shape
Environment: Altering the Environment
Environmental Events Hierarchy
Epigenetic Landscape
(E)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphora:
See Epistemological Stepping Stones
Eternal Designing Capability
Expense: Without Any Individual Profiting at the
Expense of Another
Eye-beamed Thoughts
Education Automation
Eggs: You Just Lay Eggs
Earth Model as Bundle of Nutcrackers
Electronic Referendum: Electronic Voting
Earth: Let's Get Downto Earth
Everybody's Business
Energy Involvement of 92 Chemical Elements
Enough to Go Around
Emergence by Emergency
Electromagnetic Transmission of Human Organisms
Energy-harvesting Dwelling-machine Devices
Exempt: We Are Not Exempt from Universe
Everyone in on the Information
(E)'

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
(F)
See Fisherman Theme
Fossil Fuel Sequence
False Property Illusion
File Cards With Triangular Array of Holes
Fountain Pattern
Form Cannot Follow Function
Fail-safe Advantage
Failure as Norm of Yesteryears
Fault: Society is Living in a Sort of Earth Fault
Feedback by Eye
Fellowships: Life Fellowships in Research &
Development
File: RBF Research File Colors
Finger:
Cut Your Finger
Finite Furniture
Fire in a Theater
Fish: Playing the Fish on a Reel
Flight: Fixed Formation Flight
Floating City

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Fluid Geography
Flying Huddle
Foldability of Great Circles
Force Lines:
Omnidirectional Lines of Force
Force: Don't Oppose Forces; Use Them
Football Player Metaphors
Frontier: Living on the Frontier
Form Cannot Follow Function
(F),

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Geosocial Revolution
Gross World Product Sequence
Generalizations: Mathematical vs. Literary
Generalization Sequence: Degrees Of
Good: If All the Good People were Clever
Game of Life
Game of Universe
Generators: Tumbling a Set of Dominoes to the
Generating Station
Geophysical Year: IGY
Ghostly Greek Geometry
Grass: Putting Aside the Grasses
Group Womb
Guinea Pig
Genius: Children Are Born Geniuses
(G)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Hierarchies
How Little I Know
Heartbeats & Illions Sequence
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
Halo Concept
Hammer Thrower
House as Terminal of Community Mechanism
Human beings at the Center
Humanity's Final Cosmic Exam
(H)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Individual Economic Initiative
Inventability Sequence
Invention Sequence
Immunology Series
Intuition of the Child
Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens
In & Out: Go In to Go Out
Individual Economic Initiative
Individual Life as One Way Universe Could Have
Turned Out
Individual Universes
Industrial Lag
Industrial Man
Industrial Revolution:
Industrialization:
Profile Of
Successive Halving Time of
National Industrialization
Infinity: Letting Infinity into the System
Instant Universe
Intellect: Equation of
Intellectual Kleptomaniac
Intellect: Speed Of
(I)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences:
Metaphors:
(I)'
See Interference as a Social Model
Interference: Two Lines Cannot Go Through the Same
Point at the Same Time
Intuition: Hot Line Of Intuition
Intuition: Second Intuition
Inventability Sequence
Inventories
Invisible Aesthetics
Invisible Architecture
Invisibility: Trends To
Irrelevancies: Dismissal of
Irreversibility: Principle Of
Isotropic Vector Matrix
Industrial Accounting vs. Agricultural
Internal Control of Distortion
Improve: You Can't Improve on the Middle

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Jitterbug
Jump in the River
Jump: Man Jumping From a Boat
(J)

FILE INDICATORS:
Sequences: Metaphora:
See Knight's Move in Chess
Key Keyhole Sequence
Kindergarten Level of Comprehension
Knot Sequence
Kepler Alone with the Stars
Kleptomaniac:
Know-how
Intellectual Kleptomaniac
Knowing More and More about Less and Less
(K)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences:
Metaphors:
(L1)
See Leaders: Take Away the Leaders
Lever Sequence
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever
Lag Rates
Land Technology
Law: Crisscross, Right-angle Grid in Civil &
Agrarian Law
Life is not Physical
Lifetime: Person Lifetime Experience for
Elective Investment
Life's Temporary Vehicles
Light Side vs. Serious Side
Local Holding Patterns
Locked Kiss
Longing: Fear & Longing
Loss:
Discovery Through Loss
Legs: Kan Born with Legs Not Roots
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes
Live Show Reaching Us Took Place Billions of
Years Ago

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Light on Scratched Metal
Learning: You Can't Learn Less
(12)

PILE INDICATORS
Sequences:
Metaphors:
See Madonna Theme
Might Makes Right
Man as a Function of Universe
MIT Sequence
Meek Have Inherited the Earth
Macro Micro: Synergetic Advantage
Magic Numbers:
Isotopal Magic Numbers
Main Engines of Universe
baking the World Work
Mammalian-vegetation Interchange of Cases
Man as a Function of Universe
Man: Automated Metabolism of Man
Man as Halfway in Range of Size of All Creatures
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man
Man as an Invention
Man as Local Problem Solver
Man as Local Universe Technology
Man: Relative Abundance of Chemical Elements in
Man and Universe
Man as One Way Universe Might Have Come Out
Manifest: One through Eight
(M)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
(M)
See Mara: No Country Doctor on Mars
Mast in the Earth
Matchstick Thickness at which Objects go into Orbit
Matter Over Mindist
Meaning: Decease of Meaning
Mechanical Extensions of Man
Mental Moutfuls
Metabolic Flow
Metals: Recirculation of Metals
Metaphysical Disconnect
Mind-over-Mattering
Mind Over Muscle
Mines Above the Earth
Miniature Earth
Minimum Knot
Mini Earth
Mole: Industrial Man as Universal Mole
Money Metaphors
More With Less
Morley Christopher: The Greatest Poem Ever Known

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Motion Freedom from Rest of Universe
Muchness of the Unfamiliar
Multiplication Only by Division
Myself: I Would Like to be Myself
Musical Chairs
Mark Your Paper: Nobody to Mark Your Paper
Mutual Survival Principles
Motion Economics
Marine Life Analogy of Humans
Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing
Mite as Model for Quark
Money: Making Sense vs. Making Money
Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas
(M)**

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
(N) 1
See Nature Has No Separate Departments
Naga Theme
Narcotics as a Political Strategy
Nature Always Comes Back on Itself
Nature Has So Many Options
Nature: What Nature Needs to be Done
Navigational Ability to go to Farway Strange Places
And Bring Back Strange Miracle Objects
Navigators: Early Navigatora
Necklace
New Life
Newton's Cosmic Norm of "At Rest"
Nine Chains to the Moon
Nucleus = Nine = Nothing
Ninety-two Elements: Chart of Hate of Acquisition
Norm of Einstein as Absolute Speed
Now Hourglass:
Bow Tie
Cross Section of Teleological
Nuclear Computer Design
Number: Tetrahedral Number

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Nature Trying To Make Man a Success
Nature Permits it Sequence
Nature's Subvisible Order
Navy Sequence
Nozzle: Harvesting Pollution at the Nossle
Nature is Neither Good nor Bad
North-south Mobility of World Man
Nature in a Corner
Nature's Technology vs. Humans' Technology
(N2)
210

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphora:
(0)
See Objective Design
Obnoxico
Obsolete: Inventory of Obsolete Concepts
Octave Limits of Variation
Odd Ball
Official Reality
Official War
Old Life Informing the New
Old Man's River's Project
Old Words
Omnidirectional Closest Packing of Spheres
Omnidirectional Halo
Omniscience Transcendent of Omnipotence
One-Town World
Onerousness of Ownership
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Optimism: I Am Not an Optimist
Options: Discovering What the Options Are
Orderliness Operative in Nature
Organic Model:
Outlaw Area
Biological World as Model for Society

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
(0)'
See Overspecialization of Biological Species & Nations
Outside: What's Outside Outside?
Outbound Packaging of Human Food Waste
Office Buildings: Conversion to Apartments
Only the Whole Big System Works

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Piano Top
Population Sequence
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway
Prestressed Concrete Sequence
Packaged Concept
Pass: And It Came to Pass
Panic: Official Panic
Parallelogram of Forces
Partially Overlapping
Parting the Strands
Parts: Fallacy of 'Basic Building Parts'
Pattern Conservation
Pattern Integrity:
Equation Of
Pattern Processing Machines
Peashooter
Pendulum Model vs. Scenario Model
Perceptual Peephole as Fraction of Reality
Performance Per Pound
Permanent Symbolic Communication Devices
(P)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Permeative Topology
Permitted Ignorance
Perpetual Motion Machine
Petal: Tetrahedron as Three-petaled Flower Bud
Petroleum: It Costs a Billion Dollars to Make
A Gallon
Phantom Captain
Pharaoh: Only the Pharaoh Was Informed
Phobia of Imprisonment
Physical Is Always the Imperfect
Physical Ingedient Recalls
Physics: Difference Between Physics & Chemistry
Physics as Internal Affairs of the Atom
Piaget: Child's Spontaneous Geometry
Picasso Duo-face Painting
Pine-tree and Palm-tree Belts
Pirates: Great Pirates
Planarity of Civil & Agrarian Law
Plastic Call-girl Angels
Plastic Flowers
(P)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
(P)
See Plural Unity
Pneumatic Structures
Poets Anticipate Science
Point: Inbound & Outbound Point
Pole Vaulter
Pollen-delivering Inadvertencies
Pollution: Infinite Room to Pollute
Pollution: News as Most Polluted Resource
Polyhedral Understanding
Population Density:
Population Sequence
Manhattan Cocktail Party
Poverty: Slow Slum Death
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior
Problem: Statement of the Problem
Process vs. Thing
Proclivities: Inventory Of
Profile: There Is No Half-profile
Profile of the Industrial Revolution
Profit: Annual Profit and Failure System
Profit: "We Stars Have Got to Make a Profit!"
Prognostications About Future of Man

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Projective Transformation
Prospect for Humanity
Prototype Sequence
Pulse Pattern
Punched Cards
Push Button & Dial Systems
Push-pull Members
Puzzle of Washington Crossing the Delaware
Pyramid Technology
Politics: Accessory After the Fact
Promote: I Don't Promote
Planetary Democracy
Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative
Property: You Can't Take it with You
(P)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Quantam Wave Phenomena Sequence
Quantum Mechanics: Grand Strategy
Quarrying
Quest asking Possibility
Question: Original Question
Quick Death
Quanta Loss by Congruence
Quantum Mechanics:
Fourness
Minimum Geometrical
(Q)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Radome Sequence
Ruddering Sequence
Railroad Tracks: Great-circle Energy Tracks on
the Surface of a Sphere
Rearrange the Scenery
Radiation-Gravitation Sequence
Rationalization Sequence
Reflection Sequence:
Apple
Rich Man Drowning in Shipwreck
Rest of the Universe
Relative Asymmetry Sequence
Radiation Sequence
Rubber Glove Sequence
Radio Programs:
Invisible Operation of Thousands
Of Radio Programs
Rafts: Early World Drifting on Rafts
Railway Trains: Loosely Coupled
Rainbow: Optical Rainbow Range
HI
(R)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences:
Metaphors:
See Raison d'Etre of Boast & Fear
Ramify the Idealistic
Reachability Range
Reader Can Cope with his Reflexes
Real Estate Development
Realm: Real: Royal
Rectilinear Grid Systems
Reductio ad Absurdum
Reduction by Bits
Reduction to Practice
Reel of Tape Recorder
Reflex: Conditioned Reflex of Bias
Reform of Environment Rather then Reform of Man
Regenerative Design:
Law Of
Reinvestable Time & Survival Needs
Relevant: Lucidly Relevant Set
Religion Related to 'Reglio' or 'Rule'
Rememberable Number
Research Fellowships
(R)'

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences:
Metaphors:
Regenerative Economic Sustenance
See Resource Inadequacy
Resource Inventorying
Returning Upon Itself: Systems Returning Upon
Themselves
Return to Modelability
Revolution:
Hard Revolution & Soft Revolution
Revolution by Inadvertence
Right to Live: Proving Your Right to Live
Right-Makes-Might Dominance
Rocks Don't Love
Rockabye Baby
Rockets: Steerable Rockets
Rope: I Take a Piece of Rope
Rotation of Night as a Shadow
Rule of Communication
Rules of Operational Procedure
Reel: Playing the Fish on a Reel
Robin Hood Sequence
Romance of History in the Making
Rain as Radial
(R)''

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences:
Metaphors:
See Race with Evolution
(R-4)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Science Opened the Wrong Door
Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities
Social Highway Experience:
Structure Sequence
Three Autos
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politica
Sequence
Spaceship Earth Sequence
Superatomics Sequence
Spinach
Spherical Triangle Sequence
Survival Sequence:
Synergey Sequence:
Love
Two Massive Spheres
Sailing into the Wind
Sailing with the Wind:
Satellite: World Satellite Sensing
Scaffolding Technology
Scarcity: Not Enough to go Around
Scenario Universe: Physical Evolution Scenario
Scenery: Rearrange the Scenery
Scheherazade Number
Science Opened the Wrong Door
EST
(S)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Scissors Held in Fixed Opening
Sea Technology Conversion to Land Technology
Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge
Self-discovery Process
Selfinside-outable
Self: I Would Like to be Myself
Ser-Now
Shapeless: Universe Does Not Have a Shape
Ships: A Fleet of Ships Needs More Room at Sea
Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself
Skin Pigmentation
Sky-island City
Slow: The Slower We Get, the More Crowded
Snake Swallows its Own Tail
Snow, C.P:
Gap Between Science & Humanities
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences
Solid State
Sovereignty:
Elimination of
Spheres & Spaces
Space Technology
(S)'

FILE INDICATORS
SequencesB
Metaphors:
(S)"
See Specialist Born with One. Eye and a Microscope
Spherical Barrel
Scheherazade Number
Stars: Invisible Motion Of
Starting with Universe
Starved by Ignorance.
Statement of the Problem
Sticks: Falling Sticks
Stone Falling and it's Going to Hit You on the Head
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning
Success as Norm
Sugar on the Table
Suicide of Humanity
Sun is Not Saying Earth Hasn't Paid its Bill
Superatomics Sequence
Surprise: The Nonpolitical Surprise Has Already
Occurred
Surprise: Utter Surprise to be Born
Survival Sequence:
Love
Swallow the Otherness
Sweepout
Synergy of Synergies

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Service Industry
Service: Serve
Superstition of Social Superiority
Stacking of Oranges & Cannon Balls
Stars as Live Shows Billions of Years Ago
(S)!!!

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Tactical Information
Tactile Sequence
Take Away the Leaders
Task: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain
Brought to Bear
Tastebuds of Sound
Teleological Schedule of Universal Design
Requirements
Television: Third Parent
Temperature of the Human Body
Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth
Tensile Strength of Crhome-nickle-steel
Tension & Compression
Tenure: Academic Tenure
Tether Ball
Tetrahedral Tuck in the Universe
Tetrahedron: Three Triangles: 2 + 1 - 4
Tetrahedron: Two Triangles: 2 + 1 = $
Thinkable System Takeout
Thinkable You
(T)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphora:
(T)'
See Three-petaled Flower Bud
Thinking Out Loud
Three and Only Structural Systems
Threshold of Life
Tiger'a Skin
Time Is Not the Fourth Dimension
Tissue Cells of Animal Flesh
Toenail in No Way Predicts Humana
Tollgate: Private Tollgate the Society has to
Go Through
Tomorrow's Clock:
Borrowing From Tomorrow's Clock
Tong Biting Your Tongue
Tongue: Stick Out Your Tongue
Tools: Craft Tools & Industrial Tools
Trail Making & Trail Remembering
Transformational Projection
Travel in a Human Lifetime
Trees Sequence
Trespassing: Not Trespassing
Technology & Culture

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
(T)**
See Tracer Bullet Sequence
Trial & Error
Trim Tab
Trinity: Equation of Trinity
Truth: Thinking About Truth Alters Truth
Tuck in the Universe
Tunability
Tolerance Sequence
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe
Twenty-foot Earth Globe and 200-foot Celestial Sphere
Twilight Zone
Twenty Questions
Twinkle Angle
Two Balls Coming Together
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism
Time is an Invention
Time is Only Now
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how
Tetrahedron as Primitively Central to Life,
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment
Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
(U1)
See Up & Down Sequence
Universe as Verb
Universe as Invention
Universe Citizenship
Universe as Energy & Information
Universe as Kaleidoscope
Universe as Perpetual Motion Machine
Universal Vertex Center Model
Ultimate Computer
Ultra Micro Computer (UMC)
Umbilical Cord
Uncertainty Principle
Uncorked Bottle
Understanding is Exquisitely Total
Understanding: Urge to Understand & to be Understood
Undimensional Night
Undiscovered Principles
Unemployment as Freedom to Think
Unfolded Nothingness.
Uni-angular Vectorial Convergence

ט1
FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Unified Operational Field
Uniform Boundary Scale
Unique Perpendicularity
Uniquely Variant Integral
Unique Way of Playing the Game
Unitary Communication Tools
Unitary Conceptuality of Allspace Filling
United States is Not a Nation
United States: One of the Most Difficult
Sovereignties to Break Up
Units of Environment Control
Unity: Complex & Simplex
Unity Is Plural
Unity As Two
Universal Integrity
Universal Language
Universal Maelstrom
Univerdal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage
Universal Research Fellowships
Universe Citizenship
(U2)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Universe Considers Itself
Unpredicted: Sequence of Unpredicted Events
Unspoken Communication
Unzipping Angle:
Utopia or Oblivion
Tetrahelix
(U3)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See Wind Sucking Sequence
World Game Sequence
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Wire to Wireless
Wind Power Sequence
Weapons Technology Sequence
War: Official War & Unofficial War
Wellspring of Reality
World-around Communications Transcends Politics
Wind Always Blows within 100 Miles
Wind Power: Effect of Earth's Rotation
Wind Power Feeding into Electric Utility Grid
(W)

FILE INDICATORS
Sequences: Metaphors:
See XYZ Coordinate System
Youth, Truth & Love
You Do Not Belong to You
Yesterday's Private Castle Mentality
(XYZ)

TEXT CITATIONS
Sequence:
Sec. 1032.21
Sequential:

Sequence: Sequential:
See Scenario
Overlapping
Intervariable Sequences
Trend:
Trending
(1)

Sequence: Sequential:
See Awareness, 24 Apr 72
Life-time-space Phenomena, 22 Feb'73
Line, 6 Nov 73
Energy & Intellect, May'49
(2)

Serf: Serfdom: Serf Complex:
See Industrial Hypocrisy
Slave
(1)

Serf: Serfdom: Serf Complex:
See Labor: American Labor, 1960
(2)
223

Serial Communication:
See Communication, Oct 70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Serial Universe:
"The term 'serial Universe' was first employed by the British
scientist
James Dunn. It approaches my concept of Scenario
Universe."
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 20 Jan' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Series vs. Parallel Circuitry:
"The difference between gravitation and radiation is analogous
to the difference between parallel wiring and series wiring in
electricity. Series wiring is like the lights on a christmas
tree in which circuitry if one light goes out the whole system
goes out. In parallel wiring when one light goes out the
other lights remain operative. This is a demonstration of
integration and disintegration. Series wiring is a disintegra-
time system, an open system. Parallel wiring is an integra-
tive system, a closed system. It is not the parallelism' that
matters but the fact that the circuit is closed. The word
parallel came into use only because of the diagram first used
to demonstrate the principle as well as the fact that the
closed circuit wire is conveniently doubled back upon itself
and bound into one lead' for house-wiring purposes. The fact
that the vectors are parallel is only a convenience of the
construction industry. The same lenght vetors--ergo the same
energy magnitude involvement--used correctly, can provide
either function. Here we have the convergent integrations
and divergent disintegration language of synergetics in the
language of electricity."
-
09
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 527.06; RBF rewrite 11 Dec*75

Series ys, Parallel Circuitry:
See Closed Systems & Open Systems
Shunting

Series:
Superseries:
See Progressions, May'49
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry, 11 Dec175

Serious:
See Light Side vs. Serious

RBP DEFINITIONS
Service Industry:
"Great corporations have not as yet ventured into this field
because wind energy has not seemed to be monopolizable over
a pipe or wire. However, enterprise can be rewarded, in greater
magnitude than ever before, by producing and renting world-
around wind-harnessing apparatus-- as they already do in the
computer, telephone, car rental, and hotelling service
industries."
Citation and context at Wind Power Sequence (6), 15 May '73

14
RBF DEFINITIONS
Service Industry:
"We can have an integrator calculating, designing and automati-
cally manufacturing and putting together a geodesic dome in a
giant jig, after which an automated aky tug' helicopter will
carry the dome away to install it and prepare it for human
occupancy, thus providing a telephone-system type of inventing,
developing, installing, maintaining, relocating, and continually
self-improving service industry, able to provide telephone-
ordered 'instant housing,' Such a computer-controlled housing
and livingry service industry is even now feasible at one
percent of the weight, time, and energy involvement per unit
of volume and living equipment found in conventional high-standard
suburbia or Park Avenue skyscraper technology."
-
Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 29 Aug'64

Service Industry:
See Automation of World Production and Services
Dwelling Service Industry
Dymaxion House
Fuller, R.B:
Telephone
What I Am Trying To Do
More You Use it the More it Improves
Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing
(1)

Service Industry:
See Private Property, 28 Apr 171
Wind Power Sequence, (a) (b); (6)*
Design Science: (B)
Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (4)
Disarmament, (1) (2)
(2)

Service va, Instrument:
See Telephone, 26 Jan'75
Distribution, 25 Jan 75

Service Terminal Installation:
See Dome House Grand Strategy:
1927-1977, (2)

Service: Serve:
See Feedback Servomechanisms
Fellow Man
Man: How Do You Really Serve Man
No License to Be of Service
Mechanical Service Core

RBF DEFINITIONS
Servomechanism:
"Servomechanisms responding to sensed error in first one
direction and then the other, successively correcting the
steering first this way, then that way-- averaging an
accomplished course halfway between. The variations get
finer and finer, trending toward but never attaining,
absolute straightness.' This is the essence of cybernetics.
This way humans reached the Moon. It is the essence of all
life growth...."
Citation & context at Planetary Democracy, (7), 15 May'75

Servomechanism:
See Feedback Servomechanism
Ruddering
(1)

See Sovereignty, (2)
Planetary Democracy, (7)*
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (1)(2)
Feedback, 7 Nov' 75
Servomechanism:
(2)
12:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Set:
"Even the development of sets derives from experience
because mathematics is generalization-- and generalization
itself is sequitur to experience... The mathematicians
talk of 'pure imaginary numbers' on the false assumption
that mathematics could be a priori to experience."
Give RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 13 March 177
-
Citation at Mathematica, 13 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Set:
"All we do is deal in . .images. We traffic in the
•
memory sets, the TV sets, the recall sets and certain
incoming sets."
->
-
Cite tragon, actare
90, Jul 62
Citation & context at Imagination, 5 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Set:
"Neither the set of all-experiences nor the set of
all-the-words which describe them nor the set of all the
generalized conceptual principles harvested from the
total of experiences are either instantly or simultaneously
reviewable.'
"
Citation at Nonsimultaneity, 1960

Set of Feelings:
See Conversation Sequence, (2)

Set of Patterns:
See Conversation Sequence,
Minimum Set, 9 Jul'62'
(2)

Set:
See Central Set
Circumferential Set
Closed Set
Comprehensive Set
Conceptual Set
Consuderable Set
Considered Set
Empty Set
Future Set
Filled Set
Local Set
Loose Set
Minimum Set
Minimum Regenerative Set
Net Set
Nonsimultaneous Set
Now Set
Nuclear Set
Number: Abstract Number Set Concepts
(1A)

Set:
See Radial Set
Recall Set
Relevant: Lucidly Relevant Set
Positive or Negative Set of the Whole
Subset
Thinkable Set
Variables: General Theory of
Challenging Set
Tunable Set: Tuned-in Set
Intertransformability System Sets
(1B)

Set:
See Experience, Oct 171
Imagination, 5 Jul'62*
Mathematics, 13 Mar 71*
Nonsimultaneity, 1960*
Parts, 1954
System, 25 May 172
Star Events, 1960
Etymology, Aug'71
In, Out & Around, Nov'71
(2)

Settlements:
See Ekistics
Human Unsettlement
Unsettling vs. Settlements
Squatters
Community

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Axes of Symmetry:
"The 56 axes of cosmic symmetry (See Sec. 1042.05) interprecess
successively to regenerate the centripetal-centrifugal inward-
nesses, outwardnesses, and aroundnesses of other inwardnesses,
outwardnesses and aroundnesses as the omnipulsative cycling and
omniinterresonated eternally regenerative Universe, always
accommodated by the six positive and six negative alternately
and maximally equi-economical degrees of freedom characterizing
each and every event cycle of each and every unique frequency-
quantum magnitude of the electromagnetic spectrum range.
11
PRECESSION
(For later context see Precession & Degrees of
Freedom, 19 Nov' 74.)
Cite RBF holograph, New Delhi, 8 Dec' 72 as rewritten by RBR
13 May 73
SE< 533.12

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Axes of Symmetry:
"These are the seven axes of symmetry of crystallography.
They describe the only great circles foldable into bow ties.
Axes of Symmetry:
Vector Equilibrium:
12
251
Icosahedron:
2
All go through same
12 vertexes of vector
equilibrium and icosahedron
10
0556
15
25A
7}-
Go through no vertexes
31
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 August 1971.
SEVEN AXES OF SYMMETRY - SEC. 1042.04

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Axes of Symmetry:
"Note that the seven axes of symmetry do not include
the equator nor any single great circle."
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 August 1971.
SEVEN
AXES OF
SYMMETRY - SEC. 1042.05)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Axes of Symmetry:
On the
"There are 25 great circles on the vector equilibrium.
icosahedron there are 31. These are all the symmetries; there
are no other points or aspects of symmetry that you could
develop either on the vector equilibrium or the icosahedron
(electron) side. The 25 great circles of the vector equilibrium
all go through the prime vertexes."
Tape transcript Tape
Bear ranscript Tape 0170
Side A, p.6; RBF To Barry Farrel,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Axes of Symmetry:
"I made many other subdivisions of octahedra and so forth
and found the components always coming apart, as long as
there is any cutting on the axes of symmetry, any of the
ways in which nature could chop herself up with various
extensions of planes, and they always come apart in
whole rational numbers."
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p. 228. 10 Jul 162
SEVEN
AXES
OF SYMMETRY SEC, 1042.011

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Axes of Symmetry: Prime Generation of:
"The prime generation of the seven axes of symmetry derives
from the truncation of the tetrahedron:
4 original faces
4
14
triangular truncated vertexes
truncated edges
new faces of truncated tetrahedron,
whose axes generate the seven axes of symmetry."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell studios videotaping, Philadelphia, PA.,
24 Jan 75. Incorporated in SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at
Sec. 1041.11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Axes of Symmetry.
Superficial Axes:
"There are only three superficial axes of symmetry of
crystallography. They are:
Spin of vertex
Spin of mid-edge
Spin of center of area
(that is, c.g. of mid-faces)
three superfical axes
"These are all the superficial surface angles which are
the gravity. The central angles are the radiation."
SEVEN AXES
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.
OF SYMMETRY- SECS. 1041.01+02}

Seven Axes of Symmetry:
See Bow Ties
Foldability of Great Circles
Great-circle Spinnable Symmetries: Hierarchy of
Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron
(1)

Seven Axes of Symmetry:
See Omnidirectional Typewriter (3)
(2)
Prime Numbers: Pairing of, 17 Jan '74
Trigonometric Limit: First 14 Primes, 14 Jan'74
Scheherazade Numbers: Declining Powers Of, 22 May$75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Fundamental Symmetries:
"I will give you the design of the crystallogicals.
We find seven fundamental symmetries" and they relate
to the "seven great circles that are foldable."
Cite RBF tape transcript, Chicago, Blackstone Hotel,
1 June 1971
SEVEN AYES OF SYMMETRY
PP. 8-9.
SEC. 1042.04,\

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects:
"The subsequent definition of four additional topological
aspects to Euler's three aspects of vertexes, faces, and
edges, synergetics adding (1) angles, (2) irrelevant
untuned insideness and outsideness, (3) convexity and
concavity, and (4) axis of spin, for a total of seven
topological aspects (see Sec. 1044); and recognizing the
addition of frequency as being always physically manifest
in every special case."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, (2nd. Ed.) at Sec. 251.021; 12 Feb176

RBF DEFINITIONS
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects:
"Euler Synergetics: The first three topological aspects
of all minimum systems--vertexes, faces, and edges--were
employed by Euler in his formula V +PE + 2. Since
synergetics geometry embraces nuclear and angular topology
it adds four more minimum aspects to Euler's inventory of
three:
vertexes
faces
EULER
edges
angles
insidensess & outsideness
convexity & concavity
axis of spin
SYNERGETICS
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1044.01; 8 Feb' 76

Seven:
See Powering: Seventh Powering: Seventh Dimension
(1)

Seven:
See Prime Number, 16 Oct 71
Vector Equilibrium:
16 Dec 73
Eight-pointed Star System,
Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, (3)
(2)

Seventeen:
See Limit, 15 Oct171
Scheherazade Numbers: Decling Powers Of,
22 May 75; 22 Jun'72
Periodic Table:
Harmonics of 18, 22 May 175

Severance-tracing:
See Yin-yang, (1) (2)

Sewers: Sewage Systems:
See Excrement:
Plumbing
Toilet
Excremental Functions
Outbound Packaging of Human Food Waste
(1)

Sewers:
Sewage Systems:
See Architecture, 26 Sep'68; 2 Jul' 62
Building Industry, (7)
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep'76
Scrap Sorting & Mongering, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sex:
and how
"The metaphysical is what is very suddenly coming into
prominence. These kids just really take sex.
different it is now than when evolution had to reproduce
itself and they had to think of their bodies as just this
great baby-making machine home. Well, all that's becoming
extinct and the kids don't act that way anymore and the
metaphysical is emerging terribly fast."
Citation and context at Cosmic Fish Sequence (2), 16 Oct 72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Sex:
As
•
surprising as is the spontaneous synergetic
urge of males and females to cohabit and tabreby accidentally
to start the synergetic formulation of another human
being."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971, p. 8

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sex:
"As survival rate and life sustaining capability increase,
fewer births are required.' This may be related to our
deveàoping capacities in interchanging our physical parts,
of producing mechanical organs, of having progressively
fewer human organisms to replenish. The drive in humanity
to reproduce as prodigally as possible decreases considerably.
This may be reflected in social behaviors-- when all the
girls begin to look like boys and boys and girls wear the
same clothes. This may be part of a discouraging process in
the idea of producing more babies.
"We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation
to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e., that it
is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its
assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our
viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be
reconsidered and more wisely adjusted."
Cite THE YEAR 2000, San Jose State College, Mar 66

Sex:
See Gonads
Homosexuality
Male & Female
Man: Automated Metabolism of Man
Masturbation
Penis
Procreation
Naked Girl on the Bed
Survival Sequence: Love
Virgin
Kissing
Love
(1)

Sex:
See Cosmic Fish Sequence, (2)*
Emotion, May'65
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Speech, (1)(2)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (9)-(11)
(2)

Sexave:
See Sixwave (Sexave)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shadow:
"Vegetation has to regenerate its young, but it can't have
its young if there is a shadow. The young plants would not
be able to get any of the necessary radiation. Therefore,
most vegetation launches its new life in little seeds on the
winds and on the waters. The possibility of these seeds
landing in just the places where they will prosper is poor,
and nature makes many starts-- enough to make sure that the
species survives."
-
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., p.88, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shadow:
"Radiation has shadows; gravity has none."
Radiation-Gravitation,
Citation and context at
8 Mar' 73

Shadow:
See Me & My Shadow
Rotation of Night as Shadow
Shadowless
Wind Power:
Effect of Earth's Rotation
(1)

Shadow:
See Gravity, 23 Sep'73
Radiation-gravitation, 8 Mar 73*
Universal Integrity, 7 Nov'73
Weather, Feb 73
Wind Power Sequence (3)
Omnidirectional:
Surrounds, (1)
Physical Existence Environment
(2)

Shadowless:
See Gravity, 23 Sep'73

Shakespeare:
See Man as a Function of Universe, 22 Jul'71
World Game, (3); Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shape:
"Euler has the visual inventory. Aural sensing has no shape.
Our visual sense verifies our tactile sense of shape.
Smelling and sound have no shape. Smelling has less shape
than sound. Sound has a little shape in reflecting bouncings
of electromagnetic wave phenomena. Visually, when we don't
see something, we call it space...."
- Citation & context at Silence, 30 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shape:
"Every time you
•
enter eternity everything called shape
•
is cancelled.
The episodes have shape, but the
shape is always mildly asymmetrical and continually
transforming. There is conceptual shape in the ideal,
the ideal tetrahedron, but no size, no time."
i.e.,
-
Citation and context at Eternity (1) (2), 23 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shape:
"Generalized shape conceptioning is independent of size.
A triangle is a triangle independent of size.
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 119, Oct'60

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shape:
"Abstractions are conceptually shapable!"
Citation & context at Abst@rction, Oct'59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shape:
"Different shapes, ergo different abstractions, are
nonaimultaneous; but all shapes are de-finite components
of integral though nonsimultaneous, ergo shapeless,
Universe."
- Cite SYNERGETICS
10. 240.60 Out!59
-
Citation & Context at Conceptuality, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shape:
"Shape is exclusively angular.
Shape is independent of sise
Shape being independent of size is abstractable."
-
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 115, Oct 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shape Awareness:
"You can have no awareness
sense of shape with
just one otherness or two othernesses. Shape awareness
commences only with three othernesses where the relationship
of three as a triangle has finite closure. Shape is what
you see areally and until there is closure there is no
area of otherness."
•
à Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1023.18, 20 Feb'73

Shape of Things:
See Frame of Reference, 4 Oct 72

Shape:
See Duality of Shapes
Energy Has Shape
Shapeless
Thought Has Shape
Graph: Graphable
(1)

Shape:
See Wind Stress & Houses; (2) (3)
Silence, 30 Sep' 76*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shapeless: Universe Does Not Have a Shape:
"Because of the fundamental nonsimultaneity of universal
structuring, a single, simultaneous, static model of Universe
is inherently both nonexistent and conceptually impossible
as well as unnecessary. Ergo, Universe does not have a shape.
Do not waste your time as man has been doing for ages, trying
to think of a unit shape outside of which there must be
something, or 'within which, at center, there must be a
smaller something.'
"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 307.04, Oct 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shapeless: Universe Does Not Have a Shape
"Because of the fundamental non-simultaneity of
universal structuring, a single, simultaneous, static
model of universe is inherently both nonexistent,'
and 'conceptually impossible,' as well as, 'unnecessary.
Ergo, universe does not have a shape. Do not waste
your time, as man has been doing for ages, trying to
think of a unit shape outside of which there must
be something,' or 'within which, at center, there must
be a smaller something.""
'
Cite KEPES
Caption Fig. 1, p. 66, 1965

Shapeless: Universe Does Not Have a Shape:
See Outside:
What's Outside Outside?
Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself
(1)

Shapeless: Universe Does Not Have a Shape:
See Sculpture as Single Frame, 22 Jul'71
Universe, May 71; 1965
223
(2)

Shapeless:
See Amorphous
Formless
Nonform

Shapeless:
See Eternity (1)
Ideal, 23 May' 72
Integral, 1971
Transendental, 6 Jul'62
Probability, 17 Feb'72
Silence, 30 Sept 76
Time is Only Now, 19 Jul 76
(2)

Sharp: Sharps:
See Flats & Sharps

Sheath of Pride:
See How Little I Know, 1 Feb'75

Sheet Metal:
See Hammering Sheet Metal

Shell Arrays:
See Powering: Second Powering, 17 Nov'72

Shell onerating Frequency:
See Shell Growth Rate

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shell Growth Rate:
"The icosahedron can only show one shell growth layer.
The vector equilibrium can show all shell growth layers
omnidirectionally."
Cite RHF tp EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC: 23 Oct177

Shell Growth Rate:
See
Spherical Wave
Vector Equilibrium:
Concentric Layering
Odd or Even Shell Growth
(1)

Shell Growth Rate:
See Einstein, 1959
Multiplication By Division, 4 Nov'73
Prime Nucleus, 13 May* 73
Regenerative, 1960
Spherical Interstices, 18 Nov 172
Three-dimensional, 28 Oct 73
Scheherazade Numbers: Declining Powers Of,
17 Mar 75
Ten, 22 Jun 75
Photon, 26 Sep' 73
Surface Strength of Structures, Mar'72
Nuclear Domain & Elementality, (1) (2)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Shell Ratio:
Egg shells have a shell ratio of 85 to 1.
Geodesic radomes
have a shell ratio of as much as 200 to 1."
-
Cite RBF to HUD Engineers, Washington, DC, 26 Jan '72

Shell:
See Icosahedron:
Boundary Layer
Vessel
Turtle Dome
Circumferential Closest Packing
Structural Shell
Protein Shell
(1)

Shell:
See Powering (B)
Wichita House, (1)
Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, May'49
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, (2)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Shelter:
"The Anglo-Saxon origin of shelter would be: shell scyld
(shield) + ter-- trum (firm): that which covers or shields
from exposure or danger; a place of safety, refuge, or
retreat.
"
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.33, 1938

HBF DEFINITIONS
Shelter:
"Shelter is by far the greatest single item among man's
requirements in point of physical volume, weight, cost, and
longevity of tenure. Yet it is among the last to receive
his scientific attention."
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, pp.15-16, 1938

Shelter:
See Antipriorities
Dwelling: Dwelling Service Industry
House: Housing
Repro-shelter
Environment Controls
Dwelling Machines
(1)

Shelter:
See Squatters, (1) (2)
Ecology, Dec' 72
(2)

Shelter Magazine: Publication in 1930's:
See Ecology, Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ship:
"A ship of the sea is not a ship because it is built of wood,
for ships can be built of steel or aluminum or polyester
fiberglass, or pig skin or bark. And ships are inherently a
complex of associative principles, and subsets of which are
each in turn independent of any local resource limitation.
For example, ships' fastenings may be of rivets, nails, screws,
or bolts; of bronze, steel, or monel-- or welds. It is
true, of course, that ships of special component chemistry
may outperform others of less appropriate chemistry, but
this is by obvious subsynergetic evolutionary improvement,
and not by surprise."
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ship:
(1)
"Throughout the documented milleniums of man's evolutionary
technologies and their progressively integrated inventories,
recognized environmentally as successive eras, there has been
one fundamental category of technical, strategic, and
economic undertakings which, of inherent necessity, transcended
the going local traditions of opinion-governed expediency in
treatment of physical problems and expenditures of local
wealth and credit for those local ends; that is, if we
except 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. If instead, we confine
our selves to discovering what has been the longest-range and
most generalized case of the economic communities investment
in equipment-- simplex and complex-- designed for the
improved satisfaction of living needs, we will discover
that ships and watercraft building in the vast majority of
historic communities, who of necessity lived near water bodies,
undoubtedly represents the most generalized problem treatment"
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

RBP DEFINITIONS
Ship:
(2)
"and longest range, time and geography wise, pattern
planning. Why? Simply because a ship had to be designed to
meet far more than the pattern indicated by the physical
experience within the local environment of harbored
confines; indeed, the more resources to be fetched for the
complementation of the locally-occurring resources for
integration into comprehensive capital goods wealth and
higher productivity, the more extremes of climate and weather
hazards, the more days and miles of possible hazards needed
to be anticipated with approximate safety factors. Ships had
to be designed for the generalized case of all oceans and
all tasks. To accomplish all-ocean, all-task efficacy, men
learned through bitter, mortal, dramatic experience that they
must invest all the best of their commonwealth resources of
time and physical goods inventory and cumulative science
and craft know-how into the building and management of their
long-range, wealth-integrating ships.
"No arts nor knowledge of design and pattern failed to
place in the undertaking. Because of the myriad conflicts
of ambition of competitively lesser plan leaders and their
easy expediency and shortsighted gain in recourse to piracy,"
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibuon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ship:
"those whose foresight and comprehensiveness and throughness
of realized competence effected the actualities of history,
are found to have recognized in their major strategies that
secrecy and closed-mouthedness in respect to the great
ventures proved most effective insurance towards the day
when our ship comes in.'
(3)
"For this very reason the most effective strategies of men
have been temporarily lost to history and historical accoun-
ting has been made in a myriad of secondary and almost
irrelevant legend manufacture. As new day tools allow us
to go to oceans bottom, and above all allow us greater
perspective of time and distance, we have been able to
reintegrate into informative pattern the outstanding histori-
cal fact that the whole concept of shipbuilding out of all
the best resources to accomplish the highest limits of
schedule performance, represents not only the essence of the
meaning of 'priority in access to the most effective
commonwealth means, but over and above this identity to
discern also that synergetic effectiveness was the very
essence of the word 'wealth' itself."
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ship:
(4)
"For it was the products of complex pattern integration
which made the great ships do what the wood logs and the iron
ore and the fibrous plants could not and would not do of
themselves. The broader the integration, the higher the
synergetic effectiveness, and the more unexpected, and there-
fore invisibly harvestable individually managed wealth: i.e.,
the accrued new greater ability to initiate even greater
synergetic effects in respect to unprecedented pattern
articulation by those who could see the larger patterns
while the eyes of the many were fascinated and gratified by
the component aspects. "t
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jin (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

Ship's Bow Waves:
See Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec '73

Ships: Fleet of Ships Needs More Room at Sea than in Harbor: (1)
See Airplanes: Far Apart in the Sky but Slowed Down
When Close Together on Land
Fleet of Sailboats
Slow: The Slowe We Get the More Crowded

Ships: Fleet of Ships Needs More Room at Sea than in Harbor: (2)
See Airspace Tenchenol Environment Controls, (2)
Pneumatic Structures, 25 Sep'72

Shipwreck:
See Collision: Ships Colliding on the Globe
Piano Top
Rich Man Drowning in Shipwreck

TEXT CITATION
Ships:
Mexico '63, p. 4, 10 Oct '63

Ships:
See Battleship
Boats at Anchor Retard the River's Flow
Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship Sequence
Collision: Ships Colliding on the Globe
Diesel Ship at Sea
Displacements of Ships & Buildings
Generalized Boat
Navy Sequence
Ruddering Sequence
Sailboats
Sailing Ship
Sailing Ship Effect
Sea Technology
Oil Tankers: Size Of
History from the Sailor's & Shibuilder's
Viewpoint
Factors of Ships
City as a Ship
House as a Ship
Spaceship
(1)

Ships:
See Air Delivery & Submarine Cities (1)-(3)
Lever (b)
Size (A) (B)
Trails & Wakes, 8 Apr 175
Walls vs. Airspace Technology, (1)
New York City, 31 Jul 75
Cybernetics, 7 Nov' 75
(2)

Shoals:
See Schools: Shoals

KBF DEFINITIONS
Short Cut:
"I do not allow myself what's called the luxury of
a short cut. People say 'Why don't you cut it short?'
Because I've got to take you from an experience to
the thing. There's no use talking about it unless you
feel it yourself."
- Cite RBF quoted in KOLLING STONE, 10 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Short Cuts:
"There are no short cuts in the way of making babies:
you can't accelerate fundamental processes. Nature is
always operating at most efficient and economical
time: energy rates of transformations."
-
Cite CULTIVATE THE POSITIVE, 9 May'57

Short: Shortest:
See Most Economical vs. Shortest
(1)

Short: Short Cut:
See Triangle, 1960
(2)

Shrink: Shrinking:
See Earth Shrunk to One-town Dimension

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shunt:
"Shunt is an angular change."
- Cite RBF Lecture
Town Hall New York
12 March 1971

HBP DEFINITIONS
Shunt:
"Modifications in relative magnitude of the system's
import and export programming and their rates of reoccur-
rence is accomplished by component events of the system
which interfere with and thus intercept and shunt (or valve)
the import event receipts into holding patterns. From
the holding pattern or reservoir the events may be
valved into the system's component event patterning for
use at preferred rates and magnitudes in extending or
altering the regenerative integrity of the system. Scientific
design controls these frequency and magnitude events
(valving), i.e. angle and frequency modulation."
by
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 42, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shunting:
"The icosahedron's function in Universe may be to throw the
switch of cosmic energy into a local shunting circuit.
In the
icosahedron energy gets itself locked up even more by the six
great circles-- which may explain why electrons are borrowable
and independent of the proton-neutron group."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 458.11,
5 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shunting:
Relative Motion Patterns:
(1)
"Synergetics discloses that the apparently different
velocities, or rates of acceleration, of which the physicist
speaks do not truly exist. The seemingly different
velocities are a plurality of angularly precessed--
or shunted energy action systems regeneratively operated
in respect to other systems.
"Velocity is always 186,000 miles per second. All other
relative motion patterns are the result of remotely observed,
angularly precessed, 186,000 m.p.s. energy-action shunting.
"Angularly precessed shunting may divert omnidirectional
energy into focused (angularly shunted) actions and
reactions,
or both.
of either radial or circumferential patternings,
"Frequency modulation is accomplished through precession-
shunted circuit synchronizations. 'Valving is angular
shunting. Competent design is predicated upon frequency
modulation by application of the precessional shunting
principle."
Cite Synergetics Notes, p.9, 1955. Incorporated at SYNERGETICS,
Sec.647, 1 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shunting:
Relative Motion Patterns:
186,000 M.P.S.
(2)
One
shunt:
(loop)
e
KK
E.G., From here to there, synergetically, seems
relatively to an observer as 10 m.p.h.
Cite Synergetics Notes, p.9 et. seq., 1955. Incorporated
at SYNERGETICS SEC. 647, 1 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Shunting and Re-Shunting:
"The compressively interprecessional cooperative and
accommodative functionings of all structural systems are
locally persistent constellations of resultant force-
vectors, which are always angularly shunted, and regenera-
tively re-shunted, inwards of the systems tangential lines,
i.e., at resultant angles less than 180 degrees in respect
to the direction of origin of the generative force."
Cit TENSEGRITY, Art News Annual, p. 120. Dec*61

Shunt: Shunting:
See Icosahedron as Local Shunting Circuit
Holding Patterns
Precessionally Shunted Pattern Relay
Valving: Valvability
Fall-in, Shunt-out
Focus Angular Shunting
(1)

Shunt: Shunting:
See Boats at Anchor Retard the River's Flow, 1960
Copper (A)
Continuous Man (4)
Design Covariables:
Principle Of,
1959
Environment Controls (1)
Manifest: One, 1973
Motion, 27 May 72
(2A)
Mass Production, May 72
Ninety-two Elements, y Apr'40
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities, 19 Dec '73
Radome Sequence (4); (B)
Spherical Octahedron, Aug' 72
Solid State, 13 May: 73
Tensegrity, 20 Oct 72
Tensegrity Sphere:
Trespassing (1)(2)
Water, May 65
Six Pentagonala (1) (2)
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid, 6 Jul 62
Omnidirectional Typewriter (4)

Shunting:
See Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy,
25 Mar 75
Vector Equilibrium: Field of Energy, (A)
Environment, 29 Mar 77
(2B)

Shutter:
See Omnidirectional Shutterable Sieve

Shuttle: Shuttling: Shuttle-woven:
See Intershuttling
(1)
1

Shuttle: Shuttling: Shuttle-woven:
See Jitterbug, 4 Oct'72
Pattern Strip Aggrgeate Wrapabilities, 19 Dec$73
Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct'71
Two, (2)
(2)

Side Effects:
See Primary vs. Side Effects
No Sides
(1)

Side: Side Effects:
See Children as Only Pure Scientists, (A)
(2)

Sidewaya:
See Inadvertent
Sideways
Oblique Sideways

Side:
See Moon: Other Side of the Moon
Other Side of the Universe

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sieve:
"A sieve is an angular valve.'
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 30 Jan'75

Sieve:
See Omnidirectional Shutterable Sieve
Dwelling Sieve

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sight:
"...We see in 60 separate picture frames per second
as in a moving picture continuity. Each frame is a finite
increment. Our brain's after image lag is so powerful that
(it) gives a sense of absolute 'excentricity' to our only
subconsciously packaged seeing."
Citation at Eccentricity, Jun 66
\sout{Cite NASA Speech, p. 32 Jun 66}

RBF DEEINITIONS
Sight:
"Before the speed of light was measured, sight
seemed
to be instantaneous.
..
But neither light
nor any other phenomenon is instantaneous."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 52, Jun'66

RBG DEFINITIONS
Sight:
"Man sees only by omni-directional images illuminated
within the experience-inventoried brain after images
regeneratively fed-back by the energy of momentary
sensorial scannings. It is significant that he gets
direct or nondelayed visual report only from the actively
radiant energetic centers of light, notably the stars.
All other visual reports wait upon indirect routing
by their superficial reflection from passive structures
of energetic impasse, the planetary mass phenomena."
-
Cite PREVIEWS, I&I, p. 203,1 Apr*49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself:
It must be remembered
That no human has ever seen directly
Outside himself.
What we call seeing
Is the interpretive imagining in the brain
of the significance and meaning
Of the nervous system reports
Of an assumed outsideness of self,
All of which organic design conception
May be that of a great intellect
Which is inventing Universe progressively
Evolving mathematically alegant
Integral equations
For each conceivable challenge
Including the invention
You and
"
me.
-
Citation and context at SENSORIAL IDENTIFICATION of Reality,
(2), May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself:
"No man has ever seen outside of himself.
sees in his brain."
He always
-
Cite Letter to Dr. R. Urmston, 8 Oct 164, p. 2

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself:
"No man has ever 'seen' outside himself."
<->>>
Citation and context at Brain's TV Studio, 1960

Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself:
See Brain's TV Studio
(1)

Sight: No Man Has Ever Seen Outside of Himself:
See Slides: Use of Slides in Lecturing, 6 Jul'62
You & I as Pattern Integrities, 22 Jan'75
(2)

Sight:
See Invisible Motion
Optical Motion Spectrum
Optical Tuning & Scanning
Perception
Seeability
Seeing
(1)

Sight:
See Recall Lag, 26 May '72
Senses,
(1)
Television, 5 Jul'62
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom: General
Systems, (II)
Repetitive, 28 May '75
Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr* 77
(2)

Signal:
See Information Signal

Signature of God:
See Triangle as Signature of God

Significance:
See Mutual Survival Principles, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Silence:
"Silence in the untuned. Silence takes the electromagnetic
place of space. Space in a sort of tactile error. .
frozen thing.
. the
"With awareness and consciousness you already are thinking;
but the point is that you didn't start out with the notion
of doing some thinking; it wasn't your fault that you
started to be conscious of something.
"Euler has the visual inventory. Aural sensing has no shape.
Our visual sense verifies our tactile sense of shape. Smell-
ing and sound have no shape. Smelling has less shape than
sound. Sound has a little shape in reflecting bouncings of
electromagnetic wave phenomena. Visually, when we don't
see something, we call it space. But hearing is like
smelling, when it is not tuned-in, it is silent. I've been
saying tuned-out, but what I've meant all along is silence."
转
-
Cite RBF to EJA; 3200 Idaho, Wash.DC; 30 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Silence:
"Space nothingness is the untuned. I now call it silence."
-
Cite RBF to EJA; 3200 Idaho, Wash.DC; 29 Sep' 76

Silence:
See Absolute Silence
Nothingness
- Silence
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Speech

Similar & Dissimilar:
See Triangling (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Simple:
"Corollary A is: The simpler, the more enduringly reproducible."
P
Citation and context at Regenerative Design: Law Of (1), 13
Mar' 7:

Simplest Case:
See Modelability, (a)

REF DEFINITIONS
Simplest Knot:
"Look at any picture, point your finger at any part of the
picture, and ask yourself: Which aspect is that, and that, and
that? That's an area; or it's a line; or it's a crossing
(a fix, a point). Crossings are loci.
You may say,
'That is
too big to be a point;' if so, you make an area by drawing a
line around it. Here is the simplest knot drawn on the
surface of a sphere:
"This identifies topology and knots at the simplest limit case.'
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1007.24, 1 Jan '75

521
Simplest Something:
See Minimum Something
Tetrahedron
(1)

Simplest Something:
See Tetrahedron, 26 Apr* 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Simplex:
"Chemistry seemed to laugh at our coordinate awakwardness
as nature contrived all of our physical 'matter' entirely
out of rational, whole integer simplexes."
Citation and context at Cabuluş (2) + (3), 1965

Simplex:
See Complex & Simplex
Limit Minimum Simplex
Nuclear Simplex
Toplogical Aspects: Inventory of
(1)

Simplex:
See Calculus, (2)(3)*
Regenerative Design: Law Or, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Simplicity:
"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 multi-
reproduction, e.g., roses, stars, and blades of grass."
"
-
-
Otte Newsweek, "Architecture, The Presnet Scene, 1968
Citation at Reproducible, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Simplicity:
This
"The law seems to be that the more universal, the more
symmetrical (see the helicopter versus the bomber); and the
more symmetrical, the less the number of parts types.
is to say that the greater the superficial simplicity, and
therefore the more adaptive the tool, the greater the required
investment in anticipating teleology in the processing of
Droptionately larger blocks of self- and historically-
relayed knowledge concerning
experiences,
principles, and their reciprocal involvements."
-
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Simplification:
"We may hypothesise that as information increases
exponentially-- explodes-- conceptuality implodes,
becoming increasingly more simplified."
CIE MUS DECADE, Document 6, Man and the Biosphere, p. 52, 1967
Citation at Conceptuality, 1967

Simple: Simplicity: Simplification:
(1)
See Circle as Simplest
Complex & Simplex
Primary Structure
Curvature: Simple
Aesthetics of Uniformity
Reproducible
Most Economical = Simpleat

Simple: Simplicity: Simplification:
See Environment Events Hierarchy, 1954
Calculus (2)(3)*
Conceptuality, 1967*
Patent, 1955
Reproducible, 1968*
Regenerative Design:
Law Of (1)*
Scenario Universe, 22 Apr'68
Synergetics, undated
Tetrahedron, Nov 71
Structural System, Nov' 71
Mutual Survival Principles, (4)
Awareness, 28 Apr' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Simultaneous:
"All dimensions are simultaneously considerable."
- Citation at Dimension, 29 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Simultaneous:
"The big jobs are done in tension and the small jobs in
compression. We find that the tensions, because they are
always curved, never can get straight and there is no
meaning to the word straight in Universe. Therefore the
tension members spiraling around must always come back
into themselves. They are inherently self-closing;
maybe not within simultaneous experiences-- obviously not
in simultaneous experiences-- but around comes Halley's
Bomet. Every 70 years around she comes again. It is not
a simultaneous experience at all. Several life times may
be involved, and some of them may be coming around much more
slowly, but there is an integrity of the tensions as around
they come again. We find an idea about some kind of closed
circuit."
-
Citation at Tension, 5 Jul*62
-
See Oregon Lecture
111-112

Simultaneity:
See Children's Pictures of the Sun and the Moon
Instantaneity
Juggler
Overlapping
Nonsimultaneous
Radiation: Speed of
Static
Synchronous
Unitary Conceptuality
(1)

Simultaneity:
See Dimension, 29 Nov 72*
Interaccommodative, 13 Mar 73
Meaningless, Oct'66
Tension, 5 Jul162*
Visual Symphony (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sin:
"I'm the only man I know who can sin. I find everybody else
really too innocent. They don't really know what they're
doing. I find that people who seem to be the most offensive
are fantastic innocents. They really couldn't know what
they're doing because they'd be mortified at the idea of
doing something so unbecoming. But I've really had enough
experience, such a fantastic amount, that I really know what
it is to sin. And that would be to cheat on the great
accounting system of Universe, trying to take something out
and hang on to it.
"I could very easily transgress. I could rest and sleep and
make all kinds of money. The opportunities keep coming in
all the time. But I have no desire to sin, I assure you.
The point is: I know how. There are many things I did in
my life that wouldbe sinful if I did them today. I still
feel I'm entitled to make experiments, but once I find out--
do it again? No. That's sinful.'
FEB
Cite RBF in Barry Farrel Playboy Interview, 4972
Draft. p. 40.

Sin:
See Good & Evil
Immorality
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sin: Angle of Error:
"The courage to adhere to the truth as we learn it involves,
then, the courage to face oneself with the clear admission of
all the mistakes we have made. Mistakes are sins only when
not self-admitted. Etymologically, sins means omission where
admission should have occurred. An angle is a sinus, an
opening, a break in a circle, a break in the integrity of the
whole human individual. Trigonometrically, the sine of an
angle is the ratio of the length of the chord facing the
central angle considered, as ratioed to the length of the
radius of the circle whose center is also the apex of the
angle, or sinus, considered. The angle is the angle of error
of viewpoint of the individual whose circular integrity has
been violated. The relative size of the chord opposite that
angle of error as proportioned to the radius (taken as unity 1)
of the circle of experienced knowledge of the individual; and
being the sine of the angle considered, it is also the
relative magnitude of the individual's sin. (Drawing attached.)"
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Bro. Jos. Chuala, p.3; 7 Nov 75

Sin: Angle of Error:
The sine of X =
angle X
angle X
Cite RBF Ltr. to Bro. Jos. Chuala, attachment; 7 Novi 75

Sin:
See Emotion, Kay165
(2)

Singing Early in the Morning:
See Superstition, 1938

Single Bonding:
See Chemical Bonda

Single Atomic vs. Multiatomic:
See Atoms & Compounds: Difference Between
(1)

Single Atomic vs. Kultiatomic:
See Physics & Chemistry: Difference Between, 8 Apr '75
Model of Nonbeing, 11 Sep 75
(2)

Single Frame:
See Frame
(1)

Single Frame:
See Machines vs. Structures, 13 Nov* 75
New York City, (7)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Single Integer Differentiala:
(1)
"In synergetics we find the difference of one whole integer
frequently manifest in our geometrical interrelationship explora-
tions. Beyond the one additional proton and one additional
electron characterising the hierarchy of the already-discovered
family of 92 regenerative chemical elements and their short-
lived transuranium manifestability by high-energy physics
experiments, we find time and again a single integer to be
associated with the positive-negative energetic pulsations in
Universe.
"Because the energetic-synergetic relationships are usually
generalised relationships independent of sise, these single
rational integer differentials are frequently found to charac-
terize the limit magnitudes of asymmetric deviations from the
zerophase vector equilibrium.
"The minor aberrations of otherwise elegantly matching phenomena
of nature, such as the micro-weight aberrations of the 92
regenerative chemical elements in respect to their atomic
numbers, was not explained until isotopes and their neutrons were
discovered a few decades ago. Such discoveries numerically
elucidate the whole-integer rationalization of the unique"
- Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Seca. 310.11 and .12, 10 Nov 74

RBP DEFINITIONS
Single Integer Differentials:
"isotopal system's structural-proclivity agglomeratings."
- Cité SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 310.12, 10 Nov'74
(2)

Single Integer Differentials:
See Odd Ball
Rational Whole Numbere

Single Otherness:
See Environment, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Singular & Plural:
"Compressions are plural. Tension is singular."
• Atte Synergettes Draft at bay. 640.70, Dec.
Citation at Tension & Compression, Dec'71

Singular & Plural:
See Love & Hate, Oct 71
Tension & Compression, Dec 171*
Synergetics, 11 Oct173
Potential vs. Primitive, 12 May' 77
Environment, (A)

Sink: Sinking:
See No Sinking: Man Cannot Sink

Sinus:
See Angular Sinus Takeout
(1)

Sinus:
See Angle, 7 Nov'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six:
"There are six vectors or none.
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240, by RBF 11 Oct. 171,
Haverford, Penna.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Six:
*Six unique vectors constitute a tetrahedral event.'
-
Citation at Event, 11 Oct 71
- Gite SYNERGETICS Corollaries,
Haverford Parma.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six:
"You have six vectors or none for every energy event."
->
Cite RBF to EJA, Washington, DC, 7 Oct. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six:
"The number of edges are always divisible by six
in a structural system."
Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six:
"The number of all the lines-- which is to say the number of
all the vectors-- in Universe, is always a number which is
divisible by six. There are no exceptions.
Now these six
edges
are the six edges of the tetrahedron..."
Citation & context at Quantum, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six:
"The minimum set, affording macro-micro separation
of universe is a set of four local event foci. These
four stars have an inherent sixness of relationships.
This four-foci six-relationship set is definable as the
tetrahedron."
(Adapted.
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO,
Citation at Tetrahedron, 1960
140, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six:
"It is a synergetic characteristic of minimum structural
systems (tetra) that the system is not stable until the
last strut is introduced. 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."
CILE RBF undated.
Citation at Strut, 1950's

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixness:
"There is a systematic interrelationship of basic fourness
always accompanied by a sixness of alternatives or freedoms."
Citation and context at Pulsation, 9 Nov '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Degrees of Freedom:
"Experiments show that there are six positive and six
negative degrees of fundamental transformation freedoms,
which provide 12 alternate ways in which nature can behave
most economically upon each and every energy-event occur-
Ergo, there is not just one 'other'; there are
always at least 12 fothers. i*
rence.
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 537.12; Dec171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Degrees of Freedom:
"The connection between the six degrees of freedom and
omnidirectionality is, of course, the vector equilibrium,
which combines the threeness of the cube in relation to 20
as unity - VE."
-
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium, 25 Aug'71
EXPERIENCE.
- SEC. 502.25

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Degrees of Freedom:
"Experiments show that there are
six
positive and
six negative degrees of fundamental transformation freedoms,
which provide twelve alternate ways in which nature can
behave most economically upon each and every energy event
occurrence.
Citation & context at Environment Events Hierarchy (6),
ENERGY EVENT - SEC. 511.03
-
39, Jun'66
Jun*66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Degrees of Freedom:
"The rhombic dodecahedron
.
its twelve facets represent
the planes perpendicular to the six fundamental degrees of
freedom."
Citation and context at Rhombic Dodecahedron, 19 Apr'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Degrees of Freedom:
"The number of vectors (structural or force lines) cohering
each and every subsystem of Universe is always a number
subdivisible by six, i.e., consisting of one positive and
one negative event, each of three vectors, which add up
to six. This holds true topologically in all abstract
patterning in Universe as well as in fundamental physics.
The six vectors represent the fundament al six, and only
six, degrees of freedom in Universe."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Brof. Theodore Caplow, 18 Feb. '66.

Six Degrees of Freedom:
See Cosmic Event
Degrees of Freedom
Frame of Reference:
Powering:
Six Schemata
Sixth Dimension
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom
(1)

Six Degrees of Freedom:
(2)
123
See Artifacts (1)
Closed System, 21 Oct'65
Coherence, 18 Feb 71; 11 Feb 73
Conceptuality, 1 Apri72
Dimensional Reference Frame, 1972
Energy Unit, 17 Jan174
Environment Events Hierarchy, (6)*
Point, 28 Oct 63; Oct 59
Polar Vertexes, ly Feb 72
Pulsation, 9 Nov'72
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 19 Apr166*
Synergetics, 1 Apr'72; 20 Jun'66
Vector Equilibrium, 25 Aug'71*
Cosmic Hierarchy, 23 Jan'77
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (1)
Will, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six
-
Five
- One:
"The difference of one between the spheric domain of the
rhombic dodecahedron's six and the nuclear sphere's five--or
between the tetra volume of the octahedron and the three-tetra
sections of the tetrahelix--these are the prime wave
pulsation propagating quanta phenomena that account for
local aberrations, twinkle angles, and unzipping angles
manifest elsewhere and frequently in this book."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 985.08; RBF rewrite, Beverly
Hotel, NYC; 8 Jan'74

Six Five - One:
->
See Octahedron as Annihilation Model, 30 Dec*73
Volumetric Hierarchy, (2)
Nuclear Cube, 23 Feb'76
Spherical Interstices, 9 Jul' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
EJA:
RBF:
"Rob Grip is worried that your new sphere is .499
and not a clean 5. Also, you are talking about
three-dimensionality for the first time. I don't
understand. You used to say that 'Time is not the
fourth dimension."?
"I say .499 because that is the closest that
Heisenberg is going to let us come.
(A)
"And the sphere emerges from the primitive hierarchy
when it begins to spin. Spinning is just one of the degrees
of motion freedom. Spinning and orbiting give you the sphere--
at the point where frequency comes into time-size.
"I have done a new piece for you on dimensionality
in answer to your very good questions about the relationships
between the six motion freedoms and the six degrees of freedom.
And I have discovered that just as there are in reality 12
degrees of freedom, so there are in reality 12 motion freedoms.
"All spheres are potential spheres. The sphere that
the mathematicians have been dealing with in the primitive"
BU
RBF to EJA by telephone from Pacific Palisades, CA; 8 Aug*77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
(B)
"hierarchy is only three-dimensional because it is timeless
and sizeless and prefrequency. Where you begin with inside-
ness and outsideness is theee-dimensional. But when the
somethingness enters--when you go beyond primitive conceptuality,
then you have to go beyond the primitive three-dimensionality.
It was only that static three-dimensionality that the mathema-
ticians used to talk about in their coordinate system.
"But with frequency you have time-size and you come
to fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-dimensionality. It is true that
I say 'Time is not the fourth dimension,' that's why I say
'time-size'."
-
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Pacific Palisades, CA;
8 Aug'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
"You are right that what we are talking about here--in the
articulation of the primitive hierarchy--is more than what
we usually mean by dimensionality.
"In addition to dimension, what we are talking about is
the interaction of the degrees of freedom, the six positive
and negative motions--as well as the power factoring... the
identification and quantation of the full behavior potential
of energetic structurings."
(NB: RBF had said that we are probably dealing
with up to the 24th-dimension, when EJA objected
to using dimension in this way. - eja.)
-
Cite RBF to EJA, in presentation by Chris Kittrick and
Rob Grip in back room at 3500 Market St.; Phila. P&;
11 Aug'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
"There are the six positive and negative exercises of the
motion freedoms, but the freedoms themselves come from the
fact that the minimum system in the Universe consists of
six vectors: the tetrahedron. The tetrahedron has a minimum
of six edges. I want you to try to think about a minimum
something. A something, a substance, has an insideness and
an outsideness.
"You cannot have a surface without the other surface. We
teach kids that in two dimensionality there is only one
surface, but we're always kidding them--we do that on a
piece of paper or on a blackboard when they both have more
than one side: therefore we have extracted a plane very im-
properly.
"And we talk about a point which is dimensionless.
was
A line
one-dimensional; a plane was two-dimensional;
and a cube is three-dimensional. I say we don't have dimen-
sionality less than four dimensionality. If we have some-
thing it is four-dimensional. It is only recently that we
have had a microscope. If we took an engineer's scale we get
down to 1/50th of an inch--you can really pick that off with
the naked eye. You get down to 100th, you get a glass."
Cig Franscript p. 14, RBF interview with Dr. Michael Bruwer,
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
(2)
You have
"You get down to 1/200th of an inch and you can't see it at
all. Long before people had microscopes there was a black
speck against a white background: it was too small, it was
under the dimensions that you and I can differentiate.
a speck of 200th of an inch; you can see it as a speck but
you couldn't resolve anything about it as a polyhedron.
is where man invented the idea of a point. You could point
to it, but it was subdimensional--he said.
This
"I started to see how we could make the mistake of points, and
lines, and planes as something that you put together and find
that you make reality. I started with my reality, and then
if there's a point to it, well, there's something there; and
if I put a really powerful magnifying glass to it I'm going
to find there is a crystal. It is a polyhedron and it has an
insideness and an outsideness. Anything that is substantial
has an insideness and an outsideness. Any substance has some-
thing that stands below it: sub-stance, withinness.
"I am going to take the minimum something. I take a rock and
I get a child to hit the rock; you keep hitting it and"
Cite transcript p.15, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
(3)
"you finally get to a something. You can't get to something.
less than four corners. It may be kind of flat and look like
a flat triangle but it has really an altitude and you find
that the minimum is four corners and six edges and four faces.
You cannot get a rock with less than three faces around a
corner. If it looks flat, it is just so many faces.
"The tetrahedron is fourfold symmetry: four minimum absolute
faces. A cube has only three. The minimum something has
four faces of symmetry, four vertexes of symmetry. Now that
is then the minimum something, degrees of freedom. I cannot
have something less than four corners and I cannot have a face
of less than three edges so that the minimum something has
six edges altogether. Any one face has three edges so these
six edges are vectors in that structure and they really are
the defining set of events and with every turn to play in
Universe we always get six moves so the minimum something is
a minimum play.
Cite transcript p. 15, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
"You always get six edges. They can be at all kinds of
angles so that's where the degrees of freedom are. We find
in topology that all somethings have vertexes, faces, and
adges, but the numbers of the edges in Universe is evenly
divisible by six. These are the six degrees of freedom and
they can be positive or negative and they are always there.
They are not on a plane; they are omnidirectional.
(4)
"The six motion freedoms are complex consequences of the
six degrees of freedom. If you want to get an instrument held
in position, it takes six restraints. If I have just five
restraints, then the tetrahedron will change shane. Shape
requires six restraints. Six restraints are what give
structure.
"A minimum system is a tetrahedron; a minimum structure has
six restraints, so anything that holds its shape has a
minimum of sex restraints so that the system itself can
spin or the system itself can orbit. The system itself
can indide out. There are systems behaviors and the six
degrees of freedom are internal to it."
-
Cite transcript p.16 RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Brawer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chiacog; 20 Feb 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
(5)
"So there are six internals and six externals. The six
system motions... will be part of the larger system in order
to have them stop: they will be frozen in part of the larger
system, they are going to have to lose one of those freedoms.
we come to the six positive and the six negatives and
there really are always 12 and they alternate equi-economically.
"If he doesn't have these six degrees of internal restraints,
he's going to be very unstable internally.... You see if he
doesn't want to get on with the system, he spins by himself...
Oscillating is ambivalence: approaching and avoiding,...
Inside-outing I saw as being deceptive, putting the wrong
surface on themselves or the other way: giving up this game
person and being a real person--when he really believes in
the game so it is almost an unnatural thing....
"Precession I see as an effort I make to manipulate you, to
cause you to move... because it is really at 90 degrees...
you are looking this way... very inadvertent.
"I am saying that society doesn't realize that the most"
-
Gite transcript p.17, RBF taped interview with Dr, Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
"powerful social behavior is precessional... where my effect
is inadvertent. If you are a strong psychiatrist and your
patient thinks well of you, he orbits around you literally.
All society is going in orbit in various realms...literally,
the weak ones around the strong ones.
"We get such a static picture of people standing with one
another in a house... we don't think of this. The mother will
be in orbit about somebody else and the children will be in
orbit about her.
"...Torauing is a squeeze, all right. You go through the
wringer, as they say. That's torquing.
It ...while oscillation is expansion and contraction: like we
eat our food and then we get rid of it. So our friendship
proceeds. We see so much of each other and then we stop,
much as I am going to do with you. I would like to give you
so much and let you have something and then you can study
that and then come back for more. That's oscillating to me.
You put on food and expend it--put on metaphysical fuel and
expend it.'
Cite transcript p. 18, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb 77
(6)

Six Hotion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
See Absolute lietwork
behavioral Phases
Behavior Potential
Inventory of
Proclivities:
Motions: Six Positive
Energetic Functions
Structural Functions
llegative
(1)

Six Motion Freedoms:
See Basic Motions
Motions:
Six Positive & Negative
(1)

Six Motion Freedoms:
See Equilibrium & Disequilibrium, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six-Ridge Tetrahedral Globe:
(1)
"As we take a close-up view of our little Spaceship Earth we
see that the three-quarters of it which is covered with water
has a greatest depth of about six miles, which is about the
same as the six-mile altitude of its greatest dry land mountain
peaks. We find that these ten-mile maximum variations of the
spherical Spaceship Earth's 8,000-mile diameter are comparatively
negligible. If we are looking at a 12-inch diameter globe, the
distance between the outermost mountain peak and the innermost
ocean depth is only 1/50th of an inch, which visually is an
almost undetectable amount. As we look at a 12-inch globe, the
thickness of the ink with which an ocean is depicted is deeper
in proportion to the globe than in the real
Earth globe's ocean depth in respect to its diameter.
"Three major mountain ridges of the Spaceship Earth converge in
the Antarctic continent. From the South Pole one runs north-
wardly in the high continental plateau of Africa, and thence
into Europe culminating as the Alps. A second ridge runs
northwardly under water and emerges as Australia Falaysia, and
later as Indo-China. A third ridge consists of South America's
Andes which runs northward through Central America to terminate"
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.6, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six-Ridge Tetrahedral Globe:
"in North America's Mexican mountains.
"In the northern hemisphere, the northern ends of these three
southern-hemisphere-emanating ridges are interconnected by
fourth, fifth, and sixth ridges, respectively. The fourth
consists of the Alps, Asia linor's highlands and islands, and
the Himalayas. This fourth ridge runs between Europe and
Indo-China and interconnects the northern terminals of ridges
one and two. The fifth ridge consists of the China-Kamchatka
mountains, and the Aleutian ahd North America's Rockies, which
joins the northern end of ridge two with the northern end of
ridge three in Mexico. The sixth ridge runs from Mexico and
the terminals of ridges three and five via El Paso, Texas, and
is thereafter momentarily broken through by the Mississippi;
it continues as the Ozarks and the Appalachians and reaches
northeastward as a chain via "ewfoundland, Labrador, Greenland,
Iceland, British isles, Scandinavia, and Úrals to final
juncture with ridges one and four at the Alps.
"These six main ridges have for long been seen by physical
geologists and geographers to constitute the now distorted--
(2)
sunken here and risen there-- six edges of a spherical tetrahedron."
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.7, 1968

KBF DEFINITIONS
Six-Ridge Tetrahedral Globe:
51
(3)
"The spherical tetrahedron's four spherical triangle areas are
roughly to be identified as: (1) the Indian Ocean and its
abutting countries; (2) the Pacific Ocean; (3) the Atlantic
Ocean (including Europe); and (4) the northern portion of
North America (U.S.n., Canada), the Arctic Russia and China. . . .
"The spherical tetrahedron's twisted ridges tell the evolutionary
history of Spaceship Earth's contractual shrinkings and yieldings
to primary force events of complex universal energy transactions.
The Earth sphere's shrinking and ridge twisting is like that of
cooked green peas."
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.7, 1968

Six S'a:
See Architectural Aesthetics:
Six S8a

Sixthing of the Circle:
See Foldability: Six Cases of Foldability of Great
Circles; 22 Nov 73

Six-vector Teams:
See Proton & Neitron
Quantum:
Event-paired Quanta

RBF DEFINITIONS
Six-Wave (Sexave) Phenomenon of Number:
ft
Six dimensional" provides " for the six-wave
(sexave) phenomenon of number. "
-
Citation and context at Powering: Sixth Dimension, 29 Nov'72

Sixness:
See Frame of Reference: Six Schemata
Hexagonal Vector Pattern
Interrelationships: Fourness & Sixness
Minimum Six
Powering: Sixth Dimension
Powering: Sixth Powering
Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts
Foldability: Six Cases of Foldability of Great
Circles
Interrelationship Twoness
Basic Event
Motions: Six Positive & Negative
(1)

Six: Sixness:
See Coherence, 11 Feb'73; 18 Feb 71
Dimensional Reference Frame, 1972
Energy Event, 7 Oct 71
Event, 11 Oct 71*
Geometry of Thinking, 16 Dec*73
Insideness & Outsideness, 11 Oct 71
Integer, 15 Oct'72
Line, 7 Nov 172
Minimum System, 26 May'72
Minimum Set, 18 Nov 72
Norm: Tetrahedron as Norm, 15 May '72
Pulsation, 9 Nov'72*
Quantum, Jun 66*
Relevance, 22 Jun 172
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 29 Nov 72; 27 Jan '75
Strut, 1950s*
Structure, 16 Dec 173
Tetrahedron, 1960*; (1) (2); 1965
Universal Joint: Tetrahedron, y Nov'73
Pauling, Linus, 1965
(2A)

40
Six: Sixness:
See Vectors Are Real, 23 May 72
Positional Differentials, 1 Feb'75
Interference, (517.10) Nov*71
Structural Quanta, 9 Nov' 73
Restraints, 8 Aug 77
(2B)

Sixteen: Sixteen-ness:
See Spherical Triangle Sequence, (111)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
"Sixty degrees is the vector equilibrium neutral angle relative
to which life-in-time aberrates."
Citation & context at Neutral Angle, 16 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreenesa:
"All the cosmic triangling of all variaties of angles
always averages out to 60 degrees."
-
Citation and context at Sphericity of Whole Svatoma, 26 Sep'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
"Energetic geometry discloses the rational fourth, fifth,
and sixth powering modelability of nature's coordinate
transformings as referenced to the 60° equiangular
isotropic vector equilibrium."
-
Cite PRE
Citation at Fourth Dimension, 21 Dec 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
"The metaphysically permitted frame of reference for all
the asymmetrical physical experience of humanity is
characterized by the 60-degree coordination with which
synergetics explores nature's behaviors-- metaphysical
or physical."
->
Cite RBF dictation-for-SYNERGETICS, Beverly Hotel, New York,
20 Feb, 171 See Jec. 205.4 of Oct. *71.
Citation at Frame of Reference, Oct 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
With regard to Z-cobra open triangular spiral which make
up the tetrahedron:
"Note the approximately 60 degree
angularly precessional reactions or resultants."
"
Cite RBF Marginis on Synergetics Illustration #2,
7 Oct. 1971, Washington, DC.
TETRAHEDRON-622.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
"Among the Phoenicians and the Polynesians
•
the
sixty degreeness was known to them and it was the king's
capability. The common people on the island were kept
in just by having ninety degreeness with which they were
not able to do any important kind of mathematics at all.
But what you could do with sixty degreeness was very
powerful. So the sixty degreenes is part of the
coordinate system that I am talking about.
When we begin
to integrate our arithmetic on a sixty degree basis, then
we begin to find some coinciding with the topological
interactions of systems, particularly the vector equilibrium.
· Cite Tape transcript RBF to EJA, Chez Wolf, 18 June 1971.
-
"
P. 36

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
"If we accept 60 degreeness we find that instead of getting
only four right triangles around a point in a plane, or eight
cubes around a point in space, we get six 60-degree angles
about the point in the plane, and 20 tetrahedra around one
point in space. Furthermore the circumferential modular
frequency of planar or omnidirectional patterning will always
be in one-to-one correspondence with the radial frequencies
of modular subdividing. When we do this, we find we have made
a model of the spontaneously coordinate structure which
nature actually uses the vector equilibrium."
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes), p. 72,1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
毁 '... The particles which make up cement are sifted sand
and gravel, which, though they look rough, pack averagedly
as spheres would pack-- in 60-degree angular packing. Few
people think of cement that way, but if it is shaken down,
agitated well, and lubricated together with a colloid, it
will automatically avail itself of nature's tetrahedral
structuring in 'closest packing' pattern."
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes
1965, p. 86.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
"There are in closest packing, we find, always alternate
spaces that are not being used so that triangular groups
can be rotated into one position or 60 degrees to an
alternate nestable place.
.
In other words you take the
vector equilibrium, rottate it 60 degrees to the next
nestable position and suddenly it is polarized."
-
Citation & context at Yector Equilibrium: Polarisation, Jul 62
Cite Oregon Lactu

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness:
•
Whereas we can only get eight cubes around a point
90 degreeness uses up all the space around a point.
When I am dealing in 60 degreeness, when I am using
tetrahedron as unity, we can get the whole volume of 20
tetrahedra around one point. The tetrahedron is unity.
We are getting 20 around a point instead of eight.
If I have a volume of 20 around a pointm then two to the
fourth power is 16 plus two to the second power. . It is
very easy to make models of the fourth dimensionalities."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, pp. 137-138.6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
While
Sixty Degree Hodulatability:
" The cubes always and only co-occur in the eternal
cosmic vector field and are symmetrically oriented within
the field, none of the cubes' edge lines are ever congruent
or rationally
equatable with the most economical energetic
vector formulating which is always rational of low number
or simplicity as manifest in chemistry. Wherefore humanity's
adoption of the cube's edges as its dimensional coordinate
frame
of scientific event reference gave him need to employ
a family of irrational constants with which to translate
their findings into their unrecognized isotropic vector
matrix relationships where all nature's events are most
economically and rationally intercoordinated with omni-
sixty-degree, one-, two-,
three-, four-, and five-,
dimensional omnirational frequency modulatability.
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 982.13, 19 Nov'72

Sixty Degree Modulatability:
See Vector Equilibrium: Field of Energy, (C) (D)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness: vs mety Degreeness:
"It could be that in always only coexistant action-reaction
180°-ness begets 90°-ness
and
90°-ness begets 180°-r
-ness
ergo (active)
and 60°-ness is neutral, ergo (potential)
Citation at Precession, 8 Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness; vs. Ninety Degreeness:
"Perpendicularity (90-degreeness) uniquely characterizes
the limit of three-dimensionality. Equiangularity (60-
degreeness) uniquely characterizes the limits of four-
dimensional systems."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 965.04, 17 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness; va, Ninety Degreeness:
What shows up as so very important in all
our synergetics is the sixty degree coordination whether
it is circumferential or radial, giving a sixty degreeness.
You have a fundamental coordination that way that you
cannot getin a ninety-degreeness where the hypotenuses
of the nintey degree angles will not be congruent and
logically integratable with the radii."
Cite tape transcript RBF to EJA, Chez Wolf, 18 June 1971. p. 35.
60.
DEGREE COGRGINATION - SEC, 432.02)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degrees: Vs. Ninety Degreeness:
"I use 60 degrees as normal instead of 90 degrees."
Citation at Normal, 2 May'71

RBFDEFINITIONS
Sixty Degreeness: vs. Ninety Degreeness:
"I am quite confident that I have discovered the coordinate
system employed by nature and it uses 60 degrees instead of
90 degrees. Also the lines don't go through a point but
they are 60-degrees convergences even though the lines
don't ever get together. They get in critical proximities--
and there are the domains of the convergences-- and so forth,
even though they are open as you get to the non-closed
convergences."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, P, 133. 6 Jul 162

Sixty Degreeness vs. Ninety Degreeness:
See Precession & Degrees of Freedom, (1)*
Vector Equilibrium:
Normal, 2 May'71*
Field of Energy, (A)-(D)
Spherical Octahedron, 29 Nov 72
Domains of Convergences, 7 Nov' 73
Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas, (1) (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sixty Degrees as Norm:
"I use 60 degrees as normal instead of 90 degrees."
-
Citation at Sixty Degrees, 2 May171

Sixty Degreeness:
See Babylonian Mathematics
Cosmic Neutral
Closest Packing of Spheres
Equiangularity
Hexagon
Octet Truss
Spherical Octahedron
Tetrahelix:
Continuous Pattern Strip
Vector Equilibrium: Field of Energy
Sixty Degreeness vs. Ninety Degreeness
(1)

Sixty Degreeness:
See Aberration Limit, 22 Jun' 72
Fourth Dimension, 21 Dec 71*
Frame of Reference, 21 Dec'71*
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec 73
Energy & Number, Oct 71
Frequency, 2 Nov' 73
Nestable, 11 Jul 62
Neutal Angle, 16 Dec 73*
Normal to Universe, 10 Sep' 74*
Pi, Nov 71
Precession, 8 Dec'72*
Sphericity of Whole Systems, 26 Sep* 73*
Synergetics, 14 Kay' 73
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, (A)
Three-way Great Circling:
Universe, 26 Sep*73
Three-way Grid, 17 Feb 72
Vector Equilibrium: Polarization, (1)*
Vector Equilibrium, 26 Aug 75
Zero Volume Tetrahedron, 10 Dec 75
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (a), (c), (g)-(1)
Gravity: Speed Of, 21 Oct 72
Triacontrahedron, 31 Jul'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size is special case."
Context and citation at Shape: Energy Has Shape, 25 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size is physical and is manifest by frequency of length,
Size is manifest in the four
area, volume and time.
variables of relative length, area, volume, and time; these
are all four expressible in terms of frequency."
-
Citation and context at Prime State, 21 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size is always special-case experience."
Citation and context at Equiangularity, 25 Sep' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"The relative size of the vector equilibrium begins with
the initial omnidimensional geometrical configuration of
reference. Vector equilibria, as with the tetrahedra or
other polyhedra, are conceptually valid vector equilibria
or tetrahedra, independent of size. Size is where relativity
becomes generated. The eternality of synergetics is
conceptually experienceable independent of the successive
experiences of relativity of time and size."
[04]
->
Cite RBF rewrite at SYNERGETICS Sec. 445.03, 22 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size Sense comes with comparative experience."
-
Citation and context at Otherness, 28 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
'... velocity being a product of time and size modules;
and mass being a volume-weight relationship..."
->
Citation and context at Time, 27/2 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Every event has size."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec 240., by RBF 11 Oct. 171,
Haverford, Penna.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Vectors are size.
No vectors = No size.
No size = No vectors."
-
Cite SYTERCETICS Corlollaries, Sec. 240.
By RBF 11 Oct. 1971, Haverford, Penna.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Frequency and Size are the same phenomena. ft
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 23 August 1971, Synergetics
SIZE-SEC. 52803)
Sept. 171 draft, Sec. 882.1.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size alone can come to zero-- not conceptuality. We have
a sizeless nucleus for the jitterbug pumping model."
The point is the micrososmic turning around between
going inwardly and going outwardly."
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971
SIZE-SEC. 52802)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"There are three different aspects of size: linear,
aerial and volumetric and each one has a different
velocity." In coordinate symmetry "as they move in
toward the opposite vertex, all these velocities come
to zero at the same time. But because of the 60-degreeness,
the six edges and the four faces and the symmetry were
never being altered, they were not variables.
The only
variable was size. So size and size alone can come to
The conceptuality of these aspects never changes."
zero.
-
-
Give RRF tape, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971,
Po 25 and 26.
Citation and context at Coordinate Symmetry, 31 May'71
512E SEC 52802

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"The word locally means locally in time and space.
By space we mean size-- a function of time."
-
Cite RBP to Elt, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
-
Citation at Local, 22 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
(1)
"We can say an angle is an angle independent of the length
of its edges. Likewise, a triangle is a triangle independent
of its size. By Size we do not refer to the angle, but to
the length of the edges, or magnitude of the faces or
volumes, described by the linear boundaries. How long the
edges are can be determined experimentally only in the terms
of the repetitive multiples of some given pattern experience.
The given experience module has a fundamental time consideration.
All experience of size refers to the duration of the pattern-
describing events. And the observer's time sense refers to
any of his own afterimage consideration of one of his
integral recycling organs.
"A basic time cycle is a circle or a loop back.
"Therefore an angle is subcyclic, for it is only part of
a circle.
"Angles, being cyclic, are subsize, for size begins with one
cycle."
- Cite RBF holograph with old Synergetics draft, circa 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
(2)
"When man refers to dimension he refers to the size aspects
of his experiences as related to other experiences.
"That he had found the linear coordinates of an XYZ-
rectilinear interrelationship useful in
analyzing omnidimensional pattern experiences
does not pre-empt the arithmetical evaluation of alternatives
in dimensioning our experiences.
"In book (SYNERGETICS) I must elimate the words three-
dimensional as meaningful, and always use omnidirectional
observation of multi-dimensional characteristics, with
angle and frequency of cyclic reference as the only
requirements."
Cite RBF holograph with old Synergetics Draft, circa 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size and intensity are sensorial comparing functions
of the special case experiences by brain and not by mind.
Mind is concerned only with principles that hold true
independently of size yet govern the relative size
relationships."
Cita NEHRH SPEECH, P.12.13 Nov 69
* Citation & context at Brain & Mind, 13 Nov'69
SIZE-SEC 528.06)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size: (A)
"Concept of an experience's relationship to other
experiences, defined in term of cyclic repetition of any
one experimental demonstrable self-terminating or single-
cycle experience. (A triangle, a tetrahedron, or a sphere,
etc., is a triangle, a teterahedron, or a sphere
independent of size. An angle is an angle independent of
the length of its edges. All of Plato's solids may have
the same length edges because their differences are
entirely angular. An angle is inherently a subdivision of
a single cycle. Therefore an angle is sub-size.)
"Size begins with one specific cycle's completion.
Angles are conceptual indépendently of size. Size is
linear. As linear size of an object is doubled, surface
is fourfolded and volume is eightfolded-- ergo areas
increase at a velocity of the second power and volumes at
a velocity of the third power-- ergo size variation relation-
ships are deceptive and not superficially predictable by
any one experience. As we double the length of a ship its
surface is fourfolded. Inasmuch as the power to drive a
ship through the sea and air at a given speed is directly
proportional to its surface, when we double its linear
Cite WORD MEANINGS, "Ekistics," Vol #28, Oct 69
SIZE SEC. 528.04

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"size, we fourfold its rate of expenditure of energy but we
eightfold its payload capacity. A ship's size is popularly
thought of in terms of her length. Therefore it comes as a
surprise that a man with a ship twice the length of another's
can make eight times as much profit. That is why shipowners
and sailors talk to one another in terms of tonnages
based on volumetric displacement of water by weight."
which is
-
Cite WORD MEANINGS, "Ekistics," Vol. #28, Oct'69
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size and time are synonymous."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, P. 6 - 28 Jan '69.
SIZE-SEC 528.03/

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size is a measure of relative magnitude of separate
linear, areal, volumetric, weight and other energetic
experiences."
"Conceptuality operates independent of size."
SIZE SEC. 528.01. + 528.02)
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 99, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Size is simply three different things: linear,
areal, and volumetric rates of change."
"So you have three rates of change in the phenomenon
called size."
"SIZE
-SEC. 528.02
Cite OREGON Lecture #6
-
pp. 210, 209 respectively
10 Jul
+62
Gite Carbondale Draft,
NATURE'S COORDINATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"The phenomenon size consists of frequency modulated
linear, that is, vectorial, dimension."
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 144, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"The relative size of a triangle is a secondary observer-
induced consideration and depends upon the frequency
modulated edge increments of the triangle as ratioed to
some other physical experience entity."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 144, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Shape is independent of size."
-
CIL SYNERGETICS
Corollaries,
- Citation & context at Shape, Oct 59
240.36. Oct159.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Arithmetical size dimensionality is identified
geometrically with relative frequency modulation."
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 114, Oct'59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
[Size
Size is not a generalized conceptual principle."
Whether referring to the size of an object in respect to
other objects or the sizes of any one object's subdivision,
size emerges exclusively as a frequency concept uniquely
differentiating out each 'specialized case."
NB. BRACKETED
SEC, 528.01-
INRASE DELETED
BY RBF-
FRIA
SYNERGETICS
DRAFT AT
OCT. 1971
SIZE - SEC. 528.011
Cite INTRO. to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 119, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size:
"Generalized shape conceptioning is independent
of size. A triangle is a triangle independent
of size."
-Cite Intro, to OMNIDERCETIONAL HALO, p. 119, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size Dimensionality:
"Synergetical sise dimensionality is identified geometrically
with relative frequency modulation."
Citation and context at Dimensionality (2), 28 Oct173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size Dimensionality:
"Arithmetical size dimensionality is identified geometrically
with relative frequency modulation."
Cite COLLIER's and SYNERGETICS "Corollaries," Sec. 240.46
and "Modelability, Poering,
Sec. 777.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Size-selective:
"Isotropic vector matrixes
"
are inadvertently, i.e.,
subjectively activated by the size-selective metaphysical
consideration initiatives, or . . . objectively and
physically articulated in consciously tuned electromagnetic
transmission... 11
Citation and context at Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov' 72

Size:
See Independence of Size
Magnitude
Presize
Sizeless
Subfrequency
Subsize
Time-sise
Zerosize
Oil Tankers: Size Of
Rigid Sized
Structural Performance & Sise
Time-angle-size Aspects
(1)

Size:
See Acceleration: Angular & Linear (1) (2)
Brain & Mind, 13 Nov'69*;
Coordinate Symmetry, 31 May'71*
Equiangularity, 25 Sep' 72**
Frequency, 16 Feb 73
Local, 22 Apr*71*
Otherness, 28 May '72*
Prime State, 21 Mar 73*
Reality, 23 Aug171
Rigid, 24 Sep' 73
Shape: Energy Has Shape, 25 Sep'73*
Shape, Oct 59*
Time, 27 May 172
Synergetics vs. Model (A)
Structure, 27 Dec'74
Infinity Frequency, 19 Feb'76
(2)

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

Sizeless:
See Conceptuality Independent of Size
No-size Conceptual Model
Zerosize
Prime
Subfrequency
Zerophase
(1)

Sizeless:
See Conceptual Tuning, 24 May'72
Frequency, 2 Novi 73
Mind As Reality, 27 Mar 73
Multiplication By Division, 4 Nov'73
Omnidirectional, 1960
Point, 20 Feb'73
Synergetics, 24 Sep'73
Tepee: Half-spin Tepee Twist, 20 Feb'73
Tetrahedron, 24 Sep 73
Timeless, 1 Apr 72
Vacuum, 17 Feb 72
Vector Equilibrium, 1 May'71*
Prime, 18 Dec174
Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium, 28 Jan' 75
Model vs. Form, 8 Apr 75
Life, 5 Jun 75
Nuclear Cube, 11 Dec 75; 23 Feb: 76
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (B)
(2)

Skew Skew-aberrated:
See Radial-circumferntial, 9 Jan'74
Dynamic Symmetry, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Skiing:
"That's all skiing is-- the angular valving of gravity."
Cite RBF to Mary-Averett Seelye, Trapier Theater, St. Albans
School, 20 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Skiing:
"...A ski compresses the snow into a grooved track of icy
slidability.
"
Citation & context at Airplane Flight as Lift, 4 Oct'72

Skiing: Skier:
See Surfing: Surfboarding
(1)

Skiing: Skier:
See Design Science: Education For, 1 Feb'75
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Skinner: B.E:
"I know and like Skinner. He is sincere and committed to his
theories. I observe that he does not differentiate between
brain and mind. (See my book 'Intuition.') Assuming only
brain, chromosomes, DNA-RNA, and that life is entirely physical,
it is logical for him to see everything as mechanistically
behavioral and omniexplicable by humans because he excludes
from consideration an a priori, eternally inexhaustible,
mysterious integrity governing Universe; only a few of those
reliably guiding principles have thus far been discovered by
humans."
Cite RBF Ltr. to James Coley, Sep'73

Skin It, Milk It, or Eat It:
See Female, 17 Oct '72; May 65
Kale & Female, 19 Dec 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Skinning:
"When you transfer the projected data from the surface of a
sphere to a plane, you have to break open the spherical skin
in order to peel it. There will be various angular cuts in
the periphery of the skin when it is laid out flat, just as
you take the skin off an animal. The openings along the
edges are called sinuses, The sinuses on my map_occur in
the water. None of the cuts go into the land. Therefore, I
am able to take all of the data off the Earth globe and make
it accurately available in the flat."
Cite RBF to Wm. Marlin, Architectural Forum, p.71, Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Skinning:
"As in skinning an animal, a fruit, or a vegetable to
provide a flat skin stretch-out, the development of a flat
map of the complete world involve's arbitrary piercing of
the world ball's surface map-skin, thereby making one or
more holes or gashes from which to start the stretching-
out and peeling-off process of the skin until it is liftable
from off its ball center. After the data has been further
stretched it may be laid out as one or more flat map sections.
If the skinning is accomplished in separate peelings and
those sections have curved peripheries they may be tangentially
only as 'gears' or 'fans', which destroys the chance of
forming a continuous one-surface comprehensive world map.
"To provide a continuous one-surface world map-- while
peeling off the sections of the globe-- the transformation
must be such that the pieces have straight and matching
edges when peeled off and flattened out."
Cite Undated Sheet: "THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Skinning: Tiger's Skin:
"Typical of all the finitely conceptual objects or systems,
the tiger's skin can be pierced and slotted open. There-
after, by enlarging the slotted hole by gashes in various
directions, the skin can be peeled off all in one piece.
It can be made to lay out flat by making a lunar-gash from
the skin's edge into any remaining domical area of the
skin. The slitting of a paper cone from its circular edge
to its apex allows the paper to be layed out _ as a flat
*fan, intruded by an angualr sinus. . . The surface contour
of every object or system-- be it a complex creature such
as crocodile, or a simple cube or a dodecahedron can thus
be 'skinned' and laid out in the flat."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 13. 13, Nov'69
SYSTEM - SEC. 4o1.41

Skinning:
See Angular Sinus Takeout, Dec161
Thinkable System Takeout (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Skin Pigmentation:
"At the heart
Of the heart
Of the Applewhite
Heart
Are ever
The black seeds
Whose skins
Like the Skin
Of its stem
Are its skin kin
To the barks
Of the appletrees
Ad finitum,
"As the Sun's radiation
Is phtosynthesized
Into regeneration
Of biologically accommodated
Intelligent life
Around planet Earth
By unique differentiations
Of total electromagnetic
Spectrum
Into most locally effective
Pigmentations."
Cite RBF Valentine to the Applewhites, "with dearest love
for them from Uncle Bucky,' 14 Feb 72, 3200 Idaho, Wash.,
D.C., U.S.A., Earth.

Skin Pigmentation:
2
See Race, (1)-(4)

Skin:
Skins:
See Kembrane
Sieve
Walls
(1)

Skins: Skin:
See Plastics, 10 Aug 70
Good & Evil Sequence (1)
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, 11 Dec 175
Montreal Expo'67 Dome, (A)
North Face Domes, 20 Sep' 76
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (9) (10)
(2)

Skirt: Skirts:
See Angular Sinus Takeout, Dec'61

Skybreak Bubble:
See Dome: Montreal Expo '67 Dome Sequence, (4)

Sky Ocean:
See Airocean

Sky Dwelling: Sky-island City:
See Floating City
Habitable Satellite
Spac Structures
}
Skybreak Bubble
(1)

Sky Dwelling: Sky-island City:
See Dwelling Service Industry (5)
Inventability Sequence (1)
(2)

Sky Harbor:
See Heaven, 13 Nov169

Skyscraper:
See Horisontal Skyscraper
Crystalline Asparagus
(1)

See Buildings as Machines, 13 Nov*69
New York City, 13 Mar 75; (1)-(12)
Invented Jobs, 20 Sep' 76
Skyscrapera:
(2)
21

Sky Tug Helicopter:
See Air Delivery & Submarine Cities (3)
Service Industry, 29 Aug'64

Sky:
See Air
Biosphere
Heaven:
Heavens
(1)

Sky:
See Order & Disorder, 5 Jul162
Visual Symphony (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Slang:
"Slang is the human drive to say more with less. Slang
gains its users by its poetical economy. "
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, p. 20

Slang:
See Fresh, 3 Oct 71

Slaps in the Face:
See Rationalization Sequence, (3)

Slave-eliminating Machine:
See Invention Sequence, (2)

Slave Mentality:
See Life Is Not Physical, 29 Jun 72

Slave Profession: Slave Discipline:
See Architecture, Noy!66
Science, 10 Oct 63

Slave: Slayedom:
See Academic Tenure
Divide & Conquer
Energy Slave
Industrial Hypocrisy
Serf: Serfdom:
Serf Complex
(1)

Slave: Slavedom:
See Comprehensiveness, 3 Nov'64
Energy Slave (1)
Labor: American Labor, 1960
Specialization, 1970
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sleep:
"Sleep is the great normalizer. The brain can only do its
subconscious sorting when we are asleep. It accommodates
the asymmetries and restores the symmetrical." "t
(Above observation was a propos Arthur Clarke's
contention that sleep is an intolerable waste
of time.)
Cite RBF to EJA, Pepper Tree Inn, Santa Barbara, 11 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sleep:
"I've finally learned to accept the fact that apparently
nature intends us to get to a point where we're supposed to
sleep. For years I managed to get by on just two or three
hours, letting myself sleep a half-hour ever four, or six
or whatever it was, It worked fine, but it was a terrible
inconvenience for my wife and she made me stop it. You can
theorize about what sleep is, but it seems to me that each
day we just get more and more asymmetrical until we have to
sleep to get back into symmetry again. So I know I have
to sleep and I know that if I use the reserve energies I'll
have to take time to fill those reserve tanks. They're in
an inconvenient position and they have small nozzles, and it
takes longer to fill them. But the point of all this is that
I'm so convinced of what's happening that I don't have any
personal option at all. So just being tired is not enough
reason to take it easy. I know that I get to the point where
I'm so fuzzy-, imded that I'll mess things up more than help
them, and then sleep is something I don't consider sinful.'
Cite RBF in Barry Fowler Playboy Interview, 1972
Draft. p. 39.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sleep:
"Though one-third of our time is pre-allotted to the discontinu-
ance of consciousness as sleep, the rotation of night as a
shadow around the Earth results in a rotating wave of shadow
sleepers, while two-thirds of all mankind are at all times
continuously awake."
Citation & context at Continuous Man (2), 1963

Sleeping Bag:
See Back Pack, 20 Sep*76
North Face Domes, 20 Sep' 76

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

552
Sleeping in the Same Bed After the Other Guy Has Gotten Out Of It:
See Congruence, 25 Jan '72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sleeping & Thinking:
Q.
RBF:
"Do you practice meditation? Is there a kind
of Dymaxion sleep?"
"I have never practiced it and I have never used
either of those terms. I try to comprehend what my faculties
may be. I can go to sleep in 30 seconds. Animals can go to
I thought this
sleep and still spring instantly into action.
might be a good way to make the most of your time and energy,
as a runner has a second wind--drawing on his reserve tanks.
But it takes much more time and piping to replenish the
reserve tanks.
"So I decided to try and see if I could sleep at a higher
frequency than the daily and nightly_periods of the earning-
a-living game.
So I slept whenever I felt like it. You
After two years
cannot put out unless you are putting in.
I found that I was sleeping only a half-hour every six hours,
or getting only a total of two hours sleep a day and all the
while I was incredibly healthy.
"That may be something like the idea of meditation... we have
all these messages coming in... I like to focus on some'
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sleeping & Thinking:
"familiar object such as a boat I particularly like... and
in 30 seconds I am asleep: that's the most I do in the way
of meditation.
(2)
"But I do a great deal of thinking, trying to put events
together and sort out the significance of my experiences.
By employing word tools we are able to compound the experiences
of total humanity. I found a lot of nonsense coming out of
my mouth. So I let my wife do the talking for me for all
our everyday needs as I was resolved to say nothing until I
was sure what its effect would be on other human beings...
So I just kent at work... paying no attention to others."
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila. PA; 22 Jun' 77

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

Sleep: Sleeping:
See All-acceleration Universe (1)
Conscious & Subconscious, Jun'66
Continuous Man (2)*
Metaphysics, 2 Jul 62
Packaged, Jun '66
We-me Awareness, 31 May' 74
Invented Jobs, 20 Sep' 76
Equilibrium & Disequilibrium, (1) (2)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (15)
(2)

HBP DEFINITIONS
Slenderness Ratio:
"The Greek architects found experientially
That when a stone column's heaight
Exceeds eighteen diameters of its girth
It tends to fail by buckling.
The length to diameter ratio
Of compressional columns
1s called its slenderness ratio.
Steel columns are more stable
Than stone columns.
Steel columns are structurally usable
With slenderness ratios as high as thirty-to-one.
But such columns are called long columns.
A short column is one whose slenderness ratio
Is far below that of the Greek column.
Short columns tend to fail by crushing
Rather than by buckling.
A twelve-to-one slenderness ratio
Provides a short column.
Cite BRAIN & hiku, p.127, May 72

Slenderness Ratio:
See Cigar Shape
Length-to-girth Ratio
(1)

Slenderness Ratio:
See Sphere, 2 Mar'68
Tension, 15 Oct'64
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Slides: Use of Slides in Lectures:
"A lot of people tease me about how start to give a lecture
and have someone get out the projector and then we never get
around to using the slides. I am so convinced though that
what I have been saying to you-- about the fact that men do
not see outside themselves, they only see in here-- that I
am quite sure you have the best illustrating capability in
sight. If I put it on the wall here it tends to make you
lazy and short circuits. Not until I am quite confident that
you are constructing in here, in your head, do I feel
confident that it is all right to expose you to the slides."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 140. 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Slides: Graphics vs. Words:
"I hope that I have been successful in communicating this
to you conceptually without recourse to pictures.
No man
has ever seen outside of himself. He always sees in his
brain. I think it is as easy to stimulate the brain
conceptioning by words as it is by graphics. I often find
in lectures that I don't have to show the slides which I
had been prepared to do because I found that people had
conjured up in their own brains from my words the very
picture which I had intended to show but had gone on
spontaneously to describe in advance. It is my intutive
surmise that the pictures thus conjured up are more
powerfully planted in the other man's brain than those
resulting from the beams of light bounced off a photograph
back to the human eye lenses, retina and nerve connections
and after to be scanned and IMAGE-ed (imagined) in the brain."
-
Cite Letter to Dr. R. Urmston, 8 Oct 164, p. 2

Slides: Graphics vs. Words:
See Model, 22 Jan'75

Slides:
See Lecturing

Slingshot:
See Charting Alternating Experiences (4)

Slings:
See Precession, (II)

Slipper:
See Flying Slippers

RBF DEFINITIONS
Slow:
"Very, very slow changes humans identify as inanimate.
Slow changes of pattern they call animate and natural."
-
-
CICE RBF Introduction to Gene-Youngblood
p.25, Oct 70
Citation at Animate & Inanimate, Oct 70
EXPANDED CINEMF,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Slower & Closer vs. Faster & Far Apart:
"A little body moving at sufficient velocity could have the
same effect upon another body with which it interferes as could
a big body moving at a slower rate."
-
Citation & context at Interference (2), Jun'66

Slower & Closer va. Faster & Far Apart:
See Energy Magnitudes: Order of
Fast & Slow
Frequency: High & Low
Local Radius vs. Wide Arc
Rates & Magnitudes
Slow: The Slower We Get the More Crowded
We Get
(1)

Slower & Closer vs Faster & Far Apart:
See Environmental Events Hierarchy (4) (5)
Domains of Actions, 9 Jul'62
Freeways, Mar'66
Gestation Rate, 1 Mar 77
(2)

Slow: The Slower We Get the More Crowded We Get:
See Airplanes:
Far Apart in the Sky but Slowed Down
When Close Together on the Land
Ships: A Fleet of Ships Needs More Room at Sea
Than When Docked Side by Side
Population Density: Manhattan Jet Dispersal
(1)

Slow: The Slower We Get the More Crowded We Get:
See Balloon (C)
Freeways, Mar'66
Pneumatic Structures, 25 Sep 72
(2)

Slowdown:
See Eternal Slowdown
(1)

Slowdown:
See Now, 14 Feb 72
(2)

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

Slow: Slowness:
See Changa
Fast & Slow
Speed
Velocity
Lag:
Lag Rates
(1)

Slow: Slowness:
See Eternal & Temporal, 4 Sep'77
(2)

Slums:
See Death: Slow Death by Slums
(1)

Slums:
See Building Industry, (2)
Buildings: Multiple Occupancy, 30 Apr' 74
Conformity, 10 Oct 63
Empty, May 70
Invented Jobs, 20 Sept 76
Office Buildings, 28 Jun 72
Reverse Optimism, Aug164
Weapons Technology, (2)
(2)

Small:
See Big & Little
Element: Smallest Chemical Element
Little
Nuclear-smallest
Tetrahedron as Smallest System

Smash-up:
See Explosion
(1)

Smash-up:
See Interference, (2); Nov 71
(2)

Smellable You:
See Hearable You, 22 Nov'73

Smell-discover:
See Transistor, 22 Jun'74

Smell:
See Olfactoral Sense
Odor: Odora
(1)

Small:
See Fail-safe, 17 Oct '72
Harmonics, (1)(2)
Wind Stress & Houses, (9)
Silence, 30 Sep' 76
(2)

Smith, Cyril Stapley:
See Fuller, R.B: Meeting with Fernandez-Moran, (1)
Gravity, (e)-(k)

Smoke Screens:
See Privacy, 22 Apr'61

RHE DEFINITIONS
Smythe:
Verner: RBF Patent Attorney:
See Billboard Model

Snake Swallowing Frog:
See Scenario Universe, 19 Jul'76

Snake Swallows its Own Tail:
See Interference, Feb'72

Snake: Snakes:
See Children as Only Pure Scientists,
(A)

Snowflake:
See Design, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
BALLOON
Snow Mound:
"A child, when playing in sticky snow, may make a big
mound of snow and hollow it out with his hands or a
shovel to make a cave. Then, looking at the hollowed
mound from outside, he may discover that he has made a
rough dome. He might then conclude that whatever makes
that structure stand up and span space is not dependent
on what was at the center because the snow has been
removed from the center. Whatever makes it stand up has
to do with the circumferential interactiond of the snow
crystals and their molecules and the latter's atoms. He
may find out by experiment that he could put not only one
hole, but many holes through the snow dome shell and it
continues to stand up. It becomes apparent that it would
be possible to take a pneumatic balloon, pair the molecules,
and get rid of all the molecules at the center that were
not hitting the balloon-- for it is only the molecules
that hit the balloon at high frequency of successive
bounce-offs that give the balloon its shape."
(For text immediately following see Tensegrity Geodesic Grid)
- (Same text: Lexico (6), PP. 46-47),
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION #96,
caption,
SECS, 656.40 +41\
caption 163

RBF DEFINITIONS
Snow Mound:
•
"In the case of the pneumatic bag
what makes the net
take the shape that it does is simply the molecules that
happen to hit it. The molecules that are not hitting it
have nothing to do with its shape.
••
"When you were a little child, the first time you went out
in a fairly deep snow, or the first time you were allowed
to go out on your own, you tended to make a mound of the
snow. It was a fascinating thing because you could push
it together and it would take shapes, it had coherence.
I am sure that almost every child with mittens on builds.
himself a mound and then starts chipping and working away
at the mound and makes a hole in it and he makes a cave.
He finds that he can get in it and what he discovers
is that the structural integrity has nothing to do with
the snow that used to be at the middle; It has something
to do with the circumferential set of action of molecules
there that you are accounting for. So we develop a
strong intuition about this when we are very young.
What
I saw that might be possible was that we might hollow out
the pneumatic network and we could do away with the
molecules that weren't doing the work, if we had the ones
that were doing the work neatly paired."
BALLOON SECS 656.40+41) Cite Oregons Lecture #5,
9 Jul'62

Snow Mound:
See Balloon

Soap Bubbles:
See Bubbles

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Adjustment:
"You'll find that energies are so distributed in Universe
that the number of times large amounts of energy is available
at any one point to do large things is very much less frequent
than the number of times small amounts are available to do
small things. The things we're talking about here, the
social adjustments are very big. They're magnificent, the
most marvelous part of the whole show. They don't get done
overnight, but they're actually happening so fast that I
can't beleve it. I've seen in my lifetime rectification,
rectification, rectification. And we really are getting
there, I'm convinced of it."
Cite RBF tape transcript for Barry Farrel Playboy Interview,
Feb 172. Deleted. See draft p. 64.

Social Breakout from Barnacle to Salmon:
See Coral Reef
Marine Life Analogy of lumans
(1)

Social Breakout from Barnacle to Salmon:
See Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (4)
(2)

Social Economica: Maiority Control of Social Economics
Kan by 1975:
See Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour
Production, (1)
Dymaxion Artifacts, (1) (2)

Social Economics:
See Design Revolution:
Standard of Living
Pulling the Bottom Up
(1)

Social Economics:
See Disarmament, (1) (2)
Old Man River Project, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Social Highway Experience: Three Autos:
"In the early days of the auto on a lonely road-- when you saw
another car coming-- there was always a third coming into view
or already in view. Three cars frequently come to approximately
the same highway point at approximately the same time. This is
not surprising because when, having first taken away the two
points from the system to accommodate the axis of the observer,
we always have the topologically constant relative abundance
of interference crossings, areas, and lines. Edges are lines.
The car paths are reality lines, traces, with universal three-
foldness of energy-event trajectory vectors. Universe keeps
sorting its event traces into bundles of three. The social
highway experience of three cars is the
inexorably present tricomplementarity relationship of the little
local triangle on the Earth's surface complemented by the
three other great-circle triangles of the terrestrial spherical
tetrahedron always produced in all system formation and trans-
forming. Critical proximities impose three triangulations."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 17 Feb'72 as rewritten by RBF:18 Feb
172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Highway Experience:
Three Autos:
"In the early days of the auto on a lonely road-- when you saw
another car coming-- there was always a third. Three cars always
come to approximately the same point at approximately the same
time. This is not surprising because when we take away the two
points for the axis of the observer, you always have the
constant relative abundance with its three edges. Edges are
lines. The cars are really lines... They are trajectories.
They are simply averaging out. Universe tends to keep sorting,
then, this way.
"We are really relating the social highway experience of three
cars to the complementarity of the little triangle on the
Earth's surface with the other three triangles. Critical
proximity imposes the generalization. The triangle imposes the
triangle."
->
Cite RBF to EJA + BO'R, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC, 17 Feb'72

Social Highway Experience: Three Autos:
See Probability Model of Three Cars on a
Spherical Triangle Sequence
Highway
(1)

Social Highway Experience: Three Autos:
(2)
See Sphericity of Whole Systems 26 Sep 73
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid, 17 Feb'72

Social Ignorance:
See Synergy: Degrees Of, (6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social-industrial Relay:
"Despite intermittent submissiveness to runaway momentums of
residual ignorance, man guards most dearly and secretly his
freedom of thought and initiative. Therefrom emanates the
social-industrial relax, from self-starters to group starters."
Citation & context at Understanding, 1 Apr 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Socialism:
"Socialism is just a boring way of speeding up the mess.
-
Cite RBF in Corcoran Gallery Address, Washington, DC
23 Feb 172
"

RBF D.FINITIONS
Socialism:
"Socialism means universal austerity."
Cite RBF to EJA
Carbondale
2 April 1971

RBP DEFINITIONS.
Socialism:
"The word socialism was invented to describe equal sharing
in the inadequacies of agricultural life support, ergo,
austerity for all. Who wants universal austerity? The
whole concept of socialism originated from an agricultural
(and only dawning) industrial era which is now finished
and is kept effective by 'ling-in-state' as an ignorance-
sustained conditioned reflex of society."
- Cite YORTY LTR, p. 5, 1 Apr '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Socialism:
Disarmament is stalled in the U.S. because the country
cannot keep its economy going through the 'irrigations system'
now fed at the top through annual weaponry undertakings without
seeming subscribing to 'socialism.' In wartime emergencies,
national management of economic activity is exempt from charges
of socialism, but by custom and law such centralised authority
is forbidden in peacetime. To avoid this embarrassment and
to keep our economy healthy, wartime emergency powers are
extended to meet the threat of the next war. This extension
is called 'cold war.' The U.S. knows that the world needs and
wants disarmament and that its socialism-avoiding subterfuge
becomes increasingly evident to the rest of the world and thus
less tenable. The government and powerful Washington lobbies
of the armaments contractors, supported by the labor unions,
are seeking ways to keep the economic irrigation system fed
from the top while also attaining progressive disarmament,"
-
Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Socialism:
"Socialism was one of yesterday's ways of dealing with
inadequate wealth.
Socialism is now as obsolete as the
stone hammer. So also is undeveloped static proprty,
or gold capitalism. Gold coins wear out; land erodes.
That is why capitalism is obsolete. Industry and biology
are metabolic; they grow."
-
Cite I&I, THE DESIGNERS AND THE POLITICIANS, p. 304. 1962

RBF DEFINITIONS
Socialism:
"Socialism-- the theory of austerity for all and the
sharing of the inadequacy with slow approach to certain
untimely demise."
Cite ARCHITECT AS WORLD PLANNER. July 161

Socialism:
See Air is Socialised
Public Lands
Technocracy
(1)

Socialism:
See Acceleration of Change, 1938
Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up, (7) (8)
Initiative, 10 Aug' 70
No Energy Crisis, (B) (C)
(2)

Social Justice:
See Television: Third Parent, May'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Organization:
Wa
"Now I would ask the question if this isn't of some importance,
this matter of fooling ourselves into thinking that we see
and feel the modern when it is unfeelable and unseeable.
I should think that it wouldhave very great significance.
It could have something to do with why it is at the present
moment that our technology is so developed that we could
feed and make everybody technically more successful than
any man has ever been before, and yet we don't have the
ability socially to organize ourselves to do anything about
it. We seem to be on the road to blowing ourselves up.
have more and more emergencies of higher and higher frequency,
so I would say that our social capability is lagging. And
I would say that much of our social disabilities have to
do with our being preoccupied with certain myths. What I
then intend to do in giving you the subject "Trends to
Invisibility," is to really try to examine if I can, the
ways in which we have deceived ourselves, and then examing
ways in which we might be able to organize ourselves
towards informing ourselves more effectively regarding
where we are in our Universe and what we might do about it."
Cite Oregon Lecture #1, pp. 22-23. 1 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Problema:
Tetrahedral Coordination of:
"...The tetrahedron can be extrapolated into life in all its
experience phases, thus permitting man's entry into a new era
of cosmic awareness."
Citation and context at Synergetics, 28 Oct'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Problems:
Tetrahedral Coordination Of:
I find
"I have received your paper on 'Organizational Structure'
entitled 'Mechanics of Group Dynamics'. It is splendid.
it fascinating to observe your extension of my work into your
social problems. I have intuited that they should be so
extendable because of their fundamental and general nature.
Colonel Lane made use of my tetrahedral coordinate system in
logistical and maintenance procedures in Marine Corps Aviation.
A Catholic priest, high in the councils of Rome, identified my
coordinate system with the High Church's interpretation of the
Heavenly Host. I myself have applied the tetrahedronal co-
ordinating system to the synergy of unique efforts of individuals
of the chemical science world who themselves have discovered and
verified the tetrahedral coordination of both the organic and
inorganic chemical structuring.
I was,
therefore, aware of the
extensibility of the principles but am therefore better prepared
to judge and acclaim your efforts as extraordinary and repre-
sentative of a major seasonal advance of the regenerative growth
of our seeds."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Lewis E. Lloyd, Dow Chemical economist,
Midland, Mich., 4 May'57

Social Problems: Tetrahedral Coordination of:
See Lloyd, Lews E: Dow Chemical Economist
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy of
Tetrahedral Dynamics
(1)

Social Problems: Tetrahedral Coordination of:
See Synergetics, 28 Oct 73
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom (1)(2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
"Our seeability is so inherently local that we never see
anything but asymmetries. Sociologists have such trouble
because they see (rather than principles) such a high
frequency of asymmetries."
MIA, Disckstone Hotely Chicago,
Citation & context at Asymmetry, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
"It is notable that the hard sciences, even mathematics,
have the generalizations. But the social scientists, the
behaviorists, have just the exceptions and not the generali-
zations."
Citation and context at Economics, 16 Feb173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences:
Analogue to Physical Sciences:
(1)
"Social relationships must follow the rational energy
quantum laws of physics but at a complex level. Social
behaviors must follow all the generalized scientific
principles such as synergy and precession. Because
precession imposes angles other than 180° upon all
interactions of all moving systems of Universe there are
no straight lines demonstrated in nature. The fundamental
wave behavior of all nature is a consequence of the
omni-intereffective precession. Host of our social
undertakings try to analyze subjectively and to persuade
objectively individuals to move in 180° or straight-
line paths. Such attempts are inherently futile.
society recognizes realistically that everything moves in
an angular wave patterning, society will be able to
accommodate its behavior in a more realistic and satisfactory
manner. Democracy's right-left pulsations are imposed by
nature's wave behavior. Then society comprehends the
omnirational isotropic vector matrix 60-degree angle
coordinate system it may then be able to emulate the
behavior of sailing ship masters and will learn how to beat,
which means angling first left and then right 45° off the
course leading directly into the wind, in order to
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p.31, 13 Nov'69
When

Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
(2)
"accomplish distances in the direction from which the
wind moves. Society finds it easy to sail with the wind
but has demonstrated a lesser capability in negotiating
windward passages. To sail with the wind is to yield to
evolutionary forces. To sail into the wind is to master
forces."
(Edited.)
Cite NEHRU SPEECH 1, pp. 31-32.13 Nov 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences:
Analogue to Physical Sciences:
"Though our social sciences have been earnestly seeking
generalized principles which might give them the insights
and design virtuosity enjoyed by physics, chemistry, et. al.,
they have until now had no important success. The reason
we have introduced the general systems' vectorial geometry
today is because it provides the connection between social
and physical science. It opens the doors to powerful
planning."
Cite Nehru Speech, pp. 29-30. 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences:
Analogue to Physical Sciences:
(A)
"I think the social sciences are going to be admitted, in due
course, into the rigorously operative ranks of the physical
sciences, but only as a consequence of physical science
entering the social field. Modern physical science and indus-
trial technology sprang from the discovery of natural law.
There are natural laws operative in both individual and coll-
ective human behaviors. So far, however, the social scientists
have failed to find any of the quantitative values governing
the natural laws in human behavior. But the physical scientists,
through cybernetics, behavioral science, and electrical probing
of the brain, and so on, are finding some of those behavioral
laws and their chemical, physical, and mathematical relation-
ships..."
"We can say that reform-intending social laws have been needed
when man did not understand adequately the physical laws.
The
1895 'It is forbidden to stick your head out of the railroad
car window should not be needed today...
....
"I think the social scientist ought to rejoice that he..."
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p.176; Kay'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
(B)
We might
"has been unable to find absolute social formulas.
say to the social scientists, 'It is just as scientific to
discover that there is no formula as it is to discover a
formula.'
"It was more difficult, socially and scientifically, to
discover zero than to discover one or two."' "
-
Cite AAUW JOURNAL, p.176, May'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
"... By my definition of Universe all that was relegated to
metaphysical nebulosity is now embraced by finite Universe
along with the physically energetic, wherefore all the
hitherto 'inexact sciences' may become rigorously defined,
enjoying equatable treatability at optimum degree of
determinability."
-
Cite INTRODUCTION TO OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.124-5, 1959

REF DEFINITIONS
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
"... Most socio-economic phenomena defy the exact treatments
effective and necessary in chemistry, physics, astrophysics,
etc.,
our case is different for it grew out of mathematical
treatment ...'
1
Cite Ltr. to Jim Fitzgibbon (?), Raleigh NC, p.j3, undated

TEXT CITATIONS
Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
--
For a discussion of triads and triangular structure in social
organization and fundamental physics see correspondence
between Prof. Theodore Caplow, Dept. of Socialogy, Columbia,
24 Jan 66 and RBF reply of 18 Feb'66.

Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
See Closed-sphere-system Democracy
Circuitry: Thermionic & Political Analogy
Exponential Model vs. Limits to Growth
Grid: Crisscross Right-angle Grid in Civil &
Agrarian Law
Individual: Theory Of
Interference as a Social Model
Hetaphysical & Physical
Organic World:
Society
Organization
Biological World as Model For
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social
Behavior
Relativity: Marriage of Social & Natural Law
Synergetic Hierarchy
Social Problems: Tetrahedral Coordination of
Prediction: Socio-economic vs. Engineering
Laws of Nature vs. Laws of Man
(1)

Social Sciences:
Analogue to Physical Sciences:
(2)
See Acceleration of Change,
Air Space, May165
1938
Asymmetry, 31 May'71*
Democracy, 13 Nov 69
Economics, 16 Feb'73*
Energy, 28 Apr'48.
Intellect: Equation Of, 28 Apr'48
Least Resistance, 1938
Local Squareness, 9 Jul 62
Marx, Karl, 6 Jul 62
Public Opinion Polls, 4 Jan 70
Ruddering Sequence (1) (4)(5)
Synergetic Hierarchy, 31 May 171
Design Science & World Game (A)-(C)
Scrap Sorting & Mongering (2)
Navy Sequence (2)
Structural Sequence, (C)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Society: Control Uf:
"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."
"By controlling direction it becomes possible, scientifically,
to increase the probability that specific events will 'happen.***
Citation and context at Rationalization Sequence (2 (3), 1938

Society:
Control Of:
See Least Resistance, 1938

Society Does Not Understand Nature:
See Synergy, 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sociology:
"Sociology permits such fantastical asymmetrical extremes
that we're looking at special casees instead of principles.
Such a high frequency of asymmetry.. .And not knowing
this, they don't realize that communism induces capitalism."
->
Citation and context at Communism, 31 May171

Social: Society: Sociology:
(1)
See Earth Fault:
Fault
Society is Living in a Sort Of Earth
Fuller, R.B: As Harbinger of Society
Metabolics
Metabilical Cord
Organic Model:
Society
Precession:
Biological World as a Model For
Analogy of Precession & Social
Behavior
Self-considerate Society
Superstition of Social Superiority
Pulling the Bottom Up
Design Revolution:
Standard of Living
Behavior & Environment
Conditioning

Social: Society:
Sociology:
See Average Human Being, 1 Apr* 73
Culture, 27 Jan '77
Dome Over Manhattan, 26 Apr' 77
Ego, 9 Nov 75
Fear, Feb 72
Franklin, Ben, 22 Jan' 73
Selfishness, 22 Jun 75
Symmetry & Asymmetry, Dec' 71
Truth, 1967
Unselfishness,
Jan' 72
(2)

Social: Society: Sociology:
See Social Adjustment
Social Economics
Social Highway Experience: Three Autos
Social Ignorance
Social-industrial Relay
Social Justice
Socialism
Social Organization
Social Problems:
Social Sciences:
Tetrahedral Coordination of
Analogue to Physical Sciences
Society: Control Of
Society Does Not Understand Nature
Sociology
31
(3)

Soft Revolution:
See Revolutions: Soft & Hard

Soil:
See Topsoil

Solar Panel Water Heating:
See Now House, (4)

Solar Power:
See Income Energy
Wind Power
Sun Energy
Wind Power - Sun Power
(1)

Solar Power:
See Precession (b)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
/
Solar System Model:
"The model of the solar system itself
is a flattened polyhedron."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 18 June 1971.

Solar: Solar System:
See Atom as Solar System
Sun: Sunlight
(1)

Solar: Solar System:
See Black Hole (1)
Regenerativity, 17: Jan' 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Soleri: Paolo:
"Soleri is the example of the sculptor as politician.
A bunch of people living together in the desert may be
very attractive but what's that got to do with architecture?
He is just a politician. I am not interested."
-
RBF to Lady architegt Hay-Adams brunch, Wash Dc; 8 Feb'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Soleri, Paolo:
"I know Paolo Soleri very well and think very well of him
as a human being. I find him very inspiring to many other
human beings in his humane viewpoints.
"I think of him more as a sculptor than as an engineer, so I'm
very sympathetic with his hope to serve humanity by what he
gives you as an idea. But I do not think that is probably the
way it is going to go. I think everything we produce will be
produced more mobilely and with much more flexible kinds of
relationships for humanity, All humanity is now prone to
become world beings so we're going to have to accommodate the
comings and going in very new places."
For follow-on entry se East-west Mobility Of
World Man, (1) (2)_7°
Cite RBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash,, DC; 10 Sep'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Solide:
"Solids... are themselves only wave complexes."
-
Citation and context at Noninterfering Zero Pointa, 9 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Solids:
"The superficially deceptive microaggregates
Which defied differentiating resolution,
Into their myriads of separate parts,
By the instrumentally unaided
Human sight."
->
Cite INTUITION, p.40 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Solids:
"Solids are high tide aspects of faces."
-Cite RBP to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicage, 31 May 1971
- Citation and context at Tidal, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Solids:
"The omniinteractions impinge on your nervous system in all
manner of frequencies-- some so high as to appear 'solid'
things, some so slow as seeming to be 'absolute voids."
-
Citation At Halo Concept, 25 Apr'71

KBF DEFINITIONS
Solid State:
"Science evolved the name 'solid state' physics when, immed-
iately after World War II, the partial conductors and partial
resistors later termed 'transistors'-- were discovered.
The
phenomena were called 'solid state' because without human
devising of the electronic circuitry, certain small metallic
substances accidentally disclosed electromagnetic pattern-holding,
shunting, route-switching, and frequency-valving regularities,
assumedly produced by the invisible-to-humans, atomic complexes
constituting those substances. Further experiment disclosed
unique electromagnetic circuitry characteristics of various
substances without any conceptual model of the 'subvisible
apparatus.' Ergo, the whole development of the use of these
invisible behaviors was conducted as an intelligently resource-
ful trial-and-error strategy in exploiting invisible and
uncharted-by-humans natural behavior within the commonsensic-
ally 'solid substances. The addition of the word
'state' to the word 'solid' implied regularities
in an otherwise assumedly random conglomerate. What have
discovered goes incisively and conceptually deeper than the
blindfolded assumptions and strategies of solid state physics--
whose transistors' solid state regularities seemingly defied
discrete conceptuality and scientific generalization and kinetic
omnigramming.
-
"
Citation and context at Atomic Computer Complex (4)(5), 13 May'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Solid State:
"We have physics of the 'solid state,' a very late phase of
physics very improperly called 'solid. Even in the 'solid'
state the voids between the atoms are as voids of interstellar
space. The nucleus itself is as empty as space itself. But
the concept that you could make everything solid was a most
comfortable kind of concept."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 525.03, Nov171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Solid State:
"Take the simple word solid. We have physics of the
'solid state,' a very late phase of physics, very
improperly called. 'solid,' Even in the 'solid' state
the voids between atoms are as the voids of space, and
the nucleus itself is as empty as apace itself. But the
concept that you make everything solid was a most
comfortable kind of concept."
SOLIDS: MATTER
-
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Vol. 1, No. 1., P. 44, 1965
SEC. 525.03

RBF DEFINITIONS
.
Solid State:
"One of the words we use a great deal is solid. Infact,
in quite modern physics in relation to defense and so forth,
we have solid state physics. It is a very strange phrase
for the physicists to use because they have discovered that
there is nothing solid. I don't know why they insist on
using the words, but it seems to be good for bureacracy to
have a solid state, and so you can handle it academically
that way, but let's not get fooled becausewe haven't found
anything solid.
静
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 109. 5 Jul162

Solid State:
See Transistor
(1)

Solid State:
See Atomic Computer Complex, (4)(5)*
Particle, (1)
(2)

Solide:
See Entity
Liquid vs. Solid
Matter
Particle
Tensegrity:
Rules of No Actual Particulate "Solids"
Miniature Tensegrity Masta
Bodies: Solid Bodies
Liquid Solid
No Solids
(1)

Solids:
See Halo Concept, 25 Apr'71*; Jun 71
Invisible Circuitry, (2)
Meaningless, Oct'66
Noninterfering Zero Points, 9 Mar'73*
Powering, 11 Jul'62
Radiation: Speed Of, (C)
Structure Sequence, (3); 15 Oct164
Synergetics, (p.j3) undated
(2)
123

Solving: Solution:
See Finite Solutions
Problem Solving
Problem: Statement of the Problem

Somersaults:
See Intertransformability Systems, 28 Apr 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Something:
"We'll have to cut out this word something. I'd like
some day to do something about this word 'something.'
Some. Thing."
- Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Somethingness & Nothingness:
"These young scientists... said I had the answer to the
age-old problem of how you start your accounting... of whether
you start with two, or one, or zero.... I gave them awareness
and otherness, identifying the secondness with otherness....
The topology of the windows of nothingness. Somethingness
is the same tunability of systems. Nothingness is ultra or
infra, an untunability between the crests of waves of other
systems, where there is no tuning at all."
Cite RBF to EJA, by telephone from Phila. office; 7 Oct 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
5
Somethingness & Nothingness:
"All the characteristics of a system are absolute because each
of its components is the minimum limit case of its
respective
In conceptual category, for all conceptuality, as the great
mathematician Euler discovered and proved, consists
at
minimum
of points, areas, and lines. Goldy further
clarifies and
simplifies Euler by saying that an area is a
nothingness;
a
plurality of areas are framingly separated views
of
nothingness.
A point is a somethingness. A line is a
relationship between
two somethingnesses.
ما
"An enlarged seemingly single somethingness may prove to consist
of a plurality of somethingnesses between
which the defined
interrelationship lines fence off the nothingness into
a
Points
are
plurality of separately viewable nothingnesses.
unresolvable, untunable somethingnesses occurring in the
twilight zone between visible and supravisible experience."
-
Cite GOLDYLOCKS Is. p.A3, 9 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Somethingness & Nothingness:
"There is a fourfold twoness: one of the exterior, cosmic
finite ('nothingness') tetrahedron, i.e., the macrocosm out-
wardly complementing all ('something') systems and the interior
microcosmic tetrahedron of nothingness complementing all
conceptually thinkable and cosmically isolatable 'something'
systems."
Citation & context at Two Kinds of Twoneas, (A) (B), 10 Nov'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Somethingness & Nothingness:
"The third power accounts both the untuned nothingness
and the finitely tuned somethingness."
Citation and context at Nothingness, 16 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Somethingness & Nothingness:
"In synergetics the total mass somethingness to be
acceleratingly expended is 10 F, with always a bonus 2 :
Me and the Otherness. In synergetics the total nothingness
and somethingness involved in both inbound and outbound
field is 20 F3. (Nothing - 10. Something = 10, Both 20.)
The multiplicative twoness of me and the otherness.
F3 =
Unexpected nothingness F1 + Expected somethingness F2 = Ƒ³.”
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 960.13, 16 Nov'72

Something-nothing-something-nothing:
See Binary
Conceptuality & Nonconceptuality
Now-you-see-it-now-you-don't
Pulse Pattern
(1)

Something-nothing-something-nothing:
See Resolvability Limits, 30 Apr 77
(2)

Somethingness & Nothingness:
See Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness
Unstructurings & Restructurings
Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity
Interference & Noninterference
Visible & Invisible
(1)

123
(2)
Somethingness & Nothingness:
See Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan' 74
Fourfold Twoness, 10 Nov' 74
Minimum of Four Tetrahedra, 22 Feb'77
Nonthing, 11 Sep' 75
Out-lining, 22 Mar 76
Quantum Sequence, (1)
Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects, 9 Jun' 75
Two Kinds of Twoness, (A)(B)*
Windows of Nothingness, (1)
Nature in a Corner, 20 Jun 77

Something: Somethingness:
See Somethingness & Nothingness
Time-somethingness
Thing: Things
Nothingness Untuned Somethingness
Simplest Something
Point-to-able Something
Minimum Something
(1)

Simplest Something:
See Tetrahedron, 26 Apr 77
(2)

Something: Somethingness:
See Bunch, 5 Mar173
Jitterbug, 4 Oct 72
Lot, 5 Mar 73
Tetrahedron, 20 Feb'73
Triangle, 20 Apr'72
Two Kinds of Twoness, (C)
Thinking, 23 Feb 72
One-dimensional Polarity, 11 Sep 175
Two-dimensional Polarity, 11 Sep 175
Minimum Tetrahedron, 22 Feb'77
(2)

Son of God:
See Man as Son of God
Trinity: Equation Of

Sonics:
See Ultrasonics

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sorting:
"Men sort, classify, and order in direct opposition to
entropy which is the law of the
increase of the
random
Men
sort and classify
element increase of disorder.
internally and subconsciously as well as externally and
consciously, driven by intellectual
curiosity and brain
.
All 92 chemical elements can be
inhibited into
complementary
and orderly interfunctioning in the integral organic
process of man. Man seems to be the most comprehensive
antientropy function of Universe."
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 175, May 165

Sorting:
See Angular Sorting
Antientropy
Problem
Irrelevancies:
Dismissal of
Parting the Strands
Scrap Sorting & Mongering
Subconscious Sorting
Brain-sorting
Tuning-in & Tuning-out
(1)

Sorting:
See Biological Life (1)
Boltzmann Sequence (1)
Cosmic Fish, 8 Feb'73
Ecology Sequence (B)
Comprehensive Universe (2)
Frequency, 1970
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man, May 72
Metaphysical & Physical, Jun'66; 1970
Monitor, Feb'73
Problem, 2 Jun171
Stardust, May'65
Communications Hierarchy, (3)
Children as only Pure Scientists, (1); 22 Apr' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
S.O.S.:
"There's no S.0.5. on land-- only at seal"
Cite HBF to EJA, 1970

Soul:
See Life is Not Physical, (1) (2)

Sound Name:
See Universal Language, 21 Sep'74

Sound: Speed Of:
See Cosmic Structuring, (1)

Sound: Sound Waves:
See Aural
Babbling
Hear
Music
Tastebuds of Sound
(1)

Sound: Sound Waves:
See Music, 4 Mar'69
Radiation-gravitation:
Harmonics, (1)
Harmonics, 3 Jan 75
Wind Stress & Houses, (9) [10)
Limit Speed, 11 Sep175
(2)

Sound Word:
See Names
Sound Name
(1)

Sound Word:
See God, May'72
Democritus, 6 Jun'69
Names, 20 Jan' 75
Thinktionary, 27 May'75
Fuller, R.B: Moratorium on Speech, (1)
(2)

Source:
See Cosmic Source
Kysterious Source

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sovereignty:
Q. (Sen. Percy):
(1)
"What do you mean, sovereignty is dead?"
A. (RBF): "I am a student of large patterns. And as I look
around I try to see what evolution is trying to do.
We some-
times forget how important is the role of Universe. I have
just been telling you that all the things that came in since
I was born, automobiles, jet planes and the Queen Mary,
radio, satellite communications, they were all unexpected,
they were all surprises, and none of them were the result of
conscious and deliberate development.
"I do not look on it policywise. I see it as a worldwide
biospheric pattern of honey bees and chromosomes.
"The continental congress in Philadelphia has been so movingly
described this morning, how people designed a democratic and
marvelously representative government. But the congressman
went back home on foot or horse. The city of Washington got
one or two letters from Europe a month; and everyone knew
what was said and went home and talked about it. Democracy
flourished in a one-to-one correspondence of stimulation and
response. With the advent of telegraph we lost all this; "
1
Cite RBF at Senate Foreign Affairs Subcommitte on UN,
Washington, DC, 15 l'ay 175
(EJA live notes)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sovereignty:
"The effect of telegraphy on the news was mostly one-way,
despatches from the field; by and large they provided no
response. Democracy works on one-to-one correspondence, but
now our communications are not working that way. In 1940
I explored the technology of communications, how if everyone
voted daily would it affect the frequency of telephone use.
Now we wonder if there might not be some electromagnetic
patterns from the brain with all of humanity manifesting some
kind of high-frequency electromagnetic, yes-or-no-field.
If the satellite sensors are mapping our beef cattle, might
they not also have a capability of picking up how humanity
feels about a question. It's all going to be completely
different from the ways of the past. You mentioned world
government. There could be a sort of city management
concept taking its orders from a consensus of humanity.
course the majority might often be wrong, but with such
instant communication errors would be recognized soon enough
to correct them. Measuring what humanity is really thinking.
"Servomechanisms work this way. All this is technically
looming into view."
-
of
Cite RBF at Senate Foreign Affairs Subcommitte Hearing on
US role in UN, Senate Office Bldg., Wash. DC, 15 Kay'75
(EJA live notes)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sovereignty:
"Sovereign nations and states are examples of now obsolete
but seemingly natural phenomena which were in fact concepts
arbitrarily invented by the pirates."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 22. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sovereignty:
Elimination of:
"Elimination of All World Sovereignties: All the customs
barriers disappear as man goes from guarding the local roots
of his originally exclusive agrarian metabolics life support
into a world-around imperishable metals-sustaining impound-
ment of cosmic energy, and eternally regenerative energy,
labeled industrialization in the world economy.
"The high performance necessary to sustaining all life can
only be realized by free access to all sources everywhere."
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BLOODLESSLY
BY DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, NY Times, 29 Jun'72

Sovereignty: Elimination of:
(1)
See Leaders: Take Away the Leaders
Transnational
United States:
To Break Up
World Man
One of the Most Difficult Soverignties
De sovereignization Sequence
Planetary Democracy
Ideologies Become Supranational
Spaceship Earth
Homogenizing of Nations
Competition: Elimination Of

Sovereignty:
Elimination of:
See Individual Economic Initiative, 13 Jul'74
Economic Accounting System:
Production, (1)
Human Life-hour
Culture, 27 Jan' 77
(2)

Sovereignty: Sovereign States:
See Countries
Geographical Identity
Nation
Political Mandates:
Realm
Inventory Of
(1)

Sovereignty: Sovereign States:
See Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (1)
Dollar Bills: $200 Billion One-dollar Bille
Circling Around Earth, (3)
Linear Programming, 5 Jun'73
Pirates: Great Pirates (2)
Spaceship Earth, 21 Jan 77
United Nations, 29 Mar' 77
(2)

Soviet Academy of Sciences:
See Fuller, R.B: A Propos Ben Franklin, (1)

Soviet:
Soviet Union:
See Amtorg Engineers
USSR
(1)

Soviet: Soviet Union:
See Intuition Sequence (4)
Literacy, 18 Aug'70
Patent, 22 Aug'70
(2)

RHF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"Silence is the untuned. Silence takes the electromagnetic
Space is a sort of tactile error.
place of space.
frozen thing."
"
the
Citation & context at Silence, 30 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"I've finally arrived at the definition of space that I've
been looking for all along. I've said space is the untuned
nothingness, but the point is that space is simply whatever
is untuned electromagnetically!"
-
Cite RBF to EJA on RBF's debarking from supersonic
Concorde flight from Paris, at Dulles Airprort, 2 Jul 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"Space is finite as a complementary remainder of a finite
system takeout from finite Scenario Universe."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS. 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 526.13,
3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; Y Feb 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"Human awareness's concession of 'space' acknowledges a
nonconceptually-defined experience.
Citation and context at Omni-intertangency, 17 Feb173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"The space is a priori mystery that the space vehicle
goes in."
Citation and context at Spaceship (E), Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"The multiply furnished but thought-integrated complex called
space by humans occurs only as a consequence of the imaginatively
recallable consideration of an insideness-and-outsideness-defin-
ing array of contiguously occurring and consciously experienced
time-energy events."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 780.10, 20 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"I don't start with space. I start with nothing."
Citation & context at Vacuum, 19 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"There is no shape of space. There is only
omnidirectional nonconceptual 'out' and the specifically
directioned conceptual 'ins.' Space has no identifiable
meaning.
"In is individually unique as a direction toward
the center of any one system-- but 'out' is common to
them all.
"The atmosphere's molecules over any place on
Earth's surface are forever shifting position. The air
over the Himalayas is enveloping California a week
later. The stars now overhead are underfoot twelve
hours later. The stars themselves are swiftly moving
in respect to one another. Many of them have not been
where you see them for millions of years; many burnt
out long ago. The sun's light takes eight minutes to
We have relationships-- but not space.
reach us.
"1
Cite SYNERGETICS draft,
at Sec. 526ff, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"Critical proximity accounts for the whole universe as
we observe it, the collections of things and matter and
noncontiguous space intervals."
- Gite RBF insert to SYNERGETICS (Conceptuality, Critical
-Proximity), Chicago, I June 1971
Citation at Critical Proximity, Jun' 71

RBFDEFINITIONS
Space:
"Space is the absence of events.
energy events, physically.
events, metaphysically."
Space is the absence of
Space is the absence of
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft "Conceptuality: Space" May, 1971
-
SEC. 526.03)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"There is no universal space nor static space in
universe. The word 'space'is conceptually meaningless
except in reference to intervals between high-frequency
events momentarily 'constellar' in specific local
systems.
There is no shape of universe. There is only
omnidirection nonconceptual 'out' and the ppecifically
directioned conceptual 'in.' We have time relationships,
but not static space relationships."
430
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft
Conceptuality: Space May 1971

ANF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"The omniinteractions impinge on your nervous system in all
manner of frequencies-- some so high as to appear 'solid'
things, some so slow as seeming to be 'absolute Voids.'
Citation at Halo Concept, 25 Apr171*

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"The word locally means locally in time and space.
By space we mean size-- a function of time."
- Gite HBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
Citation at Local, 22 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"Alan Watts:
Fuller:
Watts:
Fuller:
Watts:
Fuller:
But I mean there is a common assumption--
it is ordinary common sense-- that space is
nothing at all.
That's novent. I call it no-event.
I don't like the word space anymore because
it implies something. We have only frequencies.
We have events and no-events. We have the
unique energy packages."
But any sort of solid energy package seems to
me inconceivable without a special ground.
It doesn't bother me at all about the no-event.
Well, how can you talk of curved space, the
properties of space?
But you can't talk of straight space. There
are no straight lines. Physicis has found
nothing but waves.
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 52, 19 Oct'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"In view of their limited range capabilities in respect to the
electromagnetic spectrum and the relative rates of transforma-
tion which we speak of as motion, it is not surprising that
the passengers aboard the skyship Earth make the mistake of
talking about, 'Space' which is as meaningless as 'up' and
'down. T There is no static geometry. There are momentarily
existant geometrical relationships. There are events and lack-
of-events. The electromagnetic spectrum is a manifest of the
gamut of unique frequencies of event recurrence. There are
no solids, no 'surfaces, no 'continuums, no straight lines
or planes. We have only events and no-events-- the events
being finite and their energies limited.
"We are talking about no event, so let us contract those two
words into one word, novent, meaning nothing occurs."
-
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.6, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"Space is the absence of energy events.'
(Adapted.)
-
Cite caption to SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION #94
"Function of a Balãoon as a Porous Network."
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"
.
Time
There is no static space frame of universe.
The word 'space' is conceptually meaningless and dimensions
may only be expressed in magnitudes of time, energy,
frequency concentrations, and angular modulations.
can be expressed only as 'relativity' in the terms of relative
frequency of reoccurence of any constantly recycling
behavior of any chosen sub-system of universe.
-
SPACE - SEC. 526.01 +527.03)
Cite NASA Speech, p. 49, Jun'66
Cite CARBONDALE DRAFT IV.26

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space:
"Velocity is the complementarity of time and space.
Time and space are simply functions of velocity.
Velocity is really the reality. You can examine the
time or the space increment, but they are never
independent of one another. They are unified as
velocity."
Oregon Lecture #8, p. 298, 12 Jul 62-
-
Citation at Velocity, 12 Jul'62
SPACE SEC. 526.021

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Capsule:
"The word 'capsule' has hidden from man the fact that
what science is really working on is a little house;
not much room to move around in, no garden of roses
outside, but nonetheless, a little house with a six
billion dollar mortgage.' "
For citation and context see Space Technology (2), 10 Oct 163

Space Capsule:
See Autonomous Living Technology Packet
Space Technology
Space Travel

Space vs. Conceptuality:
See Conceptuality Independent of Size & Time, 5 May 74

Space Filling:
See Allspace Filling

Space
Nontunability:
See Bubble Bursting, 20 Jan'78
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space as Nontuned Angle & Frequency Information:
"This moment in the evolutionary advance and psychological
transformation of humanity has been held back by the non-
physically-demonstrable, ergo non-sensorial, conceptionless
mathematical devices and their resultant incomprehensibility
of the findings of science. There are two most prominent
reasons for this incomprehensibility: the first being the
non-physically-demonstrable mathematical tools, the second
being our preoccupation with the sense of static fixed
'space' as so much unoccupied geometry imposed by square,
cubic,
perpendicular, and parallel attempts at coordination,
rather than regarding 'space' as being merely systemic angle
and frequency information which is presently nontuned-in
within the physical, sensorial range of tunability of the
electromagnetic equipment with which we personally have been
organically endowed.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.33; 22 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness:
"The only instantaneity is eternity.
"All temporal (temporary) equilibrium life-time-space phenomena
are sequential, complementary, and orderly disequilibrious
intertransformations of space-nothingness to time-somethingness,
and vice versa. Both space realizations and time realizations
are always of orderly asymmetric degrees of discrete magnitudes.
The hexagon is an instantaneous, eternal, simultaneous, planar
section of equilibrium, wherein all the chords are vectors
exactly equal to all the vector radii: six explosively disinte-
grative, compressively coiled, wavilinear vectors exactly and
finitely contained by six chordal, tensively-coil-extended,
wavilinear vectors of equal magnitude."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1032.21, 28 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Nothingress & Time Somethingness:
"The only instantaneity is eternity. All temporal (temporary)
equilibrium life-time-space phenomena are sequential,
complementary, and orderly transformations of space-nothingness
into time somethingness, and vice versa. Both space reali-
zations and time realizations are always of orderly asymmetric
degrees of discrete magnitudes.'
11
- Citation and context at Hexagon, 22 Feb'73

Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness:
See Articulated & Unarticulated
Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity
Somethingness & Nothingness
Tuning-in & Tuning-out
Interference & Noninterference
(1)

Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness:
See Jitterbug, 4 Oct 72
Hexagon, 22 Feb'73
(2)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Space Program:
"We are nothing but a space program. We are so physically
negligible as to be approximately space itself."
-
Citation and context at Twelve-inch Steel World Globe (3) (4),
17 Jul 73

Space Program:
See Outlaw Area, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"Competition among nations holds us back. With 135 countries
in the world, we have a spaceship with 135 absolute admirals--
each of whom wants to sink the rest of the ship."
Cite RBF quoted in Lincoln Star, front page, Lincoln,
Nebraska; 21 Jan'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"Spaceship Earth: I invented the term at the University
of Michigan in 1951."
Cite RF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"Though brilliantly theorized to be so several thousand years
earlier, it is only for the last 500 years that we humans have
had proven to us by Magellan's circumnavigation that we indeed
are dwelling aboard a spherical planet. It is only for five
years that, having seen ourselves as others see us from
humans-on-the-Moon advantage, that we are beginning to realize
that we are
indeed living on a once superbly-
equipped spherical spaceship and that we are a space program.
"Despite our considerable resource of present-day theoretical
knowledge, all humans continue to reflex in the manner to which
they have been powerfully conditioned throughout millions of
misconceptioning_years. As a consequence, even today we all
seem to see the Sun rising and sinking, think in terms of 'up'
and 'Down' , 'wide, wide world', the four corners of the Earth'
and our 'air space', which misconceptions have no correspondence
with the realities of Universe."
Cite RBF Address to MENSA International, Chicago, IL, 22 Jun '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
But when I question hes Spaceship Earth metaphor he becomes
annoyed and distressed. "It is a spaceship. That's not an
analogy. It's a fact," he says.
"But a spaceship is built by man, all the factors have been
designed for a particular known purpose.
The earth is an
organic thing on which we live," I argue.
"The planet is designed-- superbly designed-- by a greater
intellect than that of man, he says.
"And it's moving through
space.
"But are we passengers or an organic part of it?"
"We've get three billion and a half passengers on board."
"What about the plants, whales, horses-- are they also
passengers?"
w
"A passenger is someone taking passage aboard a vehicle,"
he says with a sharp edge of impatience. "You are aboard a"
Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p.158, Feb173
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
(B)
"vehicle moving at 60,000 miles an hour through the heavens
and you're aboard as a passenger. I'm sorry but your objection
is invalid.
So decreed Justice Fuller. I tried a different angle having,
apparently, failed to make myself understood: "There's an
organization just formed in San Francisco called Living
Creatures Associates. It's a press agency claiming to repre-
sent other species-- whales, garter snakes, foxes-- represent
them publicly on their own terms, with a right to exist on
this spaceship, then, in the same way as I do.
With some
rights that conflict, perhaps, with those of men. 17
"Did the foxes invite them? Did the daistes elect them?...
I have no objection to other people's doing what they do
but nothing could be more remote from me, says Fuller.
"I call this a do-gooder organization, idealistic and so forth.
And their effectiveness approximately zero.. I think it is
a very nice manifest of consciousness of man. He's beginning
to think about things."
-
"The idea is that.. we must accept the rights of other beings."
Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR, NY), p.159, Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"What happened to those dragons?" he replied. "What happened
to the flying creatures of a few million years ago? What
happened to their rights? What about the rights of volcanoes
when the whole Earth was volcanic? Who took their rights
away?"
(C)
"But it's a fact that certain birds and animals are dying
because of man's actions. Don't we have to take responsibility
for that?"
So
"We have to take the responsibility of being responsible.
far we have not been very responsible. You don't say to a new
child, 'You 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...
(See Tree, Feb'73)
He was shocked that I found fault with his Spaceship Earth
analogy.
-
Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p. 160, Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"I invented this phrase, Spaceship Earth, a number of years
ago when I was trying to get man to-- trying to help him,
personally, particularly young people, to shake themselves
loose of preoccupation with the powerfully conditioned
reflex that there is something called Earth and something
called space, this Heaven and Earth idea. I used to have
students say to me 'I wonder what it would be like to be on a
spaceship? And I'd say: 'What does it feel like?'
"The relative size of things.. When you get to the size of
our Earth in space, 8,000 miles' diameter-- the Sun's corona
when you look at it with filters through a telescope we can
actually see it-- in the larger magnification, one of the
flames would be about an inch. One inch of flame is often
an altitiude of over a hundred times the diameter of our
Earth. The size of our Earth would be undetectable in one
of those flames.
(D)
"The distance to the next nearest star to ur Sun takes light
coming 700 million miles and hour four and two-thirds years
to get here. So somewhere between that kind of distance we
have a tiny invisible spot of 8,000 miles' diameter, our planet,
Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND, p.161, (HR&W, NY) Feb'73
· Cite

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"going around the Sun at 60,000 miles an hour. And the Sun
itself, and the galactic system... sum totally we're making
something like a million miles an hour right now.
Now usually when someone mentions a multidigit number to me,
I blank out. But Fuller has led me into those interstellar
spaces. That's Fuller the poet, conveying reality, not
describing with words.
(E)
"So we couldn't be more of a spaceship and we couldn't be
tinier and we couldn't be more beautifully designed... If we
were to say that man was God, if that's what you're objecting
to,
that this design is so much better, then OK. But neverthe-
less, I call it a design... The space is a priori mystery that
the space vehicle goes in. And you don't think that it's a
mysterious thing that he had the capability to get there?
all part of the same mystery."
It's
(B)
"People who listen to me say, 'Here's a man who's selling
screwdrivers. They don't realize how mysterious screwing is."
-
Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p. 161, Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
19
Spaceship Earth:
(F)
.I've been identified only with the physical so far.
I went through 25, 30 years of people saying: this the the
bathroom man, or the automobile man-- that's all they thought
about me. It's only in the last couple of years that they
discover I'm a thinker. And I started as a thinker. I didn't
start with bathrooms. I started off with God and my charge
was to work on the physical. That's where I had the capability;
that's why we're here. I accepted this. And to find myself
identified, then, with just being a fishing-pole salesman!
I find this thing echoed when you say that about my analogy,
'cause I use a very good tool there. I have helped to shock
man into realizing he's on board a space vehicle. He's a
passenger on it and he's intimately related to it."
Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p.162, Feb173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
(1)
"Your Senate hearing gives me a short but welcome opportunity
to talk thus about all that man has learned from his two
million years aboard our spaceship Earth, wherefore I wish
to point out vigorously to you that we are indeed aboard an
8,000-mile-diameter spherical space vehicle. We were excited
during the Christmas days when we first looked at the Earth
from the Moon. But I heard our President speaking 'down to
Earthedly to the astronauts about their going up to the Moon.
There is no 'up' or 'down' in Universe. le find so-called
practical men saying, 'Never mind that space stuff, let's
get down to earth..
"And we retort 'Where is that? Where is down" and what and
where is that non-space existing theory avoiding Earth?'
t
"Despite their ignorant urging of 'Never mind that space
stuff, let's get down to earth, we find that our little
8,000-mile-diameter planet Earth, together with the Moon,
is flying formation at 60,000-miles-per-hour around the Sun."
->
Cite RBF at Senate Hearings, p. 9, 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"Earth is a beautifully designed spaceship equipped and
provisioned to support and regenerate life aboard it for
hundreds of millions of years, even until the time when
so much energy of Universe has been collected aboard
Earth as to qualify it to become a radiant star, shortly
before which man will have anticipatorially resituated
himself on other planets at nonincineratable distance
from the Earth nova. ht
(2)
Cite RBF at Senate Hearings, p.9, 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
It's
"I just say to all of you: 'Hullo, astronauts,' You're
all astronauts. I'm sure you're not thinking of yourselves
as astronauts or you wouldn't have the word for somebody else.
But you're all astronauts, you never have been anything else.
You've just got to catch on that you're all astronauts.
a very small little ship we've got here; it's superbly
equipped and every part of it is reciprocal; there are no
labels on it which say anything belongs to anybody.
that's there is to regenerate all of life."
Everything
-Cite RBF in "The Listener" transcript by John Donat, 26 Sep'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"Once upon a time and aboard a spaceship there were almost
four billion passengers, each so small and the ship so large
that the passengers wandering about on its spherical deck,
pulled feetward toward its center of gravity, could see only
about one two-millionth of the ship's total deck surface at
any one time. Usually they all told, only a millionth
of it in their entire lifetime. As a consequence they did not
realize that the only locally irregular surface on which they
walked did not stretch away as a plane to infinity and was in
fact a finite or closed spherical surface system.
"That spaceship had been given the name 'Earth' by its
passengers, this name being descriptive of its hard-packed
dust, dirt, and rock-surfaced deck stretching away surrounded
by water seemingly to infinity. So impressed have the pass-
engers been with that stationary, egocentric, two-dimensional
concept that they have for long, and as yet, begin their
children's education with plane geometry-- its surfaces and
lines- stretching away to infinity.
•
"Three-quarters of Spaceship Earth's surface is covered with
water and only about half of the dry one-quarter is both"
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley pp.2-3, 1968
(a)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"habitable and suitable for providing vital support of the
passengers. This meager ten percent of the spaceship's surface
with its vitally hospitable damp surface is divided into many
small fractions scattered so remotely from one another around
the Earth's sphere and with such vast and formidable waters,
mountains, deserts, and ice intervening, that as a result each
of the local groups of inhabitants of the various areas-- for
99 percent of the period of their known presence on Earth--
have been unaware of the other groups' existence or whernabouts
aboard the spaceship.
(b)
"Equipped materially to take care of its passengers for millions
of celestial travel years, but needing additional energy to
produce, maintain, and regenerate its complex, interchemically
exchanging, life-support system, it was designed by the conceivor
of the vast, ever and everywhere nonsimultaneously transforming
Universe, that the additional and vital energy constantly
transmitted to the spaceship by the electromagnetic radiations
emanating from enormous, fiery, unmanned, automated mother
spaceships traveling in company with, but at great distances
from, the little Spaceship Earth."
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley pp.3, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"And to make things even more challenging and intelligence-
invoking for the passengers, no instruction book on identifi-
cation of the parts and what they do and how to operate them
came with the spaceship. Because some of the red berries were
healthily sustaining while other red berries were poisonous,
the passengers were forced to learn by trial and error about
the myriad of life-advantaging principles that have been
secretly built into the integral metabolics of Spaceship Earth
and that spaceship's complementary universal environment, which
is ever energetically transforming and evoluting. This was
made possible by the apparently ample tolerance for their many
errors which was included in the design of the ship and the
celestial support system. Though often obvious for millions of
years, most of these vital advantage-giving principles long
have remained unrecognized for what they are and can de; it
would seem to be a part of the designed scheme of Universe
that for the nonce, anyway-- nothing is quite so invisible
to Spaceship Earth's passengers as the obvious.
.
"As all of the Spaceship Earth's passengers see all their
experiences only by image-ination in their brains, we too may
imagine ourseleves aboard the little spherical, 8,000-mile
-
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.3, 1968
(c)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
(d)
"diameter Spaceship Earth with its then atmospheric, ionic,
and radiation-shielding Van Allen
mantles, speeding
integrally at 17 miles per second in a vast elliptical orbit
around our 92-million-miles distant, fully automated energy
supply ship-- the Star Sun-- in the presence of our 10-trillion-
miles further distant, next nearest star.
As
"These two stars are our Spaceship Earth's nearest prime energy,
life-giving and life-sustaining, regenerating supply ships.
do also the myriad of even further away supply ships, these
two stars 'fly formation' with our Spaceship Earth in the vast
inconceivable ocean of time. The energy supply ships are flown
at a distance sufficient tp prevent their heat and radiation
from drying up and incinerating the many forms of life aboard
Spaceship Earth.
"Large though 8,000 miles may seem to the human passengers,
who are only one-thousandth of a mile tall, Spaceship Earth's
diameter as seen from another planet is only a tiny pinpoint
of Sun-reflected light similar in appearance to the Spaceship
Mars or Venus as seen from Spaceship Earth."
Cite BEAR 19LAND STORY, galley p.4, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"After at least two million years of experience aboard it,
many of the almost four billion amateur astronauts aboard
Spaceship Earth have become theoretically well informed
regarding a few behavioral characteristics of a meager fraction
of the celestial phenomena. But none of them-- excluding
possibly the Russian and U.S.A. professional spacemen the
three bears, Goldilocks, and her father -- as yet consciously
and realistically sense that their own planet is a spaceship
and see and feel themselves zooming through Universe upon that
spherical ship.
...
[See Up and Down Sequence (A) - (B) ]
"Because the Spaceship Earth is also spinning equatorially
at 1,000 miles per hour as it orbits the Sun at 60,000 miles
per hour, when we launch a tiny, two- or three-man-carrying,
capsule by rocket from our Earth Spaceship, we must give the
capsule an additional acceleration boost of approximately
16,000 miles per hour in order to break out of Earth's gravi-
tational pull. This means that we on out big mother Spaceship
Earth must give our small space 'launches' a local space speed
of 76,000 mph., or 16,000 mph. faster than Spaceship Earth's"
-
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley pp.4-5, 1968
(e)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"Sun-orbiting speed. Aboard Earth we are accustomed to the
idea of big ships carrying small lifeboats; launches, tenders,
and gigs. We must now think of our space-rocketed capsules
as small boats launched outwardly from our bigger spaceship.
"But these speed variations of our spaceship and its launches
become minuscule and negligible in comparison the the speed of
Spaceship Earth as a solar system component as that solar
system itself orbits within our galactic nebula's even greater
perimeter motion and our galactic nebula's collective motion
in respect to the other nebulae.'
1
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.5, 1968
(f)

BARBARA WARD QUOTATION
Spaceship Earth:
"To my esteemed and beloved friend friend Buckminster
Fuller, who provided much more than the title of this
book,"
Barbara Ward Jackson
23 May'66
[N.B. This debt to R.B.F. acknowledged only in
her presentation copy to him...and buried in text at p.15.]
Cite Lady Jackson inscription in RBF presentation copy
of her SPACESHIP Earth. Columbia Univ. Press, N.Y.
1966, inscribed 23 May 66

BARBARA WARD QUOTATION
Spaceship Earth:
*In fact, I can think of only one way of expressing the degree
to which interdependence and community have become the destiny
of modern man. I borrow the comparison from Professor Buck-
minster Fuller, who, more clearly than most scientists and
innovators, has grasped the implications of our revolutionary
technology. The most rational way of considering the whole
human race today is to see it as the ship's crew of a single
spaceship on which all of us, with a remarkable combination of
security and vulnerability, are making our pilgrimage through
infinity. Our planet is not much more than the capsule within
which we have to live as human beings if we are to survive the
vast space voyage upon which we have been engaged for hundreds
of millenia-- but without yet noticing our condition. This
space voyage is totally precarious. We depend upon a little
envelope of soil and a rather larger envelope of atmosphere for
life itself. And both can be contaminated and destroyed. Think
what could happen if somebody were to get mad or drunk in a
submarine and run for the controls. If some member of the human
race gets dead drunk on board our spaceship, we are all in
trouble. This is how we have to think of ourselves.
We are a
ship's company on a small ship. Rational behavior is the condition
of survival.
Cite Barbara Ward, SPACESHIP EARTH, Columbia Univ. Press, NY, 1966,
P.15.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spaceship Earth:
"For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and
multiplying on a little automated spaceship called Earth, in an
automated Universe in which the entire process is so successfully
predesigned that men did not even know that they were
automated, regenerative passengers on a spaceship and were so
naive as to think they had invented their own success as they
lived egocentrically on a seemingly static Earth."
[N.B. At Hugh Kenner's house in Baltimore, in response to
an inquiry from the Baltimore SUN, RBF said that to the best of
his recollection this citation was his earliest reference to
spaceship Earth in print. -- 3 Oct 73.]
Cite PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 19 Sep 64

Spaceship Earth:
See Earth
Planet Earth
Competition:
Sovereignty:
Elimination of
Elimination Of
(1)

Spaceship Earth:
See Antientropy (A)
Man as a Function of Universe (B)
Miniature Earth, 28 Apr 74
Know-how & Know-what, 11 Nov 74
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, (3)
Wealth, 20 Sep' 76
Building Industry, (11)
United Nations, 29 Mar' 77
(2)

Space Structures:
See Floating City
Moon Structures
Habitable Satellite
Satellite Environment Controla
Sky Dwelling.
Sky-island City
Skybreak Bubble
(1)

Space Structures:
See Biosphere, (1)-(4)
Necklace, Nov 71
(2)

30
RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Technology:
(1)
"In contrast to the home arts let us look at the space
rocketry world. At the present moment we have the enormous,
major governments subsidized weaponry race into space
undertaken by both Russia and the United States. In order
to be able to put a man in space-- to stay in space, not to
make a few orbits-- in order to have man, in effect, live
continuously in outer space for weeks and months and possibly
years, we have to solve scientifically the problem of
mastering the ecological pattern of the human being and the
metabolic pattern of the human being. We have to realize
that the energy events that take place metabolically in
supporting man ecologically on Earth involve energy trans-
forming functions of trees, worms, water, sunlight, the
slowly forming topsoil, et. al. The delicately balanced
pressure and heat of energy exchanges and chemical trans-
formings involve very large ecological domains to complete
the cycles of a man-supporting environment process on Earth.
We are going to have to compress the total ecological
domain of man from approximately a one-mile radius process
into a ten-foot radius process. We are going to reduce the
total volume of energy transformation patterning several
millionfold. In order to be able to send that man off into"
Cite MEXICO '63, p. 11, 10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Technology:
"space, we have to scientifically anticipate and effectively
service all his processes and paychological reflex require-
ments. In order to be able to do that we are, in effect,
building a little house-- a little space house. We had been
using the word 'capsule,' which has hidden from the fact
that what science is really working on is a little house;
not much room to move around in, no garden of roses outside,
but nonetheless, a little house with a six billion dollar
mortgage.
(2)
"In this strange battle of man to anticipate offensive-
defensive weaponry battles in the cold warring, the battle
to attain the moon, or protracted living upon a platform in
space, has brought about a race in capital funding initiatives
between Russia and the United States specifically in relation
This
to this little house, amounting to six billion dollars.
staggering amount is now approprpiated to hire scientists
to go to work to design and produce one little sky house,
the first scientific human dwelling in history. It must
be capable of sustaining man as a metabolic success anywhere
in Universe. It won't be a very charming little house. It
won't be 'good architecture' by the tradional a-la-mode"
-
Cite MEXICO 63, p.11, 10 Oct 163

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Technology:
(3)
"aesthetics. Above all I want you architects at this
Seventh World Congress of the I.U.A. to realize that what
the space scientists are working on is in fact the design
of a house: that is architecture. The scientists are in
your business competing with you in the solution of all the
It
problems that a house for regenerative man involves.
involves every one of the fundamental principles ever
discovered by man in Universe. The scientists are attending
to the dwelling problems that you have failed to attend to
or have left to someone else to solve, as for instance, the
plumbers. When the prototype moon dwelling and its space
autonomy mechanics are developed, and it has been satisfact-
orily test orbited for 100 days, and that house has finally
taken man successfully to the moon, or to a space platform,
there to dwell for months, then we will have history's
first scientific semi-autonomous dwelling. In that sky
dwelling we will have the energy exchange processes,
internal and external to man's ecology, becoming locally
regenerative.
"This process and its scientific tooling and instrument-
ation must become locally regenerative on an extraordinarily
satisfactory basis before we shoot man to the moon or in"
-
Cite MEXICO 63, pp. 11-12, 10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Technology:
(4)
"to protracted space orbiting. We are not going to pick
the finest, healthiest world specimens, the best coordinated
human specimens we have, and send them off to space to live
in some highly inadequate and swiftly deteriorating condition.
All the world will be hooked up by TV to observe the details
of man's first home life in the sky. The technology will
have to be performed superlatively before we shoot man to the
moon or sky platform. This means that the problems will be
solved on Earth and not in the sky. The mechanics of solution
will be produced here on Earth. The establishment of this
capability here on Earth also is going to make possible a
very different kind of dwelling technology right here on
Earth. We will no longer have to have water pipes and
sewer systems. Mankind will suddenly start mass-producing
the space house prototype's pipeless, wireless, trackless
ability to deploy man around the Earth's surface as well as
in space.
Man will be able to take position anywhere on the
face of the Earth, as an eagle takes firm, safe poise on
his beautiful mountain peak vantage, with many able to
readily reach such points by rotoflight and able to survive
at such remote spectacular points at very high living
standards, comfort, and low cost with swift ability to"
-
-Cite MEXICO 163, p.12, 10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Technology:
"reconvene in cultural centers, etc. . .
(5)
"For the first time in the history of man on Earth we are
actually applying the highest scientific capability to that
extraterrestrial space dwelling, underwritten inadvertently
and exclusively by weaponry supremacy ambitions for celestial
control of world fire power. This celestial supremacy
involves, however, an unprecedented weaponry system require-
ment: that of making man a successfully semi-autonomous
biological intelligence system remote from Earth where he
will be unable to survive normally by himself. as detached
reconnaissance soldiers have been able to do in all
previous history. A surprise event thus entered into the
age-old weaponry system evolution, the significance of
which has not as yet been publicly nor politically apprehended
or comprehended.
"All weaponry up to this moment in history has been designed
primarily to kill men with maximum scientific skill. Here
we discover the as-yet uncomprehended surprise. Now for the
first time in history the space weaponry race has forced
the weaponry system directors inadvertently to design a"
cite MEXICO 63, pp.12-13, 10 Oct '63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Technology:
(6)
"means of housing and servicing men (or women or both)
anywhere in Universe which means under vastly more difficult
conditions than on Earth and, because of the superman require-
ments of the service, at a higher standard of satisfaction
of living fundamentals than any men have ever known.
"Tents won't do in airless space. If you spit in space the
spit goes into orbit and you retro-orbit. There is no
sewer system in space. There is no gravity to pull matter
down the drain. There are no water supply lines, no elétric
wires, no supermarkets. Because of the completely un-
Earthly condians within which our men at the new space front
have to operate, science has now been invoked for the first
time in history to 'enshrine living man.' That is the
surprise!
"Science has always been a complex of independent and
subjective economic slave disciplines, primarily concerned
with the harvesting of information, rather than with the
practical application of that information. To provide the
soldiers,
science has at last been brought to bear
unearthly sky dwelling for our celestialectively and
-
Cite MEXICO 163, p.13, 10 Oct 163

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Technology:
(7)
"integratively upon the generalized problem of converting
man's combined ecological and metabolic patterning in
Universe from a random matrix of happenstance interferences,
of unknown miles of overall dimension, into a compacted
metabolic coordinate system of high certitude of controllability,
ergo a local ecological success under approximately any
conditions other than those of falling into the Sun or other
stars. The sky house man must be made capable of taking
position at will, either by interior or remote control,
approximately anywhere in the dynamic intercoordination of
physical Universe. Yet, by virtue of entropy, that is of
inherent local loss of energy of all local systems in
Universe, the sky house may not be perpetually independent
and self-regenerative. It is ultimately dependent upon the
good will replenishment of that local and remote ecological
system by the organized energetic activities of other men
acting both as individuals and as vast teams, coordinated
under the predominant will of organizations of men on Earth."
Cite MEXICO '63, pp.13-14, 10 Oct 163

Space Technology:
See Autmomous Living Technology Packet
Fuel Cell
Moon Structures
Moon Trip
Space Capsule
Space Structures
World Game:
Men Landing on Moon
Airspace Technology.
Walls vs. Airspace Technology
(1)

(2)
221
See Dwelling Service Industry (3)-(6)
General Systems Theory, 4 Jan 70
Science: Cause of Science for Man, 14 Mar 71
Spherical Triangle Sequence (VIII)
Tolerance Sequence, Jun'69
Plastics, 10 Aug'70
Dome: Rationale For (I)
Space Technology:

Space-time:
See Time-space

RBF DEFINITIONS
Space Travel:
"... The icosahedron is stuck locally with no way to get to
another continent. The vector equilibrium is how you get
from one sphere to another, from Earth to Mars."
Citation and context at Icosahedron As Local Shunting
Circuit, 22 Jun'72

TEXT CITATIONS
Space Travel:
Synergetics draft Secs. 1009.71
Hyper, World Mag., 4 Apr 173
780.22-780.28
1009.65
ff, 15 Feb 73
p. 38; 1st & 2nd Cola.

Space Travel:
See Astrogator
Cosmic Transmission
Eye-beamed Thoughts
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man
Man's Universe Penetrations
Travel: Extraorganic Travel
World Game: Men Landing on Moon
Space Capsule
Planets: Probable Myriads of Consciously Operated
Planets
Moon: Humans Reach Moon and Return
Electromagnetic Transmission of Human Organisms
Extraorganic Travel
(1)

Space Travel:
See Atomic Computer Complex (7)
Biosphere (1)-(3)
Disparity, 1960
Icosahedron as Local Shunting Circuit, 22 Jun 72*
Invisible Circuitry (1) (2)
Radiation, May' 72
Spaceship (2); (e)(f)
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (1)
(2)

Space Unoccupied Geometry:
See Space as Nontuned Angle & Frequency Information,
22 Feb 77

TEXT CITATIONS
Space Walking:
Synergetics draft at Secs. 1009.66 - ff. 14 Feb'73

Space:
See Air Space.
Allspace Filling
Available Space
Conceptuality & Space
Curved Space:
Domain
Bent Space
Interstitial Space
Field of Omnidirectional Nothingness
Interspace
Interstitial:
No Geometry of Space
Nothing
Nothingness of Areal & Volumetric Spaces
Novent
Otherness We Call Space
Sphere & Spaces
Static Invalidity of Solid Things vs. Empty Space
Thinkability vs. Space
Time-space
Vacuum
Volume
Void
(1)

Space:
See Critical Proximity, Jun171*
Face, 20 Feb 73
Halo Concept, 25 Apr 71*
Infinite, 15 Oct 72
Local, 22 Apr 71*
Omniintertangency, 17 Feb'73*
Vacuum, 19 Feb 72*
Velocity, 12 Jul*62*
Graphable, 27 May'72
Events & Novents, Nov'71
Silence, 30 Sep' 76*
Tuning-in & Tuning-out, 17 May'77
(2)

Space:
See Space Capsule
Space Filling
Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness
Space Program
Spaceship Earth
Space vs. Conceptuality
Space Structures
Space Technology
Space Travel
Space Walking
Space Unoccupied Geometry
Space as Nontuned Angle & Frequency Information
Space Nontunability
(3)

Spar Crystals:
See Iceland Spar Crystals

Sparking & Nonsparking:
See Copper, 15 Aug'70

Speaking:
See Speech

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spear:
"Vectors are like spears. I could 'massage' any object
into a spear shape, point and thrust-throw it in a discrete
direction. I intuitively liked those directional vector
spears. I felt that they tended at least to embody all
the energetic qualities of represented experiences.
'
R
Cite "Bucky" by Hugh Kenner, p. 105; probably from Snyder
or Farrel, Summer' 71

Spear:
See Javelin
Vector
(1)

Spear:
See Geometry of Vectors, 10 Oct164
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
Q.
.
•
RBF:
Why?"
"You look at the world in such a different way.
"It's just because all people are special.
Everyone is a special case."
Cite RBF to Sue Liberman at WAMU FM, taping, Wash, DC: 26 Apr³77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
-
"Structures are always special case. Structures are operational.
Operational physically realised. Structures always have unique
size. By definition, a structure is a complex of energy events
interacting to produce a stable pattern.
"An energy event is always special case. Whenever we have the
experienced energy we have special case. The physicist's first
definition of physical is that it is an experience which is
extracorporeally, remotely, instrumentally apprehendible.
Metaphysical are all the experiences that are excluded by the
definition of physical. Metaphysical is always generalized
principle."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sacs. 1075.10-.11, 27 Dec174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"Special case is always realized by its energetic information....
Time incrementation is special case information."
-
Citation & context at Energy & Information, 27 Dec '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"The physical is always experienciable and special case.
Citation and context at Limit-Limitless, 4 Nov'73
軀

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"Though special-case experiences exemplify employment of
eternal principles those special cases are all inherently
terminal; that is, in temporary employment of the principles."
Citation and context at Eternal, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"The facts of experience are always special caso."
-
Citation and context at Order, 13 Mar 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"Special case always has frequency and size-time."
[34]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1011., 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"Polarized precession is special case. Omnidirectional
precession is generalized."
Citation and context at General Case, 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"The special cases seem to go racing by because we are now
having in a brief lifetime experiences which took centuries
to be recognized in the past.
[55]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1005.56, 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"And all the categories of creatures act individually as
special case... but... they are all interaffecting one
another synergetically..."
-
Citation and context at Linear and Spherical Analysis, 16 Feb173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"All special case events are generated in critical
proximity."
Citation and context at Critical Proximity, 15 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
...Ever-multiplying Universe's special-case experiences."
Citation and context at Cosmic Fish, 8 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"A vector is
an abstraction of a special case,
as are numbers abstract (empty sets) or special case
(filled sets)."
- Citation and context at Vector, 26 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"The human brain apprehends and stores each sense-
reported bit of information regarding each special-
case experience. Only special-case experiences are
recallable from the memory bank."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, p. 5
CONCEPTUALITY SPECIAL CASE - SEC. 504.02)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
"Experience is always special case."
Cite RBF to EJA
Carbondale
2 April 1971
CONCEPTUALITY SPECIAL CASE - SEC 504.01

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

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special Case:
The generalisable was always present in the special case."
-
Citation and context at Principle, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Special Case Event:
It never
Along the
No
"Now there is, in the universe, a vast order.
lets you down. I throw a coin in the air and it
returns and hits the floor every time. Nature is never
at a loss what to do when she takes over after you and
I sign off. Nature never vacillates in her decisions.
The rolling oceans cover three-fourths of the Earth.
beaches, the surf is continually pounding on the shore.
two successive local surf poundings have ever been the
same, nor will they ever be the same. They typify the
infinitude of individualism of every special-case event in
the universe. While there is great music in the pounding
of the surf, as the infinite creative integrity of the
universe is manifest, I cannot identify man, who hears
this music, as the creator. I therefore do not use the
word 'creativity' in man's employment of a priori
infinite variety."
Citation and context at Creativity (1)
-
spring166
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Spring 1966
Vol 1, No.3
CONCEPTUALITY
SPECIAL CASE - 504.03

RBF DEFINITIONS
Special-case Experience:
"Weightless, abstract human mind reviews and from time to
time discovers mathematically reliable and abstractly statable
interrelationships existing between and amongst, but not 'in'
or 'of, any of the special-case experience components of
the relationship.
"When a long-term record of testing proves the relationship
to persist without exception, it is rated as a scientifically
generalized principle. Whenever human mind discovers a
generalized principle to exist amongst the special-case
experience sets, the discovery event itself becomes a new
special-case experience to be stored in the brain bank and
recalled when appropriate. Amongst a plurality of brain-stored,
newly understood experiences, mind has, from time to time,
discovered greater and more significant understandings, which
in their turn as discoveries, which are 'experiences, con-
stitute further very special-case experiences to be stored in
the recallable and reconsiderable brain bank's wealth of
special-case experiences.
1
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 504.04; galley rewrite, 6 Nov 73

Special Case:
See Abstraction of a Special Case
Brain
No Generalized Boat
General Case
Generalization & Special Case
Generalization of the Special Case
Filled Set
Time-limited
Size
Whole to Particular
Pre-special-case
(1)

Special Case:
(2A)
See Black Hole (1)
Cosmic Fish, 8 Feb'73*
Creativity (1)*
Critical Proximity, 15 Feb'73*
Education Revolution (1)
Evolution, 1970
Einstein: General Theory & Special Theory, 4 Mar 73
Eternal, 13 Mar'73*
Frequency, 16 Feb 73
Generalization, 17 Feb 73; 26 May'72
Generalization Sequence (1)
Is, 24 Apr 72
Limit-limitless, 4 Nov 73*
Local, 23 May'72
Lever (11)
Linear & Spherical Analysis, 16 Feb'73*
Order, 13 Mar 73
Physical Is Always Special base, th, 200472
Principle, Nov' 75; 4 Nov'73; Jun'by
9 Jul'62*
Physical,

Special Case:
See Physical Sciences, 1959
Physical Life, 22 May 173
Rigid, 24 Sep³73
Spheric Domains, 6 Nov'72
Things, 17 Feb'12
Truth, 16 Feb'73; 31 Jan 75
Vector, 26 May'72*
Conceptuality Indpendent of Size & Time, 2 Jun 74
Radial Depth, 20 Dec 174
Energy & Information, 27 Dec'74
Identity, 24 Jan'75
Spherical Triangle, 23 Jan'75
Pattern Integrity, 6 Nov'73
Number, 7 Nov 73
Real World, 12 May 175
Verbs, 12 Nov 75
Metaphysical & Physical, 13 Nov 75
Universe, 11 Dec 75
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec'73
(2B)

Special Case:
See Seven Minimum Topological Aspects, 12 Feb 76
Height, Length & Width, 19 Jul176
Trigonometry, 18 Jul' 76
Radiation, 11 Feb 76
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1)
(2C)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialist: Born with One Eve and a Microscope:
"I find it surprising that society thinks of specialization as
logical, necessary, desirable, if not inevitable. I observe
that when nature wants to make a specialist she's very good at
it, whereas she seems to have designed man to be a very generally
adaptable creature-- by far the most adaptable creature we
know of. If nature had wanted man to be a specialist, I am
sure she would have grown him with one eye and a microscope on
it. She has designed no such creatures. I observe that every
child demonstrates a comprehensive curiosity. Children are
interested in everything and are forever embarrassing their
specialized parents by the wholeness of their interests.
Children demonstrate right from the beginning that their genes
are organized to help them to apprehend, comprehend, coordinate,
and
employ-- in all directions.
Cite RBF at Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala. 1970

Specialist Born with One Eye & a Microscope:
See Degenius, 26 Sep'68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"Specialization is the divide and conquer of the
intellectuals by the muscle men."
Citation and context at Divide and Conquer Sequence (E) 5 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"The omnicommitment
Of the twentieth century's
World-around society
To the synergy invalidated misconception
That specialization
Is desirable and inevitable,
Tends to preclude humanity's
Swift realization
Of its many misconceptionings
And its necessity to substitute therefore
Tactically reliable information.
Specialization is antisynergy."
Cite INTUITION, p.41, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"Extinction is the consequence of overspecialization.
Inbreeding concentrates special-capability genes, but
only at the expense of losing general adaptability, i.e.,
the ability of the species to cope with the infrequently
occurring large, surprising and hostile events of the
environment melange, while prospering-- only temporarily--
during the long intervals of innocuous, high-frequency,
low-magnitude, environmental changes.
"
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971, p. 10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"Specialization, being concerned with parts, is
inherently preoccupied with the physical."
"Specialization is antisynergetic."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971, p. 8.

RBF DEFINITIOKS
Specialization:
"Part of the scheme of specialization is that
there has to be a head man."
Cite RBF Lecture
Town Hall, New York
12 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"Specialization is antilsynergy."
Cite INTITION Draft Feb. '71, p. 30.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"Specialization is only a fancy form of slavery wherein the
'expert' is fooled into accepting his slavery by making him
feel that in return he is in a socially, culturally preferred,
ergo, highly secure life-long position."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"Because humanity has deliberately fractionated the formal
study of residual reality into ever more minute specializations,
which continually know more and more about less and less, the
residual preoccupations have lost sight completely of any of
the comprehensive and infinitely inspirational mystery of totality."
-
Citation & context at Perceptual Peephole as Fraction of Reality,
Dec169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"
Specialists working within the graduate shool saw
saw great possibilities for further specialization within
their special subject and . . . their energies then
developed a linear acceleration instead of a comprehensive
acceleration. They went out like rockets and became remote
stars, remote one from the other.
•
.
Cite RBF Rhode Island Address, 26 Aug. 166.

KBP DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"Life, as born, is inherently comprehensive in its
apprehending, comprehending and coordinating capabilities.
Every child is interested in the universe. His questions
are universal. Dvelopment of specialization has been
either a forced training affair or is a product of inbred
talent as two musician parents tend to produce musical
aptitude chilren.
"Specialization, as a consequence of educational or craft
training, was invented by the great pirates. Pirates had to
be forever on guard against those ambitious to displace
them. They were worried only about the bright ones who
might detect the pirates' secret stratagems. Consequently,
the pirates deliberately and anticipatroially subdivided
and conquered the bright ones as each one came along simply
by making them specialists"
-
Citation and context at Education (B), Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"There is a strong awareness that we have been overproducing
the army of rigorously disciplined, scientific, game-playing
academic specialists who through hard work and suppressed
imagination earn their PH.D.'s only to have their specialized
field become obsolete or bypassed by evolutionary
events in five years.
Despite their honor grades they prove
not to be the Natural Philosopher scientist-artist, but just
deluxe quality technicians or mechanics."
Cite AAUW JOURNAL, May 1965, P. 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
(1)
The
It
"Whitehead pointed out that the men going into those
graduate schools and then going into a very specialized
area instead of having a broad focus were getting down to
a very narrow focus and within that very narrow focus
would become specialists themselves so they would be
professors of specilization within specialization.
specialists would then become so linear, instead of
comprehensive-- instead of being broadcast, they would
be narrowly beamed-- and being very bright ones they
would make great speed in their linear acceleration.
would mean that they would speed outwardly through the
Universe and would become very bright stars in the
firmament, but as stars, very remote from one another.
"He pointed out then that because the specialists had
been very carefully picked as individuals of high intell-
ectual capability and, of course, intellectual integrity
would be implicit. Their own integrity would make clear
to them how little anyone outside their specialization
could possibly know about their area of inquiry. They
wouldn't feel any pride about it-- it would just be a fact
that no one else in the public would tend to know anything
about what they were talking about. Because they would
Cite Oregon Lecture. #2, pp. 39-40, 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization:
"tend to recognize that to be a fact in their own experience,
they would also not presume to go into any other specialists'
laboratory and assume what the significance was of the work
going on there. They would be the first to say: I can't talk
about that. So these specialists would tend to talk to each
other about football or tennis, and would not have much that
they would feel they could converse about."
(2)
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, pp.39-40, 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization Tollgate:
" ...Your specialty: You have to have your little private
tollgate that society will have to go through..."
Citation and context at Intuition of the Child (2), Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Specialization Tollgate:
"Now, men in our industrial and educational system have become
more and more specialised. Everyone, wanting economic security,
has seemed to think that as specialist he could command the
tollgate of an expressway to unique and essential information.
He thought: A great many people will have to go through my
specialization tollgate and I'll have a special, education-
guaranteed economic security."
- Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 29 Aug164

TEXT CITATIONS
Specialization:
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, pp.27-28,
Oregon Lecture #1, pp.26-27, 1 Jul '62
Wood Design in a Dynamic Technology, p.9
University of Chicago Address, in totom
5 May '72

Specialization: Specialist:
(1)
See Categoryitis
Divide & Conquer
Academic Tenure
Inbreeding
More & More About Less & Less
Nature Has No Separate Departments
Overspecialization of Biological Species and Nations
Pirates: Great Pirates
Specialization Tollgate
Whitehead's Dilemma
Overspecialization of the Sciences
Generalists & Specialists

(2)
123
Specialization: Specialist:
See See Computer (A)
Differentiation, 10 Oct 63; 10 Dec'64
Diplomats, 5 May 72
Education (B)*
Generalized Principle (2)
Human Beings, 10 Dec 73
Intuition of the Child (2)*
Linear Programming, 5 Jun'73
Materials, 7 Nov '67
Nation, Oct 70
Eternal Orderliness, 15 May' 72
Orderliness Operative in Nature (1) (2)
Perceptual Peephole, Dec '69*
Real Estate Development, 10 Jun'71
Sensorial Reflex, 13 Mar 73
Organic & Inorganic, May'49
Nonthing, 11 Sep 75

Species:
See Charting Alternating Experiences of Man & Nature, (1)
Synergy: Degrees Of, (5).
Synergy of Synergies, 31 May'71
Viral Steerability: Angle-frequency Design
Control, 22 Jul 71

Specific:
See Lever,
(2)
Line, 7 Nov 72

Speck:
See Invisibility of Macro- and Micro- Resolutions, (1)
Point-to-able Something, 30 Apr'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spectrum:
19
... Unique resonances and frequencies of the electromagnetic,
protoplasmic, pneumatic-hydraulic, and crystallographic
spectrums....
"
. Citation and context at Integer, 15 Oct'72

Spectrum:
See Color Spectrum
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Extrasensoriality
Invisible Spectrum
Optical Motion Spectrum
Sensorial Spectrum
Sensorial-frequency-spectrum Inventory

Speculation:
See Irreversible, 6 Nov' 73

Speech: Speaking:
See Lecturing
Moratorium on Speech
Vision vs. Speech
Conversation
Cliche
Cussing
(1)

Speech: Speaking:
See Fresh, 3 Oct 171
Communication, 21 Jun 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Speed:
"There is a question-asking-possibility that omniscience
may be transcendental in velocity to the definitive
TO
physical speed of energy omnipotence."
* cite Omnidirectional Halo, pr = 163, 1960-
-
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, 21 Dec171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Speed:
"Speed is a unit of rate which is an integrated ratio of
both time and space...
"
-
Citation & context at Rate, 1938

Speed:
See Eternity is Simply the Highest Speed
Fast & Slow
Instantaneity
Intellect: Speed of
Light: Speed of
No Speed
Radiation:
Rate
Speed of
Sound: Speed Of
Top Speed
Velocity
Terminal Speed
Limit Speed
Gravity: Speed Of
Cosmic Speed
(1)

Speed:
See Metaphysical & Physical, 21 Dec'71*
Rate, 1938*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spending:
"Naught had been spent but thoughtful hours."
-
Citation and context at Copper (2), May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spending:
"Naught gets spent but human time
As cosmically inexhaustible energy
Is tapped exclusively
By intellect-discovered and employed
Cosmic principles
which to qualify as principles
Must be eternal."
Cite Muskie Telegram
N. Y. Times
27 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spending:
"The only thing that's expendable is what we do
with our time-- all the rest is cumulative."
Cite RBF to EJA
O'Hare Airport Chicago
25 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spending:
"The Universe is a mammoth perpetual motion process.
We see
then that the part of our wealth which is physical energy is
conserved. It cannot be exhausted-- cannot be spent, which
means exhausted.. We realize that the wording spending is now
scientifically meaningless; it is obsolete."
Citation & context at Closed System: Conservation of Energy,
1968

BITIONS
Spending:
See Afford
Available Time
Conservation
Conservatism
Economic Accounting System
Wealth
(1)

Spending:
See Closed System: Conservation of Energy, 1968*
Economists, Jun'66
Unanswerable, 20 Jun'66
(2)

Sperry:
See Gyrocompass
Gyroscope

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"Spinning and orbiting give you the sphere--at the point
where frequency comes into time-sise."
-
Citation & context at Six Motion Freedoms & Degreen of Freedom,
(A)(B); 8 Aug'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The sphere in the tetrahedron or octahedron or icosahedron.'
I did write There are no others, but I think it is stronger
just the way it is. They obviously can be of any frequency."
"The spun frequency of all three superficial sphericity."
Cite RBF Ltr. to EJA, 25 Feb 74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"Physically, spheres are high-frequency event arrays whose
spheric complexity and polyhedral system unity consist structurally
of discontinuously is landed, critical-proximity-event huddles,
compressionally divergent events, only tensionally and omni-
interattractively cohered. The pattern integrities of all
spheres are high-frequency, traffic-described subdivisioningss
of either tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral angular inter-
ference, intertriangulating structures profiling one, many, or
all of their respectuve great-circle orbiting and spinning event
characteristics. All spheres are high-frequency geodesic
spheres; i.e., triangular-faceted polyhedra, most frequently
icosahedral because the icosasphere is the structurally most
economical."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 985.22, drafted 30 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The Greeks defined the sphere as a surface outwardly
equidistant in all directions from a point. As defined,
the Greeks' sphere's surface was an absolute continuum,
subdividing all the Universe outside it from all the
Universe inside it; wherefore, the Universe outside could
be dispensed with and the interior eternally conserved."
Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. 224.07,
28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
" ...The sphere (i.e., the high-frequency, omnitriangulated,
geodesic, spheroidal polyheron) encloses the most volume
with the least surface."
Citation and context at Tetrahedron, 26 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"If you get too semantically incisive the reader loses all
connections with anything he has ever thought before. That
might not be a great loss. But I like to assume that the
reader can cope with his reflexes and make connections
between the old words and the new and better words. For
example, we have had to clear up what we mean by a sphere.
It is not a surface; it is an aggregate of events in close
proximity. It isn't just full of holes: it doesn't even
have the connections.
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1023.11, 20 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"No sphere large enough for a flat surface to occur is
imaginable. This is verified by modern physics experimentally
induced abandonment of the Greeks' definition of a sphere
which absolutely divided the Universe into all the Universe
outside and all the Universe inside the sphere with an
absolute surface closure permitting no traffic between the
two and making inside self-perpetuating to infinity complex,
ergo the first locally perpetual motion machine completely
contradicting entropy. Since physics has found no solids or
impervious continuums or surfaces, and has found only finitely
separate energy quanta, we are compelled operationally to
redefine the spheric experience as an aggregate of events
approximately equidistant in a high-frequency aggregate in
almost all directions from one only approximate event. Since
nature always interrelates in the most economical manner, and
since great circles are the shortest distances between points
on spheres, and since chords are shorter distances than arcs,
then nature must interrelate the spheric aggregated events by
the chords, and chords always emerge to converge, ergo con-
verge convexly around each spheric system vertex, ergo the
sums of the angles around the vertexes of spheric system never
[22]
add to 3600."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1106.23, 26 Jan 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"... Every system is always losing energy. But they always
have imports as well as exports. And physics has found no
solids. Physics has found no continuums. So our only way
of defining a spherical experience in modern scientific terms
is an aggregate of events approximately equidistant in
approximately all directions from one approximate event.
That's the nearest we can come. It is then a Galaxy of very
approximate event points. There being no continuum, these
energy events have relationships. And the most economical
relationships between circular or spherically arrayed points
are not the arcs, but the chords. I've come to discovering
how very powerful all this is as its going on in geodesic
domes which is simply what I'm talking about: an array of
points approximately equidistant from one point and making
all the most economical chordal interrelationships which makes
them always triangulated.'
Cite RBF Tel Aviv Address, p.7, 16 Jun'72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"It is not surprising
that ball bearings prove to be
the most efficient compression members known to and ever
designedly produced by man. Nor are we surprised to find
all the planets and stars to be approximately spherical
mass aggregations, as also are the atoms, all of which
spherical islands of the macrocosmic and micrososmic aspects
of scenario universe provide the comprehensive, invisible,
tensional, gravitational, electromagnetic and amorphous
integrity of universe with complementarily balancing
internality of compressionally most effective, locally and
temporarily visible, islanded compressional entities.
-
Cite RBF marginalia, SYNERGETICS text, Sec. 614.081, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The moment you know you are on a sphere or spheroid,
You)
know that none of the perpendiculars are parallel
to one another.' "
-
Cite RBF to Sibs Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheres:
"Spheres are just very high-frequency geodesics."
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Ches Wolf.
18 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The sphere is an asymmetrical phenomenon.
It is an
inward-outward pulsative from the vector equilibrium."
- For citation and context see Vector Equilibrium: Spheres
and Spaces, 31 May 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"A sphere is an asymmetrical phenomenon.
It is
an inward-outward pulsative from the vector equilibrium.
The sphere's spaces are interchangeable."
-
Cite RBF tape transcript, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago,
31 May 1971, p. 48.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"Spheres are high tide aspects of vortexes.
Solids are
high tide aspects of faces.
Spheres in closest packing are
high tide aspects of vertexes."
Bite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971
Citation at Tidal, 31 May 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"Pi () is irrelevant in synergetics because the sphere
is not experimentally demonstrable and the tetrahedron is
the minimum sphere. Compound curvature starts with the
tetrahedron. Pi drops out because chords are more economical
than arcs. Chords of an omnidirectional system never add
up to 360° around a point. They are always geodesics. A
point on a sphere is never an infinitesimal tangency with
a plane."
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"Imagination means man's communication of what he thinks
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: he thinks there could be pure
'roundness' and thus imagined a perfect sphere."
-
CONCEPTUALITY
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
SEC. 502 41 bl

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"In further demonstration of the non-mirrored
complementary henomena, we note that compression columns
become more and more effective as we make them fatter and
fatter going from long, thin cylinders to cigar-shaped
systems. By increasing the compression member's relative
girth and shortening its height still further, we finally
develop a compression structure that is spherical.
"The sphere is compressionally ideal. As a slender column
it had to be loaded carefully on its neutral vertical axis
to avoid eccentric bending. Then it is a sphere, however, the
compression loads applied from any direction are automatically
opposed by one of an infinity of neutral axes. The sphere
provides nature's optimum limit in structural opposition to
compressive forces in universe-- ergo, the stars and planets
and atoms are all spherical islands of compression."
-
Cite GODDESSES, Sat Review, 2 Mar 68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"A sphere is a plurality of events approximately
equidistant in approximately all directions from
approximately one event at approximately the same time."
-
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE. 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
Topologically speaking, a sphere is a spherical
constellation and [sic] vertexes between which there are
always the most economical inter-relationship which consist
of chordal distances between the vertexes. These chords
form multi-facted polyhedra and the sums of the angles around
all the vertexes of the polyhedral system will always be the
number of vertexes times 360 degrees minus 720 degrees."
"When we get into the sphere, I find that relatively
few people really think in terms of spherical thinking.
Spherical thinking has not been used too much because
calculus seems to take its place in many ways, and it is
important to realize that in spherical thinking the angles
don't add up to 180 degrees."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 85, Jun'66
Cite CARBONDALE DRAFT IV. 53, IV. 54

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The greeks defined a sphere as 'A surface equidistant
in all directions from a point.' As defined there could
be no holes in the spherex because if there were any holes
the surface would be turning inwardly around the holes rim,
and radius would change and the holes would leave areas.
within them where radius would not be equal in all
directions, The Greeks' definition inferred that there is
some kind of continuous and impervious continuum which
absolutely subdivides all the universe which is outside the
sphere forever, from all the universe which is inside the
sphere. Were there no holes in the sphere, there could be
no possible energy traffic inbound or outbound-- there-
fore entropy.
Entropy the second law of thermodynamics
showsthat every local energy system in physical universe
is always losing or emitting energy. The minimum set of
all energy transactions and transformation is physical
universe itself. Therefore only universe as an aggregate
of non-simultaneous energy event transformings is the only
possible perpetual motion system. If we could have a
local perpetual motion machine, we could throw away the
rest of universe. Therefore the sphere, as defined by
Cite NASA Speech, pp.84-85, Jun'66
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"the Greeks was the first proposed fallaciously perpetual
motion machine."
-
Cite NASA Speech, p.85, Jun'66
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The best definition we make of spherical appearing
system is a constellation of event focii approximately
equidistant in approximately all directions from one
approximate event at approximately the same time.'
time we have been able to measure many of the distances
others would have changed their positions and conditions."
By the
-Cite NASA Speech, p. 85, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The sphere is complex unity and the triangle simplex
unity. Here and here alone lie the principles governing
finite solution of all structural and general systems
theory problems."
-
- Gite RBF Ltr. to Shoji Sadaos, 15 Feb 166, po 5o
Citation and context at Unity: Complex and Simplex Unity,
15 Feb 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The only definition of a sphere now tenable by experimental
physics is: 'A plurality of energy event foci approximately
equidistant, in approximately all directions, at
approximately the same time from the approximate center
of progressive measuring actions."
-
Cite Ltr. to Dr. Robt. W Horne, 14 Feb '66, p. 4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"I sphere is a plurality of events approximately
equidistant in all directions from one event."
Cite MUSIC, Caption to Figure 9, p. 65
10 Dec '64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
The
"Now a sphere is defined by the Greeks as a surface equidistant
in all directions from a point.
No man has ever witnessed an
impervious surface so we can't say that any more.
definition by the Greeks of a surface equidistant in all
directions means it could have no holes in it because then
the radius would change. This would be the first definition
of antientropy that you would successfully subdivide an
inwardness from an outwardness-- subdivide the Universe in
"But my
two parts and have no traffic" between them.
definition of a sphere-- really like a Hilbert point system--
is a plurality of events approximately equidistant in one
direction [sic] from one event. This is a very satisfactory
one." It accommodates a "very high frequency of events, but
it does change mathematics completely. You will find it
affects us.
-
Cite LEDGEMENT LAB. Address, p.50, 15 Oct 64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"Aiming of the compressional loading of a short column
into themeutral or central-most axis of the column
provides the greatest columnar resistance to the compressing
because, being the neutral axis, it brings in the most
mass coherence to oppose the force. To make a local and
symmetrical island of compression from a short column which
axial loading has progressively twisted and expanded at
girth, into a cigar shape, you have to load it additionally
along its neutral axis until the ever-fattening cigar
shape squashes into a sphere. In the spherical condition,
for the first and only time, any axis of a spherical
structure is neutral-- or, ergo, in its most effective
resistant-to-compression attitude. It is everywhere at
highest compression and tension resisting capability to
withstand any forces acting upon it."
Cite RBF expansion of Ledgemont, p.32.
teat,
See SYNERGETICS
Tension and Compression- Sphere: An Island of
Compression.' Sec. 614.08. 15 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
. .
•
As a condition of the sphere for the first time,
any axis is neutral axis, in the d erical condition, it
has aptitiude in any direction to withdraw the forces on it;
it is not surprising that ball bearings become the most
effective compression members ever designed by man. I am not
surprised to find more or less spherical planets in the
heavens tensionally cohered, compression at its most effective."
- Cite LEDGEMINOT, p. 32, 15 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"A sphere contains the most volume and the least surface
and is in the most comfortable condition.
These energy
patterns are always the most comfortable and the most
economical conditions."
q
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 186-187, July 162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"Among geometrical systems a tetrahedron encloses
the minimum volume with the most surface and a sphere
the most volume with the least surface."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 141, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"We can state that the number of vertices of any
system (including a 'sphere' which must, geodesically, in
universal energy conservation, be a polyhedron of n
vertices) minus two times 360° equals the sum of the
angles around all the vertices of the system."
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 152, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
A sphere is a multiplicity of discrete events,
approximately equidistant in all directions from a
nuclear center."
Cite MARKS, P. 138. 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"All the points in the surface of a sphere may
be interconnected.
If most economically interconnected,
they will subdivide the surface of the sphere into an
omnitriangulated spherical web matrix."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 150, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"A sphere is a plurality of events approximately
equidistant in approximately all directions from
one event."
Cite ITEM "0", p. 4 May'55

KBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The regular six-chord-edged tetranedron encloses
(defines) the minimum volume with the most surface of all
geometric polyhedrons or structural systems; whereas sphere
encloses most volume with least surface and the minimum
sphere-defining structure is the regular six-great-circle-
arc-edged tetrahedron of 109°28' central angles and 120°
surface angles. As there may be no absolute division of
energetic universe into isolated or non-communicable parts,
there is no absolute enclosed surface or absolutely enclosed
volume; therefore, no true or absolutely defined simultane-
ous surface sphere integrity. Therfore, a sphere is a poly-
hedron of invisible plurality of trussed facets ('trussed'
because all polygons are reducible to triangles or trusses
and are further irreducible) and trusses are therefore basic
polygons. Infinite polyhedron is infinitely faceted by
basic trusses.' It
_ Cite MCHALE, Plate 36, caption.
"ISOTROPIC VECTOR MATRIX - SEC -420-07
The same language appears earlier in PENNA. TRIANGLE, p.10, Nov, 52

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

RBF DEFINITIESS
Sphere:
If
"In a compound curvature aphere of paper all the
surface represents an intertriangulation of great circles,
wherefore each great circle helps the other. Each is a
compression circle enclosed within a tension circle.
we try to flatten the sphere, its equator cannot move
outwardly to accomodate the down thrust as did the girth
of the paper cylinder. Therefore, no one circle can
lever its compressive interior against polar points, and,
disunited, fail. In the sphere, the pressure at one
point must invoke an infinity of great circles to crush
an infinity of points simultaneously in a progressively
rolling radius as the sphere is gradually pushed inside
out but never flattened-- and only rolls the wave
to the equator, which holds. Even in its inside-outness
the sphere maintains its comprehensive interaction of
system, seeking to re-establish its shape. Thus do balls
tend to bounce. "
Cite IDEAS AND INTEGRITIES, p. 219
Preview of Building, Apr 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
"The sphere is not a minimal system because no completely
enclosed surface exists and therefore no line spherical
integrity. The sphere has a plurality of sides which makes
it a polygon reducible to triangles and hence, tetrahedron.
"The sphere on the other hand encloses or defines more volume
with the least surface than any other geometric figure.
11
•
The sphere is an invisibly multifaceted polyhedron--
each facet reducible to trusses and hence to triangles."
Cite Undated typescript among Synergetics Papers (from RBF)

Sphere Center:
See Indispensable Center, 19 Feb'72
Omnitriangulation, 20 Feb'75
Triacontrahedron, 13 May' 77
T Quanta Module, (10

Sphere Integrity:
See No Sphere Integrity

Sphere Polyhedron:
See Pi, 8 Feb'73

Sphere of Reference:
See Omnidirectional:
Surrounds, (3)
Physical Existence Environment

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheres & Spaces:
"The sphere-to-space, space-to-sphere intertransformability
is a conceptual generalization holding true independent of
aize, which therefore permits us to consider the generalized
all space-filling complementarity of the convex (sphere) and
concave (space) octahedra with the convex (sphere) and
concave (space) vector equilibria; and also permits us to
indulge our concentrated attention upon local special-case
events without fear of missing further opportunities of
enjoying total synergetically conceptual advantage regarding
nonsimultaneously-considerable scenario Universe.'
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1238.22, 14 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheres and Spaces:
"The spheres and spaces are disequilibrious, i.e.,
asymmetrical phases of the vector equilibrium's complex
of both alternate and coincident transformabilities.
By virtue of these transformations and their accommodating
volumetric involvement, the spheres and spaces are
interchangeably intertransformative. For instance, each
one can be either a convex or a concave asymmetry of the
vector equilibrium."
Citation and context at Interchangeable Intertransformativeness,
22 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheres and Spaces:
"A sphere is a convexly expanded vector equilibrium and
all spaces are concavely contracted vector equilibria and
octahedra at their most disequilibrious pulse moments."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, incorporated at SYNERGETICS
Sec. 970., 14 Oct 72
.13

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheres & Spaces:
"Considering spaces between 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 spheres or just looking at the little triangle
locally on the surface of the big sphere where we had our
big triangle. This is beginning tog give us ways of seeing
the complementarity at all times."
-Cite Carbondale Draft-
Naturals Coordination, p. VI.53
-
Cite Oregon #7, p.258, 11 Jul'62

Spheres & Spaces:
See Mite: Positive & Negative Functions
Resonance Field
Allspace Filling:
Vector Equilibrium:
Vector Equilibrium:
Octahedron & VE
Field of Energy
Spheres & Spaces
Interstitial: Interstitial Spaces
Internuclear Voids
(1)

Spheres & Spaces:
(2)
See Interchangeable Intertransformativeness, 22 Feb'73*
Push-pull, 22 Feb 73
Sphere, 31 May '71
Valve, 20 Feb'72
X Configuration with Ball at the Center (2)
Trigonometry: Spherical Trigonometry (3)
Harmonics, (2)(3)
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec'73
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 24 Apr 76
Quantum Mechanics: Minimum Geometrical Fourness,
(2)
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid,
22 Jun 77

Spheres Become Spaces and Spaces Become Spheres:
See Spheres & Spaces

Spheres & Vertexes:
See Push-pull Members, 28 Oct 72
Sec. 722.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
Synergetics Formula for the Volume of a Sphere:
"Here are a lot of illustrations for 'Synergetics. This one
where we have 12 spheres closest packed around one, I did
freehand. It shows all the geometries that occur from 12 spheres
around one, and how they all appear as rational values.
We
show in the book (Sec. 982,60) that the value of the sphere itself
turns out to be the number five, a whole rational number five,
without any pi, where the volume of the tetrahedron is one.
(This is RBF comment on Illustration at 982.62.)
Cite RBF to HUGH Kenner, Phila. PA, transcript p.11; 9 Jun 75

TEXT CITATIONS
Sphere: Synergetics Formula for Area & Volume of a Sphere:
Synergetics:
Sec. 982.60
985.00
-
985.08

Sphere: Synergetics Formula for the Volume of a Sphere:
See 0 Module, 29 Sep 76
Triacontrahedron, 13 May 77

Sphere Tangent with a Plane:
See Calculus, 1960
Infinity & Finity, Jun'66
Raft, 3 Apr 75
Sphere, 31 May'71
Zero Condition, 14 Feb *66
Geodesic Sphere, (1) (2)
Halo Concept, Nov'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere of Unit Vector Radius:
"The concentric hierarchy was conceived from the outset and
as early as 1934, but I had one value more to establish--which
was the volume of the sphere of unit vector radius, which
proved out at five."
Cite RBF marginalis on EJA's "Cosmic Fish" ms. Chap. I,
p.8; 20 Nov 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphere:
Volume-surface Ratios:
"The largest number of similar triangles into which the whole
The surface
surface of a sphere may be divided is 120.
triangles of each of these 120 triangles consist of one angle
of 908, one of 60°, and one of 36°. Each of these 120
surface triangles is the fourth face of a similar tetrahedron
Each of
whose three other faces are internal to the sphere.
these 120 tetra has the same volume as have the A or B Quanta
Modules. Where the tetra is 1 the sphere's volume is 5.
Dividing 120 by 5 = 24 quanta modules per tetra.
The division
of the sphere of volume 5 by its 120 quanta modules discloses
another unit system behavior of the number 24 as well as its
appearance in the 24 external vector edges of the vector
equilibrium."
Cite RBF to EJA 3200 Idaho, Wash DC; incorprated in
SYNERGETICS
, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1053.36; 11 Dec 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherics:
"A spheric is any one of the rhombic dodecahedra, the center
of each of whose 12 diamond facets is exactly tangent to the
surface of each sphere formed equidistantly around each
vertex of the isotropic vector matrix."
[31]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec. 426.32, 20 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherics:
"Because the rhombic dodecahedra fill and symmetrically
subdivide allspace, while simultaneously, symmetrically,
and exactly defining the respective domains of each sphere
as well as the respective shares of the interclosest-packed-
sphere interstitial space, the rhombic dodecahedra are called
'spherics' for their respective volumes are always the
unique closest packed, uniradius spheres' volumetric domains
of reference within the electively generatable and selectively
'sizable' or tunable of all isotropic vector matrixes of all
metaphysical 'considering' as regenratively re-origined by
any thinker anywhere at any time; as well as all the electively
generatable and selectively tunable (sizable) isotropic
vector matrixes of physical electromagnetics, always
re-originatable physically by anyone anywhere in Universe."
ALX
[21]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 426.22, 30 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheric:
"I like to use 'spheric' because it seems to take in more
than 'spherical.' It would include the 'spheroidal.'
Both a ball and a tomato are 'shheric.'"
* Cite RBF to EA, 3200 Idaho, 15 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheric Domains:
"All the well-known Platonic polyhedra, as well as all
the symmetrically referenced crystallographic aberrations
are symmetrically generated in respect to the centers of
the spheric domains of the isotropic vector matrix and its
inherently nucleating radiational and gravitational
behavior accommodating by concentrically regenerative,
omnirational, frequency and quanta coordination of vector
equilibria which may operate propagatively and coheringly
in respect to any special-case event fix in energetically
identifiable Universe.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 981.20, 6 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheric Domain:
"Spheric domain is prime volume."
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium, 18 Nov'72

Spheric Domain vs. Nuclear Domain:
See Six Five -
One, 8 Jan 74

Spheric Domain:
See Domains
Prime Domains
Rhombic Dodecahedron
Spheric
Prime Volumes
(1)

Spheric Domain:
See Coupler, 20 Dec '73
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 2 Nov 73
Domains of Interferences, 7 Nov'73

Spheric Event:
See System Enclosure, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spheric Experience:
"The spheric experience is simply an ultra-high frequency
of finite event occurrences in respect to the magnitude
of the tuning of the observer. (High frequency to the human
may be low frequency to the molecule."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1023.13, 20 Feb'73

TEXT CITATIONS
Spheric Experience:
Synergetica draft at Sec. 985.40, 14 May* 73

Spheric Experience:
See Geodesic Spheric Experience

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical:
"Having the form of a sphere; includes bodies having
the form of a portion of a sphere; also includes polygonal
bodies whose sides are so numerous that they appear to
be substantially spherical."
Cite Patent No. 2,682,235, June 29, 1954
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Barrel:
"This whole spherical barrel system is non-redundant
because of the triangular 'three-point' contacts of each
of the three interfaces of the truncated cork star
octahedra, but would be redundant with the trapezoidal
interfaces of simply truncated tetrahedra formed inwardly
on each and every geodesic sphere's omnitriangular grid."
-Cite Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb 166, p. 4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Barrel: Kumasi Dome:
"In this particular experiment the triangular 'corks,'
(i.e., octahedral were small enough to render this
.005 aluminum_ foil of structural effectiveness.
.
"What is unique about this Kumasi dome is that the octa
corks had their triangular radial great-circle plane
surfaces mathematically guided together only by two control
holes in each of their abutting triangular great-circle
plane faces
to tentatively guide the approach of
these surfaces toward one another and thereafter to cohere
the whole spherical system in a loose manner. . . Wire
bands described all 31 of the basic great circles of the
icosahe iron's symmetrical subdividings.. Fifteen of these
great circles lie alternately along the edge of the icosa-
hedron and then act as vertical bisectors of the next two
icosahedronal major triangles. Of the 31 the remaning ten
and six great circles interact with the 15 great circles in
such a manner that they form approximately uniform
tensional triangles overlying a six-frequency truncatable
icosahedronal pattern, with the wires crossing over all the
vertexes as well as the mid-faces of the system to impinge
vertically on the edges opposite each of the verticals."
-
Cite Ltr to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb '66, p.2
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Barrel:
Kumasi Dome:
(2)
"Thus it is found that 31 great circles act as the most
effective 'spherical barrel' bands (where a 6 - 12 frequency,
truncatable, icosahedronal pattern is employed) for each of
the wires runs over the external surface centers of each of
the octa-cork's triangular faces, thrusting each cork' inwardly
toward the center of the system in such a manner that the
tightening of the bands brings about a universal contraction
of the sphere.
"As the tensional great circle bands were contracted pro-
gressively at Kumasi, it was found most practical to first
tighten the set of six great circles. This left the sphere
with a set of 12 dodecahedronal 'mountain' bulges. We
next contracted the 15 great circles. This brought the
sphere into greater symmetry which was totally effective
when the 10great circles were also tautened.
"Where the great circle wire bindings crossed, they had to
be tied together but not tightly, i.e., they were run through
rings. They didn't need to be tied tightly together, merely
guided."
-
Cite Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb '66, p. 3

300
RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Barrel: Sphere as Complex Unity: Triangle as Simplex
Unity:
"Everything I have said here adds up to the fact that the
sphere is complex unity' and the triangle 'simplex unity.
Here and here alone lie the principles governing finite
solution of all structural and genegal systems theory
problems. Local isolations of infinite open-ended plane
and linear edged (seemingly 'flat' and infinite) segments
of" what are "in reality vast spherical systems-- when taken
out of context-- are hopelessly special-cased indeterminate
situations.
"Unfortunately engineering has committed itself in the past
exclusively to these locally infinite and inherently
indeterminate systems and have had to rely essentially on
the test-proven local behaviors of small systems such as
columns, beams, levers, et. al., opinionatedly fortified
with 'safely guesstimated' complex predictions. Not until
we have universal finite omnitriangulated nonredundant
structural system comprehension can we enjoy the advantage
of powerful physical generalizations concisely describing
all structural behaviors. St
Cite Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb '66, p. 5
TENSEGRITY-
SEC. 650.72

RBF DEFINITIONS
TENSEGRITY-
SEL
Spherical Barrel:
Fail-Safe Advantage:
"It should elucidate also the increased fail-safe advantage
accomplished with each increase of frequency of triangular
module subdivisions of the sphere's unitary surface; i.e.,
failure of one triangular cork in an omnitriangulated spherical
grid leaves a triangular hole which is utterly innocuous.
Failure of one stave in a simple curvature barrel and the
whole thing collapses.
"Failure of two adjacent triangular corks in a spherical
system leaves a diamond-arched opening which is stable and
innocuous; likewise the failure of five or six triangles
leaves a completely arched pent or hex opening which is
circumferentially corked and innocuous. Failure of one
spherical tension memeber likewise leaves an only slightly
relaxed, two-way detoured, i.e., diamonded relaying of the
throughway tensional continuity.
Considerable relaxing of the spherical triangulated cork
barrel system by many local tension failures can occur without
freeing the corks to dangerously loosened local rotatability.
The higher the frequency and the deeper the inter-trussing,
the safer this type of spherical structure.'
1
0.68 Cite Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb 166, p. 5

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Barrel:
Radial Compression
v3.
Circumferential Tension:
"This letter plus the structural portion of my discourse and
illustrations of my Mexican speech to the U.I.A. (in WDSD Doc.
II.) should make possible the elegant mathematical formulation
of engineering theory governing the radial compression and
circumferential tension behaviors unique and exclusively
accomplished through three-way spherical gridding."
-
Cite Ltr. to Shoji Sadai, 15 Feb '66, p. 4
TENSEGRITY
SEC 650.69

Spherical Barrel:
See Cork: Triangular Corks in Spherical Barrels
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Comprehension:
"The second stage of [ comprehension is spherical..."
-
Citation and context at Comprehension, 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Excess:
"Spherical excess is the amount of angle by which the
three internal angles of spherical triangles exceed the
constant internal angular sum of 180 degrees-- which
characterizes all planar triangles."
Cite Undated Sheet: DYMACION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION.
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Excess:
(2)
"The internal angles of spherical triangles always add to
more than 180 degrees and the larger the spherical triangles
the greater the 'excess.' Convince yourself of this
infraction of your planar thinking by drawing a meridian of
longitude which is a great circle from the North Pole to
the Earth's equator, which is also a great circle. Meridians
and the equator always intercept each other at 90 degrees.
Draw a line along the equator a quarter of the way around the
world, which is 90 degrees. Then draw a line returning by
meridian to the North Pole. You will have completed a
spherical triangle whose three angles are each 90 degrees and
add to 270 degrees, or 90 degrees 'spherical excess.”
Cite Undates Sheet: DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

Spherical Excess:
See Equimagnitude Phases
Minimum Spherical Excess
(1)

21
(2)
See Fifteen, 22 Jun '72
Module: A Quanta Module & Basic Triangle, 20 Dec*73
Neutral Angle, 16 Dec '73
Projective Transformation, (4); (III)-(VII)
Spherical Icosahedron, 13 Oct!?!
Projective Transformation:
Raleigh Edition, (1)
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (2)
Vector Equilibrium, 26 Aug 75
Spherical Excess:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Field:
"Physics' discovery of universally-multifrequenced, periodic-
event-discontinuity outness (in complementation to equally
frequenced, event-occurrence in-ness) is inherent in the always-
experientially-verifiable, wave-duration frequency, photon-
quantum phenomena; wherefore synergetics had to redefine both
volumes and surfaces in terms of dense (high-frequency)
aggregates of only pointally-positionable, energy events'
geometrical formulations, with spherical surfaces' being in
operational reality a dense, outermost, single-photon-thick,
'cloud' layer, everywhere approximately equidistant in all
directions from one approximately-locatable event center.
this reason the second-power exponential rate of area gain is
not to be identified as a continuum, i.e., with a continuous
system, but only with the high-frequency outermost layer
population aggregate of energy-event points. With numbers of
photons and wave frequency per primitive volume the relative
concentration of given masses are determinable.
For
my
. Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1052.20, 9 Jan'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Field:
David Bohm, Foundations of Physics, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1971, p.369:
Einstein did in fact very seriously try to obtain such a
description in terms of a unified field theory, He took the
total field of the whole Universe as the primary description.
This field is continuous and indivisible. Particles are then
to be regarded as certain kinds of abstraction from the total
field, corresponding to regions of very intense field (called
singularities)."
RBF Commenta:
"2PF2 + 2, where P = prime No and F = frequency."
... of conceptualities.
conceptuality."
BF's segment 'scenario' of limited
Cite RBF marginalia at QUANTUM THEORY AS AN INDICATION OF
NEW ORDER IN PHYSICS, p.369, done Aug '73
UNIVERSAL INTEGRITY - SEC. 1052.33

Spherical Field:
See Circumferential Field
Embracement
Halo Concept
Field of Energy
Radial-circumferential
Sphere of Reference
Vector Equilibrium:
Spherical Point System
Unified Operational Field

Spherical Gears:
See Gears: Spherical Gears

Spherical Grid:
See Tensegrity Geodesic Grid: Three-way Grid
Omnirational Control Matrix
Great Circle Subdivisions of Spherical Unity

Sphere Icosa:
See O Module, 29 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Icosahedron:
"We can take an icosahedron and put a sphere congruent to
each of
the 12 vertexes and if we place a light inside and
project the shadows of the chords out on to the sphere, the
result is a spherical
icosahedron. The 20 equilateral
triangles
of the planar icosahedron can be symmetrically
subdivided
into six small right triangles by perpendicularly
bisecting each
angle. The angles of each small triangle
are 90°, 60° and
30
°
and therefroe each of the sides is
different in length. In the gpherical icosahedron, however,
the anglesare 90°, 60° and 36° with
the last angle 60° more
than the corresponding are in the planar icosahedron.
This is due
to spherical excess.'
Cite SYNERGTICS, "Numerology," p. 13, Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Icosahedron:
"An icosahedron 'exploded' onto the surface of
a sphere; bears the same relation to an icosahedron as a
spherical triangle bears to a plane triangle; the sides of
the faces of the spherical icosahedron are all geodesic
lines."
Cite Patent No. 2 682 235, June 29, 1954
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Spherical Icosahedron:
See Icosahedron
Projective Transformation:
Tensegrity Icosahedron
Raleigh Edition
(1)

See Sphere, 25 Feb 74
Central Ball: Central Sphere, 13 Nov' 75
Spherical Icosahedron:
(2)
17

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Interstices:
"When unit radius spheres are closest packed, they have
a space between them whose volume is exactly tetravolume-1
as ratioed to the spherically occupied tetravolume-5 with
a combined space occupancy of tetra volume-6.'
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to William Hess; 9 Jul'76
. Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1032.101

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Interstices:
We
"All of the jitterbug 7 stages are rationally concentric
in our unified operational field of 12-around-one closest-
packed spheres that is only conceptual as equilibrious.
note also that per each sphere space between closest packed
spheres is a volume of exactly one tetrahedron: 65 - 1."
-
Citation & context at Octahedron as Annihilation Model, 30 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Interstices:
"Synergetics Isotropic Vector Matrix omnisymmetric,
radiantly expansive or contractive growth rate of interstices
which are congruent with closest packed uniradius spheres
or points, are also rational. There is elegant,
omniuniversal, metaphysical, rational, whole number
equating of both the planar bound polyhedral volumes and
the spheres, which relationships can all be discretely
expressed without use of the irrational number pi, (TT),
3.14159, always required for such mathematical expression
in strictly XYZ coordinate mathematics."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 970.13, 18 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Interstices:
"A sphere is a convexly expanded vector equilibrium and
all inter-closest-packed sphere spaces are concavely
contracted vector equilibria or octahedra at their most
disequilibrious pulsative moments."
[13]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec, 970., 18 Nov'72

Spherical Interstices:
See Interstitial: Interstitial Spaces
Sphers & Spaces

701
Spherical Maximum:
See Prime Dichotomy, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Necessity:
"Gravity has been described as the nostalgia of things to
become spheres. The nostalgia is poetic, but the phenomenon
is really more of a necessity than it is a nostalgia. Spheres
contain the most volume with the least surface: gravity is
circumferential: nature is always most economical. Gravity
is the most effective embracement. Gravity behaves spherically
of necessity because nature is always most economical.
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. ed. at Sec. 646.21, 30 May '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Nostalgia:
"Here we have clarification of the Copernican 'nostalgia'
or synergetic proclivity of the circumferentially arrayed
spheres to associate symmetrically around the nucleus sphere
or the nucleus void which, as either configuration-- the
vector equilibrium or the icosahedron- rotates dynamically
producing a spherical surface."
-
Citation & context at Gravity (1), 12 Jun'74

Spherical Nostalgia:
See Spherical Necessity, 30 May'75

Spherical Observation:
See Nucleus (1)
Omnidirectiona; Physical Existence Environment
Surrounds
Vectorial Geometry Field, 22 Nov*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Octahedron:
"The spherical octahedron's three inside-out symmetrically
unique diameters and the three unique external chords produce
two unique sets of three nonparallel lines each, but with
one set coordinating at 60 degrees and the other set coordinating
at 90 degrees."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 527.23, 29 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Octahedron:
"Each of any three great circles of a sphere not having
common polar crossings must cross each other twice in a
symmetrical manner in which the six crossings must produce
either two similar polar triangles and six similar equatorial
triangles, or must produce eight equilateral and equiangular
triangles all cases of which are spherical octahedra,
regular or irregular."
Cite SET I, p.10, Aug'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Octahedron:
"When two force vectors operating in great circle paths inside
a sphere impinge on each other at any happenstance angle, that
angle has no amplitude stability. But when a third force vector
operating in a great circle path crosses the other two spherical
great circleg, a great-circle-edged triangle is formed with its
inherent 180° mirror-image triangle. With successive inside
surface caromings and angular intervector impingements, the
dynamic symmetry imposed by a sphere tends to equalize the
angular interrelationship of all those triangle-forming sets
of three great circles which, shunting automatically, tend
averagingly to reproduce spheric dly closed symmetrical
systems of omnisimilar triangles exactly reproduced in their
opposite hemisphere, quarter-spheres, and octa-spheres.
This
means that if there were only three great circles they would
tend swiftly to interstabilize comprehensively as the spherical
octahedron all of whose surface angles and arcs (central angles)
average as 90°."
-
Cite SET X, p.12, Aug172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Octahedron:
"Here we have a spherical octahedron made out of the
three great circles. But you cannot make them by folding
up three great circles. It is impossible to fold it and
have it come out. But you can fold six great circles.
You can bring those six together and they will harm make
the spherical octahedron, but it is all doubled up. Now
that ought not to surprise you because you remember that
when we took the vector equilibrium and collapsed it, it
became the octahedron and all the vectors were doubled,
so this is fairly logical. This is six great circles but
the first that I could make. I couldn't make it with one,
or two, or three, but I can make it with four. This is
of six."
•
"This is a very peculiar kind of folding
they never
duplicate each other and never double up except in the one
case where the octahedron made out of six are all doubled."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 269. + p. 270. 11 Jul'62

Spherical Octahedron:
See Sphere, 25 Feb'74
Octahedron: Eighth-octahedra, (1)(4)

Spherical Point System:
See Spherical Field
(1)

Spherical Point System:
See Basic Raft, Feb'50
Recede, 17 Feb 72

Spherical Propagation:
See Probability, (1); 20 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Quadrant Phases:
"There is always a total of eight (four positive, four
negative) unique
--
--
interpermutative,
intertransformative,
interequatable,
omni embracing
phases of all cyclically described symmetrical systems
(see Sec. 610.20), within any one octave of which all the
intercovariable ranging complementations of number occur.
R
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1238.28, 9 Jul'75

Spherical Quadrant Phases:
See XYZ Quadrant at Center of Octahedron

Spherical Reality Scribing:
See Vectorial Geometry Field, 22 Nov' 73

Spherical Sensationa:
See Halo Concept, 22 Feb 72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Structures:
"Because spherical sensations are produced by polyhedral arrays
of interferences identified as points approximately equidistant
from a point at the approximate center, and because the mass-
attractive or repulsive relationships of all points with all
others are most economically shown by chords and not arcs, the
spherical array of points is all interconnected triangularly by
the family of generalized principles being operative as Universe,
which produces very high-frequency, omnitriangulated geodesic
structures whichare an aggregate of chords leading to all points
whose angles always add up to less than 360°."
* Citation at Halo Concept, 22 Feb 72
Crne SYNING PIGS draft at:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Tetrahedron:
"The least distorted transformational projection of the Dymaxion
airocean world map is an icosahedron, but the simplest frame of
reference is the spherical tetrahedron which provides the omni-
triangulated grid, strip-wrapped tetrahedron. This is how you
bring the omnidirectional into a flat projection. This is how
the tetrahedron, the basic structural system of Universe, unwraps
linearly into an infinity of varying frequencies of angle and
frequency modulation. Here we have a conceptual model that you
can program...
11
Citation & context at Omnidirectional Typewriter (4)(5), 10 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Tetrahedron:
"When stressed with relative high internal pressure all
polyhedra tend to transform toward defining the maximum
volume with the minimum surface, i.e., toward the
spherical convex-arc edge tetrahedra (the basketball
and the baseball are tetra structured)."
-
Cite PENNA. TRINNGLE, p. 11 Nov 152

Spherical Tetrahedron:
See Baseball, 28 Jan '75
Cosmic Neutral, 16 Dec:73
Omnidirectional Typewriter, (4)(5); 10 Sep'74
Sphere, 25 Feb'74
Spherical Triangle Sequence, (VIII)
Three-way Great Circling:
Tin-yang (1)
Domain of a Line, 7 Nov* 73
Three-way Grid, 17 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Thinking:
"When we get into the sphere I find that relatively few people
really think in terms of spherical thinking. Spherical
thinking has not been used too much because calculus seems to
take its place in many ways, and it is important to realize
that in spherical thinking the angles don't add up to 180
degrees."
-
Citation & context at Sphere (p.86), Jun'66

Spherical Thinking:
See Sphere, (p.85) Jun'66*

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle:
"What you and I have been brought up on as a triangle is
the most extreme case of the most local aspect of what is
inherently a spherical triangle. Even if we imagine it,
it is still special case. And when we make it conceptual
the brain immediately makes it special case. The brain is
designed for special case.
"I say to a child: Draw a triangle. And he says: Where?
And I say: Draw a triangle. And he draws it on the ground.
The triangle divides the whole Earth into two areas: the
complementary very big triangle and the local little triangle.
Concave and convex are not the same: ergo, we have inherently
four triangles. And the four triangles mean the manifestation
of our friend the tetrahedron which is always there for the
accountability. There is nothing you can do without the
tetrahedron being there.
"A plane triangle is just an extremely limited case of the
spherical. If you learn the spherical the plane geometry is
included, but not the reverse. It is starting with wholes.
Plane trigonometry is an abstract ratio of edges to angles
but spherical trigonometry is all ratios of angles to angles,
which is much simpler."
Cite RBF at Bell Lab. videotaping, Phila., PA, 23 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle:
"Operationally speaking we always deal in systems and all
systems are characterized projectionally by spherical
triangles which control all our experiential transformations."
-Cite SYNERGETICS, "Operational Mathematics, One Spherical
Triangle Considered as Four." 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle:
Spherical trigonometry is a very different kind of
trigonometry from the plane. I want you to get familiar
with it because there is no plane flat surface on Earth.
So therfore there are no plane triangles and we are always
dealing in systems. Systems are characterised by triangles
which are spherical triangles. These are the kinds of
triangles which control our fundamental transformations."
- Cite OREGON Lecture #6, pp. 205-6, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
(1)
"No surface is conceivable without its inherent sphere as a
truly flat Universe reaching outwards laterally in all
directions to infinity, though illusionarily accepted as
'obvious' by historical humanity, is contradictory to
experience. The surface of any system must return to itself
in all directions and is most economically successful in
doing so as an approximate true sphere which contains the most
volume with the least surface. Nature always seeks the most
economical solutions, ergo the sphere is normal to all systems
experience and to all experiential, i.e., operational considera-
tion and formulation. The construction of a triangle involves
a surface and a curved surface is most economical and experi-
mentally satisfactory. A sphere is a closed surface, a unitary
finite surface. Planes are never finite. Once a triangle is
constructued on the surface of a sphere-- because a triangle
is a boundary line closed upon itself-- the finitely closed
boundary lines of the triangle automatically divide the unit
surface of the sphere into two separate surface areas. Both
are bounded by the same three great circle arcs and their
three vertexial links: which is the description of a triangle.
Therfore both areas are true triangles, yet with common edge"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1106.12, 26 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"boundaries. It is impossible to construct one triangle alone.
In fact, four triangles are inherent to the oversimplified
concept of the construction of 'one' triangle. In addition to
the two complementary convex surface triangles appropriate to
them and occupying the reverse, or inside, of the spherical
surface. Inasmuch as convex and concave are opposites, they
cannot be the same. Therefore, a minimum of four triangles is
always induced when any one triangle is constructed, and which
one is the initiator or inducer of the others is irrelevant.
The triangle initiator is an inadvertent but inherent tetra-
hedron producer; it might be on the inside constructing its
triangle on some cosmic sphere, or vice versa.
(11)
"It might be argued that inside and outside are the same, but
not so. While there are an infinity of insides in Experience
Universe there is only one outside comprehensive to all
insides. So they are not the same; and the mathematical fact
remains that four is the
minimum of realizable triangles
that may be constructed if any are constructed.
But that is
not all, for it is also experimentally disclosed that not only
does the construction of one triangle on the surface of the"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 1106.12+13, 26 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
(111)
on the
"aphere divide the total surface into two finite areas each
of which are bound by three edges and three angles, ergo by
two triangles, but these triangles are on the surface of a
system whose unity of volume was thereby divided into centrally
angled tetrahedra because the shortest lines onsphere surfaces
are great circles and great circles are always 'formed
surface of a sphere by planes going through the center of the
sphere, which planes of the three-great-circl-art-edged triangle
drawn on the surface automatically divide the whole sphere
internally into two spherical tetrahedra-- each of which has
its four triangles, ergo inscribing one triangle 'gets you Eight,'
like it or not. And each of those eight triangles has its
inside and outside, wherefore inscribing one triangle, which is
the minimum polygon, like 'Open Sesame,' inadvertently gets you
16 triangles. And that is not all: the sphere on which you
scribed is a system and not the whole Universe, and your scribing
a triangle on it to stake out your 'little area on Earth'
not only begat 16 terrestrial triangles but also induced the
remainder of Universe outside the system and inside the system
to manifest their invisible or nonunitarily conceptual
-
'minimum inventérying' of 'the rest of Universe other than Earth!"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1106.13, 26 Jan173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
(1)
"each of which micro and macro otherness system integrity
has its induced sixteen triangles for a cosmic total of 64."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1106.13, 26 Jan°73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
(I)
"I spoke to you earlier today about our teacher at the school
giving us some arithmetic and then saying she was going to
teach us a little bit about plane geometry. She said, 'Don't
worry, it's just plane geometry.' Then she taught us about the
triangle as an area bound by closed lines: three edges and
three angles. A circle is an area bound by a closed line of
equal radius from a point. A square is an area bound by
a closed line of four equal edges and four equal angles.
Everything we learned about geometry were areas bound by
closed lines. And then we learned about logic within those
closed lines about that area. Reliability and understanda-
bility was all on one side of the line. A very nice small
tight package, but it couldn't tell us anything about the
other side of the line. Why? Because it is plane geometry
and goes to infinity so the other side of the line is unde-
finable. What do you mean by infinity? It's infinite,
therefore it can't be defined. So that we start the children
off with this extraordinary prejudice that only on one side
of the line is there reliability.
"Your family is very relaȧble. The next family over there is"
Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass, Amherst, Talk 13, p.15, 22 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"questionable now. As for those foreigners, well, they're
awful. They're very unreliable. Now I want you to see
how we really build prejudice, how easy it is in terms of
the superficial assumption of the reality of this great
plane that this is a safe place to start children off.
Now I want you to realize that when we made that closed line
we did it on a blackboard and I did it with a piece of
crayon, and this blackboard ends and goes around to the
other side. It has another side here [He knocks on it. ]
and it has edges on it. It is a system. This blackboard,
I can take it off here, and I find that it is a system.
has insideness and outsideness and is fairly thick-- about
a quarter of an inch. And I'm still inside it. So it is
When I
a system even though it's an asymmetrical system.
When I draw a
take a unit system it has a unit surface.
closed line on a system which is a unit surface I divide
the whole area of that system, the whole surface area,
two areas. There is the rest of the board here that is an
area bound by this closed line of three edges and three
angles.
into
"So this is white inside here and all the rest is green."
(II)
- Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass., Amherst, Talk 13, p.16, 22 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
3º,
(III)
"I'll paint this green all around, a green area which is
bound by a closed line of three edges and three angles.
You say it doesn't look like a triangle to me.
And I say
it the outside green area-- EJA note.. must be; that's
your definition of a triangle, an area bound by a closed line
of three edges and three angles. Now the board being
asymmetrical makes it more difficult for you for the moment,
but I want you to think about our Earth. We had a circle which
was an area bound by a closed line with equal radius from a
point. Well, taking our Earth, I'm now going to make a
closed line on it and it happens to be 90 degrees from each
of the poles and you would call it the equator. It's a closed
line on the surface and it divides the Earth into a southern
hemisphere and a northern hemisphere. You credit both sides
of the line. Now I'm going to take you up to 80 degrees
north latitude and draw a lesser circle. It divides the
surface of the Earth into two areas: a very large souther one
and a very small northern. We can just call it the Arctic
circle and the rest of the Earth. But you don't negate the
rest of the Earth and you do recognize both sides of the line."
Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass., Amherst, Talk 13, p. 17, 22 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"Now instead of drawing a circle on the Earth I'm just
simply going to draw a triangle. Now I divide the whole
surface of the Earth into two areas, a very large southern
and a very small northern and they both are triangles so
they're both bound by a closed line with three edges and
(IV)
three angles. And you say, 'Oh Mister, you're wrong, because
I see 60 degree corners to that triangle, and this must be
300 degrees" outside the corner "and this must be 300 and this
must be 300 and the sum of the angles of triangles are always
180 degrees.' You say can that really be so. And I say yes
it is so and let me demonstrate that to you.
"Take, for instance, what we call a great circle. A great
circle is a line formed on a sphere by a plane going through
the center of the sphere. The equator is such a great circle.
The meridians of longitude are just such great circles and
they go trhough the center. 80 degrees north latitude is a
lesser circle: it does not go through the center of the sphere.
Now great circles are the shortest distances between points
on the surface of a sphere. If you would like to demonstrate
that we'll simply go up to 85 degrees north latitude-- it's
really a very small little circle here-- and take the radius"
wy
Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass., Amherst, Talk 13, p.17, 22 Jul'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
And
"of it in my dividers and I'll superimpose it on the
equator. And, of course, the equator is A and B.
quite clearly it's a much shorter distance between A and B
if you stay on the equator than it is to take this detour
over 90 degrees, like this, and come back 90 degrees again.
(V)
૩
"So great circles are called geodesics. The word geodesic is
old but it was revived by both Einstein and the Indian Riemann
[sic], and it means the most economical relationship between
events in the Universe, and they are never straight lines.
If, for instance, we see two airplanes in flight. They're
independent of the surface of the Earth. They are steerable
planets if you will. Photographs were taken at night of
airplanes fighting during WWII at night with tracer bullets.
Both were using machine guns with tracer bullets, and you'll
se one of them hit the other and it goes inward to the
Earth. You see the tracery is an absolute corkscrew.
If you
_ are for instance wanting to faire at a bird, which I hope
you don't want to fire at one, but if you did want to fire at
a bird you wouldn't hit it if you aim at whwere it is. You'd
have to aim at where you think it's going to be. And gravity
is going to start affecting it, even though it's a shortn
Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass., Amherst, Talk 13, p.18, 22 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
(VI)
"distance and going through the atmosphere there's always
a spin that's brought about by rotation. There is as a result
pressure drafts on one side, and there's air in motion--
wind and all your traceries are always going to be corkscrew.
But they are the most economical relationships and they are
geodesics.
"So geodesics are curved lines. And I've given you the most
prominent geodesics like the
great circles, the
most economical relationships between events on the surface
of our Earth. Now, understanding that, you will understand
that our spherical trigonometry is always done with great
circles. You were brought up with your plane geometry where
a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.
Now I gave you earlier today the non-straight line.
·
°
"Here then is our Earth. I'm going to the north pole and I'm
going to take a meridian which is a great circle and it's going
to impinge on the equator at 90 degrees. So this meridian
comes and impinges on it and here's the center of our Earth.
It would go like that. And now, having impinged on the
equator at 90 degrees, I'm going to leave the meridian and"
->
Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass., Amherst, Talk 13, p. 19, 22 Jul'71

RBP DEFINITIONS.
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"travel on the equator. I'm going to go one-quarter way
around the Earth.
Then I'm going to take another meridian
and ride up to the north pole again. And because I went a
quarter
way around the Earth, and then I left the equator at
90 degrees, looking down on top of what I've done, I went
like
this, and therefore the angle at the north pole must,
also be 90
degrees. So here's a spherical triangle of 90°,
90°, and 90°,
adding up to 270° in its corners. These are
the triangles
we really do deal with in our Universe.
(VII)
"If we were to bisect the edges of that triangle with great
circles, interconnecting them, the angles would be about
73° at each corner. If I bisect them again and interconnect
them with much
smaller triangles, the corners are around 63°
Then
if I get a smaller one here that 60 degrees and some
minutes, or maybe 60 degrees and some seconds-- but they
never get down to exactly 60° in each corner. That is, it
will always be a
little more than 180 degrees. So the smaller
the triangle, the more you approach the 180-degreeness which
you never arrive at. But the amount the triangles at the
corners
add up to more than 180 degrees we call the spherical
excess, which you must always calculate when you're doing"
-
Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass., Amherst, Talk 13, p. 19, 22 Jul171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"your spherical trigonometry.
•
(VIII)
"Now if I made another triangle bigger still, in which the
90° corners
were 120° angles
that's exactly what you
get with a spherical tetrahedron. If I put a tetrahedron
inside of a sphere with the light I had last night, and have
the
shadows cast outwardly from the light at the center of
the sphere, it would show you this 120 degree interaction
at
four vertexes. So there would be a triangle where each
of the corners
would be 120° and it would add up to 360°.
Now I'll simply say to you then, that when you draw a
triangle on our Earth, even though it's very local-- and you
draw a little
tiny triangle here locally-- you divide the
total surface of the
Earth into two areas. And one is a very
large triangle
with corners of about 300° each, and there are
these little
local ones of about 60° each if you try to make
it
equilateral
. The boy said, 'But I didn't mean to draw the
big triangle.' I said, 'That's just the trouble. We keep
drawing
these big triangles and don't realize we are.' We've
been thinking
what's been called realistic. Let's get down
to Earth, never mind that space stuff, but when we're all the
time just a tiny little speck in space. It's nothing but a
space program, which we'd better catch on to pretty quickly."
Cite SIMS Address, U.Mass., Amherst, Talk 13, p.20, 22 Jul'71
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
•
(a)
"All this comes because man starts with the idea of over-
simplifying. what seems to be reality.
The Earth at
that
time seemed to be a plane going to infinity.
So you
were
dealing in a plane. So you start your geometry with
plane geometry
. You start trigonometry with plane trigono-
metry. But in due course
you discovered that it wasn't a
plane
, it was a sphere. A closed system, not an open system.
And you found that you were
only defining on one side of the
line because the
other side went on to infinity.
So you
learned about the triangle, and the circle, and all these
areas bound
by closed lines. And you learned that all logic
and
reliability is one one side of a line: the area bound.
On
the other side of the line-- you couldn't define it because
it went
to infinity-- therefore it is undefinable. So as
geometry is taught to you, and trigonometry is taught to you,
you can
only deal with one side of the line.
"But if you are operational, the way Einstein is, and say
I've got to
take into account all the conditions that obtain
at the time of the experience, you can say that in drawing
a line on a
blackboard that the blackboard does not go on
to infinity. It comes to its edge and the edge is a slate,"
Cite RBF tape Transcript, Carbondale Jome, pp.18-20, 1 May 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"or whatever it is, and you go around, its mild thickness,
you go around its back. And whether you like it or not you
have dividied the surface of the blackboard into two areas.
Anything that comes back into itself is a closed system.
And all systems, in fact thinkability, does that. What we
call thinking is trying to find out how it does return upon
itself: Wht is the outline of that man? What is going on?
What is on the other side of the Moon? I have got to get all
the sides in order to understand it.
(b)
"I think this Moon thing is typical of seeming to be a plane.
You didn't have to think about the other side of it. This
is typical of yesterday's way of thinking. Things were just
a disc. But even if it was a disc you could have another
side. As a coin does. Now, once you are operational, you
realize that if you take the unit surface of any system,
whether it is symmetrical, a nice regular thing like a sphere,
or whether it is a blackboard with very thin edges but none-
theless it has surfaces and it has backs. It might be a
triangular blackboard, a broken piece of slate, but it has
this back. And when you then draw any closed line coming
back on itself, whether it is a triangle or a circle,'
Cite RBF Tape Transcript, Carbondale Dome, pp.20-22, 1 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"automatically that closed line divides the total surface
of the system into two areas, both of which are bound by
that line. And you have only been looking at what is on
one side of that line.
"A bathing cap stretches around and you have the opening of
the bathing cap where the little snap rests-- stretched
around it. Packaged. Now, if it were a sphere you could
see it a little better. I am going to draw a closed line
on a sphere. It happens to be the equator. It divided the
Earth into two areas, you say, the southern and northern
hemispheres, and you can be perfectly happy about that.
If I go to 85° north latitude and draw a latitude, a lesser
circle. I divide the whole Earth into a very large southern
and a very small northern. Now I am perfectly clear at this
point that dividing surfaces you have to credit both sides.
So if I drew a triangle on the Earth locally I divide the
whole surface of the Earth into two areas, both of which are
bound by my closed line, the three edges and three angles.
And the boy said, "Well, I drew a 60° angle here.
1 and
so I learned the sums of the angles of the triangles only "
(c)
-Cite RBF Tape Transcript, Carbondale Dome, pp. 22-24, 1 May 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
so each of the other corners.
.
seems to
"add up to 180°,
be 300 so it adds up to 900°. Well you have been taught
the wrong way because the sums of the angles never add up to
180°, because you cannot make an absolutely flat plane.
There is always something a little more. And this is a case
where you really see how much more.
(d)
"If you have a very big triangle, for instance, going to the
north pole, taking a meridian to the equator, impinging on
the equator at 90°; go one-quarter of the way back around the
Earth and take a meridian back to the north pole; it leaves
the equator at 90° and comes back where the two come together
and th angle at the top will be 90°. So 90°, 90° 90 is
270° that is the typical spherical triangle. And the sums
of the angles of spherical triangles are approximately never
the same. If I make a smaller triangle just inside of the
one that I just talked about where there is 90°, 90°, 90°.
It
the sums of the angles are going to be a little less.
approaches, but never gets down to 60°, 60°, 60°. It is always
a little more. So the smaller they are, the more they approach
180º. And so in all our surveying around our Earth, doing
geodesy, we are always dealing with what we call spherical excess,
Cite RBF Tape Transcript, Carbondale Dome, pp. 24-26, 1 Nay'71
ft

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"How much more do the angles add up to more than 180°.
"All the great circles are the shortest distance between two
points on spheres. Great circle triangles give simply what
There is a triangle there literally of 300° in each
corner. 3000 minus; and (60,60,60) 180° plus.
we say.
"If I started you off with reality operationally, like
Einstein, I couldn't ever start you off with a plane, but I
would start you on a sphere. Once you do that you realize
that what we call the edges of a triangle-- or arc-- is
simply the central angle. You are dealing in central angles
and surface angles. You are dealing all in angles and you
have no incompatibility for your fractions. This is where
we should have started all of our arithmetic and all of our
geometry. We should have started with whole systems.
1
(e)
Cite RBF Tape Transcript, Carbondale Dome, pp.24-27, 1 May171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle:
Circle Version:
(1)
"If we draw a closed line such as a circle around our Earth
it must divide its total unit surface into two areas as does
the equator divide our Earth into southern and northern
hemispheres. If we draw a lesser sized circle on the Earth
such as the circle of north latitude 70 degrees, it divides
our Earth's total surface into a very large southern area
and a relatively small northern area. If we go outdoors and
draw a circle on the ground it will divide the whole area of
our planet Earth into two areas and one will be very small
and the other very large. If our little circle has an area
of one square foot, the big circle has an area of approximately
five quadrillion square feet, because our eight-thousand mile
diameter Earth has an approximately 200 million-square-mile
surface and each square mile has approximately 25 million
square feet which, multiplied, gives a five followed by
fifteen zeros-- 5,000,000,000,000,000 square feet. This is
written by the scientists as 5 x 10' square feet which,
while compact,
tends deliberately to disconnect from our
senses. Seientists have been forced to disconnect from our
senses due to the errors of our senses which we are now able
to rectify. As we reconnect our senses with the reality of
Universe, we begin to regain comptent thinking by humane"
OPERATIONAL
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p.19, 13 Nov'69
-
Math
SEC 813

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle:
Square Version:
(2)
"and thereby possibly their continuance in Universe as
competently functioning team members-- members of the varsity
or University team of Universe. If, instead of drawing a
little one-square-foot circle on the ground-- which means on
the surface of the spherical Earth-- we were to draw a
square one foot on each side, this would give us the same
size local area as before: one square foot.
There-
"A square as defined by Euclid is 'an area bound by a closed
line of four equal length edges and four equal and identical
angles.' By this definition our little square, one foot to
a side, which we have drawn on the ground is a closed line of
four equal edges and equal angles. But this divides all the
Earth's surface into two areas both of which are equally
bound by four equal length edges and four equal angles.
fore, we have two squares: one little local one and one
enormous one. And the little one's corners are approximately
90 degrees each, which makes the big square's corners 270
degrees each. While you are not familiar with such thinking,
you are confronted with a physical experiment's results
which have informed you that you have been laboring under
many debilitating
illusions."
OPERATIONAL
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, pp. 19-20, 13 Nov 69 \MATH
SEC. 813

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle:
Equator As Square:
(3)
"If you make your small square a little bigger_and_your
bigger one a little smaller by increasing the little one's
edges to one mile each, you will have a local one square
mile a customary unit of western United States' ranches--
and the big square will be approximately 24,999,999 square
miles. As you do so, using great circle lines, which are the
shortest distances on a sphere between any two points, to draw
the squares' edges, you will find the small square's corner
angles are increasing and the big one's corners are decreasing.
If you now make your square so that it's area is one-half that
of Earth 25 million square miles, in order to have all your
edges the same and all your angles the same, you will find that
each of your edges is approximately six thousand miles long
and that each of the corners of both squares are 180 degrees
each. That is to say that the edges of both squares lie
along the Earth's equator so that the areas of both are
approximately 12,500,000 square miles.
"And so it would go with a triangle, a pentagon, an octagon,
or any other equi-edged, closed line figure which you may draw
on any system's surface. The closed line surface figure will
always and only divide the whole area into two complementary areas."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, pp. 20-21, 13 Nov'69 OPE
OPERATIONAL
MATH
SECS. 813-814

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle:
(4)
"That each human thus discovering this experimentally
says spontaneously, 'I didn't mean to make the big triangle,
or the big square, or indeed the big mess of pollution,
in no way alters these truths of Universe. We are all equally
responsible not only for the big complementary surface areas
which we develop on systems by our every act, but also for the
finite, complementary outward tetrahedron automatically
complementing and enclosing each system which we devise.
are inherently responsible for the complementary transforma-
tion of Universe, inwardly, outwardly, and all around every
system which we alter."
We
Cite NEHRU SPELCH, pp.20-21, 13 Nov*69
OPERATIONAL MATH SEC. 814

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"A triangle drawn on the earth's surface is actually
a spherical triangle bounded by great circle arcs. If the
triangle is drawn large enough, it is evident that the arcs
divide the surface of the sphere into two triangles
The are apparently 'outside'
'inside' the other. Because
enclosed by common edges.
one triangle is seen to be
every spherical surface has two aspects-- convex if
viewed from outside; concave if viewed from within--
each of these triangles is, in itself, two triangles.
Thus one triangle becomes four when the total complex is
understood."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS, caption #18. 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"I often ask a young student to draw a triangle and,
when he says,
Where shall I draw it?' I say, *Draw it
on the ground.
So he scratches a triangle and I say,
You have drawn four triangles: When you draw on the
Earth you must recognize that the Earth is a great sphere.
As a sphere it is a closed or finite surface in contrast to
the infinity of the plane. You will agree with me when I
make a closed line around the middle of the Earth (that
is, I delineate the equator) that this will divide the
Earth into two finite and equally valid areas, a northern
and a southern hemisphere. If I made a lesser circle
(A)
north of the equator it would still run around and close
back on itself and divide the Earth's surface into two
unequal areas, a smaller northerly and a larger southerly area,
simply because I have dividided the total unitary and
finite surface of the sphere into two sub-areas.
So when
a student draws a triangle for me on the unitary, closed
finite surface of our spherical planet, he divides the
total area of our sphere into two sub-areas, one very
large and one very small, both triangular.
"Now we begin the slide projections and as you will discover"
-
Cite BEIRUT Address, pp.23-24, Nay 4-6167

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"looking at my first picture that your eye does not want
to see the bigger triangular area.
"I find this biased concept very important because it
plays such a big part in how competently or incompetently
we conceive of and think about our environment.
"Those are what we call spherical triangles and you probably
are not familiar with spherical triangles because you have
been educated to start with planar triangles wherein the sum
of the angles . . . is always 180 degrees.
"In a spherical triangle the angles never add up to 180°.
To comprehend that fact let us go to the north pole and
.follow south along a meridian to impinge perpendicularly
upon the equator, i.e., at 90°, and go along the equator
Then take a meridian
a quarter of the way around the Earth.
back to the north pole. Taking the northbound meridian we
leave the equator at 90° and, since we went a quarter of the
way around the Earth, the two meridians followed-- first
southbound and then northbound-- will form another 90°
angle at the north pole. (Figure 1) Therefore we have"
-
Cite BEIRUT Address, p.24, 4-6 May67
(B)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"traveled a triangular course with three right angles,
which means that this particular spherical triangle's
angles do not add up to 180°. In fact, they add up to
270°.
"This is a typical spherical triangle. The spherical
triangle's angles add up to a variety of sums other than
180°. The amount that the spherical triangle's angles_add
up to more than 180° is called the spherical excess.
The
excess may vary all the way from 720° to 1'
•
"Now if we make the triangle bigger (Figure 2), we can go,
for instance, to the regular spherical tetrahedron each of
whose four spherical surface triangles has three corners
consisting of 120° each. Its spherical excess is then
360° minus 180°, which is an excess of 180°. If we draw
one spherical triangle on the Earth's surface with each of
its corners having 120° angles, it will divide the total
spherical surface of the Earth into two areas each of which
is bound by a closed line of three angles and three edges."
-
Cite BEIRUT Address, p.24, 4-6 May167
(c)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
"This means then that the bigger of the two spherical
triangles which subdivide the total closed surface of the
Earth, has three corners of 240° each.
"In this next picture we see two spherical triangles which
subdivide the sphere into two equal areas-- two hemispheres
(Figure 3). Here each of the corner angles of the two
complementarytriangles covering together the whole sphere
have 180° at each corner. This shows us that the equator
of the Earth is the boundary between two spherical triangles,
each with each of its three corners being 180.0
"In this next picture what was originally the little
spherical triangle at the top of the spherical-space model
has become the big traingle, and what was the big spherical
triangle has now become the little one. If you put those
four pictures successively into the projector and then
reverse the order and accelerate their sequential reappear-
ance, you will begin to see both the triangles all the
time and see the otherwise invisible' space sphere.
"Now I must explain that because the sphere is concave as"
- Cite BEIRUT Address, p.25, 4-6 May167
(D)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
(E)
"viewed from the inside and convex as viewed from outside, and
that convex and concave are not the same. Therfore, we have
both large and small convex and concave spherical triangles
always present. And that was my reason for saying to the
boy, 'You have drawn four triangles,' when he thought he had
drawn only one. You are not used to thinking of great circles
in this way, but that is the way nature operates, so you had
better get used to it from now on.
"
-
90
90°
90°
120'
1800
120
$180"
FIG. 3
FIG. 1
FIG. Z
Cite BEIRUT Address, p.25, 4-6 May'67
180

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
(a')
"I have a hypothetical sphere here now and you are looking
at one spherical triangle on the sphere and these are the
three radii to it. . Whereas in plane geometry, in the
regular geometrical triangles of the Greeks, the sums of
the angles were always 180 degrees in the inside of a triangle.
In a spherical triangle the sum of the angles of the triangle
are never 180 degrees so that spherical cometry is a very
different kind of fometry from the plane. I want you to get
familiar with it because there is no plane flat surface on
Earth and so therefore there are no plane triangles and we
are dealing always in systems and the systems are characterised
by triangles which are spherical triangles and these are the
kinds of triangles which control our fundamental transformations."
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 205-6, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangles Sequence:
°
This is now a spherical triangle in which the angles
are 120 degrees each. . . Now this other spherical trianglem
has angles of 180 degrees each: what we call a circle turns
out to be a spherical triangle. Remeper there is a hemisphere
up there and one down here; and quite clearly that is the
equator. . Here we have the spherical triangle of 120 degree
angles in the northern hemisphere of the sphere-- which you
don't tend to see, simply because you tend to look at the
smaller one. There is a tendency of man to làok at the
smaller one. In fact, I will draw a triangle on the board
and one of the problems when i put two triangles together and
got four, you remember, was because they turned out to be
complementary triangles. I draw a triangle on the board here
and you are used to the Greek way of just looking at the area
bound by the three sides. In fact, the Greeks defined a
triangle as an area bound by three lines turning upon
themselves, a closed line of three increments.
It happens,
howver, that I have dividied the surface of the blackboard'
into an area on this side of the line and an area on the other
side of the line and every time 1 put in a line it actually
divides something. We have a tendency to be extremely biased
and only to look at an area on one side of the line. 19
Cite OREGON Lecture #b, p. 206, 10 Jul'62
(b*)

(c')
RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence:
• •
"If I draw a triangle on the Earth
and I asked a student
to do that
and I said all right, I see four triangles.
And he said, I see only one. There is the little area, the
area he has defined quite clearly. He has divided the surface
of the Earth (which was unit before he drew the triangle) into
two areas, the areas on either side of the line. The little
local triangle and the big spherical triangle goes clear around
the Earth. It is a closed area bound by a line of three
increments. It was such a big one he didn't see it. And it
is very typical of us to miss it. One of the most typical
tricks I have found in humanity is to see the little small
one and miss the big one and the big one is the one that
counts. Then I told him he drew four triangles and he said
how did that happen. Well, they are ppherical triangles and
there is a concave little and a concave big as viewed from
inside and there is a convex little and a convex big as viewed
from outside. Convex and concave are not the same, so there
are inherently four. In fact you will always find there are
four there. Four is the minimum; and when we get to any kind
of system, there is always four there. You will get used to
that fourness and get used to not allowing yourself to
become over confined and looking at the little ones."
-
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, pp. 206-7, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Triangle Sequence: (d')
"When we get to the middle [of the sphere] you are more
or less willing to concede both hemispheres, and then you get
caught on to the fact that those were 180 degree triangles.
. . .What had been the big one is now becoming the little
one, and what had been the little one is becoming the big
one . . . We get down finally to triangles where the angles
are approaching 70 degrees, and they finally get down
nearer to sixty degrees and so many minutes. They will never
get to 60. Even the most local one will never be 60 degrees.
So spherical triangles then do have a great variety of sums
of their angles."
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 207, 10 Jul 62

TEXT CITATIONS
Spherical Triangle on Earth's Surface - Four Triangles:
See:
**
Ledgmont Lab. Address, pp. 52-55 [MARCINAL]
Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 87, et. seq.
Oregon Lecture /b, pp. 205-207
RBF Tape Transcript
pp
. 21-27
Carbondale Dome, 1 May 171,
宓 NEGU speech, pp. 18-21 [n]]
**
Beirut, AUB Address, pp. 19-24 (rough); 24-25 (smooth...]
S1AS Address at U. Pass, Amherst, 22 July 171,
pp. 16-18. + 19-20. [CITED]
Synergetics, Sec. 810.00
538.11
Fig. 812.03
981.16-981.18
505.81 (2nd. Ed.)
261.02 (2nd. Ed.)
1106.10-1106.25

Spherical Triangle on Earth's Surface Four Triangles:
See Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway
Social Highway Experience: Three Autos
Triangle: Minimum of Four Triangles
(1)

Spherical Triangle on Earth's Surface · - Four Triangles:
See Bias on One Side of the Line, May'65
China, May 65
Omnidirectional, 1954
Operational, 3 Jan '72
System, 10 Jul'62
Three-way Great Circling:
17 Feb 72
Three-way Grid,
Zoneness: System Zoneness, 8 Jan'55
Background Nothingness,
2 Jun 75
Windows of Nothingness, (1)
(2)

Spherical Triangular Lattice:
See Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (b)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Unity:
-
"Systems are, in effect, spherical gears. Their internal-
external pulsating and rotating teeth consist in reality
ob both circumferential and radial waves of various
frequencies of subdivision of spherical unity."
Cito RBF draft of BRAIN & KIND,
Citation and context at Gears:
8. 1971
Spherical Gears, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spherical Unity:
"The largest number of identical triangles in a sphere
that unity will accommodate is 120: 60 positive and 60
negative.
We can subdivide the surface of a sphere into
120 equilateral triangles by dividing the base of each
of the 20 original triangles which made up the icosahedron,
into six triangles. Being spherical, they are positive
and negative, consisting of arcs which cannot hinge back.
Un is inside, concave and the otheris outside, convex.
So 60 positive and 60 negative triangles are the largest
common denominator of unity."
-
-
Citation at Basic Triangle:
Triangle, 14 Oct171
Basic Disequilibrium 120 L CD

Spherical Unity:
See Great Circle Subdivisions of Spherical Unity
Sphere as Complex Unity

Sphere: Volume-5 Sphere:
See Triacontrahedron, 13 May' 77

Spherical Wave:
See Omnidirectional
Shell Growth Rates
(1)

Spherical Wave:
See Mass, 14 May'73
Nuclear Sphere, 16 Dec 173
Photon, 26 Sep 73; 15 May'73
Tensegrity Sphere, 19 Dec'73
223
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphericity:
"Compound curvature, or sphericity, gives you the
greatest strength with the least material."
Citation at Curvature: Compound, 3 Oct'71
3300
Washington,
1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphericity of Whole Systems:
"Nature modulates probability and the degrees of freedom,
i.e., frequency and angle leads to the tensegrity sphere;
which leads to the pneumatic bag; all of which are the same
kind of reality as the three automobiles. All the cosmic
triangling of all varieties of angles always averages out
to 60 degrees. That is the probability of all closed systems
of which the Universe is the amorphous largest case. Probability
is not linear or planar, but is always following the laws of
sphericity or whole systems. Probability is always dependent
on critical proximity, omnidirectional, and only dynamically
defined, three-way gridding pattern integrity..."
Citation and context at Probability Model of Three Cars (4) 26 Sep 73

Sphericity of Whole Systema: Laws Of:
See Probability, 17 Feb'72; 18 Feb'72

Spheroida:
See Colloidal Chemistry, 1938

Sphere: Spherical: Sphericity:
See Ball
Balls Coming Together
Bubble
Celestial Sphere
Cloud-island Spheres
Closest Packing of Spheres
Dome
Equilibrium Sphere
Embracement
Geodesic Sphere
Globe
Ghostly Greek Geometry: Sphere
Initial Sphere
Linear & Spherical Analysis
Line Between Two Sphere Centers
Maximum: Spherical Maximum
Nuclear Sphere
Rhombic Dodecahedron #2: Fractionated Sphere
Synergy Sequence:
Two Massive Spheres
(1A)

10
Sphere: Sphericity: Spherical:
See Trigonometry: Spherical Trigonometry
Tetrahedron & Sphere Model
Tensegrity Sphere
United Sphere
Spun Frequency - Sphericity
Vertexial Accounting
No Sphere Integrity
Domain of a Sphere
lex-pent Sphere
Potential Sphere
Spherical Accounting
(1B)

Sphere: Spherical:
See Association & Disassociation, 9 Nov'73
Bow Ties, 6 Oct 72
Chords, 22 Jul 71
Dynamic, 1950*
Focus, 22 Jul'71
Gravity (d)
Infinity & Finity, Jun'66
Integral, 16 Feb 73
Prime Awareness, 18 Nov 72
Tetrahedron, 26 Sep' 73*
Tidal, 31 May'71*
Unity: Complex & Simplex, 15 Feb'66*
Zero Condition, 14 Feb'66
Raft, 3 Apr'75
Unit, 1938
Triacontrahedron: Great Circles Of, 27 Apr 77
Triacontrahedron, 20 Jun'77
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (AMB)
(2)

Sphere:
See Sphere Center
Sphere Integrity: There In Na
Sphere of Reference
Spheres & Spaces
Sphere Tangent with a Plane
Sphere: Synergetics Formula for Area & Volume
of a Sphere
Sphere Polyhedron
Sphere of Unit Vector Radius
Spheres & Vertexes
Sphere = Icosa
Sphere:
Volume-5 Sphere
(3)

Spherical:
See Spherical Barrel
Spherical Comprehension
Spherical Excess
Spherical Field
Spherical Gears
Spherical Icosahedron
Spherical Interstices
Spherical Nostalgia
Spherical Observation
Spherical Octahedron
Spherical Point System
Spherical Propagation
Spherical Reality Scribing
Spherical Sensations
Spherical Structures
Spherical Tetrahedron
Spherical Thinking
Spherical Triangle
Spherical Unity
Spherical Wave
(3A)

Spherical Maximum:
See Spherical Maximum
Spherical Necessity.
Spherical Quadrant Phase
(3B)

Sphericity:
See Curvature: Compound
Halo Concept
Omnidirectional
Radial-circumferential
Rollability of Polyhedra
Three-way Great Circling:
Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout
Three-way Grid
Experience in the Round
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sphinx:
"Four planes of the tetrahedron going through the same
point at the same time: The zero volume terahedron: Also
this is the vector equilibrium:
Tetrahedron as simplest structure in Universe:
"Tetrahedron as four closest-packed spheres:
"Head of the Sphinx is cross section vertically of vector
equilibrium:
Cite RBF postcard to Peter Jahlin, 28 Sep' 73

1
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Spider's Web as a Tool:
See Bird's Nest as a Tool, 6 May'67
Mechanics, (2)
Tools, 1967;

Spider's Web:
See Environment Events Hierarchy (3)
Industrialization, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spin:
"When other scientists seemed to have language more valid
than my own I accepted their terminology. But I held-to
my own terminology when I found it to be warranted, and when
other claimants could not be justified. For example, quantum
mechanics came many years after I did to employ the term
spin. The physicists assured me that their use of the word
did not involve any phenomena which truly spun. Spin was
only a convenient word for accounting certain unique energy
behaviors and investments. My use of the term was to describe
a direct investment of experimentally demonstrable unique
magnitude of rotation, an actually spinning phenomenon.
This was a case when I held to my own terms. In most recent
years it is beginning to be realized by the physicists as an
actually spinning phenomenon-- as I had demonstrated it as
actually occurring almost half a century ago.
In recent
years I found the term spin being adopted by others; some-
times with the same meaning, sometimes with other meanings.
But from the viewpoint of half a century there appears to be
an increasing convergence of scientific explorations,
enstemology, and semantics with my own evolutionary development."
-
Cité RBF to EJA, 20 Dec. '71 at SYNERGETICS text Sec. 250.04.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spinnability:
"Spinnability has to be totally independent of the system's
local surface transformations."
A
Cite RBF rewrite of 24 Apr'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spinnability:
"Spinnability has to be totally independent of the
transformations that it is entertaining."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 23 Apr176

Spin Equator:
See Critical Proximity, 15 Feb'73
Omnitopology, 19 Dec'73

Spin-halving:
See Prime Number Consequences of Spin-halving
Dichotmy: Dichotomising
System-halving
(1)

Spin-halving:
See Quarks, 22 Jun '77
(2)

Spinning & Orbiting:
See Dancing, 6 Jul'62
Gravity (g)
Sphere, 8 Aug*77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spin Twoness & Duality Twonesa:
"Having identified (a) the constant additive twoness of the
vertexial poles of the axial spinnability operative in all
independent systems, and (b), the multiplicative twoness
characterizing the concavity and convexity congruently
operative in all independent systems, we find the first four
prime numbers-- 1, 2, 3, and 5-- are the only variables
present in the Euierean topological inventorying of all the
omnitriangularly, nonredundantly stabilized, symmetrical
polyhedra.
"Spin twoness is additive.
"Quality twoness is multiplicative."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec.s. 1074.31-.32, 27 Dec*74

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

Spin Twoness & Duality Twoness:
See Conception-birth, 27 Dec 74
(2)

Spin Twoness:
See Cosmic Inherency, (2)
Conception-birth, 27 Dec '74

Spin: Spinning:
See Axis of Spin
Additive Twoness
Great circle Spinnable Symmetries: Hierarchy of
Half Spin
Motions: Six Positive & Negative Motions
Twin-spin
Rotate
Spun Frequency
(1)

Spin: Spinning: Spinnability:
See Cone, 22 Sep 73
Euler, 11 Jul*62
Line, 7 Nov '72
Omnidirectional
1960
Sphere, 25 Feb 74
Synergetics, 10 Jan 50
Neutral Axis, 1 Jan 175
Triacontrahedron:
Great Circles Of, 27 Apr' 77
Four Intergeared Mobility Freedoms, 2 Nov* 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spin:
Spinning:
See Spinnability
Spin Equator
Spin-halving
Spinning & Orbiting
Spin Twoness & Duality Twoness
Spin Twoness
(3)

712
RBF DEFINITIONS
Spinach:
"Copper taken directly by humans is toxic. When spinach
grows in the presence of copper as in those great fields in
Northern Michigan (near the copper deposits I got to know
at Phelps Dodge), the spinach takes in the copper in a way
that is structurally and mechanically geared with the
metabolic gears of humans. Copper is all right and fills
in a deficiency if it fits properly. Spinach accomplishes
the gearing. A gear is designed to mesh with other gears.
But one loose gear put into the machinery will strip all
the others. When it is on the right pinion it meshes with
the other gears and can bridge a gear-train gap. That's
exactly what happens to copper and spinach. Henry Schroeder
worked with the trace elements. He showed that one Chromium
atom is the difference between a diabetic and a nondiabetic.
The word diet makes for great confusion. It's not under-
nourishment, it's just getting the right deficiency chemistry
into the brain which may be lacking certain gears.
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Pepper Tree Inn, Santa Barbara, 11 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spinach:
"Copper if it is present in the soil where you are growing
spinach spinach tends to inhibit the copper as a pattern
and spinach that has inhibited copper also will inhibit
some gold and silver and then the human being can inhibit
the gold, silver and the copper in very small percentages,
but they are literally inhibitable and apparently measurably
to the advantage of the human being. Copper taken in other
ways than being inhibited first by spinach can poison a
man; it can be lethal. We find that copper taken in the
right way can be beneficial and in the wrong way makes
trouble. Remeber now that we are dealing not in a thing but
in a pattern.
•
"
"Apparently the human being can inhibit all the chemical
elements if they come in at the right sequence, so as part
of spinach, as part of that pattern, then it is tightening
you up see Monkey wrench 7 in a better way. . .
"Whatever spinach does it does it better if it has copper.
"
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
-
pp. 166-167/9 July 1962

Spinach:
See Copper
Inhibit
(1)

Spinach:
See Heredity, 15 May'72
Metabolic Flow," (1)
(2)
22:

Spinnaker:
See Geodesic Spinnaker

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiral:
"Radiation's waves are non-self-interfering spirals."
Citation and context at
7 Nov 73
Matter vs. Radiation,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiral:
"A aniral articulated in a direction perendicular to
our observation presents an illusory wavilinear planar
profile."
-
Cite RBF marginalis, SYNERGETICS Draft (Conceptuality, Time)
31 May 1971, Chicago.

RBF DLFINITIONS
Spiral:
PHENOMEN
"All the time NEMA of physicists are linear."
"All actions are spirals because they cannot go through
themselves and because there is time. The remote aspect
of a spiral is a wave becaude there are no planes."
Citation at Time, 8 Mar 71
WAVILINEARITY: FIXES - SEC. 520.11
Cute HBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiral:
"An event trajectory
Cannot go through itself.'
A recycling event
Can only produce a spiral,
Which, when viewed axially
Appears misinformedly
To be a circle.
You may say the hands of the clock
Go round and around
In the same circle.
But as they go around
So does the Earth
On which the clock is situated;
And as the Earth spins
So also does it orbit the Sun
Which is moving within the Galactic nebula;
And the nebulae moving in respect
In respect to other nebulae;
And the pattern
Made by the clock's hands in Universe
Which is the minimum reality
Is a very complex pattern."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.8, 28 Jan '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiral:
"A triangle is a spiral and is one energy event."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS, caption #2.
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiral:
It
As curves
lines
Cannot re-enter, or
Join back into themselves,'
Therefore, the circling line
Can only wrap around
And over its earlier part
As the knot making
Sailor says it,
The circle when followed
Around and around
Results in a coil
Which
is
An asymmetric spiral,
Which may be followed experimentally
Only as long as intellect follows.
"
-
Cite HOW LITTLE, Pp. 59-60, Oct 166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiral:
*Not even a graphed spiral is forever possible because the
errors in a graphed line constantly dislocate the line and
insist upon an ultimate intersecting contact."
-
Citation & context at Line, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiralinearity:
"Regenerative precession imposes wavilinearity on vectors
and tensors. Wavilinearity is spiralinear.
"All actions are spiral because they cannot go through
themselves and because there is time. The remote aspect of
a spiral is a wave because there are no planes.
"As with coil springs, in tensors and vectors of equal magni-
tude, the spiralinearity of the vector is shorter in overall
spatial extent than is the spiralinearity of the tensor.
Compressed lines or rods tend to arcs of diminishing
radius; tensed lines or rods tends to arcs of increasing
radius."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 520.101,.11,.
.12; Nov'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spiralinearity:
in tensors and vectors of equal magnitude, the
spiralinearity of the vector is shorter in overall
spatial extent than is the spiralinearity of the tensor.
Compressed lines or rods tend to arcs of diminishing
radius; tensed lines or rods tend to arcs of
increasing radius."
WAVILINEARITY: FIXES- SEC. 520.12
Cite RBF to EJA
Blackstone Hotel, Chicago
25 March 1971

Spiral: Spiralinearity:
See Circle
Coll
Cornucopia
Minimum Spiral
Wavilinearity
Critical Spiral Path
Tetrahelix
Open Triangular Spirals
Helix
Flat Spiral
Geodesic Spiral Tube
(1)

Spiral: Spiralinearity:
See Matter vs. Radiation, 7 Nov*73*
Rope, Dec 71
Time, 8 Mar '71*
Triangle, 7 Oct 171
Triangle as A Priori Two, Feb'72
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry, Nov*71
Cheese Polyhedra, Nov' 71
In, Out & Around Experiences, (2)
Line, 1938*
Critical Proximity, May 71
(2)

715
Spirit:
See Life is Not Physical, (1)(2)

Spit-punctuated Monosyllabic Verbalism:
See Conformity, 10 Oct163
Reverse Optimism, Aug'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spit in Space:
"If you spit in space the spit goes into orbit and you
retro-orbit."
- Citation and context at Space Technology (6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Split Personality:
"...This split personality +21, -21; +5, -5; +0, -0..."
Citation and context at Cosmic Discontinuity & Local
Continuity, 15 Jan'74

Split Personality:
See Dichotomy
Picasso Duo-face Painting
Profile: There is No Half Profile
Half Visible: Half Invisible
(1)

Split Personality:
See Basic Triangle:
16 Dec 173
Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle,
Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan'74*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Spontaneity:
"Compression behaviors are disassociative while tension
behaviors are inherently associative and spontaneously
cohering."
1965
- Citation at Tension & Compression, 1965

Spontaneous Aggregates:
See Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, Nov'71
Unitary Conceptuality, 22 Oct' 72

Spontaneous Deputies:
See Coincidental Articulation
Fuller, R,B: His Associates & Collaborators
(1)

Spontaneous Deputies:
See Cosmic Fish Sequence, (1)
Depression: Great Depression of 1930's, (2)
Sublimation, 21 Oct 171
(2)

Spontaneous Education of Choice:
See Montessori System, 1928

Spontaneous Equilibrious Model:
See Vector Equilibrium as Starting Point, (1)

Spontaneous Tolerance:
See Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual
Error, Oct166

KBF DEFINITIONS
Spontaneous Truth of Chilahbod:
"
•
Every child is born with faculties-- with ears
eyes, nose and mouth and the child says that is what I see.
"You don't have to tech a child to say what it is that he
sees; he tells you spontaneously.
"In other words, truth is spontaneous, and the lying has been
taught to the children by those who are afraid that the
child's truthfulness will get them into trouble. So the
fact that truth is spontaneous is equally mysterious as the
fact of mass attraction and gravity cohering our
Universe; as is the phenomenon love. We experience so much of
it we tend to take it very much for granted."
Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 12, p. 16.

Spontaneity:
Spontaneous:
See Lecturing
Piaget Jean: Child's Spontaneous Geometry
Society: Spontaneity of
Teleology: Spontaneous vs. Emergency
Thinking Out Loud
Three-way Great-circling:
Three-way Grid:
Child's Spontaneous Interest in Totality
Spontaneity
Most Economical
T
Spontaneous
(1)

Spontaneity: Spontaneous:
See Bridge, 13 Noc'69
Evolution, May'72
Life, 22 Apr 68
Structure, 16 Dec'73
Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep 73
Survival, May'65
Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, Nov' 71
Unselfishness, Jan '72
Kost Economical, 3 Apr '75
Symmetry & Asymmetry, 11 Dec175
Gravity: Speed Of, 21 Oct 72
Children as only Pure Scientists, (1)
(2)

Spontaneity: Spontaneous:
See Spontaneous Aggregates
Spontaneous Deputies
Spontaneous Education of Choice
Spontaneous Tolerance
Spontaneous Truth of Childhood
Spontaneous Equilibrious Model
(3)

Spool:
See Omnidirectional Typewriter (1)
Tetrascroll, (1)

Spoon:
See Child Pushes Spoon Off Edge of Table

Sports:
See Competition
Game
Hammer Thrower
Pole Vaulter
(1)

Sports:
See Civilization, May'70
(2)

Spring:
See Coil
Hexagonal Vector Pattern
Spiral
(1)

Spring:
See Tools: Craft & Industrial, (2)
(2)

Spun Frequency
-
Sphericity:
See Sphere, 25 Feb'74

Squander Meanings:
See Vocabulary, May170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Square:
"Squares are not on the outside of structural systems.
->>
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 20 Oct '72

RBF DEFINITION
Square:
"the diagonal of a square is its controlling dimension."
->
Cite Geometric Chart: Synergetic Geometry- 35 Figures.
Fig. 35, 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Square:
"A square these days is somebody who's static, immobilized,
obsolete as obsolete as the square box in architecture."
Cite Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 66, p. 94.

RBF DE-INITIONS
Squares:
"Because squares are utterly unstable they may not
be called structures. Squares, when partially stabilized,
always consist of two triangles which can move in
respect to one another as the two halves of a hinge."
-
Cite KEPES, Caption Fig. 8a, p. 85, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Square:
"A square is two triangles."
-
Citation and context at Triangle, Forest Hills, undated

Square: Diagonal Of:
See Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron,
13 Apr* 77

Square:
See Foursquare Scaffolding
Grid: Crisscross, Right-angle Brid
Knot: Square Knot
Local Squareness
Necklace
No Square Stability
(1)

Square: Squareness:
See Dome:
Rational For, (III)
Frame of Reference, 27 Feb172
Nucleus, (1)
Tetrahedron, 1 Feb'75
Triangle, undated*
XYZ Coordinate System, Jun'66
Me Ball, 21 Jan '75
Windows of Nothingness, (1)
Triacontrahedron, 13 May' 77
Domes, 12 May177
T Quanta Module, (1) (2)
(2)

Squash:
See Tidal, Dec'61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Squatters:
(1)
"All around the world there are large squatter settlements,
as for instance in Puerto Rico, Caracas, and Bombay. These
squatter settlements may increase by as many as a million
people a year. These settlements are referred to formally
as 'self-help' groups because they improvise something to
sleep under that sheds off the rain, whether it's high
wet-strength, three-ply, corrugated paperboard or rusty
corrugated iron. These squatters are on land that by sover-
eignly-originated deeds of law 'belongs' to somebody else.
The squatters are continually approached by racketeers who
tell them (secretly) that the police are going to show up
and evict them, but if the head of the family or the individ-
ual will give the racketeer some money, he knows the owners
and will arrange that they be allowed to remain.
"In order to cope with this phenomenon, the UN Vancouver
Conference passed a very extraordinarily wise and humanly
considerate resolution. In travelling around the world and
visiting such squatter settlements, I have observed their
beautiful community life. People introuble cooperate in a
thoughtful and loving way. Their way of life is so beautiful
that I have always said that if I ever have to retire I will"
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.9; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Squatters:
"only retire into one of those squatter's settlements."
(2)
"It was also observed by the majority of the UN delegates
that the people coming to squat are very ingenious in the way
they employ the materials to keep the rain off. Therefore,
one of the first resolutions passed by the Vancouver confer-
ence... recommended that all nations decree by law that all
the land which these squatters occupy be made public lands
on which the people are allowed to continue. It was part of
the same motion that the squatters be given much better
materials with which to accomplish their environmental
controlling."
-
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSET LEMENT, p.9; 20 Sep176

Squeeze:
See Omni embracing Squeeze

Squid:
See Jet Engine, 20 Apr'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
SSRCD: Scheherazade Sublimely Rememberable Comprehensive Dividend:
RBF adopted the above designation in line of FSRCQ
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust, Phila., 22 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
SSRCD: Six-illion SSRCD:
24,397,345,897,224,300,000

RBF DEFINITIONS
SSRCD:
Seven-illion SSRCD:
24,421,743,243,121,524,300,000

RBF DEFINITIONS
SSRCD:
Seven-illion SSRCD:
"
If we
If we multiply the first four primes we get 30.
multiply 30 times 7,11 and 13 we have 30 x 1001 or 30,030 and
we have used the first seven primes. We can be intuitive about
the eighth prime because the octave seems to be so important.
The eighth prime is 17 and if we multiply 30,030 by 17 we
arrive at a fantastically simple number: 510,510. This is
what I call an FSRCQ which stands for Fuller's Sublimely
Rememberable Comprehensive Quotient. I can remeber the first
eight primes factorial-- 510,510!. It is a fantastically
big number yet I am able to remember it. When nature gives
us a number we can remeber it is a pretty extraordinary affair.
"If we take the first seven primes factorial to the fifth
power we arrive at a sextillion number. A pattern emerges
in the construction of this number and it looks like this:
35, then 5×3, 5x35, 35 and then five O's.
The number is 24,421,743,243,121,524,300,000."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Numerology," Pp. 16-17. Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
SSRCD:
Eight-illion SSRCD:
1,452,803,177,020,770,377,302,500

RBF DEFINITIONS
SSRCD: Nine-illion S: RCD:
185,958,806,658,658,608,294,720,000,000

RBF DEFINITIONS
SSRCD:
Ten-illion SSRCD:
48,521,045,268,603,838,698,691,521,280,000

SURCD:
See Angle: Pumping Fraction Factors
Prime Number
Scheerazade Number
Trigonometric Limit
(1)

SSRCD:
See Limit, 15 Oct'71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stability:
"Stability means angular invariability."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 600.03, 3 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stability:
"A necklace is unstable.
The lengths of the
beads in a necklace do not change. Only the angles
between them change.
invariability."
Stable refers only to angular
* Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 14, 13 Nov169
Citation and context at Necklace, 13 Nov'69
601.03+611.01)
STRUCTURE
-
SEC

RBF DEFINITION
Stability:
"Two separate events are each by themselves angularly
unstable. Only when the positive and negative events are
combined do we have structural system stability."
Cite RBF marginalis at old Chap 2, "Synergy," I.2, 18 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stability:
*Stability relates to angular behavior: the sides of
polygons can remain identical while their angles vary.
If we want to have a structure we have to have triangles."
S
Citation and context at Triangle (A) (B), 18 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stability:
"
M ...Now I have a fourth ball that comes around in there and
it nests on top of the first three.
All motion is
blocked. This makes a tetrahedron. This is where stability
begins. The tetrahedron is where the triangle gives what
we call a 'structure,' or something that doesn't change its
pattern any more. It was dynamic up to that time."
Citation and context at Structure, 25 Feb*69

HBF DEFINITIONS
Stability:
"Any polygon with greater than three sides is
unstable. Only the triangle is inherently stable.
Any polhedron bounded by
polygonal faces with
Only polyhedra
greater than three sides is unstable.
bounded by triangular faces are inherently stable."
TRIANGULATION - SEC. 612.01)
Cite SYNERGETIC ILLUSTRATIONS
1967
-
#6

RBF DLFINTTIONS
Stability:
"In geodesic systems the higher the frequency of the
triangular subdivisions, the less vulnerable is a whole
system to destruction. In systems constructed with many
modular subdivisions, impinging forces are swiftly distributed
in the region of the impingement, and are inhibited by the
succession of rings which tense around any paint of pressure
in the symmetrically and totally triangulated network."
Cite MARKS, p. 44, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stability:
"It is a synergetic characteristic of minimum structural
systems (tetra) that the system is not stable until the
last strut is introduced. 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."
-
Cisation at Strut, 1950's
holographic
-
Cite AKE UN
TRIANGULAtion
-SEC 611.03
TENSEGRITY
mamo
52.16

RBP DEFINITIONS
Stabilized Cube:
"A vectorial-edged cube collapses. The cube's corner flex-
ibility can be frustrated only by triangulation. Each of the
four corners of the cube's six faces could be structurally
stabilized with small triangular gussets, of which there
would be 24, with the long edge structurals acting as powerful
levers aginst the small triangles. The complete standard
stabilization of the cube can be accomplished with a minimum
of six additional membees in the form of six structural struts
placed diagonally, corner to corner, in each of the six square
faces, with four of the cube's eight corner vertexes so inter-
connected. These six, end-interconnected diagonals are the
six edges of a tetrahedron. The most efficient stabilized
cubical form is accomplished with the prime structural system
of Universe: the tetrahedron."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 615.02; galley rewrite 9 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stabilized Cube:
"You will recall that I had started with a cube. Recog-
nising that there are two sizes of cubes composited with
spheres that we had come to. The first one had been the
consequence of precessing together the two one-eighth
octahedra, and they had a total of fourteen balls.
Then
we came to the next cube which occurred in a stable manner
in which the vector equilibrium appeared when we knocked
off those one-eighth octahedron corners. We saw in the
cubical form those really open spaces that are unstable and
we found that the whole thing was stabilized internally
by being entirely in closest packing of omnitriangulation."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 234. 11 Jul162

Stabilized Cube:
See Cube:
Two Tetra as Cube
Minimum Stable Cube

Stable Nonredundant:
See Stable & Unstable Structures, 7 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stable & Unstable:
"Any polygon with more than three sides in unstable. Only
the triangle is inherently stable. Any polyhedron bounded
by polygonal faces with more than three sides is unstable.
Only polyhedra bounded by triangular faces are inherently
stable.'
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 609.01; galley rewrite 9 Nov 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stable & Unstable Structures:
"Tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral necklace structures
are all stable. Necklace cubes, rhombic dodecahedra, penta-
dodecahedra, vector equilibria and tetrakaidecahedra are all
unstable. Only necklace-omnitriangulated, multifrequency
geodesic spheres are stable structures, because they are based
entirely on omnitriangulated tetra-, octa-, and icosahedral
systems.
"The number of vertexes of the omnitriangulated spherical
tetra-, octa-, or icosahedral structures of multifrequency
geodesic spheres corresponds exactly with the number of
external layer spheres of closest-packed, unit radius spherical
agglomeration of tetrahedra, octahedra, or icosahedra:
2 F +2
4 F2 +2
Tetrahedra
Octahedra
Icosahedra 10 F +2
Only tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral structural systems
are stable, i.e., complete, nonredundant, self-stabilizing."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at. Secs. 608.10 -.11; 7 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stable Systems and Unstable Systems:
"Unstable systems are conceptual as momentary positional
relationships of unstructured-component event aggregates.
For example, amongst the stars comprising the Big Dipper--
in Ursa Major-- the second and third stars in the dipper's
handle are, respectively, 100- and 200-light-years away from
Earth and, though seemingly to us in the same plane, are not
all so; and they are both moving in opposite directions and
so in due course they will no longer seem to be in the same
constellation. In the same way, four airplanes flying in
different directions may be within visible range of one
another, but are far too remote for mass-interattraction to
become critical and pull them into one another. Stable systems
are conceptual as structured, which means componently
omni-intertriangulated, critical-proximity, interrelevant,
coordinate, constellar, event aggregates.'
"If the only momentary and optically illusory system consider-
ation proves to be unstable, it does not manifest generalized
principle. If systems are stable, they are inherent in and
accommodate all generalized principles."
-
Cite RBF galley correction of SYNERGETICS at Sec. 403.02,+ 403.03
2 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stable & Unstable Systems:
"There are stable and nonstable systems.
"Nonstable systems are conceptual as momentary positional
relationships of unstructured component event aggregates.
Stable systems are conceptual as structured, which means
componently omni-intertriangulated event aggregates.
"If the systems are unstable they are not inherent to
generalized law. If the systems are stable they are
inherent to all generalized law."
- Cite HBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho Washington DC, 23 Jan '72
incorporated in SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 480, Jan 172

Stable & Unstable:
See Generalized Law, 23 Jan'72
Me Ball, 21 Jan 75
Tetrahedral Growth, 13 Nov'75
Light on Scratched Metal, 9 Nov' 73.
Stabilized Vector Equilibrium, 23 Feb 72
Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model, 23 Feb 72
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 11 Dec 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stabilized Vector Equilibrium:
*The vector equilibrium may not be referred to as a stabilized
structure except when six struts are inserted as diagonal
triangulators in its six square faces, wherefore the topologi-
cal description of the vector equilibrium always must be 12
vertexes, 20 (triangular) faces, and 30 linear struts, which
is also the topological decription of the icosahedron, which
is exactly what the six triangulating diagonals that have
hypotenusal diagonal vectors longer than the square edge
vectors bring about when their greater force shrinks them to
equilength with the other 24 edge struts. This interlinkage
transforms the vector equilibrium's complex symmetry of six
squares and eight equiangled triangles into the simplex
symmetry of the icosahedron."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 615.06; 23 Feb 72

Stabilized Vector Equilibrium:
See Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model

Stability: Stabilization:
See Dynamic vs. Stable
Interstabilization
Pattern Stabilizing:
Pattern Stability
Self-stabilizing
Stable & Unstable
Structural Stability
Push-pull Stabilization
Angular Invariability
No Square Stability
(1)

Stability: Stabilization:
See Necklace, 13 Nov 69*; (A)-(C)
Structure 25 Feb 69*
Strut, 1950's
Triangle (A)(B)*
De structuring, 18 Jul'72
(2)

Stall: Stalling:
See Airplane: Stalling Airplane

Stallion:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Standard:
"The cyclic-module measurement of the time of experiencing
or generating the length of the edge of any triangulated
special-case system can represent the basic 'standard' of
relative size-comparisoning to other object experiences."
-
Citation & contex atTime-size Cyclic Modules, Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Standardization:
"Is not the public intuitively aware that the very
beauty of a child lies in the clearly revealed,
harmonious loveliness, of the spirit, shining through
the most regular of material features, unharassed into
unbecoming selfconsciousness, by the least unstandard
deformity? Is not the truth of standardization that
ever pours more individual freedom and happiness into
life? Is it not the very secret of nature that it
must be recreative after its own image?"
->
Cite 4-D, prefatory letter 21 May 1928

RBF DEFINITIONS
Standardization:
"You don't have to play the same music because you all
have the same pianos, do you?"
Cite RBF to Inez Cunningham, Chicago Post Art World, 13 May' 30

Standardization:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity
Reproducibleness

RBF DEFINITIONS
Standard of Living:
"... A level of technical proficiency adequate to provide
high standard physical living for total man
was always
subjectively implicit and objectively inevitable because
of the presence of intellect in physical Universe."
-
For citation and context see Laissez-faire Process, 10 Oct 163

Standard of Living:
(1)
See Design Revolution: Pulling the Bottom Up Sequence
Social Economics

Standard of Living:
See Inflation, Sep'73
Laissez-faire Process, 10 Oct!63*
Metals: Ricirculation Of, (1)
Space Technology, (6)
Weapons Technology Sequence, (A)
Disarmament, (1) (2)
Building Industry, (11)
(2)

Standard:
See Cycle, Jun'66
Time-size Cyclic Modules, Jul' 71*

Standby Technology:
•
See Air delivery & Submarine Cities (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star:
"The star radiationas impinging upon us regenerate all life.
Even as children, we feel
intuitively the
mysterious import of the stars; but have no knowledge whatso-
ever of the technological complexities by which this regenration
is accomplished. Most people live out their lives thinking of
the stars only as an aesthetic and not realistically-relevant,
decorative feature. 'Star gazers are nuts.""
Citation and context at Universal Requirements of a Dwelling
Advantage (1), Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star:
"A star is something you can't resolve.
de call it a point,
playing Euler's game of crossings.
One star doesn't have an outsideness and an insideness.
It is a point because you can't resolve it."
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Carbondale
2 April 1971
Citation at Point, 2 Apr '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stardust:
"Recent estimates of geo- and astrophysicists
Show that many tons of stardust
Arrive daily and remain on Earth.
Some estimates go as high
As one hundred thousand tons daily--
Probably acquired during Earth's orbital passaging
Through the rubble of comet tails.
By virtue of such stardust
And asteroid fall-ins,
Earth is actually increasing its weight.
But so are the Moon and other planets,
Wherefore gravitational imbalance
Of the planets is avoided.
All the stars give off energies
And much of the radiation of the stars
Other than the Sun
Impinge on our Earth.
This cosmic radiation seems to impinge
In the same disorderly manner
As does the stardust.
-
. Cite BRAIN & MIND, pp. 105-106 lay 172
(1)

21
(2)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Stardust:
"Stardust itself is the intraverted
Concentrate of cosmic radiation.
Every chemical phenomenon
Can be identified
Either by its mass characteristics,
Such as weight per volume,
Or by its radiation-frequency bands.
Both the frequencies and the matter
Are behavioral states of the same phenomenon.
This underlies Einstein's fundamental thinking,
That is, of energy associative as matter (stardust);
Or of energy disassociative as radiation.
And of their eternally regenerative
Terminal intertransformabilities."
Cite BHAIN & MIND, p.106 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stardust:
"The expanding Universe is identified mathematically
as a consequence of the law of increase of the random
element. As the Universe demonstrates dynamical counterbal-
ancing of all its behaviors, there is also detectable in
the local Universe a decrease in the randomness, and a
contracting, i.e., an associative phase in cosmic events.
"One hundred thousand tons of stardust converge or associate
daily upon the Earth's surface. In the topsoil, a biologically
regenerative process is going on in which the human sorting
and classifying functions and capabilities constitute the
most complex chemical differentiating and reassociating phase
of the known Universe."
-
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 175, May '65

Stardust:
See Impoundment
Ecology Sequence
Impinge
(1)

Stardust:
See Comet, 15 Feb 73
Radiation Sequence (1)
Twenty Questions (4)
Cosmic Vacuum Cleaner, 16 May *75
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man, (B)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star events
"Momentarily conceptual means standing together
dynamically-- like star events."
SEC. 501.07
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
15 barch 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Events:
"The stars of the four rocket bursts constitute the four
vertexes of a tetrahedron-- the fundamental quantum of
Universe's structuring. There is a tetrahedral structuring
interrelationship between (a) the day before yesterday, (b)
yesterday, (c) today, and (d) tomorrow. Though we speak of
them as 'the four balls in the air' -- maintained there success-
ively by a juggler using five balls to do his trick-- they
are not the same balls, and the four are never in the same
positions; nonetheless, there are always and only six funda-
mental interrelationships between the four balls in the air'--
i.e, ab, ac, ad, bc, bd, and cd, although a, b, c, and d are
nonsimultaneous events. Universe structures most frequently
consist of the physical interrelationship of nonsimultaneous
events."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 510.04, Mar'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Events:
•
"The regenrative patterns . . of structures
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.
"All the forces operative in universe result in a
complex progression of most comfortable (i.e., least
effort) arrangements in which the macro-medio-micro
star events stand together here and there as locally
regenerative patterns."
Citation & context at Structure Sequence (1)(2), 1965
- KEPES, p.66, 1965

RBF DLFONITIONS
Star Events:
11
The minimum set that may form a system to
divide universe into micro and macro cosms is a set of
four items of consideration. Between the four stars.
that form the vertexes of the tetrahedron, which is the
simplest system in universe, there are six edges that
constitute all the possible relationships between these
_ four stars. When
we have found all the relationships between the number
of items of our consideration we have what we spaak of
as 'understanding.' The word 'consider' derives from the
Latin words for 'together' and 'stars.'
When we
understand, we have all the fundamental connections
between the star events of our consideration."
-
Cite SUMMARY VISION 65, p. 139, Oct 65

RBF DEFINITIONS
SEC.
510.02
Star Events:
"Thinking is the consideration of different experiences,
inherently separate sets of events, and trying to find out
what their relatedness is. Each one is a star.
How many
stars does it take to develop a geometry of outwardness
and inwardness? What is the minimum number of stars to divide
the universe into outwardness and inwardness? I find it
takes a minimum of four. You can't do it with three. Four
very clearly has an outsideness and an insideness. This is what
we call the terahedron which has these four stars and these
six sets of interrelatedness. This comes in very interestingly
in mathematics with the generalization that you don't have
to worry too much about the shape, but the four stars are
the minimum which we can really have for an important
thought. If I discover only three stars in a thought, there
must be at least a fourth star lurking somewhere in the
constellation. In fact, I discover that all the number of
stars that could possibly be related are always subdivisible
by four. The mathematics shows this up very clearly as
complexes of tetrahedra. Tetrahedron becomes the minimum
thinkable set, the minimum reconsiderable set, and it turns
out to be the fundamental increment out of which all thoughts
are constructed."
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, pp.67-68, 2 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Events:
"A star ..
.
is the focal point of an as yet
nondifferentiated concentration of events-- ergo,
considerable, or constellar patterning, means an exploratory
grouping of stars or complex idea entities that seem
to man's limited tuneability to stand out together."
SEC. 510.05
Cite OMNIDERECTIONAL HALO, p. 131, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star vents:
"In a con-sideration four is the minimum number of
stars having an inherent arrangement of withinness and
withoutness. Therefore we discover next that the minimum
conceptually-considerable generalized-experiences-set,
affording macro-micro separation of universe, is a set of
four local event foci. These four stars have an inherent
sixness of interrelationships. This four-foci, six-
relationship set is definable as the terahedron. This
minimum fourness of relevant-frequency, ergo thinkable
'stars' coincides with quantum mathematics' requirement
of four unique quanta numbers per each uniquely
considerable 'particle,' quanta are inherently tetra-
hedral."
SEC. 510.07
-
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO,. p. 140, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Event and Degrees of Freedom:
"We must not confuse the six degrees of freedom and the star
event. The 12 degrees of freedom have to be expended in such
a way that the positives beget negatives; that is part of the
complementarity. The action-reaction-resultant begeta three
vectors and every event has six: it could be a hexagon or an
open-ended tetrahedron.
"In invisible Universe the six moves could not appear as
matter. This illustrates the predominance of nothingness in
our Universe. Think of all the arrangements of the vectors
that do not account for matter or radiation. The novent world
is growing very rapidly in my synergetics conceptioning.'
"
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 12 May'75

Star Events:
See Considerable:
Conatellar:
Fireworks
Understand
Consideration
Constellation
(1)

Star Events:
See Closed System, 26 May 72
Conceptuality, 15 Mar 71
Cube: Diagonal Of, (1) (2)
Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta,
25 Mar 71
Nonsimultaneous, May171
Structure Sequence, (1) (2)*
System, 29 Dec 58
Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, 28 Jan'73
Two Kinds of Twonesa, (C)
Visibility & Invisibility of Systems, (1)
Halo Concept, Nov* 71
Pattern, 3 Oct 72
Thinkaboutability, 8 Feb 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stars: Invisible notion of the Stars:
"So also invisible to man are the vast high speed motions
of the stars and the relatively slow growth of trees.
11
Citation and context at Buildings as Machines (1), 13 Nov'69

Stars: Invisible Eotion of:
See Invisible Motion

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stars:
Implosive Forces of the Stars:
"Now, in the most recent inventory of what we're learning
about our physical Universe in a comprehensive manner,
usually on the part of the astrophysicists having discovered
the isotopes of the different chemical elements and
discovering a pattern of relative abundance of those
chemical elements, and discovering then that the behavior
of the chemical elements is to work from the high number
elements down towards the low number. The fact that we
do have high numbers such as Uranium means there must be
some part of the Universe where high number chemical
elements are compounded, where they come together.
in their presence on Earth, they tend to be coming apart,
they tend to be working towards the lower number.
Thereas,
"So there's the working assumption that in the implosive
forces of the stars we may be developing the high number
chemical elements. But the astrophysicist says that no
matter how far things come apart, they nver come further
apart funuamentally than proton and neutron which always
and only coexist." 11
Cite BF at SS, U.rass., Amherst 22 July 171, p. 20

Stars: Implosive Forces Of:
See Black Hole
Superatomics

Stars as Live Shows Billions of Years Ago:
See Communication, 21 Jun'77
Cosmic Structuring, (2)

Star: "We Stars Have Got to liake a Profit!"
See Afford, 29 Jun'72

BF DEF. ITIUN
Star Tetrahedron:
"Four additional balls can be symmetrically closest packed
into the four nests of the closest-packed tetrahedronal
group, making eight calls altogether and forming the
star tetraheiron with no ball at its center."
-
Cite SYLRGETICS Draft Feb 172, Sec. 951-02-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Tetrahedron:
"The Star Tetrahedron is a structure-- but it is a compound
structure. The fifth tetrahedron, which is the original
one, accommodates the pulsations of the outer four.
Its
outward pulsings are free and its inward pulsings are
repulsive-- that's why it's a star. The four external
pulsations are unrestrained and the "ternal pulsations are
compressionally repulsed. Leonardo called it the Star
Tetrahedron not because it has points/but because he sensed
intuitively that it gives off radiation like a star."
-
-[HK - 068'75]
Cite RBF to JA, Haverford, 11 Oct. 1971.
ANTITETRA HEDRON
SEC 638.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Tetrahedron:
"The name of this dynamic vector-equilibrium.
complementary tetrahedron is the star tetrahedron.
The star tetrahedron is one in which the vectors are
no longer equilibrious and no longer omnidirectionally
and regeneratively extensible. This star tetrahedron
name was given it by Leonardo da Vinci.
"The star tetrahedron consists of five equal tetrahedra,
Four external and one internal. Because its external
edes are not 180° angles it has 15 instead of six
external edges and is a compound structure.
"t
Cite SYNERGLTICS draft "Antitetrahedron," & Oct. 171.
P. 7.
ANTITETRAHEDRON
SEC 637.01 +637.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Tetrahedron:
"There is an outward pulsation in dynamic symmetry of
the star tetrahedron.
entropic. It does not regenerate itself internally.
The star tetrahedron is in balance with the vector
As an energy radiator it is
equilibrium-- pumpable, irreversible, basically
shuttling like the time clock of one of the atoms."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antitetrahedron, 8 Oct. 71, ps.
ANTITETRAHEDRON - SEC. 638.021

RBF FINITIONS
Star Tetrahedron,
"The star tetrahedron's entropy may be the basis of
irreversible radiation, whereas the syntropic vector
equilibrium's reversibility-- inwardly-outwardly--
is the basis for the gravitationally maintained
integrity of Universe."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antittetrahedron," 8 Oct. 171, p. 8.
ANTITETRAHEDRON - SEC. 638.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Tetrahedron & Icosahedron:
1P
The star tetrahedron could be the positron,
as the icosahedron seems to be the electron. (These
relationships should be experimentally and trigonometrically
explored as should all the energy experiences inferences
The identifications become ever more
of Synergetics.
tantalizingly close.
-
B.F. 4 Oct. 1971.)
Antitetrahedron
Cite RBF Farginalis on SYKERGETICS draft Oct. 171
p. 7)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Tetrahedron & Vector Equilibrium:
"There is a syntropic pulsation receptivity and an outward
pulsation in dynamic symmetry of the star tetrahedron.
As an
energy radiator it is entropic. It does not regenerate itself
internally, i.e. gravitationally, as does the isotropic-vector-
matrix's vector equilibrium. The star tetrahedron's entropy
may be the basis of irreversible radiation, whereas the
syntropic vector equilibrium's reversibility-- inwardly-outwardly--
is the basis for the gravitationally maintained integrity of
Universe. The vector equilibrium produces conservation of
omnidynamic Universe despite many entropic local energy dissipa-
tions of star tetrahedra. The star tetrahedron is in balance
with the vector equilibrium-- pumpable, irreversible, like the
electron in behavior. It has the capability of self-position-
ability by converting its energy receipts to unique refraction
sequences, which could change output actions to other dynamic,
distances-keeping orbits, in respect to the-- also only remotely
existent and operating-- icosahedron, and its 15 unique
, great-
circle self-dichotomizing; which icosahedra can only associate
with other icosahedra in either linear-beam export or octahedral
orbital hover-arounds in respect to any vector equilibrium
nuclear group.
- Cite SYNERGETICS galley rewrite at Sec. 638.02, 9 Nov 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Star Tetrahedron & Vector Equilibrium:
"There is anoutward pulsation in dynamic symmetry
of the star tetrahedron. As an energy radiator it is
entropic. It does not regenerate itself internally, i.e.,
gravitationally, as does the isotropic vector matrix's
vector equilibrium. The star tetrahedron's entropy may
be the basis of irreversible radiation, whereas the
syntropic vector equilibrium's reversibility-- inwardly-
outwardly is the basis for the gravitationally maintained
integrity of Universe. Thevector equilibrium produces
conservation of omnidynamic Universe despite many
entropic local energy dissipations of star tetrahedra.
The star tetrahedron is in balance with the vector
equilibrium-- pumpable, irreversible, basically shuttling
like the time clock of one of the atoms."
Cite SYEHULT.CS draft "Antitetrahedron," 8 Oct. 171, p. 8.

Star Tetrahedron:
See Vector Equilibrium: Complementary to VE
(1)

Star Tetrahedron:
See Negative Universe, 8 Oct'71
(2)

Star:
See Big Dipper
Binary Stars
Black Hole
Relative Activity Diameter of Stars and Electrons
Dwarf Stars
Galaxy: Galxies
Pulsars
Kepler A; one with the Stars
(1)

Star: Stars:
(2)
See Dome: Rationale for the Big Dome, (C)
Mass, 29 Dec158
Point, 2 Apri71
Randomness, Deci72
Relationship Analysis, (1)
Rafts: Early Word Drifting on Rafts, (1)
Reproducible
1968
Sight, 1 Apr 49
Sphere, 1971
Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage, (1)*
Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov' 75
Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr' 77
Communication, 21 Jun'77

Star:
Star Events:
See Star
Stardust
Star Events
Stars: Invisible Motion Of
Stars: Implosive Forces Of
Stars as Live Shows Billions of Years Ago
Stars: "We Stars Have Got to Make a Profiti"
Star Tetrahedron
Star Tetra & Icosa
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stark:
"Stark means stripped of irrelevancies.
As in Stark
Naked. Or Stark Mad, which means unadulterably mad."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 29 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stark:
"Is this elucidation too stark to be of inspirational
interest to you?"
Cite Memo from RBF to Karl Sotiriov passed in plane
flight from Columbus to St.Douis, 21 Oct. 171 while
discussing illustrations for Synergetic book.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stark:
"The mathematics will be found to be as neat and stark
as the buckets within a turbine casing.'
HOP
Cite FLUID GEOGRAPHY, I&I, p. 122. Apr'44

Stark Nonconceptual Irrelevancy:
See Halo Concept, 22 Feb 72; Nov'71

Stark:
See Animate & Inanimate, ↳ Far'69
Halo Concept
22 Feb 72; 1960; 6 Nov 73
Parameters, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Start:
"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.
. Citation and context at System, 29 Dec 58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting with Divergence:
"I don't like the word 'fundamental' because it's just the
wrong way to start out thinking. We may use the word
'primitive' to describe the initial self-starting
condition of divergence. Thus the primitive.. is quite
different from the fundamental particles' game of the
high-energy research physicists.
Because
"Infinity is like frequency; it is a subdividing.
synergetics has conceptuality independent of size it
permits conceptuality before you start subdividing. There
is no a priori size; size commences only with subdivision.
"Instead of three-dimensional' we may say insideness-and-
outsideness, or we may say four-dimensional, referring to
the four planes of the tetrahedron.
"The vector equilibrium is inherently prefrequency with an
a priori volume of 20 tetravolumes. The vector equilibrium
is... a priori fourth powering."
Cite RBF to EJA, National Airport, Wash., DC; 19 Feb170

Starting with the Minimum:
See Proofs, 8 Aug'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting With Parts: The Nonradial Line:
"Since humanity started with parallel lines, planes, and cubes,
it also adopted the edge line of the square and cube as the prime
unit of mensuration. This inaugurated geomathematical exploration
and analysis with a part of the whole, in contradistinction to
synergetics' inauguration of exploration and analysis with total
Universe, within which it discovers whole conceptual systems,
within which it identifies subentities always dealing with ex-
perimentally discovered and experimentally verifiable information.
"Though life started with whole Universe, humans happened to pick
one part the line, which was so short à section of Earth arc
(and the Earth's diameter so relatively great) that they assumed
the Earth-scratched-surface line to be straight. 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. From this nonradial line of nature's event field, humans
developed their formulas for calculating areas and volumes of the
circle and the sphere only in relation to the cube-edge lines,
developing empirically the 'transcendentally irrational,' ergo
incommensurable, number pi (T), 3.14159... ad infinitum, which
provided practically tolerable approximations of the dimensions
of circles and spheres."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 982.20; rewrite of 29 Dec'73

Starting with Parts: The Honradial Line:
See Science Opened the Wrong Door

Starting Point:
See Vector Equilibrium as Starting Point
No Thing-in-itself
Zero Point
Event Embryo
Disturbance Initiating Point
Outset
Nature in a Corner
(1)

Starting Point:
See Vector Equilibrium, 11 Dec 75
(2)

Starting with Self:
See Trim Tab Sequence, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting with Universe:
"Our definition of Universe provides for the undiscovered and
for the yet-to-be-discovered. Do not worry about that
furthermost star which is yet to be consciously apprehended by
any human being. Do not think that we have not provided for
those physical or chemical phenomena as yet not observed and
recorded by human or mechanical sensing devices. The existence
of such phenomena may not have even been postulated but they
can all be accommodated by our definition of Universe.
"Because we start with whole Universe we have left nothing out:
there is no multiplication by
addition; there is only
multiplication by division. The furthermost star and the most
unfamiliar physical phenomena are accommodated by further
arithmetical subdividing of our aggregate of overlapping
experiences. Nothing could have been left out when you start
with whole Universe.'
->
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 304.00; from RBF to
EJA, 31 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting with Universe:
"I did not set out to design a house that hung from a pole,
or to manufacture a new type of automobile, invent a new
system of map projection, develop geodesic domes, or Energetic-
Synergetic geometry. I started with the Universe-- as an
organization of energy systems of which all our experiences
and possible experiences are only local instances. I could
have ended up with a pair of flying slippers."
-
Cite RBF quoted in new Encyclopedia Britannica article by
Robert W. Marks: DC Library, 15 Aug' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting With Universe:
"Problem solving starts with Universe and thereafter subdivides
by progressively discarding irrelevancies thereby to identify
the 'critical path' priorities and orders of overlapping
developments that will most economically and efficiently and
expeditiously realize the problem's solution by special local
problem identification and location within the totality of
the problem-solving scenario.
-
Citation and context at General Systems Theory, 7 Nov '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting With Universe:
"Starting with whole Universe as consisting always of
observer plus the observed, we can subdivide the unity of
Universe. In Synergetics-- as in quantum mechanics-- we have
multiplication only by division."
-
Citation at Unity of Universe, 24 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting With Universe:
"When you try to understand whether man has a function
or not, you start by observing Universe, not man.
"
Citation at Man: Function of Man in Universe, 30 Oct' 71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Starting With Universe:
"Universe is the unpredicted behavior of any of its
sublevel synergetics. We must start our synergetic analysis
at the level of Universe and thereafter with the known
behavior of the greatest whole and the known behavior of
some of the parts."
Citation and context at Synergy of Synergies, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting With Universe:
"Let us return to the Universe as our starting point in
all problem consideration. We assiduously avoid all the
imposed disciplines of progression specialization."
Citation and context at Intuition, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Starting With Universe:
"Starting with whole Universe we quickly reach any local
system within the totality by differentiating it out
temporarily from the whole for intimate consideration.
We do so by the process of 'reduction by bits.'"
- Citation at Differentiation, Jun'66

Starting with Universe:
See General System Theory
Irrelevancies:
Macro micro
Grand Strategy
Dismissal of
Reduction by Bits
Synergetic Advantage: Principle of
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality
Starting with the Whole
Twenty Questions
Whole Systems:
Principle of
(1)

Starting with Universe:
See Chess:
Game of Universe, y Jul'62
Comprehensive, Feb 72
Conceptuality Independent of Size, 1y Feb'72
Differentiation, Jun'66*
Education, 6 Mar'60
Experiences as Local Instances, 1970
General Systems Theory, 7 Nov' 73*
Geometry, 15 Oct 64
Hierarchies, 16 Jun 72
Intuition, Jun'66*
Infinity, 1 May 71
Man:: Function of Man in Universe, 30 Oct'71*
Question, Feb'73
Navy Sequence (7)
Research (2)
Synergist, 1954
Synergy of Synergies, 31 May'71*
System, 1 May171
(2A)

Starting with Universe:
See Unity of Universe, 24 Sep'73*
Universe, 1970; May 55; 13 Nov'69; 1954
Unpredicted, 3 Oct 73
Wholes & Parts, 10 Dec173
Whole System, 28 May 172
World Game:
Grand Strategy, 2 Jun 174
(2B)

Starting with the Whole:
See whole of Universe as Minimum Consideration
Wholes & Parts
(1)

Starting with the whole:
See Education, 1 Jul'62
Apple, 24 Sep 76
Scenario Universe, 19 Jul'76
Proofs, 3 May' 77
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (2)
Human Beings & Hard Machinery, (1)
(2)

Start: Starters;
See Group Starters
Self Starters
Beginnings
No Start
Outset
Beginnings
How the Mind Starts
(1)

Start: Starters: Starting:
See Somethingness & Nothingness, 7 Oct 75
Proofs, 7 Oct 75
(2)

Start: Starters:
Starting:
See Starting with Divergence
Starting with the Minimum
Starting with Parts:
Starting Point
Starting with Self
The Nonradial Line
Starting with Universe
Starting with the Whole
(3)

Starved by Ignorance:
See Overload the System, 15 May' 72

Starve:
See Hunger

RBF DEFINITIONS
State:
"the addition of the word state to the word 'solid' implied
regularities in an otherwise assumedly random conglomerate."
Citation and context at Solid State, 13 May173

State:
See Phase
Prime State
Solid State

Statecraft:
See Scarcity, 23 Feb'72

Statement of the Problem:
See Problem: Statement of

RB DEFINITIONS
Static:
"Static and irrelevancies are the same
Carbondale
2 April 1971.
Citation at Irrelevancies, 2 Apr171

REF DEFINITIONS
Static:
"The absolute would be static... experimentally meaningless."
Citation and context at Absolute, Oct '66

Static Fixations:
See Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
Systems, (III)
General

Static Frame of Reference:
See No Static Frame of Reference

RBF DEFINITIONS
Static Invalidity of Solid Things vs. Empty Space:
"What we once thought of only statically as 'solid things'
vs. 'empty space' becomes that unique program which we have
tuned into our tunable set vs. all the millions of now-
being-broadcast programs which we did not have tuned in
(i.e., are tuned-out, but may be tuned-in.)"
Citation & context at Death, 29 Mar'77

Static Norm:
(1)
See Instant Universe

Static Norm:
See Immobility, 4 May 157
(2)

Static Symmetry:
See Axis of Spin, 23 Jan'72

Static:
See Behaviorist Word vs. Static Word
Children's Pictures of the Sun & the Moon
Dynamic & Static
Immobility
Simultaneous
Unitary Conceptuality
Rest: At Rest
Unarticulated
No Static
Newton's Cosmic Norm of "At Rest"
Instant Universe
Single Frame
Takeout
(1)

10
Static:
See Absolute, Oct166*
Chaos, Jun166*
Conceptuality, 1960
Geometry, 1968
Irrelevancies, 2 Apr 71*
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 6 Mar 73
Mass, 29 Dec 58
Statistics, 1938
Structure Sequence (3)
Precession & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
Future: Man Backs Into His Future, May'49
Constellar, May'71
Nonsimultaneous, May 71
Machines vs. Structures, 13 Nov 75
Dynamic Equilibrium, 24 Apr' 76
Everywhen, 18 Nov'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Statisticians:
"The statisticians think almost exclusively in lines or planes.
They are what I call planilinear."
Citation at Planilinear, 26 Sep'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Statistics:
"Statistics are static, time-less, the blinding dust
of death."
-
See NINE CHAINS, p. 47, 1938

Statistics:
See Mobilata
Probability
Vitalistics
(1)

Statistics:
See Planilinear, 26 Sep'73
Communications Hierarchy, (2)
Teleology, (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stature:
"A mosquito has macro-micro cosmos system perceptivity at
a different level from that of the whale's Probably each
observer organism's stature constitutes its spontaneous
observational level of macro-micro subdividing: Bigger
than Me; Littler than Me; Within he; Without Me."
Citation and context at System Enclosure (1), 20 Feb173

RET DEFINITIONS.
Stature:
See Middle:
Middleness
Little Individual: Little Kan
Man as Halfway in Range of Size of all Creatures
Humans are One-thousandth of a Kile Tall

RBF DEFINITIONS
Status Quo:
"Evolution is the net irreversible inexorability of change.
All else is what men call status quo: just the ounces of
cream of change on the tons of milk of the status quo.
Cream soon sours. Cream changes.
.
"Status quo is a multidimensional tapestry of what has been
and will never be again, and is ipso facto, no longer
existent. It is evident that 99 per cent of society is
preoccupied with status quo, ergo with nonreality, ergo
ignorantly. .
"The youth of today are casting off all the so-called
educational preoccupations for sustaining the status quo.
Youth tends to jettison the status quo aside, as does the
chick breaking out of its egg leaving the shell behind,
irreversibly broken.
•
"All the king's own free-enterprise attempts to perpetuate
the profitability of the status quo, cannot put Huppty Dumpty
together again."
-
Cite A Definition of Evolution, pp. 4,5. 15 Sep171

Status Quo:
See Dynamic Equilibrium, 24 Apr 76

Staves:
See Barrel
(1)

Staves:
See Curvature: Simple, (1) (2)
(2)

Stealing of Ideas:
See Anonymity.
Idea Stealing

Steam Engine:
See Inanimate Energy Power
(1)

Steam Engine:
See Modelability/49 (1)
Science,
Quantum Sequence, (1)
(2)

Steam as a Tool:
See Science, (2)

Steel Plate Fractionation:
See Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec173

Steel:
See Jet Engine
Metals: Recirculation Of
Rolls
Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel
(1)

Steel:
See Artificial, (2)
Civil War, (1)(2)
Noun, 1938
(2)

Steerability: Steering Effects:
See Control
Feedback
Rockets: Steerable Rockets
Ruddering
Viral Steerability
Cybernetics
(1)

Steerability: Steering Effects:
See Electronic Referendum, 9 Jan 175
Radiation: Speed Of, (D)
Spherical Triangle Sequence, (V) (VII)
Servomechanism, 15 May'75
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (2)
Left & Right, 7 Nov 75
Veritas, 7 Nov 75
63
(2)

Stein, Gertrude:
See Joyce, James, 1965

RBP DEFINITIONS
Step:
"We are processing the Universe every time we take a step."
Citation and context at Precession, Nov'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Step:
"Little man is so small, and his Earth is so big, that he
doesn't realize that when he steps this way, he's pushing the
Earth the other way."
Citation & context at Resultant, 22 Jul171

Step:
See Local Change
Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth
Walking
(1)

Step:
See Precession, Nov 71*
Resultant, 22 Jul 71*
Inertia, 20 Dec' 71; 6 Nov* 73
(2)

Stepping Stones:
See Epistemological Stepping Stones

RBF DEFINITIONS
Step-up, Step-down Transformations:
"Nature uses concave-convex for its step-up, step-down
transformations.... Like the bendings: the red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, violet refractions are just beautiful
bendings."
Cite RBF to World Gamw Workshop, Rainey Auditorium, U. Penn.,
23 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Step-up, Step-down Transformations:
"A wave. its presence is communicated by its interference,
apprehended by our tuning capability.
"We have step-up, step-down transformations.
The wave you
can tune tells you of the wave you cannot tune by the
apprehension lags."
-
Citation & context at Pattern Integrity, 22 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Step-up, Step-down Transformation:
"... Step-up and step-down frequency and velocity transforming
instruments... convert the nondirectly tunable frequencies...
into sense-tunable range... Thus is man able to learn about
invisible behaviors."
- Citation and context at Mothon Apprehension, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Step-up, Step-down Transformation:
"A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium
by virtue of which you have received the information
that it exists-- the step-up, step-down transformation
medium."
-
Gine Oregon Lecture #5, p. 171 9 Jul162
Citation at Pattern Integrity, 9 Jul'62

Step-up, Step-down Transformations:
See Atomic Computer Complex (9)
Cube: Diagonal Of (1)
Lags (2)
Medium, 9 Jul'62
Motion Apprehension, 1968*
Pattern Integrity, 9 Jul 62*; 22 Jan'75*
Principle, 12 Jun 56
Tunability, 9 Jul162
Visual Symphony (2)
Instruments, 20 Sep176
Form Cannot Follow Function, 20 Sep' 76

Sterile: Sterility:
See Procreatively Sterile

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sticks:
Falling Sticks:
"Six members are required to complete multidimensional
stability."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 107, 5 Jul'62
Cite Synergetics Illustration #11, caption.
TETRAHEDRON
SEC 621. 10

Sticks: Falling Sticks:
See Tepee-tripod
(1)

Sticka: Falling Sticks:
See Walking, 31 May171
(2)

Stick the Neck Out:
See Rationalization Sequence, (3)

Stick the Tongue Out:
See Tongue: Go To the Mirror and Stick your Tongue Out

Stiffeners:
See Local Stiffeners

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stillbirth of Humanity:
"We do have an option to make it.
coming out of a womb of ignorance.
It can be done. We are
But as you come to birth,
it could be a stillbirth. It is touch and go as to which way
we will go.....
"It is up to you people now to do something very great. You have
an option. You better do it."
-
Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, Cambridge, 10 Dec; 73
as quoted in next day's Crimson

Stillbirth of Humanity:
See Desovereiginization Sequence,
(8)

Stilts:
See Jet Stilts
(1)

Stilts:
See Walking, 31 Kay'71
(2)

Stimulations:
See Inadvertent Stimulations
Regenerative Stimulations

Stockade:
See Fire, (B); 20 Apr 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Stock Market:
*New York manufactures pattern abstractions. London's
stock market, the Paris bourse, and other world exchanges
long predate New York in the exchange of abstract enter-
price equities, but New York today centralizes all the
world's anticipatory discounting of forwardly reckonable
values."
Citation & context at New York City, (6); 1964

Stone Age:
See Early Man
(1)

See Fire, (A) (B); 20 Apr 72
Industrial Man, 10 Oct 63,
Might Makes Right, 20 Apr 72
Stone Age:
(2)
123

Stone Falling and it's Going to Hit You on the Head:
See Trespassing: Not Trespassing

Stone as Omnidirectional heel:
See Wheel, 9 Feb'64

Stong:
See Hunger:
Pebble
Rock
Roundness
Stones do not Have Hunger
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Sculpture Sculptor
(1)

Stone:
Stones:
See Communications Hierarchy, (1)
Noun, 1938
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (2)(3)
Pneumatic-hydraulic Structures, 22 Aug 70
Push-pull, 28 Mar 77
Quantum Mechanics:
Twenty Questions, (1)
Wood Technology, (1)
(2)
Minimum Geometrical Fourness, (1)

Storage Battery Energy:
See Main Engines of Universe

Storing: Storage:
See Sensing, Storing & Intuiting Device
Brain Bank
Memory Bank
(1)

Store: Storage:
See Experience,
1960
Syntropy, p.145) May 72
Brain, 5 Jun'75
(2)

Store:
(Asin
hardware store):
See Monkey Wrench, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Story-Telling:
...
All the permutative possibilities of all the
possible story-telling-taling-tallying..."
Citation and conext at Scheherazade Number, 18 Jul'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Story:
See Parable

RBF DEFINITIONS
Straight:
"Man's experiences with curvilinear paths suggested
that the waviness could be reduced to straightness.
Physics finds only waves. Some are of exquisitely
high frequency, but inherently discontinuous because
consisting of separate event packages. They are
oscillating to and from negative universe, that is to
say, in pulsation."
-
Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
Citation at Wave, 22 Apri71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Straight:
"We find that tensions, because they are always curved,
never can get straight and there is no meaning to the
word straight' in Universe."
Simultaneous,
Citation & context at
Cite tregon kaanze
5 Jul'62
11162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Straight:
"Potentially straight line relationships require
instantaneity or actions in no-time, therefore,
straight lines are inoperative."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240. Oct 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Straight:
"Physics has never made an experimental discovery
of a straight line. Physics has found only waves
and frequencies, i.e., angle and frequency modulation."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240. Oct159

RBF DEFINITIONS
Straight:
"There are no straight lines.
"All 'lines,' trajectories, are complexedly curved."
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240. Oct' 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Straight:
"Potential lines are metaphysically straight,
all physically realized relationships are geodesic
and curved trajectories."
SYNERGETICE Corollaries, Sees 240. Oowse
-
Citation & context at Line, Oct 59

Straightedge:
See Tools of Geometry

"Straight' as an Invented Word:
See Line: Imaginary Straight Line, 22 Apr 171

Straightjacket:
See Inventions which Decrease the Degrees of
Freedoms, 1965

Straight-line, 180-degree Thinking:
See Ecology Sequence, (H) (I)

Straight-nothingness:
See Gravity, 23 Sep '73

Straight:
See Line: Imaginary Straight Line
Nonstraight
No Straight Lines
(1)

Straight:
See Line, Oct*59*
Radiation: Speed Of (C)
Simultaneous, 5 Jul'62*
Wave, 22 Apri71*
(2)
123

Strands:
See Parting the Strands
Trail
Variable Strands Braiding

Strange Particles:
See Mites Make All Regular Polyhedra, 27 May'72

28
Strategic Questions: Inventory of: (The 40 Questions")
What is...?
See (1) Universe
; (21) Subconsciousness
(2) Man: Function of Man in Universe) (22) Teleology
(3) Thinking
(4) Experience
(5) Experiments
(6) Subjective
(7) Objective
(8) Apprehension
(9) Comprehension
(10) Positive
(11 Negative
(12) Physical
(13) Metaphysical
(14) Synergy
(15) Energy
(16) Brain
(23) Automation
(24) Tool
(25) Industry
(26) Animate
(27)
(28)
Inanimate
Metabolics
(29 Wealth
(30) Intuition
(31) Aesthetics
(32) Harmonic
(33) Prosaic
(34) Senses
(35) Mathematics
(36) Structure
(37) Differentiation
(38) Integration
(17) Intellect
(18) Science
(19) System
(20) Consciousness
(39) Integrity
(40) Truth
-Cite RBF Ltr. to Doxiadis, U or 0, p. 308, 20 Jun*66

Strategy:
See Grand Strategy

Stratification:
Stratified:
See Balloon, 26 Jan' 72
Verse vs. Prose, 11 Dec' 75

Streamlined:
Streamlining:
See Reform of Environment Rather than Reform of
Man, 10 Oct 63
Society: Control Of, 1938
Utopia or Oblivion, 1938

Street Corner:
See Dynamic Balance, 31 May '71

Streets:
See New York City, (8) (9)
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep' 76
Building Industry, (7)

Strength is Invisible:
See Tooling of Domes, (3)

Strength:
See Surface Strength
Tensile Strength

Stress:
See Wind Stress & Houses
Dome: Aerodynamic Stress of Dome

Stretch-press:
See Wichita House, (1)

Stretch: Stratching:
See Balloon
Pneumatics
(1)

Stretch: Stretching:
See Domains of Actions, 21 Dec 71
Metaphysical Gas, 27 Dec 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
String:
"String pulls%; you cannot push string."
-
Cite RBF to Speech Class (Per Mike Mitchell notes), SIU
Edwarsville, 14 Feb '74

REF DEFINITIONS
String:
"In the tensegrities
you don't have any strings or
ultimately smallest solid thread."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 761.03, 31 Oct 72

String-connected Polyhedra:
See Quantum Sequence, (4)

String:
See Thread
Tie
Tensed String

Strip:
See "Come-and-go" Triangulation Pattern Strip
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities
Ribbon
Moebius Strip
Tetrahedron:
Continuous Pattern Strip

Stroboscope:
Stroboscopic:
See Frequency Islands of Perception, 13 Nov'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structuralism in Language:
Q.
RBF:
What is your opinion of Noam Chomsky's Structuralism?
**S is a very structural sound in any language:
Stop, start, arrest. 'S is an abrupt change....
Snakes. "
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Sequence:
(A)
*Speaking in terms of generalised law, structure is the consequ-
ence of a complex of six energy events, three dominantly
tensive and three dominantly compressive, interacting in a
complementary way to produce a self-regeneratively stabilised
pattern. Contrary to common misconceptioning, even that of
All
engineers, structures are omnidynamic--never static.
special case structural realizations have specific longevities.
All structures are entropic, 1.e., they give off energy..
The
energies are often syntropically replaceable. Any and all of
what humans identify as substance of any and all structure
consists entirely of atoms.
All
"Atoms are not things. They are energy events occurring in
pure principle. Physics has found no solids, no things.
substances consist of atoms: x-illions of atoms interarranged
in inherently coherent patterns, inherent because governed
synergetically by generalized pattern integrity relationships.
Each and every experimentally evidenced atom is a complex of
unique system interrelationships, both internal and external,
which reappear as unique special case energy investments
manifesting generalized
pattern integrity principles"
in unique special case scenario continuities."
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner, "Geodesic Math," p.11, 8 Sep*75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Sequence:
(B)
"Atoms consist of a plurality of unique energy events always
occurring as self-interarranging, inherently coherent, persis-
tently regenerative pattern integrity complexes. Physics has
no experimental evidence of either the creation or the decrea-
tion of energy. Apparently, energetic Universe is eternally
regenerative and is ever intertransforming between its syntropic-
ally associative and entropically disassociative phases, being
either gravitationally or eletromagnetically cohered as matter,
or being convertingly disassociated as radiation, with the dis-
associative components being separately particularized in both
objectively and nonobjectively-identifiable components.
"The nonobjectively-identifiables are sometimes only inferenti-
ally identifiable as being consistently present at a consistent
fractional magnitude. All the intertransformings and conversions
are nonsimultaneous and occur at a plurality of unique rates
and magnitudes of intensity, duration, and synergetic behavioral
proclivities, the sum total of which nonsimultaneous and only
partially overlapping transformations or conversion durations
are inherently nonunitarily conceptual and together produce
what we have described as scenario Universe, which has neither
an inherent beginning nor ending, in contradistinction to any"
Cite RBF Intro, to H. Kenner, "Geodesic Math," p.12, 8 Sep 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Sequence:
in
"one unitarily conceptual, static, single-frame, terminate
picture in a moving picture film strip. Human astrophysicista
have ample evidence of the scenario Universe having been
full dramatic operation 10 billion Earthian-Sun-orbit years
ago.
Anthropologists have evidence of human presence on our
planet over three million years ago, which is only 1/3000th
of the known-to-be-in-operation scenario.
(c)
"Humans have only an 8,000-year-long humanly inscribed record
of the human continuity portion of the cosmic scenario, which
is only one one-millionth of the known-to-have-been-in-
continual-operation cosmic scenario. Humans can make highly
probable, exquisitely detailed and accurate miilion-year
astronomical and nuclearnomical behavior predictions.
cannot make even mildly probable detailed predictions regarding
socio-economic Earthian affairs. However, humans can make highly
probable half-century-duration engineering predictions regard-
ing humanly contrivable physical structures.
Humans
"Human mind can speculate regarding the possible synergetical
significance of the whole cosmic scenario, but human sight and
brain can sense only one momentary special case picture at a time.'
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner "Geodesic Math," p. 12, 8 Sep 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Sequence:
(D)
"Universe is synergetic. Universe is synergetically consequent
to all the generalized principles known or unknown. Universe
is not a structure. Universe me braces all structures and more.
While a plurality of generalizations governs all structures,
realized structuring is always special case. Structures are
synergetic consequences of the intimate interaction of a
complex of special case factors. Superficially, structures
are unitarily conceptual.
"Scenario Universe embraces all the nonsimultaneous, only
local-in-time-and-place structurings, destructurings, unstruc-
turings, and restructurings. All the somethingnesses are
structures. All the nothingness is unstructure. All the
somethingnesses are special case. All the nothingness is
generalized.
"Everything we call structure is synergetic and exists only as
a consequence of interactions between divergent (compressional)
and convergent (tensional) forces."
-
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.13, 8 Sep 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Physics and engineering have never defined the word
structure."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; 23 Jan'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Everybody thinks they know the meaning of the word 'structure.
They point to a stone wall, bridge, or barn, saying 'that's a
structure.' But what is really meant by the word structure?
What is common to a steel bridge, a wooden barn, a jumbo jet,
an iceberg, a starfish, a star,a fern, a diamond jewel, an
elephant, a cloud, and a human baby? They are al structures.
Some are more versatile. Some last longer than others. Why?
Why does the stone, wood, and steel cohere at all?
"Understanding a little more about structure could lead to a
better understanding of the economic and political dilemmas of
our time. Political and economic systems are structures, often
so ill-conceived as to require constant local patching and
mending. Even structural engineering has, as yet, failed to
adequately comprehend, define, and cope with structure.
-
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.1, 8 Sep 75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Structures are always special case. Structures are operational.
Operational physically realized. Structures always have
unique size. By definition, a structure is a complex of energy
events interacting to produce a stable pattern."
Citation & context at Special Case, 27 Dec '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Structures are systems and have radial depth; wherefore
'surface' triangle structures are always truncated tetrahedra."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 1071.28, 26 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"The triangle is structure. Structure is spontaneous pattern
stabilization of a complex of six individual events. Structure
is an integral of six events. Structure is a pattern integrity.
Pattern integrity is conceptual relationship independent of
sise. The integrity of the nuclear structuring of the atoms is
conceptually thinkable as are the associability and disassocia-
bility proclivities of chemistry, virology, biology, and all
the nonbiological structuring and mechanics."
[16]
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.15, 16 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"We may say that structure is a self-stabilizing, pattern-
integrity complex. Only the triangle produces structure and
structure means only triangle, and vice versa."
-
Citation & context at Necklace, (C), 9 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"A structure is a system of dynamically stabilized self-inter-
fering and thus self-localising and recentering, inherently
regenerative constellar association of a minimum set of four
energy events."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 600.03; 3 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"The word structure means a complex of events which interact
to produce omniangular interstability."
- Citation and context at Triangle, Aug'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"All structural phenomena are accounted in terms
of the tetrahedron, octahedron, vector equilibrium,
and icosahedron."
-
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 179, 9 Jul'62 as rewritten by
RBF 30 May 72 to subsitute Structural" for "physical."
See Physical, same citation.
See SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240.66, June '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"The synergetics definition of structure is the pattern
self-stabilization of a complex of events with a minimum
of six functions as three edges and three vertexes,
topologically speaking."
- Cite RBF dictation to EJA re SYNERGETICS, SEC. 251.
Washington, DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
Mathematics is the science of structure and pattern in
general. Structure is defined as a locally regenerative
We
cannot have a total
pattern integrity of Universe.
structure of Universe. Structure is inherently only local
and inherently regenerative."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 606.01%; Nov 71

REF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"By structural we mean energy patterns whose polygonal
patterns are self-stabilising; that is exhibiting
inherent properties of the mass attractions and mass
repulsions of the radiational and gravitational laws.
We discover that the triangle is the only self-stabilizing
polygonal pattern integrity."
Cite RBF dictation to Alexandra Snyder, New Delhi, Nov. 171

KBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"And we use the word structure a great deal. I want it to
have real meaning when I use the word structure. This
consists of six independent parts, three flexible angles
and three rigid edges. Push-pull members, they're called.
A structure is a complex of events which interacts in such
a manner as to produce a stable pattern. And this triangle--
and a triangle alone-- will produce these conditions.
In
other words, when I use the word structure, it turns out
to be uniquely the triangle. Everything you say you
recognize, means that you recognize a pattern.
The
recognizability of the pattern must go back to some triangles."
-
Cite Students International meditation Seminar,
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 71, RDF Transcript p. 17-18

HBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"We describe structure as complexes of energy events
which interact to produce a stble pattern and we have
discovered that the triangle is the only such interaction."
Cite HBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Anherst, 22 July 171, Talk 12, p. 19.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Two or more structures may be concentric and
triangularly interconnected to operate as one
structure." "
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, N.Y. - 19 June 1971.
Add on to Synergetics at Sec. 224.03/
STRUCTURE SEC. 601.031

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Structural systems are local, closed and finite.
They include all geometric forms, symmetric or
asymmetric; simple or complex. Structural systems
can have only one inside and only one outside.'
-
Cite Synergetics draft- at Sec 224.03
-
19 Jun 1971
STRUCTURE - SEC 602.0 + 602.021

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Structures are pattern conservations."
-
Citation & context at Regenerative, 15 Mar 71
STRUCTURE- 601.02)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"A structure is a self-stabilizing energy-event complex."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 600.02; Mar' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
Even T
A structure is "a self stabilizing energy complex."
STRUCTURE-601.017
-
Cite Inscription on 'Ekistics'
by RBF handed to EJA 8 February
1971, Sarasota, Florida.
INSERTED
ΔΥ REF 14 MAR'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
*Structures are systems of dynamically stabilized
self-interfering, and thus self-interpositioning,
inherently regenerative
constellar associations
of energy events."
STRUCTURE
-
SEC 601.021
->
Cite RBF as corrected in SYNERGETICS
drafts, Feb & Mar '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"By structure we mean omnitriangulated."
TRIANGULATION-SEC- 610.021
->
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
7 March 1971

RBF DEFINTIONS
Structure:
"By structure we mean self-stabilising. The triangle
is the only self-stabilising polygon."
TRIANGULATION SEC, 610.01
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 14, 13Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Systems of dynamically stabilized self-interpositioning
energetic events."
-
Cite "Word Meanings," EXISTICS, Vol. 28, Oct. 169
STRUCTURE - SEC 601.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"...Now I have a fourth ball that comes around in there and
it nests on top of the first three. Now it can no longer
even evolute and, for the first time, all motion is blocked.
This makes a tetrahedron. This is where stability begins.
The tetrahedron is where the triangle gives what we call
a 'structure, or something that doesn't change its pattern
any more. It was dynamic up to that time."
1
Citation and context at Balls Coming Together (2), 25 Feb'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"A structure is a system of regneratively recentering and
localizing interactions of a minimum of four energy events.
"Inasmuch as there are always and everywhere twelve
fundamental degrees of freedom (six positive and six
negative) and since every energy event is characterized by
a three-fold vectoring-- an action, a reaction and a
resultant - all structures, symmetrical or asymmetrical,
regular or irregular, simple or compound, will consist of
the twelve-folded ness or its various multiples.
"A structure is a regeneratively self-localizing
interactive set of energy events.
"
Cite RBF Holograph, "Structures," dated 25 December 1968
STRUCTURE, SEC 602 +SEC 605.01)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"There is nothing in nature but structure.
Citation and context at Trees (I), 7 Nov'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"The number of edges are always divisible by six
in a structural system.
11
* Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967
STRUCTURE-604.011

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Structure is a pattern of inherently regenerative
constellar association of energy events."
Cite RBF glossary of terms (P.Pearce) in Synergetics draft 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"The number of vertices are always divisible by four
in a structural system.
THIS "> INCORRECT
"FOUR
"
SHOURO READ "NO"
* Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts June 1967
STRUCTURE-604.01

HBP DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"The triangle is the only structure. Unless it is self-
regeneratively stabilized it is not a structure.
"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.
Unly triangularly structured patterns are regenerative
patterns. Triangular structuring is a pattern integrity
itself. This is what we mean by structure."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 54. Jun'66
TRIANGULATION SEC
610.02 +031

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure Sequence;
(1)
"What do we mean by the word structure? I have pondered on
it a great deal and have decided to define 'structure' literally
from a descriptive consideration of its natural occurrence--
for instance, its occurrence in chemical elements-- for the
family of chemical elements and their most complex agglomera-
tions as super star galaxies are alike fundamental structures.
It is clear in the results of modern scientific experiment
that structures are not things.
"We might define structures descriptively as patterns of
inherently regenerative constellar association of energy events.
That sounds intricate and obscure at first so perhaps I had
better explain what I mean by each of the terms.. For instance,
by inherent I mean behavior principles discovered by man always
to be reliably operative in Universe under a given set of
circumstances. I use the term regenerative because in an
all-motion Universe (which Einstein posited and the physicists
in due course found to hold true), all the patterns of the
Universe are continually but nonsimultaneously affecting all
the other patterns of Universe in varying degrees and are
continually reduplicating themselves in unique local configu-*
66, 1965
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes 62. 3 Oct'T
(Further elaborated in SYNERGETICS at Secs. 601.01,

KBF DEFINITIONS
Structure Sequence:
"rations.
These patterns may be described (Fig. 1) 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 of 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.
I
(2)
"All the forces operative in Universe result in a complex
progression of most comfortable (1.e., least effort) arrange-
ments in which the macro-medio-micro star events stand
together here and there as locally regenerative patterns.
call these spontaneously regenerative local constellations
basic structures since they appear to be universally and
inherently recurrent. This definition of structure holds
true all the way from whole nonsimultaneous Universe through
all the lesser local and inherently regenerative pattern
differentiations down to the atom and its nuclear subassemblies."
[See MIT Sequence_7
1965
-Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes), p.66,
(Further elaborated in SYNERGETICS at Secs. 601.01,02, 3 bct '72:

RBP DEFINITIONS
Structure Sequence:
(3)
"Now you know what I mean by structures as the inherently
regenerative local constellar subpatternings of Universe.
Since by my own definition Universe is the historically
synchronous aggregate of all men's consciously apprehended
and communicated (to self or others) experiences, and since
the experiences are each finite but nonsimultaneous, Universe
is a nonsimultaneous yet dynamically synchronous structure,
which is unitarily nonconceptual as of any one moment, yet
as an aggregate of finites is sum-totally finite. Thus we
realize that finite structures are mostly nonconceptual in
any momentary sense though certain local structures in
Universe are momentarily conceptual, such for instance as the
continually transforming historical aggregate of men's
experiences packaged together in the words "Planet Earth."
This may be a difficult introduction to the subject of structures
but it sets the stage for further thought searching on a subject
whose heretofore illusory 'static solidness' has completely
misled human thought and occasioned the last century's discoveries
of science to be perversely surprising information seemingly
to be dealt with only by geniuses.
"
-Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes) p.68, 1965

R
RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
*Structures most frequently consist of the physical interrela-
tionships of nonsimultaneous events."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 606.02; from Kepes book
caption, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Universe structures most frequently consist of the
physical interrelationship of nonsimultaneous events.
"
Cit KEPES, Caption to "Four Rocket Bursta" picture. 1965
STRUCTURE
SEC 606.02]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"One of the deeply impressive things about structures is
that they cohere at all--particularly when we begin to know
something about the atoms and realise that the components
of atoms are really very remote from one another, so that
we simply have galaxies of events. Man is deceiving himself
when he sees anything 'solid' in structures."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 606.03; from Ledgment
lecture, 15 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"One of the things that used to impress me deeply
regarding structures, in the first place, is their
cohering at all-- particularly when we begin to know
something about the atoms and realize the components of
atoms are really very remote from one another, so that
we simply have kinds of galaxies of events going on
and I feel man is deceiving himself quite a lot about
something he calls 'solid' in struct (res."
Cite LEDGEMONT LAB Lecture, 15 Oct. 164, p. 29
STRUCTURE SEC 606.03

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"All structure is a transformative phase or complex of
tetrahedral transformations."
-
Cite I&I, DONES, p. 166. 1963)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"All structures are tensegrity structures from the solar
system to the atom."
-
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 197, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"Mathematics is the science of structure and pattern in
general. I have to have some definition of this so I call
it a regenerative pattern, a local pattern of Universe.
It is not total Universe because that is simultaneous.
I can't have a total structure of Universe. It is
inherently local and inherently regenerative. That is
what I mean by structure."
\sout{[A structure is simultaneous oice EJA ] NO}
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 108-109. 5 Jul 62
STRUCTURE SEC 606.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"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,
associative and disassociative interferences omniprecessionally
resulting as a pattern-regenerative constellation of system-
inward-angled vectors, in dynamically symmetrical, precessional
constellar equilibrium."
-
Citation and context at Radome Sequence (3), 29 Dec 58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
*Inasmuchas there are always and everywhere 12 fundamental
degrees of freedom (six positive and six negative), and since
every energy event is characterized by a threefold vectoring--
an action, a reaction, and a resultant--all structures, sym-
metrical or asymmetrical, regular or irregular, simple or
compound, will consist of the twelvefoldedness or its various
multiples."
C1 Dec 68
Cite
SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 605.01; from RBF holograph

RBP DEFINITIONS
Structure:
"The establishment of a close connection between
algebra and geometry was, in the mind of Descartes,
a part of his search for a universal mathematical
science which was to be only the prelude of a
universal science of an all-embracing character.
It grew out of a love of truth for its own sake.
In geometry we seem to have emphasized this motive."
R.D. Carmicchael, "Motives for the Cultivation of
Mathematics," p. 186, Scientific Monthly, Sep'50
RBF has written in margin of above:
"Extrapolated into structure it must induce this love upon
its environmentally augmented beings."
->
Cite RBF in MIT Notebook, 1 Oct'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structure:
D The energetic magnitudes of variable stresses and
flows. Thses interactions are known as structures and
mechanics."
->>
Citation and context at Reciprocity (4), May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Accounting:
*The vector equilibrium is indeed a system and not a
structure, but it is involved in structural accounting
because, through its jitterbug phases, it can transform
into structural phenomena."
Cite RBF to EJA; in specific response from latter's
query whether vector equilibrium really belongs in
Sec. 240.66; 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 12 Nov 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Accounting:
"All structural phenomena are accounted in terms of tetrahedron,
octahedron, vector equilibrium, and icosahedron."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 240.66, per draft Jun'72

Structural Accounting:
See Physical, 9 Jul'62
Structure, Jun'72
Prime Vector, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Associability:
"Only number can self-communicate as structural or
destructural associabilities."
- Citation at Self-communicate, 15 May 172

Structural Conceptuality:
See Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Functions:
"Triangulation is fundamental to structure, but it takes a
plurality of positive and negative behaviors to make a structure.
For example:
--
--
--
always and only coexisting push and pull (compress-
ion & tension);
always and only coexisting concave & convex;
always and only coexisting angles and edges;
always and only coexisting torque & counter-torque;
always and only coexisting insideness & outsideness;
always and only coexisting axial rotation poles;
always and only coexisting conceptuality & noncon-
ceptuality;
always and only coexisting temporal experience and
eternal conceptuality.
text
. Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec. 610.11, Oct 73

Structural Functions:
See Energetic Functiona
Inventory of Proclivities

Structural Instability:
See De-structures
Destructuring
(1)

Structural Instability:
See Equilibrious, 23 Jan '72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Integrity:
"Euler treated with the surface aspects of forms rather
than with their structural integrities."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1006.12, 30 Jan'73
20

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Integrity:
"Synergetics introduces angular topology as both central
angle and surface angle phenomena with the surface angles
accounting for concavity and convexity and the thereby
derived structural integrity of systems. 39
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71 incorporated
in SYNERGETICS at Sec. 251.12.

Structural Integrity:
See Necklace, 22 Jul 71
Tidal Dec 61
Object, 9 Nov 73

Structural Law:
See Structure: Law Of

20
Structure of Meaning:
See Dictionary, May' 71
Consideration, 1965

Structure & Mechanics:
See Action-reaction Juxtaposition, May' 49
Mechanics, May 49
Structure,
16 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Pattern:
"The Department of Mathematics at M.I.T. states categorically
the following:
Mathematics is the science of structure
and pattern
"I will state our case in terms of an omnidirectional
pattern- an isotropic vector matrix-- rather than in the
more usually employed linear or planar patterns, and thus
satisfy M.I.T.'s primary mathematical premise of structural
patterning, which structure is inherently an omnidirectionaal
plural wavelength and frequency event system.
1
-
->
Gite Ltr. to Jim Fitzgibbon (?), Raleigh 10, ppvj3-jky undated
Citation and context at Omnidirectional Pattern, undated

Structural Performance & Size:
See Geodesic Structure, 31 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Quanta:
"Six edge vectors = one tetrahedron.
structural quantum.
One tetrahedron = one
1 tetrahedron (volume 1) - 6 edge vectors = 1 structural
quantum;
1 octahedron (volume 4) 12 edge vectors 2 structural
quanta;
1 icosahedron (volume 18.51) = 30 edge vectors = 5 Struc-
tural quanta.
Therefore:
with tetrahedron, 1 structural quantum provides 1 unit of
volume;
with roctahedron, 1 structural quantum provides 2 units of
volume;
with icosahedron, 1 structural quantum provides 3.7 units
of volume."
->
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 611.02; galley rewrite 9 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Quanta:
"If the system's openings are all triangulated, it is
structured with minimum effort. There are only three possible
omnisymmetrical, omnitriangulated, least-effort structural
systems in nature. They are the tetrahedron, Octahedron, and
icosahedron. When their edges are all equal in length, the
volumes of these three structures are, respectively, one,
requiring one structural quantum; four, requiring two struct-
ural quanta; and 18.51, requiring five structural quanta.
Six edge vectors equal one minimum structural system:
6 edge vectors - 1 structural quantum."
->
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 611.01; 3 Oct 72

Structural Quanta vs. Volumetric Quanta:
See Volume-structure Ratios
(1)

Structural Quanta va, Volumetric Quanta:
See Structural Quanta, 9 Nov' 73
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, (1)(2)
Units of Environment Control, 9 Nov 73
(2)

Structural Quanta:
See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring: Hierarchy Of,
19 Dec 73
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, (1) (2)
Units of Environment Control, 9 Novi 73
Open Triangular Spirals, Novi 71

Structure vs. Reflexes:
See Science as a
Tool, Sep172

Structural Shell:
See Dome House: Separation of Mechanical Service
Core & Structural Shell
Geodesic Dome
Turtle Dome

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Stability:
"Structuring stability is accomplished by triangularly
balanced energy investments."
-
Citation and context at Planck's Constant (A), 15 May173

Structural Stability:
See Pattern Stability
Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid
(1)

Structural Stability:
See Prime Volumes, Apr 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural System:
Every
"Every triangle has two faces: obverse and reverse.
structural system has omniintertriangulated division of
Universe inay insideness and outsideness."
->
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 610.13; RBF galley rewrite
9 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural System:
"If we want to have a structure, we have to have triangles.
To have a structural system requires a minimum of four
triangles. The tetrahedron is the simplest structure."
->>
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 610.12; Nov' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural System:
"Structural systems are cosmically localized, closed and
finite. They embrace all geometric forms--symmetrica
and asymmetric, simple and complex."
"Structural systems have only one insideness and only one
outsideness.
"Two or more structures may be concentric and/or triangularly--
triple-bondedly--interconnected to operate as one structure.
Single-bonded (universally jointed) or double-bonded (hinged)
means that we have two flexibly interconnected structural
systems.
"All structuring can be topologically identified in terms
of tetrahedra."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Seca. 602.01-.03 and 603.01; Nov*71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural System:
"In a structural system
(a) the number of vertexes (crossings) is always
evenly divisible by two;
(b) the number of faces (openings) is always
evenly divisible by four; and
(c) the number of edges (trajectories) is always
evenly divisible by six."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corollaries," Sec. 240.64. Oct159
STRUCTURE 604.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structural Systems:
"In a structural system there is only one insideness
and only one outsideness."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corollaries," Sec. 240.62. Oct 59
STRUCTURE SEC 602.01

Structure: Law Or:
See Design Covariables: Principle Of, 1959
Norm: Tetrahedron as Norm, 15 May 72
Scenario Principle, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Structuring:
ப
All structuring can be identified in terms of
tetrahedra and of topology."
-
Cita CARBONDALE DRAFT 14,46
Gite NASA Speech, p. 62, JUN166-
Citation & context at Universe, (p.62) Jun'66
STRUCTURE-SEC 603.01

Structuring:
See Atomic Structuring
Chemical Structuring
Cosmic Structuring
De structuring
Ideal Structuring
Molecular Structuring
Primitive Structuring
Reality: Structuring as the Only Reality
(1)

Structuring:
See Science as a Tool, Sep' 72
Universe, Jun'66**
(2)

Structure: Structural:
Building
See Complex Structure
De structures
Dome
Invisible Structure
Limit Structural Transformative Tendencies
Local Structure
Mast in the Earth
Member
Mnimum System:
Minimum Structural System
Organizational Structure
Physical vs. Structural
Primary Structure
Prime Structural Systems
Omniintertriangulated
Pyramid Technology
Radome Sequence
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles
System vs. Structure
(1A)

Structure: Structural:
See Spherical Structures
Stable & Unstable
Stability
Surface Strength of Structures
Tetrahedron as Minimum Structural System
Trees
Triangle: Triangulation
Free Energy vs. Structure
Geodesics vs. Structure
System & Structure
Surface Triangle Structures
Prime Nuclear Structural Systems
Sum-total Structures
Unstructurings & Restructurings
Pattern Conservation,
Machines vs. Structures
ilechanics vs. Structure
Infrastructure
Omnistructured
(1B)

Structure:
Structural System:
See Balls Coming Together, (2)*
Chemistry, Jan' 59
Coherence, Apr 49
Concentricity, 1959
Conceptuality, 24 Apr*71
Constellar, May 71
Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, May'49
Euler, Sep' 58
Lever Complexes, 31 May'74
Life, 7 Apr'75
Mathematics, 1965
Radome Sequence, (3)*
Reciprocity, (4)*
Regenerative, 15 Mart 71*
Shunting & Reshunting, Dec'61
Trees, (I)*
Triangle, Aug' 72*
Metaphysical & Physical, 13 Nov 75
Environment, 29 Ilar' 77
Tetrahedron, 26 Apr 77
Restraints, 8 Aug177
(2)

Structure: Structural:
See Structural Associability
Structural Functions
Structural Instability
Structural Integrity
Structural Law
Structural Pattern
Structural Quanta
Structural Stability
Structural System
Structure:
Structuring
Law of Structure
Structure vs. Reflexes
Structural Accounting
Structure & Mechanica
Structure of Meaning
Structural Quanta vs. Volumetric Quanta
Structural Performance & Size
Structural Shell
Structural Conceptuality
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Strut:
"A strut is comparable to a vector energy action and its
end is pulled by the center of mass of the next vector strut."
-
Cite RBF in Tel Aviv Address (Zodiac 19) Dec 167

RBF DEFINITIONS
Strut:
"It is a synergetic characteristic of minimum structural
systems (tetra) that the system is not stable until the
last strut is introduced. 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.' "
Cite RBF undated holograph on M.I.T. memo pad. (1950's)
TENSEGRITY - SEC. 652.16
TRIANGULation
611.03

Strut:
See Column
Mast
Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Maste
Tensegrity Clothesline
Push-pull Member
Joints, Windows & Struts
(1)

Strut:
(2)
See Edge, 28 Oct 72
Vectors & Tensors, 19 Oct172
Dome Over Manhattan, 28 Jan'75
Minimum System: Minimum Structural System, Nov' 71
Hex-pent Sphere, 15 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Study:
"Einstein, when he wanted to study, didn't sit in the
middle of a schoolroom."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170
(Not in Bantam edition)

Study: Studving:
See Education, 1 Feb 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subconscioua:
"Subconscious: All I know is that without my subconscious--
extraordinarily reliable phenomenon--that I say what is the
name of that man? or the name of something? and this
feedback suddenly comes back, the searching capability is
really very magnificent.
"I wan tell myself that I want to wake up at such and such
a time or second. I will do that. Much of my experience of
inventing and exploring, physical problems comes to a terminal
condition on a given day, but I know what it is that I need
to discover. I'm very liable to wake up with the answer
because the subconscious goes right on processing. So the
subconscious is something very impressive. I think we are
very much misappraised of the magnitude of the subconscious
and conscious. I think we are probably 99.999 percent sub-
consciously operative. With no awareness of percent sub-
I had to consciously take care of all the self-replacing of
myself and my fingers, etcetera. we would have no down time
at all. I have processed over 1000 tons of air, food
water that became temporarily a part of the organism.
and
Cite transcript p. 8, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subconscious:
"Subconsciously must mean operating pre-designedly in
reference to an ideally designed complex conceptioning
operation, such ideal design being typified by, for
instance, the conceptual pattern integrities comprised of
sizeless triangulations of critical proximity events which
exhibit progressively slowing transitions from relatively
great size orbital precessioning self-interfering themselves
into relatively small size, local mass attraction orbiting,
thence into an even more local fall-in proximities, and
into one or another of their inevitable interference
pattern alternatives, as for instance, smash-ups, reflections,
refractions, and coalescing adherences."
Cite RBF marginalis At Eccles' "Facing Reality, VII, 14 Feb '72
-- as rewritten by RBF 15 Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subconscious:
"Subconsciously must mean predesignedly, in reference to
an ideal design complex conceptioning, such as that of the
pattern integrities, i.e., sizeless triangulation of
critical proximity progressively slowing transitions from
major-scale orbital precessioning going into minor-scale
mass attraction of local orbiting, and even more local
fall-in interference pattern alternatives of smash-ups,
reflections, and refractions."
Cite RBF marginalis at Preface VII, Eccles! 'Facing Reality,'
14 Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subconscious
"Man.
•
processes most often with subconsciously
coordinated reflex routines."
Cite NO MORE SECOND HAND GOD, F. 107
See p. 36 NO MORE SECOND HAND GOD 9 Apr 40

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subconscious
"
Thinking is a very special kind of conscious
self-disciplining of the awarenesses emerging from the
subconscious, that is: the spontaneous (originally pro-
grammed brain processes' handling of its myriad
experience data in respect to its brain integrated digest
of its moment-to-moment new experiences and the progressive
strategic choices of actions or non-actions taken in
respect to them."
"We have all experienced saying 'What was our mutual
friend's name? We both know it well!' And tomorrow you
recall it about the same time that I recall it. The
process was subconscious. Our feedbacks have lags.
are not instantaneous.
They
Gite NASA Speech, pp 38, 39, Jun166.
-
Citation and context at Thinking (A) (B), Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS:
Subconscious
Coordinate Functioning:
"To such an extent does man belive in man's importancex
that he doesn't realize that he is himself almost completely
automated, that he is subconsciously coordinated and motivated
and also part of an immensely evolving totally new era
gestation process to be realized in magnitude beyond man's
conception."
Cite AAUW JOURNAL, May 1965, P. 174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subconscious Coordinate Functioning:
"By my calculations there is mathematical probability
that progressive mastery by man of the physical coordinates
of nature and their progressive sublimation by man as sepa-
rate categories, and subordination to total abstract con-
cepts, may indeed be trending historically to permit the
integral being of the child to remain unfractionated
throughout the total life span. For instance, we are unaware
of our own tongues until we bite them. When in health and 'good
form the total myriad component functions of our physical
organic being are entirely subordinated to subconscious
coordinate functioning, commanded by the integrity of the
individual life. When life has departed, the full physical
inventory remains-- useless, reminiscent, but that is all.
That is the way I see things. I am convinced that creativity
is a priori to the integrity of universe and that life is
regenerative and conformity meaningless."
Cite MEXICO, p. 103, 10 Oct *63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subconscious Coordination:
"By my calculations there is mathematical probability that
progressive mastery by man of the physical coordinates of
nature, and their progressive subordination to total abstract
concepts, may indeed be trending historically to permit the
integral being of the child to remain unfractionated through-
out the total life span. For instance, we are unaware of our
own tongues until we bite them. When in good health and good
form, the total myriad component functions of our physical being
are entirely subordinated to subconsciously coordinated
functions of the regenerative pattern of the whole individual
life."
Cite THE PROSPECT FOR HUMANITY, WDSD Doc. 3, p. 76, Aug'64

Subconscious Coordinate Functioning:
See Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes
Man's Conscious Participation in Evolution
Human Ecology Transformations
Human Tolerance Limits
Feeling Goo
(1)

Subconscious Coordinate Functioning:
See Coral Reef, May165
Health, 10 Oct 63
Environment Events Hierarchy (2)
Invisible Architecture (E)
Adam & Eve, 2 Jun174
Evolution, 1969
Loss: Discovery Through Loss, 2 Nov'73
Conscious & Subconscious, 1960
Order & Disorder, 1964
Subconscious, 20 Feb 77
(2)

Subconscious Sorting:
See Sleep, 11 Feb 73

Sub-subconscious Integration:
See Intuition, Oct'66

Subconscious:
See Conscious & Subconscious
Reflex
Unconscious
Omnisubconscious
(1)

Subconscious:
See Individual Man, 10 Dec'64
Macro-micro, Dec 172
Poets, 1970'
Reading, 29 May'72
Teleology, 26 Jan'72
Telepathy, 29 Jun 72
Thinking, (A)(B)*; 1 Feb'75
Tunability: Intra & Ultra, 1954
Civilization, May' 44
Fuller, R.B:
Moratorium on Speech, (1)-(3)
Communication, 21 Jun 77
(2)

Subcosmic:
See Human Being, 30 Oct*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subcyclic:
"Angle is subcyclic-- that is fractionation of
one cycle."
"Angular relationships are subcyclic; ergo, subfrequency;
ergo, independent of size."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corollaries," Sec. 240. 53 + 54. Oct'59

Subcyclic:
See Angle, Jun'71

Subdifferentiable:
See Point, 9 Jun 75

Subdivision: Subdivisibility:
See Bits: Bitting
Differentiation
Dimensional Growth
First Subdivision of Universe
Fraction: Fractionation
Great Circle Subdivisions
Infinity & Finity
Infinity Frequency
Modular Subdivision
Multiplication by Division
Triangling
Wholes & Parts
Halving
Spin-halving
System-halving
Dichotomy
(1)

Subdivision:
Subdivisibility:
(2)
See Conceptuality Independent of Size & Time, 2 Jun'74
Local, 6 Jul 62
Patent, 1955
Pattern, 1954
Scenario Principle, 1959
Starting with Universe, 7 Nov'73; 31 May'75
System, 24 May' 72
Unity of Universe, 24 Sep³73
Universe, 16 Jun '12
Dynamic Symmetry, (1)-(3)
Omnirational Control Matrix, 12 May'75
General Systems Theory, (2)
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (b)-(1)
Microsystems, 22 Mar'76
Multiplication by Division, 20 Jan'77

Subentity:
See Prime Otherness, 24 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subfrequency:
"Frequency and size are the same phenomena. Subfrequency
prime tetra, prime octa, and prime icosa are each constituted
of only one edge module per each triangular facet. While
generalizably conceptual the prime structural systems and
their prime domains, linear, areal, and volumetric, are inherent-
ly subfrequency, ergo independent of time and size."
[32]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1011.3, 17 Feb'73

(1)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Subfrequency:
"The vector equilibrium is an interesting kind of geometry
because, just looking atit as a model we see a square, a square,
a triangle, etc., starting at a common center all the vertexes
are equidistant from the same center in a one-frequency system.
The word frequency would never relate to the word one,
incidentally, because frequency involves some plurality of
events. Therefore, frequency would begin at two, so sub-
frequency and what I spoke about yesterday, a sub-size, we
begin to have frequencies for size. Therefore, vector
equilibrium is really subsize. It doesn't have size, if it
looked like this and every edge were divided into two and
interconnected, then it would be a two-frequency system
and all the radii would have two increments. It is a single
system and yet it has a tetrahedral volume of 20, whereas
the cube, when the edge module is one, the volume is one.
When the edge module of a cube is two, then the volume is
eight. So looking at vector equilibrium as unity-- as all
the domain of a point, and so forth, we find that it has a
volume of 480. . I developed an intuitive feeling long,
long ago that the word unity was inherently pural.
How could
you have unity in the singular?. That concept changed
quantum in wave mechanics. . . I am giving you a way that you
have to look at unity as being tetrahedra of 20; and if I an

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subfrequency:
"talking about A and B particles, I have to talk about unity
as 480. Unity starts as 480."
Cipe Oregon Lecture, #8, pp.286-287, 12 Jul'62
3
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subfrequency:
"Angular relationships and magnitudes are subcyclic;
ergo, subfrequency, ergo independent of size."
Cite SYNERGETICS "Corollaries," Sec. 240.54.
Oct 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subfrequency:
"Prime means the first layer. It does not have frequency.
One is subfrequency. Frequency
It is subfrequency.
begins with two.
Frequency and size are the same phenomena.
Subfrequency prime tetra, ocata and icosa consist of one
vertex and an edge module of one."
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island 23 August, 1971. Synergetics
draft Sept. 171, Sec. 882.1

Subfrequency:
See Prefrequency
Subsize
Prime
(1)

Subfrequency:
See Equiangularity, 25 Sep 72
Prime, 17 Feb 73; 18 Dec'74
Vector Equilibrium, 23 Aug171
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 10 Dec' 75
Nuclear Cube, 11 Dec' 75; 23 Feb'76
Potential vs. Primitive, 12 May' 77
(2)

Subgeneralization:
See Geodesics & Tensegrities, 9 Sep' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subjective & Objective:
"Unity does not mean the number one.... One does not and
cannot exist by itself. In Universe life's existence begins
with awareness. No otherness: no awareness. The observed
requires an observer. The subjective and objective always
and only coexist and therewith demonstrate the inherent
plurality of unity: inseparable union."
Citation & context at Geometrical Function of Nine, (1)(2),
16 May '75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Subjective and Objective:
"
.
The subjective sensitivities of including and refining,
understanding, and the objective coordination of the organic
whole toward articulating with specific clarity and economy:
all the truth of synergy as well as nothing but separate
truths of each specialization."
Citation and context at Creativity, 10 Apr '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subjective and Objective:
"Science identifies as subjective and objective, respect-
ively, the inadvertently experienced stimulations of life,
on the one hand, and the deliberately initiated and
experimentally instituted responses to the subjective
stimulations..."
- Citation & context at YYZ Coordinate System (A), 14 Sep'71
-
CILE THE holograph, Beverly Hotel, No
14 Sep 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subiective & Objective:
Experience is subjective; experiment is objective.
(Adapted.)
- Cire NASA Speeen, p. 100, Jun³óó.
Citation & context at Linear & Survilinear, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subjective & Objective:
"Angle and frequency modulation, either subjective or
objective in respect to man's consciousness, discretely
define all events or experiences which altogether
constitute the universe."
Lite NASA Speech, p. Jun+66-
* Citation at Angle & Frequency Modulation, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subiective & Objective:
"Conceptuality is subiective; realization is objective."
-
Citation & context at Description, Jun'66
CILE NAGA Speech, p.103
(adapted)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subiective & Objective:
"Mathematical concepts of group phenomena may be acquired
in principle by the willingness, subjectively initiated, of
the individual to be governed by the integrity of progressive
conceptioning principle-- the objective synchronizations are
implicit and unavoidable competence and comprehensive,
realizable design will result. Let us pursue further the
conceptioning in specifics of group principle.'
"
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (1), May'49

Subiective & Objective:
See Brain & Mind
Objective Intellect
Voluntary & Involuntary
Individual & Group Principle
(1)

Subiective & Objective:
See Acceleration: Angular & Linear, 1960
Aesthetics, Dec'69
Angle & Frequency Modulation, Jun'66*
Brain, 19 Mar 70; May 72
Creativity, 10 Apr 73*
Description, Jun'66*
Design (1); 9 Apr171; 22 Apr 68
Design Science, 13 Mar 73
Evolution, 1971
Frequency Modulation, Jun166
Generalized Principle (A)
In, Out & Around, 1968
Linear & Curvilinear, Jun'66*
Metaphysical & Physical, Oct 71
Now, 7 Nov 73; 19 Oct 70
Science: Pure & Applied, 13 Mar 73; 14 Sep'71
Teleologic Conversion of Information, 6 Jun'69
Teleology, 20 Jun166
XYZ Coordinate System (A)*
(2A)

Subjective & Objective:
See Happening, 20 Jun'66
Standard of Living, 10 Oct'63
Transformation, 1960
Size Selective, 30 Nov 72
Universe as Energy & Information, 11 Nov 74
Intellect in Physical Universe, 10 Oct'63
Periodic Experience, (1)*; (8); (13)
Intellect: Equation of, (A).
Communications Hierarchy, (4)
Geometrical Function of Nine, (1) (2)*
Sensing, Storing & Intuiting Device, 9 Jun '75
Structural Sequence, (B)
Angle & Frequency Design Control, Jul' 71
Awareness, 28 Apr 77
(2B)

Subjective:
See Electromagnetic Transmission:
Conscious
Subjective &
(1)

Subjective:
See Generalized Principle, (1)
Inadvertent, 30 Nov 72
Objective Intellect, Jun'69
(2)

Sublevel Synergetica:
See Subsynergetic

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sublimation:
A Note from RBF to a Prospective Illustrator for the
Synergetics Book:
"I appreciate that you do have understanding and commitment
and true friendship in respect to the realization of the
ideas and ideal which I too serve-- all of which could
eventuate in some mutual work. I do not think that you can
now (at this critical time in my highest priority work)
bring yourself to spontaneous comprehension of what it is
that I am in need. I need a less strategically (philosophically)
distracted assistant to sublimate his or her comprehensive
conceptioning and to learn, by some trial and error, to
ascertain what will seem satisfactory to me."
Cite RBF Holograph passed to Karl Sotiriov in plane
flight from Columbus to St. Louis, 21 Oct. 171.

Sublimate: Sublimation:
See Tongue: Bite Your Tongue, Aug 72

Submarine City:
See Air Delivery & Submarine Cities

Submaring:
See Air Delivery & Submarine Cities (3)
Rowing Needles (1)
Weapons Technology (1)
Tank, 23 Jan '75

Subnuclear:
See Nonnuclear
(1)

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

Subordinate & Superordinate:
See Mystery, 24 Jan' 76

Subpattern:
See Hierarchy of Patterns,
1954
Structure Sequence, (3)

Subpoint:
See Otherness Point, 24 Sep 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subset:
"The definable conception is therefore the first thinkable
subset functioning of Universe.
11
Citation and context at De-finite, 1960

REF DEFINITIONS
Subset:
"The comprehensive set of all experiences synergetically
constituting universe discloses an astronomically numbered
variety of sub-set event frequency rates and their respect-
ive rates of conceptual tuneablity comprehension."
-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO,
p. 132,
1960

Subset:
See Reciprocating Subsets
(1)

Subset:
See Comprehensive, 1960
De-finite, 1960*
Dynamic Frame of Reference, (7)
Universe, 1960
(2)

49
Subsidence:
See Symmetrical Local Subsidence
Concentric Correction from Spherical to Plane
Geometry
Internal Control of Distortion

Subsise:
See Conceptuality Independent of Sise
Prefrequency
Presise
Subfrequency
(1)

Subsize:
See Angle, 10 Jul 62; Jun'71
Sdematic of the Principles, 10 Sep 74
Vector Equilibrium, 12 Jul 62
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 10 Dec'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Substantive Awareness:
...Four is required for substantive awareness, where you
can have a collection of things you can touch."
Citation and context at Volumetric Awareness, 20 Feb'73

Substance: Substantial:
See Minimum Awareness, (1)
Atom, 8 Sep '75
Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System, (A)
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1) (2)
Load Distribution, 17 Oct'77

Substitutional Relaying:
See Life, 16 Aug' 50

Substitute: Substitutability:
See Nonintersubstitutable

Substructure: Substructuring:
See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring: Hierarchy of

Subsynergetic:
See Improvement vs. Surprise

Subsystem:
See System, 26 Dec 74; 27 May172
Systematic Realisation, 20 Dec'74

Subsystem:
See Coincidental Articulation Sequence (2)-(4)
Parts, 1954
Precession (a)
University, 15 Apr 55
Functions, 26 May'72
Two Kinds of Twoness, (B)
Tetratuning, 30 May 175

Subsystem Nonsystem:
8265.05

Subtetrahedra:
See Modules:
A & B Quanta Modules:
Subtetrahedra

Subtime:
See Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 10 Dec175

Subtlast Integrity:
See Gravity, 12 May'75

Subtlety & Muchness of the Unfamiliar:
See Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 18 Oct'72

Subtriangulation:
See Icosahedron: Subtriangulation

Subtunable: Subtunability:
See Infratunable
Ultratunable
(1)

Subtunable: Subtunability:
See Convergent vs. Parallel Perception, 13 Nov'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subunity:
"...There are only two fundamental kinds of observable
transformational changes, i.e., angular, or subunity alterations,
and linear, or plural unity... accelerations."
Citation and context at Acceleration: Angle and Frequency
Acceleration, 1960

RBF EFINITIONS
Subversive:
*I have never been considered subversive by anybody because I
am apolitical."
Cite RBF videotaping session, Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subversive:
"People should not call me subversive. Subversive means
being against evolution."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 6 Mar 73

Subversive:
See China (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Subvisible Discontinuity:
"In the Babylonian, Egyptian, and Ionian eras of ways of
looking at, thinking about, and formulating, there evolved
a concept of a 'first family' of geometrical 'solids,' in
which each member was characterised by all of its faces
being identical and all of its edges being one length only.
Humans
were then unaware of what physics was only much later
to
discover experimentally: that nature discloses no evidence
of
a
continuum. Experiment discloses only aggregates of
separate, finitely closed events. Ergo, there are no solids."
(Sec. 713.01)
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 713.01; 1y Oct 72

Subvisible:
See Infra & Ultravisibility
Unseeable
Invisible
Visible to invisible
(1)

Subvisible:
See Invention Sequence, (B)
Invisible Circuitry, (1)
Solid State, 13 May 73
Critical Proximity, May' 71
Window, 22 Nov 72"
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"...It is technically feasible, with the resources we now
have--the knowledge we now have-- to actually take care of
all humanity at the highest standard of living anybody has
ever known. I see no excuse whatsoever for the verty class.
We must take our highest capability and, instead of applying
it to the weaponry--how do we kill?--applying it to how do we
really make those people successful.
"We're in for a very great reorientation. We're learning our
lessons. Fortunately all of humanity is in on this. We're
on the air. All of humanity is on the air today. And we are
learning. But we are going to have to really learn to really
take our highest capabilities and apply them directly to making
man a success.
"That's why I find this very educational... and the people who
are here have agreat responsibility... and I see earnestness
everywhere. But we are just preoccupied with reform, which
really doesn't work."
Cite RBF to "Town Meeting of the Air," Wash., DC; 10 Sep' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"Nature is really trying very hard to make man a success."
Citation & context at Intuition as Remote Cosmic Transmission,
29 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"Again and again,
Step by step,
Intuition opens the doors
That lead to man's designing
Of more advantageous rearrangements
Of the physical complex of events
Which we speak of as the environment,
Whose evolutionary transition ever leads
Toward the physical and metaphysical success
Of all humanity."
Citation at Intuition, May 172
Cita INTUITION, p.58 May +72.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"I don't think the Universe is a failure.
And the reason
I don't think so is that as far as we can see Universe is
the minimum eternally self-regenerative system, so we can
only think of it as a complete success. It includes
everything we experience, and all of it has logical and
really sublime integrity."
* - Citation & context at Tragedy, Feb'72
CHERREN Bar-y Farrell-Playboy Intent

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"That humanity is indeed destined
To be as comprehensively successful
As is the hydrogen atom
And that humanity is now directly geared-in
With the inexhaustible
Physical and metaphysical wealth of the Universe
And can afford not only to do whatever it needs to do--
And right now
But in fact can afford
Nothing else but success.
Right now!
The alternative is 'curtains'
For the little crew of humans
Aboard this approximately inconsequential
Celestial vehicle, Earth. "
- Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan. 172, p. 22.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"If man can't make a success of life on Earth, he also
may be unable to make himself a success anywhere else
in the Universe."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May 170 (Not in Bantam edition)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"Design science regenerations will induce
spontaneous
"
and economically successful industrial proliferation by
world-around services' managements. .. which . will
both permit and induce all humanity to realize full lasting
economic and physical success pluss enjoyment of all the
Earth without one individual interfering with or being
advantaged at the expense of another."
-
Citation and context at Fuller: R.B.:
2 Mar'68
What I Am Trying To Do,

RBP DEFINITIONS
Success:
"...How vain we are when man thinks of himself as being
responsible for his extraordinary success. We talk in the
Americas of being very worthy and that we've won our way to
the top of the world, and that other people over here are not
Bo worthy. I don't think that man has had much to do with the
relative success.
"In the first place, the success starts with the fact that we
are extraordinarily chemically balanced and there is some power
in the Universe where the energy conditions are such that we
exist at all. That we happened to be here-- we had nothing to
do with that!
"Men have been taught that there is not enough to go around
and that it is you or me. I do observe the struggling going
on, not only in politics but in Universities: who is going to
come out on top? And I would say that essentially men have
been working against other men. If they are successful it is
not because they have been working together. From time to
time they have meetings, and they say, 'Let's work together,'
and this is fairly specious."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture 1, pp. 28-29, 1 Jul'62
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"So I say the success we have had so far is essentially due to
a pattern of evolution which is beyond the control of man...
and I would really like to try to find out all we can about
what is going on. "
Cite Oregon Lecture #1, pp.28-29, 1 Jul'62
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success:
"Very little that men do consciously of all their functions
renders their lives successful in Universe."
Cite NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, Preface, p. viii. 9 May 162

Success as Norm:
See Industrialisation: Curve Of, (1)
51

RBF DEFINITIONS
Success as Norm of Today and Tomorrow:
"While the norm of today and tomorrow,
If any is possible,
Must be total sucess
For all of humanity
As inherent in
The integratable potentials
Of the comprehensive family
Of omni-interaccommodative,
And omniorderly
Generalized principles
Discovered by scientists
To be in a priori governance
Of universal evolution's aggregate
Of nonsimultaneous
And only partially overlapping events
Transformative events."
Cite INTUITION, p.65 May 172

Success:
See Afford
Design Revolution
Earning a Living
Economic Accounting System
Failure
Hydrogen Atom
Wealth
Nature Trying to Make Man a Success
Doing What Needs to be Done
(1)

Success:
(2A)
See Architecture, May170
Continuous Man (4) (5)
Design Science, Dec172; (1)(3); (C)
Dwelling Service Industry (6)
Dome: Rationale for the Geodesic Dome (1)
Ekistics, Aug172
Energy Slave (4)
Evolution, 10 Jun*71
Fuller, R.B: What I Am Trying To Do, 2 Mar'68*
Gross World Product Sequence (3)
Intuition, May172*
Invisible Reality, 22 Jun 74
Man, Dec '72
Mind as Verb, May' 72
War: Official War & Unofficial War, May'68
World Game, Dec*72
China (B)(C)
Tragedy, Feb 72*
Trim Tab Sequence, (3)

Success:
(2B)
See Intuition as Remote Cosmic Transmission, 29 Jan 75*
Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour Production, (1)
De sovereignization Sequence, (3)
Humane City, (3)
Building Industry, (11) (12)
Experiment: We Are Not the Only Experiment, 30 Apr '78

Sucking:
See Wind Sucking

Sugar on the Table:
See Ecology, 15 Feb*73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Suicide:
"Suicide cannot be justified because it is a waste of
accumulated human experience.
-
Cite RBF videotaping transcript, Penn Bell Studios, Phila.,
Pa, 27 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Suicide of Humanity:
"In 1961 scientists successfully demonstrated to one another
that overspecialization was the cause of extinction of all
the biological species and of all the human tribes, which now
have vanished from the planet Earth. With the world politicians
whooping up the eductaion-for-spedialization system for all
their people, world man was training swiftly for total suicide
of humanity. He developed the means of self-destruction by
many means-- the atomic bomb gas and microbe warfare,
pollution of his water and air, exhaustion of his energy
wealth without having the comprehensive world will and means
to stop himself.
•
"Humanity has been only inadvertently saved from extinction.
The new fall-out technology which displaced man as a
specialist (professional scientist or craftsman) is the
new computer-monitored automation industry.
-
Cite NASA Speech, pp. 20,21, Jun'66

Suicide of Humanity:
See Atomic Bomp
Prognostication About Future of Man
Self-annihilation
(1)

Suicide of Humanity:
See Self-seeking, 8 Nov 72
Individual Universes, (3)
Universe is Technology, (2)
(2)

Suicide:
See Jump in the River
Fuller R.B: Crisis of 1927
Self-annihilation
Stone Falling & it's Going to Hit You on the Head
Trespassing: Not Trespassing
You Do Not Belong To You
(1)

Suicide:
See Lying, 13 Dec '73
(2)

Suit: Brooks Brothers Suit:
See Invisible Man, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS*
Sulfur:
"Fossil fuel combustion puts about 80 million tons of
sulfur dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere in a year.
With the present efficiency of electrostatic precipitators--
which is approximately 50 percent-- which means that for
every ton of sulfur dioxide you can extract a half a ton of
sulfur. . If the present needs of the Earth are something
like 40 million tons of sulfur, by putting the proper pollution
controls on the exhaust emissions, not only would you wind up
with a healthier and cleaner atmosphere, but you'd be able to
reduce sulfur extraction from the ground, and bea ble to get
your sulfur right from that souree. Make it a closed system"
(NOTE: Above quote not from RBF but from one of his
students, in his presence.)
Cite World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul*69,
Satrun Film transcript, Sound 2, Part, 3. p. 74.

Sulfur:
See Afford, (1)-(3)
Pollution Control, (1)

Sullivan,
Louis H: (1856-1924)
See Form Cannot Follow Function, (1); 1 Jul'62
Tooling
of Domes, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sum Total:
"Aggregate means sum totally but nonunitarily conceptual
us of any one moment."
-
Citation at Aggregate, 28 Feb 71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Sumtotal:
"Aggregate is used instead of sumtotally when we don't know
whether it's all of them."
-
Citation at Aggregate, 7 Feb'71

Sum-total Structures:
See Geometry of Vectors, 27 Jan '75

Sum Total:
See Universe as a Kaleidoscope, May '49
Survival, 1938
Aggregate, 28 Feb'71*; 7 Feb*71*

Sum Zero:
See World Game, (I)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sun:
"We have our particular
Radiant energy star-- the Sun,
Which is our prime energy supply source.
The Sun is our nearest celestial fuel ship.
It is flying formation with us
Through the Galactic System
At an Earth-life incineration-proofing distance
Of ninety-two million miles.
As our energy concentrating
Spherical space vehicle Earth
Circles around our ten-billionfold greater
Amassed energy mothership Sun.'
1t
Cite BRAIN & MUND, pp. 106-107 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sun:
The additional and vital energy constantly transmitted to
the spaceship by the electromagnetic radiations emanating from
enormous, fiery, unmanned automated mother spaceships travel-
ing in company with, but at great distances from, the little
Spaceship Earth.
"
-
Citation and context at Spaoship Earth (b),
1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sun:
" ...Our 92-million miles distant, fully automated energy
supply ship-- the Star Sun...
11
Citation and context at Spaceship Earth (d), 1968

Sunburst Effect:
See Scratched Surface, 27 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sunclipse:
(This is usage for 'Sunset' employed by RBF
in Dec 71 dicaation to Alexandra Snyder
in India.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sunclipse:
"In 1934 as noted in the 'Hew Yorker' profile of Bucky Fuller
by Calvin Tomkins, BF offered a prise to anyone who could
invent words equal poetically and euphonically to the misinform-
ing words 'sunset' and 'sunrise,' which new words would also
effectively describe the fact that the Earth's
rotation from west toward east rotates the Spaceship Earth's
passengers into the shadow and out of sight of the Sun.
"Hundreds of name suggestions showed up in the mail but none
seemed to satisfy the conditions until the poet of San Francisco,
Gene Fowler, suggested the use of the motion picture production
words 'out' and 'take' and put forth the words 'aunout' and
'suntake,' Stimulated by this William Wainwright of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, suggested 'Sunclipse' and this in turn suggested
its companion word 'Sunsight, in which two words the Sun
becomes subjective instead of objective. The first prize goes
to Gene Fowles for describing the problem systematically and
thereby swiftly inducing its logical solution. Second prize
goes to William Wainwright of Cambridge, Massachusetts.'
Cite BEAR ISLAND STURY, galley p. 30, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sunset:
"We say sunset... but there is no sunset... if you back
up and look at Earth you see
the Earth turns."
-
Cite RBF to Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, Dec'72

Sunset:
See Sunclipse
(1)

Sunset:
See Light, 22 Nov*73
Invisible Motion, 13 Mar 73
Up & Down Sequence (A)
No Energy Crisis, (1)
(2)

Sun Energy Storage Battery:
See Wind Power Sequence, (5)

Sunlight Energy Converting Machanism:
See Wind Power Sequence, (3)
Now House, (6)
58

Sun is Not Saying Earth Hasn't Paid its Bill:
See Afford, 29 Jun 72
Dollars Bills: $200 Billion One-dollar Bills
Circling Around Earth, (3)
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe, (4)

Sun as Local Gas Station:
See Twelve-inch Steel World Globe, (3)

Sun:
Sun Energy:
See Children's Picture of the Sun & the Moon
Solar Power
Impoundment
Impounding Sun Energy:
Trick
Wind Power Sun Power
Nature's Most Important
(1)

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Sun:
Sun Energy:
See Dome:
Rationale for the Big Dome (B)
Radiation Sequence (1)
Spaceship Earth, (b)*; (d)*
Good & Evil Sequence, (2)
Water, 7 Nov* 75
Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr'77
(2)

Sunder:
See Vector Equilibrium, (I)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Super-Atomics Sequence:
"Those subsequently isolated chemical elements beyond the 92
prime self-regenerative chemical elements constitute super-
atomics. They are the non-self-regenerative chemical elements
of negative Universe.
(1)
"Negative Universe is the complementary but invisible Universe,
To demonstrate negative Universe, we take one rubber glove with
an external green surface and an internal red surface. On the
green surface a series of 92 numbers are patterned; and on the
red surface a continuance of 93, 94, through to 184, with
number 184 at the inside end of the pinky-- each of the inner
surface numbers being the inner pole of the outer pole point
number positionings. The positions of the numbers on the
inside correspond to positions of the numbers on the outside.
The numbering starts with the position of the five fingernails,
then their successive first joints, and then their successive
second joints from the tips: 5, 10, 15, and 20 numbers accommo-
dated by the digits. The other 62 members are arranged in
four rows of 12 each around the back and front of the palm of
the hand. There is a final row of 14 at the terminal edge of
the glove opening: this makes a total of 92. Now we can see"
->
Cite SYNERGETICS corrected galley at Secs. 419.01+.02, 5 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Super-Atomica Sequence:
"why the 92 numbers on the outside were discoverable in a
It was
random manner requiring very little physical effort.
just a matter of which part of your gloved hand you happened
to be looking. But if we become curious about hwat may be on
the inside of the glove we discover that the glove is power-
fully resilient. It takes a great deal of effort to roll
back the open edge-- and it takes increasing amounts of
power to cope with the increasing thickness of the rubber that
rolls up as the glove opens.
The elements from 93
on are revealed progressively by the numbers.
"The discovery of the first 92 self-regenerative chemical
elements was not by the successive numbers starting with one,
but in a completely random sequence. In the super-atomics,
beyond uranium, number 92, the split-second-lived chemical'
elements have been discovered in a succession that corresponds
to their atomic number; for example, the 94th discovery had
the atomic weight of 94; the 100th was atomic weaight 100, etc.
"This orderly revelation is in fundamental contrast to the
discoveries of the 92 self-regenerative elements and their"
(2)
Cite SYNERGETICS corrected galley at Secs. 419.02-04, 5 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Super-Atomica Sequence:
(3)
"naturally self-regeneratively occurring isotopes. The
discovery of the post-Uranium elements has involved the employ-
ment of successively greater magnitudes of energy concentration
and focusing. As each of the super-atomic trans-Uranium
elements was isolatingly discovered, it disintegrated within
split seconds. The orderliness of the succession of the
discovery of super-atomics corresponds to the rate of increase
of the magnitudes of energy necessary to bring them into
split-second identifiability before they revert to their
inside ergo, invisible to outside- position.
"Every layer of a finite system has both an interior, concave,
associability potential and an exterior, convex, associability
potential. Hence the outer layer of a vector-equilibrium-
patterned atom system always has an additional full number
'unemployed associability count. In the example cited above
(Sec. 418.3), an additional 92 was added to the 146 as the
sum of the number of spheres in the first three shells. The
total is 238 the number of nucleons in Uranium, whose atomic
weight is 238. Four of the nucleons on the surface of one of
the square faces of the vector equilibrium's closest-packed"
Cite SYNERGETICS corrected galley at Seca. 41904-05. 5 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Super-Atomic Sequence:
(4)
"aggregation of nucleons may be separated out without imparing
the structural-stability integrity of the balance of the
aggregate. This leaves a residue of 234 nucleons, which is the
fissionable state of Uranium-- which must go on chain-reacting
due to its asymmetry."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS corrected galley at Sec. 419.05, 5 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Super Atomics:
"The vector equilibrium's closest-packed sphere shell
build outwardly to produce successively the neutron and
proton counts of the 92 regenrative chemical elements.
The star tetrahedron may build negatives for the post-
Uraniums."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antitetrahedron," 8 Oct. 71, p. 10.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superatomics:
"
The behavior of the chemical elements is to work from
the high number elements down toward the lower number.
The
fact that we do have high numbers, such as Uranium, means
that there must be some part of the Universe where high
number chemical elements are compounded, where they come
together. Whereas, in their presence on Earth, they tend to
be coming apart, they tend to be working towards the lower
number.
"So there's the working assumption that in the implosive
forces of the stars we may be developing the high number
chemical elements...." "t
Citation and context at Stars: Implosive Forces of the Stare,
22 Jul 71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Super Atomics:
The only split-second enduring elements beyond
the 92 self-regenerative thus far discovered by
experiental physics."
-
Cite Synergetics draft, Sec. 515.06. 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Super Atomics:
"Those subsequently isolated elements beyond the 92
prime chemical elements constitute super atomics; they
are the non-selfregenerative chemical elements of
negative Universe,"
-
Cite MUSIC, p. 45. 10 Dec'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superatomics Sequence:
"If one sphere is completely surrounded by other spheres equal
in size and packed as closely together as possible, exactly
12 spheres, no more no less, make up the surrounding layer.
"If a second layer, or shell, be formed around the first, 42
spheres will be required to complete the shell.
(A)
3
"To form a third layer, or shell, 92 spheres are required.
This structure... suggests analogies with the 92 unique regenera-
tive atomic systems which make up the total number of chemical
elements found in nature; and with the nuclear energy pattern of
Uranium, the 92nd element in the atomic table... if we add
together the 12, 42, and 92, the numbers of spheres in the
first three layers, we get the sum, 146, the number of neutrons
in Uranium.
"Since it is assumed that every layer of a finite system has
both an interior, concave associability and an exterior,
convex associability potential... the outer layer of an atom
system always has an additional, full number, unemployed
associability count.
"It follows that an additional 92 is to be added to the 146-- *
Cite MARKS, p.40, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superatomics Sequence:
"the sum of numbers of the spheres in the first three shells.
The total is 238, the number of nucleons [sic] in Uranium,
whose atomic weight is 238.
"Four of the nucleons on one of the square faces of the vector
equilibrium's closest-packed aggregation of nucleons, may be
separated out, without impairing the structural stability
integrity of the balance of the aggregate. This leaves a
residue
of 234 nucleoons, which is the fissionable state of
Uranium which must go on chain-reacting due to its
asymmetry."
-
Cite Marks, p.40, 1960. Last para, rewritten by RBF, Sep'71.
Inserted
in SYNERGETIC draft at Sec. 417.4. Hewritten
in SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 419.01-419.05
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Super Atomics:
When the trans-uranium elements were developed,
THEY WERE
. and it was found that these elements
disintegrated within split seconds"
described as
"trans-vector equilibrium configurations-- that is atomic
arrangements in which the radial vectors (the 'explosive'
force lines) exceed the circumferential restraints."
(Adapted.)
Cite Marks, p. 42, 1960

Superatomics:
See Nonselfregenerative
Trans-Uranium Elementa
Strange Particles
(1)

Superatorics:
See Negative Universe, 10 Dec'64
Single Integer Differentials, (1)
(2)

Supercomplex:
See General Systems Theory, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superficial:
"Euler deals with the superficial aspects of polyhedra:
of visual conceptuality. He deals only with the convex
surfaces of polyhedral systems. Euler deals with unit,
integral, single polyhedra, or with their subaspects.
He is not concerned with the associabilities or diassocia-
bilities of a plurality of polyhedra."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1054.53, 6 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superficial:
"All the superficial surface angles are the gravity."
-Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superficiality:
"The number of superficial vertex convergences of the
system are identified with second powering, and not with
anything we call 'areas, that is, not with surfaces nor
with any experimentally nondemonstrable continuums. "
-
Cite Nasa Speech, p. 90 as rewritten by RBF 12/13 Sep '71
in Synergetics at Draft Sec. 770.02, Jan 172.

TEXT CITATIONS
Superficial Hierarchy:
Synergetics draft at Sec. 1053.40, 7 Mar 73

Superficial Potential:
See Powering: Second Powering, 15 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superficial Reality:
"
,
Superficial reality... 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 fountan flows-- con-
currently at both ends-- and through the middle.
"
•
.
-
Citation and context at Reciprocity (2), May'49

Superficial: Superficiality:
See Vertexial Topology
Nuclear vs. Superficial
(1)

Superficial: Superficiality:
(2)
See Architectural Aesthetics: Six S's, Dec 169
Chaos, Jun 66
Environment
26 May'72
Fantastic, May 49
Generalized Principle (1)
Powering: Second Powering, 16 Nov'72
Reality, 24 Feb 72
Reciprocity (2)*
Relationship Analysis (1)
Simplicity, 1954
Sphere, 25 Feb 74
Topology: Synergetic Topology & Eulerian, 28 Oct '72
Tree, Feb 73
Good & Evil Sequence (1)
Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)-(3)
Structural Sequence,
Architecture, Nov'66
(D)
Domain of an Area, Dec' 71

Superoctahedron:
See Tensegrity Icosahedron, 1967

Superordinate:
See Subordinate and Superordinate

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superstition:
"Superstitions are instincts.
11
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superstition:
"The dubious meanings for untenable auperstition and
propaganda first become ragged, foggy, and then deteriorate
into obsolescence."
Citation and context at World-Around Language (3), circa 1955

RBF DEFINITIONS
Superstition:
"Vanity and superstition constitute the plus and minus
springs of ignorance, the expansive and contractive
'raison d'etre of boast and fear. The boasts and fears
of ignorance may be maintained spontaneously only when
there is no obviously periodic contradiction in physical
experience..."
Citation and context at Ignorance (1), May149

KBF DEFINITIONS
Superstition:
"Superstition is another important all-time force, but it was
derisively dismissed by the technocrats as mystic pish posh,
allowing man to fall into the piteous pathologic condition that
they sneeringly considered engulfs so many men. Many world-
wide superstitions, however, are scientifically rationalizable
and sustainable as of high importance.
"The superstition that singing too early in the morning is &
forerunner of tears in the evening is universally current in
primitives and among supposedly highly developed, socially
cultured people. The superstition is actually-- in view of the
wave phenomenon and unit of energy output clearly measured
and charted in emotional attitudes-- an indication of man's
ultimate anticipation of the necessary balancing of lows and
highs. in it, therefore, is a distinctly scientific proclivity.
Yet emotion, so essential to selective growth and survival
was denied by technocracy as a social factor."
-
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, p.89, 1938

RBP DEFINITIONS
Superstition of Social Superiority:
"Individuality goes far deeper than these surface manifest-
ations with which people have sought to decieve one another
as to the relative importance of their status andin the bitter
struggle to validate one's right to live. Those who were
powerful but ugly and lazy paid for fine clothes and fine
surface architecture, and a superstition has persisted that
people who could afford to pay must be superior individuals.
"The powerful have whipped the weak for centuries on end to
instill that superstition. As long as might excelled over
right that superstition had to continue. Now that we propose
housing to be produced by an industry in which right makes
might at less than a pound per horsepower the superstition is
obsolete."
-
Citation & context at Aesthetics of Uniformity, (2), 1946

Superstition: Superstitious:
See Astrology
Myth
Numerology
(1)

Superstition: Superstitious:
Six S's,
Dec '69
See Architectural Aesthetics:
Conformity, 10 Oct 163
Evolution, 1970
Housing, 13 Nov'69
Ignorance, (1)*
Harmonics, (4)
Modelability, (3)
Reverse Optimism, Aug'64
World-around Language, (3)*
Climate & Intellect, May'49
Aesthetics of Uniformity, (2)*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Supersynergetically:
"
mathematical regularities
Synergetically displayed by mass attraction
And supersynergetically displayed as precession."
->
Cite INTUITION, 1972,
p.38 May 172

Support:
See Intersupport
Life Support

RBF DEFINITIONS
Supradirectional:
"Tension is both omni- and supradirectional.”
Cite Synergetics Draft at Sec. 640.70, Dec. '71.

Supranational:
See Ideologies Become Supranational
Transnational

Supreme Conceptual Synergy:
See Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Supreme Intellect:
"I realized that the intellectual integrity and infinite
order of the Universe obviously is vastly greater than
man. 'an is an invention within it. I became utterly
convinced then of the existence of an intellectual integrity
greater than that of man. I respect all religions and
every other human being. But I decided my kind of
understanding of a supreme intellect needed no proselyting.
I decided I must not be a persuader, but a doer."
Cite RBF quoted by R.C. Nelson in Christian Science Monitor
interview, "Nature's Extraordinary Order," 3 Nov 164.

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

Supreme Intellect:
See DNA-RNA, 9 Apr 71
(2)
23

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"The 'surface' or minimally enclosing envelopmental
relationship of any system such as the Earth is finite."
-
Cite RBF correction to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 400.47,
2 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"The total available energy of a system is related to its
surface area, involving the second power of the radius.
E = Mc.
"Surface functions as the electromagnetic energy carrier...
677H
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Jitterbug as Energetic Model," Sec. 46403,
4 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"There are no surface continuums. There are only point
fixes identified by the path crossings of the
topological system momentarily in consideration.
external crossing points of the system continually
recede."
The
Cite RBF 16 Feb citation, Surface, as re-written 17 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"There are no 'surfaces,' only points receding from
one another."
Cite RBF marginal note at Soviet Science Review (Markov),
Fay 171, p. 157, made 16 Feb '72,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"There are no surfaces. Therefore there are no areas.
So Euler's topological aspects have to be altered to
read: "lines"
trajectories; "vertexes" = crossings; and
"areas" m openings, i.e., where there are no
trajectories or crossings. This relates to systems.
NOVENT
-
CIFO RAP TO GUA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April
Citation at System, 22 Apr '71
SEC 524.301

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"All systems-- whether octahedron, icosahedron, or
crocodile-- have unit surface."
Cito ABP in Robert Snyder Film 1140-minute version). A May171-
Citation at Unit Surface, 4 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"A surface is in essence nothing more than the
exterior set of a swarm of points."
-
Cite MARKS, p. 46, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface:
"No surface is conceivable without its inherent sphere
as a flat Universe is contradictory to experience."
-
Citation at Flat, 1950
Cite NOAH'S ARK, p. 3.--1950

Surface Angles:
See Synergetics, Jun'66

Surface Laver:
See Embracement, 22 Jul'71

Surface Laver Phenomenon:
See Universal Integrity: VE & Icosa, 7 Nov'71

Surface Neata:
See Carbon, 8 Jun'72
Structure, 25 Feb'69

Surface Points:
See Circumferential Field
External Mapping
(1)

See Curvature:
Compound, 25 Jan'73
Surface Points:
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface Strength of Structures:
"The highest capability in strength of structures exists in
the triangulation of the system's enclosing structure, due to
the greater action-reaction leverage distance that opposite
sides of the system provide. This is what led men to hollow
out their buildings.
"The structural strength of the exterior triangles is not pro-
vided by the 'solid' quality of the exterior shell, but by
triangularly interstabilized lines of force operating within
that shell. They perforate the shell with force lines.
minimum holes are triangular.
The
"The piercing of the shells with triangular holes reduces the
solid or continuous surface of second-power increase of the
shells. This brings the rate of growth of structures into
something nearer an over-all first-power or linear rate of
gain--for the force lines are only linear."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec.s 616.01-.03; Mar' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface Strength of Structures:
"The highest capability in strength of structures exists
in their surfaces due to the greater action-reaction,
leverage distance that opposite sides of the system provide.
Thus men hollowed out their buildings."
(Slightly rewritten)
<THIS
TET ALSO APPEARS IN
II. 171]
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NES, p.123, Dec. '61
STRUCTURE
-
SEC 616.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surface Strength of Structures:
"The structural strength at the surface is not provided
by the 'solid' quality of the exterior shell, but by
triangularly interstabilized lines of force operative within
that shell. They perforate the shell with force lines. The
minimum holes are triangular. The piercing of the shells
with triangular holes reduces the solid or continuous surface
of second power increase of the shells and brings
the rate of grwoth of the structures into something nearer
an overall first power or linear rate of gain-- for the force
lines are only linear."
[THIS
rety IN
I+I17]
(Slightly rewritten)
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.124, Dec. '61
STRUCTURE - SEC. 616.02 +03)

Surface Strength of Structures:
See Closest Packing of Rods
(1)

Surface Strength of Structures:
See Tension, Dec'61
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, (1)
(2)

Surface Tension:
See Closest Packing of Roda
Surface Strength of Structures

Surface Triangle Structures:
See Truncated Tetrahedra, 26 Dec 74.
Rigidity va. Resilience, 20 Dec'74

Surface:
See Area
Central Angles & Surface Angles
Circumferential Field
No Absolute Enclosed Surface or Volume
Outside
Plane
Scratched Surface
Shell Growth Rate
Spherical Wave
Superficial
Unit Surface
Volume-surface Hierarchy
Realms vs. Surface
(1)

Surface:
(2)
123
Oct166
See Flat, 1950*
Meaningless Jul:62
Powering, 1
Radiation: Speed Of, (C)
Synergetics, (p.j2) undated
System, 22 Apr 171**
Tension, Dec'71
Tools of Geometry, (1)
In, Out & Around Experiences, (1)(2)
Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)-(3)
Proofs, 7 Oct 75
Otherness, 8 Feb 76
Spinnability, 24 Apr'76
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
BBE DEFINITIONS

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surfing: Surfboarding:
"I am beginning to talk about wave in pure principle. . .
beginning to discover it is a principle. Pure principles
are useable. They are reducible from theory to practice.
For
instance, we have these waves on the water.
You may
do surfboarding yourself, but at any rate it is very
interesting. It is like skiing except you have a very
interesting
condition where the mountain keeps moving along
and so as fast as you go down the mountain, the mountain is
going up as fast as you slide down it, and you never get
down it.
It keeps coming up for you very nicely so you are
continually
using gravity. If you are coming down it too
fast you can start using that angular descent, and you can
angle so you don't come down so fast and you can wait until
the wave comes up to you again. You begin to discover you
can stay up on that wave by angling yourself-- and keep
going on and on and on. This is what the porpoises do.
They go right around the world riding a wave without any
effort at all. It is a very good way to go around the
world on pure principle."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 102–103. 5 Jul'62

Surfing: Surfboarding:
See Skiing
(1)

Surfing: Surfboarding:
See Pure Principle, 6 Jul 62
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surf Poundings:
健 Nature never vacillates in her decisions. The rolling
oceans cover three-fourths of the Earth. Along the beaches
the surf is continually pounding on the shore.
No two
successive local surf-poundings have ever been the same, nor
will they ever be the same. They typify the infinitude of
individualism of every special-case event in the Universe.
While there is great music in the pounding of the surf,
infinite creative integrity of the Universe is manifest, I
cannot identify man, who hears this music, as the creator."
as the
- Citation and context at Creativity: Spring'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surprise:
"... Society tends to think statically and is always
being surprised, often uncomfortably, sometimes fatally."
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166,
P.
199.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surprise:
"It is ...
the unpredictable degree of the super and
the super-super n degree of complex associations of energy
frequencies which seem most preposterous. We cannot view
the great confluences of separately and remotely
R
significant events forwardly resultant to now.
inherently surprising."
Synergy is
-
-
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, pp. 239-240,
Citation at Synergy, May'49

RBF DEFINTIONS
Surprise:
The Nonpolitical Surprise Has already Occurred:
"... The political chaos will fade out in ways entirely
unpremeditated by political man as the invention order
looms in. Geosocial revolution explores the possibility
that the nonpolitical surprise has already occurred and will
soon be visible to all."
Citation and context at Geosocial Revoltion (3), 1965

Surprise: The Nonpolitical Surprise Has Already Occurred:
See Meek Have Inherited the Earth
Nineteen Seventy-two: 1972: History's Most
Critical Year
Prognostication About Future of Man
(1)

Surprias: The Nonpolitical Surprise Has Already Occurred:
See Revolution, Aug'64
(2)

Surprise: Utter Surprise to Be Born:
See Womb Population, May'65
Ego, 9 Nov 75

Surprise:
See Accidental
Discovery
Inadvertence
Synergetic Surprise
Unexpected
Improvement vs. Surprise
(1)

Surprise:
See Discovery, Spring'66
Dome, 9 Jul'73
Geodesic Structure, (4)
Improvement, 1954
Invention,
Feb 64; Dec 61
Invention Sequence, (A)-(D)
Patent, 19 Apr'66
Residual Error, 1954
Revolution, Aug'64
Synergy, May'49*
Technology, Jun'66
Tension Structures, 1 Apr149
Dymaxion Airecean World Map, (1)
(2)

Surrender:
See Leaders Can Yield to the Computer

RBF DEFINITIONS
Surround:
tt
"... Hydrogen, where a nucleus may be encircled by action
within a single plane and where the surround is generated
by a single orbit."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 414.01, footnote, 29 May'72

Surround: Surroundment:
See Boats at Anchor Retard the River's Flow
Embracement
Omnidirectional:
Surrounds
Omni surround
Periphery
Physical Existence Environment
(1)

Surround: Surroundment:
See Radiation, 23 Sep'73
Vertexes, Faces & Lines, 1 Jan'75
Womb, 20 Feb 73
(2)

Surveying: Surveyors:
See Local Squareness, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Survival:
Q.
A.
(Miss Seelye) How would you help the membership in our
Association to become most effective in attempts to
encourage providing scientific training with that elusive
'creativity' ?
(Dr. Fuller):
"Your membership should acquire the
largest possible conceptions of the trendings of world
society and its spontaneously intuitive seeking in the
What
does it
need
great survival race in the Universe.
beyond survival, for satisfaction and enjoyment?"
Cite RBF transcribed in AAUW Jornal, p. 173, May 165

RBF DEFINITIONS
Survival:
"
.the only potential survival means
of homo sapiens:
through the harmonic integration of knowledge
whose kinetic is uni-versal."
-
Cite NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD. p. 4. (Anchor) 9 Apr 40

HBF DEFINITIONS
Survival:
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
ars to revive those who, through mental inertia, are
streamlining to extinction."
Citation and context at Rationalization Sequence (6), 1938

Survival Advantage:
See Artists-scientists, 13 Mar 73
Scenery: Rearrange the Scenery, May 172
News & Evolution," (4)
Doing What Needs to be Done, (A)
Cosmic Fishing, (B)

Survival of the Fittest:
See Obnoxica, 29 Aug'64
Propaganda, 29 Mar' 77

MBF DEFINITIONS
Survival Recourse:
Last Chance Adoption of Unheeded Principles:
"All around the areas of increasingly successful life support
on our planet we find politicians and business leaders claiming
exclusive credit for themselves or their ideology. They even
take credit for the special-case realizations, whose relevant
generalized principles had first been subjectively discovered
by scientists and then objectively employed by inventor-artists
without help or recognition from the politicians and business
leaders. However, when war or other vital emergencies arise
the politicians and business leaders have no other survival
recourse but to employ the theretofore disregarded special-case,
relevant inventions manifesting also previously unheeded,
eternally reliable principles. It is only after such last-
chance adoption and successful public demonstration of the
previously unheeded principles that politicians and business
leaders claim exclusive credit."
Cite GEOVIEW 1, "No Title," (Part 1), World Mag., p.34, 22 May'73

Survival Recourse;
See Brain's Automatics vs. Mind's Intellections, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Survival Sequence: Love:
(1)
From
"Q: What do you see man's immediate future to be?
all sides we hear that we are on the precipice of disaster.
You seem to have a very optimistic outlook on the future of
What are your views on man's immediate future?"
man.
"Mr. Fuller:-- I certainly would say in the first place that
it is very complex. I feel that man aboard our planet is in
a very critical condition, evolutionarily. As to whether he
is really evolving into whatever his function may be in the
total scheme of the Universe-- whether he is really making
good he is very much on trial. I can, as a student and
experimenter, and an actual doer, aware of the technical ways
in which it is highly feasible for all of humanity to survive
at a higher standard of living than anyone has ever known. .
But I am also aware of the inertia and the conditioned
reflexes which are permittable, and the small ways we zeem
to be preoccupied, and the shortsightedness of our preoccu-
pation with today. So that the question whether man can make
it or not: I would not presume to make any prognostication
at all. All I can to is to try to find the factors which
would tend to wave in one direction or the other, positive
or negative.
->
•
Cite RBF at SINS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 12, p. 15.

RBF DEFINTIONS
Survival Sequence:
Love:
(2)
123
"To me by far the most positive factor is all the children
who used to die who no longer die; and that every child is
born with faculties-- with ears, eyes, nose, and mouth and
the child says that is what I smell, that is what I see.
You don't have to teach a child to say what it is that he
sees; he tells you spontaneously. In other words, truth is
spontaneous, and the lying has been taught to the children by
those who are afraid that the child's truthfulness will get
them into trouble. So the fact that truth is spontaneous is
equally mysterious as the fact of mass attraction and gravity
cohering our Universe; as is the phenomenon love. ife
experience so much of it we tend to take it very much for
granted.
"I am going to try to give you a little bit of a shock way
of understanding how extraordinary is the love. That man
would really understand, cohere, and want to understand.
For instance, in order to have man regenerate himself on our
planet assuming he has an important function to be
performed in the Universe-- to be sure that he would live
for many, many generations until he was able to develop
enough knowledge, enough competence to be able to perform that
function: having him regenerate himself."
-
Cite SIMS (Cont.)

RBF DEFINITION:
Survival Sequence: Love:
(3)
"I would like just to ask you to think a little about how
much you take for granted about your own physical being.
People talk about technology as something formidable,
whereas Universe is nothing but technology. If you stand
in front of the mirror and stick your tongue way out, and
take a good look at it. If a salesman cam along and said
'I'd like to sell you one of those,' and stuck his own
tongue out, I don't think you'd buy it. In order to be able
to regenerate man has also to have a liver, and a kidney, and
a stomach, and a heart. If you went to a supermarket and saw
kidneys, and stomachs, and hearts hanging up, I don't think
you'd buy yourself. It is an extraordinary matter-- in order
to be able to bring about this complex technology of
becoming reproductive and procreative. It would be very
difficult to think of a liver hanging up there falling in
love with another liver. So nature developed this fantastically
beautiful rackaging and put all these things out of sight.
Ana it developed such coordination that the whole thing is
operating subconsciously with your brain having a quadrillion
times a quadrillion atoms in superb coordination by which you
and I can communicate at this extraordinary moment."
* Cite SIIS (Cont.)
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Survival Sequence:
Love:
(4)
"I would say then to be sure that this man would really have
the drive to go after the knowledge and to really understand,
he was given this most extraordinary of all faculties, love.
And when I take the young world being born in the presence
of greater, more reliable information and a little less
misinformation.
he's being made aware of total man in
seconds, and he is spontaneously truthful, and has spontane-
ous love. These are the ingredients I think, about how we
are going to come through."
Cite KBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Anherst, 22 July 171, Talk 12, pp 16
-17.

Survival Sequence: Love:
See Love
Man: Automated Metabolism of Man
Man as a Function of Universe
Procreation
Sex
Tactile Sequence

Survival:
See Divide & Conquer
Prognostications About Future of Man
Question: The Question Is Survival
Reflex
Reinvestable Time & Survival Needs
Mutual Survival Principles
(1)

Survival:
See Ecology Sequence, (G)-(I)
Ekistics, Aug 72
Extraterrestrial Humans, 23 Aug170
Generalized Principle, (1)
Industrial Man, 1938
Intellection, May'72
Nation, Oct 70
Rationalization Sequence, (1 (6)*
Man as an Invention, 1 Apr 49
Lying, 22 Jan'75
Buddha: Christ:
Will, (1)(2)
Mohamed, (1) (2)
No Energy Crisis, (1) (2)
(2)

Suspension Bridge:
See Invisible Suspension Bridge
(1)

Suspension Bridge:
See Chemical Bonds, (1)
Funambulist, 1938
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegrities, (1) (2)
Time, (p.142) 1938
(2)

Suspension vs. Catenary:
See Aspension, 12 Nov'74

Suspension:
See Muted, 13 May'73

Swallow the Otherness:
See Tetrahedron: Inside-outing Of, 20 Feb '73

Swallow:
See Snake Swallows Its Own Tail
Swallow the Otherness
(1)

Swallow:
See Omnisurround, 25 Jan'73
(2)

Swearing:
See Spit-punctuated Monosyllabic Verbalism

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout:
"In the ecology of mammals male wolves sweep out about 50
miles. The male is the hunter. He deals with the unknown.
She tends to
And the sweepout of the female is much less.
stay with the young andthe old. She decides whether you
are going to skin it, milk it, or eat it... The consolidator
of the gains."
Cite RBF on TV panel show WTTG- Ch #7, Wash, DC., 17 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout:
"Kepler found the regularity
For which he searched
In the identical areas
Of the different
Pie-shaped segments of the sky--
Some short and wide,
Some long and thin--
*Swept out'in a given time
By imaginary radial tethers
Tied to each of the planets
From the same star-Sun centers
Around which they traveled,
Each at vastly different distances
And at vastly different rates.
19
Cite INTUITION, p.24 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout:
"There is a difference of radius of sweepout of wolves,
sea gulls and man. In our ecological patterning if we
only had the tactile to go by we could only sweep out a
fairly small territory.
11
-
Citation at Ecology, 5 Jul'62
Cite-Oregon Lactuca

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout:
"Politics must thus implement life's continually
increasing sweepout and penetration of Universe with
a continually changing set of operational rules and
accounting conventions."
- Gite NO MORE SECONDLEAD GOD, Preface, p. x, 9 May167
•
Citation and context at Science-Technlogy-Industry-Economics-
Politics Sequence (2) (3), 9 May 62

HBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout in Scientific Exploration:
"Individual specialists tend to go off and get themselves
into finer and finer focus, to a one degree focus and then
a
half-
degree focus and then to minutes and seconds of
fineness of focus. However, something happens in the
area of specialization, as you get more and more men into
microbioligy
, for instance, with each one of them taking
a specialty
there are enough of them so they began to make
a sweepout sum totally and together they began to sweep out
a fairly large
sector. With one specialty, the total number
crowding one another in order
to be specialists, began to
use a
little larger angle. . . . Men didn't have very large
microscopes or telescopes
yesterday so when they were
specialists they stayed within the area they could see; and
this must have
taken them into very different parts of the
Universe and
they were far apart."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, pp. 120-121. 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout:
"I am making a prime working assumption that man has a function
and that man is here for his metaphysical capability, not his
physical. His muscle is less than that of a donkey....
"The energies in the Universe are just incredible and they get
to a billion galaxies with 100 billion stars each. Anything
man has physically is absolutely nothing. But little man on
our planet, learning about the principles of optics, learning
about the principles of refraction of light, and able then to
develop beautiful lenses to magnify, to make a great reflector
such as Mt. Palomar and discover that there are a billion
galaxies with about 100 billion stars each, 99 percent of which
are not visible to the naked eye.
"For man learned scientifically and synergetically as a series
of events that prisms do reflect light and break the light up
into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet; and he discovered
accidentally that the light coming from an incandescent chemical
element going through the prism produced another color that you
and I can't see but that the chemical emulsion could see in the
camera photograph. And thus we discovered that every one of"
Cite tape transcript, pp.14-15; RBF to W. Wolf, Gloucester,
Mass., 2 Jun174
(1)
Sec. 418,121 REJECTED BY RBF, 11 NOV'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout: Spherical Sweepout:
"the chemical elements has its unique frequencies.. all the
colors you can't see, the invisible colors.
(2)
"With Mt. Palomar man has been able to make this sweepout of
11 billion light years; with each light year 6 trillion miles,
and we have 11 billion of those... that distance of the Universe
where you and I can't see with the naked eye... all the light
coming from all those stars... where you can't see him alongside
of a big ocean wave let alone a mountain, and you're coming in
from space... looking through the clouds you see the blue of the
water and the ground, but you can't see the mountains.
beings are absolutely invisible there...
Human
"Little human beings that are invisible on Earth have still
been able to take this data and discover the inventory of the
relative abundance of all the chemical elements and its 22
billion-light-year-diameter spherical sweepout of information
in the sky. We have this kind of capability on board our
planet; we have this capacity to monitor local Universe.
that's exactly what we're here for. Let's have no more nonsense
about muscle still running our Earth. What is our muscle doing
in this kind of picture?"
And
Cite tape transcript, p.15, HBF to W. Wolf, Gloucester, Mass.,
2 Jun 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sweepout:
Spherical Sweepout:
"At the Mount Palomar telescope the sweepout is spherical--
with a radius of 22 billion light-years. This doesn't mean
that Universe is spherical but we tend to think of it that way."
Cite RBF in Johns Hopkins Lecture, Baltimore, 3 Oct '73

Sweepout:
See Ecology
Deployment: Man's Increasing Deployment Pattern
Human Sense Ranging & Information Gathering
Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion
Man's Degrees of Freedom of Action
Man's Universe Penetrations
Outreach
Radial Reach
Reachability Range
Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-Politics
Sequence
Travel in a Human Lifetime
(1)

Sweepout:
See Ecology, 5 Jul'62
Gravity, (b)
Science-Technology- Industry-Economics-Politics
Sequence, (2)(3)*
Telephone, (2)
Word as Industrial Tool, 10 Dec'73
Worm, Oct 63
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (4)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (8)
(2)

Swimmer: I Am a Swimmer:
See Parting the Strands
(1)

Sidener:
I Am a Swimmer:
See Irrelevancies: Dismissal Of, 1960
(2)

Sim: Dynamic Sea where Man Must Swim Before he Sinks:
See Dynamic Frame of Reference, (2)

Swimmers:
Two Swimmers Ricochet off one another's Feet:
See Balloon, (E)
Pneumatic Structures, (2)

Swimmers:
Swinning:
See Marine Life Analogy of Humans
Social Breakout from Barnacle to Salmon

Switchboard:
See Front Office Switchboard

Switch: Closing the Switch: Opening the Switch:
See Icosahedron as Local Shunting Circuit

Sword:
See Might Makes Right, 20 Apr'72

Swivel-moored to the Tonnage of our Past:
See War, 1 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symbolism in Buildings :
Q:
RBF:
You seem to be a bio-technical determinist.
to disregard the social meaning of symbolism,
particularly in buildings.
You seem
"I am not even mildly interested in using symbols
except when I write. I am not interested in using
buildings as symbols; to do so would be the wrong
use of a tool."
"A nest is a tool not a symbol. I don't ever try
to copy nature, although I may find that nature has
some of the same reasons for her designs as I do in
mine."
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

Symbol of Symmetrical Expansion:
See Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symbols:
Synergetics Symbols:
= one unit of quantum
n
any number
Z
= one energy event = 3 vectors
N
A
= structure
L
B
angle
VE
- vector = line
E
-
edge
X
= vertex
crossing
A
- area
triangles
F
-
frequency
f
= function
X
prime number; also NP
system
vector equilibrium
- Bow tie symbol (Teleology)
TUR
Symbol of symmetrical
expansion (multiplica-
tion)
number of outer layer edge modules
Cite HBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
7 March 1971

Symbol: Symbolic: Symbolism:
See Architectural Aesthetics:
Six S'a
Bathroom as Symbolism & Association
Economic Prowess Symbols
Equal Sign
Game of Symbola
Mathematics Symbols
Permanent Symbolic Communications Devices
Tool Symbol
"X" as Symbol of Symmetrical Expansion
Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol
Bias Symbol
(1)

Symbol: Symbolic: Symbolism: Symbology:
See Halo, 1938
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry:
"Corollary B: The special-case realizations of a given
design complex correlate as: the more symmetrical, the
more reproducible."
-
Citation and context at Regenerative Design; Law of, (1),
13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry:
"Sleep . . . restores the symmetrical"
Citation and context at Sleep, 11 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry:
"A triangle is symmetrical in a plane, but in respect to
a pole of omnidirectional symmetry, we find that the
symmetry of the triangle lies only in the equatorial
plane."
Cite RBF Synergetics Draft, & Oct. 1971 (Dictated to EJA.
"Antitetrahedron,' 10 p. 1.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry:
"Symmetrical means having no local asymmetries.
Omni-
symmetrical permits local asymmetries. Universe is
omnisymmetrical. A three-bladed propeller is dynamically
symmetrical (three pear-shaped blades at 120° to each
other inscribed in an equilateral triangle).
The propeller
blade is locally asymmetrical. . . . Our seeability is so
inherently local that we never see anything but the
asymmetries. . Sociologists have such trouble because
they see (rather than principles) such a high frequency of
asymmetries.
SYMMETRY-
ft
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971
SEC 532.30)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry:
"....All most economic pattern systems, asymmetric
as well as symmetric, are resolvable into symmetric
components" in synergetic accounting.
(Adapted.)
Cite MARKS, p. 48, 1960
SYMMETRY SEC. 532.14

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"Symmetry is only generalized. In cosmic-event averaging
symmetry is ever implicit in the preponderantly-almost-
symmetrical, spontaneous symmetry-referenceability of all
asymmetry. Symmetry is systemic. Symmetry has nothing to
do with the scenario series; it has nothing to do with local,
special case realizations. You can find balances in series--
positive and negative energies--but absolute symmetry is
characteristic only of generalized systems."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 532.17; RBF rewrite,
11 Dec'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"Because nature always operates most economically and because
all asymmetries are observable only relative to central
symmetry, we find that all the events of experience tend to
produce convergent or divergent aggregations."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 260.33; 13 Nov 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"The vector equilibrium is always facially asymmetrical, but
vectorially symmetrical. The tetrakaidecahedron is vertexially
asymmetrical, but linaerly symmetrical."
Citation at Vector Equilibrium, 1y Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
•
accommodates the asymmetries and restores the
"Sleep.
symmetrical."
-
Citation and context at Sleep, 11 Feb 73

75
RBP DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"The more symmetrical, the more reproducible.
asymmetrical, the less it fits Universe."
Citation & context at Reproducible, 30 May172
The more

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"All most-economic-pattern systems, asymmetric as well as
symmetric, are resolvable into symmetric componenta in
synergetic accounting.
"Our seeability is so inherently local that we rarely s0*
anything but the asymmetries. Sociologists have trouble
because they are o'erwhelmed by the high frequency of asymm-
etries (rather than the only synergetically discoverable
principles)."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 532.15-.16; Dec171

HBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"We may say that nature proceeds from the obviously
orderly and symmetrical to the nonobviously, but always
orderly, transformation phases known as asymmetries which,
having gone through their maximum or peak positive phase
asymmetry, which only seems (to the uninformed brain)
to be disorderly, always returns transformatively
thereafter through an orderly progression of decreasing
asymmetry to the fleeting passing through the condition
of obvious symmetry or equilibrium popularly recognized
as order, thereafter deviating asymmetrically to the
negative phase of balancing limits of oscillation."
Cite Synergetics Draft, "Symmetry," Sec. 532.02, July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"Asymmetry is the reason that Heisenberg's measurement
is always indeterminate. Asymmetry is physical.
Symmetry is metaphysical."
SYMMETRY
->
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 24 April 1971.
SEC. 532.141

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
"What the scientists have always found
by
by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of
'nature' or 'univers, to be always operating at an
elegance level that made
their own first crude
working hypotheses seem so crude as to be relatively
disorderly by comparison. We may say that nature pro-
ceeds from the obviously ordered and symmetrical to
the non-obviously but always orderly transformation
phases, known as asymmetries which having gone through
their maximum or peak asymmetry, which only seems (to
the uninformed brain) to be disorderly, and always
returns transformatively thereafter through an orderly
progression of decreasing asymmetry to an obvious
symmetry which is popularly recognized as 'order,'
"This transformative progression is the orderliness
which is dealt with by the calculus and is the fundamental
pulsating principle governing omnidirectional electro-
magnetic wave propagation."
-Cite NASA Speech, pp 95,96, Jun'66
SYMMETRY
SEC 532.01 + 532.11

RBF DEFINITIONS
18
Symmetry & Asymmetry:
All most economic pattern systems, asymmetric
as well as symmetric, are resolvable into symmetric
components" in synergetic accounting.
-
Cite MARKS, p. 48,
1960
SYMMETRY
-
SEC. 532, 14,
(Adapted.)

Symmetry & Asymmetry:
See Dynamic Symmetry
Central Symmetry
(1)

Symmetry & Asymmetry:
See Ideals, 14 Fab'72
Reproducible, 30 May172*
Sleep, 1972; 11 Feb 73*
Structure, 19 Jun 71
Tetrakaidecahedron, 31 May171*
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov* 71
Bias, 15 Oct 72
Vector Equilibrium, 19 Feb'72*
Nucleus, 22 Jun 75
Vector Equilibrium:
System, 27 May' 72
Field of Energy, (A)
Structural System, Nov' 71
Convergence & Divergence, 9 Apr 75
Prime Rational Integers, 28 May' 72
Phase & Interphase, 8 Feb 76; 9 Feb*76
Human Beings at the Center, (1) (2)
Vector Equilibrium, 8 Sep 77
(2)

Symmetry:
Complex & Simplex:
See Stabilized Vector Equilibrium, 23 Feb'72

Symmetrical Contraction of Vector Equilibrium:
See Jitterbug
Propagative Transformation of VE
Vector Equilibrium:
Articulation Of
(1)

Symmetrical Contraction of Vector Equilibrium:
See Black Holes & Synergetica, 1 Mar' 77
(2)

Sympatric Limits:
See Ideals, 14 Feb'72
Railroad Tracks: Great Circle Energy Tracks, (B)
Regenerative Design: Law Of, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Symmetry: Linear Symmetry:
"The tetrakaidecahedron is vertexially asymmetrical,
but linearly symmetrical."
* Cite RBF dictation, 19 Feb '72, to EJA, re Tetrakaidecahedron,
citation to 31 lay '71.

Symmetrical Local Subsidence:
See Dymaxion Airocean World Map: Icosahedral Version
27 Jan 75

Symmetric Phase:
See Equilibrium, 25 Feb'69
Synergetics, Sep'64

Symmetry:
Positive or Negative:
See Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model, 23 Feb'72

Symmetry:
See Architectural Aesthetics: Six S'a
Asymmetry
Centers of Equilibrious Symmetry
Cosmic Symmetry
Dynamic Symmetry
Linear Symmetry
Nuclear Symmetries
Polar Symmetry
Omnisymmetrical
Prime Hierarchy of Symmetric Polyhedra
Radial Symmetries
Seven Axes of Symmetry
Syte (Symmetrical Tetrahedron)
Semisymmetry
Symmetry & Asymmetry
Static Symmetry
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry
Vectorial Symmetry
Conservation of Symmetry
Topological Aspects: Inventory of
Central Symmetry
(1A)

Symmetry:
See Symbol of Symmetrical Expansion
Absolute Symmetry
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry
(1B)

Symmetry:
See Chain Stronger than its Weakest Link, (1)
Regenerative Design: Law Of, (1)*
Reproducible, 30 May 72
Simplicity, 1954
Sleep, 11 Feb 73
Universe as a Kaleidoscope, May'49
Synergy: Degrees Of, (5)
Vector Equilibrium, 23 Oct172
(2)

Symmetry:
See Symmetry & Asymmetry
Symmetrical Contraction of Vector Equilibrium
Symmetric Limits
Symmetrical Local Subsidence
Symmetric Phase
Symmetry:
Symmetry:
Complex & Simplex
Positive or Negative
(3)

Symphony:
See Visual Symphony
Cosmic Symphony
(1)

Symphony:
See Dwelling Service Industry (6)(7)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synchronization:
"There is an octave pattern in every system and every
time we come to nine-- whether it be 3 + 6, 2 + 7, of
811t is zero. Waves are octave and one reason they
do not interfere with one another is because of the zero.
If we apply the phenomenon of radiowaves and other high
frequencies-- waves passing through seeming solids-- or
low frequency waves, we can imagine that the lack of
interference couldbe explained through the crossing of the
high frequency waves through the much lower frequency waves
at the zero point.
"If we construct a model with balls we may be able to see
this more clearly. If I make an X configuration with one
ball in the center common to both triangles of the X, the
ball at the intersection common to both represents the zero,
or the place where the waves can pass through each other.
The zero always accommodates when two waves come together.
We know that atoms close pack in this manner and we know
how wave phenomena such as radio waves behave.
And now we
have a model to explain why they do not interfere."
-
Cite STERGETICS, "Numerology," pp. 11-12. Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synchronization:
at a
"By designedly synchronized frequency of reoccurrence of their
constituent event patternings, a machine gun's bullets may be
projected through a given point in the rotational patterning
of an airplane's propeller blades. Such purposeful synchron-
ization of a succession of alternate occupations
point, first by a bullet and then by a discretely angled
propeller blade, and repeat, is called angle and frequency
modulation; together, they avoid interferences. All physical
phenomena, from the largest to the smallest, are describable
as frequencies of discrete angular reoccurrence of intimately
contiguous but physically discontinuous events. All physical
phenomena are subject to either use or nonuse of angular- and
frequency-modulating interference capabilities."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 516.03; draft of Apr 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synchronization:
"1 think that very probably then in the light we will be
able to have synchronization of the corpuscles as not
touching one another and yet have two beams going what
had seemed continuous away, but really tensionally, and
therefore really not have any problem of interference.'
->>
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 160. 9 Jul*62

Synchronous & Diesynchronous:
See Meshing & Nonmeshing
Wow
(1)

Synchronous & Dissynchronous:
See Universe as Energy & Information, 15 Nov'74
Personality, May' 49
Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, Kay'49
Tunability, 24 Apr' 76
Cyclic Experience, 1961
(2)

Synchronous Inverter:
See Windworks Windmill, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synchron-resonance:
"The 12 othernesses around the initially conceiving self-
oneness establish both an inward and outward synchro-
resonance....
"
-
Citation and context at Erequency: Initial Frequency, 6 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synchrosystem:
"Synergetics accommodates the direct expression of both
the linear and angular accelerations of physical Universe.
The frequency of the Synergetic coordinate system,
Synchrosystem, simultaneously and directly expresses both
The three-
the angular and linear accelerations of nature.
dimensional' XYZ
1
cg a system of coordination presently
employed by world-around science can only expresss directly
the linear accelerations and can evolve therefrom its
angular accelerations in awkward mathematics involving
irrational non-exactly resolvable constants."
-
Cite RBF re-edit of Synergetics incorporated in Sept.
draft at "Modelability, Powering, "Sec.772.2. N.Y. 14 Sept. 71.

Synchronization: Synchronously:
(1A)
See Circuit Synchronization
Coincidental
Consciousness as Synchronization of Time & Energy
Eternally Synchronized
Gears: Toothed Gears
Historically Synchronous Aggregate
Interference
Periodicity
Pulsation: Synchronized Pulsation
Meshing
Remergent Synchronization
Simultaneous
Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model
Wave System Propagations
Wow
Nonsynchronization
Life as Synchronization of Time & Consciousness
Dyssynchronous
Frequency Modulation
Modulation

Synchronization: Synchronous:
See Periodic Experience
Harmonic Interval
Intersynchronizable
Avoidance vs. Interference
(1B)

Synchronization:
Synchronous:
See Congruence, 25 Jan' 72
Interaccommodative, 29 Mar' 73
Physical, 13 Mar 73
Structure, 29 Dec' 58
System, 24 May 72; 27 May' 72
X Configuration with Ball at the Center, (2)
Vector Equilibrium, 10 Nov' 74
Unitary Conceptuality of Allspace Filling, 20 Oct'72
Subjective & Objective, May'49
Machines vs. Structures, 13 Nov' 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic:
"The stable structural behavior of a whole triangle, which
consists of three edges and three individually and independ-
ently unstable angles (or a total of six components), is not
predicted by any one or two of its angles or edges taken by
themselves. A triangle (a structure) is synergetic: it is
a behavior of a whole unpredicted by the behavior of any of
its six parts considered only separately."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 614.05; 9 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Accounting:
*All most-economic-pattern systems, asymmetric as well as
symmetric, are resolvable into symmetric components in
synergetic accounting."
Citation & context at Symmetry & Asymmetry, Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy of:
"The finiteness of Universe is... finitely proven by
comprehensive geometrical system topological accounting.
We have, therefore, a comprehensive universal synergetic
accounting advantage in respect to all systematic experience
considerations both physical and metaphysical.
(1)
"The first synergetic accounting advantage of known man-history
derived from the two-millenium-old discovery of the invariant
sum (180°) of the angles of the obverse face of any plane
linear bound triangle.
"The second major synergetical advantage accrued to Newton's
inverse ratio law of gravity as a comprehensive astronomical
accounting system.
"The third major synergetical accounting advantage was derived
100 years ago from Euler's topological discovery that the number
of vertexes of polyhedra plus the number of their faces always
equaled the sum of the number of the polyhedra's edges plus
the number two.
"The fourth major synergetical accounting advantage accrued"
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALU, p.160, 1960
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy Of:
(2)
"a half century ago to the physicists' hypotheses of the law
of conservation of energy which held that energy had shown
experimentally that it could be neither created nor destroyed.
From this assumption, which threw all scientific and nonscienti-
fic considerations, other than the energetically physical,
into the then seemingly indeterminate realm of metaphysical,
came the successive wave-quanta accounting theory and subsequent
fission and successful nuclear components discovery and
inventorying.
"Fifthly, Willard Gibbs' phase rule in a formula similar to
Euler's in which the degrees of freedom are in effect the
vectorial edges, brought synergetic advantages to chemical
strategy.
"Sixthly, the same synergetic accounting advantage is now
extended by our law of nonsimultaneous finite Universe
pattern conservation [See Corollary of Synergy: Principle
of the Whole System 7 to embrace definitive consideration
of any and all experiences, physical or metaphysical. The
latter strategically equatable accounting advantage derives"
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp160-161, 1960
SYNERGY - SEC. 1438

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy of:
(3)
"from a corollary of synergy which shows that systematic
accounting of the behavior of whole aggregates may disclose
discretely predictable angle and frequency magnitudes
required of some unknown components in respect to certain
known component behaviors of the total and known synergetic
aggregate. Therefore, the definitive identification permitted
by the law of finite Universe conservation I.e., Principle
of the Whole System 7 may implement conscious synergetic
definition strategies with incisive prediction effectiveness,
possibly of epoch-initiating magnitude.' TB
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALOB, p. 161, 1960
SYNERGY-
SEC. 1431

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Advantage:
Principle of:
"When you try to understand whether man has a function
or not, you start by observing Universe, not man."
->>
Citation at Man:
Function of Man in Universe, 30 Oct'71
- CARE
Farrell, Playboy Interview, 1992 Draft

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Advantage:
Principle of:
"The principle of synergetic advantage states that macro → micro
does not equal micro macro. Synergetic advantage is only to
be effected by macro micro procedure. Synergetic advantage
procedures are irreversible. Micro macro procedures are
inherently frustrated.
"The illusion that starting with unity as one (e.g. Darwin's
single cell) will provide simple and reliable arithmetic
compounding (e.g., Darwin's theory of evolution going from
simple to complex: amoeba monkey man) pervades the
elementary educational concept. Synergy discloses the
statistical probability of the information to be derived from
macro macro educational strategy fails completely to
predict the experimentally demonstrable gravitational or
mass attraction integrities of entropically irreversible
universal scenario reality."
-
Cite HBF holograph on Sheraton Blackstone paper, Chicago,
24 Mar'71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Advantage:
Principle of:
"Dealing always in terms of a finite universe or totality
of behavior, we are able to work from the generalized whole
to the particular or special case manifestation of the
generalized accounting. This is the basis of the grand
philosophic accounting of quantum mechanics."
Cite HASA Speculty pps 29-30. Jun'66
Citation at Quantum Mechanica: Grand Strategy, Jun'66
SYNERCETICS - UNIVERSE Sec. 305.2

HBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Advantage: Principle of:
"Let us return to the universe as our
staring point
in all problem consideration. We assiduously avoid all
the imposed disciplines of progressive specialization.
We depend entirely upon our innate facilities, the most
important of which is our intuition and test our
progressive intuitions with experiments."
->
Gita NASA Speech, p.
Jun 66
-
Citation at Intuition, Jun'66
SYNERGETICS UNIVERSE 305.1

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Advantage: Principle of:
See General Systems Theory
Macro-- Micro
Starting With Universe
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality
(1)

Synergetic Advantage:
Mc² 1959
See Einstein Equation: E =
General System Theory, (1)
Gibbs: Phase Rule, 1960
Intuition, Jun'66*'
Man: Function of Man in Universe, 30 Oct 71*
Metaphysics, Jul162
Quantum Mechanics:
Grand Strategy, Jun'66*
(2)

Synergetic Capability:
See World Game, (1); Jun'69

Synergetic Centera:
See Modules: A & B Quanta Modules:
21 Feb 72
Centers of,

RBF DEFINITIONS
"Synergetic Geometry:
"Synergetic geometry deals with the most economical relationships
And not with the shirtest lines."
Citation & context at Geodesic Line, 9 Sep* 74

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchy:
"The synergetic hierarchy of relative volumes of growth of
associative and disassociative systems will keep holding
true for any magnitude."
Cite RBF marginalia at "Quarks With Color and Flavor,"
Scientific American, Oct 75

HBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchy:
"Joseph Needham's 'above and below and his 'higher and
lower are linear. 'Out' expressly is the containing and the
contained in synergetics, the omni embracing and permeating.
"Needham's 'space' is our conceptuality independent of size,
1.e., of time."
(RBF had underlined:
Needham: "It is much to be wished that words more
suitable than 'above or below' or 'higher and lower'
could be found to indicate the levels of the
spatial hierarchy..."
-
Cite RBF marginalia at Joseph Needham's Order and life.
Chap. III: Hierarchical Continuity', Pp. 111-112, 5 May'74

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchies:
(A)
"I've given you the synergy of synergies... Then we found that
precession was not predicted by mass attraction. The chemical
compounds are not prophesied by the atoma. And the biological
protoplasm is not predicted by the chemical compounds. And the
design of the elephant or the pine tree is not predicted by the
protoplasm.
"In view of the hierarchy of hierarchy of synergies, where we
have to get the Universe in order to have the greatest... and
then find ing that the behavior of the wholes and the known
behavior of some of the parts, permits you to find out some of
the others...
"What Euler found was the differentiation of all the fundamental
visual aspects of our experiences-- which has to do with the
eye and the radiation frequencies. But Gibbs' phase rule gives
you then the difference between liquids, crystallines and gases--
which is really not to do with the eye, they would be tactile.
One is really energy as radiation and the other is energy as
matter. These are two very different affairs.
Euler gives you
the Universe as radiation, or the coming apart phase. And what
Cite HBF to EJA & BO'R, tape transcript Chicago, 31 May171

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchies:
"Gibbs gives you is energy associative as matter, and what
the degrees of freedom are within it, and what amounts of
energy would have to be added to bring about the different
states.
"I find the two coming together in vertexial bonds; it has
nothing to do really with faces and with edges.
(B)
One bond gives
me a universal joint. Hass attraction is in there. You
couldn't have the bond without mass attraction-- which is
another point that isn't in Euler at all. Gibbs really requires
the mass attraction without saying so. Euler tends to be
superficial and Gibbs is internal.
"Now again, I have given you circumferential complementarity
and I have given you inward and outward complementarity. I have
given you circumferential twoness and inward and outward
twones. And I have given you circumferential oscillation.
I say Gibbs is dealing in the internal angles and Euler is
dealing in the external angles. This is now the integration
of the topological and the quantum hierarchies... and the
epistemological. It's really very exciting that the internal
angles give us what we call the chords of the arcs... This
Cite RBF to EJA & BO'R, tape transcript, Chicago, 31 May171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchies:
And
(c)
"brings us back to our friend angle and frequency alone.
really the very difference between the internal central angles
and the surface angles is the difference between the radiational
and the gravitational. Gravitational seems to be inclusive
always-- it is circumferential . And the radiational is the
cebtral angle, the outward angle."
Cite RBF to EJA & BO'R, Chicago, tape transcript, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchy:
EJA: "While you're on such a cosmic theme [ see Hell. J,
I'd like to remind you of a task you set yourself
when we started to write this book. You had the
topological hierarchies and you had the quantum
hierarchies, and you set yourself the task of combining
them in an epistemological hierarchy, which you said
you had never done.
17
RBF: "That's what I'm doing more or less in the "Numerology.'
I think when we do this then we bring the social laws
of society
they may really begin to show up again.
Another thing I would like to say about sociology: we've
got such a high frequency of asymmetry, that we're
permitted to get into fantastical asymmetrical extremes
and that's why our sociologists have so much trouble.
They're looking at special case instead of principles."
-Cite tape transcript RBF to EJA and BO'R, Chicago, 31 May 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchy:
"As an appendix to my discourse, I am presenting a chart
of the hierarchy of rational vectorial-geometric
relationships which characterize general systems discovery
of the tetrahedron as the basic structural unit of
physical Universe quantation.
Mc2
"This hierarchy of vectorial geometry correlates rationally
Euler's topology, Kepler's Third Law and Newton's theory
of gravity, Willard Gibb's phase rule and Einstein's E -
and explains the necessity to employ Planck's Constant
x 6.6 x 10
h = gram
Gram cm
sec
cm²
sec
-27
and the Gravitational Constant
x 6.6 x 10 to convert the arbitrary XYZ- c...
S.
mensuration system, adopted by science, to bring these
calculations into agreement with the experimentally disclosed
values of macro-micro electromagnetic physical Universe
realities which we now find experimentally to be coordinate
rationally with the isotropic vector matrix as was always
implicit in the omnirationality of all chemical associating
and disassociating."
Cite Nehru Speech, p. 29. 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchy:
"I am deeply aware of the vast ranges of unexploited geometry.
What is of importance, however, is an awareness of the
generalised, comprehensively coordinate, arithmetical,
geometrical, and factorial system employed by nature in all
her energetic-synergetic transformative transactions. There
is also a fundamental hierarchy of these events. These also
coincide, and integrate, with topology, quantum mechanics,
and chemistry-- and, amplify all the latter subjects."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Steve Baer, 19 Apr*66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Hierarchy:
(1)
"I have broken through to the almost unbelievable frontier
where, clearly and elegantly treatable, exist the generalized
fundamental relationships of nature's integrated formulations--
hitherto treatable only in the plurality of unique languages
of the respective exact sciences. The unique and separate
languages required awkward translation through the function
of the abstract interpreters known as the 'constants."
Energetic and Synergetic Geometry now embraces the compre-
hensive family of behavioral relationships within one
language. This integration has been precipitated by the
challenge of reconciliation with
-4
-
Gibbs' Phase Rule;
Pauli's Exclusion Principle;
the Laws of Thermodynamics;
the Field Equations;
the cinstein Energy Equation;
the structural associations and disassociations of
Linus Pauling's 'chemistry;
Avogadro's Law of Gases;
T.N. Whitehead's treatment of the six fundamental
degrees of freedom;
Lancelot Law Whyte's compendium of point system
treatments;

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Synergetic Hierarchy:
Brower's fixed point theorem;
Bohr's fundamental complementarity, and most
importantly of all from the viewpoint of
29
Percival Bridgman's Operational Procedures,
(2)
the comprehenstre family of associative-disassociative
reciprocal and transformative behaviors and
values discovered
by first hand exploration
and first hand reexamination of the total
circumstance surrounding every structural discovery."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mr. X, 15 Apr. 1955

Synergetic Hierarchy:
See Hierarchy:
Hierarchies
Topological & Quantum Hierarchies
Grand Strategy

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Integral:
"The omni-interaccommodativeness
Of the totally known inventory
Of generalized principles
Constitutes a progressive disclosure
Of a vast a priori design
To be governing Universe,
Whose intellectual integrity bespeaks
An a priori greater intellect
Than that manifest in humans,
All of which synergetic integral
Is hidden from sight of humanity,
As it is at present omnivictimized
By a universally specializing antisynergetic,
Anticosmological
Educational process."
- Cite INTUITION, pp. 43-44, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Integral:
"The total of experience is integrally synergetig.
Universe is the comprehensive a priori synergetic integral.
Universe continually operates in comprehensive
coordinate patternings which are trangendental to the
sensorially minuscule apprehension and mental comprehension
and prediction capabilities of mankind, consciously and
inherently preoccupied as he is only with special local
and nonsimultaneous pattern considerations."
UNIVERSE
SEC. 305.5 Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 131. 1960

Synergetic Integral:
See God, 31 Jan'75

Synergetic Integrity:
See Universal Integrity: Principle of, 8 May' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Proclivities:
19 The integrated synergetic proclivities of:
inward-outward and three-way aroundness;
precessional processing of plus-minus polarisation; and
wave propagation mechanics..."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 201.11, 10 Now' 74

Synergetic Proclivities:
See In, Out, and Around
Polarization
Wave Propagation Mechanics
(1)

Synergetic Proclivity:
See Spherical Nostalgia, 12 Jun'74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality:
"...The self-discovery process goes on to identify all the
hierarchy of geometrical intertransformings which are the
subject of this book, and proceeds inherently, by synergetic
strategy of commencing with totality of Universe self-
realization to differentiate itself out into its progressive
omnirational differentiation of its ever symmetrically
equated potentials. And all other geometrical proofs of all
the Greeks and their academic successors aboard our self-
realizing planet are herewith usably embraced; and all the
rules of geometrical self-development proofs, are discovered
to be germane but always holistically embraced in omnirational
identity. Self is not a priori evident. Thus we have avoided
mathematical axioms which hold certain recognized a priori
self-recognized conditions to be self-evidently irreducible
by further analysis."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 487.00 from RBF holograph
28 May '72

RBP DRETHITIONS
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing With Totality:
See Synergetic Advantage: Principle Or
Starting With Universe
Macro-Micro: (Synergetic Advantage)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Surprise:
The Universe manifests an extraordinary aggregate of
generalized principles, none of which contradict one another
and all of which are interaccommodative, with some of the
interaccommodations exhibiting high exponential levels of
Synergetic surprise. Some of them involve fourth-power
geometrical levels of energy interactions."
Cisation and context at A Priori Intellect, (10 + (2), 9 Apr 71

Synergetic Surprise:
See Improvement vs. Surprise 1954
Concentric Hierrachy Limits, 30 Dec'73

Synergetic:
See Energetic-synergetic
Energetics & Synergetics
Subsynergetic
Wholes & Parts
(1)

Synergetic:
See Atomic Computer Complex, 19 Apr' 73
Central Angles & Surface Angles, Aug! 71
Children as Only Pure Scientists, (2)
Interaccommodate, 30 Jan' 73
Life, 22 Jan' 75
Mass, 29 Dec' 58
Precession, 16 Jun' 72
Universe, Jul*59
Visual Symphony, (2)
Multiplication by Division, 20 Jan' 77
Critical Mass, 12 May'77
Energetic Functions, 8 Aug 77
(2)

Synergetic:
See Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy of
Synergetic Advantage: Principle or
Synergetic Capability
Synergetic Centers
Synergetic Hierarchy
Synergetic Integral
Synergetic Integrity
Synergetic Proclivity
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality
Synergetic Surprise
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics "is based on the discovery of the relative
energy investment values of nature's geometrical hierarchy
of cosmically primitive structurings and intertransformings.
It is the geometry of general systems. All of its lines
are vectors, that is, they exist only as energetic phenomena.
A vector always represents the product of mass and the velocity
of a given energy entity operating in a given angular
direction in respect to a given axis of observational reference.
Synergetics discloses by physical models the orderly ways in
which nature intertransforms, propagates, and pulsates,
sometimes visibly and sometimes invisibly, yet is always
demonstrably operative by 'tuning in' and 'tuning out.1"
Cite RBF's "Introduction to Einar Thorsteinn's Book,"
Para 032, pp.8-9; 17 Oct '77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"This Red Sea kind of thing goes on.
•
Like getting
our book out just in time for people to accept the
information."
Cite RBF to EJA; 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC: 5 Sep'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
Q.
RBF:
"How does synergetics_avoid the kind of pitfalls
of the error made by Ptolemy?"
"I do not downgrade Ptolemy at all. Progressive
knowledge comes from the reduction of error. Synergetics is
not mine it is quite clearly the system employed by nature.
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics)
"And now we have 20,000 copies of SYNERGETICS now in print
as against four billion members of the human race--that is,
about 1/1,000,000th can see and tune in to this... race with
evolution... that is the racel"
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA; 21 Jun 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Yes, synergetics is understandable by anyone.
You may have
to look up a word or two--just as you would expect to in
any book.
But since it all derives from the experimentally
demonstrable--and here I think I really am a pure scientist--
it is readable and thinkable by anybody."
-
to
Cite RBF/casual visitor, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 12 May'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics is a book about models: humanly conceptual models;
lucidly conceptual models; primitively simple models; ration-
ally
intertransforming models; and the
primitively simple numbers uniquely and holistically identify-
ing those models and their intertransformative, generalised
and special case, number-value accountings.
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 900.21; RBF rewrite, 12 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The book, Synergetica, is designed to help scientists use
science to explain how our world works... trying to remove
the blocks from the roadway... to provide a conceptual bridge
between science and the humanities."'
Cite RBF to EJA and Don Fusaro, 3200 Idaho Ave. NW, Wash. DC.,
7 Apr'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics:
the whole game is to convert to order,
to comprehend, to understand."
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia, PA.,
20 Jan 75

RBY DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics shows how we may measure our experiences
geometrically and topologically and how we may employ geometry
and topology to coordinate all information regarding our
experiences, both metaphysical and physical."
Citation & context at Information vs. Entropy, 15 Nov'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics mathematics has the ability to take the spherical
and pull it out in the flat."
Citation & context at Omnidirectional Typewriter (4), 15 Jun 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The essence of my book is the coordinate system of nature.
This is the way she does it. She does have a geometry. And
this is the way things transform. This is the way they
inside-out and all the things they do. This is the way they
It is primarily the geometry of
associate and disassociate.
the nucleus rather than the geometry of chemistry, of the
associating. It's mostly the fundamental behaviors, the
central behaviors. It is inherently nuclear in its own right."
Cite RBF to DSI Mtg., Philadelphia, transcript p. 20, 23 Mar 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"My book, SYNERGETICS, is committed to conceptual elucidation
of the intertransformative geometrics operative in the
nonoptically-tunable ranges of Universe events. Synergetics
conceptualities always manifest geometrical integrities of
intertransformabilities."
-
Citation & contextat Gravity (j), 12 Jun' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics is a book about models... and the primitively
simple numbers uniquely and holistically identifying those
models and their intertransformative number-value accounting."
Citation and context at Modela, 9 Jan' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The increasingly vast, comprehensive, and rational order of
arithmetical, geometrical, and vectorial coordination that we
recognize as synergetics can reduce the dichotomy, the chasm
between the sciences and the humanities, which occurred in the
mid-nineteenth century when science gave up models because the
generalized case of exclusively three-dimensional models did
not seem to accommodate the scientists' energy-experiment
discoveries.
Now we suddenly find elegant field modelability
and conceptuality returning. We have learned that all local
systems are conceptual. Because science had a fixation on the
'square,' the 'cube,' and the 90-degree angle as the exclusive
forms of 'unity,' most of its constants are irrational. This
is only because they entered nature's structural system by the
wrong portal. If we use the cube as volumetric unity, the
tetrahedron and octahedron have irrational number volumes."
-
Cite SYNERFUTICS text at Sec. 990.05; RBF rewrite of 30 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"In the synergetics' four-dimensionally coordinate system's
operational field the linear increment modulatability is the
isotropic vector matrix's vector, with which the edges of the
co-occurring tetrahedra and octahedra are omnicongruent; while
only the face diagonala-- and not the edges-- of the inherently
co-occurring cubes are congruent with the matrix vectors.
"Synergetics' exploratory coordination inherently commences
integrally, i.e., with whole systems consideration.
"Consider the one-dimensional linear values derived from the
initially-stated whole system, four-dimensional, omnirational
unity; any linear value therefrom derived can be wholistically
attuned by unlimited frequency and one-to-one, coordinated,
wavelength modulatability.
"To convert the XYZ system's cubical values to the synergetics'
values the mathematical constants are linearly derived from
the mathematical ratios existing between the tetrahedron's
edges and the cube's corner-to-opposite-corner distance
relationships; while the planar area relationships are derived"
Cite RBF holograph Pacific Palisades, p. 2, 30 Dec'73,
incorporated in SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 982.553]
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"from the mathematical ratios existing between cubical-edged
square areas and cubical-face-diagonalled-edged triangular
areas; and the volumetric value mathematical relationships
are derived from ratios existing between (a) the cube-edge-
referenced third power of the-- often odd-fractioned-- edge
measurements (metric or inches) of cubically-shaped volumes
and (b) the cube-face-diagonal-vector-referenced third power
of exclusively whole number vector, frequency modulated,
tetrahedrally shaped volumes."
(2)
Cite RBF holograph Pacific Palisades, p.2, 30 Dec 73
incorporated in SYNERGETICS at Sec. 982.5+ [53]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics is the geometry of thinking."
-
Citation and context at Geometry of Thinking, 16 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetica topology integrates laws of angle and volume
regularities with Euler's point, area, and line abundance
laws."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 202.02, 28 Oct173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics shows that the tetrahedron can be extrapolated
into life in all its experience phases, thus permitting
humanity's entry into a new era of cosmic awareness."
-
Citation at Tatrahedron, 28 Oct 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics is comprehensive because it describes instantan-
eously both the internal and external limit relationships of
the sphere or spheres of energetic fields; that is,
sirgularly concentric, or plurally expansive, or propagative
and reproductive in all directions, in either spherical or
plane geometrical terms and in simple arithmetic."
- Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium: Filled of Energy,
(A) (B), 11 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Despite the synergetic work of such pioneers as Euler and
Gibbs, all the different chemistries and topologies still seem
to be random. But syneregetics, by relating energy and
topology to the tetrahedron, and to systems as defined, and
by its synergetic hierarchy, replaces randomness with a rational,
cosmic, shape-and-structural-system hierarchy. This hierarchy
discloses a constant relative abundance of the constituents;
1.e., for every nonpolar point there are always two faces and
three edges. But systems occur only as defined by four points.
Prime structural systems are inherently tetrahedral, as is also
the quantum."
Citation and context at Probability Model of Three Cara on a
Highway, (2)(3), 26 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"In synergetics-- as in quantum mechanica-- we have
multiplication only by division."
-
Citation and context at Unity of Universa, 24 Sep' 73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics is siseless generalization."
Citation and context at Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep* 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics, as a strategy of converting apprehension to
discrete comprehension, always proceeds vectorially."
Citation and context at Otherness Point, 24 Sep173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"That's what synergetics is: the geometry of thinking. I find
I don't use the word 'psychological.
-
Wash.,
DC, (discussing possible
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Ideo.
subtitle for SYNERGETICS), 15 Jul 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics starts system mensuration at the system center
and, employing omni-60° angular coordinates, expresses the
omni-equal, radial and chordal, modular linear subdivisions
in 'frequency of module subdivisioning of those radii and
chords, which method of mensuration exactly accommodates
both gravitational (coherence) and radiational (expansion)
calculations. As the length of the vectors represents given
mass-times-velocity, the energy involvements are inherent in
the isotropic vector matrix."
-
Citation and context at Synergetic Constant (2), 14 May'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The realization of conceptualization will reunite the sciences
and the humanities."
Cite RBF revision of "Ten Proposals for Improving the World,"
For EARTH, INC., New Delhi, Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
# 10 F² + 2 --
which ten brings in the number five to the
hierarchy of low order prime numbers characterising
synergetics. The polar twoness is the additive twoness.
The twoness in the ten is the basic multiplicative twoness;
it is the unity-is-twoness inherent in the nuclear sphere
and in the number of outer spheres in the vector-equilibrium-
icosahedron's regenerative system which always equates as
10 F 2. "
Cite SYNERGETICS draff at Sac. 527.52, 29 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
" ...In synergetics the energy as Mass is constant and
nonlimit frequency is variable."
--
Citation and context at Einstein, 960.06, 16 Nov'72
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS also at Sec.
200.04
22Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetics provides geometrical conceptuality in respect
to energy quanta."
Citation and context at Package, 17 Nov '72, Added to
SYNERGETICS at Sec. 200.04, 22 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"It is highly probable that universal comprehension of
synergetics is strategically critical to humanity's exodus
from the womb of originally permitted absolute helplessness
and ignorance at birth and entry into realization of
planetary society spontaneously coordinate in universally
successful life support, ergo freedom from fundamental fear
and political bias inherent to the now only-ignorantly-
continuable assumption of life-support inadequacy."
Cite RBF marginalis 6 Nov' 72incorporated in SYNERGETICS
draft at Sec. 216.0, 9 Nov 72
[03]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
*The difference between particle quanta equation and
wave quanta equation, Secs. 973.31 + 973.32.7 is the
difference between using the tetrahedron as volumetric
unity, while the physicist has always been using the
cubic centimeter of water-- and then only lifting it in
one direction, against gravity, against the imagined
plane of the world. While synergetics moves omnidirect-
ionally, inwardly and outwardly." LAND AROUNDLY]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 973.34, 17 Oct'72
[33]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Identification of the Mathematical Coordinate System of
Universe: An apparently comprehensive mathematical
coordinate system of Universe provides modelable conceptual-
ization of science which is experimentally demonstrable."
-
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS
DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, NY Times, 29 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The hierarchy of geometrical intertransformings... is the
subject of this book."
172
* Context at Synergetic Strategy of Commencing With Totality, 28May
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 487.00 from RBF holograph,
28 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics, by relating energy and topology to the
tetrahedron, and to systems, as defined by its synergetic
hierarchy, replaces randomness with a rational hierarchy
of omni-intertransformative phase identifications and
quantized rates of relative intertransformations."
Citation and context at Probability (2), 26 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"There is an ideal which is eternal and inherently complex,
which complexity is accompanied by the ideal transformability
which gynergetics elucidates."
Citation & context at Ideal, 23 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The ideal eternal conceptuality which we are discovering
in synergetics is so true as to become real because part
of the conceptuality is the lags which bring in the six
degrees of freedom."
For citation and context see Timeless, 1 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics, by relating energy and topology to the
tetrahedron, and to systems as defined, and by its
synergetic hierarchy, replaces randomness with a rational
hierarchy. There is the constant relative abundance: for
every point there are three edges. But systems require
Two tetrahedra make the quantum. "
four points.
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172
FIRST SENTENCE — PROBABILITY
-
SEC, 538.03

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
It is a discovery of anergetica that "the addition of angle
and frequency to Euler's inventory of crossings, areas, and
lines is the absolute characteristic of all pattern cognizance."
251.02
Cite RBF marginalis at SYNERGETICS draft Sec. 251.17, 20 Dec* 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetic geometry embraces all the qualities of
experience, all aspects of being.
Measurement of width,
breadth, and heighth is only part of the picture.
Without weight you do not exist physically-- nor without
You can convert the velocity x
a specific temperature.
mass into heat. Vectors are not abstractions they are
resolutions.
Time and heat and longevity and weight are
inherent in every dimension."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. *71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The Euclid XYZ-coordinate geometry does not have
time. Synergetics inherently has time: it deals
with anything that exists."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"...The complete gears-interlocking of quantum-wave
mechanics and vectorial geometry... are coordinately con-
tained in synergetics with computer binary 'bitting."
Citation & context at Generalization & Special Case, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics correlates verities of time and eternity."
Citation & context at Time & Energy Oct 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"The integration of geometry and philosophy in a single
conceptual system providing a common language and accounting
for both the physical and the metaphysical. Thought has
shape independent of size."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, "Discoveries of Synergetics," Oct 71
fisst sentence later incorporated at Sec. 251.50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics explains much which has not been previously
illuminated. It is not contradictory to any of the
experimentally-based knowledge of any of the classically
disciplined sciences. It does not contradict the calculus
or any other mathematical tool for special case
applications, although it often find them inadequate or
irrelevant. Experientially founded synergetics clearly
identifies the conceptual limitations and coordinate
functionings of all the classical tools of mathematics
and it shows how their partial functioning often
frustrates comprehension of experience."
Cite RBF dictation to EJA for SYNERGETICS, Beverly Hotel,
New York, 28 Feb. '71. See Sec. 209. Oct. 71.
(203.01 02]

RUF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"The phenomenon time entering into energy is just a
metaphysical concept. It explains our slowness and our
limitations. Temporality is time and the relative
asymmetries of oscillation are realizable only in time--
in the time required for pulsative frequency cycling.
Synergetics correlates verities of time and eternity."
-
28 Pb 171, bee hier
Citation at Time, Oct'71
Beverly Hotel,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics represents the coming into congruence of
the greatest metaphysical system in history integrating
with the most incisive physics findings and generalized
laws. At no time am I being scientifically perverse.
I am absolutely astonished with a philospohical awareness
of the highest scientific order that accommodates the
most mystical and mysterious of all human experience.
What we are experiencing is vastly more mystically
profound by virtue of our adherence to experimentally
harvested data than has ever been suggestively induced
in human comprehension and imagination by benevolently
implored beliefs in imagined phenomena dogmatically
generated by any of the formalized religions.
We are
conscious of aspects of the mysterious integrity Universe
which logically explain that which we experience and the
integrity of the Universe to far more comprehendable degree
than that occurring in the deliberately make-believe
nonscientifically founded communications of humanity."
-
Cite RBF to JA, Beverly Hotel, NY, 19 Jun 171, Incorporated
at SYNERGETICS Sec.
draft April 172.
203,10)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"We didn't talk about the domains of volumes, just surfaces.
This is the
difference between synergetics and Euler."
Citation at Domains of Volumes, 18 Jun*71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"In distinction from all other mathematics synergetics
provides domains of intereferences and domains of
crossings."
->
Gite SYNERGETICS Draft
-
"Conceptuality: Interference Domains"
RBP marginalia, Boston, 25. April 1971
Citation at Domains, 25 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The difference between synergetics and conventional
mathematics is that it is derived from experience and is
always considerate of experience, whereas conventional
mathematics is based upon 'axioms' that were imaginatively
conceived and inconsiderate of information progressively
harvested through microscopes, telescopes and electronic
probings into the non-sensorial tunable ranges of the
electromagnetic spectrum."
- Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
CONCEPTUALITY EXPERIENCE SEC. 502.301

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics
Which is the name I have given
To the omni-rational comprehensive
Coordinate system of universe
which has been my privilege
To have discovered
Which makes nuclear physics
A conceptual facility
Comprehensible
By any physically normal child."
SYNERGETICS
203.6
-
Cite INDUITION,
Draft Feb 171.
P. 46

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics provides for "the identification of
energy with number."
SYNERGETICS - SEC 201.31
(Adapted.)
* Cite RBF to EJA by phone from Los Angeles
19 Jan 71 pursuant Coxeter's letter offering
the mathematical proof of 'Planetary Plan-
ning' in American Scholar, Winter 70-71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics is energetic geometry 7
Sixty degree coordination is the basis for
energetic geometry
For it is nature's way
To close pack spheres."
Adapted
SYNERGETICS SEC 201.3.
Cite RBF DRaft, NUMEROLOGY, 4.23 170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics altogether forsakes axioms as self-
evident pre-microscope superficialities: beliefs.
"Synergetics predicates all its relationship
explorations on the most accurately and comprehensively
of direct experiances.
statable observations
•
"Physicists define synergetics as 'experimental
mathematics."
SYNERGETICS
-
SEC. 203.6
-
Cite RBF marginal notations in Beverly
Hotel, New York 9 Dec 70.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"In thig synergetic system society will have to
learn that n² stands for n 'triangled and not 'squared';
and that n³ is n'tetrahedroned and not 'cubed'.'
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 27, 13 Nov'69

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The mathematics involved . . in Synergy
consist of topology, combined with vectorial geometry."
Cite OPERATING MANUAL, p. 70, 1969
SYNERGETICS. SEC 202.1

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics
• •
consists
of the solving of
problems by starting with known behaviors of whole systems
plus the known behaviors of some of the systems' parts,
which advantageous information makes possible the
discovery of other parts of the system and their
respective behaviors, as for instance in geometry the
known sum-- 180 degrees-- of a triangle's angles, plus
the known behavior of any two sides and their included
angle and vice versa, enables the discovery and use of
the precise values of the other three parts.'
"
SYNERGETICS
SEC. 213
->>
Cite OPERATING MANUAL, pp. 87-88, 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics in its "search for a coordinate system
of nature has continually reexamined and reconsidered"
the "experimentally based successive discoveries of what
seemed to be an hierarchy of generalized principles
possibly governing all of the physical universe's inter-
transforming transactions."
Cite P. Pearce Ltr. 17 July 1968, p. 2.
SYNERGETICS SEC. 214)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Experimentally founded mathematics
shows how
we may measure and coordinate entirely rationally, arith-
metically, geometrically, volumetrically, vectorially,
topologically, and energy quantumwise in terms of the
tetrahedron."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 66, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Scientific design controls
•
frequency and magnitude events
by valving, that is, angle and frequency modulation.
Angle and frequency modulations,
either subjective or objective in respect to man's consciousness,
discretely define all events or experiences
which altogether constitute universe."
SYNERGETICS
UNIVERSE
SEC. 2081305.05
Cite NASA SPEECH, p. 42, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics provides us
vectorial
modelling of heretofore only instrumentally apprehended
phenomena as for instance in nuclear physics."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 104, JuN'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics is energetic mathematics.
(Adapted)
-Cite Carbondale Draft
Return to Modelability, p. ¥.16
NASA Speech, pp. 81,83, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics "introduces a new conceptual aspect of
topology which is the description of a structural system
in the form of the sum of all its surface angles."
-Cite NASA Speech, p. 63. Jun'66
SYNERCETICS
SEC. 202.4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics "correlates our arithmetic and our
geometry."
(Adapted.)
-Cite Carbondale Draft
Return to Modelability, Pr Vok
- CITE
NASA SPEECH
p. 69. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The increasingly vast comprehensive and rational order
of the arithmetical, geometrical and vectorial coordination of
of structural formulation . . . to accommodate the scientists'
energy experiment discoveries."
Cite Carbondale Draft
Return to Kodalability, pp. V.9, V.10.
NASA Speech
pp 75, 76 Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Because it is nature's own most economical coordinate
system. . . the experimentally founded mathematics which we
call Synergetics will disclose the geometry that we ought
to be teaching our children."
1-
Gite Garbondale Breft
Return to Modelability_p. V.1
- CITE NASA SPEECH
P. 66,
Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Our method of demonstrating the nature of the special
case experiences out of which the
pure mathematician's
imaginary, generalized case of his pure straight line were
evolved, also contains within it the complete
gears-interlocking of quantum mechanics and vectorial
geometry, together with computer-binary 'bitting' and EMF--
all of which are coordinately contained in Synergetics
on an entirely rational basis."
SYNERGETICS NAN STRACHT-LINE
SYNERCETICS
-SEC 202.41
-
Cite NASA Speech, p.
101. Jun°66

RBE DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics discovers an importantly large area of
the arithmetical, geometrical, topological, crystallo-
graphic, and energetically vectorial coordinate system
employed by nature itself. It is a triangular and tetra-
hedral system.
It uses 60° coordination instead of 90°
coordination. It permits kindergarten modeling of the fourth
fifth arithmetic poers, 1.e., fourth- and
fifth-dimensional aggregations of points and spheres, etc.,
in an entirely rational coordinate system. I have
explored the fundamental logic of the structural mathematics
strategies of nature which always
employ the six
and
sets of degrees of freedoms and most economical actions."
Cite DOXIADIS, p. 336, 20 Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
I have given the name Synergetics to the arith-
metical-geometrical, chemical, energy-quanta. omni-
rational, sixty-degree coordination of nature."
-
Cite KEPES
Caption Figure 8d, p.87, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
(A)
"Synergetics is an omnirational, arithmetical, geometrical,
vectorial coordinate system apparently employed by energetic
nature... which incidentally permits fourth- and fifth-power
models of modular-volume, symmetrical aggregations around
single points in an omnidirectional, symmetrical, allspace-
filling radial growth of those same modular-volume components,
1.e., the tetrahedron, in such a manner as to disclose omniper-
sistent, one-to-one correspondence of radial wave modular
growth with circumferantial modular frequency growth of the
totally involved vectorial geometry. (This means that angular
and linear accelerations are identical.)
"Synergetics makes possible the return to omniconceptual
modelling of all physical intertransformations and energy-
value transactions, as exclusively
expressed only in
algebraic abstractions throughout the last century. Synergetics
does not contradict but complements the exclusively abstract
algebraic expressions of physical Universe relationships which
commenced approximately one century ago with the electromagnetic
wave discoveries of Hertz and Maxwell, whose electrical apparatus"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Prof. von Hochstetter, p4, 28 Oct 64
SYNERGETICS
SEC. 2056 +203.8

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
(B)
"experiments made possible their algebraic treatment without
being able to see or conceptually comprehend the fundamental
energy behaviors. The permitted discrete algebraic statement
and treatment of invisible phenomena resulted in science's
comfortable yielding to completely abstract mathematical
processing of energy phenomena.
abandoning of
conceptual models removed from the literary men any conceptual
patterns with which they might treat in attempting to communicate
the evolution of scientific events to the nonmathematically-
languaged public."
The
Cite RBF Ltr. to Prof. von Hochstetter, p.4, 28 Oct*64
SYNERGETICS-
SECS 205.6+ 203.8

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
19
•
You see these compression members not touching
each other and just hovering in tension. . .
becomes another one of the axiomatic points
that
in
•
synergetic geometry."
Cite LEDGEMONT LAB Lecture, 15 Oct. 164, p. 29

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics "Makes possible a rational whole number
low integer quantation of all the important geometries
because the tetrahedron, the octahedron, the rhombic
dodecahedron, the cube, and the vector equilibrium do
comprise all the lattices of all the atoms."
(Adapted.)
SYVE RCETICS
SEC. 202.3
CITE
-
OREGON LECTURE #6. 232
-r.
10 Jul 62
Cite Garbondale Draft
Nature's Coordination, p. VI.68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The whole theory of structures is both altered and
enormously expanded and implemented by my introduction of
mathematically coordinate and comprehensively operative
discontinuous-compression, continuous-tension structural
systems as inherent to synergetics and it omni-rationality
of vectorial, ergo energy, accounting."
Je Brafs
SYNERGETICS - SEC. 2121
p. VII ART NEWS, Dec'61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"
Energetic-synergetic geometry and its multi-dimensional,
multi-axial symmetry."
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.121, Dec 161

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics discloses "fourth, fifth and sixth dimensional
symmetry in addition to the well known two and three dimensional
symmetry."
-
Otte
(Adapted.)
ART NEWS, Dec'61
Citation & context at Fourth Dimension, 21 Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"Synergetic geometry makes possible a childhood
participation in nuclear physics as a logical and enjoyable,
rather than a
precocious phenomenon. However, scientific
entry into the present realm of nuclear competence was
accomplished with the awkward, irrational tools of
the XYZ coordinate system7. The development and adoption
of the great computers has now relieved man of the onerous
tasks characteristic of the irrational constants interlink-
ing the many separate facts. of scientific inquiry which arose
from the
Euclidean geometric approach. Because these
tasks are
being carried by the computers, and men are getting
along all
right on their blind-flown scientific pilgrimages,
there will be only slow
realization of the significance of the
sensorially-conceptual
facility of dealing with nature that
is opened
up by" Synergetics."
(Adapted; bracket phrases sub-
stituted for 'energetic'.)
caption.
Cite MARKS p. 134, Fig 1,1.,
Above
all in quotation marks from F by Marks. 1960
SYNERGETICS SEC. 204

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Substituting the word tetrahedron for the number two
completes my long attempt to convert all the residual
heretofore unidentifiable integers of topology into
geometrical conceptability."
-
Site OMNIDIRECTIONAL HAI
-
Citation at Unity as Two, 1960
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"In" Synergetic's "isotropic, vectorially triangulated,
omnidirectional matrix initiations the angular and linear
accelerations are rational and uniformly modulated, whereas
in the XYZ coordinate analysis of the calculus only the
linear is analyzable and the
are usually irrationally expressed. "
angular
resultants
SYNERCETICS
-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 156, 1960
SEC 207

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
R
•
the comprehensive, omni-rational, mathematical
system employed by nature throughout all her complementary
and accomodatively transforming transactions. It
embraces all known facets of mathematics. Rather than refuting
the bases of presently known Euclidean and Non-Euclidean
Hyperbolic and Elliptic geometry, Enrgetic-Synergetic Geometry
identifies the alternative freedoms of prime axiomatic
assumption which the present mathematical bases were
selected. All of the axiomatic alternatives are logical.
Some result in awkwardness of complex relationship expression.
Synergetics/ employs a new set of axioms which seemingly
result in sublimely facile expression of hitherto complex
relationships.
"
Letter to Collier's, p. 113 McHale
Cite COLLIER'S, Oct 59
SYNERGETICS SEC. 203.4

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
[Synergetics] "does disclose the excruciating
awkwardness characterizing present-day mathematical
treatment of the interrelationships of the independent
scientific disciplines as originally occasioned by
their mutual and separate lacks of awareness of the
existence of a comprehensive rational coordinating
system inherent in nature."
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 115, Oct' 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
"The discovered coordinate system is apparently governed by
generalized laws, some of whose mathematical equatability I
have been allowed not only to discern (as far as I know for the
first time by anyone) but also to codify and translate into
unique structural realizations. This codefication governs the
total coordinate abundance ratios of the unique pattern aspect
relationships of uniquely irreducible cooperative function
aspects of locally nonsimultaneous events and their equilibrious
pattern totality.
"Discovery of the primary and corollary laws of constantly
coordinate relative abundance of pattern function-aspects of
totality as an omnirational regularity governing all local
patternings of Universe as a minimum-maximum family of com-
plexedly complementary, yet uniquely identifiable, conceptual
function-patterning relationships followed upon intuitive
formulations of the seemingly most comprehensive self-querying
questions I was capable of propounding to myself regarding
possible detectable pattern significances accruing
to
pro-
gressive life experience integrations and overlays."
Cite INTRDOUCTION to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp.121,122,
1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"...An omnirational, omnidirectional, omniequi-economic,
energy accounting, coordinate system of Universe. This
omnirational, arithmetical-geometrical accountability is
of such sublime simplicity in contrast to the awkward
'mathematics' of all known yesterdays as to have occasioned
an almost universal incredibility and nonconsideration of
its potential significance though it has been in disclosure
for one quarter of a century."
Citation and context at Hierarchy of Constellar Configurations,
1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
Synergetics aim at "a total epistemological reorienta-
tion and
•
•
a unique philosophical reconceptioning,
regarding the regenerative constellar logic of the
structuring of the universe ( both as a new cosmology
and as a new cosmogony).
•
"
Synergetics makes possible "the formulating of more
comprehensive and symmetrical statements regarding dawningly
apparent natural laws."
Cite INTRO, to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, Second sentence,
P. 118
18959
Synergetics - SEC. 214)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"By embracing all the energetic phenomena of total
experience" synergetics secures an "advantage for all
energy accounting and prospecting."
(Adapted.)
Cite INTRO. to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 123, 1959
SYNERGETICS
- SEC. 209)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Out of cumulative patterning overlays there emerges
what seem to be generalized principles apparently governing
all associative and disassociative transformings and their
resultant regeneratively persistent hierarchy of constellar
configurations. These hierarchies of constellar configura-
tions disclose in turn a hierarchy of dynamically
symmetrical constellation phases and their respective
maxima-minima, asymmetric and complementary, accommodative
transformabilities which are apparently permitted within
an omnirational, omnidirectional, omniequieconomic. energy-
accounting, coordinate system of universe. This omni-
rational, arithmetical-geometrical accountability as of
such sublime simplicity in contrast to the awkward 'math-
ematics' of all known yesterdays as to have
occasioned an almost universal incredibility and noncon-
sideration of its potential significance though it has
been in disclosure for one quarter of a century."
Cite INTRO. to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp. 120, 121, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica:
*Synergetics geometry precession explains radial-circumferential
acceleration transformations."
-
Citation and context at Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan'55

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
it
Energetic geometry is one up on the topologists
because it understands the dynamic significance of the
implicit 2 and the inherent spin.
Citation and context at Tetrahedron: Inside-out Tetrahedron
Begins to Grow, 10 Jan 50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Synergetics is a rational system of mensuration
comprehensive to physics and chemistry. It is a geometry
originating in the assumption that dimension must be
physical. It follows that, inasmuch as physical universe
is entirely energetic, all dimension must be energetic.
Vectors and tensors constitute all elementary dimension.
"Thus, original assumptions eliminate the necessity of
subsequent assignment of physical qualities to abstract
mathematical devices in the manner we have, of necessity,
assigned progressively, discovered attributes of physical
universe to irrational relationships within the a priori
ghostly Greek geometry.
"
SYNERGETICS SEC. 201
Cite PREVIEWS, I&I, P. 213, 1 Apr'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
•
•
it
Synergetics "is comprehensive because
describes instantaneously both the internal and external
relationships of the sphere or spheres; that is, singularly
concentric or plurally expansive, or propagative and
reproductive in all directions, in either spherical or
plane geometrical terms and in simple arithmetic."
SYUERCETICS
-
* Cite DYMAXION COMP. SYSTEM, 1944, Table 4, caption.
SEC. 205.1

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"Here we abandon all thingness,' all 'solids,' all 'surfaces,'
and have recourse only to topological aspects, 'relative
acceleration behaviors,' and 'reciprocally transformative
precessional involvements,' which sounds ominous but proves
to be all that is simple."
-
Cite Ltr. to Jim Fitzgibbon (?), Raleigh NC, p.j3, undated

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics:
"The much simplified spherical trigonometry, plus a
permeative topology, plus quanta and wave mechanics,
plus thermodynamics, plus chemical structures, integrate
as synergetic geometry, which sumtotally is no more
difficult than is the visible reading of the Dymaxion
Airocean Map, which is visible synergetics.
"
.
Cite Undated Sheet: THE DYMAXION AIROCEAN WORLD FULLER
PROJECTIVE-TRANSFORMATION

MARKS DEFINITION
MATHEMATICS DICTIONAKRY
Synergetics:
"A study of the relationships of symmetrical
force patterns in nature and their phase and
frequency configurations in polyhedral and spherical
systems.
"Energetic-synergetic geometry is based on the
hypothesis that in both large-scale and sub-molecular
structures all forces interact in the same way, moving
most economically toward equilibrium patterns. This it
is possible to isolate in one coherent mathematical
system the geometric laws which govern all physical
structures.
Compare:
SYNERGETICS-SEC. 209
* Bantam Books, Sep'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Calculation:
"All local events of Universe may be calculatively
anticipated in synergetics by inaugurating calculation with
a local vector equilibrium frame and identifying the
disturbance initiating point, direction, and energy of
relative asymmetrical pulsing of the introduced resonance
and intertransformative event."
Cite RBF rewrite of 30 Oct'72 incorporated at SYNERGETICS
draft Sec. 962.31, 17 Nov 172

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Calculation:
"All local events of Universe may be calculatively
anticipated by inaugurating calculation with a local
vector equilibrium frame and identifying the disturbance
initiating point, direction, and energy of relative
asymmetrical pulse of the introduced action."
Cite Synergetics, Secs 240 + 770.03. 1971

Synergetics Calculation:
See Dimensional Reference Frame, Jan'72
Synergetics 14 May 73; 15 Jun 74

Synergetics Characteristica: Inventory of:
See Experimentally Founded Mathematics, Jun'66
Field of Cosmic Formabilities, 28 Jan 73
Synergetics, (p.121) 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constant:
"The synergetics constant may be a reciprocal of Planck's
constant. Together, they express a mutual interelationship
between arbitrary, model-less, energy accounting and numerical,
operational, geometrically omnirational, energy accounting.
"
[EJA Note: RBF says it is a very simple matter
for him to work out the arithmetic and confirm
the relationship, but as of this date he has not
yet done so--so his suggestion is tentative.)
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; 10 Dec'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constant:
(A)
"In the synergetics' four-, five-, and six-dimensionally coordinate
system's operational field the linear increment modulatability
and modelability is the isotropic vector matrix's vector, with
which the edges of the co-occurring tetrahedra and octahedra are
omnicongruent; while only the face diagonals-- and not the edges--
of the inherently co-occurring cubes are congruent with the
matrix vectors. Synergetics' exploratory coordination inherently
commences integrally, i.e., with whole system's consideration.
"Consider the one-dimensional linear values derived from the
initially stated whole system, six-dimensional, omnirational
unity; any linear value therefrom derived can be holistically
attuned by unlimited frequency and one-to-one, coordinated,
wavelength modulatability.
"To convert the XYZ system's cubical values to the synergetics'
values, the mathematical constants are linearly derived from the
mathematical ratios existing between the tetrahedron's edges and
the cube's corner-to-opposite-corner distance relationships;
while the planar area relationships are derived from the math-
ematical ratios existing between cubical-edged square areas and"
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 982.53, 30 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constant:
"cubical-face-diagonal ed-edged triangular areas; the volumetric
value mathematical relationships are derived from ratios
existing between (a) the cube-edge referenced third power of
the often odd-fractioned edge measurements (metric or
inches) of cubically shaped volumes and (b) the cube-face-
diagonal-referenced third power of exclusively whole number
vector, frequency modulated, tetrahedrally shaped volumes."
(B)
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 982.53, 30 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica Constant:
"The synergetics constant was evolved to convert third-power,
volumetric evaluation from a cubical to a tetrahedral base and
to employ the ABCD four-dimensional system's vector as the linear
computational input. In the case of the cube this is the
diagonal of the cube's square face."
Cite SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 963.10, 20 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constant:
"The synergetic constant was meant to apply to third power-
ing. Other power values are shown in Table 5. We have to find
out what the total powers involved in the situation are.
There
is a tantalising proximity and magnitude relationship-- especi-
ally when they vary together. The equatability of volumes and
powers covariation.
"In Einstein's E = Mc2, M is volume-to-spherical-wave ratio of
the system considered. Mass is the integration of weight and
volume. What Einstein saw was that the same volume could be
reduced and still have the same energy mass. Einstein's M is
partially identified with volume and partly with relative
energy compactment within that spherical wave's volume.
are then relative concentration modifiers of the volume before
the third powering occurs."
There
(1)
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 963.11 +963.12, 14 May 73
(Based on RBF rewrite of 30 Oct 72 floating insert.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constant:
"All of the frozen volumetric and superficial area mensuration
of the past has been derived exclusively from the external
linear dimensions. Synergetics starts system mensuration at
the system center and, employing oni-60° angular coordinates,
expresses the omni-equal, radial and chordal, modular linear"
subdivisions in "frequency" of module subdivisioning of those
radii and chords, which method of mensuration exactly accommo-
dates both gravitational (coherence) and radiational (expansion)
calculations. As the length of the vectors represents given
mass-times-velocity, the energy involvements are inherent in
the isotropic vector matrix."
(2)
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secm. 963.13, 14 May 73
(Based on RBF rewrite of 30 Oct 72 floating insert.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constant:
The synergetics constant, 1.606066± × 1978,
is employed to convert conventional geometrical values
into synergetic geometrical values.
Adapted by EJA from Table 5, OMNIDIRECTIONAL Halo, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constant:
2.0396488
6
2
9/8
Fuller's vector constant for
converting three-dimensional
coordinates to energetic geometry
9
2,03965 12.00000.0
1 83568 5
More accurate
19803
2.04 1200.0
Points in "Octave" system of
18 intervals
183 6
1640
Proton in terms of electron
1632
Rest. mass
800
Neutron 1838
-
Cite transcript of RBF holograph of notes while reading
Scientific Americans "Elementary Particles, July'57

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Constants:
"The synergetics constants of all systems are the additive
two and the multiplicative two-- and the Holy Ghost; the
Heavenly Twins; a pair of twins."
Cite SYNERGETICS at Table of topological hierarchies,
Sec. 223.66, 21 Mar 73

Synergetica Constant:
See Prime Vector
(1)

Synergetics Constant:
See Planck's Constant, 16 Aug170
(2)

Synergetics Constanta:
See Heavenly Twins, May'72
08

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica: Evolution of;
Q:
"Was all your geometry in this Cooper-Hewitt
exhibit implicit in your 1944 disclosure memorandum?"
RBF:
"No, some of it has been developed since then,
particularly the concept of primitive vs. frequency.
The three primes are really tetra, octa and VE.
The icosa
is not prime as it only appears at special case frequency.
The icosahedron is the structuring of the VE."
Cite RBF catation of 6 Oct 76 as rewritten by RBF at
3200 Idaho, Wash. DC: 14 Dct' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics: Evolution Of:
Q:
"Was all your geometry in this Cooper-Hewitt
exhibition implicit in your 1944 disclosure memorandum?”
RBF:
"No, some of it. has been developed since then,
particularly the concept of primitive vs. frequency.
The three primes are really tetra, octa and VE. The icosa
is not prime as it only appears at special case frequency²."
-
Cite RBF to EJA at Cooper-Hewitt Museum, N.Y. City; 6 Oct'76

3
(A)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics vs, Model:
"Synergetics is the opposite of the word model."
EJA Query:
"Do you mean in the case of models which
represent just parts, i.e. quantitative models?
Isn't the vector equilibrium okay as a model
because it is a qualitative model?"
RBF Reply: "Instead of quantitative say 'size'. And I don't
like the word 'qualitative' because it seems to
express limitations. My geometry is conceptual
independent of size. Instead of qualitative, say
'subsize', or you can say 'conceptual'; it's a
schematic for the principles."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 9 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics vs. Model:
"Synergetics is the opposite of the word model. Quantitative
size models just represent parts. Conceptual models like the
vector equilibrium are subsize and pretime and yet provide a
a schematic for all the principles."
Cite RBF first rewrite, 3200 Idaho, 10 Sep'74
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetica va, Model:
"Synergetics is the opposite of the word model.
Quantitative
size models just represent parts. Conceptual models like the
vector equilibrium are subsize and pretime and yet provide
a
schematic of the constant interrelationships of all the
principles involved which may be treated with mathematically
as topology."
Cite RBF second rewrite and dictation to EJA, 10 Sep 74.
(c)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics vs. Model:
*Synergetics is the antithesis of arbitrarily parametered or
quantized models of the professional Operations Researcher.
"Quantitatively sized models frequently represent aggregates
of nonsystem parts. Conceptual systems like that of the
vector equilibrium are subsize and pretime and yet provide a
schematic of the constant interrelationships of all the
principles involved which may be treated with mathematically
as topology."
-
Cite RBF final rewrite at 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 10 Sep'74
(D)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics vs. Model:
"Synergetics is the opposite of the word model. It is the
behavior of the whole system unpredicted by behavior of the
parts taken separately. What good are parts? Why have
formulas about parts? Why have models about formulas of the
past. Models are parts and about the performance of those
parts."
Cite tape transcript p.21; RBF to W. Wolf, 28 Apr '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetics Principles:
Principle of Unity
Principle of Angular Topology: Equation
(Corollary) (Principle of Finite Universe Conservation)
Tetrahedronal Mensuration: Equation
Principle of Design Covariables
Principle of Functions
(Corollary) (Principle of Complementarity)
Omnidirectional Closest Packing of Spheres: Equation
Principle of Order Underlying Randomness: Equation
Principle of Prime number Inherency of Structural Systems:
Equation
Scenario Principle
Principle of Synergetic Advantage (Macro-- micro)
(Corollary) (Principle of Irreversibility)
Principle of the Whole System: Corollary of Synergy
Principle of Universal Integrity

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergetic Principles:
"Synergetic principles and theories
Thus far described
Have been experimentally demonstrated;
Their concurrent mathematical proof
Is the work of others.
a
Laws require proof."
Cite RBF to EJA
Sarasota, Florida
7 February 1971

Synergetics Topology:
See Three: Number Function of Three in a Four-axial
System, 24 Jan' 76

TEXT CITATIONS
Synergetics:
RBF Ltr. to Colliers (full text), 10 pp. July'59
For the earliest 400-word systematic description of
synergetics see Appendix I, Earth, Inc., pp.17-18, 1944

Synergetics: (1A)
See Children: Synergetics Makes Physics Lucidly Clear
To Children
Closed System Hierarchy of Synergetics
Computer Obscures Significance of Synergetics
Energetic-synergetic Geometry
Experimentally Founded Mathematics: EFM
Field of Cosmic Formabilities
Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force
Four as Minimum of Relationships Synergetics
Future of Synergetics
Game: Synergetics as a Game
Geodesic Design in Nature: Confirmation Of
Geometry of Thinking
Geometry of Vectors
Ideal Synergetics
Nucleated Systems: Idealistic Vectorial Geometry Of
Sublevel Synergetics
Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature
Topology: Synergetic Topology & Eulerian Topology
Visible Synergetics
Fuller, R.B: Writing Synergetics

Synergetica:
See Euler vs. Synergetics
Atom Has Its Own Synergetics
Nature in a Corner
Conceptual Mathematics
Fourth-dimensional Synergetics Mathematics
Black Holes & Synergetics
(1B)

Synergetics:
See Anticipatory, 1960; 6 Jul'62
Discovery.
Jul 62
Domains, 25 Apr 71*
Domains of Volumes, 18 Jun'71*
Einstein, 16 Nov 72*
Engineering, 3 Oct 172
Eternity (1)
Fourth Dimension, 21 Dec'71*
Geometry, 1960
Gravity (j)*
Geometry of Thinking, 16 Dec*73*
Gravitational System Zone, 14 Jan'55*
Hierarchy of Constellar Configurations, 1959*
Ideal, 23 May '72*
Intertransformings, 28 May172
Invention Sequence' (A)-(D)
Models, 9 Jan '74*
Otherness Point, 24 Sep'73*
Probability Model of Three Cars (2) (3)*
Geodesic Line, 9 Sep'74*
(2A)

Synergetics:
See Package, 17 Nov 72*
Probability (2)*
Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep'73*
Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities (2)
Synergetics Constant (2)*
Tetrahedron, 28 Oct 73*
Tetrahedron:
10 Jan 50*
Inside-out Tetrahedron Begins to Grow,
Timeless, 1 Apri72*
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom,
Dec 61
Two, 25 May'72
Time & Energy, Oct171*
Unity of Universe, 24 Sep173*
Unity as Two, 1960*
Radiolaria (1) (2)
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 24 Feb 72
Unity: Principle Of, 14 Mar 71
Omnidirectional Typewriter (4)*
Modelability, (c)
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 Jun175
(2B)

Synergetics:
See Vector Equilibrium: Field of Energy, (A) (B)*
Generalization & Special Case, Novi 71*
Domains of Interferences, 7 Nov* 73
Multidimensional Accommodation, 11 Dec175
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities, 22 Jun 77
Calculus, 22 Jun'77
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (5)
(20)

Synergetica:
See Synergetics Calculation
Synergetics Characteristics:
Synergetics Constant
Synergetics Principles
Synergetics Topology
Synergetics: Evolution of
Inventory of
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergism vs. Energism:
Q:
"Webster III says the opposite of 'synergism'
is antaganism.
RBF:
"That can't be right as the 'gon' stands for
sides, as in 'polygon,' a planar affair. The opposite of
synergism is energism--as in syntropy-entropy.'
->
Cite RBF notation at 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC: 14 Oct'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergist:
"As a synergist-- we are born synergists-- my exploration
for ultimate focus to illuminate our unique pattern
functioning in respect to larger patterns, must start
mathematically with the largest pattern concept, 1.e.
Universe."
-
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergist:
"The comprehensive realizer becomes a synergist."
->
Citation and context at Reciprocity (5), May149

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
Q.
"The only other word I am interested in right now is
holism. I think J.C. Smits may have coined it.
I know he
wrote the book 'Holism and Evolution.' How does the concept
of holism compare with your concept of synergy?"
RBF: "My word synergy has really a very specific meaning.
Synergy means behaviors of wholes, whole systems unpredicted
by behaviors of any of the system's components considered
separately--which is the same as the mind; the mind is always
synergetic. There are relationships existing between but
not of any of the special cases considered by themselves;
so there is always a relationship. The word holistic is not
necessarily that: it can mean all the parts without any of
the behavior between them. Say you have a holistic human
body and there it is--but life is not there. So I try to
avoid that word."
Cite transcript p. 13, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael
Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"I first developed the concept of synergy, the behavior of
whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of the parts
considered separately, which automatically identifies the
unique behavior of the whole as resulting from the interrela-
tionships existing between but not in any of the parts."
159
Citation & context at Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Strategy,
(1), 26 May 75

KBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"
Even the name we give that unexplained behavior
The name gravity
The name does not explain the mystery
For gravity
Like all scientifically generalized principles
Is inherently synergetic
And synergy means the unique behaviors manifest
only by whole systems
Consisting at minimum
Of two independent variables
Whose unique system behaviors
Are entirely unpredicted
By any behaviors or characteristics
Of any of the system's components
when each is considered only separately."
Cite COMPLEXION 1975, p.17; 31 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Synergy means 'the integrated interbehaviors of all systems
unpredicted by behaviors or characteristics of any of the
systems' parts when considered separately.'"
Sep 73.
Citation and context at Eternal Designing Capability Sequence (2),

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"S= Synergy: The behavior of whole systems unpredicted by
behaviors or characteristics of any of the system's parts
when assessed separately from the other parts of the system.
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1056.12, 13 May 73
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"The angular accelerations plane becomes a very important
device of comprehension. In our generalization of generali-
zations we find that synergy, as the behavior of whole
systems unpredicted by any of the systems' parts taken
separately, embraces both the generalized mass attraction and
the precessional laws. Apparently synergy embraces our
definition of Universe and is therefore probably the most
generalized definition of Universe."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.97, 8 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Synergy manifests itself in the generalized principles
and their exponential rate of interaugmentation."
->
Cite RBF in Baccalaureate Address, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, 3 Jun' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Neither differential and integral calculus, nor 'probability'
statistics, nor any branch of specialized hard science has
accredited synergy as an a priori assumption. General systems
theory... recognizes synergy as inherent...
Citation & context at General Systems Theory, (2), 26 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Wisdom is evolved only by synergy
Which is the behavior of whole aggregates
Not predicted by the separate behaviors or characteristics
Of any one integral part.
Ergo synergy is non-occurrant cerebrally
During monofocus upon self
In preoccupations
Essentially exclusive of others."
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan 22, pp. 4-5T
Citation and context at Windom, Jan '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Our two triangles now add up as one plus one equals four.
The two events make the tetrahedron the four-triangular-
sided polyhedron. This is not a trick; this is the way atoms
themselves behave. Just as the chemists found when they
separated atoms out, or molecules out, of compounds, that the
separate parts never explained the associated behaviors;
there seemed to be 'lost' energies. The lost energies were
the lost synergetic interstabilizations."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 108.03; Nov'71

RBF DEFINTIONS
Synergy:
"There could be no atheism if you knew about synergy. "I
-
RBF at Students International Meditasional Seminar
U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Synergy means studying the integrated behaviors of
universe as opposed to those differentiated out."
-
RBF at Students International Meditation Seminar, U. Mass.
Anherst, 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed
behaviors
of any
of the system's separate parts or any subassembly
of the system's parts
."
Operating Manual SSE P. 71, 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Behavior of whole systems unpredicted by behavior of
any of its parts taken separately from the whole, A stone
by itself does not predict its mass attraction for another.
(Synergy is the only word in any language having that
meaning. The German word gestalt like the English word
constellation means a complex standing together, but
infers no more than the desirable of having all the regular
parts, 1.e., not being deformed.) As synergy is not a
popular word
.
..it is clear that society is not aware
of the existence of such a phenomenon.
-
Cite "Word Meanings," EKISTICS, Vol. 28, Oct. 169.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Synergy is to energy as integration is to
differentiation.
"Nature is comprehensively synergetic.
Since
synergy is the only word having that meaning and we
have proven experimentally that it is not used by
the public, we may conclude that society does not
understand nature."
-7
Cite SENATE HEARING, p. 10, 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS:
Synergy:
"Synergy means
Behavior of whole systems
Unpredicted by
The behavior of their parts."
-Cite HOW LITTLE, p. 56
Oct166
744 AND IT CAME TO
PASS
P119 - what I have learned

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"There is a phenomenon recognized by chemistry
called synergy. The word syn-ergy and
the word
Energy studies
are familiar.
enrgy, en-ergy, are companions.
Energy relates to differentiating-out the separate functions
of nature studying objects, isolated
out of the whole
complex of universe; for instance
, studying gravity,
without consideration of
hydraulics or of plant
genetics.
But synergy represents the integrated
behaviors instead
of
The word '
synergy'
the differentiated behaviors
of nature.
means behaviors of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior
of any of their parts, or sub-
assemblies of their parts.""
Cite MEXICO, p. 21, 10 Oct 63

RBF D FINITIONS
Synergy:
"The chemists discovered that they had to recognize
the word synergy.
The chemists found when they separated
atoms out, or molecules out, of compounds, that the
separated-out parts never explained the associated
behaviors."
MEXICO 63, p. 23, 10 Oct 63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"
I have just given you a word [synergy] which has
a meaning which in a social sense you don't need because you
don't think it is true. It is sort of magical to say the
behavior of the whole is unpredicted by the parts
you added something in that wasn't there before."
if
Cite Oregon Lecture #1, p. 30. 1 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"The behavior of a system as a
whole unpredicted
by its parts."
-
Cite Patent No. 2, 986,241, May 30, 1961
SYNERGETIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Synergy means behavior of integral aggregate
systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their
components or subassemblies of their components."
"
ww
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO. p. 130
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"The synergy is predicated upon my definition of Universe...
"Chrome-nickel-steel is synergetic. All alloys are synergetic.
All compounds are synergetic. Atoms are synergetic. Universe
is synergetic."
-
Citation and context at Tensile Strength of Chrome-Nickel Steel,
Jul159

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Pattern phenomena is synergetic-- which means behavior
of whole systems unpredicted by behavior of respective
subsystems-- which is to say that numbers are meaningless
independent of pattern."
Cite Ltr. to Jim Fitzgibbons (?), Raleigh, NC, undated (1954-59)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"Synergy wholistic behavior unpredicted by parts."
Citation & context at Progressions, May'49
Cite TOTAL THINKING.
P239, bayung

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
"It is .
. . the unpredictable degree of the super and
the super-super n degrees of complex associations of energy
frequencies which seem most preposterous. We cannot view
great confluences of separately and remotely
significant events forwardly resultant to now.
the
Synergy is
inherently surprising."
Citation & context at Periodic Experience, (5), May'49
Cite TOTAL THINKING, lat, pp. 239-210, May149

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
Degrees of Synergy:
"Because the physical characteristics
Of an aggregate's separate components
And their respective submotions
Cannot explain the behaviors
Of their progressively encompassing
And progressively complex systems,
We learn that
There are progressive degrees of synergy,
That is to say,
Synergy-of-synergies,
Which means
Complexes of Behavior Aggregates
Holistically unpredicted
By the separate behaviors
of any of their subcomplex-aggregates;
And because mass attraction
Does not predict precession
Each subcomplex-aggregate
Is in itself
Only a component behavioral aggregation
Within an even greater
Behavioral aggregation,"
Cite INTUITION, p.34 May '72
31
(1)

(2)
13
RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy: Degrees of Synergy:
"Whose comprehensive behaviors
Are never predicted
By the component-aggregates alone.
It is, furthermore,
In experimentally disclosed evidence
That there is
A synergetic progression in Universe--
An hierarchy of total complex behaviors
Entirely unpredicted
By their successive
Subcomplexes' behaviors.
"This means that there exists
A synergetic progression
Of ever more encompassing systems
Of human experience discernibility
Which are spontaneously differentiated
Into unique levels
Of cognitory consideration
In which the contained micro
Of any adjacent macro level
Never predicts the existence"
-
Cite INTUITION, pp.34-35 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
Degrees of Synergy:
"Or the observed behaviors
Of the adjacently next most encompassing
Macro level complex.
"Thus are the atoms
Unpredicted by any
Of their individual
Neutron, protons,
Positrons, electrons,
Neutrinos and antineutrinos,
Et al.
"Nor does any one atem
In itself predict
The family of
Periodically co-ordinate
Unique chemical elements
In ninety-two, self-regenerative varieties
Of mathematically incisiive order;
Together with their several hundred
of interspersed isotopes
To be coexistent
In complex but orderly array.' 11
- Cite INTUITION, pp.35-36 May 172
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
Degrees of Synergy:
"And the periodic behaviors
Of the chemical elements
And their isotopes
In turn fail to predict
Their aggregate behaviors
As molecular structurings
Of various, harmonically complexed,
Unique associabilities of atoms,
Known as chemtéal compounds.
Nor do the chemical compounds' molecular structures
Have inherent characteristics
which predict the level
Of organic associability
Of moleculas as biobgical cells.
And the level of biological cells
Does not predict
Their association in turn
As biological tissue--
The first human
Naked eye-discernible level--
Of these synergetic behaviors."
-
Cite INTUITION, p.36 May '72
(4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
Degrees of Synergy:
"And the level of tissues
Does not predict
Organic biological species
In a vast variety
Of permitted design alternatives,
Whose unique pattern structurings
Are chromosomically programmed
To replacingly aggregate
As regenerative organisms
Ecologically interacting
All around our planet
In chemical phase intercomplementations
All fundamentally actuated
By a combination of mathematical symmetries and cycles
All pyramided upon
Mass interattraction of atoms
Dynamically hovering in orbits
Within critical 'fall-in' proximity
Of one another."
-
Cite INTUITION, p.37 May 172
151
(5)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy:
Degrees of Synergy:
"Offsetting the formidable dilemma
Of comprehensive social ignorance
Human mind finds
A new comprehending advantage
To be inherent in the discovery
That within all the foregoing
Progressively encompassing
Hierarchy of synergetic levels,
Each encompassing level does manifest
Synergetic behaviors
Unpredicted by the behaviors
Of any of its sublevels'
Components' behaviors--
Considered only by themselves.
Though neither known nor anticipated
By the status quo's present body of knowledge
This hierarchy of hierarchies
Constitutes a cosmic consistency,
Warranting its recognition
As a generalized law of Universe. 1
Cite INTUITION, pp.42-43 May 172
(6)

Synergy: Degrees Of: Second-degree:
See Precession (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy: 2+1 = 4:
"Take three equi-edged triangles, stack them together
edge to edge as a three-seded tent. Inadvertently gou have
produced a fourth equi-edged triangle at their base.
Altogether they form a tetrahedron. This is synergy.
One plus two equals four. Take one away from the four
and only two remain. The one that was lost was annihiliated."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p.34, 13 Nov 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy: 2 + 1 = 41
"The phenomenon synergy is topologically to be demonstrated
by the addition of one triangle
to two triangles
A
which combine to form a system of four triangles:
the minimum system; 1.e. the tetrahedron. Therefore,
2 + 1 = 4,
= synergy; Q.E.D. and it is therefore deducible
as a corzollary of the latter's two faces plus one face
equal four faces; 2F + 1F - 4F, that the discovery or
construction of one triangle synergetically imposes
coexistence of the other three, because the 2 + 1 = 4
accrued to fundamental 'existence' as comprising a system
of minimum tunability."
-
Cite Draft Ltr to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, (1954
-1959)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy Sequence: Two Massive Spheres:
"Synergy is one
Of those generalized principles.
It is defined scientifically
As behavior of whole systems
Unpredicted by behaviors
Of any of their separate parts.
Synergy is disclosed, for instance,
By the attraction for one another
Of two or more separate objects."
-
Cite INTUITION, p.22, May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy Sequence: Two Massive Spheres:
"There is nothing in the separate behavior or in
the dimensional or chemical characteristics of any one
single massive entity which by itself suggests that
it will not only attract but also be attracted by
another neighboring massive entity. The behavior of
the two together is unpredicted by either one by
itself. There is nothing that a single massive sphere
will or can ever do by itself that says it will both
exert and winin yield attractively with a neighboring
massive sphere. That is synergy."
"
-
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 34, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy Sequence: Two Massive Spheres:
"We've already, ourselves, learned that there is the
phenomenon synergy and the very simplest case was that one
single massive sphere hung up in no way indicates that
there would be mass attraction if there were another sphere,
and that suddenly when you get the two together you
discover this mass attraction. Nothing in the single
sphere itself predicts that there will be attraction invol-
ving the two."
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, #327, p.2.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy of Synergies:
"Wherefore it is also manifest that
Universe is the maximum synergy of synergies
Being utterly unpredicted by any of its parts
Or by the hierarchy of synergies
Of ever exponentially advancing degree--
No complex stage
Having been predicted
By its parts.
For instance,
The chemistry and structure
Of the human's toenail
In no way predicts
The complex, organix behavior
Known synergistically
As humans."
Cite INTUITION, p.44 May 172

RBP DEFINITIONS
Synergy of Synergies:
"We know the codes but we do not know the 'how come'
of their producing an elephant. The complementarity of
the holisticness of these special-case individuals
balances out. Elephants are successful designs. We have
no evidence of biological species which are inherently
uncompleted designs. In the hierarchy of hierarchies of
synergies, Universe is the unpredicted behavior of any
of its sublevel synergetics. We must start our synergetic
analysis at the level of Universe and thereafter with the
known behavior of the greatest whole and the known behavior
of some of its parts, proceed as permitted mathematically
to discover its unknown parts. We have the Greek triangle
with its known 180 degrees of angle which it compounded
with the knowledge of the magnitude of any two sides and
their included angle, or of any two angles and their included
side, etc., will permit discovery of the magnitude of the
balance of the triangle's six parts. Or, using trigonometry,
if we know the magnitude of any two parts, we can ferret out
the others."
[15]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1050.04, April '72 as
vastly amplified from RBF Chicago tape, 31 May 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Synergy of Synergies:
"Universe apparently is omnisynergetic. No single part or
experience will ever be able to explain the behavior of
the whole. The more experience one has, the more opportunity
there is to discover the synergetic effects, such, for
instance, as to be able to discern a generalized principle.
Then discovery of a plurality of generalized principles
permits the discovery of the synergetic effects of their
complex interactions. The synergetic effect produced by
the interaction of the known family of generalized
principles is probably what is spoken of as Wisdom."
Cite Nehru Speech, pp. 34-35. 13 Nov 169
SYNERGY OF SYNERGIES SEC. 153]

TEXT CITATIONS
Synergy of Synergies:
150.01-153
217.04
1050.10-1050.13

Synergy of Synergies:
See Omniscience
Omnisynergetic
Prediction
Whole Systems
Whole System:
Principle of
(1)

Synergy of Synergies:
See Conditioning, 14 Feb 72
(2)

TEXT CITATIONS
Synergy:
Chapter 1: 101,01-117
1056.20 (37)
400.23-400.24
81013.12
640.01
724.34
931.51
1004.11
1009.94
1009.96
1031.11
1050.13
1056.12

Synergy: Synergetic:
See Annihilation vs. Synergy
Corollary of Synergy
Cosmic Synergy
Desynergize
Linear & Spherical Analysis
Metaphysical Synergy
Physical Synergy
Social Realization of Synergy
Supersynergetic
Synergy vs. Precession
Supreme Conceptual Synergy
Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel
Whole
Whole Systems
Antisynergetic: Antisynergy
(1)

Synergy: Synergize:
(2)
See Electromagnetic Generating & Distributing, 22 May' 73
Eternal Designing Capability Sequence (2) *
Jet Engine (1)
Precession, 16 Jun 172
Prediction, 3 Oct 73
Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel, Jul'59*
Triangle (A)
Unselfishness, Jan'72
Wisdom, Jan 72*
General Systems Theory, (2)*
Progressions, May'49*
Periodic Experience, (5)*
Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Strategy, (1)*
Triacontrahedron: Great Circles Of, 27 Apr* 77
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1)

Synergy:
See Synergy: Degrees Of
Synergy Sequence: Two Massive Spheres
Synergy of Synergies
Synergy: 2 + 1 = 4:
Synergism vs. Energiam
Synergist
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntax:
N
Vector equilibriums are nuclear structures embracing
all the variables of Universe, associating all the molecular
build-ups, which has to do with syntax because I am holistic
and I really don't want to be limited.
-
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium, 16 Oct'72

Syntax:
See Noun
Deprefixing
Verb vs. Noun
Verb

Synthetica:
See Artificial, Jan' 59
Wood Technology, (2)-(4)
No Energy Crisis, (A) (B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropic
"Syntropics would be the black holes.
"
For citation and context see Black Hole (1)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"Syntropy can be apprehended only through overall or
comprehensive review of the totally recalled information
of long-term experience."
Citation & context at Myopia: Incasting vs. Broadcasting, 22 Jan
175
10

HBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"G = Syntropy:
Energy associative as matter precession,
gravity, magnetics, interference, knotting.'
"
->
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1056.20 (Item #31), 13 May 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"It was only a few years ago
That it seemed logical
To cease speaking of the phenomena involved
As an ventropy,
Entropy being disintegratively negative;
Antientropy was, in effect, a double negative
Used to express a positive.
So to render the concept positive
And to identify its kinship
To synergy,
I started speaking of it as syntropy
As the positive complementary
Of the negative entropy. **
- Cite BRAIN & MIND, p. 143 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"... Syntropy also means
To collect, concentrate, and store..."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.145 May '72

107
RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"And mind went on to discern
That physical experiences disclosed and confirmed
That all living tissue
During cell multiplication
Must import more energy
Than it exports
Else it could neither grow
Nor sustain healthy balance.
And mind also witnessed
That crystalline structures
Also can import energy
But not as much as they export;
And mind identified
Energy importing by the name ayntropy."
Cite BHAIN & MIND,
1971 p.82 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"Syntropy
Reverse of entropy.
.
For evolution is apparently intent
That life in universe
Must
survive.
For biological life
Is syntropic--
Because it sorts and selects
Unique chemical elements--
From out their randomly received,
Time and locality of reception,
As celestial imports;
Or random occurrence
As terrestrial resources-- fresh or waste--
Around our earth's biosphere--
And reassociated those elementa
In orderly molecular structures
Or as orderly organs
Of ever increasing magnitude.
-
Cite INTUITION draft, p.28, 7 Feb'71
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"Thus effectively reversing
The entropic behaviors
Of purely physical phenomena
Which give off energy
In ever more random
Expansive and disorderly ways."
- Cite INTUITION draft, p.28, Sarasota, 7 Feb'71
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Syntropy:
"Syntropy: where energies are being accumulated.
as in our Earth, or in a vigorous child."
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 40, 19 Oct'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"Syntropy is the law of elsewhere-always-orderly regrouping
of the entropic offcastings of all dying systems. Aging and
death engenders elsewhere birth and growth."
Citation & context at Complementarity of Growth & Aging, 22Jan'75

RbF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"We know scientifically that all physical systems are
continually giving off energies. We call this entropy.
(A)
Due to each of the local Universe system's unique periodicities
the given-off energies are randomly released in respect to other
systems. Thus various localities of the physical Universe are
expanding and expending energies in an increasingly
disorderly manner. But fundamental complementarity requires
that there must be other localities and phases of Universe
wherein the Universe is reconvening, collecting, and condens-
ively contracting in an increasingly orderly manner as a
complementary regenerative conservation phase of Universe
thus manifesting a turn-around from disorder to order, from
entropy to syntropy.
"Entropy is increasing local disorder; syntropy is locally
increasing order. Order is obviously the complementary, hut
non-mirror image, of disorder."
"Local environments are forever altering themselves due to the
myriad associative and disassociative interpatterning options
of syntropy and entropy. Universe is a vast variety of
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Secs. 1052.50 -.52, 1 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
Electromag-
(B)
"frequency rates of such eternally regenerative explosive
entropic vs. implosive syntropic pulsation systems.
netic radiant energy is entropic; gravitational energy is
syntropic. Where entropy is gaining over syntropy death
prevails; where syntropy is gaining over entropy life prevails."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1052.52, 1 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"Electromagnetic radiant energy is entropic; gravitational
energy is syntropic."
Citation & context at Gravity (d), 12 Jun'74
OMNI TOPOLOGY-
SEC. 1052.50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"Universe is an eternally regenerative entropically vs.
ayntropically pulsative system. +
"The stars are all entropic giving off energies in evermore
expansive
and disorderly ways.
"Planet Earth is a syntropic center converting random energy
receipts
into orderly systems.
"The vegetation through photosynthesis converts the random
receipts into orderly chemical molecules.
"Hydrocarbons in turn are assembled into beautiful orderly
biological species--
"The post-death residues of which are stored ever more deeply
within the Earth's
crust as fossil energy resources.
"Human mind operates terrestrially as a local cosmic monitor.
Humans'
minds' syntropic effectiveness
As compared to that of any other species' biological functioning
Is as the speed of light
is to the speed of sound
Which is
one-millionfold more effective.
Minus their minds, human organisms function only entropically."
Cite Universal Requirements for a Bwelling Advantage, 31 May'74
OMNITOPOLOGY -
SEC
1652.50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"Entropy is increasing disorder locally; syntropy is increas-
ingly orderly.
Order is obviously the complementary, but not
mirror-image, of disorder."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 5 May'74
OMNITOPOLOGY SEC. 1052.50]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Sytropy and Entropy:
"The focal manifest of entropic dispersal, disorderly/
syntropic association which is increasingly orderly:
Syntropy: collecting, compacting, implosive.
Entropy: dispersing, expanding, explosive.
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 temple / sic--
temporal? EJA relativity. Time is within our lags and
gestation rates and in the frequencies of the electromagnetic
spectrum. But every time we have annihilation into eternity,
it is not lost in principle; it is only lost in the relative
inaccuracy which me must have to differentiate and have
awareness.
"Every time you enter eternity, everything called shape is
cancelled and therefore there can be no static frame of
reference. Our scenario Universe does not have shape nor
is there relation to any static frame. There is an ideal
which is eternal and inherently complex, which complexity"
Cite RBF to BO'R, Kent, Ohio, 23 May 72
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy and Entropy:
"is accommodated by the ideal transformability which
synergetics elucidates.
"The episodes have shape, but the shape is always mildly
asymmetrical and continually transforming. There is
conceptual shape in the ideal, i.e., the ideal tetrahedron,
but no size, no time. We have here what the Greek mathe-
maticians were trying to say, but more accurately. Time
gives specific size and asymmetry due to inherent lags: the
lags of realization!
"Synergetics is the central symmetry through which the
asymmetry pulsates. There are several kinds of positive
and negative. The eternal temple of positive and negative,
the North and South Poles; concave and convex, inside and
outside. There is a fourfold twoness: one the exterior
cosmic tetrahedron and the interior cosmic tetrahedron; the
other is the circumference around the pole. The additive
twoness is the poles; the multiplicative twoness is the
concave-convex; these are the eternity.
-
Cite RBF to BUIR, Kent, Ohio, 23 May 72
SHAPE SECS 526.11 + 526.12 EXCEPT LAST TP
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy and Entropy:
"A splash of water demonstrates waves and we get
precessional at 90° and gravitational at 180°.
•
"There! 'Two kinds of twoness, 'wouldn't that make a pretty
good song!"
Cite RBF to BO'R, Kent, Ohio, 23 May'72
(3)

RBP DEFINITIONS
OHNITOPILOGY)
Syntropy & Entropy:
ro
"Because of the tidal fluctuation of entropy-entropy
Local environments are forever altering themselves."
SEC.
1052.50
- Cite BRAIN AND MIND,
p.83 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"Entropy is the momentary disintegral,
that is, the disintegrative phasing
And expanding disorder
Of relative asymmetry
As viewed relative only
To the disassociating phases
And the abndonments of dying systems
Which phenomena may also be simultaneously witnessed
As syntropic recollections
And increasing orderliness
Relative to new system formulations."
-
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan 172, p. 7.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"The star tetrahedron's entropy may be the basis of
irreversible radiation, whereas the syntropic vector
equilibrium's reversibility-- inwardly-outwardly--
is the basis for the gravitationally maintained
integrity of Universe."
Citation at Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"Syntropy is the reverse of entropy."
Cite RBF to EJA
Sarasota, Florida
7 February 1971

KBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
Where syntropy is gaining over entropy life prevails
where entropy is gaining over syntropy death prevails."
May 192
* Citation and context at Feedback, Feb'71
ANNITOPOLOGY SEC. 1052.507

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Entropy:
"We know scientifically that all local physical
systems are continually giving off energies. We call
this entropy.
Due to each of the local systems'
unique periodicities, etc., the given off energies
are diffusely and randomly released in respect to other
systems. Thus the physical universe is continually
expanding and increasingly disorderly.
"Fundamental complementarity requires that there
must be some phase of universe where the universe is
contracting and increasingly orderly.
"
"Here you see the turn-around from disorder to
order from entropy to antientropy."
OMNITOPOLOGY - SEC. 1052.56)
Cite WORLD GAME (3), Oct 69

Syntropy & Entropy:
(1)
See Boltzmann Sequence
Expanding Physical Universe vs. Contracting Metaphysical
Universe
Irreversibility: Principle of
Order & Disorder
Radiation-gravitation
Tidal
B
Cosmic Regeneration
Universal Integrity
Information vs. Entropy
Local Conservation
Importings & Exportings
Synergism va. Energism

Syntropy & Entropy:
(2A)
See Action, May165
Astrophysics, 13 May 73
Cosmic Accounting Sequence (2)
Dimensional Supremacy, 16 Nov'72
Ecology Sequence (A)"
Eternity (1)
Feedback, Feb 71*
Gravity (d)*
Information, 1967
Instant Universe (1) (2)
Life, 13 Nov'69
Metaphysical & Physical, Jun'66; 19 May '75
Relationship Analysis (1) (2)
Star Tetrahedron, 8 Oct '71*
Star Tetrahedron & VE, 9 Nov' 73
Tidal, May 72
Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advantage,
31 May174
Odd Ball, 10 Nov 74
Local Entity, 1960
Complementarity of Grigth & Aging, 22 Jan1'75*

Syntropy & Entropy:
See Cosmic Vacuum Cleaner, 16 May 175
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 May'75
Structural Sequence, (B)
Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model, (C)-(E)
Nucleus, 13 Nov 75
Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol, 19 Jul 76
Three: Number Function of Three in a Four-axial
System, 24 Jan' 76
(2B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syntropy & Time:
"There is a more than concomitant increase of syntropy
with time; i.e., the excess integrative effectiveness of
gravity over entropic radiation increases the order.
"
-
Cite RBF marginalia at R.G. Swinburne review in Times
Literary Supplement, 20 Dec 74; done at 3200 Idaho, Wash.,
DC, 14 May 175

Syntropy: Syntropic:
See Antientropy
Black Hole
Cosmic Syntropy
Entropy
Gravity as Syntropy
Local Syntropy
Manifests
Metaphysical Syntropy
Regenerative:
Regenerativity.
Stars: Implosive Forces of the Stars
(1)

Syntropy: Syntropic:
(2)
223
See Biological Life, May 72
Boltzmann Sequence, (5) (6)
Myopia: Incasting vs. Broadcasting, 22 Jan'75
Tunability, 19 Oct'72
Universal integrity:
Principle of, 8 May '72
Vector Equilibrium, 8 Oct 71
Gravity, 11 Feb 76'

Syntropy:
See Syntropics
Syntropy & Entropy
Syntropy & Time
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"It takes a minimum of four differentially experienceable
event-points to define a system. System is primitively
fourfoldedly experienceable. When humans see the stars they
see three separate subsystemic special case events: there is
neither special case measurability nor generalised consider-
ability. With inherent apriori systemic fourfoldedness there
1s imaginatability of topological vertexes and a sixfoldedness
of unique interrelatedness of the inside-from-outside
differentiating thinkability. Conceptual = imaginable."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 1071.25, 26 Dec$74

2312
RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"You can't have a system of less than four points that
divide the Universe into insideness and outsideness of the
system. The number four is the beginning number and not
the number one. Unity is plural and at minimum two. There
is a minimum of four vertexes, a minimum of six basic
relationships that are the tetrahedron: six degrees of
freedom each have a positive and negative so you have the
twelve degrees of freedom right there."
+
->
Citation & context at Human Beings & Complex Universe, (7)
16 Feb 78

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Zero... is the eternal complementation of system."
Citation and context at Zero, 4 Nov'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Systems are individually conceptual polyhedral integrities."
-
Citation and context at Omni-intertangancy, 17 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Unly systems define insideness and outsideness, There-
fore, two points, or three points, cannot by themselves
define insideness and outsideness. Fourballs are minimum
to system's omnidirectional differentiations of insideness
and outsideness."
Cite RBF marginalis at SYNERGETICS Sec. b10.23 of Dec' 71 as
rewritten 29 Sep 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system divides all the Universe into three parts:
(1) All of the Universe outside the system;
(2) All of the Universe inside the system; and,
(3) The remaining aggregate of the Universe whose
members altogether constitute the polyhedronal
system which definitely separates all the
insideness of Universe from all the outsideness
of Universe.
"It takes a minimum of four points not lying in the same
plane to produce insideness and outsideness.
Four points
not in the same plane inherently describe a tetrahedron,
regular or irregular."
Cite SET X, p.13, Aug'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"All systems are continually importing as well as exporting
energy. Physics has found only myriad pattern integrities
of comprehensively nonsimultaneous and only partially
overlapping evolution, of disintegrative 'heres,' and
reintegrative 'theres,' with omnilocal vari-intertransforma-
bilities of limited duration identities, of an apparently
eternal, physical Universe regenerating, mathematically
eatable energy quanta."
*Incorporated at SYNERGETICS draft, Sec. 400.11, 4JUn'72
Cite RBF holograph, Boar's Head Inn, Charlottesville, 3 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"In addition to possessing inherent insideness and outsideness,
a system is inherently concave and convex, complex and finite.
A system may be either symmetrical or asymmetrical. A system
may consist of a plurality of subsystems. Onenesss, twoness,
and threeness cannot constitute a system, as they inherently
lack insideness and outsideness. Twoness constitutes &
wavilinear relatedness. Threeness constitutes planar related-
ness, which is inherently triangular. Three triangular planes
alone cannot differentiate, distinguish, or constitute a
system. At minimum, it takes four triangular planes having
inherent fourness of vertexes to constitute a differential
withinness and withoutness. Fourness of geometrically contig-
uous and synchronous event foci and their coincidentally
defined four triangular planes, along with their six common
edges provided by the six wavilinear vectors connecting the
four event foci, altogether inherently differentiate, disting-
uish, initially institute, and constitute prime or minimum
withinness and withoutness."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 400.05, 27 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Unit means system integrity. Organic means regenerative
system integrity. As minimum or prime systems consist of
four event foci and their always and only coexisting fourness
of triangulrarly defined planar facets, and sixness of
wavilinearly defined minimum set of unique componentation
relatedness, unity is inherently plural. Unity is plural.
A system is a local phenomenon in the Universe. Each of the
conceivable or imaginable awareness or thinkability entities
or phenomena inducing or producing onenesses of twonesses are
subvisible and potentially further subdivisible, or as-yet
unresolved, ergo unrecognized systems. Functions always and
only co-occur as subsystem relativistics, characteristics,
inherencies, and proclivities. Functions occur only as parts
of systems. The Universe is constituted of a complex
plurality of nonsimultaneous and only partially overlappingly
occuring systems, not one system."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, at Sec. 400.08, RBF rewrite, 26 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is the first subdivision of Universe into a
conceivable entity separating all that is nonsimultaneously
and geometrically outside the system, ergo irrelevant,
from all that is nonsimultaneously and geometrically inside
and irrelevant to the system%3B it is the remainder of
Universe which conceptually constitutes the system's set
of conceptually tunable and geometrical interrelatability
of events."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, Sec. 400.02, RBF rewrite, 25 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is the first subdivision of Universe. It divides
all the Universe into six parts: firstly, all the universal
events occurring geometrically outside the system; secondly,
all the universal events occurring geometrically inside the
system; thirdly, all the universal events occurring nonsimul-
taneously and remotely unrelatedly prior to the system events;
fourthly, the Universe events occurring nonsimultaneously
remotely and unrelatedly subsequent to the system events;
fifthly, all the geometrically arrayed set of events constituting
the system itself; and, sixthly, all the Universe events
occurring synchronously and or coincidentally to and with
the systematic set of events uniquely considered."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, Sec. 400.01, RBF rewrite, 25 Kay'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Systems are inherently polyhedral.
Systems of thought
Divide the Universe
Into the conceptual and the nonconceptual."
Citation & context at Thought, May'72
- Cita INCTUTOR -0.47-May 2

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is the first subdivision of Universe. It divides
all the Universe into six parts: firstly, all the universal
events occurring geometrically outside the system; secondly,
all the universal events occurring geometrically inside the
system; thirdly all the Universe events occurring nonsimul-
taneously and remotely unrelatedly prior to the system events;
fourthly, all the Universe events occurring nonsimultaneously
remotely and unrelatedly subsequent to the system events;
fifthly all the geometrically arrayed set of events constitu-
ting the system itself; and, sixthly, all the Universe events
occurring synchronously are or coincidentally to and with
the system ic set of events uniquely considered."
Cite RBF rewrite at Synergetics Sec. 400.01, 24 May 172

HBP DEFINITIONS
System:
"The definition of a system as the first subdivision of finite
but nonunitary and nonsimultaneous conceptuality of the
Universe into all the Universe outside the system, and all
the Universe inside the system, with the remainder of the
Universe constituting the system itself, which alone, for the
conceptual moment, is conceptual."
-Cite HBF marginalis, 20 Jan. 172, incorporated at SYNERGETICS
Draft, 251.26, Feb 172

12
RBF DEFINTIONS
System:
"Operationally speaking we always deal only in systems
and all systems are characterized projectionally by
spherical triangles which control all our experiential
transformations."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Operational Mathematics, One Spherical
Triangle Considered as Four."
1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Three planes can never have a system because it takes
four planes to have a withinness and withoutness."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 14 Sept. 1971.
SYSTEM SEC.
406.04

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Electromagnetic frequencies of systems are sometimes
complex but always constitute the prime rational integer
characteristics of physical systems."
exist in complementation of
gravitational forces to
Cite NASA Speech, p. 91
SYSTEM
-
SEC. 400.51)
Insert added by RBF at
Deer Isle, Me., 25 Aug. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Systems can orbit. Systems can contract and expand.
They can torque; they can turn inside out and they can
interprecess their parts."
Cite RBF insert at Synergetics draft, Sec. 404.2, Bear Island,
25 August 1971.
SYSTEM
-
SEC, 400.41)

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Une difference between a domain and a volume is that
a volume cannot have an interior point, because if it
did it would be subject to more economical subdivisions."
Citation & context at Domains, 25 Aug171
Cate Synergetice-draft, bec: BB0.3, August 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Planet Earth is a system. You are a system."
-
Cite RBF, Deer Isle, 25 Aug. 171, Synergetics draft Sec. OK
SYSTEM SEC. 400.34
403.2

RBP DEFINITIONS
Systems:
"Systems are domains of volumes.
SYSTEM
"
-
Citation at Domains, 18 Jun'71
Cita RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Chez Wolf, 18 June 1971.
SEC 400.531

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systems:
"Systems can have nuclei and prime volumes cannot.
There are only three prime volumes."
Citation at Prime Volumes, 18 Jun'71
-
CITE RRE to Eity
18 June 1971.
SYSTEM SEC, 406.53)
Comm-Chex Wolf

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
COCTAHEDRON
"All systems -- whether
icosahedron or crocodile-
have unit surface."
Citation at Unit Surface, 4 May'71
RB in Robert Snyder film (440 minute version)tr & May 17

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"You cannot get out of universe,
system. Universe is not a shape.
Universe is not a
Universe is a
You can only
scenario.
You are always in universe.
get out of systems."
Citation at Universe, May'71
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft - "Conceptuality: Space"
May, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"The local environment is a system. A line is always
formed by an alteration of the local environment by
another system. 'Limes' are the pattern of consequence
of one system altering another system, either by adding
to it, or by taking away from it. The event leaves
some kind of tracery.
"
-
Citation & context at Line, 25 Apr 71
- Cite SYNERGETICS Draft- "Conceptuality: Interference"
RRF Harginalia, Boston, 25 April 1971

RBF DEFINTIONS
System:
These
"Our definition of an opening is that it is surrounded,
that is framed, by trajectories. Every trajectory in a
system will have to have at least two crossings.
are always as viewed, because the lines could be at
different levels from other points of observation."
-
Cite RAP to EJ, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
- Citation at Opening, 22 Apr '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"There are no surfaces. Therefore there are no areas.
So Euler's topological aspects have to be altered to
read:
"lines" 3
trajectories; "vertexes"
crossings; and
"areas" = openings, 1.e., where there are no trajectories
or crossings. This relates to systems.
"
-
Citation at Openings, 22 Apr 71
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
NOVENT - SEC 524.301

RBF DEFINITION
System:
"Systems have only one insideness and only one
outsideness. 11
SYSTEM SEC. 400.03
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Hotel Beverly, New York
7 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systems:
"Systems are, in effect, spherical gears.
Their internal-external pulsating and rotating teeth
Consist in reality
Of both circumferential and radial waves
Of various frequencies
Of subdivision of spherical unity.
They often fail to mesh
With other local systems.
Some of them mesh only in special aspects.
The universally-frequent non-meshing
Of geometrical sizes and rates
Of wave lengths and frequencies
Produces an omni-condition
In which the new system's center
As each is created
Must continually occupy
Am omnidirectionally greater domain."
Cite RBF DRaft
BRAIN & MIND p.1971
SYSTEM SEC 400.42

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
--
(1)
"A system is the first subdivision of Universe. It divides all
the Universe into three parts;; firstly all of the Universe
outside the system; secondly-- all of the Universe within
the system; and thirdly-- the small remainder of Universe
components which constitute the system considered.
"A system is an enclosure consisting of a conceptual aggregate
of recalled experience items, or events, having inherent
insideness and outsideness. A system is the antithesis of
nonsystem, which latter lacks omnidirectional definition.
Nonsystems, such as theoretical planes or straight lines cannot
be found experimentally. We are scientifically bound to
experiementally demonstrable systems thinking. All systems are
subject to comprehension and can be coped with systematically.
"General systems theory treats wint phenomena which are
holistically comprehensible. The objects of our experience
are finite systems. Their superficial outline closes back on
itself multidirectionally as a systematic continuity of
relevantly contiguous events. They are thus separable from
other systems. There are systems comprised of systems."
* Cite NEHRU SPEECH, pp.12,13, 18. 13 Nov*69
SYSTEM - SECS. 406.01 + 400.10, 12 +34

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"We could divide Universe into three parts: (1) all the out-
sideness; (2) all the insideness; (3) the system itself which
subdivides
the first two.
(2)
"The surface of any system is finite-- that is, it returns.
upon
itself. Our
Earth sphere is a system. The surface of any
system such as the Earth is finite. It
is closed back upon it-
self."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, pp. 12, 13, 18.
13 Nov 69
SYSTEM
SECS
40010.12 +341

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is an enclosure consisting of a conceptual
aggregate of recalled experience items, or events, having
inherent insideness and outsideness."
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 13. 13 Nov'69
SYSTEM- SEC. 400.13)

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"The first subdivision of universe into a conceivable
entity which separates all the universe into two main
parts, i.e., all of the universe which is non-simultaneously
outside of the system and all of the universe which is
non-simultaneously inside the system; and all of the
remaining universe which is conceptually in the system's
set of component events of conceptually tunable inter-
relatability-- conceptual tuning being physically within
the "rainbow" range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and
imaginatively conceivable within the size-independent,
angular configurations and topological characteristics
of polyhedra or polyhedral complexes. Systems having
insideness and outsidedness must _ return upon them-
selves in a plurality of directions and are therefore
interiorally concave and exteriorally convex. Because
concaveness reflectively concentrates radiation impinging
upon it and convexity diffuses radiation impinging upon
it, they are fundamentally different, and therefore
every system has an always and only coexisting complementarity.
System unity is inherently plural. Unity is plural."
Cite "Word Meanings," EKISTICS, Vol. 28, Oct 169
SYSTER - SEC. 400.02 + .03 +05

RBF DEFINITION
System:
"A system is any subdivision of Universe."
-
Cite RBF glossary of term (P. Pearce) Synergetics draft,
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
" A system is inherently concave and convex; it is
finite.
"A agstem is a local phenomenon in the universe that
is geometrically definable because it returns or closes
upon itself in all directions."
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE, 1967
SYSTEM - SEC. 460.04 7.05)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systems:
in order for systems to have an insideness and an out-
sideness the systems must have a geometrical form which
returns upon itself in a plurality of directions.
"Flat planes or straight lines cannot return upon
themselves. They reach away toward infinity.
"A polygon's perimeter does return upon itself as
viewed from either pole of the axis of the perimeter.
Systems require return upon themselves as polyhedra whose
polygons peregrinate around three or more non-congruent
axes. Systems are finite polyhedra. Systems are locally
conceptual components of universe. Systems, as viewed
from inside are inherently concave and as
outside are inherently convex."
viewed from
SYSTEM- SEC. 400.06.
-Cite NASA Speech, p. 42, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Every system, as a subdivision of the total
experiences of universe must accommodate traffic of
inbound and outbound events and inward-outward
relationships with other system aspects of universe.
SYSTEM SEC. 400.131
"
Cite NASA Speech, p. 42,
Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systems:
"Topologically speaking, there are in all systems the
additive twoness of the poles and a multiplicative twoness
of the coexistent concaveness and convexity of the
system's insideness and outsideness respectively."
-
Cite NASA SPEECH,
62
P.
Jun'66
SYSTEM SEC. 400.33

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systems:
"All systems are polyhedra."
SYSTEM-SEC
400.03
Cite NASA SPEECH, p. 86, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"I found it quite possible to subdivide the universe
instantly by developing the concept of a 'system. 1 A
system is a local phenomenon in universe that is geometrically
definable because it returns or closes upon itself in all
directions. Systems may be symmetrical or assymetrical.
I found that systems are the first subdivision of universe
for they subdivide the universe into all the universe that
is inside and all the universe that is outside the system."
SYSTEM SEC. 400.521
Cite SUMMARY VISION 65, p. 137

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"
•
•
Any one of these systems can, of course, spin,
so there is an axis of rotation
any system."
Cite LEDGEMONT LAB Lecture 15 Oct 164., P. 68.
SYSTEM SEC. 400.401

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"Twoness and oneness can't make a system. They don't have
insideness or outsideness at all."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 248.
11 Jul 62
SYSTEM SEC. 400-041

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
M
Spherical trigonometry is a very different kind of
trigonometry from the plane. I want you to get familiar
with it because there is no plane flat surface on Earth.
So therefore there are no plane triangles and we are dealing
always in systems. Systems are characterized by triangles
which are spherical triangles. These are the kinds of
triangles which control our fundamental transformations."
-
Citation at Spherical Triangle, 10 Jul'62
Cite-ORBOON -Lecture #6, pp. 205-6, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
Well, they are spherical triangles and there is a
concave little and a concave big as viewed from inside and
a convex little and a
convex big as viewed from
Convex and concave are not the same;
outside.
so there are
inherently four. Infact, you will always find there are
four there. Four is the minimum and when we get to any
kind of system there is always four there. You will get
used to the fourness.
"
•
Cate OREGON Lecture #6, p. 207, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"We can state that the number of vertices of any
system (including a 'sphere' which must, geodesically,
in universal energy conservation, be a polyhedron of n
vertices) minus two times 360° equals the sum of the
angles around all of the vertices of the system."
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 152, 1860

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is a patterning of force that returns upon
itself in all directions-- that is, a closed configuration
of
vectors.
It
"Insofar as a system loops back on itself, its
dimensions are limited; hence the system is finite.
has an inside and an outside: 'withinness' and 'withoutness.
Every system consequently divides the universe into
two parts; that which is within the system, and that
which is external. A plane (as defined by Euclid) can
not constitute a system, because a plane is conceived to
be a surface without limit. It extends on an on, to
infinity, never returning on itself, never developing
inwardness or outwardness.
"It is characteristic of a system that the angles
around its vertexes must be concave or convex with
respect to the position from which they are viewed--
concave if looked at from the interior space, convex
when viewed from outdide.
SYSTEM SEC. 4.0.30+31
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"It is significant, however, that the angles surrounding a
vertex cannot add up to 360°, for it is a condurrounding
system that it be finite; which is to say that it should curve
back on itself from all directions. If the angles around any
vertex add up to 360°, they would initiate an infinite plane.
And since a plane has inifinite extension and does not close
back on itself, this condition violates the requirement of
finiteness-- the essential property of a system.'
(B)
Cite MARKS, PP.42-43, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
• •·
"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
locally dominant 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, micro-
cosmic clan which occur inherently within and infra to the
tunable frequency and relative size ranging of the considered
set."
Citation and context at Radome Sequence (2)(3), 29 Dec 58

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is a min-max tunable, ergo, a primary definable
subdivision of Universe. As such a definable set, it
separates and dismisses, inwardly and outwardly of its tuned
finite pattern all that is microcosmically and macrocosmically
irrelevant and untimely. Systems have, therefore, time, and
direction inwardness and outwardness, and polarity, thus
identifying the hitherto seemingly abstract two-ness of
Euler's topological formula: 'Faces plus vertexes equal edges
plus twoness.'"
-
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Jim (Fitzgibbon?), Raleigh, NC, 1954-59

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"...Systems are inherently finite."
Context and citation at Plurality, 5 Mar' 55

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is a primary definable thought tune-inable
subdivision of Universe. As such a definable set it separates
and dismisses inwardly and outwardly of its tuned finite
pattern all that is microcosmically and macrocosmically
irrelevant. Systems have, therefore, inwardness and
outwardness limits and electable view induced polarities,
thus always identifying the twoness of Euler's formula."
SYSTEM-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Donald W. Robertson, 8 Jan '55. p. 4.
SEC. 400.061

RBF DEFINITIONS
System:
"A system is any subdivision of universe.'
"
- Cite RBF Glossary of Terms
bound with "The Live Book Squad"
Sep*49

RBF DEFINITIONS
System Awareness:
"System awareness begins when we find the otherness surrounding
us, when we are omnidirectionally enclosed. The volume sense
is only from inside. From outside four points can look like
one point or they can look flat. Not until we turn a
tetrahedron inside-out do we have microcosmic awareness.
until we swallow the otherness do we have microcosmic
Not
volumetric awareness. We become the outside. At first,
we were just the inside. In the womb. In the womb we had
tactile sensorial awareness of volumetric surroundment by
the otherness, but no visual, aural, or olfactoral awareness
of the otherness-surroundment. The child develops otherness
awareness only as outside volumetric surroundment within
which he finally discovers Me the Observer."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1023.20, 20 Feb 73

System Awareness:
See Stature, 20 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
System Center:
"Synergetics starts system mensuration at the system center.
- Citation and context at Synergetics (2), 14 May '73

System Center of Observation:
See Reciprocity, (1)

System Center:
See Central Angles & Surface Angles, Aug'71
Yin-yang, (1)
Radiation, 11 Feb'76

RBF DEFINITIONS
System Constants:
"Angles, tetrahedra, and topological characteristics are
system constants independent of size..."
-
Citation & context at Time-size, 20 Dec'73

System Constants:
See Time-size, 20 Dec 73*
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, (2)

System Differentiation:
See Additive Twoness, 17 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
System Enclosure:
"If we get rid of the word 'polyhedra', then what word
do we have in its place? A high-frequency, omnidirectional
spheric event. Polyhedra are finite system enclosures.
They are topologically describably finite system
enclosures. They are Universe dividers. They are not
linear dividers but omnidirectional Universe dividers.
A mosquito has macro-micro cosmos system perceptivity at a
different level from that of the whale's. Probably each
observer organism's stature constitutes its spontaneous
observational level of macro-micro subdividing: Bigger
than Me; Littler than Me; Within Me%; Without Me."
"We relinquish the word 'polyhedra' to re-employ our new
term systematic enclosure which can be generalized to serve
creatures of any size; i.e., a tetrahedron big enough for
a mosquito or big enough for a whale. Faces are spaces,
openings. The four vertexes plus for faces plus six lines
of the tetrahedron has to become four somethings plus four
nothings plus six relations. We add convergence to something
and divergence to nothing-- completely inopendent of size."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1023.14, 15, 20 Feb'73
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
System Enclosure:
We have events
"Since there are no 'things' there is no 'something.'
We are talking of an event in pure principle.
and no-events. Events: novents: and relationships.
These are the epistemological stepping stones."
->
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1023.14+15,20 Feb 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
System: Equation of System:
"All systems are conceptually differentiated out of Universe.
System environment - Universe
Universe
system environment.
"
Citation & context at Cosmic Inherency, (1), 27 Dec'74

System: Equation of:
See Equation: Philosophical Equations

System Generates Itself:
See Frame of Reference, 24 Sep'73

System-halving:
See Dichotomy: Dichotomizing
Spin-halving
Self-divisioning
Self-halving
(1)

System-halving:
See S Quanta Module, 4 Jun'77
Trigonometry, 26 Sep'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
System Integrity:
"Unit means system integrity."
Citation and context at Unit, 26 May '72

System Integrity:
Organic
(1)

System Integrity:
See Unit, 26 May'72
Spherical Triangle Sequence, (iv)
(2)

RBF DEFINITOONS
H
Systems Limit:
It is impossible to have six equilateral triangles
around each vertex because that would add up to 360°, which
is a flat plane. It is necessary to remove an angle in order
to make it concave and convex. There is then a limit to
systems.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Numerology," pp. 12-13. 1970

System Limit: Systems Limit:
See Equiangularity, 17 Novi 72
Topological Aspects:
Positive & Negative:
Inventory Of, 9 Feb'73
Four Kinds, 10 Nov 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systema & Nonsystems:
"A system is the antithesis of a nonsystem. A nonsystem
lacks omnidirectional definition. Nonsystems such as
theoretical planes or straight lines cannot be found
experimentally.
We are scientifically bound to experien-
tially discovered and experimentally demonstrable systems
thinking."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 400.21, 26 May'72

Systems & Nonsystems:
See Human Beings, 22 Jun '77

Systems
Polyhedra:
See Polyhedra, 18 Jul'76

System va, Prime Volume:
See Prime Volumes, 17 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systematic Realization:
"The mathematician'a 'purely imaginative,' no-thickness, no-
breadth, ergo, no insideness or outsideness points, lines, and
planes are nonexperienceable. All image-ing derives from
experience. Conceptually imaginable point, line, and plane
experiences are systemic; that is, they have insideness,
outsideness, and angular constancy independent of size.
"Size is always special case realizability. The mathematician's
undemonstrable assumption that three points define a plane of
no thickness-- no radial depth-- is therefore subsystemic; ergo,
unthinkable, nonoperationally evidencible, and unimaginable,
ergo unemployable as constituents of proofs."
"Contrary to conventional mathematical dogma three points do
not define a nonexistent, ergo nondemonstrable, no-thickness
plane; nor do they define an altitudeless triangle because
there can be naught to systematically do the defining.
thickness is neither experimentally evidencible nor conceptually
feasible. System is conceptual independent of size."
-O
No-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Secs. 1071.20, & .21, 20 Dec174

System va, Scenario:
See Scenario Universe, 18 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
System & Structure:
"If I am being absolutely consistent about Universe system
and structure all go together and I'll have a vectorial model of
one quantum, our friend tetrahedron."
-
Tape transcript Tape 6A, Side A. p.7; RBF to Barry Farrell,
Bear Island, 16 Aug170

System vs. Structure:
See Structural Accounting, 12 Nov 174
Vector Equilibrium, 8 Sep 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Systems Alter Other Systems:
"All systems alter other systems: this is the essence of
evolution."
Citation & context at Industrialization, (A), 22 Jan'75

Systems Alter Other Systems:
See General System Theory
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
Epigenetic
Measuring Alters the Measured

System of Systems:
See Pronoun: I
-
We
Us, (1)

System vs, Thing-in-itself:
See Tetrahedron, 22 Jun' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
System Totality:
"The reverse magnitudes of the surface vs. volume hierarchy
is completely logical in the case of the total surface sub-
division starting with system totality. On the other hand
we begin the volumetric quantation hierarchy with the tetra-
hedron as the volumetric quantum (unit) and in so doing we
build from the most common to the least common omnisymmetrical
systems of Universe. In this system of biggest systems built
of smaller systems the tetrahedron is the smallest, ergo most
universal. Speaking holistically, the tetrahedron is
predominant; all of which is analagous to the smallest
chemical element, Hydrogen, being the most universally present
and plentiful, constituting 90 percent of the relative
abundance of chemical elements in Universe.
"The tetrahedron can be considered as a whole system or as
a constituent of systems in particular. It is the particulate."
[61+62]
Citation, SYNERGETICS draft At Secs. 1053.62+63, 7 Mar' 73

System Totality:
See Boltzmann Sequence, (1)
(1)
Geodesics & Tensegrities, 9 Sep'74
Omnidirectional Typewriter,
Time-energy Economics

121
System vs. Withoutness:
S.264.01

Systema: (Pl.)
See Universe, May171; 26 May 72; 15 Aug'74; Jun'66
System, 26 May 72

System:
See Angular Sinus Takeout
Avogadro: Generalized Avogadro System
Big System
Big System & Little System
Celestial System
Closed System
Comprehensibility of Systems
Conceptual Systems
Crocodile
Differentiator
Domains of Volumes
Ecosystem
Eternal Rebirth System
First Subdivision of Universe
(1 A-P)

System:
See General Systems Theory
Gravitational System Zone
Half System
Information Control System
Individual System Formation
Inertail Systems
Interconnection of Systems
Intersystem
Intertransformability System Sets
Life-support Systems
Macrosystem
Microsystem
Minimum Asymmetric System
Minimum System
Nonsystem
Nucleated Systems
(1 G-N)

System:
Only the Whole Big System Works
See Omnisystem
Open Systems
Overload the System
Plane
Polyhedral Systems
Polarized System
Prime Minimum System
Relay System
Relevant System Potential
Rotative Systems
Returning Upon Itself: Systems Return Upon
Themselves
Self-bounding System
Self System
Stability: Stable & Nonstable Systems
Spherical Point System
Synchrosystem
Skinning: Tiger's Skin
Subsystem
(10-5)

(1 T-Z)
System:
See Tetrahedon as Smallest System
Tetrasystem
Time: Separating Time out of the System
Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System
Thirty-two minimum Topological Characteristics
Topological Systems
Turbosystem
Unclutchable Mechanical Systems
Visibility & Invisibility of Systems
Water Fountain as System
Whole Systems
Zoned System
Boneness: System Zoneness

System: Systemic:
See Conceptuality, 5 Nov 73
Domains, 25 Aug'71*; 18 Jun'71*
Functions: Theory Of, 1970
Human Beings & Complex Universe (7)*
Infratunable & Ultratunable, 8 Feb'76
Line, 25 Apr 71*
Model vs. Form, 8 Apr 175
Omniintertangency, 17 Feb'73*
Opening, 22 Apr 71*
Plurality, 5 Mar'55*
Polarity, 12 Nov 75
Prime Thinkability, 20 Dec'74
Prime Volumes, 18 Jun 71*
Primitive Dimensionality, 1 Mar' 76
Pull, 22 Jun' 72
(2 A_P)

System: Systemic:
See Radial Depth, 20 Dec'74
Radome Sequence, (2) (3)*
Regenerative Design: Law Of, (1)(2)
Relevance, 22 Jun 72
Scenario vs. Absolute Symmetry, 11 Dec'75
Spherical Triangle, 10 Jul'62*
Structure, 26 Dec'74
Tetratuning, 30 May'75
Thinkaboutability, 8 Feb'76
Thought, May 72*
Tunability, 16 Nov'72; 24 Apr* 76
Triangle, 18 Dec 74
Unit Surface, 4 May' 71*
Unity, 6 Jul 62
Universe, May'71*
Zero, Nov 73*
(2 R_Z)

System:
See Systems Alter Other Systems
System Awareness
System Center
System Center of Observation
System Constants
System Differentiation
System Enclosure
System:
Equation of System
System Generates Itself
System-halving
System Integrity
Systems & Nonsystems
Systems Polyhedra
System vs. Prime Volume
System vs. Scenario
System & Structure
System vs. Structure
System of Systems
System vs. Thing-in-itself
System Totality
System vs. Withoutness
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syte:
"Symmetrical Tetrahedron: Syte: Two of the AAB allspace-filling,
three-quanta module, asymmetric tetrahedra, the Mites-- one
positive and one negative-- may be joined together to form the
six-quanta-module, semisymmetrical, allspace-filling Sytes.
The Sytes can be assembled in three different ways to produce
three morphologically different, allapace-filling, asymmet-
rical tetrahedra: the Kites, Lites and Bites, but all of the
same six-module volume.
"This is done in each by making congruent matching sets of
their three, alternately matchable, right-triangle facets, one
of which is dissimilar to the other two, while these other two
are both postive-negative mirror images of one another.
"Each of the three pairings produces one six-quanta module,
consiting of two A (+), two A (-), one B (+), and one B (-).
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 953.40; RBF galley rewrite of
20 Dec 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Syte:
*There is one allspace-filling tetrahedron, but it is
asymmetrical because it has to go through this oscillating:
it is a dynamic affair.
"It consists of four A Modules and two B Modules.
"You still have to have octahedra as well as tetrahedra if
you want to fill space symmetrically. Filling all the space
is positive and negative pumping against each other; in other
words, from the visible to the invisible."
Cite RBF tape transcript, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, p.34,
31 May 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
tar Syte:
"There is one all-space-filling tetrahedron but it is
asymmetrical because it has to go through this
oscillating, it is a dynamic affair . . .it consists
of four A Modules and two B Modules . . You still have
to have octahedra as well as tetrahedra if you want to
fill space symmetrically.
"
Filling all the space is
positive and negative pumping against eabh other. In
other words from the visible to the invisible."
Cite RBF tape,
Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.
P. 34.

Syte: (Symmetrical Tetrahedron):
See Mite: (Minimum Tetrahedron)
(1)

Syte: (Symmetrical Tetrahedron):
See Coupler (1)
(2)