

RBF DEFINITIONS
T Module:
"The triacontrahedron displays the sixty-degreeness plus the
ninety-degreeness of its minimum spherical excess resulting
from its self-divisioning, its self-halvings.
"The T Module is folded out of a square of which the edge is
a vector of mass x velocity to the second power. But since
second powering means using the triangle and not the square,
it means that I have to rewrite Einstein's equation to
become E = 22.
"This simplifies Einstein: You don't have to say mass, you
just say vector--which gets you out of the three-dimensional
frame in which he wrote the equation.
The speed of light
is normal--it's speed all right, but we have unit vector,
that's what the vector equilibrium is... the spherical!"
• • •
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Pacific Palisades, CA; 31 Jul 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
T Module:
"The T Module can be folded out of one whole triangle-the
total area is a square... the four-foldability comes out as
a square: a visual model of E =
Mc².
"The vertexes are the tunings and the edges are the central
angles.
"The tetrakaidecahedron results from the truncation of the
four-frequency vector equilibrium.
"With the T Modules at Ultra Limit
the A & B Modules at Minimum Limit
Divide VE x 8 and the number is 21."
Cite EJA notes from RBF patter with models and at blacboard
during World Game Workshop presentation, Phila., PA;
21 Jun177

RBF DEFINITIONS
T Quanta Module:
"The T Quanta Kodule is the electron in conceptual form.
It manifests itself as the tetrahedra formed by the sphere
center and the 120 faces of the triacontrahedron.
"The T Quanta Module is unfoldable as a square with the unit
The face of
vector radius--the prime vector--as its edge.
(1)
the T Quanta Module is the small triangular corner of the
unfolded cube and is identical with the Basic Disequilibrium
120 LCD Spherical Triangle. That small basic triangle corner
makes up part of the value 2, but it has to be unhinged and
reoriented, it has to cut itself off--at which point its
its surface angles plunge down congruently into the central
angles of the 120 tetrahedra of the trianontrahedron.
"The acute vertex of the T Quanta Module is at sphere
cehter. This is what I was trying to draw at midnight on
21 Sep'73; see Fig. 5417 in the picture of spherical photon
packages as tetrahedra.
"With the T Quanta Module the Einstein Formula E = 11c2 becomes
It
visual. The unfoldability had to be square for the c².
shows how the electron is radiation, a model of matter
turning itself around at the center, but it has to unhinge and
- Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC; 12 Kay' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
T Quanta Module:
"cut off from its total self to plunge back down into the
center and make the model of radiation.
"Now what we need to know is the ratio of that Basic Triangle
corner to the rest of the unfolded square."
"
(2)
Cite RBF to EJA 3200 Idaho Wash, DC; 12 Kay' 77
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Secs. 1033.133-.135.

T Module: T Quanta Module:
See O Module
(1)

T Module: T Quanta Module:
See Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron,
13 Apr 77
Triacontrahedron, 13 May'77
Electron, 12 May' 77
Min-max Limits, 8 Aug'77
Trigonometry, 26 Sep'77
(2)

TABLES
Table: Tables:
See Charts: Curves & Trendings

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

Tactical Information:
See News, 25 Jul'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile:
"Tactile: preponderantly sensing the crystalline and
triple-bonded atom and molecule state, which includes all
the exclusively infraoptical frequency ranges of the
electromagnetic spectrum's human receptivity from cold
'solids' through to the limit degrees of heat which are
safely (i.e., nonburningly) touchable by human flesh."
100.020,
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 22 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile:
"The tactile is very unreliable; it has little meaning."
Citation and context at Thinkable You (2), 22 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile:
"The real emphasis of judgement of life is on the
tactile, the thing you can touch.
...
Reflect on some
of the things it does, like making you want to get
your hands on the money or the real estate, whatever
it is."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 95. 5 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile:
". . .
What we call dead is strictly a tactile thing.
I put
the touchable thing in the ground but
I can't put the
thinkable you in the ground.
.
The tactile is a very
unreliable thing. It has very, very little meaning."
-
Oregon bestuze
-99-100, 5 Ju2+62-
Citation and context at Thinkable You, 5 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile: The Tactile Sense:
"Because the human's tactile sense has been operative months
before birth as the only communication means between
the pregnant mother and the live child she is bearing, the
tactile sense becomes the comparative base for all the post-
natally and successively acquired sensibilities. . ."
"Because primitive sensing is tactile, man measures his
distances horizontally in feet, vertically in hands. . ."
". . .Man not only thinks he sees objects outside himself,
but also identifies the external objects by their tactile
surfaces. Thus men tend to think of one another in the form
of their tactile modeling."
Citation and context at Brain's TV Studio, (1) +(2), 6 Jun 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile Sequence:
"And you and I have reviewed together how it is, due to
the fact that our first apprehending capability inside the
womb is where we have tactile communication with our mother
for eight months. Then we're born. You can put your
finger in a child's hand and already have communicated
absolutely beautifully, tactiljely.
"Therefore, all of our sensing about our life is always
measured primarily in the tactile and everything else is
referred to it. Distances are in feet and hands, our
verticals in hands, and everything else we refer back to
tactile. And you see me only when you say, 'I can touch you.'
You're not saying, 'You're where I hear you.' You're not
saying, 'You're where I think you, or Where I understand
you. This is where I really am. There's absolutely nothing
going on in this room except where you and I understand each
other. That we really can see a touchable group-- which is
the very lowest order of apprehending of the Universe-- and
we make such emphasis of it. It was all so important for a
human being because he weighs in as life utterly helpless
and with no information so far; though he has extraordinary"
-
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile Sequence:
It is
"information collecting, identifying, and retrieving
capability but he hasn't anything put in there yet.
very important, then, for us to recognize that in that
helplessness that had to be taken care of, and it is not
surprising that the first apprehension is tactile. Kan,
like the physical part of all systems which is entropic
and therfore it has to break down and therefore it has to
be regenerated.
(2)
"In order to be sure that life regenerates itself you have
to give it a drive such as hunger, so as to be sure it takes
up fuel and takes on energy.
You have to give it a drive
first so as to be sure to get the right chemical combining.
You can have a hunger for air; that's the one it really has
to have the most of. So you put in a pumping system so it
really isn't even conscious of breathing. And then you give
it the drive to reproduce itself, because many of them are
going to break down and not work out. You've got to be sure--
because of man's function in Universe-- that life is going
along in order to carry out that function.
"If you and I had to go out and buy ourselves, if you went to"
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile Sequence:
"the supermarket and had to buy your own heart and your own
guts and your own lungs and your own kidneys and liver, and
so forth, I'm sure most of you people would leave most of it
out, and we would not be very attracted to them.
(3)
"In order to get this extraordinary complex of regeneration
reproducing itself, you have to really skin it in.
In a very
important kind of a way, you have to make it somehow a very
attractive matter-- this warmth here, and so forth, as some-
thing very attractive to make them like to get together again.
And so the built-in drive to reproduce, to be sure that life
is there, is very intimately tied up with the touch part
and getting back in the womb, and so forth, that new life will
come along then. So it's very hard for man to separate the
physical in his thinking from the tactile or from the really
metaphysical. It's awfully hard for him. I don't want to
give up that something nice in me; that regenerative drive,
something that's fascinating all the time; I really can't
relinquish that and say that man is really, as far as life
goes, metaphysical. But so far as I can see, that really is
the fact."
-
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul(69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tactile Sequence:
(4)
"This is by way of really identifying that we are not the
physical. We have an integral physicalness and we have an
externalized physicalness, and I can call you on the telephone
and there you are, and you're not the telephone and I'm not
the telephone. But what we really are has nothing to do
with the physical, yet it is so intimately associated, so
emphatically, due to the fact that we see and feel in these
touching things. Only in this century did we learn about the
speed of light. Therefore we thought that things were
instant: it was instant when, of course you were the touchable.
"But if with no instant, then this is no longer true,
and you and I are seen, we even see each other, here-- I don't
see out there anyway. I'm checking up on a communications
system by touching here, but I'm seeing here in my television
set,
11
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript #327, pp.6-9.

Tactile:
See Feel:
Feeling
Human Sanse Ranging & Information Gathering
Touch
Touchable You
Thermal Tactile
(1)

Tactile:
See Brain's TV Studio, (1)(2)*
Geometry of Vectors, (B)
Privacy, 22 Apr161
Sweepout, 5 Jul'62
Thermal 6 Mar 173
Thinkable You, (2)*; 5 Jul 62*
Time, 6 Mar 73; Augi 71
Womb, 20 Feb'73
Space, 30 Sep' 76
Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas, (1)
(2)

Tail End of Tail-and Events:
See Trim Tab, 1963

Taj Mahal:
See
Montreal Expo'67 Dome Sequence, (1)-(5)

Take Away the Leaders:
See Leaders: Take Away the Leaders

Takeouts:
See Angular Sinus Takeouts
Conceptual System Takeout
Convex-concave Takeouts
Tetrahedral Tuck in Universe
Thinkability:
Tuck
Thinkable System Takeouts
Tuck in the Universe
Tuck in a Plane
Static
(1)

Takeouts:
See Central Angles & Surface Angles, 21 Dec171
Conceptuality, 17 Oct'72
Conditioning, 14 Feb 72
Infinity & Finity, Jun'66; Dec'61
Vacuum, 1y Feb 72'
Space, 9 Feb 76
Scenario Universe, 18 Jul'76; 19 Jul'76
(2)

Tala: Taling:
See Story Telling, 18 Jul'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Talent:
...In the talented individual there is relatively no tug-of-
war for dominance on the part of the life cells, for talent
has been found to be born of two parents of almost similar
life cell characteristics. This talent in human beings is
similar to a specific trait on which, and for which, breeders
of horses or dogs continually concentrate and inbreed; for
instance, 'speed' in the horse, a special head in the dog,
which requires parenthood as closely identical as possible.
The product, 'colt,' may be said to have a talent for speed.
The word talent as applied to persons is derived from talentum
the name for a coin of varying value, or a measure of money.
Its application
to persons was intended to indicate, in a rate
sense, persons of a special measure, not persons of a generally
inclusive, average rate ability of performance.
"In contrast to genius, talent has not the two or more
viewpoints of genius, but has a 'single track' visualization.
The absence of a time-and-space measuring ability limits the
sight to a single nonworldly view-- 'non-worldly' because,
as we pointed out in our interpretation of Einstein's formula,
the conscious 'world' is in fact energy radiantly manifest"
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.97, 1938
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Talent:
(2)
"at relative rates of retarded speed, rate being the inseparable
relationship
of time and space.
"The harmonimous concord inherent in this characteristic of the
solitary talented personality of genius enables the talented
individual calmly to preoccupy himself with the exquisite
refinement of, or better rendition of, the compositions of
genius, in ali special articulation fields.
"There is no implication in this discussion of talent and
genius of a greater importance for either proclivity.
"The function of genius is to provide new instruments and the
process-means for the progressive growth of man; talent's
function is the precise and harmonious popularization of the
otherwise
popularly undetectable, and therefore otherwise non-
useful products of genius. What is often mistermed as
'plagiarism
' is more precisely 'talent.
ethical offshoot label of the false property illusion..."
'Plagiarism' is
an
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, pp.97-98, 1938

Talent:
See Capability
Genius
(1)

Talent:
See Longing: Fear & Longing, 1938
(2)

RER REALTORS
Tall:
See Humans are One-Thousandth of a Mile Tall

Tallying:
See Story-telling, 18 Jul'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tangent:
"Tangent is the closest that spheres may come to
one another. "
Cite Numerology draft August 1971,
p. 26.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tangency:
"In your closest packing you have the spheres which are
.
just high-tide aspects of vectors. . Because the lines
are now hidden between the points of tangency.
It is very
easy to be greatly misled when you see two spheres in
tangency.
There is only one line between the two/ This
is where you see that unity is two because the line breaks
itself into radii of the two spheres."
Chicago,
Citation & context at Closest Packing of Spheres, 31 May'71

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Tangency:
"A point on a sphere is never an infinitesimal tangency
with a plane."
BA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971.
Citation & context at Sphere, 31 May' 71
Point
SEC. 519. 21

Tangential Avoidance:
See Vectorial Near-miss
Vertexial Connections
(1)

Tangential Avoidance:
See Interference, Nov'71
(2)

Tangency: Tangential:
See Centrifugal
Crossing Tangency
Intertangency,
Internuclear Vector Modulus
Omniintertangency
Sphere Tangent with a Plane
Tactile
Tangible
Touch
(1)

Tangency: Tangential:
See Closest Packing of Spheres, 31 May'71*
Compression, 22 Jun '72
Gravity,
Nucleus, (1)
Omnidirectional:
Surrounds, (1)
Physical Existence Environment
Spheres, 31 May'71*
Macro-Micro, 12 Nov'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tangible Me:
The tangible me is like the water that told me that
a wave went by."
Citation and context at Metabolic Flow (1), 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tank:
"A tank was just a submarine come up on the land."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
23 Jan 75

Tape: Tape Recorder:
See Heel of Tape Recorder
(To) Save Time, Tape, & Type
(1)

Tape Recorder:
See Fuller, R.B: His Modus Operandi, 15 Jun'74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tapestry:
"The inventory of all our experiences is a tapestry. It
takes me 51 hours to describe all the experiences I work in."
Cite RBF to Paul Ronder Summer Morning Films, Inc.
Beverly Hotel, NYC, 14 May '72

Tapestry:
See Kinetic Tapestry
Multidimensional Tapestry
Variable Strands Braiding
Weave: Weaving

Tapestry:
See Scenario, May'72
(2)

Taak: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain:
See Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larger the Task the
Duller the Brain

Tastebuds of Sound:
See Poets, circa 1970

Taste: Tasting:
See Principle, 6 Apr'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teachable vs. Unteachable:
"Everything that constitutes science
Is unteachable....
"Scientific routines for specialized technicians
And scientific formulas for their reference
Alone are teachable."
-
Citation & context at Science, Oct 66

Teacher:
See Principle, 22 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teacher:
"The teacher. . a skilled re-dispenser of what other
teachers had successively taught other teachers to teach.*
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Robt. W. Marks, p.10; 13 Mar'65

BBF DEFINITIONS
Teaching:
"Linus Pauling said '1'm not going to teach my
whole freshman class all the things that were wrong--
the whole evolution of the subject. Just start with
what has been learned in the past 24 hours. It's much
simpler."
Cite RBF to EJA
Carbondale
2 April 1971

Teaching:
See Self-teaching
(1)

Teaching:
See Psychiatry, (2) (3)
(2)

133
Tear: Tearing:
See Angular Sinus Cutout
Child Tearing Paper

Tears in the Evening:
See Superstition, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technocracy:
"I am not talking about the engineers or scientists
becoming politicians. That was tried in 1930 in
Technocracy wherein the engineer-scientista were to
muster a host of disgruntled engineers and, taking guns,
seize the post offices. They proposed gaining their ends
by reverting to the physical power tactics of the pirates
and their politicians. But the scientists and engineers
enlisted were too honest to be good politicians. Tech-
nocracy failed before it got going. So the prospect is
that we are going to have to follow the medical scientists'
successful precedent of minding everybody's physical success
business while avoiding any interference whatsoever from
the clients or
interference with the clients'
metaphysical freedoms. Je are going to have to do so by
holding ourselves exclusively to reforming the inanimate
environment, to make it able to support all men without ever
resorting to the politicianis policy of woulld-be
reformation of the human beings-- their thought processes,
their initiatives, and their wills,"
41
Cite NASA SPEECH, p. 17. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technocracy:
The "natural evolution of intellectual accomplishment
for the many by the few
is the antithesis of such reverse gear schemes
as Technocracy
which sought to establish an autocracy of engineers
schematically similar in aim to national socialism.
Technocracy sought to convert the engineer
to the role of politician.
But the engineer proved no more effective
than the most ignorant and slothful in the ballot box game,
and much too forthright by training
to be a good politician.
Superficially saleable as an inviting scheme
Technocracy failed as an 'out' for society
primarily because the engineer must vacate
his creative and causal function
for a negative and restraining function."
Cite Part II., Earth, Inc.
Fuller Research Foundation
Yellow typescript, p. 9, 1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technocracy:
"Technocracy? No. Technocracy failed because it made no
allowance for passion, fashion, chance, change, intuition,
the mysticism of harmony, and, most important of
all, for it happens.
Technocracy called for an autocracy of engineers to fufill
its scheme. Political movements that call for an autocracy
of a special viewpoint are ever doomed to failure as the
trend indicates segregation of issues and a recomposed balance
of all-time forces. Speculation and initiative in the
acceleration of change, are all-time forces, and are as
essential in a scheme of realism as suffrage and socialization
of essentials and plenitudes."
->
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, pp.88-89, 1938

Technocracy:
See Capability, 20 Apr 72
Superstition, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"I told them at Drexel that the reason that 90 percent of
the people want to give up on technology is that they are
all so totally out of touch now with the experimental evidence
that in the basis for science. To give up technology... just
means giving up Universe."
Cite RBF to EJA, on telephone from Philadelphia; 22 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Technology was not brought into our life on this planet
by humans.
"he first used technology to convert vegetables and animals
into eatability. But as we can see in our anthropology
museums much of the best new technology goes into weapons."
"
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
22 Jan'75

RoF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Human beings think of technology as something new. They
think of it as something negative that's used for killing
people. The way human beings misuse technology has been
fearful. But you never will go back to pre-technology.
"The only question about technology is how do we employ it.
And are we trespassing? Are we using the lever or burning
the
lever up? Just because we don't know what makes our
fingernails grow doesn't mean that it's not technology.
That's all
that nature is."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
21 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Technology is the integrity of interoperativeness of
principles which make possible an eternally regenerative
Universe."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
20 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"I want you to
saying: I just
own thinking.
think of yourself- as a grand strategy--
have this one life and I really have to do my
One of the things that impresses me very much is
that we are operating in an era where there is a great deal of
technology that has arrived. The phenomenon industry is
operative.
(1)
"We were trying to account all the new technology in the terms
of the agricultural accounting. I saw then that in the industrial
equation, where you're really dealing with the cumulative
know-how of all of humanity, there is no such annual accounting
season and this is forcing man to be shortsighted. Society was
now dealing in new kinds of magnitudes of undertakings that
should be thought of in very much larger blocks of years.
"In the industrial equation you might be at a machine making
bolts but you couldn't put bolts in your pocket and go and
swap them for hamburgers. You found then that what really
happened was that you came to a river that yesterday you
couldn't cross. There was a very great current; but suddenly
there's a bridge there-- and there were some of your bolts.
I saw that the payoffs were very different and indirect in the
new kind of technology that was coming upon us."
Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"And I thought that technology itself was, even back in 1927,
being identified with exploitation, with ways of making money,
rather than being thought of as some evolutionary event of
humanity-- some increases in artifacts and transformations of
artifacts.
"So I'll give you quite quickly my way in which I came to
identify industrialization and you'll find it quite different
from the business viewpoint, or from the legal viewpoint.
(2)
I said: Alterations of the environment produce artifacts-- like
bird's nests -- that are essential to the survival of the species.
You can call it an extracorporeal artifact; but it is a tool.
I saw these in terms of solving functions. Human beings were
not at all the only tool makers."
-
Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec 73

MBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Not a single stage of our technology has ever been predicted."
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD (2): WE ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE
PROGRAM, World Mag., 17 Jul173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Man evolved technology is thus far amateurish compared to
the elegance of nonhumanly-contrived eternal regeneration.
kan does not recognize technology other than his own so he
speaks of the rest as something he ignorantly calls nature.
Most of man's technology is of meager endurance being
comprised at the outset of destructive invention such as
that of weaponry, of for something in support of the quick-
profit, man-invented game of selfishly manipulative game-
playing and rule inventing for the playing of his only-
ignorantly-preoccupying value systems."
-
Cite RBF draft Ltr. to Karan Singh incorporated in SYNERGETICS
text at Sec. 173, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"In its complexities of design integrity the Universe is
technology."
Citation and context at Biological Design, 13 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"There is nothing wrong with technology.
The Universe is technology--
The most comprehensively complex technology.
Human organisms are Universe's
Most complex local technologies.
"Technologies may be used
To "kiil technologies;
That is, to smash
Or degenerate other organisms-- machines.
-
Cite Dreyfus Preface, "Decease of Meaning
28 April 171, pp. 1 - 3.

RHF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"The Universe is regeneratively transformative technology."
- Cite ARCHITECTURE AS ULTRA INVISIBLE REALITY, D. 158, Dec '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"We must realise that technology was not put into
the universe by man.
The universe is the comprehensive
system of technology.
. . These generalized principles
were all found to be operating a priori to man. Man
simply finds and employs. He does not put anything into
the universe.'
Cite WORLD GAME (3) Oct169

RBF DEFINITIONS
.
Technology:
"We hear a great deal about technology as something very
threatening-- something new." I'm going to try to define
automation. By automation I would mean any regulatory
pattern or control operative independent of man's controlling
it: that would be automated. I'll point out to you that
the orbiting about the Earth and all the pulsing of the Sun
this is all automated. 1 point out that none of you
know what you're doing with your lunch right now. this
is all automated. You're not consciously saying, 'I'm going
to send this off to make hair for tomorrow, and I'm going
to have curly hair, or whatever it is. You don't have the
slightest idea why you were born at seven pounds and why
you went to 170 and why you stopped. Wherever it is, it's
all automated. People learned accidentally that they
pushed some buttons and made same babies, but all the rest
is automated. They haven't the slightest idea why. I point
out to you that we have never had anything but automation."
+
Cite Saturn Film transcript of World Game, Tape #1,
Jun-Jul169
Citation at Automation, Jun-Jul*69
0.83-84

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"What we call technology is the externalization
and amplification of our original integral functions
and capabilities. In our technology we have not
invented and developed any new functions."
-
Cite SENATE HEARINGS, p.13, 4 Mar 169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Many of the large scientific breakthroughs in our
recent history are fundamentally unheeded by society.
Society employs the technology which accrues to the scientific
breakthrough but keeps on thinking in the prebreakthrough ways.
Society is, therefore, continually surprised, puzzled, and
disturbed by the overall effects of the technology which are
comprehendable only through an understanding of the funda-
mental physical principles governing the phenomena. "
- Cite NASA Speech, p. 25, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIvi.S
Technology:
"Technology paces industry by progressively increasing
the range and velocity inventory of technical capabilities."
Cite NO MORA SECONDHAND GOD, Preface, p. ix. 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
•
"Technology represents philosophy resolved to the
most cogent argument. If man did this, such would
result. In technology man is empowered to explore and
develop his own "if" without reference to the limiting
response of other preoccupied egos. Through technology
alone the creative individual can of free will
arrange for the continuing preservation of mankind
despite individual man's frustrating propensities.
Mechanisms are the antithesis of the Frankenstein
concept. They represent the direct and only means
of articulation of free will. Mechanisms can only
be operated by man.'
"
-
Cite EARTH, p. 11, 1947
Cite RBF Reader (Ed. James Meller) pp.213-232.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Technology-- instrumented and documented intellect--
improves with every reemployment
because experience is consolidated in increasing degrees
of precision, behavior and dimensional data."
-
-
Cite Part II., Earth, Inc.
Fuller Research Foundation
Yellow typescript, p. 13. 1947
Cite also "Cumulative Nature
IDEAS & INTEGRITIES,
P.144
of Wealth," Chapter 7 of

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"In terms of absolute principles, the more you use
technology the more it improves instead of waaring out; thus
balancing other factors of thermodynamics where there is some
possible question as to the ultimate conservation of matter."
Cite: Ephemera
-
Wichita, Kansas 1946 (Coll. EJA.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"Scientific laws are statements of observation of
consistently observed characteristics and behavior patterns.
Technology applies science by composing the phenomena of
the individual laws in reciprocal arrangement,"
"
-
Cite ARCHITECTURE FROM THE SCIENTIFIC VIEWPOINT
NYU Symposium 12 May '39, p.2

2BF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
"One of the best ways to get new technological advantages
at work in society is to make them tantalizing enough so
people will steal them."
(RBF, recapitulating an assertion he has
made many times in the past.)
Cite RBF to EJA, New York, 14 Sept. 1971.

Technology Assessment:
See Invention Sequence, (2)
Technology, 17 Jul 73; Jun'66

(S)
RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology: Computers:
"The computer has given man physical hardware without his
understanding how he arrived there. This has brought about
a general disenchantment with technology. Enchantment can
only be sustained in those who have it, or regained by
those who have lost it, through conceptual inspiration.
Nothing could be more exciting than the dawning awareness
of the discovery of the presence of another of the
eloquently signin ficant sternal reliabilities of Universe."
Cite RBF dictation to EJA for SYNERGETICS, Beverly Hotel,
New York, 28 Feb. '71 Re-drafted by RBF 7 Oct. 171.
See "Synergetics," Sec. 204. Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology & Culture:
"Technology is the wellspring of culture which must
evolve as technology includes and refines and makes
obsolete many of our local tribal customs.
"The culture is in the design; the components, the materials
and the metala are universal. Technology is immaculate.
"Culture is the capability to take advantage of energy
design with the technology available.
•
How to behave
appropriately to the technology, how to work its multiplying
advantages to the enhancement of the many is what
distinguishes the really cultivated human."
Cite RBF holograph fragment and dictation to EJA; 3200 Idaho,
Wash, DC; 25 Oct'77

RBF DLFINITIONS
Technology:
Q.
RBF:
Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
"How do we cope with the acquisitive and competitive
factors in our society to avoid the misuse of
resources... and in a way that our artifacts must
be responsive to our values?"
"I don't accept any must-be-so about anything.
There are six moves with every turn of the play. We are
designed to make mistakes. Parents don't want children to
get in trouble with the system. He punish everybody for
making mistakes. I exult in all the bad news of the mistakes
being made because that's how we get something done about it.
"Universe is nothing but technology. You can pick up a
stone and throw it at someone's head--a horrible mistake,
killing explicitly... but it's not the fault of technology.
Using the faculties of Universe in what it's all about.
"We are not going to Fet there by talk... or by electing
somebody over here. We are going to get there by knowledge
and competence.
Cite HBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA; 2? Jun'77
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
"When I wrote NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON I started the book
out with a tentative cosmic inventory: What do we know?
I had designed my book from the whole to the particular.
And I wrote in there, in the chapter about E = Mc² and Ers.
Murphy... and about Einstein's 'Cosmic Religious Sense,' the
article he had done for the New York Times Magazine on the
nonanthropomorphic idea of God, about how Johannes Kepler,
though a heretic had such faith and inspiration alone with
the stars... Fear and longing... I got permission to run
that piece.
What I wrote in the book was that in due course
Einstein would affect all our everyday life.
"Christopher Forley had persuaded Lippincott, here in Philad-
elphia to publish my book, but they balked at the chapter on
Einstein. They said there is a list of only 12 people who
understand Einstein and you're not on that list: in fact,
you're not on any list! So I asked Lippincott if they would
send the chapter to Einstein in Princeton and after he had
read it he agreed to meet with me one evening at the aprtment
of Dr. Fishbein on Riverside Drive in New York. That as"
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila. PA; 22 Jun' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology:
Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
I
"when Einstein said to me, 'young man, you amahsse me...
can't imagine any of my ideas having even the slightest
He wrote his theories
for a
small
practical application.
But it was
audience of astrophysicists and cosmogonists.
his original idea of getting energy out of matter that led
the scientists to seek his authority in warning President
Roosevelt about the heavy water research the Germans were up
to... and that led eventually to the bomb at Hiroshima.
"And since then the scientists have just laid eggs while the
financial and political exploitation system hatches them.
The scientists' specialization gives them no control over
such matters; they have nothing to cope with--they just stay
in their laboratories and lay eggs.
(3)
"But the question was about competition and acquisitiveness...
all of which was okay when there was not enough to go around.
I can understand selfishness being rationalized as it has been
in history: exploitation of colonies in the name of God and
the King... Cortez in lexico and so on: 'I'y people
are
a little holier than yours so we've got to have a fight about it.'
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
(4)
"We now have a new lawyer-kind of capitalism where wealth
no longer consists of property and they are beginning to put
the control of know-how in the books, into the accounting...
And the multinational corporations are getting out from under
all of the sovereignties. And the managers don't seem to have
much to do with it. The lawyers saw that the purpose of the
corporation was to cut down the responsibility of the individ-
ual--limited liability. The bankers have had no more control
than the postmasters handling the mail, but they end up with
more of the peoples' money than they have kept to themselves...
the banks and the government.
"The $80 billion spent for the first A-bomb project would cost
out at worth about $3 trillion now. And the banks all persuaded
President Eisenhower to turn it all over to private industry
as a present. Now while it is true that freedom of initiative
is essential to human progress, here it was just being selfishly
exploited in the name of 'free enterprise, an example of a
really noble idea being selfishly corrupted.
1
"And we're also up aginst $53 billion a year of advertising,"
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
The big
"trying to persuade us to buy things we don't need.
companies don't even want the little individuals to latch on
to the wind with windmills. But Hans Heyer persuaded the
public utilities to accept excess wind power into the main
grid. He did it by more efficient conversion from DC to AC
and by introducing more sensitive meters. There is a 50
percent loss of efficiency if you feed direct current into
storage batteries; therefore the solution was to feed it into
the power grid--selling it at wholesale and buying it back at
retail prices. This is how you can impound Sun radiation for
society without going aginst the system....
I'm
(5)
"Kaking sense and making money are mutually exclusive. I
have nothing against regenerative economic sustenance;
just against the people who want to get in on the right stocks
to make a killing."
Cite RBF to Word Game Workshop; Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
"I'm confident of bringing science and the humanities
together with another book. I hope to make science
comprehensible to mankind. My lifelong work is 'Synergetics.'
This describes the comprehensive, mathematical, rational
coordinate system apparently employed by nature.
"Much of the dilemma of our time is that 99 percent of the
people who are not scientists have no sense of what is going
on. The teaching of science is playing such a part in life
today that you can say we have reached the point of a new
revolution when man defeats himself by his own knowledge."
-
Cite RBF to Australian journalist, Jane Ram; Hongkong, 17 Dec '74

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
See Frankenstein Concept
Science: Gap Between Science & the Humanities
(1)
100

Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment:
See Technology: Computers, 7 Oct '71
Free Will, 1947
Universe is Technology, (1) (2)
(2)
123

Technology:
See Airplane Technology
Airspace Technology
Automation
Autonomous Living Technology Packet
Capability
Design vs. Technology
Domestic Technology
Fallout Technology
Humanity considerate Technological Accommodation
Invention
Inventability
Know-how
Landborne Technology
More with Less: Sea & Air Technologies
(1A)

Technology:
See Nature's Technology vs. Humans' Technology
Prototype
Pyramid Technology
Research & Development
Sea Technology
Science as Tool
Science-technology-industry-economics-politics
Sequence
Secondhand Gadgetry
Space Technology
Standby Technology
Technocracy
Universe is Technology
Weapons Technology
Wood Technology
(1B)

Technology:
20
(2)
123
See Automation, Jun'69*
Biological Design, 13 Mar'73*
City (2)
Cultural Life, 1 Jul 62
Nature, May 70
Outlaw Area, 8 Jan'66
Tree, Feb 73
Robin Hood Sequence (2)
Pathology:
Preventive vs. Curative, (1)
Doing hat Needs to Be Done, (3)
Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep' 76
Buddha: Christ: Mohamed, (1) (2)
Dymaxion Car, 13 May' 77

Teeth:
See Gears

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telefacture:
"Telefacture' may well supplant 'manufacture.
Citation & context at Teleology, (1)
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telegraph:
"When the telegraph came in then the one-to-one correspondence
of democracy went out. The news used to travel by word of mouth.
But with the telegraph the news could travel faster than the
reaction: you could have the stimulus, but no response."
-Cite RBF to Hugh Kenner, Phila. PA, transcript p.10, 8 Jun' 75

Telegraph: Telegraphy:
See Sovereignty, (1) (2)
Planetary Democracy, (4)
Teleology, (1)(2)

Telemation:
Satellite-relayed:
See Mines Above Grade, 30 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleologic Conversion of Information:
..."The apprehending-comprehending teleologic conversion of
information from subjective awareness to objective use in
the ever developing chaility to adjust and cope with
environmental events."
Citation and context at Brain's TV Studio (1) 6 Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleologic Quanta Series: D
"Teleologica quanta series produce basic wave systems
which always return cyclically back upon themselves."
C
Cite RBF holograph for Herman Wolf, Boston, 1:20 a/m/,
8 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology:
"Teleology is where you go through a subconscious awareness
as a wave formula from experience to intuition."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 26 Jan '72

Teleological Schedule of Universal Design Requirements:
See Environment Events Hierarchy
Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology:
"One of the things I never ask myself is how are people
going to like it. I would say: What is the Universe trying
to do?
How and why are we here? I am assuming that we do
not know. I am not assuming that we have the competence to
judge. I do not look at things in terms of being an elite
with Universe disclosing to us some of her recirculatory
capabilities, particularly in eternally regenerative Universe.
When I ask what are we here for I get into the function of
man as the local monitor of problem-solving with reference to
capabilities of a generalized sort that no other phenomenon
has. We
are here then for that function and not for our
personal satisfaction-- or the satisfaction of local political
bodies or proving any ideological system to be great.
Those are transitory and unnecessary to the development of
man. But we are coming out of this shell-- and this is all
in the metabilical cord. The trick is not knowing that it
is going to break our legs. You never know who is going to
be
using those legs. I think that all of humanity is in exactly
that
position today. We are going to have a very different
orientation of humanity to Universe. The younger they are the
more they feel it."
RBF tape transcript #4 to W. Wolf, Phila., PA., pp.2-3, 15 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology:
"Teleology-- as part
Of communications theory
Relates to the pursuit of truth
As entropy and antientropy.
It may be that
Communications theory
May be mathematically equated
With electrical
Transmission theory
Whereby the higher
The meaning or voltage
The more efficient
And longer distance
Communication attainable. "
Cite HOW LITTEE, D. 32. Oct166

RBF DEFINTIONS
Teleology:
"Teleology embraces
The theory of communication,
Though as yet having special-case limitations.
It is an hypothetical
Approach to a pure, abstract generalization
To say that teleology
Is only intuitively initiated by humans."
Cite HOW LITTLE, p. 30. Oct'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology:
"Teleology means the intuitive conversion by brain
and mind of special-case subjective experiences into
generalized principles and their subsequent objective
employment in special-case undertakings.
"The discovered principles governing the inter-
transformative structuring of universe permit the sub-
consciously teleological and conscious design-initiating
individual to reform the environment in such a manner as
to provide ultimately higher advantage for men and in
such a manner as to regenerate in other individuals the
drive to further transform the environment to even higher
advantage for all. The design may increase the degrees
of freedom of individuals by reducing environmental
interferences or it may decrease freedoms as with traps
and prisons."
Cite DCXIADIS, Pp. 319-320 +318
20 Jun 166

HBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology:
"A name for the process of observing consciously, or
absorbing subconsciously, from the outside inward so that
one may do from the inside outward is teleology. When
finally solving from the inside out, the teleologic
perspective will be universal, and the equation of performance
will be:
'Degree of Satisfaction - Degree of Factor
Encompassment
Inclusion."
- Cite NINE CHAINS, p. 42, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology:
"The words 'telegraph' and 'telephone' have quite naturally
been derived from teleology. The process they represent
mechanically abstracts the original, with the minds of
operators interpolating at abstract stages to produce an
ultimately sensorial result. ('Telefacture' may well supp-
lant manufacture.')
(1)
"To illustrate the process in 'telegraph,' let us suppose an
original phenomenon such as death of Uncle John.
"A telegram is sent to a florist by someone, the message being
transmitted as a dot-and-dash interruption on an electrical
circuit. The dot-and-dash symbols are converted at the
receiving end of the wire into ink symbols, codified with the
dot-and-dash system, on a piece of yellow paper. This
piece of paper is transmitted to a florist who sends flowers
to 37 Bond Street--flowers but that morning growing in a
field only to be suddenly severed from their roots, covered
with waxed paper, packed in a receptacle of water standing
next to a black box in which in which has been deposited a
discarded human machine. The telegram sender, rueful of
- Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON; p.46, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology:
"death, caused further death to be a paying business, an
odd result from the original cause.
"The means of provoking the effect by the cause was not
merely a mechanico-electrical process; more important were
the phantom captains who performed the function of 'inter-
polation' at the various receiving instruments by transfor-
ming the dots and dashes not only into ink symbols but into
further botanical death.
(2)
"The essence of this phenomenon is that the interpolating
function is one that no machine will ever perform. The art
of teleologic design is, then, one of delicacy of attunement
in the interpolation of every seemingly casual event of
life into non-haphazard objective instruments--whether
written words, medical prescriptions, or pencils, the
function of the instrument being, in turn, the harmonic
abetment of the trends
intuitively to be detected by the
teleologist through the keyhole of his 'own' phantom
captain's study. Teleology will have more and more signif-
icance as the teleologist carries on the vast task of
exploring and including all factors making up man's
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON; pp.46-47, 1938
1

RBF DEFINTIONS
Teleology:
"universal status quo.
(3)
"The consumption and digestion of facts and statistics is
somewhat like eating and chewing hay and thistles. Their is
nourishment in them in their raw state, to be sure, but a
cow is needed to convert them into milk. Likewise the
average human mind needs an intermediary--a teleologist--
to convert vital factors into digestibles for his objective
use.
"To the student of teleologic design, particularly as
applied to shelter service, we offer a 'cowing' of the vital
factors of man's estate at this moment of ken. Only by
awareness of this estate can the teleologist interpolate
therefrom an adequate industrial design of world-encompassing
shelter service, which will be so utilitarianly adequate
and harmonic as to insure man's irrepressible appetence for
such shelter service's industrial reproduction.
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.47, 1938

RBP DEFINITIONS
Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol:
"My original 4-D, convergent-divergent, vector equilibrium
conceptualising of 1y27-28 was
primitive
Bow Tie: the symbol of
intertransformative equivalence as well as of complemen-
tarity: convergence
divergence
Also the symbol of syntropy-entropy
-
and of wave and octave
-4, -3, -2, -1,
+1, +2, +3, +4."
Citation & context at Primitive, 19 Jul176

KBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol:
"There really is no equality. That's why 1 use the
bow tie symbol."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 26 Jan '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology: Bow Tie Symbol:
I also
"Did you ever see my 'Nine Chains to the Moon' book,
Lippincott, 1938. I had the press produce a little bowtie
symbol for teleology. I use the word many times.
felt that the equation symbol was false as I felt that
parallel lines were inadequate to the exquisite transforming
I sub-
balances of inside-outing involved in equations.
stituted my bowtie symbol for the equation marks leaving
the parallel lines symbol for statement of analogy."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Gene Fowler, 9 May 160.

MBF DEFINITIONS
Teleology: Bow The Symbol:
(DQ)
"Let us symbolize teleology as , like a bow tie.
This
is a neat and specific equation mark, combining the symbol
of symmetrical expansion (the "x", multiplication, or 'times'
mark) with the equation mark (-). It is currently more
fitting as an equation symbol than the old equation mark
because we now know that parallel lines, or conditions, are
impossible. Moreover, quasi-parallel lines, never coming in
contact, are procreatively sterile.
The "" is, then,
inaccurate as a sign to link integrators and product:
b theoretical)
(2 x 3 =
(2 x 3 4 b factual)
"Our teleologic symbol A represents, by its loose-ended
"x" inclusion and by the conjunction of its ends, a finite
radial limit of the segment of inclusion and the segment of
conclusion, like an hourglass on its side. It is offered,
then, as the logical successor of the familar equation
symbol for use in any consideration of the now apparently
expanding Universe.""
->
Cite NINE CHAINS, p. 42,1938

Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol:
See Nonequals:
Nonequality
Now Hourglass:
Bow Tie
Equals Sign
Equation Symbol
Cross Section of Teleological Bow Tie
Parallel: Quasi-parallel Lines
(1)

Teleology: Bow-tie Symbol:
See Equality, 26 Jan'72
Equals, 24 Apri76
(2)

Teleology
-
Reuniting of Parts:
See Algebra, 1938

Teleology: Spontaneous vs. Emergency:
See Artist, 13 Feb172

Teleology: Teleological:
See Cause
Design Science
Determinism
Emergency Teleology
Spontaneous Teleology
No End in Itself
Ends
Mathematical Explanation of Life
Meaning
Evolution: Man as Evolution Modifier
Kan's Conscious Participation in Evolution
Man as a Function of Universe
Man as Local Problem Solver
Man as Local Universe Technology
Amused: We Are Not Here to Be
(1)

Teleology: Teleological:
(2)
123
See Algebra, (p.141) 1938
Brain's TV Studio (1)
Creativity, 10 Apr'73
Design, 4 Aug '74"
Environmental Events Hierarchy, 1954
Feedback Lags, 1954
Industrial Theory, 1971
Intellect 1972
Meaning, 29 Jun '72
Pattern: Hierarchy Of, 1954
Performance: Equation Of, 1938
Principle (1) (2); 1 Feb'75
Rearrange the Scenery, May 72
Simplicity, 1954
Unanswerable, 20 Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telepathy:
" Subconsciously telepathic ultra-ultra-high frequency
electromagnetic wave propagation, signalling subconsciously
reflexed feedback
attitudes...
Citation and context at Electronic Referendum, 29 Jun '72

RBP DEFINITIONS
Telepathy:
"Telepathy is a standby capability that everyone has,
one of nature's fail-safes."
Cite RBP quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview by Beverly
Russel, p. 198, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telepathy:
"Almost everyone has had
The strange sensation of telepathy
Occurring as various kinds of awareness,
Anticipations or sensing
Of the imminent presence of other persons."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.159 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telepathy:
"This experience * persuaded me that telepathy
Might well be very short-range,
Very high-frequency
Electromagnetic-wave propagation.
Assuming this to be so
We arrive at some new vistas of thought."
(Alexandra theme)
Cite BARIN & MIND, p. 161 May *72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telepathy:
"
•
"
Time and again my wife and I, or the trained nurse
and my wife, had a sentence formulated and about to be
spoken when she [Alexandra ] would say our words before
we could do so, though those words often were phrased in
a vocabulary other than her own. Clearly telepathy was
being demonstrated as a commonly innate capability. We
all have experiences which can only be explained as
telepathy, which lacks scientific proof and remains
indefinable, implying magic. Our child clearly demonstrated
that it was an innate capability and not a supernatural
aberration."
Cite Museum Keynote Address Denver, pp. 1-2. 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telepathy:
"In the great overall evolutionary trending of humanity's
gradually learning to produce ever more with ever less,
it is implicit that the present discoveries of the
electromagnetic behaviors of the brain and its local
nerve system controls by mind will eventuate in telepathy's
being graduated from society's assessment of it as a
mystical-magical phenomenon to an everyday communication
facility."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, p.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telepathy:
"For humans to have within their cerebral mechanism the
proper atomic radio transceivers to carry on telepathetic
communication is no more incredible than the transistors
which were invented only two decades ago, and far less
incredible than the containment of the bat's radar and
range-finding computer within its pin-point sized brain."
-Cite RBF Intro. to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA, P. 27.
Oct170

Telepathic Tunability:
See Eye-beamed Thoughts, (VII)

Telepathy:
See Eye-beamed Thoughts
Fuller, R.B: Alexandra Theme
Jury: Trial by Jury
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities
Subconscious
Electromagnetic Transmission:
Extraorganic Travel
(1)
Subjective & Conscious

Telepathy:
(2)
See Discovery, 11 Jul'62
Electronic Referendum, 29 Jun'72*
Lecturing, Oct 170
Rationalization Sequence (5)
World-around Communication Transcends Politics, (1)
Womb Population, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telephone:
"The Bell System could have focused on the instrument
instead of the service. They could have had telephone
architects like so much napalm and voodoo."
Cite RBF at Bell Studios videotaping, Phila. PA., 26 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telephone:
"The design scientist deals in comprehensive artifacts to
alter the environment; he also deals in how do you produce the
artifacts, what are the relative efficiencies, what are the
alternates, and what are the options, of how it mixes the
structural and mechanical, the electrical and the chemical.
The design scientist has to know about all these aspects and be
responsible for not only designing the end product, but How
do you produce it? Having produced it, How do you get it
where it needs to be? And he designs the economics of it; so
he shows that it will be working much better being rented as
a service industry like the telephone than being sold.
If you
sold all the telephones then people would hang on to their old
ones. (They have brought in some classical modern designs or
a modern rock designed telephone instrument; and they're really
no good.)
"The most extraordinary thing is that the telephone makes its
money by frequencer of use of the telephone. They've found that
everytime they've taken the phones away and given them back a
better telephone that's clearer or easier to talk over, people
use it much more. So they have found that by improving and"
- Tape transcript, p.20; RBF to B. Brooks, 200 Locust, Phila. Pa.
30 Apr 74
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Telephone:
(2)
"owning the technology, not selling it to the people, their
earnings have gone up. This working towards service industries
is making obsolete one of the great political problems of all
history, which is ownership. As man begins to live in much
bigger patterns-- much bigger sweepouts and going around-the
world you find people beginning to rent cars instead of owning
them.
n
- Tape transcript, p.20; RBF to B. Brooks, Phila. Pa., 30 Apr 74

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

Telephone is Not the Information:
See Communication, Oct 70
Information, 12 Feb 72
Democritus, 6 Jun169
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (13) (14)
(2)

Telephone:
See Service Industry
Service vs. Instrument
Self-rebuilding Telephones
(1)

Telephone:
(2)
See Brain's TV Studio, (3)
Communication, Oct 70
Copper Sequence, (II) (III)
Economic Accounting System, (B)-(D)
Information, 12 Feb'72
House, 1971
Self, 1971
Service Industry, 29 Aug'74
Tactile Sequence (4)
Tools: Craft & Industrial, (2)
Trespassing:
Not Trespassing, (c)
Distribution, 25 Jan' 75
Everybody's Business, (1)
Teleology, (1)
Mobile Homes, (1) (2)
Human Unsettlement, (1)
Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing, 20 Sep' 76

Telephotograph to the Brain:
See Reflection Sequence: Apple, (1) (2)

Teleportation:
See Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities, 22 Jun 77

Telescope:
See Satellite:
Sweepout:
Infoscope
Telescopes Mounted on Satellites
Spherical Sweepout
(1)

Telescope:
See Sweepout in Scientific Exploration, 6 Jul162
Synergetics, 22 Apr171
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Television:
"Television is important, not that it has a name, but because
it is a way in which man individually has been able-- as a young
child to get information from around the whole world. The
parents used to bring home all the news, Daddy and Mommy. They
don't bring home the news now. They come home and the kids tell
them what the news is because television is giving it from
around the world. And the people who get their jobs in tele-
vision-- like yourself-- get it by virtue of your diction and
your vocabulary and your versatility in using it. So that the
authority for the news-- what's going on-- is coming to the
young world over the television or the radio, and coming with
better diction and vocabulary than the parents usually have.
So the child then emulates the communication pattern of those
who give him the most reliable information. So it's not a
matter of the parents not loving their children or children not
loving their parents, but children are now really peeling off
and saying intuitively: I see that man can do anything he needs
to do; our parents are locally preoccupied, they have apolo-
gies and say we can't afford to do that. We see that man can't
afford to do anything else but make his world work. That's the
spirit of the young people."
ww
Feb'
Cite RBF in Edward Newman TV Interview, transcript pp. 38-39, 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Television:
Third Parent:
"... Even the seemingly most steady population is not
We have mobilizing
steady at all, it is all drifting.
world man, he is not vagrant at all, and the degrees of
freedom of man have been increasing and his capabilities
have been increasing-- he knows about his whole world and
each child that is born is born in the presence of less
misinformation and in the presence of more relaiable
information. Particularly the young world with the
television, are told about the whole world on the hour, right
in their own home. And they hear much more from their third
parent (which is what I call the television) than they do
from their own parents. Their parents talk about the local
things- local and visual-- and the third parent tells them
about the whole world and all the problems of all the world,
and is the first to tell them about the inventions, what
man can do. Everything extraordinary that man can do, the
third parent tells them about that. So they go the the third
parent and they find that he has good diction, so we find the
young world thinking 'world, it is the first generation of
man to think 'world.""
-
Cite RBF Address THE HABITABLE CITY, 14 Oct. 169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Television: Third Parent:
"Approximately everything man thought he understood
will be useless within the next decade. We are going
to develop an environment in which the new generation is
so protected from the lovingly administered nonsense
of grownups that it can develop naturally just in time
to save man from self-annihilation. What I call the
third parent, TV, brings the babies half-hourly world news
as well as much grownup-authored and discredited nonsense.
The student in revolt in California are the first generation
of TV-reared babies. They insist on social justice the
world around. Imminent change is inexorable."
-
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 174, May '65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Television: TV:
"Children looking at TV today see it quite differently from
the way we do. It begins to be very much a part of their
lives and they accredit it the way we accredit what we get
out of our eyes regularly. I am sure that when they are
looking at a baseball game, if they are interested in base-
ball, they are right there in the field. I am now giving
you an omnidirectional TV set and there is no way for you
to escape it. That is all we have ever lived in. You have
been in an omnidirectional TV set all this time and you have
gotten so use to the reliability of the information that
you now have projected yourself into the field. You insist
that you see me out here but you don't. We are all working
back here in TV sets."
Cite Orggon Lecture #3, p. 98. 5 Jul'62

Television: TV:
See Brain's TV Studio
Broadcast
TV:
The TV Generation
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities
(1)

Television: TV:
See Communicating (1)
Daddy (1) (2)
Newspaper, 16 Oct 172
Weapons Technology (2)
Club of Rome: Limits to Growth (2)
Seeing vs. Hearing, 22 Jan'75
Set, 5 Jul 62
Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep' 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temperature:
"Temperature should be thought of as relative heat
concentrations or dissipations."
Citation and context at Cold & Vacuum, (6), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temperature of the Human Body:
"For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere
Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it
At the slowest known rate of all substances.
As a consequence the temperature of the watery mantle
Covering three-quarters of Earth
Vary between such close limits
That the world average temperatures throughout the years
Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit
Over all the years in which temperatures
Have been recorded around the world.
Within these exquisitely stable electro, thermal
The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained
As the apparently ultimate focal formulation
(A)
chemical limits
Of the metabolic interchangings and intertransformings
Of the total evolution of bio-ecological intercomplementation."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of BRAIN & MIND AT p. 113, July172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temperature of the Human Body:
"So delicate are the microclimatic-ecological balances
That, humans at all times manifest
An internally permeative organic operating temperature
Of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
No matter what their age,
Their geographical location,
Or their clothing may be.
Manifest Number Seven
Of Earth's cosmic functioning
Is its progressive geological submerging
Of the hydrocarbon energy residue concentrates
Buried ever more deeply and at increasing pressures
Either within the Earth's crust, or its hydrosphere,
Whereby those biological residues are chemically transformed
Into rigid, liquid, or gaseous fossil fuels."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of BRAIN & MIND at p. 114, July' 72
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temperature of the Human Body:
"A Sixth Manifest of Earth's
Unique celestial scheme functioning
Is discoverable as the impoundment
Of star energy radiation
In both the Earth's atmosphere
And in its hydrosphere,
hich provides the weather and ocean currents
And which maintains the critical temperatures
(1)
Within which the biological proliferation of metabolic formulations
And feedback chemical process exchangings must occur.
For an instance, the heating of the hydrosphere
Involves the fact that water takes on heat and loses it
At the slowest rate of all known substances.
The water temperatures of the Earth
Vary between such close limits
That the average temperatures throughout the years
Have varied less than one degree Fahrenheit
Over all the years in which temperatures
Have been recorded."
Cite BRAIN & MIND, pp. 113-114, May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temperature of the Human Body:
"Within these exquisitely stable limits
The metabolic regeneration of humans is sustained
As an ultimate focus of the metabolic interchange
(2)
And transformations of the total biological ecology complementation.
So delicate are the thermal balances involved
That healthy humans, for instance,
At all times manifest a temperautre
of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
No matter what their age,
Their geographical location,
Or their clothing may be."
Cite BRAIN & HIND, p.114, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temperature of the Human Body:
"The only difference between ourselves and hard cold
machinery is that we also have these metabolic processes
processing energy to be regenerated and these have a
by-product heat of 98.6...
Citation and context at Human Beings and Hard Machinery, 20Apr172

RBF DEFINITIONS
-
Temperature of the Human Body:
"Without weight you do not exist physically-- nor
without a specific temperature. You can convert the
velocity x mass into heat."
Cite RDF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.

Temperature of the Human Body;
(1)
See Degrees: 98.6°

Temperature of the Human Body:
See Human beings & Hard Machinery, 20 Apr*72*
Man as an invention, 1 Aug 72'
Trees, (d)
Wind Stress & Houses, (8)
(2)

Temperature:
See Heat
Thermal Limits
(1)

Temperature:
See Quantum Sequence, (3)
Cold & Vacuum, 1946*
Four-dimensional Reality, 30 Apr'77
(1)

Temple:
EX
See Permanent Symbolic Communication Devices
(1)

Temple: Temples:
See Domes, 12 May' 77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temporality:
" . In our temporal life there will always be some
degree of lag or asymmetry which misses the exactitude
of the ideal. . .
n
For citation and context see Ideal, 1 Apr '72
14

Temporality -
Tempo-reality - Time-reality:
See Truth, 22 Jun 75

Temporal: Temporality:
See Eternal & Temporal
Residual Ignorance of Tamporality

Temporal: Temporality:
See Humans, 8 Mar'73
Ideal, 1 Apr 72*
Life, 13 Mart 71
Truth, Jan 72
Finite Event Scenario, (2)
(2)

147
RBP DEFINITIONS
Temporary:
"Experience is all temporary.
"
Citation and context at Absolute Integrity, 4 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Temporary:
"The chemical compounds are temporary and have limited
associabilities.'
Citation and context at Compound, 13 Mar' 73

Temporary Realizations:
See Things, 19 Feb'72

Temporary:
See Special Case
Terminal
Life's Temporary Vehicles
Limited Associabilities
(1)

Temporary:
See Eternal, 13 Mar 73
Computers as Specialists, 13 Aug'64
Absolute Integrity, 4 Nov*73*
Compound, 13 Mar 73*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Ten:
"The ten in 10F2+2 comes from the 92, 162, 252, 362, etc.
sphere shells of the vector equilibrium. Three is nine to
the second power; 16 is four to the second power; 25 is
five to the second power-- but the second powering has to
be times 10, that's the point. And the Plus Two is a
constant also."
. Cite RBF to EJA, Wordd Game Workshop, Phila., PA, 22 Jun' 75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Ten: Modulo 10:
"They happened to be enumerating with congruence in modulo 10,
which does not include any prime numbers other than 1, 2, and
5. The rational
three-ness of the cube in relation to the
tetrahedron is not accommodated by the decimal system; nor is
the prime seven inherent in modulo 10."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 223.91, 26 Sep'73

Ten: Ten-ness:
See Decimal & Duodecimal
(1)
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Closest-packed Spheres

See Synergetics, 29 Nov' 72
Ten: Ten-ness:
223
(2)

Tendril Curvą:
See Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)

Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth:
See
Step
No Local Change
(1)

Tennis Ball Hits the Big Earth:
See Intereference, (1)
Step, 22 Jul 71
Vectorial Model of Interference, Apr'71
(2)

Tennyson, Alfred Lord:
See Advertising, 28 Apr' 71
Custom: Lest One Good Custom Do Corrupt the World, (1)

Tensed String:
See Pythagoras, (1)(2)
Quarks, 22 Jun*77
Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (2) (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Engineers agree that tensegrity is operative but they are
only permitted by their art to calculate the compression
components. We will have to get hydraulic and pneumatics
engineers to develop tensegrity accounting. There probably
are compression limits in liquids but we don't know what they
are as yet; but there are no limits to tension structuring.
The functions are limit and limitless: the hard compression of
a stone vs. the low pressure of truck tires which are low
pressure because the loads are evenly distributed. "
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Synergetics identifies tensegrity with high-tension alloys,
pneumatica, hydraulics, and load distribution."
Citation and context at Apple, 10 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"It is also not surprising, therefore, that Universe islands
its spherical compression aggregates and coheres the whole
exclusively with tension; discontinuous compression and
continuous tension: I call this tensional integrity of
Universe tensegrity."
Cite RBF marginalis on SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 640.22,
9 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
**The kinetically interbalanced behaviors of tensegrity
aystems manifest discretely and elucidate the energy-inter-
ference-event patternings that integrate to form and cohere
all atoms. The tensegrity system is always the equilibrious-
balance phase, i.e., the omnipotential-energy phase visually
articulate of the push-pull, in-aout-and-around, pulsating
and orbiting, precessionally shunted reangulations, synergetically
integrated.
"
-
[n]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 720.12, 20 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"The word tensegrity is an invention: it is a contraction
of tensional integrity. Tensegrity describes a structural-rela-
tionship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by
the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional
behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and
exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity
provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately
breaking or coming asunder."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 700.011; 14 Oct 72

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Tensegrity is a confluence of optimum factors.'
Cite RBF to HUD Engineers, Washington, 26 Jan 172
TENSEGRITY-SEC 650.03)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Synergetics has discovered "the identification of
tensegrity with pneumatics and hydraulics-- it's load
distribution, that's the point."
Cite RBF to EJA re SYNERGETICS Draft. Sec. 251.19, 20 Dec. *71.
BALLOON- SEC. 656.30

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"The increasing ability to give without breaking."
CORRECTED by RBF, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971
to read as follows, (See Synergetics draft at Sec. 615.01)
"Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly
without ultimately breaking or coming asunder."
TENSEGRITY SEC. 650.01)
Observation to E.J.A. in Mayflower Hotel
some time in 1969.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"The 12-spoke wire wheel.
•
opposes turbining or
torque members.
Universal joints of two axes or three
axes are analagous to the wire wheel as a basic system
relying on the differentiation of tension and compression
for its effectiveness. These all may be considered
basic tensegrity systems.
(Adapted.)
TENSEGRITY 650.40)
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS- caption #10
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Tension,' 'integrity,' discontinuous-compression,
discontinuous tension system."
Cite RBF Glossary of Terms
bound with "The Live Book Squad"
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Tensegrity. The word is an invention: it is a
contraction of a tensional integrity, a structure the
shape of which is guaranteed by the tensional behaviors
of the system, and not by the compressional behaviors."
TENSEGRITY SEC. 650.011
Cite MEXICO 63 p. 28; 10 Oct 63

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Now we come to the first structures that we call tensegrity
structures discontinuous compression, continuous
tension-- in which the coherence of the whole is explained
by the tension, and the compressions are local islands."
TENSEGRITY
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 176. 9 Jul'62
SEC. 650.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Then I had also one day gone into the faithfulness of
our experience where I said you could not have two actions
going through the same point at the same time and we had
come to the discovery of the tensegrity structures which
had not been the kind of structures that men had tended to
think of in the early days. We saw that they had come to a
concept of a solid Earth, a solid brick and brick on brick
as apriori-- an d from time to time
they might help
hold things together by throwing in a little tension, maybe
bind the things together in tension as a barrel is a
tensional thing and they put somehoops around it to hold it
together, but primarily you start with the compressional
interrelationship, compressional mass helped by the staves
in tension-- tension is secondary. Then we found when we
tried to differentiate tension and compression in thinking
of structures in Universe that apparently the macrocosm and
microcosm were something that you might call tensionally
cohered. They were at least discontinuous compression.
The compression members did not touch one another and the
Earth did not ball-bearing around on Mars and this was
true in the nucleus. We came to a really different kind of
a structure in which the tensegrity principles aeemed to
coincide with the structuring of Universe-- "
Cite Oregon Lecture #8., p. 279. 12 Oct 162
TENSEGRITY - SEC. 651.03)
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"-- both macrocosmically and microcosmically, and we find
that whereas man seemed to be blind in employing it at
his everyday level, we found that we could make the
tensegrity stuructures which did make it possible to
operate that way in the everyday level and we found the
tensegrity structures satisfied our
conception that
we could not have the two events going through the same
point at the same time because we had divergences of these
vectors but they never actually got together. They get in
critical proximities, twist by each other, but go on. We
found that the tensegrity structures also occorred at
certain levels. You can't make anythring in tensegrity but
there are certain geometries which appeared
and they
were all fashionable methodically in tensegrity."
-Cite Oregon Lecture #8, pp. 279-280. 12 Oct 162
TENSEGRITY SEC. 651.04]
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
(3)
"I have given you some of these measurements where we
looked at tetrahedra and octahedraand so forth as
if
the
edges were coming discretely together at one point in the
Platonic way of looking at a solid. We
have also realized
that if we looked at any of these micrscopically that
the ends are pretty well twisted and we discovered that we
could make all the same figures with the tensegrities and
we realize that the gap in thetensegrities can be visual.
As I began to show by further experiment we get to the
point where they go below resolution by the ever remembering
human eye which can only go down to resolving distances to
about one-hudredth of an inch and below that we don't
see the distances between them. We don't see the distances
between the points any more. We see a set of black points
on a white field, and when they get below a certain point
they run together. That is what the printers learned with
the Benday screen-- you can develop what seemed to be
continuous form, continuous surface, and so the colors,
grays and various colors we speak of as color, but we can't
see the intervals between the waves or the occurrence of
frequency of their components. I saw then that the tensegrity
structures did go down into nonvisible gaps.
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 280. 12 Oct 162
TENSEGRITY SEC 651.05
"

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
•
(4)
"I saw then that the tensegrity strustures did go down into
nonvisible gaps. simply down to where I don't see the
space between the critical proximity of the converging lines--
but every time I magnify it. . . I find they really are not
coming together. We get into bubble experiments and every
kind of physics experiemnts and we find that every time we
get lines tending to converge they always seem to do some kind
of twisting around each other and they don't come through
the same point."
TENSEGRITY-
SEC. 65105 F
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p.280. 12 Oct 162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"All structures are tensegrity structures from the solar
system to the atom."
-
Cite OREGON Lecture #6 - p. 197, 10 Jul162
TENSEGRITY SEC. 650.04)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Tensegrity structures are pure pneumatic structures
and pneumatic structures are doing what they do at the
subvisible range."
(Adapted.)
-
CITE OREGON Lecture #5
p. 189, 9 Jul162
TENSEGRITY-
SEC. 650.10)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"In a tensegrity system
if you just tauten one point
all the parts of it tune the same. Every part is a non-
redundant system.
tension goes up and the frequency goes up-- but it goes up
uniformly all over. It gets to be an extremely rigid
structure but it is a nonredundant structure. Anything that
we would really call rigid such as one of the atoms of very
high integrity pattern is explained by this type tensegrity
If you tighten it, it tunes up. The
patterning."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 178. 9 Jul'62
TENSEGRITY-SEC 652.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Basic Tensegrity Structures:
Three and Only:
"Now you see these same six members as they transform in
relation to each other. They go from the tensegrity
icosahedron through the tensegrity octahedron phase and
finally become the tensegrity tetrahedron. The same six
members can transform from containing one volume to
containing 18.51 volumes. The same six members transform
through the full range of the three and only fundamental
structures of nature. What I am showing you here are the
principles actively operative in atomic nucleus behavior
in visual intertransformations. There are very extraordinary
qualities in these structures. The tensegrity tetrahedron
and tensegrity octahedron are volumetrically complementary
and together will fill all space, but the tensegrity icosa-
hedron refuses to complement the tetradron or octahedron
but isolates itself in space or goes on to make up triple-
bondedly into large octahedra which may then complement
tetrahedra to fill all space."
-
MEXICO Address, 10 Oct 163, p. 35 (Illustration D-1-123)
TENSEGRITY- 652.20+21)

Tensegrity: Basic Tensegrity Structures:
See Prime Structural Systems
Three and Only:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Clothesline:
"Surprising behaviors are found in tensegrity structures.
The illustration shows a house and a tree and a clothesline.
The line hangs low between the house and the tree. To raise
the line so that the clothes to be dried will not sweep the
ground, the line is elevated by a pole that has one end thrust
against the ground and the other end pushed outwardly against
the line. The line tightens with the poles outer end at the
vertex of an angle stretched into the line. The line's angle
shows that the line is yielding in the direction away from
the thrusting pole.
"As the clothesline tightens and bends, it always yields
away from the pushing strut. In spherical tensegrity
structures the islanded compression struts pull the tension
lines to angle toward the strut ends.
"When we release a compression member from a tensegrity
sphere, one end does not thrust by the tension member to which
it was fastened in a circumferential direction. It was not
fastened in thrust or sheer. It was not pushing circumferent-
ially. It was resisting being compressed, and like a cork in"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 712.01-.03, 19 Oct 72
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Clothesline:
"a bottle, it was employing its frictional contact with the
tension net at both its ends to resist its only tendency,
which was to exit radially outward from the system's center.'
"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 712.03, 19 Oct 172
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
"Here we are looking down from the air onto a house
Clothesline:
and there is a tree by the house and here is the clothes-
line. And in order to keep the clothes line off the ground,
you put a couple of struts against the clothes Cline sag.
So you put a strut this way and one that way. That is the
natural shape it takes. That is what you expect it to
take. It can't take anything else, but the tensegrity
structure here is a red strut, and you think it ought to
push the line the way this one does. Not at all; it
pulls on the line and the one coming the other way pulls
on the line so in a tensegrity structure tension members
yield to the compression members. The compression
members were trying to fly apart like bricks, they are
pulling thetension members and not pusing them. This is
one of the most interesting characteristics of a tensegrity
structure."
(RBF Comment on SLIDE 4:1-3)
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
pp. 184-185,9 Jul 62
TENSEGRITY (EXTRACT) SEC 712.01-63

Tensegrity Clothesline:
See Tension, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron
Universal Joint:
•
"I had been ransacking the tensegrity concepts using the
multiple-rimmed, parallel or concentric wire-wheel phases
of tensegrity since 1927, in the multi-decked 4-D mast
structures and the Dymaxion house. Despite the fact
that I called it the 4-D house-- for fourth dimensionality--
was a polarized, i.e., single-axis system of three dimension-
ality, with equatorial and latitudinal compressional atolls,
isolated from one another in parallel in the comprehensive
triangulated tensional network." But I had been unable to
integrate" synergetic geometry "and three-dimensional
tensegrity... thus to discover multi-dimensional four,
five, and six axes symmetrical tensegrity. I had realized
that the two-axis universal joint, long known to man and
often employed by mechanics as a flexible membrane-- sand-
wiched between two diamterically opposed yoke-ended shafts,
with yoke planes symmetrically oriented at ninety degrees
to one another-- constituted an octahedronal tensegrity,
but its shafted axes tended to make it appear as a single
axis system similar to the hexagonal-wheeled Dymaxion house."
Cite "Tensegrity," FORTFOLIO ART NEWS, p. 121, Dec '61
TENSEGRITY-SEC 650.41
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron
Universal Joint: (2)
"In 1948 Kenneth Snelson showed me a sculptural construct
embodying a cantilevered strut of octahedra, accomplished with
tensegrity applied to the mechanics' universal joint octahedra,
reoriented from their shaft axes to a parallel plane alignment.
Though Snelson thought of this only as a unique art form and
was apprehensive to my aversion to artistic exploitation
of energetic geometry (I have shunned the daily recurrent
opportunities to exploit the energetic-synergetic geometry
either as toys or objets d'art), he was eager for me to witness
his discovery of a novel and exciting structure. His
depolarized orientation of the tensegrity-octahedron universal
joint catalyzed my comprehensive integration of the whole
hierarchy of mathematical interrelationships of my tensegrity
structures with my energetic-synergetic geometry and its
multi-dimensional, multi-axial symmetry."
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 121, Dec. 61
LAST SENTENCE TENSEGRITY SEC. 650.41

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-Octahedron
Universal Joint:
"My initial harvest of mathematical structures produced by
this new conceptual tool was a family of four tensegrity masts
characterized by vertical side-faces of three, four, five,
and six each, respectively. The three and four sided masts
consisted of discontinuous compression islands of tetra-
hedronal strut groups mounted only in tension one above the
other, while the five and six sided masts consisted of local
islands of icosahedronal and octahedronal strut groups
mounted vertically above one another, again only by tensional
connectors."
(3)
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, pp. 121-122,
Dec.
+61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Geodesic Grid: Three-day Grid:
"That is also exactly what happens in a three-way grid
In the balloon we get
tensegrity geodesic spherical grid.
paths of these positively and negatively paired, kinetic
molecules reacting from one another in a random set of
directions. If they went into one path only they would
make a single circle which would push the balloon out-
wardly only at its equator making a disc and allowing the
poles to collapse. If they made a two-way stak of parallel
lesser circles as a cylinder, the cylinder would contract
axially into a disc. A two-way grid would make only
unstable squares and diamonds which would elongate into
a tubular snake. But once we have three or more sets of
angularly independent circularly continued push-pull paths,
they must inherently triangulate by push-pull stabilization
of opposite angles. Triangulation means self-stabilizing;
which creates omnidirectional symmetry; which makes an
inherent three-way spherical symmetry grid; which is the
geodesic structure."
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION #96, caption.
BALLOON SECS 656.50 >53) (Same text: Mexico '03, p. 47); 10 Oct '63

Tensegrity Geodesic Grid: Three-way Grid:
See Omnirational Control Matrix
Spherical Grid
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
(1)
"We have in the geodesic tensegrity the ability to assemble
unprecedentedly large clear-span structures whose overall
diameter dimensions are limited only by the relative alloyed
coherence of the associated metallic atoms therein involved,
whose improving coherences are in swiftly multiplying
metallurgical evolution augmentation. We can go therefore
into the same magnitudes of clear-spanning dimensions as
our largest suspension bridges. As these bridges demonstrate
the continually improving tensile capabilities of constantly
improving alloys, one could now be made twice the size of
the Golden Gate Bridge. We may, therefore, consider clear-
span geodesic tensegrity spheres in the magnitude of two
miles diameter as now realizable for use as satellite environ-
ment controls, or as hemispherical, or other spherical segment,
Earth contacting enclosures (in which the Earth completes
the sphere) e.g., for arctic city environment controls or
as water floatable enclosures."
-
LAbove TEXT APPEARS IN
I a I, p. 170]
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 123, Dec. '61

TEXT AS IN
1+1, P. 176
RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
(2)
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
"Suspension bridge cables are parallel to one another, and
therefore give one another no more anti-rhombic structural
stability aid than do the parallel tension wires of a barrel.
In geodesic tensegrities all the tension members cross one
another in great-circle chorded triangulations, thus providing
highest possible dimensional stability. For several well-
known reasons there are ways in which geodesic tensegrity
spheres can be made to provide diameters way in excess of
the currently greatest suspension bridge span:
(1) We know that the progressive subdivision of a given
metal fiber into a plurality of fibers, provides tensile
capabilities of the smaller fibers at increased magnitudes
up to haundreds and thousandsfold that of the unit section.
This is because of the increased surface-to-mass ratios and
because all tensile capability is apparently invested in the
surfaces.
(2) The geodesic tensegrity spheres are capable of
mathematical treatment in such a manner as to multiply the
frequency of triangular modular subdivision in an orderly
second power progression and formulaic control."
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, D. 123, Dec. 161
LAST 2 PARAL- TENSEBRITY - SEC. 635.01 + 021
MIDDLE PARA ATRODS. SEC 41202

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Unlimited Frequency of Jeodesic Tensegrities: (3)
"We now have the ability to introduce the above orderly
mathematics into the computer, which permits of practical
calculation and engineering feasibility previously non-
existent. This ability, combined with the fact that the
higher the frequency the smaller the tensional sectional
area (yet the higher the tensional capability, and the
smaller the local islands of compression) allows us to state
that the higher the frequency, the more ephemeral the
tensegrity complex becomes. Also, then, the total weight
of the structure required per given level of performance
grows smaller, and the whole structure becomes less
vulnerable to total violations by any, or many, inwardly
or outwardly originiating impinging forces."
[TIMIS TEXT
II.
172]
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 123, Dec *61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
"When we introduce the tensegrity structure and its many
surprises, we see that we have broken through to a structural
knowledge and technique which permits a progressively
decreasing relative weight of structure as proportioned to
the linear gain. This is to say the gain of weight in
structures, as ratioed to basic linear dimensions, is as
one is to one minus1/x weight ratio as the same structure is
multiplied in relative size.
In the above progression, as frequencies go up, the sizes
of the islands of compression diminish.
Islands of compress-
ion are the only residual 'solids' and their diminishing
size diminishes their relative weights at a cube root
progression of advantage. Halving the size of a solid spar
reduces its relative weight by eight. Halving the
size of a hollow spar reduces weight by a factor of
approximately four."
[THIS TEXT IN 1.1 pp 171-172]
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 124, Dec. 161
(4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
(5)
"The higher the frequency the greater the proportion of the
structure which is invested in tensional components. Tens-
ional components are unlimited in length as proportioned to
section ratios. As we increase the frequency, each tension
member is parted into a plurality of fibers, each of whose
strength is multiplied many-fold per unit of weight and
section. If we increase the frequency many times, the relative
overall weight of structures rapidly diminishes, as ratioed
to any given linear increase, or even to any fixed linear
increase, in overall dimension of structure. The only limit
to frequency increase is the logistic practicality of more
functions to be serviced, but the bigger the structure, the
easier the local treatability of high-frequency components.
In contrast to all previous structural experience, the law
of diminishing return is operative in the direction of
decreasing size of geodesic tensegrity structures and
increasing return in the direction of their increasing
dimensions."
TENSEGRITY
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Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO ART NEWS, p.124, Dec. '61
655.10-11-12)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tenserrities:
"If the frequency is high enough the size of the interstices
of the tensegrity net may become so relatively small as to
arrest the passage of any phenomena larger than the holes.
If frequency is high enough, neither water nor air molecules
can pass through. They may be made to keep out the weather
complex while admitting radar's microwaves and light, etc.
If we up the frequency sufficiently we will decrease the
residual compressional islands to the microcosmic magnitude
of atoms, which only serves to disclose that the atoms and
their nuclei are themselves geodesic tensegrity structures,
ergo compatible with this ultimate frequency limit-- a fact
that is now swiftly looming into the nuclear physicist's ken.
"We now comprehend that the tensegrity geodesic structuring
provides the first true and visualizable model of pneumatic
structures in which the relative thickness of the enclosing
films, in proportion to diameter, ra: idly decreases with the
increasing size of the balloons.
-
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIC + ART HER, p. 124, Jec. 161
TENSEGRITY SECS. 655.20-21-221
(6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
"In the case of geodesic tensegrity structures no over-
crowding
of interior gas molecules, imprisoned
within a submolecular mesh net, is necessary to thrust the
net's structure outward from its spherical geometric center,
because the compressional struts, locally islanded, as out-
ward thrusting struts at both their ends, push the spherical
net outwardly at every vertexial advantage of network
convergence.
Geodesic tensegrities are then 'hollowed-out'
balloons, discarding their redundantly 'solid' air core.
(7)
"The geodesic tensegrity is a hollowed out balloon in which
those specific molecules of gas which happen to be impinging
from within against the skin at any one moment (thus pushing
it outwardly) are replaced by the islanded geodesic struts.
It is possible then to sew pockets on the inside surface of
a balloon skin corresponding in pattern to the islanded
geodesic struts, and to insert stiff battens into those
pockets which cause the otherwise limp balloon bag to take
spherical shape as it would if filled with a pressured-in gas.
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO+ ART NEWS, p. 125, Dec. 161
TENSEGRITY SECS 655.23 +24)

RBF DEFINITIONS
TENSEGRITY
Tensegrity:
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities:
"Local stiffeners of skin suitable to preferred activities,
at any structural focus, can be had by increasing the inward-
outward angular strut depths and the local surface frequency
patternings as well as by multi-layerings of surface truss
frequency- thus thickening the truss depth without weight
penalties. Here we have nature's own trick of local stiff-
ening as accomplished by the higher frequency 'closest
packing' pattern of isotropically moduled, local cartilages
and even higher frequency local bone structuring, as ratioed
to the frequency of tissue cells of animal flesh.
"If we employ hydraulic pressure within the local islands of
compression for dimensional stability, and gas molecules
between the liquid molecules for local compressibility, ergo,
flexibility, we will find that our geodesic tensegrity
structures will, in every way, have taken advantage of the
same structural strategy principles employed by nature in all
her sizes of biological formulations."
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO+ART NEWS, p. 125, Dec. 161
SECS. 655.25 +26
(8)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic Tensegrities: (9)
"Geodesic tensegrities are true pneumatic structures in purest
designed frequency principle without the disadvantage of the
randomness and redundance accruing to the inhert (sic) designer-
ignorances (which have only just happened to be successful),
when depending on subvisible chemical structure behaviors,
through the separation of all the components into two majorly
opposed magnitude classes, of all the outward bound things
that are too large to pass through all the inward-bound net
holes that are in the class that are too small. This is the
same kind of redundancy that occurs in reinforced concrete
which, if drilled out wherever redundant componets exist,
would disclose an orderly four-prime magnitude-complex, octa-
hedron-tetrahedron truss
network disencumbered of
more than 50 percent of weight. Tensegrity geodesic spheroids
have none of the portal pressurelock problems of 'solid-oozing'
pneumatic balloons. The pressure is discretely localized and
locked in place by the tension net, ergo cannot escape.
Tensegrity geodesic spheroids may have several frequencies
simultaneously-- a low frequency major web and a high frequency
minor local web. If they are of sufficiently high frequency
of secondary or minor webbing to exclude atmospheric molecules,
they may be partially vacuumized, ergo made air-floatable."
-Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 125, Dec. 161
TENSEGRITY- SECS 655.27,28729

RBF FINITIONS
Tensegrity Icosahedron:
(1)
"The six-strut tensegrity icosahedron consists of three sets
of parallels with their ends held together in tension.
If a pair of three-strut tensegrity octahedra are mildly
reorganized in asymmetrical form, they may be combined in
two sets of three struts each to form the tensegrity
icosahedron. There are 12 terminals of the six struts
(the two octahedra combines-- each with three struts of six
ends) and when 12 terminals are connected up, the 12 vertexes
of the icosahedron appear. There are 20 equilateral
triangles of the icosahedron clearly described by the
tension members connecting the 12 vertexes in the most
economical omnitriangulated pattern."
Cite Synergetics Illustration #82, caption. 1967
TENSEGRITY SEC. 652.40 + 652.511
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RBF DEFINITIONS
TENSEGRITY_
SEC. 652.52
4652.53
Tensegrity Icosahedron:
(2)
"There are six tension members which join parallel struts
to each other. If these tension members are removed from
the icosahedron, only eight triangles remain from the
original 20. These eight triangles are the eight trans-
forming triangles of the 'jitterbug.' Consequently this
'incomplete' icosahedron demonstartes an expansion-contrac-
tion behavior similar to the 'jitterbug' although more
restricted.
"If two opposite and parallel struts are pushed or pulled
upon, all six members will move inwardly or outwardly
causing the icosahedron to contract or expand in a symmet-
rical fashion. When this structure is fully expanded it
is the regular icosahedron and it becomes, in its
contracted state, an icosahedron bounded by eight equi-
lateral triangles and 12 isosceles triangles (when the
missing six tension members are replaced). All the 12
vertexes may recede from the common center in perfect
symmetry of expansion, or, if a concentrated load is
applied from without, the whole system contracts symmet-
rically, i.e., all the vertexes move toward their common
center at the same rate.
-
Cite Synergetics Illustration #82, caption. 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Icosahedron:
(3)
"This is not the behavior we are used to in structures of
our previous experiences. These compression members do not
behave like conventional engineering beams. Ordinary beams
deflect locally or, if fastened terminally in tension to
their building, tend to contract their buildings in axial
asymmetry. The tensegrity 'beam' does not act independently
but acts only in concert with 'the whole building,' which
contracts only symmetrically when beam is loaded. The
tensegrity system is synergetic: a behavior of the whole
unpredicted by the behavior of the parts.
Old stone-age
columns and lintels are energetic and only interact locally
with whole buildings. The whole tensegrity icosahedron
system, when loaded, contracts symmetrically, and because
of this its parts get syametrically closer to one another;
therefore gravity increases as of the second power and
the whole system gets uniformly stronger. This is the way
atoms behave."
TENSE GRITY
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Cite Synergetics Illustration "82, caption. 1967
SECS-652.54+55)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Icosahedron:
"A six-strut tensegrity tetrahedron can be transformed by
changing the distribution and relative lengths of its
tension members to the six-strut icosahedron.
"A theoretical three-way coordinate expansion can be
envisioned with three parallel pairs of constant length
struts in which a stretching of tension members is permitted
as the struts move outwardly from a common center. Starting
with a six-strut octahedron the structure expands outwardly
going through the icosahedron phase to the vector equilibrium
phase. When the structure expands beyond the vector
equilibrium, the six struts become the edges of the figure;
they consequently lose their structural function (assuming
the original distribution of tension and compression members
remains unchanged). As the tension members become sub-
stantially longer than the struts, the struts tend to
approach relative zero and the overall shape of the
structure approaches a super octahedron."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION #83, caption. 1967
TENSEGRITY SECS, 652.60-761,62\

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Icosahedron Tensegrity:
"The six-islanded strut icosahedron tensegrity and its
all-space-filling, closest-packing capability provides
omni-equi-optimum economy tensegrity universe structuring."
= Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, P. 122, Dec. '61
TENSEGRITY SEC 652.50)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Icosahedron:
Volumetric Comparison With Tetra + Octa:
"In the first of the fairly large geodesic spheres which
were built by the tensegrity principle we used the spherical
icosahedrons because they provide by far the most volume
with the least structural effort of the three basic
structural systems. The tetrahedron has the least volume
with the most surface; the octahedron is in the middle; and
the icosahedron gives the most with the least.
"Six vector struts make one unit of quantum corresponding to
the six edges of the tetrahedron.
"In the icosahedron five units of quanta give 20 units of
enclosed volume which means four units of volume for each
unit of energy quantum invested in the enclosing structure,
whereas in the tetrahedron one unit of quantum will structurally
enclose only one unit of volume. The octahedron gives you
two units of volume for each quantum unit. The icosahedron
gives four units of volume for each unit of quantum
enclosing the structure. Therefore, the icosahedron gives
you the most for the least effort.'
TENSEGRITY
* Cite Tel Aviv Address, Jec '67
SEC. 652.22+23

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity: Interstabilization of Local Stiffeners:
"Of first interest to engineers and artist-conceivers is
the fact that my potential prototypes of satellite- and
moon-structures are tensional integrity, omnitriangulated,
high-tensile-cabled, spherical nets in which local islands
of compression act only as local sprit-stiffeners.
The
local stiffeners are so oriented that they angle inwardly
and outwardly between comprehensively finite, exterior and
interior, tensional, spherical nets thus producing positive
and negative waves of action and reaction in interstabilized
dynamic equilibrium."
Cite "Tensegrity, PORTFOLIO AND ART NEWS, Dec 161, p.117
TENSEGRITY- SEC. 651.101

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity: Kiniature Tensegrity Hasts:
"The tensegrity masts can be substituted for the individual
(so called solid) struts in the tensegrity spheres. In each
one of the separate tensegrity masts, acting as struts, in
the tensegrity spheres it can be seen that there are little
(so called 'solid struts.' À miniature tensegrity mast may
be sustituted for each of those 'solid struts.' The sub-
miniature tensegrity masts within the tensegrity struts of
the tensegrity sphere and a sub-sub-miniature tensegrity
mast may be substituted for each of these 'solid' struts,
and so on, to sub-sub-sub-subminiature tensegrities until
we finally get down to the size of the atom and this
becomes completely compatible with the atom for the atom is
tensegrity and there are no 'solids' left in the entire
structural system. There are no solids in structures; ergo,
no solids in Universe. There is nothing incompatible with
what we may see as structure at the visual level and what
we are finding out to be the structural relationships in
nuclear physics."
Cite SYNERCETICS ILLUSTRATION 93, caption.
(Same Text: Mexico '63, p. 42)
TENSEGRITY
-
SECS 654.10 +11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts:
"Going back to these spheres of the 270 struts and the 90
struts, looking at any of those struts you can see that you
could substitute for it one of the tensegrity masts. There
is nothing to keep you from doing that. It is simply that
each of the members are smaller, each of the struts get
smaller. Then as you look at each strut in the tensegrity
mast you can make a little miniature tensegrity mast to
replace it. So now it is going to be getting pretty small
with these struts but you look at it and you make a very
beautiful miniature miniature. Every time you see a strut
you make a miniature tensegrity mast and substutute it
for the previous one. Finally by substitution you get
down to the size of the atom and this is perfectly
compatible, because this is the discontinuity; this is
the structuring of the atoms. There you are in the
discontinuous compresssion, continoos tensions where you
are simply in the energy islands in hign concentration of
tensional coherences. Finally this kind of structuring
becomes completely explicable by the atom and yet we have
TENSEGRITY - SECS. 65410+11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Miniature Tensegrity Masts:
"It was obvious that each of the seemingly 'solid' compression
struts in these island complexes could be replaced by
miniature tensegrity masts of any of these four types) and
for the miniature struts in the miniature tensegrity masts,
subminiature tensegrity masts could also be substituted.
By such process of progressive substitutions in diminishing
order of sizes, a final sub-subminiature stage of tensegrity
mast would be substituted for the last stage of seemingly
'solid' struts, i.e., at a size magnitude of a simple atom's
structural diameter. At this stage of local miniaturization,
the inherent discontinuous-compression, tensional integrity
of the non-solid atomic structures themselves would coincide
with the overall structuring principle of the whole series
of masts-within-masts complex. This eliminates any further
requirment of the now utterly obsolete conception of 'solid'
anything as intervening in the man-tuned sensorial ranges
between macro- and micro world of ultra- and infra-sensorial
tensegrity. My demonstration of the stable structural
supporting capability of such man-witnessable tensegrity
masts thus eliminated any further requirement of any 'solid'
conception whatsoever.
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.122, Dec '61
65910+11
TENSEGRITY- SECS-

RBF Der IITIONS
Tensegrity: Liniature Masts: Positive and Negative:
"These were now demonstrable as consisting of both positive
and negative tensegrities, simultaneously employed. Whereas
either the positive or the negative tensegrity mast would
independently provide the same overall compressional strut
capability as did the two together, obviously either the
positive or the negative tensegrity within the 'solid'
combination must be doing all the 'strut' work at any one
time the other is entirely superfluous, ergo redundant.
Their alternate capabilities, being approximately equal, would
alternately tend to exchange the loading task, thus
generating an oscillating, interaction of positive vs.
negative load transferral which would expend the energies
of their respective structural integrities, thus tending to
self-interdeterioration (crystallization) of their combined
alternating strut functioning longevity of structural
capability."
-
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.122, Dec '61
TENSEGRITY SECS. 654.01 +02

REF DLFINITIONS
Tensegrity Masts: Pentagonal Polarity:
"The crossed-spiral, vector-strut, tubular-shaped structures
occurring when the
pentagonal poles of the spherical
form hex-pent sphere are released, consist of five-edged
spirals countering each other--with one turbinedly dominant.
"This structure corresponds to one which is produced as a
tensegrity mast. Since we are dealing with nature's maximum
limit number of equilength vector struts, the same wavelength,
frequency, and resonance conditions obtain."
"We are comprehending here the spherical geodesic protein
shells of the DNA-RNA tetrahelix tubular-shaped, internal
structuring logic."
. Cite RBF Ltr. to Glenn Dewar, 27 Dec' 76

Tensegrity Mast:
See Geodesic Spiral Tube

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Model of Self-interference of Energy:
"In working out this business of the octahedron as an
annihilation model I've just come to realize that this relates
very closely to what we have in the chapter on tensegrity
about the reciprocal behaviors of pneumatics and hydraulics.
"The molecules find their own great circles and then develop
their own intertriangulation. Here we have an interference
pattern where energy can interfere with itself. It is a
tensegrity pattern, a making of knots. Tensegrity is a model
of how energy-as-radiation can shunt itself inwardly to make
matter.
-
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Toronto, 25 Mar' 75

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Octa-Tensegrity:
"The three-islanded octa-tensegrity, in positive and
negative phases, is fundamental to all tensegrity
structures."
TENSEGRITY
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Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 122, Dec 161
652.411

Tensegrity Octahedron:
See Geodesic Spinnaker (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Sphere;
"Pushing on one individual pole of a tensegrity geodesic sphere
is the same as pushing on two poles, because you only have to
push at one point for the inertia of the system to react against
your pushing. This point produces a spherical wave set that
if uninterfered with, will travel encirclingly around the
sphere from any one
starting point to its 180-degree
antipodes. It is like dropping a pebble into the water: the
crest is the expanded phase of Universe, and the trough is the
contracted phase of Universe. Looking at the ripples, we see
that they are the locally initiated, expanding-contracting of
whole Universe as a consequence of local energy-event inputs.
This is why tensegrity and pneumatic balls bounce. Contracting
as they contact, their equally violent expansion impels them
away from the-- relative to them-- inert body of contact."
Cite SYNEREGTICS galley at 1005.14, as rewritten by RBF,
19 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals:
(1)
"A basic tensegrity sphere can be constituted of six equatorial
plane pentagons, each of which consists of five independent
and nonintertouching compression struts, totaling 30 separate
nonintertouching compression struts in all. This six-pentagon
equatored tensegrity sphere interacs in a self-balanced
system resulting in six polar axes each perpendicular to one
of its six equatorial pentagonal planes. It also results in
20 triangular interweavings, which structuring stabilizes
the system.
"Instead of having cables connecting the ends of the struts
to the ends of the next adjacent struts in the six-axes-of-
symmetry tensegrity structure, 60 short cables lead from the
ends of each prestressed strut either to the midpoint of the
next adjacent strut or to the midpoint of tension lines
running from one end to the other of each compression strut.
Each of the two ends of the 30 spherical chord compression
struts emerges as an energy action, out over the center of
action-and-reaction effort vectors of the next adjacent strut,
at which midpoint the impinging strut's effort is angularly
precessed to its adjacent struts. Thus each strut precessionally
transfers its effort and relayed interloadings to the next two"
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 726.01+02, 15 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals:
"adjacent struts. This produces a dynamically regenerative
self-interweaving basketry in which each compression strut
is precessed symmetrically outwardly from the others while
simultaneously precessing the force efforts of all the
tensional network inwardly.
223
(2)
We are
"In this pattern of six separate, five-strut-membered pentagons,
the six pentagonal unsubstanced but imaginable, planes cut
across each other equiangularly at the spheric center. In such
a structure we witness the cosmic principles enabling the
recurrence of locally regenerative structural patterns.
witnessing here the principles and regenerating the atoms.
The struts are simple, dynamic, energy-event vectors which
derive their
regenerative energies by an eternally
symmetrical interplay of inbound-outbound forces of systems
which interfere with one another to maintain critical fall-in,
shunt-out, proximities to one another."
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Cite SYNERGETICS draft At Secs. 726.02+03, 15 Oct'72

HUGH KENNER QUOTATION
Tensegrity Sphere:
Six Pentagonals:
"Tony Pugh at S.I.U. tells me that the version of the tensegrity
sphere on which I based my exposition-- same one you have on
your office floor-- is, in fact, degenerate because it imposes
loads on the struts: as it does. In the pure tensegrities the
tension network is continuous and the struts merely float in
it, holding its nodes apart and undergoing no stress except
axial (end-to-end)."
-
Cit Hugh Kenner Ltr. to EJA, 14 Sept '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Sphere: Six Pentagonals:
"Instead of having these cables going from end to end and
the struts impinging on those cables, we have, from the
end of the strut, a single cable going to the middle of
the member. Here we have a very interesting pattern of the
atom. You see a pattern here of a pentagon: five members.
six planes of pentagons cutting across each other.
One energy action as it emerges here comes over the middle
of the center of mass of energy there and it is angularly
precessed. Then its own middle becomes the precessor for
the next two. You find this weaving around; this basketry,
in which each one is precessing the other ones inwardly.
You begin to see how there is a regenrative local pattern
in Universe. I am quite confident thative are witnessing
the principle by which the atoms cohere. These are dynamic
events. These are vectors and they are strictly a
tremendous energy event.
as it comes over the other end
it gets its maximum concentration of energy at its center
of energy, and then we get the precessional effect, and
get into the critical proximities.'
Cite Oregon Lecture #5, p. 185, July 162
TENSEGRITY- SEC 650.20

TEXT CITATIONS
Tensegrity Sphere:
538.15
726.01-726.03
Fig.765.02
781.01
1005.53
1005.60

Tensegrity Sphere:
See Geodesic Sphere
Sky-island City
(1)

(2)
22
See Gravitational Field, 8 Mar 73
Sphericity of Whole Systems, 26 Sep'73
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid, 17 Feb 72
Tensegrity Sphere:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Stability Requires Six Struts:
"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. 10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Structures:
"
From the end of a compression member there is a
little tension member going to the mid-part of the next
The end tension members from
compressional strut unit.
We are used to
two ada jacent struts make a V-shape.
fastening things into buildings in shear where structural
members push. The members in tensegrity structures pull
apart as the V of tension shows. Tensegrity structures
are not fastened in shear. If I tighten up a turnbuckle
it will tighten up the whole tension V-shape and therefore
the structure will get bigger and not smaller when tensed
more tightly. Each of the tension V's get a little flatter.
These structural behaviors are very typical of the energy
interference patterns which structurally cohere all atoms.
A strut is comparable to a vector energy action and its end
is pulled by the center of mass of the next vector strut.
Pulling the end of the vector strut changes its direction
toward the center of the whole system. Thus each of the
vectors is continually steered to encircle the same center.
In the same way energy self-interference patterns result in
locally regenerative structural systems as atoms."
-Cite RBF in Tel Aviv Address, December 1967. (Zodiac 19).
TENSEGRITY SECS, 652.01+13

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons:
"The aggregate of all the inter-great-circlings resolve
themselves typically into a regular pattern of 12 pentagons
and 20 triangles; or sometimes more complexedly, into
12 pentagons, 30 hexagons, and 80 triangles described by
240 great circle chords.
The
"This is the pattern of the geodesic tensegrity sphere.
numbers of hexagons and triangles and chords can be multiplied
in regular arithmetical-geometrical series, but the 12
pentagons, and only 12, will persist as constants; as will
also the number of triangles occur in multiples of 20; and
the number of edges will always be multiples of six."
->
Cite SET I, p.15, Aug'72

Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons:
See Hex-pent Sphere

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium:
"The tensegrity vector equilibrium could not be a better
proof of the modelability of a complete abstraction: the
sizeless tetrahedron."
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Vertexial Connections:
"The turbining, tensionally interlaced joints of the
tensegrity geodesic spheroids decrease the star-like
vertexial interference patterns.
(1)
"When a photostat is made of a plurality of lines crossing
through approximately one point, it is seen that there is a
blurring or running together of the lines near the point,
causing a web-like shadow between the converging lines even
though the lines had been clearly drawn. This is caused by
a refractive light-wave bending. When the masses of the
physically consisted lines converge to critical proximity,
the relative impedance of light-wave passage in the neighbor-
hood of the point increases as of the second power of the
relative proximities as multiplied by a factor of the
relative mass-density. The tensegrity geodesic spherical
structures eliminate the heavy sections of compression
members in direct contact at their terminals, ergo keep the
heavy mass of respective compressions beyond critical
proximities."
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO ART NEWS, p. 128, Dec. 161
TENSE GRITY SEC. 651.20+ 651.22)

RBF DEFINITIONS
(2)
Tensegrity:
Vertexial Connections:
Thus very
"As the vertexial connections are entirely tensional,
the section mass is reduced to a minimum, and frequency
increase provides a cube-root rate of reduction of
section in respect to each doubling frequency.
large or small tensegrity geodesic spheroids may be
designed with approximate elimination of all microwave
interferences-- without in any way impairing the structural
dimensional stability."
TENSEGRITY-
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p.128, Dec, 161
SEC.651.21

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Vertexial Connections:
Locked Kiss:
"As we increase the frequency of triangular module
subdivisions of the sphere, and thus increase the numbers
of compression struts, the struts get progressively
halved in length, while their volumes and weights shrink
eightfold. At the same time the arc altitude between the
smaller arcs and chords of the sphere decreases, and
finally we get to the condition where the compression
members get closer and closer to the adjacent compression
members which they cross. Finally we get to the point
where the space between them is the same dimension as
the girth diameter of the struts. We can then let them
'kiss' touch. We may then lock them tensionally together
in their 'kiss,' but when we do so remember that they were
not pushing one another when they kissed and we locked
them in that position of nonstructural coincidence.
are therefore not fastened in shear even though their
'locked kiss' gives a superficially 'solid' appearance."
They
Cite Mexico 63, p. 44
TENSECRITY SEC. 651.30)

Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections:
See Vertexial Connections

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensegrity:
Wire Wheel:
"I found that nature was not using that primarily structural
logic. In our solar system the Earth is not touching and
ball-bearing around on the Moon's surface. They cohere
gravitationally and remotely. And in the atoms the energy
I found that
components are equally remote from one another.
nature is using what I call continuous tension and discon-
tinuous, islanded compression. Man's first discovery of
that was when he made the wire wheel with a compressional
hub as the counterpart of Earth with rim corresponding to
the Moon's encirclement of the Earth with the spokes
corresponding to the gravity which coheres the two islands
of compression only by tension.
"I find then that it is possible to make structural units
which are only held together by tension. I call these
clearly differentiated tension-compression structural
tensional integrities, or tensegrity structures."
Cite Tel Aviv Address, Dec '67

Tensegrity: Geodesic Tensegrity Structures:
Aspension
See Balloons
Clothes Line
Domes
Geodesic Structures
Pneumatic Structures
Rigidity
Snow Mound
Geodesics & Tensegrities
Four triangular Circuits Tensegrity
(1)

Tensegrity: Geodesic Tensegrity Structures:
See Apple, 10 Nov 73
Cosmic Structuring (3)
Engineering, 3 Oct 72
General Case, 16 Feb'73
Vectors & Tensors, 19 Oct172
Kite, 28 Jan '75
(2)

Tensegrity:
See Push-pull Members, 28 Oct 72
(2)

Tensegrity:
(3)
See Tensegrity: Basic Tensegrity Structures:
Only
Three &
Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation of Tensegrity-
Octahedron Universal Joint
Tensegrity Geodesic Grid:
Tensegrities
Three-way Grid
Tensegrity: Unlimited Frequency of Geodesic
Tensegrity Icosahedron
Tensegrity: Miniature Tensegrity Masts
Tensegrity: Octa-tensegrity
Tensegrity Octahedron
Tensegrity Sphere
Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts
Tensegrity Structures
Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons
Tensegrity Vector Equilibrium
Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections
Tensegrity: Wire Wheel
Tensegrity Model of Self-interence of Energy
Tensegrity Clothesline

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensile Blueprint:
"t The tree having to have its own young out from under
its shadow... Lauchhing all those seeds... She sends only
the tensile blueprint in the seed. And part of this is
crystals and the crystals will grow."
-
Citation and context atTrees (A), 20 Apr '72

Tensile Blueprints:
See Prestressed Concrete Sequence, (3)
Seed, 1965
Tree, (A)*

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel:
"Here is another synergy confirming instance: the
tensile stregth of chrom-nickel-steel is 350,000 pounds
per square inch. Thi is 100,000 pounds stronger than
250,000 pounds per square inch which is the sum of the
tensile strengths of each and all of chrom-nickel-ateel's
cpnstituent metals; which are, nickel 80,000 p.s.i.,
chromium, 70,000, iron, 60,000, while the sum of
their minor ingredients-- carbon, manganese, et.al., is
40,000 p.s.i. The augmented coherence of the whole chrome-
nickel-steel alloy is accounted for only by the complex
inter-mass attractions of the crowded together atoms.
That is synergy.
-Cite NEHRU SP LEGH. P. 34, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensile Strength of Chrome-Nickel-Steel:
"The synergy is predicated upon my definition of Universe as
the aggregate of all men's consciously apprehended and communi-
cated (to self or others) experiences. Synergy means behavior
of aggregates unpredicted by the behavior of their components
or any subassemblies of their components.. Chrom-nickle-steel
may have a tensile strength of 350,000 psi, whereas its three
strongest alloy constituents have only 60,000 psi, 70,000 psi,
and 80,000 psi respectively. Unlike the chain whose strength
is no stronger than its weakest link, chrome-nickel-steel is
six times stronger that its weakest link and stronger than the
sum of stregths of all its individual links. Chrome-nickel
steel is synergetic. All alloys are synergetic. All compounds
are syneregtic. Atoms are synergetic. Universe is synergetic."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Colliers (full text), Pp. 3-4, July'59

TEXT CITATIONS
Tensile Strength of Chrome Steel:
Mexico '63, p. 14, 10 ct '63 (In this case, aluminum alloys)
Intuition, pp. 51-52, May 172
Univ. of Alaska, pp. 13-16, 20 Apr '72
Mexico 63, pp.21-24, 10 Oct '63
Later Development of My Work, I&I, pp.64-65, 5 Jun '58
Kepes, p.85, 1965
**How to Maintain Man As A Success, Utop or Obliv., p.226, 18 Mar '65
Doxiadis Ltr, Utop. or Obliv., p.313, 20 Jun 166
**Orgeon Lecture #1, pp. 31-32, 1 Jul '62
Ltr to James Fitzgibben (?), Raleigh, NC, undated, p.4. (1954-59)
*Senate Hearings, p.11, 4 Kar'69

Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel:
See Alloy
Chain Stronger than its Weakest Link
Jet Engine
Steel
(1)

Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steal:
See Cube: Diagonal Of, (2)
Industrial Lag, (1)
Synergy, Jul 59
Tools: Craft & Industrial, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
It If tension is secondary and local in all men's structural
projections, tension must also be secondary in man's philosophic
reasoning."
Citation & context at Airplane Flight as Lift, 4 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"Tension is unit: universally cohering and comprehensively
finite."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 640.70, Dec 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"Tension is an unlimited structural principle and
inherently comprehensive and eternal."
-
Cite RBF Holograph, Beverly Hotel staionery, Spring, 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"Now I am going to give you an analogy. It's actually a
model in our processes of thinking. Say your were a kid and
your mother said, 'I would like you to go out and hang
something on the clothesline'-- so you had a cfthesline.
Later on you are getting on a boat and somebody says, You
have never been in a boat before. Now this is called a
"sheet." It's like the sheet on your bed. I want you to
pull in on this jib sheet.' And then you find that there are
halyards and other kinds of lines, then you pull on those
and you get used to all kinds of lines. Then you are pulling
on the anchor rope.
>
(1)
"So then the clothesline and the different pieces of line
you have handled on your boat rotted and you get in someone
else's boat and you see ropes again. They have ropes nowadays
with better cordage of nylon, and dacron, and mylar. In
the sum total you have a great many experiences with tension,
but every one is a special case. Then you begin to draw from
all those special cases certain generalized principles about
tension. When you pull on a rope it tends to straighten out."
- Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NC, Reel 1, p.9, 11 Mar 69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"When you push the two ends it begins to coil; the radius
gets shorter, the radius gets longer. You begin to
generalize.
"Now let's get out to a very high-frequency radius from
a given sphere center of a great matrix of the closest-
packed spheres. I will go out to the one-hundredth layer and
at the one hundredth layer I would have-- we know our
frequency is 100-- so our frequency to the second power,
100 x 100 is 10,000, to the second power times 10,
makes it now 1,000,000, plus 2. So it's 1,000,002. I know
the number of balls now in the one hundredth layer is
1,000,002. Very interesting.
so it
"Now you and I and all the people who have had any rope
experiences have had 1,000,002 experiences. More than enough
to remember all the special experiences, and out of that we
generalize certain experiences of tension. We call it
'tension.' We don't just call it a different piece of rope--
it's now no longer the main sheet, and so forth, it's just
tension. And this generalization works in to some layers"
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, pp.8-9, 11 Mar'69
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"inside. In other words, we have special-case experiences
originally and out of those special-case experiences we
resolve generalized principles. And I find what I call a
generalization of a generalization, so that brings us into
a layer further still. It could be that our generalizations
come again close toward center and we finally get to the
center one which is called the Universe and that involves
(3)
them all. This is pretty much the way our thought
processes work. We begin to have a whole lot of experiences
with tears and so forth, and gradually with experiences we
get wiser and we see generalized principles.
You really
resolve something out of that and as you get older and older
you resolve more and more generalized principles. And the
reason you get quite full of equanimity and confidence is
because you have generalized so many that you can handle any
special case. I think these balls schematically are really
the way our thought processes work. We are trying to identify
what we do here. It is like the brain. This is the way the
brain handles... We have discovered that the differenee
between the brain and the mind is that the brain
-
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, pp.10-11, 11 Mar169

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
then
"is simply a storing and retrieving system for all the
special-case experiences. But once you and I have resolved
it, and the mind resolves the generalized principle... but
once the mind has discovered the generalized principle,
it deposits it in the brain as another kind of special case.
Generalization becomes storable in the special case words,
because we do it in words, we do it in concepts-- that gets
to be storable. It's quite a different kind of storage from
the original special case. I think there are a great many
people who just really live in the special case and don't
really tend to generalize as much. What they have are some
rules. Those are special cases because they remeber that
their minister told them always to do this-- Raise your hat
going by church.. Those are conditioned reflexes.
"I think we really have given you the prime entry here."
(4)
Cite RBF to VERNER Smythe, NYC, Reel 1, p. 11, 11 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"The generalized principle of tension
Holds true in all cases
Be the tensed phenomenon a silken cord,
A wrought-iron chain,
Or the invisible gravity cohering
The Earth and Moon
Which rotate synchronously
As they fly twin-spin formation'
Around the Sun
At one thousand miles a minute
Which is four times
The additional acceleration
At which our Christmas Eve
Moon orbiting
Manned capsule
Averagely enrouted
Its successful round trip."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.1, 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
Tension members work towards arcs of greater
radius but over completely straighten out.
The tensions
.
.
are not in a plane, anyway.
Tension tends to do the big
things in universe, do the big action, and compression is
towards the little action.
Furthermore, compression member
has a limit ratio of length to section, we call it a slender-
ness ratio, it very readily busts because it is too long.
But there is no lamit of cross-section to length in a tension
member, no inherent ratio. If you make a better alloy, you
make it very much longer."
Cite LEDGEMONT, pp. 30-31, 15 Oct 64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"Tension is shown experientially to be nondimensional,
omnipresent, finitely accountable, continuous,
comprehensive, ergo timeless, ergo eternal."
(Ed. Note:
Date of RBF rewrite
not determined in this file.)
RBF SYNERGETICS draft, 'Tension and Compression' revision
of Oregon Lecture #5, pp. 157-158.
9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"I pull on the rope and all its curls begin to go out
and they begin to be arcs of greater radius. But we find
that it is never operating in a plane or in a line and
therefore it is consisting of spirals. And spirals get to
be arcs and a plurality of arcs of ever greater radius
but it never gets to be straight. Tension mebers keep doing
bigger and bigger tasks. The big patterns of universe are
done by the large radius patterns and to account for the
large pattern integrities."
Cite OREGON Lecture #5 pp. 157,158, 9 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"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. There is no meaning
to the word 'straight in Universe. Therefore the tension
memebers spiraling around must always come back into
themselves. They are inherently self-closing, maybe not
with simultaneous experiences-- obviously not in simultaneous
experiences-- but around comes the Halley's Comet.
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 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. "
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 111-112. 5 Jul'62

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"All tensile capability is apparently invested in the
surfaces."
Cite "Tensegrity," PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 123, Dec. '61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"As structural systems are omni-directionally
coherent, tensile factors were unwittingly taken advantage
of to cohere man's compressive structures. Comprehensive
tensile coherence provided by nature was atomic, the
enormous amount of which induced into action was manifested
by the weight of the structural masses. The invisible
structure was E = mc².
.2
"Throughout the universe, compression and tension
are energetically juxtaposed. Their juxtaposition provides
dimension-- the basic of awareness of life itself.
Tension is comprehensive. Universe tensionally coheres
non-simultaneous events.
"Han's structuring ability is by principle distinctly
limited in the proportional ratios of width and length of
compression members. The tensile principle has no
•
such ratioed limit of length to section. Tension
members, no matter how elongated, tend to pull true.
Tension is limited only to the initial cohesiveness of
the chemical elements. As man's knowledge of chemical
Cite Previews, I&I, pp.211-212, 1 Apr 49
(A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"interaction improves the length of tensile members, relative
to given section diameter or given stress, trends are to
increasing amplification-- to infinite length with no section.
Incredible? No. Every use of gravity is a use of such
sectionless tensioning. The electrical tension first employed
by man to pull energy through the nonferrous conductors, and
later to close the wireless circuit, was none other than such
universally available sectionless tension.
"In the phenomena tension man is in principle given access to
unlimited performance. It seems fantastic, but there it is!"
(B)
Cite Previews, I&I, p.212, 1 Apr149

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension:
"Tension is both internal and external to the octave
and is harmonic to the unit octave or to octave pluralities.
Tension is comprehensive, attractive, and gravitational.
Tension is infinitely extensible."
"
Tension is radial and is electromagnetic.'
Cite DCXXICH COMP SYSTER, 1944 Tible 4, caption.
Citation & context at Tension & Compression, 1944

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"In 1851 tension came to parity with compression."
-
Citation and context at Civil War (1), 20 Apr172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression is inherently partial. Tension is inherently
total."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 640.70, Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression is time.
Tension is eternity."
- Cite Synergetics Draft at Sec. 640.70, Dec. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression is higher frequency tension."
Cite RBF to Speech Class (per Mike Mitchell notes),
Edwardsville, 14 Feb'74
SIU

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"We find that nature employs discontinuous com-
pressions and continuous tension. For this reason
com ressions are plural and tension is singular."
Cite Goddesses, Sat Review 2 Mar 68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Tension tends towards arcs of increasing radius;
Compression tends towards arcs of decreasing radius."
Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression behaviors are disassociative while tension
behaviora are inherently associative and spontaneously
cohering."
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, ed., Kepes,
p.85, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Tension and compression are only coexistent.
When you tense a rope its girth contracts-- ergo compresses."
Cite MUSIC OF THE NEW LIFE, U. or 0, p.14, 10 Dec'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
"
Tension & Compression:
One thing very clear about compression and
nad tension, in the first place they are never innocent of
each other. If I pull a rope, its girth contracts, it is
going under compression at 90 degrees.
it tries to bow outwardly
•
If I load a cigar,
as I load it. So . . this
girth is expanding; therefore it is getting higher tension,
PRECESSION
Tension and compression always operate at precision of right
angles to one another and we simply have one at high tide
and one at low tide of aspects of conceptuality."
-
Cite LEDGEMONT, p. 30, 15 Oct164
HIGH
TIDE
SEC
641.011

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression tends to be local and separable and divisible
while tension tends to be unit and cohering and finite and
very large."
Cite OREGON LECTURE #5
P. 159, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Functions are never independent of one another.
No tension member is innocent of compression and
compression member innocent of tension."
Citation and context at Function, 9 Jul*62
-
Cite tregon tecture #5

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression tends to be local and separable and divisible
while tension tends to be unit and cohering and finite and
very large."
-
Cite OREGON Lecture 5
p. 159, 9 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression is micro and tension is macro."
Citation and context at Macro-Macro, 1955

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Compression is lateral or circumferential and is electrostatic;
tension is radial and is electromagnetic. Compression is
expressive internal to the octave and is limited to the
mathematical properties and harmonic laws internal to the
octave. It builds up potential. As demonstrated in the arch,
compression is limited to absolute phenomena and fixed relation-
ships of one spherical system,
"Tension is both internal and external to the octave or to
octave pluralities. Tension is comprehensive, attractive, and
gravitational. Tension is infinitely extensible.
-
Cite Dymaxion Comprehensive System, caption, Table
1944

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension & Compression:
"Throughout the universe, compression and tension
are energetically juxtaposed. Compression is limited to
dimensionally minuscule tasks in the universe, to the
spherical convergencies of energy in elemental systems.
"Man's structuring ability is by principle distinctly
limited in the proportional ratios of width and length
of compression members. Elongated compression tends to
deflect and fail. The best compression
abilities
are in the planetary form of the sphere, whose neutral axis
is dynamic through omni-directional symmetry. Ball
bearings are man's best accomplishment in compressive
structuring."
SEC. 527.04
Cite IDEAS AND INTEGRITIES, P. 212
"Preview of Building," 1 Apr'49

Tension Compression:
See Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, (1)

Tension & Compression:
(1)
See Discontinuity & Continuity
Dog Pulling on a Belt
Generalization: Second Degree
Rope
Spherical Ba
Temxion
Radia Compression Almarentiat
Structural Functions
Radial Compression vs. Circumferential Tension
Fit: Pressured or Tensed Fit
Push-pull
Tidal

Tension & Compression:
See Civil War, (1)*
Colloidal Chemistry, 1938
Coherence
1 Apr 49
Comet, 5 Jul 62
Convergence & Divergence, 8 Sep' 75
Domains of Actions, 21 Dec' 71
Function, y Jul162
Geodesic Domes, 24 Jan' 58; 12 May' 77
Hydraulics, 20 Apr' 72
Implosion, Explosion
Instant Universe,
Dec 70
Male & Female, 20 Apr 72
Macro-micro,
y55
Nature Ships Tension, 24 Jul*76
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 May 75
Pattern Generalization, (2)
Quantum: Event-paired Quanta, Jul'66
Spiralinearity, Nov'71
Tensegrity, 1967
(2A)

Tension & Compression:
See Tidal, Dec'61; 9 Nov' 73.
Universal Integrity, 7 Novi 73
Wind Stress & Houses, (10) (11)
Wire Wheel, 4 May' 57'
(2B)

Tensional Constancy:
See Islanded Radiation & Tensional Constancy

Tension Diamonde:
See Cork:
Triangular Corks in Spherical Barrels,
15 Feb'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tensional Integrity:
"Man can approximate the magnificent efficiencies and
economies of the macro-micro tensional integrities of
nature."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970

Tensional Integrity:
See Tensegrity
(1)

Tensional Integrity:
See Interpositioning, 4 Oct172
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension Structures:
"The essence of the essence of historical surprise
in general reorientations is the discovery that tension
structure is not a linked, or chain, phenomenon.
Tension members represent 'milky-way-like' arrangements
of atoms, the atomic or inter-stellar spaces of which are
relatively infinite. The tension members may no longer
be thought of as chains, no stronger than their weakest
link. Tension structures arranged by man depend upon
his relative knowledge in purest principle-- in purest
initial volition of interpretation-- of pure intellect.
Universe is tensional integrity."
-
Cite PREVIEWS, I&I, Pp. 212, 213
1 Apr149

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tension Structure:
"A tension structure is nature's fundamental pattern
cohering principle."
Cite ITEM "0" p. 196 May 55

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

REF DEFINITIONS
Tensive vs, Pushive:
"Impel' and 'repel' are both pushive; I need something
tensive to work with precession."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 12 Nov*74

Tensive vs. Pushive:
See Push vs. Attraction

Tension:
Tensile: Tonaire:
See Electrical Tension
Fish: Playing the Fish on a Reel
Intellect as Tensile
Length-to-girth Ratio
Omnitensional
Pull
Rope
Sectionless Tensioning
Supradiractional
Tidal
Wind Sucking Sequence
Precession
Tensegrity
-
Tension
Nature Ships Tension
Intertension
(1)

Tension: Tensile: Tensive:
See Airplane Flight as Lift, 4 Oct 72
Chad, 20 Feb 73
Crystallines, 9 Dec173; Aug'71
Curvature, 23 Sep' 73.
Engineering, 3 Oct 72
Ephemeralization, 1938
Eternity, Dec'71
Formless, 10 Oct 163
Octave, Dec171
Precession: Analogy of Precession & Social Behavior,
May 72
Seed, 30 Oct 172
Universe, 1 Apr 49
Female, May 65
Measurement Trends, 1938
Prehending, 19 Dec 74
Inward explosion, 8 Apr 75
Knot, 7 Noy'73
Lasso, 1946
(2)

Tension: Tensile: Tensive:
See Tensile Blueprint
Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel
Tension & Compression
Tension Diamonds
Tensional Integrity
Tension Structures
Tensive vs. Pushive
Tensional Constancy
(3)

Tensor:
See Vectors
Vector-tensor
Vectors & Tensors
(1)

Tensor:
See Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model,
23 May 75
Push-pull Members, 28 Oct 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tentative:
"Tentative is a time word which, with frequency of redefining
gets more and more
exact."
Citation & context at Time, 1971

RDS DEFINITIONS
Tentative:
See Definitions, Oct'69
Time, 1971*

Tent: Tents:
See Back Pack
North Face Domes
(1)

Tent: Tents:
See Grow-a-dome, 1 Dec'76
Space Technology, (6)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tenuous:
"Because of indeterminism, discontinuity, the exclusive
tenuous nature of integrity, means that no exact hard
particulate models may ever be fashioned by man.'
[40]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.51, 10 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tenuous:
EJA to RBF:
Tenuousness:
"Tenuous-- doesn't that sound too tentative?"
RBF to EJA: "But it holds together, doesn't it?"
See SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.34, 10 Feb'73

Tenuous:
See Particulate Model
Vertexial Connections:
Rules of Never-quite-touching

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tenure:
"The education revolution requires the elimination of all
academic tenure."
-
Citation at Education Revolution (1), 29 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tenure: Academic Tenure:
"We could have a man who is really a very bright professor,
but he was really not sticking enough and the king was
bothered about him. So he said, Mister, you're getting off
base a little over there. I'm going to really tie you up.
I want to really tie you up: I'm going to give you tenure.
Now how do you like that! Don't do anything for anybody else.
You're set for life! Nobody can ever take it away from you.
None of
But I want you to be an absolutely pure scientist.
You
that nonsense about applied science. Pure scientist.
just lay eggs and I'll take them away from you.... Today,
this is just the way our university is."
Citation and context at Divide and Conquer Sequence (5), 28 Jun 72

Tenure:
Academic Tenure:
See Fellowships:
Professors
Life Fellowships in R & D
Specialization Tollgate
(1)

Tenure:
Academic Tenure:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence (E); (5)*
Specialisation, 1970
Education Revolution (1) *
Education, 1 Feb '75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tepee: Half-Spin Tepee Twist:
"...We make further discovery of the utter interrelatedness
of synergetic accommodation as we find the half-spin 'tepee'
twist also turning the tetrahedron inside-out. Here we find
that the vector equilibrium, or the vector equilibrium's eight
tetrahedra's external vertexes all converged toward one another
only to suddenly describe four half-great-circle spins as they
each turned themselves inside-out just before the convergence:
thus accomplishing sizeless invisibility without ever coming
into contact. Eternal interval is conserved. Thus the
paradox of particle discontinuity and wave continuity is
conceptually reconciled."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1012.38, 20 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tepee-Tripod:
"Best picture of what happens locally is the following:
The three sides of a tepee-tripod, composed first of three
vertical triangles rising from a fourth ground triangle
and subsequently rocking toward one another until their
respective apexes and edges are congruent and the three
triangles plus the one on the ground constitute as minimum
system, for it has minimum 'withinness,' Any one edge of
our tepee, acting alone, as a pole with an universal joint
base, would fall over into a horizontal position, two edges
of the tepee acting alone form a triangle with the ground
and act as a hinge with no way to oppose rotation toward
horizontal position, except when prevented from falling by
interference with a third edge pole, falling toward and
into congruence with the two other poles' common vertex."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Donald W. Robertson, 8 Jan '55, p.5.
CONSTANT PROPERTIES OF TETRA. SEC. 621. 11

Tepee:
See Now House, (1)

Tarminabla:
See Definitive, 1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Terminal:
R ...special cases are all inherently terminal; that is,
in temporary employment of the principles.
Citation and context at Special Case, 13 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Terminals:
"If your world was in a plane, then all the perpendiculars
to that plane would be parallel to one another.
One way
you went up; the other way you went down; and you could
have terminals like Heaven and Hell."
-
Cite THIS IS YOUR GRAND STRATEGY, 4 Feb. '68, p.1.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Terminal Condition:
"The center ball of a vector equilibrium is zero. The
frequency is zero just as in the first layer the frequency
was one. So zero times 10 is zero; to the second power
is zero; plus two is two. So the center ball has a value
of two.
The significance is that it has its concavity and
its convexity. It has both insideness and outsideness.
Its center is as far as you can go inwards. You turn
yourself inside-out and come out in the outside direction.
Its inbound shell and its outbound shell are equally valid,
and though you see them as congruent and as one, they are
two.
This central sphere center is a terminal condition."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft, Sec. 441.03, 9 Jun172

RBF DEFINITIONS
19
•
Terminal Condition:
I give you then a tetrahedron which has an
external and an internal: a terminal condition.
You get to the outside and you turn yourself inside out
and come the other way. This is why radiation then does
not go off into a higher velocity. Radiation gets to a
maximum and then turns itself inwardly again-1 beco
gravity. Then gravity comes to its maximum concentration
and turns itself and goes outwardly-- becomes radiation."
Gite HBP Tape to fill & Bork, Blackstone, Chicago.
31 May 1971, pp. 17-1
Citation & context at Zero, 31 May '71

RBF DEFINITION
Terminal Condition:
"The center ball of the vector equilibrium has a value of
two for outside-inside, convex-concave: terminal condition.
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel Chicago, 31 May 1971
Pp. 17-18

Terminal Intertransformabilities:
See Stardust (2)

Terminal Rate:
See Universal Integrity: Second-power Congruence of
Gravitational & Radiational Constants, 9 Jan '74

Terminal Rate:
See Rate & Terminal

Torinal Speed:
See Absolute Speed
Top Speed
(1)

Terminal Speed:
See Limit Reach, 17 Jan '74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Terminating:
"
initiating and terminating are most often
of different duration."
(In the context of:
"Experiences are all
finite because each begins and ends.")
-
Cite RBF marginalia
Universe draft
28 Feb 171

Terminal:
Terminal Condition: Terminable:
See Beginnings & Endings
Biterminal
Endings
Finite
House as Terminal of Community Mechanism
Interterminal
Limit
Omnidirectional Terminal Case Corner
Rate & Terminal
Service Terminal Installation
Zero
(1)

Terminal: Terminal Condition: Terminating:
See Change, y Nov' 72
Entropy, Jan' 72*
Experience, 12 Sep 71
Finite, 1960; 1967
Gravity, 31 May 71
Rate, 9 Nov 72"
Special Case, 13 Mar'73*
Stardust (2)
Two (2)
Nuclear Sphere, 16 Dec 73
Zero, 31 May171*
Atom, 30 May* 75
Line, 1938
Events & Novents, Nov 71
Doing What Needs to Be Done, (1) (2)
Multidimensional Accommodation, 11 Dec 75
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (g)
Height, LengthWidth, 19 Jul'76
Subconscious, 20 Feb 77
(2)

Terrestrial:
See Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting

Testicles:
See Gonads

Test: Testing:
See Fluidity, 15 Oct'72

TEXT CITATIONS
Tether Ball:
Synergetics, draft, Sec. 401.02, 28 May '72
170

Tether Ball:
See Me Ball
Restraints

Tether: Tethers:
See Sweepout, May 72

Tetra-arc:
See Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Cap Closer,
23 May 75
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, (4)

70
Tetra-cone:
See Trees, (v) (vi)

Tetra, Octa & Icosa:
See Domains of Tetra, Octa & Icosa
Prime Structural Systems
(1)

Tetra, Octa & Icosa:
See Geodesic Sphere, (2)
Twelve Pentagona, Aug'71
Stable & Unstable Structures, 7 Jun '72
Structural Quanta, 9 Nov 73
Dimpling, (1)-(3); (A) (B)
(2)
21

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetra, Octa & VE:
"The three primes are really tetra, octa and VE. The
icosa is not prime as it only appears at special case
frequency2."
Citation & context at Synergetica:
Evolution of, 14 Oct'76

TETRAHEDRON
Tetrahedron:
"A tetrahedron is defined topologically by four conceptually
locatable microsystems interconnected by six interrelationship
lines whose 12 ends are oriented to corner-converge in four
groups of three lines each, whose lines terminate in one of
four infratunable microsystem corners, whose at-minimum-of-
three-other corner-defining microsystems lie outside the
tune-in-able tetrahedron defined by the six lines.'
"
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1052.353; RBF rewrite
8 Aug'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Q.
RBF:
"What's so great about the tetrahedron?"
"It's nothing to do with being great, darling.
it's just the 'simplest something.' It is the minimum
Nature
configuration with insideness and outsideness.
structures in tetrahedra: they cannot be piled up like
building blocks, but they do join.'
"
Cite RBF to Sue Liberman at WAMU taping Wash. DC; 26 Apr'77

RBF DEFINITION
Tetrahedron:
"You say I am in homage to the tetrahedron. I am not
in homage to anything, certainly not the tetrahedron as
an object, merely as the minimum structural system in
Universe.
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC: 11 Aug' 76
Incorporated in COSMIC FISHING: MS p. 10 - 7.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"A tetrahedron consists topologically of four microsystems
or of six lines converging into four critical proximity
corner-defining groups of three lines each, whose lines
terminate in four microsystem groups of three microsystems
each lying outside the tetrahedron defined by the six lines."
-
Citation & context at Microsystems, 22 Mar 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is a system and not anything in its own
right."
-
Citation & context at Nucleus, 22 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedra always have a square central section on which
they may be precessed.
"
109
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb'75

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedron is the accommodation of all the aberrations
of Universe."
-
Cite RBF to Earth Metabolic Design, Inc., New Haven, 10 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Interconnect the ends of any two lines in Universe-- and
there's your tetrahedron!"
Cite RBF to Earth Metabolic Design, Inc. New Haven, 10 Dec'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron can handle all couplings because one edge
is precessed to the other edges."
- Citation at Couplings, 10 Dec' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"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."
-
Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. 232.03,
28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Of all the regular polyhedra, the sphere (i.e., the
high-frequency, omnitriangulated, geodesic spheroidal
polyhedron) encloses the most volume with the least
surface. Whereas the tetrahedron encloses the least volume
with the most surface. The contained energy is at minimum
in the tetrahedron. The structure capability is at
maximum in the tetrahedron."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 223.87, 26 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"There are many transformation patterns, but tetrahedron is
the absolute minimum limit case of structural system
interself-stabilising.
A tetrahedron is an omnitriangulated,
four-entity, six-vector interrelationship with system-defining
insideness and outsideness independant of size; it is not
a rigid frame and can be any size."
Citation and context at Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep*73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Radiation is tetrahedral. A tetrahedron is a tetrahedron
There are points and no-points. They
independent of size.
are both tetrahedral."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 541.09. 23 Sep' 73

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is the smallest omnisymmetrical structural
system in Universe."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1053.61, 7 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"This primitive fourness identifies exactly with one quantum
of energy and with the fourness of the tetrahedron's
primitive structuring as constituting the 'prime structural
system of Universe,' i.e., as the minimum omnitriangulated
differentiator of Universe into insideness and outsideness,
which alone, of all macro-micro Universe differentiators
pulsates inside-outingly and vice versa as instigated by
only one force vector impinging upon it.'
-
Citation and context at Number: Cosmically Absolute
Number, 5 Mar173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"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 four 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 independent of size.
Since there are no 'things' there is no 'something.' We
are talking about an event in pure principle. We have
events and no-events. Events: novents: and relationships.
These are the epistemological stepping stones."
Citation and context at System Enclosure (1)(2), 20 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron, which is the minimum system consists of four
structural triangles and is therefore the minimum, ergo
fundamental structural system in Universe.
"The minimum structural system's defining four points are those
of the four vertexes of the tetrahedron which, being omnitri-
angulated, are self-interstabilizing.
"The tetrahedron is at once both the minimum system, having
both insideness and outsideness, but also consisting inherently
of four triangles which are the only structures, the tetrahedron
is the minimum structural system of Universe. The tetrahedron
is the basic energy quantum. It is the minimum self-stabilizing
energy integrity.
"All tetrahedra always have six great circle chord edges.
"When all of their nontriangular facets are triangularly
stabilized to structuralize them, all structurally stabilized
polyhedra will always have great circle edge chords whose
number will always be an even multiple of six. The sum of
the angles around all the facet corners of every tetrahedron,"
Cite SET X, pp. 13-14, Aug172
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"regular or irregular, is always 720°.
When circular unity
is taken as 360°, every tetrahedron is agularly quantized
as constituting two cyclic units."
"The great circle chords of all polyhedra are always found to
be
systematically developed out of sets of exactly six great
circle chords, never more nor less. These six vectors are
the six vectors
of one quantum unit of energy. V = 1 quantum.
"The octahedron's 12 vector edge chords are equal energywise
to two sets of
six-chord vectors, i.e., to two quanta.'
Cite SET X, p.14, Aug'72
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The simplest sphere which is concave and convex is the
tetrahedron.
1
* Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.30, 20 Apr '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Four balls are closest packed when a fourth ball is
nested in the triangular valley formed atop the closest
packed first three, which fourth ball addition occasions
each of the four balls becoming tangent to all three of the
other balls as altogether they form a tetrahedron; which
is an omnidirectional symmetrical array with no ball at
its center but with one ball at each of its four corners."
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft, #1.01.
at Sec. 942.01, 28 Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Hathematically, there are some very important concepts
about the tetrahedron. It is made up of four triangles.
The angles of each are interstabilized. Each of the separate
angles, originally amorphous, becomes stable. The triangle
is the fundamental structure, but it takes two functions--
the positive and the negative-- to make a structure.
tetrahedron is the simplest known structure."
The
-Cite RBF to Wm. Marlin, Architectural Forum, p. 77, Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"In the conceptual process of developing the disciplines for
carrying on the process of consideration, the process of
temporarily putting aside the irrelevancies and working more
closely for the relationships between the components that are
considered relevant, we find that a geometry of configuration
emerges from our awareness of the minimum considered components.
"A minimum constellation emerges from our preoccupation with
getting rid of the irrelevancies. The geometry appears out of
pure conceptuality. We dismiss the irrelevancies in the search
for understanding, and we finally come down to the minimum set
that may form a system to divide Universe into macrocosm and
microcosm, which is a set of four items of consideration. The
minimum consideration is a four-star affair that is tetrahedral.
Between the four stars that form the vertexes of the tetra-
hedron, which is the simplest system in Universe, there are
six edges that constitute all the possible relationships
between those four stars."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 620.01, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIVAS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is the supreme conceptual synergy
of Universe."
Cite RBF holograph, "Cheese Polyhedra," New Delhi, Nov. '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedrons occur conceptually independent of events
and relative sise."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240, by RBF 11 Oct. '71,
Haverford, Penna.
TETRAHEDRON - SEC.620.021

RBF UEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"A six-trajectory isolation of insideness and outsideness
has four interweaving vertexes or prime convergences
of the trajectories, and four areal subdivisions of its
isolation system and constitute tetrahedra."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240, by RBF 11 Oct. 171,
Haverford, Penna.
TETRAHEDRON
SEC. 420.057

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Six unique vectors constitute a tetrahedral event.*
- Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240, by RBF 11 Oct. 1.,
Haverford, Penna.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"We cannot produce constructively and operationally,
a real experience-augmenting operational system, with
less than four points, i.e., a fourth point not in the
plane of the first three points. It takes three points
to define a plane. The fourth point not in the plane
of the first three produces a tetrahedron having
insideness and outsideness corresponding with the reality
of operational experience."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antitetrahedron," 7 Oct. 171.
p. 1. (Dictated to EJA.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Sixth powring is all the perpendiculars to the rhombic
dodecahedron which is all the internal truncations of
the tetrahedron."
Bok, Dear Island, 25 August 1971,
- Citation at Powering: Sixth Powering, 25 Aug171
TETRAHEDR - SEC. 621.05

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"A cone is simply a tetrahedron being rotated. Omnidirectional
growth-- which means all life- can only be accommodated by
tetrahedron."
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 Aug'71
SEC.
621.03)
TETRAHEDRON

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"We have used the tetrahedron as tripods for cameras
and many such devices, but we have not used it as a
volumetric concept."
-
Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Mass, Amherst, 22 July '71,
Talk 12, p. 26

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"For every tetrahedron there is one convex and one concave.
Because the tetrahedron is inherently the minimum structural
system, it provides the minimum omni-coexisting convexity
and concavity condition in universe.
"For every tetrahedron there is an inside tetrahedron and
an outside tetrahedron. Spherical arrays and compound
curvature begin with the tetrahedron."
Cite Synergetics draft Secs. 810.2 and 810.3, 22 July 1971.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron accepts further closest packing of spheres.
The icosahedron refuses further closest packing.
TETRAHEDRON -
Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfiled, Conn., Ches Wolf.
18 June 1971.
SEC 621. 07

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron relate to
physics, the internal affairs of the atom."
-
ZINGEECORE=Hotel, Chicago, 1971
Citation & Context at Physics: Difference Between Physica
and Chemistry, 31 May 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Compound curvature begins with the tetrahedron.
de get this high frequency. .The number of points
PI (\pi) is irrelevant
you want look like a sphere.
because the mnimum sphere is tetrahedron."
Cite RPF tape to EJA and BO'R, Blackstone, Chicago.
31 May 1971, p. 18

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedron is the minimum sphere."
- Citation and context at Sphere, 31 May 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"A tetrahedron is a form of energy package."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 14 March 1971.
TETRAHEDRON
-
SEC 620.061

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is the basic structural system of
Universe. All polyhedra may be subdivided into
component tetrahedra, but no tetrahedron may be
subdivided into component polyhedra of less than the
tetrahedron's four faces."
-
Cite Synergetics draft at Sec. 506, March 171 as rewritten
by RBF.
(Originally from I & I, p. 166.)
TETRAHEDRON - SEC. 620.10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is a vectorial model of one
quantum of energy. The tetrahedron is the basic
structural system of Universe."
TETRAHEDRON - SEC. 620.06
-Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 14, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"A tetrahedron is a triangularly faceted polyhedron
of four faces. It is unique as a system for it is the
minimum possible system.
"A triangle is a triangle independent of its
edge-sizing; as is the tetrahedron independent of edge
lengths or its relative volume. In tetrahedrons of
any size the angles are always sum-tatally 720 degrees.
Tetrahedrons always have six edges, four faces, and
four vertices."
"We can say that the difference between any conceptual
system and total but non-simultaneously conceptual-- and
of course non-simultaneously sensorial-- scenario Universe
is always one tetrahedron of whatever size may be necessary
to account for the balance of all the finite quanta thus
far accounted for in scenario Universe, outside the
conceptual system considered."
-Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 14, 13 Nov'69
TETRAHEDRON - SEC. 629.11) 625.05

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"As an appendix to my discourse, I am presenting a chart
of the Synergetic] hierarchy of rational vectorial-
geometric relationships which characterize general systems
discovery of the tetrahedron as the basic structural unit
of physical Universe quantation."
-
Cite Nehru Speech, p. 29. 13 Nov'69
TETRAHEDRON - SEC. 620.03)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Thus we see both the rational energy quantum of physics
and the topological tetrahedron of the isotropic vector
matrix rationally accounting all physical and metaphysical
systems."
-
->
Citation at Isotropic Vector Matrix, 13 Nov 69
Case Nehru Speech, p
TETRAHEDRON - SEC. 620.821 + 424.021

RBF DEFINITION
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is the minimum structural system for we
cannot find an enclosure of less than four sides-- which
is to say of less than 720° of interior (or exterior)
angle interaction."
Cite Nehru Speech, p. 14. 13 Nov*69
TETRAHED IN Sec. 620.1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
" ... Now I have a fourth ball that comes around and in there
and it nests on top of the first three. . This makes a
tetrahedron. This is where stability begins. The tetra-
hedron is where the triangle gives what we call a 'structure,
or something that doesn't change its pattern any more.
was dynamic up to that time."
It
Citation and context at Structure, 25 Feb'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"A tetrahedron is the simplest subdivision of universe."
-Cite P. PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967

MBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The volume of a tetrahedron is one-third the base
area times the altitude.
Any arbitrary tetrahedron will have
a volume equal to any other tetrahedron so long as they have
common base areas and common altitudes.
"As the terahedron is pulled out from the cube the
circumference around the tetrahedron remains equal when taken
at the points where cube and tetrahedron edges cross, i.e.,
RECTANGULAR
any regular plane taken through the regular serahedron will
have a circumference equal to any other rectangular plane
taken through the seame tetrahedron and this circumference
will be twice the length of the tetrahedron edge."
(See Illustration #20.) Cite SYNERGETIC ILLUSTRATIONS, caption 20
-
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The stable structural behavior of a whole triangle,
which consists of three edges and three individually and
independently unstable angles or a total of six components,
is not predicted by any one or two of its angles or edges
taken by themselves. The six edges of the two triangles
can and frequently do associate with one another, one as
left helix and the other as right helix, to form the
six-edged tetrahedron which having four triangular faces
gives synergetic demonstration of four triangles occurring
as the result of associating only two triangles. Incident-
ally, the right and left helixes formed of the two triangles'
respective sets of three edged each constitute the vectorial
modelling in conceptual array of the positive and negative
'half spins' or 'half quanta' corresponding respectively
to the proton set and the neutron set consisting neutron, PCSTREN
and neutrino on the left hand and the proton, electron, and
antineutrino on the right hand. Together these six make one
quantum unit-- which is identified as the tetrahedron."
TETRAHEDRON - SEC 620.06)
- Cite DOXIADIS p. 312, 313, 20 Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedra have a fundamental prime number: oneness.
TETRAHEDRON
-0160 -Carbondale Draft
Reburn-to-Modelability,
4.7
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 72. Jun'66
SEC. 620.031
"t

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"When we use the term 'regular' tetrahedron we mean
all six of its edges are approximately equal in length."
"The tetrahedron is one of Plato's 'solids.' The
Greeks tried hard to employ the regular, i.e., equi-edged,
tetrahedra to 'fill all space' but failed to find a way and gave
it up."
-
Cite Carbondale Draft
Return to Hodelabili
ka
-
Cite NASA Speech, Jun'66

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"When we try to fill all space with tetrahedra, we
are frustrated because the tetrahedra won't fill in all
the voids above the triangular based grid pattern."
· Cite NASA Speech, p .68. Jun'66
TETRAHEDRON-SEC 621.06

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
.
The cube requires threefold the energy to
structure it as compared with the tetrahedron.
We thus
understand why nature uses the tetrahedron as the unity of
energy, as its energy quantum, because it is three times
as efficient."
Cite-Carbondale Draft
--Reburn to Modelability:;
Cite Nasa Speech, p. 72. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The terahedron with three positive edges and three
negative edges consists of two half quanta. These add to
exactly one quantum unit. The tetrahedral quantum unit
constitutes the basic structural system of universe. It
is transformable, but topological and quantum
identity persists in whole units throughout all experi-
ments with physical Universe. It is the only polyhedron
that can be turned inside-out and vice versa by one
energy event."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 56, Jun 66
TETRAHEDRON - SECS 620.06 + 620.07

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The twelve degrees of freedom are also then identified
as the push-pull directions of the tetrahedron's six edges."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Prof. Theodore Caplow, 18 Feb. 166.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"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 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 those four stars."
Citation & context at Star Events, Oct 165
CITE SILLARY VISION, pp 138, 139
23-Oct165
TETRAHEDRON-SEC. 620.011

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is a six-edged pyramidal frame.
may link tetrahedra in six different directions."
Citation and context at Pauling, Linus, 1965
.
We

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedra
. are the volumes bound by the planes of
four edge-joined triangles."
Citation and context at Fourth Dimension, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedrons are inherently 'comfortable' and do not
tend to transform into other shapes while cubes tend to
collapse."
Cite CONCEPTUALITY OF FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURES, Ed. Kepes,
1965. p. 82.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Of the three fundamental structures the tetrahedron
contains the least volume with the most surface and is
therefore the strongest structure per unit of volume."
-
Cite Mexico '63, p. 28.
10 Oct163

RBF DEFINITIONS
TETRAHEDRIJ
SEC.620.04
Tetrahedron:
"I am just going to give you tetrahedron.
Around any
one vertex in the tetrahedron there are three planes.
You can see them going around. Looking down on the top
of a tetrahedron you see three planes and three edges.
You see three faces and three edges around any one vertex.
That seems very symmetrical and nice. You say that is
logical. How can it be anything else. If you think about
it any more it is rather strange becauseit is
three edges and three faces out of an inventory of four
faces and six edges. They are not the same inventories.
It is interesting that you could come out with symmetry
around each of these points out of a dissimilar inventory."
12 Jul 62
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 307.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedron is an indestructible, conceivable phenomenon
independent of size."
->
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron (3),
11 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron will not fill all space. . .
can fill all space with tetrahedra and octahedra."
But we
-Cite Carbondale Draft
-- Natures-Coordination;-p-¥h+3
-
>>
Lecture #1, p. 216, 10 Juliás
Citation & context at Allspace Filling, 10 Jul'62
TETRAHEDRON-SEC. 621.06)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
My definition of tetrahedron as a first subdivision
of universe, the simplest subdivision of universe. It
could not have an insideness and an outsideness unless it
had four vertexes and six edges."
TETRAHEDRON
-
Cite OREGON LECTURE # 5 - p. 175. 9 Jul'62
SEC. 620.05

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"There is nothing at all polarized about tetrahedron or
icosahedron...
t
(See RBF rewrite of above at Icosahedron, 8 Apr'75)
Citation at Icosahedron, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"By tetrahedron . I mean the minimum thinkable seat that
•
would subdivide Universe and have interconnectedness where
it comes back upon itself. The four points have six inter-
relatednesses. You might say that four is a minimum system.
There are two kinds of number systems here: four being
prime number two and six being prime number three, that
are involved. So there are two very important kinds of
oscillating quantities number-wise and they begin to
generate all kinds of fundamentally useful mathematics."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 90. 5 Jul 62
TETRAHEDRON -SEC 626.03
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"At all times we are seeking how it can be that nature
can develop a virus and billions of beautiful bubbles in
the wake of the ship. How does she formulate these lovely
geometries so rapidly. She must have some fundamental
pure simple way of developing these extraordinary life
cells at the rate she developes them. When we get down to
something as simple as finding the tetrahedron was the
minimum thinkable set that subdivided the Universe, and had
relatedness that we could really establish- and to find that
the organic chemist from an entirely different viewpoint
came down to tetrahedron as apparently controlling-- the
tetrahedron in this case would join vertex to vertex-- and
then the metallurgist half a century later discovering the
tetrahedron, but they were not interrelated vertex to
vertex but they were interlinked edge to edge. So all the
chemists found all the structuring of nature to be tetra-
hedf ally contrived, the minimum system and we find
our thought going that way and it is again a comfortable
experience."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 90-91. 5 Jul'62
TETRAHEDRON-SEC 620.011

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry are both
tetrahedrally coordinate. This relates to the thinking
process where the fundamental configuration came out
a tetrahedron. Nature's formulations here are a very,
very high frequency thing-- nature makes virases and
things in split seconds. Whatever she does has very high
frequency and certain simultaneous acts, sort of
fundamental relationships, occur. We come to tetrahedron
as the first spontaneous aggregate of the experiences.
We discover that nature is using tetrahedron in her fundamental
formulation of the organic and inorganic chemistry. All
structures are tetrahedrally based and we find our
thoughts resolving themselves spontaneously into the
tetrahedron so it should come to us as something very
interesting when we begin to get what we might call
generalization of these special cases which are the
physics or the chemistry.
Cite OREGON UNIVERSITY Lectures, 1962
Second Lecture, p. 75
2 Jul'62
TETRAHEDRON-SEC. 620.08\

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"So we have come to structure and we have come to pattern.
Pattern has emerged first from our preoccupation with getting
rid of the irrelevancies and out of it has emerged a minimum
constellation, a minimum consideration and it is a four star
affair. It is tetrahedral. It is very amazing to have a
geometry just appear out of our just considering what is
thought. We have come to some conceptuality and this
conceptuality is essential to this thinking process.
say,
When we
'I understand,' there is some conceptuality finally
developed."
->
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 69. 2 Jul162
TETRAHEURON - SEC. 620.011

RBFD DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"A polyhedron having four equal equilateral
triangular plane faces or sides. Like the octahedron, it
may be skeletal, continuous, or a combination of the
skeletal and continuous forms."
-
Cite Fatent l'o. 2,986,241, May 30, 1961
SYNERGETIC BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"If we combine, first, the fact of van't Hoff's discovery
that all the organic chemical compounds are structurally
cohered in the terms of the tetrahedra's four vertexes and,
secondly, the fact of Linus Pauling's X-ray diffraction
implemented discovery that all the metallic elements thus
far experimentally analyzed combine in nonvertexially inter-
linked tetrahedronal structures, and thirdly, the facts which
I have disclosed in this and the preceding pages, we may well
conclude that it is reasonable to adopt the working assumption
that all of the definable structuring of Universe is tetra-
hedrally coordinate in rational number increments of the
tetrahedron."
-
Cite UNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 151, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Substituting the tetrahedron for the number two completes my
long attempt to convert all the residual heretofore unidenti-
fiable integers of topology into geometrical conceptability."
Citation at Unity as Two, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"All of the definable structuring of universe is
terahedrally coordinate in rational number increments of
the tetrahedron."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 151, 1960
TETRAHEDRON - SEC. 620.07

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"In a con-sideration four is the minimum number of
stars having an inherent arrangement of withinness and
Therefore we discover next that the minimum
withoutness.
conceptually-considerable generalized-experiances-set,
affording macro-micro separation of universe, is a set of
four local event foci. These four stars have and inherent
sixness of interrelationships. This four-foci, six-rela-
tionship set is definable as the tetrahedron. 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 tetrahedral."
TETRAHEDRON -
SEC
420.05- Otto OHNIDIRECTIONAL-HADO, p.140, 1960-
- Citation at Star Events, 1960

RB DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"Among geometrical systems a tetrahedron encloses
the minimum volume with the most surface and a sphere
the most volume with the least surface."
-
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 141, 1960
TETRAHEDRON SEC 621.021

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"In structural systems the tetrahedron uniquely articulates
the prime number 1 and is therefore logically to be identified
as the most economic quantation unit in universal energy
accounting."
Cite "Dymaxion World of RBF," Marks, Ed., p. 48, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
The tetrahedron is the lowest common rational
denominator of universe. The four unique quanta numbers
of each and every fundamental 'particle' are the four
unique and minimum 'stars' of every tetrahedron."
Cite COLLIER'S, p. 115, Oct 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"All polyhedra may be subdivided into component tetrahedra,
but no tetrahedron may be subdivided into component
polyhedra of less than four faces."
Cite PENNA. TRIANGLE, p. 10, Nov 152

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"It is a synergetic characteristic of minimum structural
systems (tetra) that the sytem 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)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
"All polyhedra may be subdivided into component
tetrahedra, but no tetrahedron may be subdivided into
component polyhedra of less than four faces."
-
Cite I&I, p.
166
Cite DOMES, Their Long History, etc. Date undetermined

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model:
"I do not recognize lines or planes as nonspontaneously
reflexed.
"Primitive geometric conceptuality occurs independently of
time-size dimensioning. A tetrahedron is conceptual indepen-
dently of relative size consideration. It is conceptual as
a self-bounding system of six most-economical interrelation-
ship directions induced by any thinkable constellation of
four only-separately-discernible, concurrent-event 'stars.""
Cite RBF marginalis on EJA Memo. to Macmillan, 28 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model:
"Organic and inorganic chemistry are both tetrahedrally coordinate.
This relates to the thinking process where the fundamental con-
figuration came out a tetrahedron.... We come to the tetrahedron
as the first spontaneous aggregate of the experiences.... All
structures are tetrahedrally based and we find our thoughts
resolving themselves spontaneously into the tetrahedron as it
comes to the generalization of the special cases that are the
physics or the chemistry."
-
Citation & context at Organic & Inorganic, Nov³71

Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model:
See Cognition, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature:
"Now combining van't Hoff and Pauling and our own experienntal
explorations, we may dare to guess that because experimental
chemistry has as yet found no contradiction to tetrahedral
linkage, despite vast probing, all the structuring
of nature is probably done by rational tetrahedral increment
coordination in which the XYZ coordinates also may be employed
to describe the arrangements but only in awkward irrationality
because of the cube edges' inherent irrationality in respect
to their cubic face diagonals' hypotenuse values, which hypo-
tenuses are the edges of the tetrahedra in the omnidirectional
matrix of vectors in the natural structuring itself. The
contemporary development of giant electronic computers makes
the handling of the XYZ awkwardness a practical matter but
serves to obscure the significance of my discovery of nature's
own rational, nonsimultaneous, vectorial coordinate system
oriented to the tetrahedron-octahe iron lattice and its import-
ance to fundamental clarity of thinking in a democratically-
coagulating world bewildered by a 'foreign-hieroglyphicking'
science."
-
Cite Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes), p.76, 1965
PART OF ABOVE AT FRAME OF REFERENCE
SEC 540.11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:
"Tetrahedra are geometrically unique in that they
may be added to on any one of their four surfaces while
increasing symmetrically in size. The tetrahedron may
grow symmetrically by adding to any one of its faces
.... without changing overall shape.
"
Cite PLAYBOY P. 12, Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
"The production of motion and spiral and wave by alteration
of face couples:
44
"All apparent motion and growth and variable time frequencies
of local occurrences of Universe are permitted by tetrahedron's
local asymmetrical alterability without ever altering absolute
integrity of symmetry of the whole system. The tetrahedron is
the supreme conceptual synergy of Universe.'
"
-
Cite RBF holograph, Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi, Nov 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:
"The tetrahedron in contradistinction to any other Platonic
symmetrical solid, can be sliced (like a cheese) parallel to
any one of its faces and retain its original symmetry and
identity. It gets smaller but never loses its coordinate
symmetry. Thetetrahedron can be altered in respect to any
one of its four faces asymmetrically. As we press any one
face towards its opposite vertex, the tetrahedron gets
smaller and smaller.
"So there are three different aspects of size: linear.
abreal and volumetric and each one has a different velocity.
Now as you move one of the tetrahedron's faces towards its
opposite vertex, you get small er and smaller with these
three different velocities operative. But it always remains
a tetrahedron so it always has six edges, four vertexes and
four faces. So the symmetry is not lost and these fundamental
topological aspects, the 60-degreeness, never changes.
As they move in finally, when they become congruent to the
opposite vertex, all these velocities come to zero at the
same time. But because the 60-degreeness the six edges,
and the four faces and symmetry were never being altered,
COORDINATE SYMMETRY - SEC. 623.02 +623.10)
(A)
RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago,
transcript p.25, 31 ay171'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
"they were not variables. The only variable was size.
size and
size alone can come to zero.
So
The conceptuality of
these aspects never changes."
-
(B)
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, transcript pp. 25-26,
31 May 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
"The tetrahedron is uniquely indestructible.
A plane
passed through the figure parallel to any one face does not
alter its regularity.
"When an equilateral triangle is divided into four identical
smaller triangles it will fold into a tetrahedron.
"When any arbitrary triangle is divided into four
congruent triangles by bisecting its edges and joining them
with new edges, it will also fold into a tetrahedron-- an
irregular tetrahedron bounded by four congruent faces."
(See Illustration #19.)
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION, caption #19. May167

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
"Only the tetrahedron can be altered asymmetrically in
respect to one of its faces and still remain completely
symmetrical. This seems to be one of the very important
properties of the tetrahedron.
"The tetraheron is a very extraordinary phenomenon in
that its symmetry, its size, is not violated by accommodating
two completely disparate rates of change.
it would stay on
as a volume. . a kind of gas..
moving around the
universe, being accredited locally and accommodating all
kinds of local transactions.
FOUR
"The symmetry, the sixness, and the Seness are all
constant.
-P
Lite LEDGEMONT LAB LECTURE, 15 Oct. 164, pp23-25
COORDINATE SYMMETRY SEC 623.11)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:
of all the
•
symmetrical figures I find only the
tetrahedron has an integrity of symmetry independent of
local alterations. It is possible to receive changes in
respect to one part or direction of the universe and not
in the direction of the others and still have the symmetry
of the whole. A tetrahedron has a strange property of
coordinate symetry that permits alterations locally
without hurting the symmetrical coordination of the whole."
OREGON LECTURE #6 -p 20%, 10 Jul'62
-Cite Carbondale Braft
Nature's Coordination, p. 41.5
COORDINATE, SYAMETRY - SEC 623.01)

RBF DEFINITIONS
COORDINATE
SYMMETRY
Sec 623.21
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
(1)
"Let me then take a tetrahedron of cheese and I am going to
press in on one of the faces instead of slicing it. It remains
symmetrical all right. But I am going to pull out on a second
face at the same rate that I pushed in on the first face; so now
it remains the same size. It is still symmetrical but the
pushing of the first face made it get a little smaller, but
pulling out on the second face made it get larger. By pushing
and pulling at the same rate it remains the same size, but its
center of gravity has to change because the tetrahedron moves.
As a consequence, then, of the teterahedron moving it receives
a couple of alterations. It receives one positive and one
negative alteration, remains symmetrical and the same size, and
apparently moves. I have only used up two of the four faces,
so I am going to push in on the third face at a rate different
from the couple that are already operating, and I am going
to pull out on the fourth face at the rate Iwas pushing in
on the third face. I am making another completly different
rate of change: one being very fast and the other slow; one
very hard and the other quite soft. These completely different
rates are coupled, and so it remains symmetrical and the same
size, but now it has to change its position to satisfy two
alterations to the center of gravity and so it is moving
in a kind of helix. It is one of our precessional resultants."
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, pp. 208-9. 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
"Tetrahedron has a very extraordinary capability, then, of
remaining symmetrically coordinate and entertaining a pair of
completely disparate rates of change in respect to the rest of
universeand not changing its size and then it becomes a
universal joint to couple up disparate actions in universe.
I am not at all surprised that we began to find such a property
and that nature was using it in the coordination of the organic
chemistry or the metals. In fact, when I began to posit for
you all the coordinating of nature that is done by the
tetrehedron, we find that this is an extraordinary quality and
it begins to be quite exciting.'
"
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 209. 10 Jul'62
COORDINATE SYMMETRY SEC. 623.22
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Cardinate Symmetry:
"Only the tetrahedron has an integrity of symmety
independent of local alterations.
It is possible then
to receive changes in respect to one part or
direction of the universe and not in the direction of
the others and still have the symmetry of the whole.
A tetrahedron then has a strange property of coordinate
symmetry that permits alteration locally without hurting
the symmetrical coordination of the whole."
-
Cite OREGON Lecture #6
-
p. 208,
10 Jul 62
COORDINATE
SYMMETRY SEC 623.011

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
of "all the
symmetrical figures I find only the
.
A tetrahedron has a strange property of
tetrahedron has an integrity of symmetry independent of local
alterations.
coordinate symmetry that permits alterations locally
without hurting the symmetrical coordination of the whole."
Cite OREGON Lecture # - p. 208 10 Jul162
-Cite Carbondale Braft
Nature's Coordination, p. VI.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
I can now
"I am going to have a cheese tetrahedron and 1 am going to
alice parallel to one of its faces, and what is left is still
a regular tetrahedron and all the edges are equal.
slice parallel to one of its other four faces,
and it is a smaller
tetrahedron but it is still regular and symmetrical. I alice
parallel to the third face and it is smaller still but still
symmetrical. I slice parallel to the fourth face and what
remains is still symmetrical. Then we take any other symmetrical
geometry, such as a cube, and I am going to slice parallel to
one of its faces, and what is left over is no longer symmetrical.
I try it with an octahedron and slice parallel to one of its
faces, and what is left over is not symmetrical. In fact, if
you try all the other symmetrical geometries, only the
tetrahedron has an integrity of symmetry independent of
local alterations.
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 208, 10 Jul'62
COORDINATE SYMMETRY - SEC 623.20]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Coordinate Symmetry:
"The tetrahedron has a very extraordinary capability
of remaining symmetrically coordinate and entertaining a pair
of completely disparate rates of change in respect to the
rest of universe and not changing its size, so it becomes a
universal joint to couple up disparate actions in the
universe. I am not at all surprised that we find such a
property which nature uses in the coordination of the organic
chemistry or of the metals demonstrable. (?)"
Cite O EGON Lecture #6
-
p. 209, 10 Jul'62
Cite Carbondale Draft
Nature's Coordination, p. VI.b

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:
See Cheese Tetrahedron
Tetraheuron: The Transmitting Differential
Tetarhedron Displacement
Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change
Accommodation
(1)

Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry:
See Universal Joint:
Tetrahedron, 9 Nov 173
(2)

Tetrahedron Discovers Itself and the Universe:
See Universe Considers Itself

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation:
"The tetrahedron's four faces may be identified as A, B, C,
and D. Any two of these four faces can be coupled and can
be paired with the other two to provide the dissimilar energy
rate-of-exchange accommodation.
" Any one tatrahedron can accommodate 15 different amplitude
(A) and, or frequency (F) of interexchanging without altering
the tetrahedron's size while, however, always changing the
tetrahedron's apparent occurrence local; therefore the number
of possible alternative changes are three; i.e., AA, AF, FF;
therefore 3 x 15 45 different combinations of interface
couplings and message contents
can be accommodated by the
same apparent unit-size tetrahedron, the only resultants of which
are the 15 relocations of the tetrahedrons and the 45 differ-
ent message accommodations."
Cite excerpts from new section added by RBF to SYNERGETICS
galley at Sec. 623.12, 9 Nov 73

Tetrahedron:
Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation:
(1)
See Information Transaction & Valving Models.
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation:
See Universal Joint, 10 Jul'62
Hyperbolic Paraboloid: Four-frequency, 14 May' 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedral Dynamics:
(1)
11 ... I am averse to the word 'immobilize'. It belongs to the
'static norm' of Newton's 'persistence... in a state of rest'.
This is a way of thinking threatened by relativity and annihi-
lated by contemporary physical science. I have attempted a new
generalized statement of a 'First Law of Acceleration,' which
goes as follows:
All local event systems (Newton's 'bodies') are in
relevant continuity of frequency accelerations with
a plurality of local and comprehensive patterning
consequences, and all other local systems of macro
and micro degrees affect all other local systems of
Universe in varying degrees of angle and frequency
modulation; and the effect of all the local systems
of events upon any and all other systems of local
events is precessional.
"The word 'immobility' tends to induce a phobia of imprison-
ment. When we consider the experience of positioning an object
by balancing it upon the end of a pole, thrust outwardly toward
the sky, the other end of which pole we can balance on our"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Lewis E. Lloyd, Dow Chemical economist,
Midland, Mich., 4 May 57

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedral Dynamics:
(2)
"finger's end as we progressively adjust the pole's bottom
position in such a manner as to keep its center of gravity in
the position of the apex of a tetrahedron, the three lower
vertexes of which we alternately reoccupy by our progression
of finger accelerations in directions approximately circum-
ferential to Earth-- the higher the frequency of adjustment
acceleration, the smaller the base of the tetrahedron need be
to correct for the plurality of precessional forces comprehen-
sively operative (as for instance wind motion, Earth rotational
moment, etc.) This is then tetrahedral dynamics. When we
come to the high frequency of atomic events we witness angular
modulation in regenerative patterns of self interference of
positive and negative action and reaction precessionally
resultant in local holding patterns wherein we realize the
micro limit integrities of the local event dynamics.
"I think your words 'right' and 'left' should be replaced by
the nonequal and opposite words 'positive' and 'negative'.
The present dilemma of science in respect to 'parity' of right
and left image amuses me because I had rejected right and left
concepts in energetic-synergetic geometry. Right and left
implied a two-dimensional reality, of infinite thinness.
I had"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Lewis E. Lloyd, 4 May'57

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahednal Dynamics:
(3)
"long ago discovered that systems had inherent convexity and
concavity and required irreversible turbining of their omni-
geared Universe event relationships. Inasmuch as all systems
could be turned inside-out, having inherent insideness and
outsideness,
I discovered that mirror reversal of the rubber
glove from one hand to the other could be accomplished without
reversal of the finger-wrist axis. I think your words 'up' and
'down' are meaningless. Which direction is up? Which is down?
Are people in China upside down? Which star should one's head
be pointing at to be identified as 'up'? What you mean is what
you say in your next phrase, i.e., in and out. Aviators come
in for a landing and go out for altitude. In and out refers
to focal centers of systems of local events of Universe only.
In' is unique to individual systems. One 'out' is common to
all systems and is omnidirectional in respect to any one system
and Universe, being a plurality of continuities of local
dynamical experiences, the direction out of Universe is not
integrative as geometrically identifiable as it is permeative
and comprehensive of experience. The outness permeates the
nuclear event remoteness. I think what you mean by 'unitary
linear vertical supports' referes to my altudinally exaggerated
tetrahedral dynamic equilibrium. "
-
Cite RHF Ltr. to Lewis E. Lloyd, 4 May157
10

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tetra Edge:
"Nature uses the tetra edge as mensural unity."
Citation & context at Mensural Unity, 21 Sep' 71

Tetra Edge:
See Constant Volume of A & B Quanata Modules
Control Line of Nature
Control Quantum
Cube: Diagonal of Cube
Deliberately Nonstraight Line
Mensural Unity
Photon: Tetrahedron Edge as Unit Radius
Prime Vector
Radial Line as Tetra Edge
Precession of Tetra Edges
(1)

Tetra Edge:
See Synergetics Constant, (A)(B)
Unit Radius, 17 Jan '74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
...
Four Unique Planes:
1 The four unique, symmetrically interdisposed planes of
the regular tetrahedron."
-
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium (1), 1965

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Four Unique Planes:
"There is a maximum set of four planes nonparallel to
one another but omnisymmetrically mutually intercepting.
These are the four sets of the unique planes always
comprising the isotropic vector matrix. The four planes.
of the tetrahedron can never be parallel to one another."
Cite RBF rewrite of 30 Oct 72 of SYNERGETICS draft Sec.
971.03 of Jan'72. Reinserted at 962.04, 17 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Four Unique Planes:
"There are a minimum of four unique planes nonparallel
to one another.
The four planes of the tetrahedron can never
be parallel to one another.".
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, 14 Sept. 1971.
TETRAHEDRAN JEC 621.04)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedral Growth:
"With each row greater than the next, three automatically
goes into two in a convergent, planarly-arrayed, nonstruc-
turally stable system and two automatically goes into three
in a divergent, planarly-arrayed, nonstructurally-atable
system. Tetrahedral expansion or contraction produces a
structurally stable systematic model of universal behavior.
In tetrahedral growth one goes to three and three goes to
six and six goes to 10. Tetrahedral growth from unity is
special case angularly directional. Vector equilibrium
growth from unity is nuclear: 112, 1242, 42 92, etc."
* Citem SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 260.52; 13 Nov' 75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Hierarchy of Puleating Tetrahedral Arrays:
"This completes the polyhedral progression of the omni-phase-
bond-integrated hierarchies of 1-2-3-4,8-- symmetrically
expanded and symmetrically subdivided tetrahedra; from the
1/24th tetrahedron (12 positive and 12 negative A Quanta
Modules); through its octavalant 8-in-1 superficial volume-1;
expanded progressively through the quadrivalent tetrahedron;
to the quadrivalent octahedron; to the bivalent vector equili-
brium; to the univalent, 28-volume, radiant, symmetrical,
nucleus-embracing stage; and thence exploded through the
volumeless, flatout outfolded, double-bonded (edge-bonded),
120 A Quanta Module-triangular array remotely and symmetrically
surrounding the nuclear volumetric group; to final dichotomising
into two such flatout half (positive triangular) film and half
(negative triangular) void arrays, single-bonded (corner-
bonded), icosahedrally shaped, symmetrically nuclear- surr-
ounding systems."
[49]
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.48, 16 Dec 73

Tetrahedron: Hierarchy of Pulsating Teterahedral Arrays:
See Cosmic Hierarchy

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron:
"Both the coexisting concave and convex aspects of the icosa-
hedron like those of the octahedron, but unlike those of the
unique case of the tetrahedron-- are always visually obvious
on the inside and outside of the only locally dimpled-in, or
nested-in, vertex. In both the octahedron and the icosahedron,
the concave-convex, only inwardly pulsative self-transforming
always produces visually asymmetrical transforming; whereas the
tetrahedron's permitted inside-outing pulsatively results only
in a visible symmetry, the quasi-asymmetry being invisibly
polarized with the remainder of Universe outside the tetrahedron
which, being omniradially outward, is inferentially-- but not
visually symmetrical; the only asymmetrical consideration of
the tetrahedron's inside-outing being that of an initial
direction of vertexial exiting. Once exited, the visible
remaining symmetrical tetrahedron is in verity the inside-outness
of its previously visible aspects.'"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.18, 16 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron:
"In either of the two sets of fourfeach as alternatively
described, one of the polar states is always visible and the
other complementarily invisible. This is a dynamic relationship.
Dynamically, all four of each of the two sets of the tetra-
hedral potential are co-occurrently permitted and are required
by the omni-action-reaction-resultant synergetics.
The seeming
significance of the separately considered asymmetries are
cancelled by the omnidirectional symmetry."
[19]
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.18, 16 Dec 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Inside-outing of Tetrahedron:
"Wheras the tetrahedron has four symmetrically interarrayed
poles in which the polar opposites are four vertexes vs.
four faces; and whereas the polar axes of all other symmetrical
structural systems consist of vertex vs. vertex, or mid-edge
vs. mid-edge, or face vs. face; it is seen that only in the
case of vertex vs. face-- the four poles of the tetrahedron--
do the four vertexial "points" have polar face vacancies or
"space" into which the wavilinear coil spring legs of the
tetrahedron will permit those four vertexes to travel. The
tetrahedron is the only omnisymmetrical structural system
that can be turned inside out."
Cite RBF galley conrection to SYNERGETICS at Sec. 232.01,
28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:
"...Not until we turn a tetrahedron inside-out do we have
microcosmic
awareness. Not until we swallow the
otherness do we have microcosmic volumetric awareness. We
become the outside. At first we were just the inside."
Citation and context at System Awareness, 20 Feb 73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Inside-outing Of:
"The tetrahedron extended through its base is
pumpingly or diaphragmatically inside-outable
in contradistinction to the vertexially extended
tetrahedron."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft "Antiteerahedron," 8 Oct. 171.
P. 6.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Inside-Outing Tetrahedron:
"Tetrahedron is the minimum compound curve, ergo,
minimum sphere. . . .
"We discover that the additive twoness of the two polar
(and a priori awareness) spheres at most economical
minimum are two tetrahedra and that the insideness and
outsideness complementary tetrahedra altogether represent
the two invisible complementary twoness that balances the
visible twoness of the polar pair."
INSIDE OUTING
Cite RBF manuscript on Beverly Hotel paper, 19 June 1971.
624.05

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:
"Only the tetrahedron is insideoutable."
"The tetrahedron is the only structural system that can
be turned inside out."
"The octahedron is infoldable, or innestable-- hemi-hedrally."
"The icosahedron dimples locally."
INSIDE OUTIN"
Cite RBF holographs and sketches on "Annihilation"
Somserset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971
SEC 624.01

REF ULFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:
"It is the only polyhedron that can be turned inside-out
and vice versa by one energy event."
INSIDE-OUTING
-
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 56.7) Jun'66
SEC 629.01

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:
"The tetrahedron is the only system that may be
turned inside out-- to be antitetrahedron."
Cite RBF marginalis in "The Scientific Lndeavor," 1963.
page, 12 dated 5 Sept. 1965
INSIDE OUTING
-
-SEC 624.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
INSIDE-OUTING
SEC 623 + 624
Tetrahedron:
Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:
"Now it is also possible for me to push in on the face of
the tetrahedron and so it gets smaller. I am pushing the
face towards its opposite face and it gets smaller.
When
it is getting smaller, what do I mean? I mean its edges are
getting shorter, the areas of its surfaces are decreasing,
but they decrease at a very much higher rate than that at m
which the lines become shorter. The lines are shortening at
the rate of the first power and the areas are shortening at
the rate of the second power. The volume is getting
smaller at the third power rate-- a very much higher velocity,
so you have three rates of change in the phenomenon called
size. Symmetry is still there. There is nothing to do with
symmetry and nothing to do with the fact that it has four
vertexes, nothing to do with its six edges, nothing to do
with its 60-degree angles, 60-degreeness, fourness of vertex,
fourness of face, sixness of edge and symmetry are all
constants and they are in no way altered by the change in
size. Size is simply three different things: linear, areal
and volumetric rates of change.
"Let me then move this face of the tetrahedron. I am pushing
the face towards the opposite vertex. Now it has no size at
all. The product of the first power, second power and third
Cite Oregon Lecture 16, p.209, 10 Jul'62
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Inside-outing of Tetrahedron:
(2)
"power came to zero by pure coincidence so we have zero size,
but symmetry, sixness, fourness of vertex, and so forth. Those
were constants and were not being altered by the change so
they have not disappeared and have nothing to do with the size.
"So the fact is that size allows me now tetrahedron concept-
ually independent of size. I can move this face beyond congruence
with the opposite vertex. And now the tetrahedron turns inside-
out, so we can have anx inside-out tetrahedron which is
conceptual and of no known size."
-Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p.210, 10 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
TASIDE-OUTING
SEC
624.02
Tetrahedron: Inside-Outing of Tetrahedron:
"This is an interesting model of a tetrahedron which you
could make yourself by taking a heavy steel rod triangle,
take three rubber bands, run them from the three vertexes
into the center of gravity of the triangle and tie them
together. Take ahold of the three rubber bands where they
come together at the center of gravity and yank it suddenly
like this, and the inertia of the steel triangle will make
the rubber bands stretch and the traingle becomes a tetra-
hedron-- but then they begin to contract and the triangle
lifts. You will be able to take such a triangle hanging in
the air by the three stretched rubber bands and you can
plunge your hand through the triangle, and pull it back, and
you can have the triangle oscillating by pulling your hand
back and forth and making a positive and negative tetrahedron.
As a tetrahedron becomes positive or negative, pumping its
vertex through the opposite face (the case I had before was
pumping the opposite faces through the vertexes, and I just
wanted to get the idea across that you can do it either way.
This kind of an oscillating pump is typical of some of the
atom behaviors and this is what they call one of the prime
atom clocks. It is just such an oscillation between a
positive and negative tetrahedron.
-
"
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p. 211. 10 Jul162
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Inside-out Tetrahedron Begins to Grow:
"Remember that when we took a tetrahedron and moved any of
its faces around their opposite vertexes (i.e., contract
their center-of-gravity lines-- from oneters of area of
faces to opposite vertexes); that the faces are reduced
symmetrically while the angles are (changed ?). Finally
the opposite face coincides with the vertex and the face
planes are (co ?) existant with a common convergent point
and no volume. If this is moved an inside-out tetrahedron
begins to grow. So I see that energetic geometry is one up
on the topologists because it understands the dynamic
significance of the implicit 2 and the inherent spin."
Cite Ltr. from RBF to Duncan Stuart, 10 Jan 50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Vertexen:
Inside-outing of Tetrahedron: Visible & Invisible
"Because each tetrahedron has both four vertexes and four
subtending nonvertex voids, we can identify those four
diametrically complementary sets of all minimal cosmic structural
systems as the four visible vertex and four nonvisible nonvertexes,
1.e., the triangularly symmetrical, peripheral voids.
"The tetrahedron thus introduces experientially the cosmic
principle of the visible and invisible pairs or couples; with
the nonvisible vertex as the inside-out vertex, which nonvertex
is a nonconvergence of events; whereas the vertexes are visible
event convergences.
"
-
[23]
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 905.22, 16 Dec 173

Tetrahedron:
Inside-outing Of:
See Petal:
Tetrahedron as Three-petaled Flower Bud
Tepee: Half-spin Tepee Twist
Vector Equilibrium: Zerophase
(1)

Tetrahedron: Inside-outing Of:
See Acceleration: Angular & Linear, (1) (2)
Invisible, 16 Dec 173
Octave Wave Model, 9 Apr 75
System Awareness
20 Feb 73*
Tetrahedron, Jun 66
Twoness, 1967
Octahedron Model of Doubleness of Unity, (2)
Inside-outing, 17 Jun '75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: The Leak in the Tetrahedron's Corners:
"Energy bounces around in triangles working toward the narrowest
vertex, where the impossibility of more than one line going
through any one point at any one time imposes a twist vertex
exit at the corners of all polyhedra. Therefore, all triangles
and tetrahedra 'leak' energy but when doing so between two
similar corre sponding vertexes-interconnected tetrahedra, the
leaks from one become the filling of the other."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 921.15, RBF rewrite, 18 Dec'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
The Leak in the Tetrahedron's Cornera:
"The leak in the tetrahedron's corners elucidates entropy
as occasioned by the only-critical-proximity but nontouching
of the tetrahedron's corners-defining lines. We always have
the twisting-- the vectorial near-miss-- at the corners of
the tetrahedron because not more than one line can go through
the same point at the same time.
"The construction lines with which geometrical entities are
structured come into the critical structural proximity only,
but do not yield to spontaneous mass attraction, having relative
Moon-Earth-like gaps between their energy-event-defining
entities of realization.
That
"The tetrahedron has the minimum leak, but it does leak.
is one reason why Universe will never be confined within one
tetrahedron or one anything."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 942.12,.13,
20 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: The Leak in the Tetrahedron's Corners:
"The tetrahedron is defined by the lines connecting the
centers of the tetrahe.iron's four corner spheres. The leak
in the tetrahedron's corners is the essence of entropy.
le always have the twisting at the corners of the tetrahedron
because not more than one line can go through the same
point at the same time. The construction lines with which
geometrical entities are structured come into the critical
structural proximity only but do not yield to spontaneous
mass attraction.
"The tetraheron has the minimum leak, but it does leak.
That is why Universe will never be confined within one
tetrahedron."
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft at Secs. 952.10 + 952.11, 28 Feb '72

Tetrahedron: Leak in the Tetrahedron's Corners:
See Bounce Patterns of Energy
Vertexial Connections

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron as Microsystem:
"The tetrahedron is the minimum tunable system.
"A point-to-ability is a tuned-in tetra. Each tuned-in-
ability tetra consists of four corners each of which is
an infratunable tetrasystem.
"The threeness of the Quarks shows up at the three minimum
convergent lines around each vertex of the minimum system
consisting of only six lines.
"This is what a corner is all about."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 12 May' 77
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Secs. 1052.354-.357.

Tetrahedral Minimum:
See Prime Dichotomy, (2)
Tetrahedron, 24 Sep' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron as Mnimum Structural System:
"The six edges of the tetrahedron consist of two sets
of three vectors each corresponding to the three-vector
teams of the proton and neutron, respectively, each of
which three-vector teams are identified by nuclear
physics as
one-half quantum, or
one-half Planck's constant, or
one-half spin,
with always and only co-occurring proton and neutron's
combined two sets of three-vector teams together
constituting one unit of quantum of energy, which in turn
is vectorially identifiable as one tetrahedron, which in
turn is identifiable as the minimum structural system of
Universe."
CITO SINERGETICS, "Corollaries," sec. 240.05.
Citation at Quantum: Event-paired Quanta, 1971

Tetrahedron as Minimum System:
See Cyclic Unity, Jun'66
Unit Radius, 17 Jan '74
Universe, 16 Jun 72
Convex & Concave Tetrahedron, Aug'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Nine Schematic Aspects:
in
"Every tetrahedron, every prime structural system
Universe, has nine separate and unique states of existence:
four positive, four negative, plus one schematic unfolded
nothingness, unfolded to an infinite planar, neither-one-
nor-the-other, equilibrious state. These manifest the same
schematic game' set-up as that of physics' quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics provides for four positive and four
negative quanta as we go from a central nothingness equilib-
rium to firt one, then two, then three then four, high-
frequency, regenerated, alternate, equi-integrity, tetrahedral
quanta. Each of the tetrahedral quanta also have eight
invisible counterparts. (See Illus. 1012.14A, 14B and .15.)"
(#1013.41)
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. RBF rewrite at Sec. 1013.41;
30 Aug' 75

Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model:
See Bow Tie
Indig
Interwave Behavior of Number
Number System
Octantation
Octave Wave
(1)

Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model:
"There is an octave pattern in every system.... Waves are
octave and one reason they do not interfere with one another
is because of the zero....
"If I make an X configuration with one ball in the center
common to both triangles of the X, the ball at the intersec-
tion common to both represents the zero, or the place where
the waves can pass through each other.... And now we have a
model to explain why they do not interfere.'
"
Citation & context at Synchronization, Oct'71

Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model:
See Synchronization, Oct'71*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron:
"We can say that the difference between any conceptual system
and total but nonsimultaneously conceptual-- and of course
nonsimultaneously sensorial-- scenario Universe is always one
tetrahedron of whatever size may be necessary to account for
the balance of all the finite quanta thus far accounted in
scenario Universe, outside the conceptual system considered.*
-
Citation and context at Tetrahedron, 13 Nov 169

RBF DEFINITIONS
"
Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron:
The difference between the finite physical Universe of
energy with which physics deals and the total Universe which
also includes all metaphysical phenomena -- which we used to
call infinity-- is just one tetrahedron.'
"
-
Citation & context at Comprehensive Universe (1), Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron:
"Entropy is not random; it is always one negative tetrahedron."
Citation at Entropy, 1960

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron:
"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."
CEU CRNE TRECTIONAL RAES
Citation at Unity as Two, 1960
TETRAHEDRON
-
SEC 620.12\

Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron:
(1)
See Angular Topology: Principle Or
Expanding Physical Universe vs. Contracting Metaphysical
Universe
Minus Two
Thinkable System Takeout

Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron:
Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar' 77
See Brouwer's Theorem, 1960
Calculus, 1960
Comprehensive Universe (1)*
De-finite, Oct166
Descartes, 19 Jun171; 31 May '71
Entropy, 1960*
Generalization: Degrees Of, Jun'66
Infinity & Finity, Jun'66
Metaphysical & Physical, Jun'67; Jun*66*
Tetrahedron, 13 Nov'69**
Tetrahedron: Leak in the Corners, 20 Dec 73
Unity as Two, 1960*
Universe, 2 Jun'74
Somethingness & Nothingness, 10 Nov'74
Spherical Interstices, 30 Dec'73
Six Five =
One, 8 Jan' 74
Omnihalo, Nov 71
Finite & De-finite, Nov' 71
Structural Quanta, 9 Nov' 73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Polarization Of:
"The only polar symmetry of a tetrahedron is between the
midpoints of the opposite edges. These midpoints are 90 degrees
to one another. Starting with any one of the polar edges the
lines converge toward the terminals of the opposite edge.
The four faces of a teterahedron are in polar opposition in
such a manner that as one of the pairs of faces converges the
other pair of faces diverges. Here is the balance of Universe
between radiation and gravity."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 260.53; 13 Nov 75

RBF DLFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Polarization of Tetrahedron:
"There is a polarization of tetrahedra, but only by
taking a pair of ventonés, a pair of poles which do
not intersect one another.
"There is a fourfold symmetry aspect of the tetrahedron
to be viewed as precessionally polarized symmetry."
-
Cite RBI SYNERGETICS Draft, "Antitetrahedron," 7 Oct. '71,
D. 2, and Insert.
TETRAHEDRON-SEC. 622.01+02

RBF DEFINITIONS
VECTORS
Tetrahedron: Polarization of Tetrahedron:
"There is a dynamic symmetry in the relationship between
the mid-action points of the opposing pair of polar
vertexes of the tetrahedron.
The red dot represents
the positive pole of the mid-action point, i.e., action
center. The green dot represents the negative pole of the
tetrahedron at mid-action point, i.e. at the center of
negative energy of the dynamical equilibrium of the
tetrahedron."
-
Adapted from RBF re-write of SYNERGETICS Illustration #2,
7 Oct. 1971.
TETRAHEDSON - SEC 622.037

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Polarity of Tetrahedron:
"Although the tetrahedron is not polarised in terms of
vertexes it exhibits polarity in terms of convergence
and
divergence.'
Cite draft version of ITEM "O", p.34, 2B, 1955
(Possibly attributable to students Gener + Bartlett)

Tetrahedron as Prime Nonnucleated Structural System:
See Nucleus, 2 Novi 73

Tetrahedron as Prime Nonnucleated Structural System:
See VE as Prime Nucleated System

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron as Primitively Central to Life:
"Only the tetrahedron can accommodate the otherness which
is the aberration, otherness being essential to
awareness and awareness being the minimum statement of the
experience life. The tetrahedron as the accommodation of
the otherness aberration is primitively central to the
experience life."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 10027; 3 Mar' 77

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Quarter-Tetrahedra:
(See
"The regular tetrahedron may be divided volumetrically into four
identical Quarter-Tetrahara, with all their respective apexes
at the center of volume of the regular unit tetrahedron.
illus. 913.01.) The Quarter-Tetrahedra are irregular equiangle-
triangle-based pyramids formed upon each of the four triangular
bases of the original unit tetrahedra with their four interior
apexes congruent at the regular tetrahedron's volumetric center,
and they each have a volume of one quarter of the volume of the
regular tetrahedron of volume-1."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 911.02, 19 Dec'73

Tetrahedron: Quarter Tetrahedra:
See Basic Nestable Configurations, 29 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedral Transformations:
"All structure is a transformative phase or complex of
tetrahedral transformations."
Citation at Structure, 1963

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: The Transmitting Differential Tetrahedron
Displacement:
toward
"If A force sends facet A toward vertex a at some rate, X,
as that with which force D withdraws facet D away from
vertex d, while concurrently a force C senda facet
vertex cat a rate entirely independent of rate X, while a
force B withdraws facet B away from vertex b at the same
rate,
Y, as that of force C, then the tetrahedron a,b,c,d
will remain the same size and will seem superficially to
travel in a line of direction which coincides with the
intersection of two planes: one through a, perpendicular
to d,b, and one through d,b perpendicular to a,c.
"(I discovered this differential displacement coupling unlike
forces in November 1955 while in Minn. Minn. RBF)"
-
-
Cite RBF holograph 2 May 56

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Displacement:
The Transmitting Differential Tetrahedron
B
a
RBF holograph 2 May' 56
D
+
T

RET DEFINITIONS
The Transmitting Differential Tetrahedron
Tetrahedron:
Displacement:
See Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry

REE DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Three Triangles into Tetrahedron: 2 + 1 = 4
See Synergy, 1954-1959

Tetrahedral Tuck in the Universe:
See Takeout
Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron
(1)

Tetrahedral Tuck in Universe:
See Conceptuality & Nonconceptuality, 2 Jun 74
Disparity, 1960
Halo Concept, Nov 71
(1)

Tetrahedron: Twenty-fourth Tetrahedron:
See Tetrahedron: Hierarchy of Pulsating Tetrahedral
Arrays, 16 Dec 73

Tetrahedron: Two Tetrahedra:
See Cube:
Diagonal of
Cube: Two Tetrahedra as Cube
(1)

(2)
21
Tatrahldren: Two Tetrahedra:
See Bow Ties:
Genesis Of. 12 Sep 71
Synergetics, 17 Feb 72
Thinkable System Takeout, 22 Feb'72
Finite Minus De-finite, Nov'71
Local Definability, Nov' 71
Domain of a Line, 7 Nov 73
Fourfold Twoness, 10 Nov' 74

Tetrahedron: Two Triangles into Tetrahedron: 1 +1 = 4:
See Triangle, Feb 72; 20 Jun'66

TEXT CITATIONS
Tetrahedron:
Two Triangles into Tetrahedron: 1+1-4;
Mexico 63, pp. 23, 32, 10 Oct'63
Doxiadis Ltrs, U or 0, pp. 312, 313, 20 Jun'66
NASA Speech, pp. 52-55, Jun'66
Ledgmont Lab, pp. 17-18, 15 Oct164
Oregon Lecture #1, p.34, 1 Jul'62
Oregon Lecture #4, p. 142, 6 Jul'62

TERCAL PLANES OF CLEAVAGE" (21 Feb'72)
Tetrahedron: Vertical Planes of Cleavage:
Sec. 942.18
Cite RBF Sketch for SYNERGETICS, Sec. 442.18, 21 Feb 72

Tetrahedron: Vertical Planes of Cleavage:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron: Visible or Invisible Chordal Arcs:
"The tetrahedron's edges may be 'straight,' i.e., chordal
'invisible' arcing (small segments of arcs of large
radius), or 'visible' arcs (larger segments of arcs of
smaller radius).
-
Cite INDUSTRIAL LOGISTICS AND DESIGN STRATEGY, p.1. See
Figure 4, thereof.1952

Tetrahedron: Visible or Invisible Chordal Arca:
See Linear & Curvilinear

Tetrahedron as Volumetric Quantum:
See System Totality, 7 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedron:
Zerophases:
"Tetrahedra are seemingly unique in that they may be turned
inside out and pass through zerophases of other
transformations."
-
Cite PENNA. TRIANGLE, p. 10, Dec 152

Tetrahedron: Zerophase:
See Point, Nov'52

Tetrahedron:
See Allspace-filling with Tetrahedra
Allspace-filling with Octahedron & Tetrahedron
Angular Name of the Tetrahedron
Antitetrahedron
Axis of Spin: Tetrahedron
Basic Evenet
Cheese Tetrahedron
Cone
Convex & Concave Tetrahedron
Dihedral Angles of Tetra
Domain of Tetrahedron
Empty Set Tetrahedron
Exchange Agent of Universe
Empty Tetrahedron
Four Stars
Fourth Dimension:
Dimension Model
(1 A_F)
Regular Tetrahedron as Fourth

Tetrahedron:
(1 I-0)
Interconnection of any Four Points in Universe
See Ideal Tetrahedron
Inside-outing Tetrahedron
Invisible Tetrahedron
Irrelevancy Tetrahedron
Interconnection of any Two Lines in Universe
Linear Tetrahedron
Metaphysical & Physical Tetrahedral Quanta
Minimum Polyhedron
Minimum Omnitriangulated Differentiator of
Universe
Minimum Something
Minimum Set - Crystal - Tetra
Minimum Syetem:
Minimum Structural System
Minimum Tetrahedron
Mite: Minimum Tetrahedron
Negative Tetrahedron
Norm: Tetrahedron as Norm
Number: Tetrahedral Number
Observer & Otherness:
Between
Tetrahedral Relationship

Tetrahedron:
See Omnitetrahedral
(10-5)
Prime Number Consequences of Spin-halving of
Tetrahedron
Physical Tetrahedron vs. Conceptual Tetrahedron
Point = Eight Tetrahedra
Pyramid
Quantum: Event-paired Quanta
Regular Tetrahedron
Six-ridge Tetrahedral Globe
Social Problems:
Tetrahedral Coordination of
8perical Convex-arc-edge Tetrahedra
Spherical Tetrahedron
Star Tetrahedron
System Constants
Syte: Symmetrical Tetrahedron
Subtetrahedra

100
Tetrahedron:
See Tetrahelix
Tetrascroll
Tetrasystem
Tetratuning
Tetra-void
Thinkable System Takeout
Truncated Tetrahedra
Universe Differentiator
Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron
Zero Tetrahedron
Zerovolume Terahedron
(1 T-Z)

Tetrahedron: Tetrahedral:
See Allspace Filling, 10 Jul*62*
Association & Disassociation, 9 Nov' 73
Balls Coming Together, (2)
Central Angles & Surface Angles. Aug, '71
Children as Only Pure
Scientists,
Concentric Hierarchy Limits, 30 Dec' 73
Cosmic Hierarchy, 23 Jan'77
Conceptuality as Polyhedral, 22 Feb'72
Cosmic Limit Point, 3 Nov 73
Couplings, 10 Dec' 73*
Embracement, 7 Oct'71
Energy Event, 1967
Fourth Dimension, 1965*
Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan'77
Geometry of Thinking, 16 Dec' 73
Gravity, (h)
(2 A-G)

Tetrahedron: Tetrahedral:
See Holding Patterns of Energy, Apr³ 72
Human Beings & Complex Universe Jul 183
Irrelevancies: Dismissal
Isotropic Vector Fatrix, 13 Nov'69*
Jet Stilting, 29 Jan'75
Kite, 28 Jan 75
Knot, 7 Nov 73
Lever, 10 Feb 73
Limit Point, 9 Jun'72
Me Ball, 21 Jan'75
Microsystems, 22 Mar' 76*
Minimum Set, 18 Nov 72
Metaphysical, 22 Jun '77
Neuron, 15 May' 72
Nucleus, 22 Jan*75*
Number: Cosmically Absolute, 5 Mar' 73*
(2 H_O)

(2 P-S)
Tetrahedron: Tetrahedral:
See Pauling, Linus, 1965*
Physics: Difference Between Physics & Chemistry,
31 May' 71*
Physics as Internal Affairs of the Atom,
31 May 71
Plane, 18 Mar'69
Point: Outbound Point, 1948
Powering: Sixth Powering, 25 Aug'71*
Push-pull, 18 Feb'66
Push-pull Members, 28 Oct' 72
Quantum, Jun'66
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (1)
Redundancy: Reduction Of, 22 Apr171
Rigidity, Aug' 73
Scheme of Reference, 24 Sep'73*
Semisymmetry, 15 Oct' 72
Sphere, 25 Feb'74; 31 May171*
Spherical Triangle, 23 Jan 175

Tetrahedron: Tetrahedral:
See Sphinx, 28 Sep'73
Star Events, Oct 65*; 1960*
Strut, 1950s
Structure, 25 Feb'69*
Structural System, Nov 71
Synergy, Nov 71
System Enclosure, (1)(2)*
System & Structure, 16 Aug '70
System Totality, 7 Mar' 73*
(2 S_Z)
Tensegrity: Stability Requires Six Struts, 1950
Topology: Synergetics & Eulerean, 28 Oct 72
Triangle, Nov' 71
Unity: Principle Of, 28 Feb'71
Unity as Two, 1960*
Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron, (3)*
Walking, 31 Kay' 71

Tetrahedron: Tetrahedral:
(3A)
See Tetrahedron: Cheese Tetrahedron
Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model
Tetrahedral Coordination of Nature
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry
Tetrahedron Discovers Itself and Universe
Tetrahedron: Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation
Tetrahedral Dynamics
Tetra Edge
Tetrahedron:
Tetrahedron:
Tetrahedron:
Tetrahedron:
Tetrahedron:
Vertexes
Tetrahedron:
Four Unique Planes
Hierarchy of Pulsating Arrays
Inside-outing Of
Inside-out Tetrahedron Begins to Grow
Inside-outing Of: Visible & Invisible
Leak in the Corners
Tetrahedral Minimum
Tetrahedron as Minimum Structural System
Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model
Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron

Tetrahedron: Tetrahedral:
(3B)
See Tetrahedron:
Tetrahedron:
Tetrahedron:
Polarization Of
Quarter-tetrahedra
Regular Tetrahedron
Tetrahedral Transformations
Tetrahedron: The Transmitting Differential Tetra-
hedron Displacement
Tetrahedron: Three Triangles: 2 +1-4
Tetrahedral Tuck in Universe
Tetrahedron: Twenty-fourth Tetrahedron
Tetrahedron: Two Tetrahedra
Tetrahedran:
Two-Tetrahedra into fuba.
Tetrahedron: Two Triangles: 1 + 1 = 4
Tetrahedron; Visible or Invisible Chordal Arcs
Tetrahedron as Volumetric Quantum
Tetrahedron:
Zerophase
Tetrahedron: Vertical Planes of Cleavage
Tetrahedron of Interferences
Tetrahedral Growth
Tetrahedron as Prime Nonnucleated Structural
System

Tetrahedron: Tetrahedral:
See Tetrahedron: Nine Schematic Aspects
Tetrahedron as Primitively Central to Life
Tetrahedron as Microsystem
(3C)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
TETRAHEDRONING 3rd powering volume."
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE May'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
The "four frequency tetrahedron has a volume of 64.
This equals four to the third power. So we may say
'tetrahedroning' instead of 'cubang' and we had better
do so because that is what nature is doing."
- Cits Excholy Prift
Naturn to Modelab
-
Cite NASA SPEECH, p. 78, Jun 166
12

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
"When we compare the two frequency edged cube and the
two frequency edged vector equilibrium, we find the volume of
the two frequency cube equals eight-- or two to the third
power, $2^3$; whereas the volume of the two frequency vector
equilibrium equals twenty tetrahedra close-packed omni-
directionally around one common central point; yet, only
eight cubes could be symmetrically clustered omnidirectionally
around that point."
Cite NASA SPEECH, p. 80 Jun 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
"You have the tetrahedron as one, octahedron is four and
cube is three. A cube as three is not what people have
been thinking. They have been thinking that a cube was
one. But I am using unity where a tetrahedron is one
and then a cube takes three times as much space. If am
trying to appraise all space with cubes I am going to have
to use up three times as much space to get congruence with
my arithmetic, so I find that the cube is not an economical
kind of measure. A tetrahedron is by far the most
economical measure I can use to subdivide all space."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p. 216. 10 Jul '62
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
"Here is one tetrahedron (A). Here I have three tetrahedra
and one octahedron (B). This is the plateau of an equilateral
triangle. It is a truncated tetrahedron. If I take the sum
of the volumes here, three tetrahedra plus four for the
octahedron, the volume is seven.
"I am now going to make the next level of equilateral triangles
(C) we add a row of three tetrahedra and we add two octahedra
between them. We must also add an upside-down tetrahedron
to go in the middle between the octahedra. The accounting is
now six tetrahedra and each tetra has a volume of one; three
octahedra and ech octa has a volume of four (3 x 4 = 12).
So 6 + 12 = 18, plus one invertsed tetrahedron = 19, which is
the volume of this group. It has a truncated top which is a
2-module triangle.
(2)
"Here is the next bigger triangle (D) with a row of four
additional tetrahedra, three additional octahedra, and two
additional upside-down tetrahedra to go between the two new
octahedra. The accounting of this aggregation is 10 tetrahedra"
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p.217, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
"with points up (10); plus six octahedra (6 x 4 = 24); plus
three upside-down tetrahedra (3). So 10+24 + 3 = 37, which
is the volume of this group.
"We are then going to superimpose the first tetrahedron and the
truncated sections in sequence. We add (A) and (B) with a
combined value of 8, to (C) 19 for a combined value of 27.
(3)
We can do this because B8s module of two sits on a module-of-two
base. Combining the whole stack with a base module of three,
we can sit it on the base module of three of the plateau (D);
resulting in a large tetrahedron whose edge module is four all
the way through. The Volume of A-B-C was 27 and the D group
was 37 for a combined volume of 64.
"So we discover that eight is the third power of module two;
27 is the third power of the module-three pyramid; and 64 is
the volume of the module four. In other words, 8, 27, and 64
are simply the third powers of 2, 3, and 4. Therefore, instead
of saying 'cubing,' we say tetrahedroning."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, pp. 217-218, 10 Jul'62

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
(4)
"If we are tetrahedroning, we discover that a cube has the
volume of three. If you were doing your accounting in cubes
you were simply wasting two-thirds of your space. Remembering
that the physicist discovered that nature was always most
economical, we see that nature would not traffic in doing things
with cubes if she could do it with tetrahedra. And she has.
This is not unrelated to what Linus Pauling found for the
inorganic chemistry and to what Van't Hoff found for the
organic chemistry. We suduenly find that all structuring by
nature is done tetrahedronally. It comes out in these
beautiful even numbers and why when we were trying to explain
things in the XYZ coordinate system we were always coming out
with transcendental irrationals."
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 218, 10 Jul 162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahedroning:
"Because the tetrahedron uses only one-third as
much basic energy quanta as do cubes to account for all
energy transformations tetrahedrons are three times
more economical than cubes. In structural systems the
tetrahedron uniquely articulates the prime number 1, and
is therefore logically to be identified as the most economic
quantation unit in universal energy accounting."
Cite MARKS p. 48, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahelix:
"Goldy next shows the bears how the three face-bonded
tetrahedra-arc in its initial, neutral, nontransmitting
state becomes spirally extended, positively or negatively,
to attain its information-transmitting state, only with
the addition of one more face-bonded tetrahedron.
"She then shows that with every 20 tetrahedra the tetrahelix
completes approximately one 360° helical revolution
(3520 40 exactly), which tetrahelix is the mathematical
model which is employed by the DNA-RNA helix discovered by
virological scientists (Watson-Crick-Wilkins) to be always
transmitting the specific information controling the design
of all biological species, with that 7° 20' of angle (less
than 360°) being twist-sprung to introduce the unsipping
force necessary to offspring (or give birth to) any given
species of off-molded offspring from the parent.
"Goldy shows how the extended tetrahelix's skin can be
stripped off and laid out flat as a three-row, omnitriangula-
ted, wavilinear ribbon, Goldy then identifies the positively
or negatively asymmetrical tetrahelix patterning with"
-
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, p.11, 27 May'75
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahelix:
with
"lightning when/the closure of an electron circuit from
Earth to cloud, the high-voltage atmospheric charges are
transmitted to Earth."
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, p.I1, 27 May'75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahelix:
"The tetrahelix:
G-C-T-A. It could be that the G-C-T-A
are the closest packing of different size balls. It could
be that the
Mites or the Sytes are the tetrahedra of the
G-C-T-A because
they are both positive-negative and allspace-
filling."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 10 Sep'74
MODELABILITY - 933.081

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahelix:
"The tetrahelix is a helical array of triple
bonded tetrahedra."
(See Illustration # 21.)
TETRAHELIX SEC. 943.011
-Cite SYNERGETIC ILLUSTRATIONS, Caption #21
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahelix:
"We have a column of tetrahedra and these are straight edge
tetrahedra for the edges when connected form a hyperbolic
parabola helixes [sic].
This column of tetrahedra spirals
around or makes a helix and it takes just ten tetrahedra to
one cycle of the helix."
Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 199, 10 Jul'62
TETRAHELIX- SEC. 943.01)
10

RBF DEFINITIONS
TETRAHELIX
Tetrahelix:
"Here are three such columns of tetrahedra which cycle
around each ten tetrahedra. This is a very interesting
kind of number: ten to cycle. When Drs. Watson and Crick made
their famous model of the DNA, the doxyribonucleic acid,
they made a chemists' reconstruct from the information they
were receiving but not as a microscopic photograph at
all. It wasn't a photograph through a camera, but simply a
typichal chemist's reconstruction of the data they were
receiving of the associating and disassociating and they
found a helix was developing. They found there were 36 degrees
to each incrament of the helix and the 36 degrees broke into
ten increments in every cycle and the increments were the
same as our tetrahedra we give here. Now there has been no
identification of this tetrahedronal column with the Watson-
Crick model, but the number is extremely interesting.
Then we
find that these columns of tetrahedra -- there has been an
identification made by some of the molecular biologists when
I gave them this tetrahelix column and they have found that it
is of the structure used by some of the muscle fibers of man,
the fundamental muscle fibers in nature, but it could also
have some identification with the DNA. We donět know whether
it does; we don't know whether it doesn't.
"
•
•
Secs 943.01 +02 Cite OREGON Lecture #6, p. 199, 10 Jul '62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrahelix:
Continuous Pattern Strip:
"Exploring the multiramifications of spontaneously regenerative
reangulations and
triangulations, we intoduce upon a continuous
ribbon a 60-
degree-patterned, progressively alternating, angular
bounce-off inward from
first one side and then the other side of
the ribbon, which produces a wave pattern whose length is the
interval along
any one side between successive bounce-offs which,
being at 60
degrees in this case, produces a series of equiangular
triangles along
the strip. As seen from one side, the equiangular
triangles are
alternately oriented as peak away, then base away,
then peak away again
, etc. Thesis the patterning of the only
equilibrious, never
realized, angular field state, in contradia-
tinction
to its sine-curve wave, periodic realizations of
gressively accumulative, disequilibrious aberrations, whose peaks
pro-
and valleys
may also be patterned between the same length wave
intervals
along the sides of the ribbon as that of the
equilibrious periodicity."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec.930.11, 19 Dec 73

Tetrahelix: Continuous Pattern Strip:
See Omnidirectional Typewriter
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities
"Come and Go" Triangulation Pattern Strip

Tetrahelix Cap Closer:
See Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Cap Closer

Tetrahelix:
See "Come-and-go" Triangulation Pattern Strip
Patten strip Aggregeate Wrapabilities
Unzipping Angle
Viral Steerability:
DNA: RNA
Tetrahelix
(1)

221
(2)
See Octahedron as Annihilation Model, 8 Kar' 75; 30 Dec'73
Petal: Tetrahedron as Three-petaled Flower Bud, 11 Feb 73
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, (4)
Naga, (1)
Tensegrity Masts:
Pentagonal Polarity, 27 Dec'76
Tetrahelix:

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrakaidecahedron:
"That the tetrakaidecahedron is three-frequency may bring
in the 42 spheres. The layers added on to the square
faces would be 42 + 24 = 68 whole spheres. There would be
56 fractional sphere satellites in the triangular faces.
It is a very complex layer system."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC., 25 Feb '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrakaidecahedron:
"The tetrakaidecahedron is vertexially asymmetrical, but
linearly symmetrical."
Citation and context at Vector Equilibrium, 19 Feb'72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrakaidecahedron:
"A tetrakaidecahedron is a 12-frequency tetrahedron which
has been symmetrically truncated [at its points and
edges; which edges, when truncated, have two-frequency
edge divisions.'
Cite 18 Feb 72 citation as reqritten 19 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
her he
Tetrakaidecahedron:
pentry wh
"All tetrakaidecahedron is is a tetrahedron with
symmetrically truncated points and edges.
A
Cite RBF to EJA and BO'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 18 Feb 172
Twicis.

DODA
RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrakaidecahedron: (Obverse).
18 Feb 72

KBF DEFINITIOKS
Tetrakaidecahedron:
"All a tetrakaidecahedron is is a tetrahedron with
symmetrically truncated points and edges."
Cite RUF to EJA and BO'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 18 Feb 172

- Cite RBF tape, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago,
31 May 1971, pp. 38 - 39.
TITRAKAIDLLANE DROW
IS VERTIMMY
† Lincare
ARCALA
SY MARIAL. ↑
way of the asymmetry of life.
FACIAL *
The vector equilibrium
BUT VELTORIALLY STANETRICALAT
is always, asymmetrical, The torakaidecahedron is always
14-sided.
The point has its part of invisibility as
well as visibility. If you have the domain of a point
it would be a cube, but its 14-nees is in the eight
corners and six faces. The edges come in only as 12 + 2.
Domains of points are omnidirectional, that's all. They
are-all-space-filling. They could seemingly be spheres
but that does not fill all space, that's the trouble.
They
could be the centers of cubes as a model: that could be
the domains of points. A domain is a system but not a
structure. A cube is a system, but not a structure, until
it is omnitriangulated."
* DICTATED BY REF
14 FEB172,
7. EJA

31 May 1971, pp. 18 - 19.
TERAMAIDLLANEDrew IS VERTEXIALLY
+ LINCARLT
AJYA ALBRCALA
SY MAL TRIAL. &
way of the asymmetry of life. The vector equilibrium
FACIAL X
BUT VECTORIALLY STAALTRICALA
14-sided.
is always asymmetrical, The terakaidecahedron is always
The point has its part of invisibility as
well as visibility.
If you have the domain of a point
it would be a cube, but its 14-nees is in the eight
They
corners and six faces. The edges come in only as 12 + 2.
Domains of points are omnidirectional, that's all.
are-all-space-filling. They could seemingly be spheres
but that does not fill all space, that's the trouble.
could be the centers of cubes as a model: that could be
the domains of points. A domain is a system but not a
structure.
A cube is.
They
it is omnitriangulated. " system, but not a structure, until
* DICTATED BY REF
14 FEB172,
7. EJA

Tetrakaidecahedron:
See Bubbles
Kelvin
Fourteen
Vector Equilibrium
(1)

Tetrakaidecahedron:
See Allspace Filling: Self-packing, 19 Apr'66
Domain of a Point, 31 May' 71
Mite: Positive & Negative Functions, (2)
Stable & Unstable Structures, 7 Jun '72
Mites & Quarks as Basic Notes, (1)
T Module, 21 Jun177
(2)
108

Tetramension:
See Multidimensionality, (2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tatrascroll:
"I have given... the word Latrascroll... to the tetrahedral
rollup of the
Goldilocks story."
Cite RBF Ltr. to EJA, 28 May' 75

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tetrascroll:
"Because a bear's foot is itself a triangle, Goldy makes
a pattern of Big Sky Bear's footprints as he walks or runs
eastwardly along the beach. Goldy uses the successive
triangles as the frames for the succession of illustrations
of her conversation with the bears, She says the ribbon is
like a scenario film strip with the successive triangular
pictures overlapping instead of being vertically separated.
You may notice says Wee Bear, that the starry pattern of
the chair Cassiopeia left for me looks like the first three
triangular frames of that scenario film strip." 'Yes,'
Goldy replies, 'and I see that if I print these triangular
frames of the scenario strip of overlapping conceptual events
on a heavy paper ribbon, that the strip can be spooled onto
a tetrahedron.
"This will make a tetrahedron book that can be progressively
unrolled from a tetrahedron at one end and rerolled to form
another tetrahedron at the other end of the strip with the
progressively exposed strip in between telling the picture
story the scenario-- of nonsimultanous Universe with both"
the four-dimensional tetrahedral othernesses of tomorrow and"
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, pp. B2, B3, 27 May 175
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetrascroll:
"yesterday identifiable but inscrutable. Because the tetrahdra
are serving as four-dimensional scrolls, we will call our
first such book the tetrascroll."
Cite GODDYLOCKS, p. B3, 27 May 75
(2)

Tatrascroll:
See Pattern Strip
Wrapability
Goldylocks
(1)

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

Tatrasvaton:
See Tetrahedron as Microsystem, 12 May'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tetratuning:
"One thought, which is one system, which is one tetrahedron,
can interrelate any four event points or subsystems in nonsimul-
taneous Universe. Because of inherent nonsimultaneity, think-
ing is teti tuning. The (system-thought) tetrahedron can and
always does include four identities:
(1) the thinking individual;
(2
the present otherness;
the past otherness;
the future otherness.
"
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, p.A5, 30 May$75

Tetra-void:
See Modules:
A Quanta Module & Basic Triangle, 20 Dec'73

Tatravolume:
See Cube:
Volume-3 Cube
Sphere: Volume-5 Sphere
Vector Equilibrium: Potential & Primitive
Tetravolumes
Six Five = One
(1)

Tetra volume:
See Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 12 Dec 75
Fourth & Eighth Powering, 11 Dec'75;
Powering:
25 Jan' 76
Nuclear Cube, 11 Dec'75; 23 Feb'76
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (2)
Potential vs. Primitive, 12 May' 77
Spherical Interstices, 9 Jul'76
(2)

Tetra:
See Tetra-arc
Tetracone
Tetra, Octa & Icosa
Tetrahedron
Tetrahedroning
Tetrahelix
Tetrakaidecahedron
Tetramension
Tetrascroll
Tetrasphere
Tetratuning
Tetravoid
Tetravolume

Textbooks:
See Yesterday's Textbooks

Texture:
See Awareness, 10 Feb*73

Theater: Theatergoer:
See Accidental Theatergoer
Fire in a Theater
Celestial Theater
(1)

Theater: Theatergoer:
See Vector Equilibrium, 11 Dec'75
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
THEONE: Watergate:
"Half a truth, half a truth, half a truth backward
Into the Watergate
Snuck the Nixnumbers.
Bug the whole Watergate,
Smear up their candidate;
Falsify, defecate,
into the watergate
snuck the Nixnumbers.
"Forward the White House Brigade!
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the whole staff knew
Theune had blundered.
Their's not to question why,
Their's but to do and lie.
into the Watergate
>nuck the Nixnumbers.
"Dollars to right of them,
Dollars to left of them"
-
Cite REF holograph, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 13 May '73
(1)

KBF DEFINITIONS
The Une: Watergate:
"Millions behind them
Corrupted and plundered.
Into the Watergate
Into their sorry fate
into the world news
Plunged the Nixnumbers."
-
Cite HBF holograph, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, 13 May'73
(2)

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

Theoretical Myopias:
See Professors, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Theory:
"You must not just have a theoretical idea, but you
must reduce it to practice. That 18 my strategy."
Citation & context at Trim Tab, 22 Jul171
dy 1971..

THEORY
Theory: Theoretical:
See Axioms
Communications Theory
Educational Theories
Game Theory
General Systems Theory
Individual:
Laws
Theory of
Navy: Theory Of The
Number Theory
Potential
Synergetics Principles
Variables: Theory Of
(1)

Theory: Theoretical:
See Realization, 26 May 172
Trim Tap, 22 Jul*71*
Vector, 26 May'72*
Unit Man, 9 Jul'62
(2)

There:
See Here
Here & There
(1)

Thera:
See Weather, Feb'73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thermal:
"Gibbs' phase rule differentiated the
physical
Universe into liquid, crystalline, and gaseous phases
which are not so much visual as thermal, which is tactile,
and which are always characterized by unique thermal or sonic
frequency differentiations, in respect to their condition
within their respective states as well as between those
states.
11
10]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1054., 6 Mar' 73

Thermal Limit: Thermal Limits:
See Temperature of the Human Body,
Water, 7 Nov* 75
(A)

Thermal Mansurability
See Vector Equilibrium, (2)

Thermal
-
Tactile:
See Thermal, 6 Mar' 73
Tactile, 22 Feb'77
(Sec. 1054.10)

Thermionic:
See Circuitry: Thermionic & Political Analogy

Thermodynamics: Second Law of:
See Entropy.
Random Element: Law of Increase Of The
(1)

Thermodynamics: Second Law of:
See Expanding Universe, Spring'66
Intellect: Equation Of, (A)
(2)

Thermodynamics:
(1)
See Visible Thermodynamics vs. Invisible Electrodynamics

Thermodynamics: Laws Of Thermodynamics:
See Colloidal Chemistry, 1938
Energetic-synergetic Geometry, Jul'59
Synergetic Hierarchy, (1)
Communications Hierarchy, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Theta: (B):
"I am using the sign of theta because it has the fundamental
twoness, a top and a bottom. So I have the plus two."
-
Citation and context at Axis of Spin (4), 11 Mar'69

Thick: Thickness:
See Localized Thickening of Points
No Thickness

Thin: Thin-ness:
See Parity: Left Hand: Right Hand, 4 May'57

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thingness:
n ... The new world of Universe citizenship, and its natural
emancipation from slavery chained to ponderous thingnese."
Citation and context at Property, 29 Jun' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Things:
"Things are always special-case temporary realizations of
a specifically detailed dimension and behavior complex of
generalized laws applied to a local inventory of physical
resources."
-
For citation and context see Vacuum, 17/19 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Things:
"Physics having found no things,
There are no nouns. 11
efinition of Erotta
Citation at Nouna, 15 Sep' 71
15 Sept71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Things.
-
11
•
•
•
There are no 'things'-
Only transitionally transformative verbing."
GIL HUM LITTLE, », 32, Oct166:
Citation & context at Verbing, Oct*66

Thing Word:
See Package, 1 Feb'75

Thing: Thingness:
See Anything
Entity
Nothing:
Nothingness
No Thing: No Thing-in-itself
Particle
Process vs. Thing
Property
Shape of Things
Something:
Somethingness
Touchable Thing
Nonthing
Matter
No Building Blocks
Minimum System
It
(1)

Thing: Thingnessi
See Atom, Oct 70
(2A)
Children's Pictures of the Sun & the Moon, (1)(2)
Cosmic, 3 Oct172
Environment, 25 May' 72
Epigenetic Landscape, Jun' 69
Event, 26 Jan 72; 23 Jan'77
Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan'77
Iceland, 7 Oct' 75
Knot, 9 Jul'62
Meaningless, Oct'66
Monological, 7 Nov* 73
Nouns, 15 Sep' 71*
Pattern Integrity,
(A)
Physical, circa 1970
Property, 29 Jun' 72*
Pure Principle, 6 Jun' 62
Solids, 25 Apr 71
Structure Sequence,
(1)
Transcendental, 6 Jul 62
Intertransformability Systems, 28 Apr' 77

Thing: Thingness:
See Vacuum, 19 Feb 72*
Verb: I Seem to Be a Verb, 1970
Verbing, Oct'66*
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (2)(6)
(2B)

Thinkable
Enity:
See Conceivable Entity
(1)

Thinkable Entity:
See System, 26 May 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkability:
"The invisibility of negative Universe may seem a discrepancy,
but only because the conceptual is such a fantastically limited
part of the total, not just in the electromagnetic spectrum
range, but in metaphysical, cosmic thinkability itself."
Citation & context at Conceptuality & Nonconceptuality,
6 Nov '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkability:
The
"Human thoughts are always conceptually and definitively
confined to system considerability and comprehension.
whole Universe may not be conceptually considered by thought
because thinkability is limited to contiguous and contem-
porary integrity of conformation of consideration, and Universe
consists of a vast inventory of nonsynchronous and noncoexist-
ing irreversibly transforming dissimilar events."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 400.07, RBF rewrite 26 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
•
.
•
Thinkability:
The conceptual is just a fantastically limited
part of the total, not just in the electromagnetic
spectrum rage, but in thinkability itself."
For citation and context see Black Hole (2), 27 Jan '72

RBF+DEFINITIONS
Thinkability:
"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: What is the outline of that man? What is
going on? What is on the other side of the Moon? I have
to get all the sides in order to understand it.'
Citation and context at Spherical Triangle Sequence (b), 1 May'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkability:
"Thinkability is always partial."
Tape transcript #6, Side A, p.23; RBF to Barry Farrell;
Bear Island, 16 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkability:
*Universe is simultaneously untunable and only progressively
thinkable." "
-
Citation & context at Tunability: Intra & Ultra, 1954

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkability vs. Space:
"What we call thinkable is always outside-out. What we call
space is just exactly as real, but it is inside-out."
-
Citation & context at Parity, 1 May171

Thinkability vs. Space:
See Space vs. Conceptuality
(1)

Thiability vs. Space:
See Space, 20 Oct 72
Parity, 1 May'71
(2)

RSF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable Set:
"A thought is a thinkable set differentiated out of the
scenario: the first subdivision of Universe.'
"
Citation & context at Thinking, 1 Feb'75

Thinkable Set:
See Considerable Set:
Considered Set
First Subdivision of Universe
(1)

Thinkable Set:
See Thinking, 1 Feb'75*
Universe, 16 Jun '72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable System Takeout:
"Thus the thinkable system takeout from Universe has a
'left out' outside irrelevancy tetrahedron and a 'left in'
inside irrelvancy tetrahedron."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 501.11,
6 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable System Take-out:
discovering that
"Now I came a little while ago to
any thinkable set that I'm considering is a set in which the
sums of the angles around all these vertexes is always 720
degrees less than the numbers of the vertexes times 360.
720: that's the sum of the angles of one tetrahedron.
So I
(1)
ind the difference between this global thinkable set and
360 degrees, which would seemingly go to infinity, wouldn't
it?-- be a plane-- if there are 360 degrees around every point
it really goes into a plane, then. So the difference between--
we'll see what it looks to you and me,
feels like-- infinity,
or a plane. Take a piece of paper. I have to take out some
angle to make it come back on itself. I find the amount of
angle. If you strip off the skin of an animal, of a corcodile,
or a giraffe, all in one piece. In order to be able to lay
it out flat you have to keep cutting sinuses to keep it
going out flat. You'll find that the number of the angles
will always be 720 degrees. When you put it back together
again you take out the 720 degrees-- close them up. So I find
that the difference between what seems to be infinity of a
plane and a local conceptual set is one tetrahedron.
"Now in our experience we have something we call size. But I"
-
Cite Tel Aviv Address, p.11, 16 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable System Take-out:
(2)
"point out to you that an angle is an angle independent of the
length
of its edges. I can take three angles and get a
triangle. A triangle is a triangle quite independent of size.
In other
words, there's conceptuality independent of size.
Therefore
when I say tetrahedron the tetrahedron could be any
size to
accommodate what we're talking about-- the rest of
Universe and what I am considering.
"So I have something very interesting here. Because, again
Einstein, talking about the physical Universe and the physical
Universe
has all these nonsimultaneous and only partially
overlapping events. I point out that the individual events
themselves are finite. So I then saw that we could say that
Universe, both physical and metaphysical, all of our experi-
ences,
are
each finite. Every one begins and ends. That's
one of the most important kind of characteristics we can
observe from all of our physical experimentation.
All energy
quanta, individual packages, an individual package being
finite then, an aggregate of finites is finite. So we have
a
Universe.
"Now what man used to call infinite, I call finite but"
-
Cite Tel Avib Address, p. 11, 16 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable System Take-out:
(3)
"nonunitarily conceptual. What he used to call finite I call
de-finite, definable, and conceptual-- and Universe, which is
finite, but nonconceptual-- turns out to be one tetrahedron.
Now There's also a concave and convex tetrahedron, so it turns
out to be two. There's an inward and an outward one, okay?"
Cite Tel Aviv Address, p.11, 16 Jun '72

RBF DEFI.ITION.
Thinkable System Take-Out:
"The difference between nonconceptual nonsimultaneous
Universe and Thinkability is always two tetrahedra as
(acro) to complete the convex localness outside the
system and one tetrahedron as (Micro) to complete the
concave localness inside of the system, to add up to
finite but nonconceptual Universe. Thus the thinkable
system take-out from Universe has a left out outside
tetrahedron and a left out inside tetrahedron."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, UC, 22 Feb 172
CONCEPTUALITY- SEC. 501.11

See Angular Sinus Takeout
Irrelevancies: Dismissal of Irrelevancies
Metaphysical & Physical
Tetrahedron: One Tetrahedron
Thinkable System Takeout:
(1)
11

Thinkable System Takeout:
See Conceptuality, 17 Oct172
Fourfold Twoness, 10 Nov' 74
(2)

RBP DEFINITIONS
Thinkable You:
(1)
"What is really important, however, about you or me is the
thinkable you or the thinkable me, the abstract metaphysical you
or me, what we have done with these images, the relatedness we
have found, what communications we have made with one another.
We begin to realize that the dimensions of the thinkable you
are phenomenal: when you hear Mozart on the radio, that is,
the metaphysical-- only intellectually identifiable-- eternal
Mozart who will always be there to any who hear his music.
When we say 'atom' or think 'atom' we are intellect-to-intellect
with livingly thinkable Democritus, who first conceived and
named the invisible phenomenon 'atom.' Were exclusively tactile
Democritus to be sitting next to you, surely you would not
recognize him nor accredit him as you do the only-thinkable
Democritus and what he thought about the atom.
"You say to me: 'I see you sitting there.' And all you see is
a little of my pink face and hands and my shoes and my
clothing, and you can't see me, which is entfiely the thinking,
abstract, metaphysical me. It becomes shocking to think that
we recognize one another only as the touchable, nonthinking
biological organism and its clothed ensemble."
-
Cite RBF insert to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 801.23, 22 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable You:
(2)
"Reconsidered in these significant identification terms, there
is quite a different significance in what we term 'dead' as a
strictly tactile 'thing,' in contrast to the exclusively
'thinking' you or me. We can put the touchable things in the
ground, but we can't put the thinking and thinkable you in the
ground. The fact that I see you only as the touchable you
keeps shocking me. The baby's spontaneous touching becomes the
dominant sense measure, wherefore we insist on measuring the
inches or the feet. We talk this way even though these are
not the right increments. My exclusively tactile seeing
inadequacy becomes a kind of warning, despite my only theoreti-
cal knowledge of the error of seeing you only as the touchable
you. I keep spontaneously seeing the tactile living you. The
tactile is very unreliable; it has little meaning. Though you
know they are gentle, sweet children, when they put on Hallowe'en
monster masks they 'look' like monsters. It was precisely in
this manner that human beings came to err in identifying life
only with the touchable physical, which is exactly what life
isn't."
- Cite RBF insert to SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 801.24, 22 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable You:
"I began to realize the dimensions of the thinkable you
are phenomenal when I hear the radio and hear Mozart.
In
these kinds of dimensions there is quite a different
relationship to what we call dead, which is strictly a
tactile thing. 1 put the touchable thing in the ground
but I can't put the thinkable you in the ground. 1 find
this all very extraordinary and the fact then that I see
you as the touchable you keeps shocking me. This baby
thing of touching became all the dominant measure and we'
insist on doing things in inches and feet.
is a very unreliable thing. It has very, very little
meaning.
it
•
Thetactile
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 99-100. 5 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkable You and Me:
"What is really important about you or me is the
thinkable you and me, what we have done with these
images,
the relatedness we have found, what communications
we have made to one another."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 99. 5 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinkaboutability:
"Any and all conceptuality and any and all thinkaboutability
is inherently systemic (see Seca. 905.01 and 905.02).
Systemic conceptuality and thinkaboutability is always
consequent only to consideration. Consideration means
bringing stars together so that each star may be then
considered integrally as unity or as infrasystem complex
of smaller systems.
(81044.04)
-Cite RBF marginalis incorporated in SYNERGETICS, 2nd. ed.
at Sec. 1044.04, 8 Feb'76

Think-aboutable:
See Thirty Minimum Aspects of a
System, (A)

TEXT CITATIONS
Think-aboutedness:
Goldylocks, p.E2, 27 May'75

Think-aboutedness;
See Considerable: Considerable Set: Considered Set
(1)

Think about.edness:
See Two Kinds of Twoness, (C)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"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."
- Citation & context at Silence, 30 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"You're not thinking if you know what You're going to be
thinking about. If you know where you're going to come out
when you start to cerebrate, then that's not thinking; that's
merely brain-sorting.
"This is why when I am writing in the margins of typescript
redrafts the whole process of thought-catching is so sensitive
that I do not know how far this intuitive following of unfolding
thought is going to lead. I do not know whether I need more
space. I cannot interrupt to turn over on the back of the
page or go over on to a new sheet. The thinking is not linear
but it has to be expressed in a linear manner; it is a matter
of recording an unexpected omnidirectional involvement in a
linear writing
or graphing pattern."
Ħ
Cite RBF rewrite of 9 Sep'75 entry; as of 10 Sep'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Your thinking is never valid if you know what you're going
to be thinking about. If you know where you're going to
come out when you start to think, then that's not thinking;
that's merely brain-sorting.
"This is why when I am writing in the margins of a draft the
whole process is so sensitive that I cannot interrupt it to
turn over on the back of the page or go over on to a new
sheet. The thinking is not linear but it has to be expressed
in a linear manner; it is a matter of recording a curvilinear
process onto the flat."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 9 Sep$75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Euler: (visual topology) →
V + F = L +2
→ F + C = C + 2
Gibbs (physical states : phase rule) -
"In Universe, the more complex is not predicted by the lesser.
We solve problems by dismissing irrelevancies.
Self-
(I)
"What one word is most appropriate for the experience we call
life? Awareness. In the concept of self-and-otherness, the
otherness may be integral or it may be separated out.
awareness is integral otherness, Awareness of otherness is
also awareness of nothingness. The otherness is in a background
of nothingness because the otherness is differentiated out.
two points + one nothingness = 1 line + 2
"Self-experience.
What is my conscious input when I say I am
thinking? Well, I become spontaneously preoccupoed. We have
a mechanism to retrieve: answers are slowly retrievable.
"If we can't find the right word we circumlocute a description."
-
RBF
-Cite BB, 48 World Game Workshop, Rainey Auditorium, U. Penn.,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
(II)
"Every word has its own lag. Human beings do not live at
perfection, they do not live at zero-- we are always aberrating.
Momentarily irrelevant experiences are dismissed omnidirectionally,
both macro and micro. The dismissal is inevitably polyhedral
as the resolution is the minimum considerable event. This is
the minimum limit case where there is nobody to mark your paper.
"Necklace triangle structure → stable pattern.
-
Nature always behaves with minimum effort: tetrahedron.
If we
deal with minimum limits we do not need any physicist to tell
us that this is so. 720° no continuums only energy
packages.
Omnitriangulation.
"Chords emerge concavely to a vertex.
Tetra. Quantup. Total Universe in scientific terms. The live
show of the big dipper-- one star showing light that left when
Columbus discovered America; another star light that left when
there was the Trojan War-- a scenario.
"What is thinkable is unitarly conceptual. The insideness and
putsideness of the tetrahedron is Plus Two...."
Cite RBF at Worl Game Workshop. U. Penn, 23 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
(III)
When you
"Physics has not assumed conceptual modelability.
deal with limits you don' t need anyone to mark your paper.
You can find your own limits when you go from the whole to the
particular."
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop, Rainey Auditorium, U. Penn.,
23 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Rather than describe thinking I just say what I am conscious
of what I do when I say I am thinking. A great deal goes on
subconsciously. A thought is a thinkable set differentiated
out of the scenario: the first subdivision of Universe.
Cite RBF at videotaping session, Philadelphi, Pa., 1 Feb'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"I find with great democracies and great bureacracies that the
one thing they can't do is think.
"Thinking is a function of an individual and not of groups.
An abstract corporation can't think; an individual with it can,
but the corporation can't think. And a great state can't
think. So there's been no really thinking challenge to the
statement that there's not enough to go around.'
-Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Thinking is a nonsimultaneously recallable aggregate of
inherently finite experiences and finite experience furniture--
such as photons of light."
See, 530.01,
7110475
- Citation & context at Nonsimultaneity, 7 Nov'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
Because
"When we say 'we think our feedback has variable lags that
may take overnight or months of time, for all we know.
we want to understand-- that is to know the interrelationships
of clusters of experiences-- our first great discovery is
dismissing irrelevancies, the macro-micro chracteristics.
Add: forgotten questions; different rates of feedback; person's
names; random questionings; the challenging set you would like
to understand; our friend intuition."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 509.31; floating insert of
Apr 71; galley rewrite, 6 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"In 1927 I said, 'I'm deeply concerned with thought-- the
fact that man has the capability to think and remember, a
capability it is very clear that animals don't have. was
very aware of yoga. Very aware of Indian
cults.
Thinkers. People who spend all their time in meditation,
thinking... But to be able to sit and think you also ought to
have some fuel coming in, otherwise you can think for only
about thirty days and then you'll fall over.
That's
I'm
(1)
"So somebody had to be producing something. So people who
were sitting around thinking usually belonged to some religious
sect and they had some peasants out there. They'd say: 'We'll
do the thinking for you and you raise the vegetables.
what happened to most of the churches, most of the cults.
very interested in how you grow the food that people who are
going to do the thinking eat, and I began to say-- these
people talked with great pride of their mystical capabilities,
getting through to greater presence and greater ecstasies--
I said: What moves me is that we were given the ability
to think. What also moves me very much is that we were also
given limited capabilities. We don't have any manifestation
of being able to get on without the rest of the Universe.
-
So "
Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHODLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p.157, Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
It's a
"that I cannot get on without food or air, I cannot get on
without the balance going on between vegetation and mammals--
it is perfectly clear to me I could not. I could not get on
without anything in Universe that is in Universe.
very complex and peautiful piece of design there, and the fact
that I wake up and go to sleep, that people are born and die,
that we get our information in packages and we articulate in
packages- no continuum at all about it-- so, the fact that
And
I'm given the capability to think is very extraordinary.
to remember. And to be able to formulate. To take advantage
of earlier experience. To have a mind and be able to think
of alternate ways of carrying on which other species
have.'
don't
(2)
"So I said, 'I think what 18m going to do is to accept the
wisdom and brilliance of the design of the Universe itself
which is a priori to me, in which design it is apparently
clearly designed that I would have limitation... And all these
people who sit, then, trying to use the thinking thing to break
through limits of thinking that are not permitted-- and waste
their thinking capability trying to think about ways not allowed"
. Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p.157, Feb 73
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"them-- it's a complete waste and lack of appreciation of
the great design. I said I'm going to ramify the thinkable
not disconnecting from understanding in trying to break
through to some new Universe.
"But it's a new universe," I put in. "There are simply other
dimensions."
"I'm simply telling you that I'd rather not have any traffic
with disconnects," he cuts in impatiently. I wnated to ask
how he knew what was 'permitted to man, as he and Adam, for
instance would both have different vives on the matter. But
Fuller is laying it out. He's not open to my questioning now.
"I'm also
"I'm very aware of Hindu thinking," he continues.
very aware of the fact that many things I have been able to
discover in my own thought, Hindu thinkers have come to me
and said: 'You apparently are having the same thoughts. How
did you get them?' And I said, 'I thought it myself.""
-
Cite Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p. 158 Feb'73
(3)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Effective thinking is systematic because intellectual
comprehension occurs only fen the interpatterning of
experience events' star foci interrelationships return
upon themselves."
Citation & context at Closed System, 26 May 172

HBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"I'm only thinking when I'm thinking about something."
-
Cite RDF at Corcoran Gallery Address, Washington DC,
23 Feb 172

RBP DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"I start thinking with a No-Size conceptual model of
a whole system."
---
Citation and context at Vacuum, 17/19 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"People think linearly. They do not think expansively
and contractively.*
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 7 Oct. '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"
.
Closest packing begins with two balls coming
together rather than omnidirectionally. Two balls
coming together is where thought begins.
wedding thing.
A
it is a
and it is very beautiful thing the
way the two balls reoccur at each wave outwardly."
-Cite RBE to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19
-
Citation at Omnidirectional, 19 Jun '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"The individual has an enormous advantage over any great
private or public bureacracy because the individual can
simply start to think. And there are no space or time or
resource limits to thinking. You can think outside of
You can think
your state and outside of your passport.
in terms of the Universe. Then, if you are interested in
what your thought discloses to you in the way of principles
which seem to be operative in our Universe which do not seem
to be properly heeded by man, then you can undertake to learn
how to employ those principles, and reduce them into some
kind of rearrangement of the physical environment that will
induce evolutionarily positive and universally considerate
behaviors of humans. It Cite Denver Museums Address. pp.2-3, 2 Jun
-
171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"what we call thinking is putting aside irrelevancies--
to dismiss the irrelevancies in order to contemplate
the set of consideration.
"There are lags in the rate of recallability.
Kames don't have meaning.
Therefore it is harder for our
mental retrieval system to remember them.
"Irrelevancies are of two kinds: those too infrequent and
those too frequent (high Frequency)."
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
12 March 1971

RBF DEFINTIONS
Thinking:
"There are sort of octaves in our thinking. We think
octavely."
Citation and context at Relative Asymmetry Sequence (1), Jun'69

KBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Thinking is the disciplined deferment of irrelevancies."
Cite Peter PEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
(A)
"Thinking is a very special kind of conscious self-disciplining
of the awarenesses emerging from the subconscious, that is the
spontaneous-- originally programmed-- brain processes' handling
of its myriad experience data in respect to it brain-integrated
digest of its moment-to-moment new experiences and the progres-
sive strategic choices of action or nonactions taken in respect
to them.
"When I think,' I observe by careful reconsideration of the
experience that I don't suddenly move or inject a bright light
into an empty-milk-bottle type of brain chamber-- as the
expression lle had a bright idea,' implies.
"I discover that what I call thinking is my concerned preoccupa-
tion with a special set of separate experiences between which I
have not as yet found the connections and interrelationships.
So I find that what goes on is what we all know as feedback,
the word which Norbert Wiener gave us as he carefully recon-
sidered his own brain's behavior.
"We have all experienced saying, 'What's our mutual friend's"
Cite NASA Speech, p.38, Jun'66
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"name? We both know it well!' And tomorrow you recall it
about the same time that I recall it. The process was sub-
conscious. Our feedbacks have lags. They are not instanta-
neaous. But we find that the time lags of our feedbacks vary
greatly.
(B)
(B)
"We ask ourselves questions all day long-- sometimes very minor
questions-- and our feedback, unbeknownst to our consciousness,
goes right off searching our subconsciously stored, special-
case experience files for the answers. So when you lie down
and want to go to sleep you are often bothered by many thoughts.
These are simply feedbacks to questions you asked earlier and
have forgotten that you asked.
"The thinking self-discipline is accomplished by keeping all
the feedback messengers in the waiting room while you discover
and consider the interrelationships of one particular set of
experiences."
-
Cite NASA speech, p.39, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"We see that what we do when we think is to momentarily
dismiss all the irrelevant thoughts as we would part the
grass to right and left in order to find the path. So
thinking is high frequency interception and very temporary
diversion to a local holding pattern outside our con-
sideration of all the irrelevant inbound feedback-- just
as inbound airplanes are 'stacked up' in the sky near
airports by the ground control when too many come in at
about the same time. Having isolated a fini set of
experiences-- spontaneously grouped for comprehensive
consideration-- by dismissing the irrelevancies, we may
proceed to comprehend the isolated system by applying the
theory of 'bits,' which breaks up
finite wholes into
finite parts.'
Cite NASA Speech, pp 39,40, Jun 266

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
There is a twilight zone of tantalizingly almost
relevants,
There are two such twilight zones-- the macro
and the micro-- tantalizingly almost relevants.
Between
them there is always a set of extraordinarily lucid items
of relevan
CE
-Cite SUMMARY VISION 65, P. 138, Oct'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"In 1927 I stared doing the work I am doing and I made
up my mind to think and to pay attention to what I thought
instead of what other people thought. At that time it was
such a new experience to be thinking myself and trying to
discipline myself to go along with what I thought that I
found it convenient to pay attention to
what I was saying.
that in due course
you find you are getting good results and you are thinking
that there are other human beings that are interested in
what you are thinking and the thought doesn't belong to you.'
"
ww
Cite OREGON Lecture #8
-
p. 290.
12 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"We then said, What is thinking? We found that thought
did relate to subdivisions of the whole, to our reviewing
if possible or seeking for relationships in some
relatively small constellation of approximately simultaneous,
or some of the same magnitudes and same kind of frequency
experiences."
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 277. 12 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"If we can't think about the whole universe at one time
then what is thinking? We said that thinking was treating
with some subdivision of universe. There is apparently a
thinking set because we think. Out thoughts are then
increments of the total experience, our retreatments,
reconsiderations of the local increments in the total
experience and what we are interested in from time to time
is the interconnectedness of these local increments which
we can only think about one experience at a time. de
apparently can think about two fairly contiguous things
and that is how we are trying to find the relationships.
That is the way we fend our way. It is extremely interesting
to find that this is the way we are designed. We apparently
are not designed to think about the totality. And yet we
can treat with it and we can collect something like the
dictionary which has all the words developed by all men in
attempting to communicate all their experiences.
look at all that collection and we can carry the dictionary
around, bgt we can't read all the words at once.
continually reminded of the fact that we are able to deal
with increments, and then we get big patterns, and we are
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p.83, 5 Jul162
We can
We are
(a)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
(b)
We
interrelated-
"Continually sweeping and reviewing interrelatednesses.
discover our way by overlapping
nesses."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p.83, 5 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"What do we do when we think? The scientific inquiry into
the thought processes is spoken of as epistemology, so we
are now making an epistemological inquiry. Thinking is a
subsequential phenomenon. It is an interesting preoccupation.
It is an inherently spontaneously self-interesting pre-
occupation. You won't go on with it unless you want to and
if it isn't prolonged it really isn't thinking.
One
of the characteristics of thinking is a continuity relatedness.
When I stand up and think out loud with you, you will not
•
stay in the room with me long if I don't have a continuity
relatedness. Thinking is then dealing with a set of
experiences that might be called recollected experiences.
I recollect and then discover some generalized patterns that
are inherent in special cases.' 11
Cite OREGON Lecture 2
-
p. 59, 2 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"So we have come to structure and we have come to
pattern. Pattern has emerged first from our preoccupation
with getting rid of the irrelevancies and out of its has
emerged a mhimum constellation, a minimum consideration
and it is a four-star affair. It is tetrahedral.
It is
very amazing to have a geometry just appear out of our just
considering what is thought. We have come to some conceptuality
and this conceptuality is essential to this thinking process.
When we say, '1 understand' there is some conceptuality
finally developed."
Citation at Tetrahedron, 2 Jul'62
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"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.
"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
stars that could possibly be related are always subdivisible
by four."
Citation & context at Star Events, 2 Jul'62

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"We discover that we divide Universe into an outwardness
and inwardness so thinking is the first subdivision of
Universe, because Universe we discovered was finite. One
of the most important observations about our thought is
that the experiences are nonsimultaneous. Therefore
nonsimultaneity is a fundamental characteristic and if
they are nonsimultaneous you cannot have simultaneous
consideration."
Cite Oregon Lecture #2, p. 65. 2 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Once I had discovered that thinking is not an inserting
of an idea, but the putting aside of other ideas, so that
the ones already there can hold the image longer, for you
to look at, I made a very powerful discovery in so general
a strategy of thinking which is, that time and again once
I have got a good definition of what it is that I am doing,
then there are some very surprising results. It
Cite OREGON Lecture #2 - p. 62, 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Thinking consists of a self-disciplined deferment
of conscious consideration of any incoming information
traffic other than that which is lucidly relevant to the
experience intuited quest for comprehension of the sig-
nificance of the emergent pattern under immediate
priority of consideration.
"Thinking is a putting-aside, rather than a putting-in
discipline, e.g., putting aside the tall grasses in order
to
isolate the trail into informative viewability.
Thinking is FM-- frequency modulation-- for it results in
tuning out of irrelevancies as a result of definitive
resolution of the exclusively tuned-in or accepted feed-back
messages' pattern differentiability."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, pp. 136, 137, 1960

KBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Thinking is frequency modulation-- tuning out
finite irrelevancies into two main classes: micro-macro,
which leaves residual defined system as lucidly relevant."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 141, Caption to Fig. #3
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"The conceptual process is never static. Thinking
does not consist of the insertion of invented images into
an otherwise empty vacuum-tube chamber called brain.
Thinking is the self-disciplined process of preoccupied
consideration of special-case sets of feedback-answers
selected out of the multitude of high frequency alternating
transceiver brain traffic. This traffic consists of omni-
experience processed answers to present or past questions,
formulated either by the conscious or subconscious
coordinating initiative of the individual or possibly byn
the individual overlapping generation of group memory.
>
D AND
Me
CONSIDERABLE SET
SEC. 509.011
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 136 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Thinking is inherently exclusive.
Experience, which comes
before thinking, is inherently inclusive."
Citation and context at Experience, Feb'50

HBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking:
"Rationalization is a time-word to replace thinking, which is
an ancient, mystically evolved word tentatively signifying an
attempt to force the power of god into one's self."
- Citation and context at Nationalization Sequence (1), 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking: Act of Thinking Alters Thought:
"As Heisenberg shows in his principle of ultimate
indeterminism the physical act of measurement always alters
In the same way
the behavior of them measured phenomenon.
the thinking process inherently alters the funda-
mental patterning of universal thought-about interrelation-
ships."
-
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, pp. 139, 140, 1960

Thinking: Act of Thinking Alters Thought:
See Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
Pound, Ezra
Thinking: What He Thinks He Thinks

Thinking:
Doing My Own Thinking:
See Ego, 9 Nov 75

Thinking:
Doing Your Own Thinking:
See Psychiatry, (1)-(5)
Thinking, 12 Jul 62
Ego, 9 Nov 75
Greater Intellect, (1)

Thinking:
God is Part of the Process:
See God, May'65

Thinking: Analogy of Sphere Layera:
See General Systems Theory, 11 Mar'69
Invisible Circuitry, (1)(2)
Tension, (1)-(4)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Thanking Out Loud:
"If two of us meet and you take a paper out of your pocket
and start reading a speech, i will say, 'Let me have that.
I can read it myself more effectively. I am confident that
live meetings catalyze swift awareness of the particular
experiences of mutual interest regarding which our thoughts
are spontaneously formulated. Live meetings often become
pivotal in our lives. I have learned that it is possible to
stand and think out loud from the advantage of our most
effective possible preparation which is all recorded and on
tap in our brains and monds. Advance thought about our
discourse spoils it. There awaiting its anytime employment
by our brain-scanning mind is the ever recorded and high-
lighted inventory of our life-long experiences integrated
with all the relevant experiences others have communicated
to us. Out of this inventory your live presence catalyzes
my freshly reconsidering thoughts relevant to our mutual
interests.
11
-
Cite ENVIRONMENT AND CHANGE, Ed. W.R. Ewald PP 341-342.
Above passage deleted from beginning of UPERATING MANHAL
FOR SPACESHIP EARTH.
1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinking Out Loud:
"I think I have finished introducing our exploration.
Would any of you now like to ask me any questions? If
For
you don't, then I will keep on thinking out loud.
about 34 years I have been practicing thinking out loud.
I have found it is a very worthwhile kind of an experience
to stand up before your fellow man and to confront yourself
with taking inventory of what we do know and how do we
organize it, because each time I take the inventory, I find
that the inventory has changed. My knowledge of what we
know is changed. And man's knowledge has been changing m
very rapidly.
So I stand up in taking inventory .
and find the inventories come out differently each time."
Cite Oregon Lecture #1, p. 23,24. 1 Jul'62

Thinking Out Loud:
See Intuition: Eye-beamed Thoughts
Lecturing
(1)

Thinking Out Loud:
See Average Man, (1)12)
Communicating, (1)(2)
Thinking, 2 Jul 62
(2)

Thinking: What He Thinks He Thinks:
See Consciousness, Jun'66
Dream, 1968
Identity, 1959; May170
Imagination, 22 Apr 71
Thinking, 2 Jun 71
Thought, 1967
Understanding, Jun169
Nature, 13 May173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinktionary:
"Goldy says to the three bears, 'If you don't understand
any of my words, you can find them in the dictionary.
Wee Bear replies, 'Out here we use cosmic thought communication.
We don't have to find words in special language diction-aries.
We use a cosmic thinktionary. All your dictionaries
express the universal concepts of our thinktionary, but only
in special, ethnic language, sound words. The concepts,
such as mountain or star or nuance are the same experience-
engendered concepts in all languages. We understand you
perfectly, Goldy.'
"Concepts are always synergetic systems. Systems are minimum-
maximum sets of thinkable, conceptual omniinterrelevant
recollections, intertunably differentiated only by time out
of nonsimultaneous, unitarily nonconceptual sdenario Universe."
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, p.C2, 27 May'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thinks:
"All the thinks of Universe may be a priori. . . .
This relates to my description of the ultra-ultra-high
frequency transceiver functioning of the eyes, as
described in Synergetics and elsewhere."
-
Cite RBF rewrite of 10 Sep175 citation; 3200 Idaho,
Wash, DC: 11 Aug
76

Thinkable: Thinking:
See Antithinking
City as Center of Abstract Intercourse
Comprehensive Thinking
Conceptuality
Conceptuality Thinkability
Considerable
Considerable Set
Considered Set
Dead Animal
Epistemology
Geometry of Thinking
Irrelevancies:
Dismissal of
Limits of Thinking
Man-thinkable
Meaning
Mind
Nonthinking
Precessional Thinking
Relevant: Lucidly Relevant Set
(1A)

Thinkable: Thinking:
See Thought
Spherical Thinking
Prime Thinkability
Imaginatability
Self-communicate
How Do You Think?
Demonstrable vs. Thinkable
Unemployment as Freedom to Think
Fuller, R.B:
The Thinking Me
Sleeping & Thinking
(1B)

Thinkable: Thinking:
See Animate & Inanimate Sequence, (2)
A Priori Mystery, 24 Feb 72
Black Hole, (2)*
Child Sequence, (1)(2)
Closed System, 26 May 72*
Conception, 1960
Experience, Feb*50*
Fuller, R.B: Modus Operandi, Feb'72
God, May'65
Individual Economic Initiative, Dec'72
Octave, Jun'by
Omnidirectional, 1y Jun' 71*
Parity, 1 May'71*
Reading, (1)
Realization Sequence, (1)*
Relative Asymmetry Sequence, (1)*
Spherical Triangle Sequence, (b)*
Star Events, 2 Jul*62*
Systems & Nonsystems, 26 May'72
Fuller, R.B: Crisis of 1927, May'75
(2A)

Thinkable: Thinking:
See Tunability:
Intra & Ultra, 1954*
Tetrahedron, 2 Jul*62*
Vacuum, 17 Feb 72*
War, 1 Nov 42
Conceptuality & Nonconceptuality, 6 Nov'73*
Nonsimultaneity, 7 Nov' 73*
Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb'76
Nuclear Pattern of Growth & Decay, 8 Dec'75
Silence, 30 Sep*76*
Me, 18 Dec'76
Synergetics, 12 May177
(2B)

Thinkable: Thinking:
See Thinkability
Thinkability vs. Space
Thinkable System Takeout
Thinkable You
Thinkable You & Me
Think-aboutedness
Thinking: Act of Thinking Alters Thought
Thinking: Analogy of Sphere Layers
Thinking: God Is Part of the Process
Thinking Out Loud
Thinking: What He Thinks He Thinks
Thinktionary
Thinking: Doing My Own Thinking
Thinkaboutability
Thinks
(3)
31

Third Dimension:
See Three-dimensional

Third Parent:
See Television: Third Parent

RBF DEFINITIONS
Third-Power Rate of Variation Model:
"Granted that there is then in respect to any two points in
Universe a tetrahedron that can be given any symmetrical or
asymmetrical tetrahedral shape, any of whose volumes will
remain uniform or will vary uniformly at a third-power rate
in respect to any alteration of the distance between the two
initial control points on the axial control line; the, any
four points in Universe, provided one is not in the plane of
the other three, can be interconnected by varying the angular
orientation of the control-line axis and the distance between
the two central control points."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 961.30, 16 Nov'72

Third World:
See Selfishness, 20 Sept 76

Thirst:
See Berry Picking, (A)
Longing: Fear & Longing, 16 Oct'69
Photosynthesis, (2)
Helpless: Humand Born Helpless, 15 May'75
Mistake, 9 Nov'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thirteen:
"Thirteen is the lowest
possible number connected
with a structurally stable triangulated nucleus."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1011.10, Sep'71

KBF DEFINITIONS
Thirteen:
"Thirteen is the lowest number connected with an
omnidirectional nucleus."
* - Cite RBF to EJA, Fairfield, Conn., Ches Wolf
18 June 1971.

Thirteen:
See Closest Packing of Spheres, 29 May' 72
Prime Number, 16 Oct'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System:
(A)
"Considering just that which is thinkable or any convergence of
events that is think-aboutable, if you are dealing with what
you would call substance then you must be dealing with inside-
ness and outsideness. The insideness and outsideness divides
the macrocosmic and the microcosmic. Two points do not have
insideness. Three points do not have insideness.
One point
defines a point. Two points define a line. Three points define
a plane. Four points define volume: an insideness and outsideness.
"So we come to a system that consists of a number of irreducible
aspects. The four points have six lines connecting them and
there are four triangular windows and 12 angles. This gives
you a total of four points plus six edges plus four windows,
that makes 14; plus 12 angles, makes 26; plus a concave and a
convex, which is 28; and there is also the outsideness and the
insideness, for a total of 30. I find that there are 30
irreducible aspects of anything. If you come to anything it
has a 30-foldedness. This is quite exciting.
"Now I have said that there is only one word that I can find
that gives me an operational definition of what we call life--
what I am experiencing--and it is 'awareness.' And I've said"
-
Cite RBF & Hugh Kenner, Phila., PA, tape transcript, p.6;
8 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thirty Minimum Aspects of a System:
"No otherness no awareness. But a physicist has told me that
there are philosophers who will not go along with me on that
proposition of self and otherness because you can also be aware
of yourself. So then I say you can be aware of yourself as a
system. You have your insideness and your outsideness and there
is your otherness right there. Any one aspect of the minimum
system aspects may be observing the others. There is always
otherness because the system (which includes the self as system)
is a complex of 30-fold irreducible aspects.
"You can be either a system looking at another system or you
can be a system looking at yourself. But that is otherness.
Unity is plural and at minimum 30. Isn't that nice? I used
to talk about unity as plural and at minimum two, but if you
want to separate out, then there is really an inherent 30.
"That is really so incontrovertible. This is how the mind
starts... Those are the edges of an icosahedron. They are
aspects. So I see that is the otherness, the other system.
The electron is the icosahedron, that 30-otherness lurking
around there that refuses to compound with the otherness. You
cannot add the Icosa to the VE; you can add it to itself and
it comes back and makes an octahedron again."
-
Cite RBF to Hugh Kenner, Phila. PA, transcript p.6; 8 Jun '75
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics:
"A system divides all the Universe into six parts: all the
Universe outside the system-- the macrocosm; all the Universe
inside the system-- the microcosm; and the four star-events
ABCD which do the dividing.
"The separation of insideness and outsideness begins only with
completion of the interrelationship lines of the four separate
entity-producing events. The four star events ABCD have six
separate unique, and most economical interrelationship lines,
AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, CD. These six lines and their four inter-
connected star-corners inadvertently produce four triangular
facets of the minimum polyhedron, which four faqtes completely
enclose the system to exclude the macrocosm and include the
microcosm.
(1)
"A system consists at minimum of four nonsimultaneous but co-
ocerring, because overlapping, yet dissimilar, beginning and
enduring star-entity events of six interrelationship lines and
four nothingnesss-window-facets, plus 12 unique, intercovariant
vertex angles-- 26 conceptual, topological components of a
system, to which must be added the multiplicative, ultravisible,"
Cite GOLDYLOCKS Ms. pp.A,A2, 9 Jun 75
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics:
(2)
"macrocosmic outsideness and infra visible, microcosmic inside-
ness, as well as the inseparably co-occurring inside concavity
and outside convexity of all systems: for a total component
inventor of 30 items."
"Three thousand years ago the Greek geometers named this minimum
system the tetrahedron. Tetra = four; hedron = sides. A system
cannot have less than four triangular polygon 'faces' (or dides
or windows) nor less than three triangular polygon 'faces'
surround each of the system's four event-corners. The triangle
is the minimum polygon face. You cannot have a polygon of less
than three edges. You cannot have a location-fix-point that is
less than one fix-point. You cannot have an event-tracing line
that is less than a line. You cannot have an angle that is less
than a minimum angle. And you cannot have a system of less
than 30 uniquely differentiable and geometrically describable
characteristics.'
-
CiteGOLDYLOCKS Ms., p.A2, 9 Jun 175

Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics:
See Children as Only Pure Scientists, (A)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thorn:
"Many programed plants have thorns and thistles; if you try
to interfere with them you get scratched or barbed.
"
•
•
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (G), 5 Jun '73

Thorn:
See Ecology Sequence (G)*
Redundancy: Reduction of, 22 Apr'71
Communication Hierarchy, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"Thought relevant set = insidense & outsideness four stars =
tetrahedron."
-
Cite RBF videotaping session Philadelphia, Pa., 20 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"Systems are inherently polyhedral.
Systems of thought
Divide the Universe
Into the conceptual and the nonconceptual.
Conceptual systems always consist
Of a constant relative abundance
Of the lines, crossings and areas
In which C + AL + 2."
-
Cite INTUITION, P.47 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"Thought is systemic.
Cerebration and intellection are
initiated by differential discernment of relevance from
an
nonrelevance in respect to intuitively focused-upon complex
of events which also intuitively suggest inherent and
potentially significant system interrelatedness,"
Cite SYNERGETICS, Sec. 400.06, RBF rewrite of 25/2 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"Two balla coming together is where thought begins..."
Citation & context at Two Balls Coming Together, 19 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"It is a consequence of the phenomenon time and a consequence
of the phenomena we call afterimage, or thinking, or
reconsideration, which has inherent lags of recallability of
the various special-case experiences. So the very consequence
of awareness is to impose the phenomenon time upon an
eternal Universe. It is awareness itself which is in all the
asymmetries really and the pulsations are all consequences of
Just thought itself... of the ability of Universe to consider
itself, to look upon itself."
SEC. 529.09
1031.16
Cite RHF tape transcript, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, p.47,
31 May 71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"I do not invent my thoughts."
Citation and context at Order, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"... Most important of all we can't see the abstract weightless
thoughts in the minds of other men."
* Citation and context at World Game, 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"Thought itself simply alters that wich you think about."
-
Citation and context at Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence, 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
"...The thought doesn't belong to you."
Citation and context at Thinking, 12 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought:
The persistence of the familiar in our own environmental
close-up- thought, which causes the dynamic interpenetrations
to appear as a static, rather than as a periodic-continuity
environment
reality.'
Citation & context at Periodic Reality, (1), May'49

Thought & Action:
(8261.01)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Thought & Energy:
"Thought must be somehow comprehensive to energy."
Cite RBF quoted by Reyner Banham, New Statesman, p.190;
15 Aug 59

Thought & Energy:
See Consciousness as Synchronization of Time & Energy
Energetic Information

Thought
2018
Relevant Set:
See Thought, 20 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thought Has Shape:
"Thought has shape independent of size."
Cite RBF marginalis, 21 Dec. 171 at SYNERGETICS Draft
"Discoveries of Synergetics" later Sec. 251.21.

Thought Has Shape:
See Epistemography

Thought:
See Chaos of Thought
Conceptions
Eye-beamed Thoughts
Deselfed Thought
Geodesically Structured Thoughts
Geometry of Thinking
Integrity of Thought
Isotropic-vector-matrix Fields of Thoughts
Message: Message Contents
Meaning
Objective: Making Thought Objective
Semantics
Thinking
Weightlessness of Thought
Thought = Relevant Set
Thinkable Set
Adventure Story of Thought
Thinks
(1)

Thought:
(2)
123
See Conceptuality, 17 Oct '72
Energy Event, 1960
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence, 1967*
Metaphysical Environment, 13 Nov'69
Metaphysical synergy, Jan '72
Minus Two, Aug 73
Order, 1971*
Thinking, 12 Jul*62*
World Game.
4 Mar'69*
Two Balls Coming Together, 19 Jun'71*
Universe, 1955
Periodic Reality, (1)*
Visibility & Invisibility of Systems, (1)
Tetratuning, 30 May'75
In, Out & Around, Nov' 71
Mutual Survival Principles, (3)
Equilibrium & Disequilibrium, 20 Feb'77
Human Beings, 22 Jun '77

Thought:
See Thought & Action
Thought & Energy
Thought Relevant Set
Thought Has Shape
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Thread:
"In the tensegrities
. you don't have any strings or
ultimately smallest solid thread.
"
->
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 761.03, 31 Oct 72

Thread:
See String
Tie

RBY DEFINITIONS
Three:
"Frequency begins with three-- with triangle, which is
the minimum cyclic enclosed circuitry."
-
. Citation at Triangle, 17 Feb173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Threeness:
"Threeness constitutes a planar relatedness, which is
inherently triangular. Three triangular planes alone
cannot differentiate, distinguish, or constitute a system.
-
Citation & context at System, 27 May' 72
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three:
". . . The cube is the basic three. . ."
\sout{Cite Carbondale Draft Return to Modelability, p. V.7}
Cite NASA Speech, p.63, Jun 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three Axes Three-way Grid:
"Three axes three-way grid = three vectors for every vertex.*
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1120.10

Three Automobiles:
See Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway
Social Highway Experience: Three Autos

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three Axes of Cristallography:
"There are only three topological axes of crystallography.
They are:
Spin of diametrically
opposite vertexes
Spin of diametrically
opposite mid-edges
Spin of diametrically
opposite centers of face areas
Three topological
types of axes
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 1041.01; RBF galley rewrite,
27 Dec '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Dimensional:
"Arithmetical three-dimensionality is identified with
volumetric space growth rates.'
Citation and context at Dimensionality, (1), 28 Oct '73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Three-dimensional:
"Instead of three-dimensional we may say insideness-and-
outsideness, or we may say four-dimensional, referring to
the four planes of the tetrahedron."
Citation & context at Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb 76

RBP DEFINITIONS
Three-Dimensional:
"In book Synergetics] I must eliminate the words three-
dimension as meaningful, and always use omnidirectional
observation of multi-dimensional characteristics, with
angle and frequency of cyclic refrence as the only require-
ments."
Citation and Context at Size (2), circa 1970

Three-dimensional Limit:
See Perpendicularity, 17 Nov' 72

Three-dimensional:
See Fourth-dimensional Synergetics Mathematics, 14 Dec'76
Fourth Dimension: VE as Fourth-dimension Model,
22 Jun 77
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (A)(B)

Three-dimensional:
See Cube
Powering:
Powering:
Third Powering
Three & Four Dimensions
(1)

Three-dimensional:
See Cartography: Conventional Projections, (1)(2)
Fourth Dimension, Mar 72
Parallelism, 11 Jul 62
Vector Equilibrium, 19 Nov' 74
Convergent vs. Parallel Perception, 13 Nov'75
Starting with Divergence, 19 Feb 76*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three: Number Function of Three in a Four-axial System:
"In the four-dimensional coordinate topology of synergetics
the number three associates most economically, (1.6., most
close packingly) in five equieconomical ways:
(a) omnidivergently and entropically only with six;
(b) omniconvergently and syntropically only with one;
(c) frequency divergent only with four;
(d) frequency convergent only with two; and
(e) inside-outingly, pulsatively only with five;
but three never associates perpendicularly or in parallel with
another three."
- Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 962.08; 24 Jan* 76

Three-phase Vectors:
See Geometry of Vectors, 27 Jan '75

Three-petaled Flower Bud:
See Petal

Three & Only Structural Systema:
See Prime Structural Systems
Tensegrity:
Only
Basic Tensegrity Structures:
Three &

Three-vector Teama: Threefold Vectoring:
See Happening Patterns
Minimum System: Minimum Structural System
Proton & Neutron
Quanta :
Paired event Quanta
Tripartite
Z Cobras
Action-reaction-resultant
Basic Event
Open Triangular Spirals
Z Cobras
(1)

Three-vector Teams: Threefold Vectoring:
See Structure, 25 Dec168
Triangle, (a)
Quantum Mechanics:
Minimum Geometrical Fourness,
(4)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid:
"The nonpolar points are not fixable or structurally
stabilized until occurring at the crossings of a three-way-
great-circled-triangular-spherical-surface-grid, generated
symmetrically in respect to the polar axis of the system.
CITE RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS at Sec. 527.24, (galleys),
7 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
"Gravitation is omni-embracing. In the barrel hoops gravity
operates only in single and parallelly separate planes.
Omnitriangulated geodesic spheres consisting exclusively of
three-way interacting great circles are realizations of
gravitational field patterns. Events are forced to bounce in
spherically contained circles because they seek the largest
possible interior circumference patterns. All great circles
cross each other twice. Three or more noncongruent great
circles are automatically inter-self-triangulating in their
repetitive searching for the 'most comfortable' interactions
which always resolve their three-way-great-circle patterning
into regular spherical icosahedra, octahedra, or tetrahedra.
The gravitational
field will ultimately be disclosed as
ultra high-frequency tensegrity geodesic spheres. Nothing
else."
[98]
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009., 8 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-way Great Circling:
"The nonpolar point is not fixable or structurally
stabilized until it is three-way great circled."
Citation at
Nonpolar Points, 29 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid:
"A social experience of three cars: they make a triangle
changing from scalene to equilateral to scalene. The
triangles are where the cars don't hit. (These are simply
the windows.) But you can't draw less than four triangles.
The complementarity of the three triangles makes the spherical
tetrahedron-- which makes the three-way grid...
"Such dynamically defined Earth triangulation is not a static
grid because the lines do not go through the same point at the
same time; lines-- which are always action trajectories--
never do. All we have is patterning integrity of critical
proximities. There is always a nonviolated intervening
houndary condition. This is all that nature ever has.'
Catationa nd context at Probability Model of Three Cars on a
Highway (3), 26 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-day Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
"But you can't draw less than four triangles. The core-
mentarity of the three triangles make the spherical
tetrahedron-- which makes the three-way grid. The little
windows are 15' -- or 15 miles on the Earth's surface. It
is really not a grid because the lines don't really go
through the same point at the same time. All we have is
critical proximities. There is always a boundary layer
condition. This is all that nature has ever done. The
probability and the degrees of freedom-- which leads to
the tensegrity sphere; which leads to the pneumatic bag;
which is the same kind of reality as the three automobiles.
It all avergaes out to be 60 degrees. That is probability
because you are in closed system. Frobability is not
lin ar nor planar, but it is following the laws of
sphericity or whole systems. It ties up with the three-way
grid and with the constant relative abundance of points,
areas, and lines, as disclosed by synergetics."
-Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling:
Three-Way Grid:
"The discovery of the mathematically regular three-way great
circle spherical coordinate cartographic grid of an infinite
frequency series of progressive modular subdivisions, with
the spherical radii which are perpendicular to the enclosing
spherical field remaining vertical to the corresponding
planar surface points of cartographic projection; and the
commensurate identification of this same great circle
triangulation capability with the icosahedron and vector
equilibrium as well as with the octahedron and the tetra-
hedron."
'
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, Sec. 251.20, April '72, incorporating
Rbf rewriting of same at Kennedy Airport, NY 1 Apr '72.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
"The synergetic discovery of the identification of the
surface points of the system with second powering accommodates
quantum mechanics' discrete energy packaging of photons and
elucidates Einstein's equation, E Mc², where the omnidirectional
velocity of radiation to the second power-- c²-- identifies the
rate of the rational order growth of the discrete energy
quantation. This also explains synergetics' discovery of the
point-gate external growth of systems. It also elucidates and
identifies the second power factoring of Newton's gravitational
law."
-
Washington, D.C. incorporated
Cite RBF to EJA, 21 Dec. 171
in SYNERGETICS at Sec. 251:25.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
"The discovery of the mathematically regular three-way great
circle spherical coordinate cartographic grid of an
infinite frequency series of progressive modular subdivisions
and the commensurate identification of its triangulation
with the icosahedron."
- Cite RHF to EJA 21 Dec. 171, Washington DC, incorporated
in SYNERGETICS, at Sec. 251.20.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
"The mathematical regularity identifies the second power
of the linear dimensions of the system with the number
of non-polar crossings of the comprehensive three-way
great circle gridding, in contradistinction to the previous
mathematical identification of second powering exclusively
with surface areas."
Cite RBF to EJA 21 Dec. 171, Washington DC, incorporated
in SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 251.24.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling:
"I found to my amazement mathematicians making statements
that you could not make three-way grids of great circles.
And so I did find that nature is using three-way
triangulation. This gave me then the realization that.
You can take a flat piece of paper and it has no structural
strength whatsoever-- it will crumple. But if I make it
into a cylinder, a simple curvature, I now can use it as a
column. . .
that is where all the lines are parallel to each
other like a barrel, but I saw that if I could make a
three-way interaction of great circles, it would give me
extraordinary stability. And that is really what compound
curvature is."
-
Cite RBF in Hans Meyer Interview, Dome Book Two, p. 90. Dec'70
TENSEGRITY - SEC. 650.601

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling:
Three-Way Grid:
"While great circles are the shortest distances around
spheres, a single great circle band around a sphere will
readily slide off. Because there are an infinity of
great circles through any two points on a sphere 180°
apart, two great-circle bands-- automatically self-polarizing--
on a sphere can also rotate equatorially and approach
congruency thereafter to act as one meridian and therefore
alide off. Not until we have three-great circle bands as
in a spherical octahedron providing omnitriangulation, do
we have the great circles acting structurally to interstabilize
their respective positions by closing finitely to provide
Between the
triangularly fixed points less than 180° apart.
latter the single great circles-- or shortest distances
between two points not 180° apart-- are thereafter
spontaneously sought by the spherical barrel' bandings.
Cite Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb. 166., p. 3.
TENSEGRITY - SEC. 650.65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
Spontaneity:
"The greater the further subtriangulation of the sphere,
the greater the spontaneity and facility of the mutual
positional interstabilization. This spontaneity is brought
about by the shortest-distance-seeking of the less than
180° arcs of great circles and the latter's respective
tension bands."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Shoji Sadao, 15 Feb. 166., p. 3.
TENSEGRITY - SEC. 650.66)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
"It is probable that this three-way grid of great circles
had remained undiscovered-- alike by mathematicians and
explorers of the machine tool's potentials-- because the
great circle connectors do not have common axes (poles.)
That is to say, they are not a 'family of great circles,'
but a randomly occurring, split-into-pairs set, whose
properties are first discoverable only by intuitively
initiated empirical exploration."
977
Cite Noah's Ark, 1950. p.1.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-Way Great Circling: Three-Way Grid:
"The three-way great circle grids result from uniform
boundary scale subdivision of the edges of the equiside-
and-angle triangles, and the great-circle joining of the
respective points of uniform subdivision of the edges
of the triangles in such a manner that (reading from any
of the primary vertexes along the respective diverging
edges from the primary vertex) the connecting great circle
lines should always connect the subdivision points between
one unit of interval with two units of interval of the
respectively diverging edges.
--
Cite Noah's Ark, 1950, P. 1.

Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid:
See Arounding
Cork: Triangular Corks in Spherical Barrels
Curvature: Compound Curvature
Geodesic
Grid
Octet Truss in Yale Art Gallery
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway
Spherical Barrel
Tensegrity Geodesic Grid:
Three Axes = Three-way Grid
Transformational Projection
Two-way Rectilinear Grid
Spherical Grid
Omnirational Control Matrix
Dymaxion Airocean World Map
Spherical Triangular Lattice
Three-way Grid
(1)

Three-way Great Circling: Three-way Grid:
See Fourth Dimension, 29 Nov 72
General Case, 16 Feb'73
Geodesic Dome, 12 Mar 74
Geometry of Vectors, 15 Jun'74
Gravity, (1)
Nonpolar Points, 29 Nov 72*
Normal to Universe, 10 Sep'74
Octet Truss, '59
Powering:
Second Powering, 21 Dec171
Probability, 17 Feb'72; 18 Feb 72; (1)(2)
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 30 Nov 72
Spherical Octahedron, Aug'72
Sphericity of Whole Systems, 26 Sep 73
Dymaxion Airocean World Map, (5)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross:
"If we take the demographic center of population of humanity
which is situated somewhere between Iran and Kashmir, and lay
out a clock-shaped, circular, azimuthal map of the world with
that Iran-Kasmir locus as its center, the north pole at
twelve o'clock and the south pole at six o'clock, we will
discover that starting with Japan at three o'clock there is a
coastal and island-studded maritime world including all the
South Sea islands, and the coastal people of China and Indo-
china all the way south to and including Burma, within whose
fanlike sweep we find all the bamboo basketry to be woven in
a triangle-and-hexagon grid of three-way weaving, whereas all
the rest of the world is found to be doing its weaving in a
two-way crisscross grid.
"
(1)
In all the great temples and other edifices of Greece,
Egypt, Mesopatamia, and Rome... the foundation lines inadvert-
ently follow the curvature of the planet Earth. This is
because... they thought of the world as a flat surface. They
therefore assumed that all perpendiculars to the Earth are
parallel to one another and therefore assumed that the lines
of their hanging plumb bobs were parallel to one another.'
"
Cite RBF Foreword to "Graet Architecture of the World," 13 Mar' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-way weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross:
(2)
"If we jump the Atlantic westward to the Mayan world of
Central America... we will find that the foundation lines of
their buildings are true horizontal surveyors' lines of sight.
They do not follow the curvature of the Earth, which is so
clearly to be seen when sighting with one's eye the horizontal
step lines of the... Parthenon. If we go westward again across
the Pacific... we find the foundations of the early temples
in Thailand and Cambodia are curved ever so slightly upwards
from their midpoints toward their ends. They follow the
curvature of a ship's keel. They are similar to the Japanese
shinto torii mounted atop two red columns.... They are the
keel of a ship mounted as a beam atop the end columns. The
latter are the same world's water people who use the three-way
weave basketry.
"When we come to Crete's old nalace at Knossos we find the
sign of the king carved into the stone walls of his chambers.
The king's sign is a hexagon consisting of six equilateral
triangles surrounding a central point. Whereas in the house-
hold area of the palace the distaff symbol is carved into the
walls; it is a square-enclosed cross. The water king's symbol"
-
Cite RBF Foreword to "Great Architecture of the World," 13 Mar 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Three-way Weaving ys. Two-way Crisscross:
"is that of the three-way oriental weaving while the
distaff and peoples' area has the two-way weaving symbol.
The great power of Crete was the power of the sailor. As
with Venice, Crete had no need for fortifications because
they had become so omnipowerful as to control all the seas
around them."
"
(3)
Cite RBF Foreword, "Great Architecture of the World," 13 Mar* 75

Three-way deaying:
See Basketry Interweaving

Three: Threefoldness:
See Constant Relative Abundance
Cube: Volume-3 Cube
Eternal Pattern Integrity: Three & Five
Interrelationships: Threeness, Fourness & Sixness
Number: Cosmically Absolute Numbers
Probability Model of Three Cars on a Highway
Three-and-only
Tripartite
Triple
Vector: Threeness of the Vector
Trigom (Trimetric)
(1)

Three: Threefoldness: Threeness:
(2)
123
See A Priori Environment, May 72
Axis of Spin, (4)
Shape Awareness, 20 Feb 73
System, 26 Dec 74; 27 May' 72*
Tetrahedron:
9 Nov 73
Dissimilar Rate of Change Accommodation,
Topology: Synergetics & Eulerian, (1)
Triangle, 17 Feb 73*
Universal Joint: Tetrahedron, 9 Nov '73
General Systems Theory, (1)
Module: A Quanta Module: Introduction of,
22 Feb 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Threshold of Life:
"Virologists have been too busy, for instance with their
DNA-RNA genetic code isolatings, to find time or to see
the synergetic significance to society of the fact that they
have found that no physical threshold does in fact exist
between animate and inanimate.
Cite RBF Nehru Speech as rewritten for SYNERGETICS
"Introduction, draft p.13, 25 Sep'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Threshold of Life:
DNA "is the area where the chemistry could be called crystal-
lography. It could be called metals or it could be called
animate. You could call it animate or inanimate. It is the
complete threshold of the two. Because it is the threshold
peoplewho like to be prosaic and like to make man feel so
small can say everything is just going to turn out to be
inanimate chemistry and you are all the consequence of proba-
bilities and you might as well jump in the river.
This area,
then, of the threshold is where DNA is found and the controlá
of the patterning of life are down to four compounds of
chemistry which somehow or other develop a code and out of this
code these four letters are all the designs that occur.'
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p.135, 6 Jul 62

Threshold of Life:
See Animate & Inanimate
DNA-RNA
Twenty Questions
(1)

Threshold of Life:
See Pattern Integrity, (1)-(5)
(2)

Threshold:
See Critical Proximity Threshold
Threshold of Life
Vector Equilibrium Threshold
Twilight Zone
(1)

Threshold:
See Animate & Inanimate, 1971
Pronouns: I = We -
Me, (1)
Polyhedra, 18 Jul' 76
(2)

Thrust-throw:
See Spear, summer' 71

Thymine:
See DNA-RNA

Ticker-tape Instructions:
See Chromosome, 19 Dec 171

Tic-tac-toe:
See Rectilinear Grid Systems
(1)

Tic-tac-toe:
See General Systems Theory, 8 Nov'73
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"Since tension and compression always and only coexist with
first one at high tide and the other at low tide, and then vice
versa, the necklace tubes are rigid with compression at visible
high tide and tension at invisible low tide; and each of the
tension-connectors has compression at invisible low tide and
tension at visible high tide; ergo, each triangle has both a
positive and negative triangle congruently coexistent and
each visible triangle is two triangles: one visible and one
invisible."
- Citation & context at Necklace, (C), Y Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"Because of the tidal fluctuations of syntropy-entropy
Local environments are forever altering themselves."
-
Cite BRAIN AND MIND, Þ
galley, 1971
- Citation at Syntropy & Entropy, May 72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"Entropy's behavior may be modernized to state
That every separately experienceable
And generalizably conceivable system in Universe
Is continually exporting energies
While also always importing energies
At a concurrently accelerating and decelerating
Variety of local system rates,
which also means
That all systems are continually transforming
Internally as well as externally,
And because the periodicity of importing and exporting
Are both nonsimultaneous and unequal,
All the systems are tidally pulsative
At a variety of frequencies.
Cite
BRAIN & MIND,
), p.86 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"By two visibly different experiments,
One with rope and one with steel rods--
I have demonstrated experimentally
That tension and compression
Always and only coexist.
"One can be at high tide of visibility,
And the other coincidentally
At low-tide visibility.
These always and only coexisting variables
(Where one is at high tide
While the other is at low tide),
Are typical complementaries
Which are not mirror-images
Of one another but must always
Complexedly balance one another in physical equations.
Both demonstrate ninety-degree inadvertent resultants.
This behavior is known as the Poisson Effect."
Cite BRAIN & MIND. , pp. 129-130 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"Strutted trusses are high-tide aspects of edges
solids are high-tide aspects. . Spheres are high-
•
tide aspects of vectors. In your closest packing
you have the spheres which are just the high-tide aspects
. . . because the lines are now hidden between the
points of tangency. It is very easy to be greatly
misled when you see two spheres instangency. There
is only one line between the two. This is where you
see that unity is two because the line breaks itself
into radii of the two spheres."
Cite Rbf tape Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May '71, p. 37.
12 UNIVERsal, DeereES OF FREEDOM - SEC
537. 20

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"Spheres are high tide aspects of vertexes.
Solids are high
tide aspects of faces.
Spheres in closest packing are high
tide aspects of vertexes."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Blackstone Hotel Chicago, 31 May 1971.
12 UNIVERSAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM - sec 537.20

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
PRECESSION
"Tension and compression always operate at precision of
right angles to one another and we simply have one at
high tide and one at low tide of aspects of conceptuality."
-
Cite DEDEMONT Lab Lecture, p. 30, 15 Oct*64
Citation & context at Tension & Compression, 15 Oct164
TENSION + COMPRESSION -
-
SEC 640.7) 641.01

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"The question was: Could we get vastly strong, long members
that had no section at all? I saw that was exactly what
nature had done in her gravitational cohering relationship
of the Earth and the Moon with a 320,000 mile tension
'member of zero diamater. Twice daily we may witness this
Moon-Earth tension as it gravitationally lifts Moonward
billions of tons of the watery ocean film of Earth in what
we call tides. 'Tides' means 'tension.' (As we tie a string
we make a tension connection.) I saw that, in the tides and
in gravity, nature had accomplished a truly invisible,
The question was:
formless, structural, tensional coherence.
Could man begin to approximate the magnificent efficiencies
and economies of these macro-micro tensional integrities of
And I discovered it was possible for man to do so."
nature?
-
Cite Mexico '63, p. 30. 10 Oct 63

RBF D FINITIONS
Tidal:
"Tension and compression are in respect to one another
like tides-- one is at high tide while the other is at
low tide or you might say low tide of visible
apprehendability.
to one another."
They are structly functions in regard
Lec
Citation & context at Function, 9 Jul'62
TENSION Compression SEC 640
641.02
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"Tension and compression are inseparable and coordinate
functions of structural systems, but one may be at high
tide aspect, i.e., most prominent phase, while the other
is at low tide, or least prominent aspect or phase, e.g.,
a visibly tensioned rope is compressively contracted in
almost invisible increment of its girth dimensions every-
where along its length. This low-tide aspect of compression
occurs in planes perpendicular to its compressed axis.
Columns which are visibly loaded only by weights applied
to their respective top ends, are easily seen to a have
their vertical axis in compression, but invisibly the
horizontal girths of these columns are also in tension as
the result of a cigar-shaped swelling pattern of forces
ab acting in the column at right angle to its loaded axis,
which tends invisibly to transform toward the shape of a
squash or a banana. As a result of the visible, or high-
tide, vertical compressioning aspect of such axial loading
of the column's system, this swelling force imperceptibly
stretches, or tenses, the column's girth as a low-tide
reciprocal function of the overall structural integrity
* Cite TENSEGRITY, Art News Annual, p. 119, Dec*61
TENSION + COMPRESSION
SEC 640-24 641.027
reciprocity."

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
"All components of Universe are in continually accommodative,
associative-disassociative motion reciprocity, and all the
moving components of Universe continuously affect all the
other moving components-- in varying degrees, ranging between
high and low tide reciprocities of critically intense to
critically negligible.
Cite Tensegrity, Art News Annual, p. 119. Dec³61

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tidal:
Half Tide:
"In the high and low tide cooperative precessional
functionings of tension vs. compression I saw that there
are times when each are at half tide, or equally prominent
in their system relationships."
Cite TENSEGRITY, Art News Annual, p. 120. Dec 61
TENSION + COMPRESSION - SEC
640.22)

Tidal Power:
See Energy Income
(1)

Tidal Power:
See Precession (b); (II)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tides:
"Tides are omnidirectionally convergent and divergent
Tides come IN and tides go OUT. They
pulsations.
come in to specific foci
.
they go out omnidirectionally."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.

Tidal:
See Balancing of Highs & Lowa
Boltzmann Sequence
Highs & Lows: Exchange Of
High Tide Aspects
Importings & Exportings
Motion Reciprocity
Pulsation
Push-pull
Syntropy & Entropy
Wheel
Wind Sucking Sequence
(1)

Tidal:
See Coherence, 10 Oct 63
Function 9 Jul'62*
Motion (2)
Precession (1)
Solids, 31 May171
Tension & Compression, 15 Oct'64
Truss, 31 May 71
Orbital Feedbacks
Intuition, 1 Feb 75
Naga, (3)
Gravity, 11 Feb 76
10 Sep'74
Orbital Feedback Circuitry & Critical Path,
9 Sep' 74
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tie:
Tides' means 'tension. As we tie a string we make a
tension connection."
à Cite Mexico 163, P.
30.
330

Tie Rods: Iron Stars:
See Civil War, (1)

Tie: Tying:
See Mountain-pass Tie-downs

Tiger:
See Skinning: Tiger's Skin

فد
Tightness:
See Fit: Pressured or Tensed Fit
Rigidity
Self-tightening

Tiles: Mosaic Tiles:
See Projective Transformation
Transformational Projection
(1)

Tiles Mosaic Tiles:
See Puzzle of Washington Crossing the Delaware, (1) (2)
(2)

Tinable:
See Mass, 29 Dec' 58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Asymmetry is a consequence of the phenomenon time and time a
consequence of the phenomenon we call afterimage, or double
take,
or reconsideration, with inherent lags of recallability
rates in respect to various types of special-case experiences.
"Infrequently used names take longer to recall than do familiar
actions. So the very consequence of only 'dawning' and evolving
(never instantaneous) awareness is to impose the phenomenon time
upon an otherwise timeless, ergo eternal Universe. Awareness
itself is in all these asymmetries, and the pulsations are all
the consequences of just thought itself: the ability of Universe
to consider itself, and to reconsider itself."
-
Cite STMERGETI
Sec. 1031,16; rewrite of 27 DEC173
Citation & context at Dynamic Symmetry, (3), 27 Dec'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"--this moment's awareness is different from previous
--
awareness;
differentiations of time are observed directionally;
directions introduce vectors (lines);
-- two time lines demonstrate the observer and the observed..."
Citation and context at Geometry of Thinking, 16 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Time is wavilinear.....
Citation and context at Now, 7 Nov 73

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
Time is
"Gibbs brings in time. Time is tactile.
frequency. Our pulses measure its passing."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft At Sec. 1054.54, 6 Mar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
(1)
"We had time all along. We just did not know how to bring
it
in. The Babylonians tried to do it with their degrees,
minutes, and seconds. The metric system left time as an
exponent. Time was not a unique dimension. It was a quality
of observation, of obvious existence.
"Synergetics is the first to introduce the time dimension
integrally as the frequency of the systems, which are meta-
physically independent of time and size but, when physically
realized, have both time and size which are identified in
synergetics as the frequency of the system: the modular
subdividing of the primitive, metaphysical, timeless system.
"You cannot have time without growthability which implicitly
has a nucleus from which to grow. We would not have discovered
the frequency, or time, dimensions had we not explored the
expansiveness-contractiveness and radiational gravitational
behavior of nuclei in pure metaphysical sizeless and timeless
principle.
"It follows that the isotropis vector matrix field discovery n
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft At Secs. 1054.71-74, 6 Kar'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"represents the frame of reference through which all the
interpulsating transformations of time realizations transit,
but which will never be directly witnessible in the eternally
instant static state.
"Synergetics is an integration of the frequency of Gibbs
with the timelessness of Euler. . . The thermal, acoustical,
sensorial characteristics.
are expressible only as
frequency."
(2)
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft At Secs. 1054.74-75, 6 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"In time-vectorable Universe the maximal range of radiant-
regenerative reachability in time is determined by the
omnidirectional velocity of all radiation: c, i.e.
(186,000)²."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 426.03, 30 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time
"While empty set numbers may be theorized as multipliable
by themselves, so long as there is time to do so, all
experimental demonstrability of science is inhernetly
time limited. Time is the only dimension.
expressable as frequency.
It is
Sec. 960.03
Citation and context at Powering, 16 Nov' 72

KBP DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Edges can be any length permitted by time."
Citation and context at Equiangularity, 25 Sep'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"The speed of light, at the limit case, becomes the time.
The speedof radiation is the limit case, but it is the
initial
limit. It always comes back to itself."
-
Citation at Radiation: Speed Of, 22 Jun '72
City RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, MT, 22-Jun 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"...Seconds to the second power.
It is a time thing."
Citation and context at Cube:
Diagonal of Cube As
Wave Propagation Model, 22 Jun 72

30
RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"It is inherent in the mathematics of the degrees of
freedom which demand the invention of time due to the
varying rates of recall of observation of the behavior
of the vectors."
Citation and context at Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom,
29 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
tt
Vectors, being the product of physical energy
constituents, are 'real,' having velocity multiplied
by mass operating in a specific direction; velocity
being a product of time and size modules; and mass
being a volume-weight relationship. On impact, mass
These energy
at velocity transforms into heat and work.
factors can be translated not only into work, but into
heat, or into time as well."
-
· Cite SYNERGETICS, Sec. 410.05, 27/2 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"There really is an annihilation into eternity with no
time and dimensioning-- these are only in our temporal
relativity. Time is within our lags and our 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 we must have to differentiate and to have
awareness."
"Time gives specific size and symmetry due to inherent
lags: the lags of realization!"
-
Citation and context at Eternity (1), 23 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"In the equanimity model the physical and the metaphysical
share the same design. The whole of physical Universe
experience is a consequence of our not seeing instantly,
which introduces time. As a result of the recall lags
the physical is always imperfect."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 443.04, 26/3 May172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Time, relativity and consciousness
Are always and only coexistent functions
Of an a priori Universe.
"
•
•
-
Citation and context at Second, p. 12, May 172

REF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"It takes time to go back from there to over here.
So you invent time. The conceptuality of different degrees
of apartness is fundamental to a plurality of degrees of
freedom, which induces the real-ization of time."
-
For citation and context see Timeless, 1 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Time is in our dimensioning because our geometry is
vectorial. Every vector = mass x velocity, and time
is a function of velocity. 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.
962.421
TIME + DIMENSION-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Minimal consciousness evokes a nonsimultaneous sequence,
ergo time.
Time is not the fourth dimension and should not
be so identified. Time is only a relative observation, a
set of local sequences of experience afterimage formulation
lags of the brain. Time is not a function of space."
Citation & context at Physical Tetrahedron vs. Conceptual
Tetrahedron, Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"There is no dimension without time."
-
-
Citation at Dimension, 11 Oct 71
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Corolla
at Haverford, Penna, 11 Oct. 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Gibbs accommodates the omnidirectional system
complementations of the other senses: thermal, tactile,
aural, and olfactory-- not just associatively, but
radiationally.
Gibbs brings in time. Time is tactile.
Our pulses measure its passing."
--ONE
Cite Synergatics draft, And 836., August 1971.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Time:
"The a priori otherness of comparative awareness
inherently requires time. 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, Sec. 223.31- 19 Jun '71.
SYNERGETICS PRINCIPLES - SEE 223.37)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Because we have relatively so little time, both on today's
schedule and in the crisis of continued human occupancy
of planet Earth.
Cite Museums Keynote address Denver, p. 7. 2 Jun171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"It is a consequence of the phenomenon time and a
consequence of the phenomena we call after-image,
or thinking, or reconsdieration, which has inherent
lags of recallability of the various special case
experiences. So the very consequence of awareness
is to impose the phenomenon time upon an eternal
Universe."
-
Cite RBP
transcript, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago
31 May 1921, 47.
© Citation & context at Thought, 31 May'71
TIME SEC 529.08) COMPARE SEC. 1031,16, 27 DEC. 737
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Generalized principles are often called constants by
the semantics of scientific specialization whose viewpoint
is myopically inadequate. Constancy is a time concept.
Time is relative and cyclically terminal. Time is
energetic, physical-- is ever finitely evolving, which
is the opposite of 'constant'."
-
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971, p. 5
TIME
SEC. 529.05

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Lags are intervals-- nothing. Insataneity would
eliminate otherness, time, and self-and-other-
awareness, Instantaneity and eternality are both
timeless they are both the same. Eternity contains
time; time does not contain eternity. The relationship
is is irreversible. The contained time of eternity
provides eternal awareness."
-
Gibe SYNERGETICS Draft
"Conceptuality: Life" -REF
Marginal Somerset Club, Boston, 25 April,
Citation 7 context at Eternal & Temporal, 25 Apr '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Because every action has both a reaction and a resultant
every now must have a past and a dawning future."
Gite SYNERGETICS Draft
Conceptuality: Time" -- RAF
marginalis added at Somerset Club, Boston, 25 April 171
-
Citation at Now, 25 Apr 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Time is experience. Time can be expressed only in
relative magnitude ratios of relevant experiences.
Time can be defined only in the terms of relative
frequency of occurrence of relative angular changes
of the observer's environment, the relative frequency
of the occurrence rate being referenced to any
constantly recycling behavior of any chosen sub-system
of universe. All experiential realizations are
cocnceptually definable in degrees of angulation change
and in relative frequency of occurrence rates in respect
to the observer's optionally chosen axis of conceptuality
and of his specifically identified time-recycling rate."
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft with new RBF marginalia added at
Somerset Club Boston, 25 April 1971
(Synergetics Sec. 529.01)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Contemporary science as yet assumes that all local
systems in physical universe are instantly and simultane-
ously affecting one another in widely ranging degrees of
influence.
"All the time phenomena of the physicists are expressed
in linear data coordinates, but all cyclic actions are
spirals because there are no straight lines and also
because lines cannot go through' or 'return into*
themselves. There can be no experientially demonstrable
circles is continuous lines 'returning into themselves.
Lines cannot return into themselves. Because there are
no planes, a wave is a spiral."
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft
-
"Conceptuality: Time" with RBF
marginalia added at Somerset Club, Boston, 25 April 171
CONCEPTUALITY - SEC. 529.04)

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"What we call length is always measured in time."
Town
New York
arch
Citation at Length, 12 Mar' 71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"All the time phenomena 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 because there are no planes."
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York 8 March 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Minimal consciousness
Evokes a non-simultaneous sequence,
Ergo, Time."
TIME SEC. 529.06)
RBF toËJA, Sarasota, Florida
7 February 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"The future is not something linear. So we seem to be
talking about a greater range of known cycling.
We're talking a complete *now.' It really is a subjective
'now' and and objective 'now' and so forth, bet it really
is all 'now."
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 39,19 Oct170
-
TIME SEC. 529.101

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Time is not the fourth dimension and should not be
so identified-- this was a misleading notion popularized
when Einstein first became famous."
with frequency of
"Tentative is a time word which, wif. Heisenberg.)
redefining gets more and more exact.
"Time element is the ability to phase properly. The
thing being defined does not change.
""
TIME-SEC. 529.061
Cite: Statements by RBF to EJA in 1970,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
... How long the edges are can be determined 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 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."
Citation and context at Size (1), circa 1970

RBF LEFINITIONS
Time:
"Lines are finitely developed events.
And their durations
Are always relative
To some cyclic experience in Time."
-
Citation and context at Radiation:
Speed Of (D), 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Size and time are synonymous."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p. 6
do
28 Jan. '69.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"It is one of those strange facts of experience that
when we try to think into the future, our thoughts jump
backward. It may well be that nature has some fundamental
law by which opening up what we call the future also
automatically opens up the past in equal degreee
Time
is not linear, but probably consists of omnidirectional
wave propagations."
-
TIME SEC. 529.091
Cite GC.DESSES, Sat. Review, 2 Mar 68

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Experimentally demonstrable cyclic regularities,
such as frequencies of the occurrence of radiation
emissions of various atomic istopes, become the funda-
mental time increment references of relative size
measurements of elemental phenomena."
TIME
-
SEC, 529.021
Cite NASA Speech, p. 99,
Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Distance is measured in time. Time increments
are calculated in respect to a variety of cyclic
regularities manifest in our environmental experiences."
TIME. SEC. 529. 021
Cite NASA Speech, p. 99, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Time 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."
TIME-
- SEC. 529.01
-
Cite NASA Speech, p. 49, Jun'66
- Gite CARBONDALE DRAFT IV.26–

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"The majority of academic people are still thinking
in terms of Newtonian (classical) science's 'instant
universe,' While light's speed of 700 million miles an
hour is very fast in realtion to automobiles it is very
slow in relation to the 'no time at all' of society's
(obsolete) instant universe thinking.
"It was part of the classical scientists' concept of
instant universe that universe is a system in which all
parts affect one another simultaneously, in varying degrees."
TIME- SEC. 529.03,
Cite NAFA Speech, pp. 25,26
Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"The measuring act always involves time increments of our
totally available time of life and may be conceived of only
in respect to local events in nonsimultaneous Universe, there
being no overall 'largest size to be referred to...
"Einstein was able to show that every individual's every
time employed yardstick of time, i.e., the cyclic increment
of imaginary reference, is always unique and different from
others, a difference that amplifies greatly as we enter into
astronomical 'observing' by individual instruments whose
progressively designed reductions of tolerated error is also
always unique and only calculatable relative to each
experience.
ft
->
Cite NASA Speech, p. 102, Jun'66
TIME SEC. 529.08
-

HBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"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."
egon Lacture #8,
298, 12 Jul+62-
Citation and context at Velocity, 12 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"Newton had said that time was a very specific affair,
assuming that there was a specific and finite time that
permeated the universe-- and that everything occurred at
the same time.
It was Einstein who felt that time
might be relative to the individual observer."
Cite OREGON Lecture #2, - p. 71, 2 Jul*62
TIME SEC. 529.031

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"A wide range of time investment magnitudes must be
assigned
to the respective considerations of the
multitude of different constellar, experience-pattern
comprehensions."
-
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 132, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"The emergence of the time concept as something more specific
than the vague thing which a clock ticks away, a concept in
which time is as essential a component or unit of the
physical world as is oxygen, came with the advent of the
cipher, the enabling instrument of time's calculatability."
-
Cite NONE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.143, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time:
"One more scientific factor entered the scene during the zero
hour of the Mediterranean philosophers' streamlining. That
was the concept of time as a segregated philosophic entity.
We have already seen what an important factor time is in
Einstein's formula, where rate of energy combines time, as
pure abstract, with space, as pure matter. TIME entered the
picture through poetry. Fany, if not most, of the important
scientific events that have occurred have appeared first in
fun and play, as for instance the suspension bridge which
appeared first as a Chinese tight-rope-walker's frame.
Funambulist = rope = walker; funia = rope; ambulare = walk.
"Fun" "rope" Will Rogers
-- the
'fun' of life."
--
--
--
line
--
tension
-
. Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON, p.142, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-angle-size Aspects:
"...Comprehensively concerned children can learn how to
avoid the miscarriages of misconceptioning as induced by too
brief reviews of their progressive experiences as observed
from too few viewpoint loci. They can learn--as did Einstein--
of the plurality of different, instrumentally-measured, time-
angle-and-size aspects of the same phenomena as viewed from
different given environmental surrounding points by different
observers at as close to the 'same' time as possible, taken
at 'almost the same time' as well as at distinctly different
times. The foregoing is what led Einstein to the discovery
of relativity."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 100.023; 30 Apr' 77

Time-angle-size Aspecta:
See Axis of Conceptual Observation
Orientation
Vectorial Orientation

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time Cancellation:
"Comprehensive universe is amorphous and only locally finite
as it transformingly differentiates into serially conceptual
pattern integrities, some much larger than humanly apprehendible,
some much smaller than humanly apprehendible, ever occurring
in nonsimultaneous sets of human observings, time-cancelling,
harmonically integrative synchronizations are supra or sub
human sensibility and longevity experienciability whose
periodicities are therefore so preponderantly unexpected as
to induce human reactions of o'erwhelming disorder, so that
suddenly around comes the comet again for the first
known time in humanly recorded experience, periodically
closing the gap and periodically pulsing through eternally
normal zero.
-
Cite for amplification
El so citation re Goat in
Uregon Lecture #5, p. 158. Now in SINERGETIC's dreft Sec.
6th, Tension and Compassion." 19 Jul 7
Citation at Comet: Around Comes the Comet, etc., 19 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time Center:
"The 20 F³ is the total Universe momentarily all at one
time center."
Citation and context at Nothingness, 16 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time & Cognition:
"The sense-coordinating brain of each and all humans, like
sound or light, has a limit speed of apprehending.
There is
no instant cerebral cognition. The apprehension lags auto-
matically impose off-center human cognition which occasions
the sense of time in a timeless eternity. The sense of time
occasions the conception of life and serial experience. The
inherently invisible vector equilibrium self-started life
and ever regenerates life. Inherent in the lags is our
intimate knowledge
only of self."
Citation & context at Vector Equilibrium as Starting Point, (2)
11 Sep 75

Time & Consciousness:
See Life as Synchronization of Time & Consciousness

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time vs. Constant:
"Time is energetic, physical-- is ever finitely evolving,
which is the opposite of 'constant'."
Citation & context at Constanta, 28 Apr '71

Time Differentiable:
Sea Conceptual System, 27 May 175

KBF DEFINITIONS
Time & Energy:
"The phenomenon of time entering into energy is just a
It explains our slowness and our
metaphysical concept.
limitations. Temporality is time and the relative
asymmetries of ascillation are realizable only in time--
in the time required for pulsative frequency cycling.
Synergetics correlates verities of time and eternity."
(Later context at Vector Equilibrium: Field of
Energy (C))
->
Cite RBF dicaation for SYNERGETICS, Beverly Hotel,
28 Feb. 171. See Sec. 205.5 of Üct. '71. )
New York,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time & Energy:
"Finally man has accumulated
sufficient knowledge of certain proportions
of time and energy
and of their respective
special relationship behavior
to selectively segregate
and reassemble those constituents
for himself."
-
Cite MACHINE TOOLS, p.41, Dec140

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time vs. Energy:
"When the Almighty
happened to bemuse his wisdom
with playing shoot-the-works,
he opened with one hand the hot valve
of absolute energy
and with the other
the cold valve
of absolute time."
sup
Cite NO MORE SECONDHAND GOD, "Machine Tools," p.37; Dec*40

Time vs. Energy:
See Friction, 9 Apr140
Eternity vs Energy, 2 May'78

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-energy Economics:
We
"I work on metabolica, the distribution of enery processes.
have internal metabolics and we have etrnally regenerative
Universe; we have big and little, different kinds of creatures
in energy magnitudes. So what we are really studying in
economics are these energy exchanges and times and cessation
rates.
"So there really is a logical accounting system.
It was very
logical to have agriculture paced to the annual system when
you could only last 30 days without food or you were going to
But when we
starve; and so the fiscal year was an annual year.
get into an industrial system it's quite different; but they
proceeded to try to encompass the whole industrial pattern into
a completely inappropriate agricultural pattern.
"The point is that from the very beginning I've been working
on time-energy economics. Time-energy economics is called cosmic
accounting. It views the total system in interaction with the
celestial system. Where is our energy income? Where is our
energy? that is our inventory? What is the planetary inventory?
The biosphere inventory? There is a point at which there is
just so much and you're not going to get any more.'
-
1P
Cite Tape #3, pp. 16-17; RBF to W. Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun 74

Time-energy Economics:
See Cosmic Accounting

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-energy Involvement:
"Geodesic lines are the most economical (meaning least
time-enery involvement) relationship between any two events."
Citation & context at Geodesic Line, 9 Sep'74

Time & Energy:
See Consciousness as Synchronization of Time & Energy
Time-energy Economics
Time-energy Involvement
Time vs. Energy
Energetic Information

Time & Energy:
See Geodesic, undated; 24 Sep'73
Mind (3)
Self-now, 1938
Short Cuts, 9 May 157
Space 20 Oct 72; Jun'66
Time, 27 May 172
Time Vector, 24 Sep'73
Friction, 9 Apr 40
Energy Involvement of 92 Elements
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time Equanimity:
"Synergetics inherently has time equanimity: it deals
with anything that exists always in 1 x 1 time coordination."
(Context at Time-size, 20 Dec'73)
à Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 962.43, 17 Nov '72

Time Fourth Dimension:
Time Is Not the Fourth Dimension

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time is Not the Fourth Dimension:
"Time is in our dimensioning because our geometry is
vectorial. Every vector = mass x velocity and time is
a function of velocity. . . Time and heat and longevity
and weight are inherent in every dimension. Ergo, time is
no more the fourth dimension than it is the first, second,
or third dimensions. No time: No dimension. . . It was the
failure of the exclusiev three-dimensionality of the XYZ
interperpendicular coordination that gave rise to the concept
that the fourth dimension must be a mysterious state which
might be spoken of casually as a 'time dimension,' because
the XYZ coordinates in themselves, as heretofore adpoted by
man, has seeming validity only in its linear and spatial
characteristics independent of time and physical reality."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. '71.
(Partially cited at Vector Equilibrium, 21 Dec 71)
MODELABILITY SEC 966.10

TEXT CITATIONS
Time is Not the Fourth Dimension:
Synergetics : Sec. 962.40
Sec. 966.00

Time is Not the Fourth Dimension:
See Time, 1970; Dec 71
Vector Equilibrium, 21 Dec 71*
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (A)(B)

TEXT CITATIONS
Time: If There is Time:
961.45
1106.30

Time:
If There is Time:
See Line: If it Exists
No Absolute Time
(1)

Time: If There is Time:
See Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec*73
Time, 16 Nov' 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time Incrementation:
"Time incrementation is special case information."
- Citation & context at Energy & Information, 27 Dec*74

Time Increment:
See Heartbeat, 13 Far' 73
Packaged, 1969
Time & Size, Nov 71

Time as an Invention:
See Individual Universes, (2)
Timeless, 1 Apr172
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 29 May' 72

Time Lag:
See Radiation: Speed Of, (B)

Time-limited:
See Special Case
(1)

Time-limited:
See Generalized Principle (A)
Time, 16 Nov 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time is Only Now:
"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 symmet-
rical geometries through which they pulsate actively and
passively but at which they never stop. The rest of Scenario
Universe is shapeless: untuned-in."
-
Citation & context at Scenario Universe, 19 Jul'76

Time Perspective:
See Intellectual Perspective, 20 Dec'74

Time Entered the Picture through Poetry:
See Time, (p.142) 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time Quality:
"At the end of a piece of rope we make a metaphysical
disconnect and a new set of observations are inaugurated,
each consisting of finite quanta integral ingredients
such as the time quality of all finite-energy quanta."
- Citation at Metaphysical Disconnect, 19 Jun' 71
Gite HBF-marginalte on Infinity entry from HOW LITH&
Confirmed a expanded, Buxarly Hotel,

Time: Separating Time Out of the System:
See Geometry of Vectors, Aug' 71

RBP DEFINITIONS
Time-size:
"Time is sise and size is time. Time is the only dimension.
In synergetics time-size is expressible as frequency.
"Recalling our discovery that angles, tetrahedra, and
topological characteristics are system constants independent
of size, the limit of experimentally demonstrable powering
involves a constant vector equilibrium and an isotropic vector
matrix whose omnisymmetrically interparalleled planes and
electable omniuniform frequency reoccurrences accommodate in
time-sizing everywhere and anywhere regenerative
(symmetrically indestruct, tetrahedral,
four-dimeanional, zerophase, i.e., the vector equilibrium)
rebirths of a constant, unit-angle, structural system of
convergent gravitation and divergent radiation resonatability,
whose developed frequencies are the specific, special-case,
time-size dimensionings.' "
- Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Secs. 960.03 and
960.04, 20 Dec173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-size:
"No time: No dimension. Time is dimension.
"Time is in synergetic dimensioning because our geometry is
vectorial. Every vector mass x velocity, and time is a
function of velocity. The velocity can be inward, outward,
or around, and the arounding will always be chordal and exactly
equated with the inwardness and outwardness time expendabilities.
"The Euclidian-derived XYZ coordinate geometry cannot express
time equi-economically around, but only time in and time out.
Synergetics inherently has time equanimity: it deals with
anything that exists always in 1 x 1 time coordination."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 962.41 & 962.41, per RBF
rewrite of 20 Dec'73

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-Size:
"Angles are eternally transcendental to time-size limits.
The angle is a subdivision of one cycle quite independent of
the length size (time) of the angle-defining radii edges of
the angle. One-sixth of unity: the circle is one-sixth
independent of time and sise."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. -780.32, 2 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-Sizing:
"Multiplying wavelength by frequency equals the speed of
light. We have two experimentally demonstrable radiational
variables. We have to do whatever we do against time.
whatever we may be, each we has only so much commonly
experienciable time in scenario Universe within which to
articulate thus and so. Thereforethe vector equilibrium's
radiant or gravitational "realizations" are always inherently
geared or tuned-in with the fundamental time-sizing of
186,000mps., which unique time-size-length increments of
available time can be divided into any desirable frequency.
One second is a desirable, commonly experienciable, increment
to use and within each unit of it we can reach 186,000 miles
in any nonfrequency-interfered-with direction."
[43]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 426., 30 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-size:
"Time and Dimension: Synergetic geometry embraces all the
qualities of experience, all aspects of being. Measurements
of width, breadth, and height are awkward, inadequate
descriptions that are only parts of the picture. Without
weight, you do not exist physically; nor do you exist without
a specific temperature. You can convert the velocity-times-
mass into heat. Vectors are not abstractions, they are
resolutions. Time and heat and length and weight are
inherent in every dimension. Ergo time is no more the fourth
dimension than it is the first, second or third dimension."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 962.40, as rewritten by RBF,
30 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time & Size:
"Distance is measured in time. Time increments are calculated
in respect to a variety of cyclic regularities manifest in
our environmental experiences. Experimentally demonstrable
cyclic regularities, such as the frequencies of the reoccur-
rence of radiation emissions of various atomic isotopes,
becomes the fundamental time-increment references of relative
size measurement of elemental phenomena.
.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 529.02; Nov'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time-size Cyclic Modules:
"We may think independently of sise in respect to tetrahedra,
which consist of 12 separate angles. Triangles and tetrahedra
and all varieties of polyhedra are thinkable independently of
size. 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.
cyclic sizing' increment is one unit of frequency and each
cyclic increment inherently constitutes one unit of experienced
physical energy."
Each
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 515.11, draft of Jul*71

Time-size Cyclic Modules:
See In, Out & Around,
Nov171

Time-size Limita:
See Time, 16 Nov'72
Time-sise, 2 Nov*72

Time-size:
See Conceptuality Independent of Time & Sise
Tunability
Time-angle-size Aspects
Relative Volumetric Frequency & Interval
(1)

Time-size:
See Frequency, 15 Oct 72
Generalization, 17 Feb'73
Special Case, 17 Feb'73*
Tetrahedron as Conceptual Model, 28 Jan 73
Topology: Synergetics & Eulerean, 16 Nov 74.
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (A)(B)
Sphere, 8 Aug'77
(2)

Time Somethingness:
See Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time & Space:
You can
"Time and space are simply functions of velocity.
examine the time increment or the space increment separately,
but they are never independent of one another."
- Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 526.02; Nov* 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time & Space:
"Time is only a relative observation--
A set of local sequence of experiences--
Not a function of space.
We can discuss time
As if there were no time."
TIME SEC 529.06
-
Cite RBF to EJA
Sarasota, Florida
7 February 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time & 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."
-
Citation & context at Velocity, 12 Jul162

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time & Space:
"We have time Relationships but not static space relationships."
Citation & context at Space, May 171

Time-space:
See Life-time-space Phenomena
Space Nothingness & Time Somethingness
Zero-time-space Size
Vector: One-second Vector Length
(1)
212

Time & Space: Time-space:
See Conscious World, 1938*
Frequency, 16 Feb'73
Irreversibility: Principle of, Apr 71
Limit Case: Closeat-packed Symmetry, 17 Feb'73
Nucleus Nine - Nothing, 18 Feb'73
Rate, 1938 (pp.62-63; p.97)
Space, May 71*
Velocity, 12 Jul*62*
Halo, 1938
Time, Dec' 71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Time or Timeless Center:
"The 20 F³ is the total Universe momentarily all at one
time or timeless center."
cite Time Center, 16 Nov 72 as rewritten by RBF 26 Nov 72

Time ob Timeless:
See Apprehension Lags, 11 Sep 75
Physical Tetrahedron vs. Conceptual Tetrahedron, Dec' 71

12
RBP DEFINITIONS
Time Vector:
"The only difference between experience and nonexperience
is time. The time factor is always radial, outwardly,
inwardly, and chordally around; always accounted only in
most economical to self-experience, energy-time relationship
(1.e., geodesic) units. The vector is time-energy
incrementation, embracing both velocity and relative mass,
as well as the observer's angulation of observation-- strictly
determined in relation to the observer's head-to-toe axis
and time, relative, for instance, to heartbeat and diurnal
cyclic experience frequencies.
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 540.08, 24 Sep'73

Time-vectorable Universe:
See Time, 30 Nov 72

Time Word:
See Tentative, 1970
Thinking, 1938
Occur, 30 May '75

Time:
Absolute Time
See Alltime
Available Time
Clock: Timekeeping
Cold Valve of Absolute Time
Conceptuality Independent of Size & Time
Contained Time
Cosmic Time
Distance
Doppler Effect
Energy-time Relationships
Eternal Instantaneity
Eternal Slowdown
Conceptual Genesis
Eternity
Future
Experience:
Cell-time-man-experienced Events
Intellect Seconds
Life-in-time
Life as Synchronization of Time & Consciousness
Independence of Size & Time
(1A)

Time:
See Natural Time Increment
Nonsimultaneous
Now
No Time
Perception
Realization Lag
Relativity
Scenario
Second
Spending
Timeless
Temporality
Transient
Vitalistics
Pretime
Unwinding Time
Geometry of Vectors
Syntropy & Time
Subtime
Eternal & Temporal
No Absolute Time
(1B)

Time:
(2A)
See Awarenesa, 10 Feb 73
Change, 15 Sep' 71
Comet: Around Comes the Comet Again, 19 Jun'71*
Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model,
22 Jun 72*
Critical Proximity, 15 Feb'73
Cyclic Unity, Jun'66
Dimension, 16 Nov 72; 11 Oct'71*
Dimensional Growth, 20 Dec 73
Equiangularity, 25 Sep' 72*
Eternity (1)*
Generalized Boat, May172
Geometry of Thinking, 16 Dec 73*
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 6 Mar'73
Length, 12 Mar 71*
Local, 22 Apr 171*
Metaphysical Experience, 13 Mar 73*
Metaphysical Disconnect, 19 Jun 71*
Nothingness, 16 Nov 72**
Now, 7 Nov 73*; 25 Apr 71*

Time:
See Physical Is Always the Imperfect, 14 Feb'72
Powering, 16 Novi 72
Radiation: Speed Of,
Resultant, 22 Jul 71'
Second, May'72*
Self-now, 1938
System, 1954
Size (1)*
Tetrahedron:
(D)*;
22 Jun 72*
Coordinate Symmetry, Nov'71
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 29 May'72*
Thought, 31 May171*
Universe, May 172
Velocity,
12 Jul*62*
Geometry of Vectore, 27 Jan '75
Modelability, 12 May '75
Physical Tetrahedron vs. Conceptual Tetrahedron,
Dec' 71*
Modules: A & B Quanta Modules, 20 Dec173
Frequency & Wave, 19 Dec 74
Quantum Mechanics: Minimum Geometrical Fourness,
(2B)
(1)

Time:
See Timable
Time Cancellation
Time Center
Time or Timeless Center
Time & Energy
Time Is Not the Fourth Dimension
Time as an Invention
Time Equanimity
Time Lag
Time-limited
Time Quality
Time-size
Time-size Limits
Time-somethingness
Time-space
Time: Separating Time Out of the Systes
Time Vector
Time Word
Time vs. Constant
Time Entered the Picture through Poetry
(3A)

Time:
See Time Perspective
Time & Consciousness
Time Differentiable
Time & Cognition
Time: If it Exists
Time is Only Now
Time-angle-size Aspects
(3B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"The consequence... of awareness is to impose the phenomenon
time upon an otherwise timeless, ergo eternal, Universe."
-
Citation & context at Time, 27 Dec '73

RBF JEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"The timeless and the changeless are intercomplementary aspects
of ideal synergetics.
"There is conceptual insideness and outsideness, yet timeless
and sizeless. Like the confept of God as mind. There are
conceptual integrities which are inherently differentiable,
ergo,
inherently realizable as something we call life.
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. It takes time to go back from there
to over here. So you invent time. The conceptuality of
different degrees of apartness is fundamental to a
plurality of degrees of freedom, which induces the real-ization
of time."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Kennedy Airport, N.Y. 1 Apr 172,
in response to query re difference between 'timeless' and
'changeless.'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"We can discuss time as if there were no time. It exists in
weightless, metaphysical conceptuality. There is a metaphysic-
al timeless time, just as there is a difference between
physical tetrahedron and metaphysically conceptual but
weightless, substanceless tetrahedron. Instantaneity would
eliminate otherness, time, and self-and-other-awareness.
Instantaneity and eternity are both timeless: they are the
same."
Citation & context at Physical Tetrahedron vs. Conceptual
Tetrahedron, Dec171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"Euclid's cubic block had been fashioned by him without a time
dimesion; therefore it could never exist in the reality of
physical time.
"It exists in weightless
metaphysical conceptuality.
There is a metaphysical timeless time-- just as there is a
difference between physical tetrahedron and metaphysical
tetrahedron."
-
(RBF rewrite of Timeless, 1946)
Cite RBF to Eja, 3200 Idaho, Wash DC, Nov'71

HBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
Only the dividers are used. You start with two
events-- any distance apart: Only one module with no
subdivisions. Ergo, timeless. Ergo Eternal. Ergo, no
frequency. Playing the game in a timeless manner. You have
to have division of the line to have frequency, ergo to
have time."
-
-
C
Beverly Hotel, the
Citation & context at Bow Ties: Genesis of, 12 Sep*71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
*Instead of omnidirectional, say timeless.”
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"For 'eternal,' use timeless."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"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."
-
Citation at Vector Equilibrium, 1 May171
- Gite tam transerint RBF. BOR, Carbondale Dome,
1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"Instantaneity and eternal are both timeless; they are the
same.
Citation and context at Life, 13 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
"Tension is shown experientially to be nondimensional,
omnipresent, finitely accountable, continuous,
comprehensive, ergo timeless, ergo eternal."
-
LL. HET SINERGETICS draft,
* Oragon Lecture #5, pp
Tension and Compression, revision
157-158, 9 JUL162%
Citation at Timeless, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Timeless:
*Euclid's cubic block had been fashioned by him without a time
dimension; therefore it could never exist in the reality of
physical time."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Wichita, Kansas, 1946

REF DEFINITIONS
Timelessness:
"Instanaaneity would elaminate otherness, time, and
self-and-other-awareness.
Instantaneity and eternal
are both timeless: they are the same."
-
TIML SEC, 529.06)
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
13 March 1971

Timeless:
See Changeless
Eternal
Eternal Universe
Etrnal & Temporal
Independence of Size & Time
No-time: No Time at All
Prime
Subfrequency
Time or Timeless Center
Subtime
(1)

Timeless:
See Bow Ties: Genesis Of, 12 Sept 71*
Geometry of Vectors, Aug 71
Instant Universe, (2)
Life, 13 Mar 71**
Prime, 18 Dec174
Rubber Glove, 23 May'72
Statistics, 1938
Time, 27 Dec*73*
Time & Space, 7 Feb'71
Vector Equilibrium, 1 May 72; 1 May'71*
Physical Tetrahedron vs. Conceptual Tetrahedron,
Dec 71*
Nuclear Cube, 11 Dec*75; 23 Feb'76
Cosmic Hierarchy, 23 Jan'77
Generalization & Special Case, 23 Jan'77
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (B)
Eternal & Temporal, 4 Sep177
(2)

Tin:
Tin Cans:
See Metals:
Recirculation Of, (a)
Building Business, (2)
Human Unsettlement, (1)

Tissue Cella:
See Cartilage vs. Bone
Flesh: Animal Flesh
Life Cells
(1)

Tissue Cella:
See Synergy: Degrees Of, (4)

Title:
See Named
Untitled

Today:
See Star Events, Mar' 71

Toenail in No Way Predicts Humans:
See Synergy of Synergies, May172

To & Fro-ing:
See Coming & Going
(1)

See Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
To & Fro-ing:
(2)
121

Together:
See Coming Apart & Holding Together

RBF DEFINITIONS
Toilet:
"In the kitchen-bathing dome... they had a toilet which
converted human waste into high-grade fertilizer. The heat
necessary for this odorless process was provided alternat-
ingly by electricity from the windmill hookup or by heat
from the solar panel water-heating device. The toilet
system produced fertilizer as a rich, dry, manured, loam-
like substance which needed to be taken out of the system
only once a year."
Citation & context at Now House, (4); 20 Sep*76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Toilet:
We are
"And I'm also carrying a number of other developments, for
instance,
a waterless toilet, just a packaging machine.
Nothing has been really bringing about more contamination
for human beings than the splashing of toilets and wet
plumbing. And this is very valuable chemistry.
using 50 volumes of water to get rid of one volume of
human waste. Just think of it. And it isn't waste at all!
And we take all that beautiful rain coming down the mountain-
side, and take 50 volumes of water just to carry off that
waste and mix it up with the other water!
When we really
need it separated as very valuable chemistry, both fertilizer-
wise and as actual energy content-- high methane.
"
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p. 13, 28 Jun' 72

Toilet: Need to go to the Toilet:
See Life & Death, (2)

Toilet Paper:
See Excrement: Human Excrement, Dec'70

Toilets:
See Bathroom
Dymaxion Bathroom
Excrement
Plumbing
Outbound Packaging of Human Food Waste
(1)

Toilets:
See Water, 31 Jan'75
Now House, (4)*
No Energy Crisis, (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tolerance:
Measurement Tolerance:
"Mechanics introduced the word tolerance, not the
scientists. The measuring of the mechanics, i.e.,
the engineers, was far more accurate."
Cite HBF to EJA, Royal Scots Restaurant, N.Y. 14 Sept. 1971.

RBP DEFINITIONS
Tolerance Sequence:
"We've discovered that while you can't be exact, you can
progressively reduce error, and that's exactly what mechanica
and technology are doing. As we went, for instance from
building a man's house, where an eighth of an inch is a
close enough tolerance to make the house stand up, to a
hundredth or a thousandth of an inch automobile tolerances;
and you couldn't fly unless you held the tolerances finer--
to ten thousandths of an inch. Then in rocketry we're
getting into millionths of an inch, which is all that we'll
allow for error. The space program has a fantastic record
so far of not having lost a single man in space-- coming out
of the extraordinary reduction of tolerance of, error. I find
that what we will tolerate in the way of erroris very
important in the hierarchy of events."
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio school, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film Tape #327, p.1.

Tolerance:
See Approximateness
Heisenberg
Indeterminate:
Error
Johansen Guages
Indeterminism
Spontaneous Tolerance
Uncertainty Principle
Human Tolerance Limits
(1)

Tolerance:
See Observing vs. Articulating, Mar 72
Wisdom, Jan' 72
(2)

Tollgate: Private Tollgate for Society:
See Specialization Tollgate
Tenure: Academic Tenure
(1)

Tollgate: Private Tollgate for Society:
See Specialty, Feb'73
23
(2)

Tomato:
See Spheric, 15 Oct 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tomorrow:
"Much of the most exciting and important part about tomorrow
is not the technology or the automation at all, but that man
is going to come into entirely new relationships with his
fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday relations
of what we term the
naivets and idealism of the child. This
will be completely justified and not exploited or exploitable
in any way.
I think then that the way to see what tomorrow
is going to look like is just to look at our children."
Citation and context at Population Sequence (8), Feb'67
(Earlier version quoted by Gene Youngblood above first
chapter of "Expanded Cinema," p.45,)

Tomorrow's Clock:
See Fourth Dimension: Borrowing from Tomorrow's Clock

Tomorrow:
See Star Events, Mart 71
Tetrascroll, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tongue: Bite Your Tongue:
When
"When you bite your tongue, or cut your finger, or get a
cinder in your eye, you become acutely aware of those
otherwise only subconsciously operating organic parts.
people say 'I feel great,' it is because they don't feel
anything at all. Life is fully potential and the entirely
sublimated human organism coordinates omni-subconsciously."
-
Cite SET X, p.5, New Delhi, Aug'72

Tongue: Biting Your Tongue:
See Feeling Good
(1)

Tongue & Lung Coordination:
See Babbling, 18 Mar 72

Tongue: Stick Your Tongue Out: Buy Your Own Tongue:
See How Little I Know, 1 Feb'75
Procreation, 30 Oct 71
Survival Sequence: Love, (3)
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (9)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools:
"Man has learned how to externalize his own functions
and to leave them behind.
•
There are no tools that
man has developed that are not extensions of the original
integral functions
པ
P
.
•
-
Cite COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, p. 31, May'70

KBF DEFINITIONS
Tools:
"Toolmaking is the externalization in discrete ways
aiding the evolutionary process and the regeneration
of the species.
"Man is not unique as a toolmaker at all, but he is
unique in the degree to which this capacity is extended
by virtue of his mind and his ability to understand
those generalized principles. And he is the only one to
really alter those tools, change those tools, and try to
get better tools."
Cite 8OMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, p. 32. May'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tool:
"That's what I mean by a tool: an orderly alteration of the
environment to complement the integral organic process.*
Citation and context at Bird's Nest as A Tool (1), 12 Jun'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools:
Man "has developed a very large use of what I call the
extensions of life, the industrial development of tools
that make tools, that make other tools. The spider makes a web
and that is a tool. And the bird makes his nest which is a
tool. We find that all life carries on some kind of external
environment altering operation which when importantly
persistent and specific become multifold alterations, one
or more of which we identify as tools with which the living
species effect much greater and repetitive alterations of
other aspects of the environmental processes.
"For example, a man takes part of a tree and shapes it into
an axe handle with which he chops down trees in order to
concentrate lumber from those trees sort densely as to shed
him from the rain. But man has developed this tool making
capability to far greater degree than the other biological
species."
-Cite STRUT 67,
Citation at Bird's Nest as a Tool, 4-6 May '67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools:
"In the great history of technology the materials that
can be turned into tools are relatively scarce. Man had
to seek them. The number of minds which knew how to deal
with them were very few. Their experience was very
limited. The tools to work the resources with were very
scarce. What we might call the best organizable capabilities
of men were very scarce; they have been historically
scarce.'
"
-
cite OREGON UNIVERSTTY Lecture #1, p. 14, 1 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools: Craft Tools:
Craft tools . are those "which can be spontaneously
fashioned and adopted by any one individual starting nakedly
in the wilderness-- for instance, his picking up a stone to
do work at a distance greater than arm's length."
-
Cite RBF quoted by William Kuhns in "Post-Industrial
Prophets (Harper- Colophon), p.235. 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools:
Craft Tools and Industrial Tools:
(1)
"I spoke to you earlier about man's developing tools. Just as
my own personal strategy I found that I could divide all tools
into two main classes-- craft tools and industrial tools. By
craft tools I mean those that could be invented, produced, and
operated by one man starting nakedly in the wilderness where
he could pick up a stick, for example, and use it as a spear.
This category includes all kinds of tools for working stone and
so forth. All the great artifact heaps that we find around the
world are tools that could be and probably were invented by
some one man, starting from nothing in the wilderness with no
information from anybody and using just his own experience,
which taught him that this thing just might work. He tried it
and it did work.
"By industrial tools I mean the ones that couldn't be produced
by one man. That's a simple enough cleavage. The first
industrial tool was the spoken word. You can't invent a word
without two people. So, as the Bible says: 'In the beginning
was the Word. I'll say: 'In the beginning of industrialization
was the word. ' This is the beginning of relaying information
and experiences from one man to another. Because men were able"
-
Cite RBF in Franklin Lecture, Auburn, Ala., 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools: Craft Tools and Industrial Tools:
(2)
"to relay information both in terms of overlapping lives and
also travel, they began to consolidate all kinds of information.
And we get then to the industrial tools that clearly fit my
definition; for instance, the steamship 'Queen Mary,' obvious-
ly
a
tool that could not possibly have been produced by one
man, or run by one man, or used by one man. The telephone
system, a roadway ay tools are very extraordinary things that
great blast furnaces, and so forth--
all these industrial
can accommodate you and me. They are the consequence of all
the information from all the history of man about all resources
everywhere, and their superiority over the craft tool is very, very
great.
They involve discovery in the scenery around us: whether
in
that rock there is something called beryllium and that
beryllium can make you a coil spring that won't fatigue or spout;
or
that there are such things as chrome and nickel, the addition
of which
to iron produces a steel with a tensile strength of a
thousand
times that of the tensile strength of iron alone.
These
are the kinds of things that man found. And because of
discovering
that you could do more with less and less, a given
cross
section could have greater and greater tensile strength."
-Cite RBF in Franklin Address, Auburn, Ala, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools: Craft Tools & Industrial Tools:
be
"By craft tools I refer to all the tools that can
produced by one man starting nakedly in the wilderness
without any information or aid from anybody else.
So
the stone becomes a tool%; the stick becomes a tool.
Then man makes a spear and it is even more effective--
and he keeps modifying. These things the individual can
develop out of his own personal experience, and he is
prone to do so out of his own personal experience. . . .
"With craft tools you have a very limited man, limited
to where his own feet will take him, limited by his
unevenly distributed resources. He is very limited in
total experience and in time and capability. The
industrial is quite the other way: it represents the
integrated information of all men and all time."
Cite COMMITMENT TO HUMANITY, p. 32, May 170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools: Craft Tools: & Industrial Tools:
"Our tooled extensions of man breaks down into two very
definite classes: I call one class the craft tools and the other
I call the industrial tools. Under craft tools I include all
the tools that can be invented by one man starting nakedly in
the
wilderness, with no advice nor informative accounts of
their experiences from anybody else. All the great heaps of
artifacts
discovered aroudn the world by archaeologists and
anthropologists are filled with tools that could be made by
one man starting nakedly in the wilderness and developed by him
only
from his personal experience.
•
"The industrial tools I define as all the tools that cannot
be produced by one man. I'll give you as an example the large
ocean
steamship such as the Queen Mary. The idea of one man
producing it or operating it would be preposterous.
The
first industrial tool was the spoken word.
The craft tools
are related only to single human beings and their very local
and personal experience, their short lives and the particular
area of resources into which they happen to be born. The
industrial tools relate to our compounding of all experiences
of all men anywhere, and all the finite resources of our total
Spaceship Earth."
Cite BEIRUT 67, p. 10, 5 May$67
-

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools: Craft Tools & Industrial Tools:
"All tools are externalizations of originally
integral functions of humans. I divide all tools into
two main classes, craft tools and industrial tools.
The craft tools consist of all the tools that can be
invented and produced by one man starting and operating
alone naked in the wilderness. I define the industrial
tools as all the tools which cannot be produced by one
man.
- Cite DOXIADIS, p. 323, 20 Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools: Craft Tool & Industrial Toola:
"In relation to the computer-tool-hookups of automation, it
is to
be noted that all tools are externalizations of originally
integral
functions of human organisms. But externalised
functions such as that of the cupped hand to hold water are
capable, when translated into ceramic cups, of holding hotter
or more acid liquids than the human hand could. This is to
say that the limits of capability of the externalized funct-
ioning are extended but are not unique in principle. Whereas
the craft tools developed by man operated independently, the
industrial tools develop interdependently. The machine lathe
requires the blast furnace and vice versa. Individual craft
tools are the externalized counterpart of the individual's
separate functions, while industrial tools are the organic
externalization of man's integral metabolic regeneration.'
"
Cite THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMANITY, Sat. Review, 29 Aug'64

Tools: Craft & Industrial:
See Crafts: Arts & Crafts
Language as Industrial Tool
Word as Industrial Tool
1
(1)

Tools: Craft & Industrial:
See Commonwealth, Jun'66
Automobile, Feb 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tooling of Domes:
"In regard to the blueprint--what you request is really
difficult because, unlike the conventional architectural
world, we do not make drawings for contractors to interpret
in the field. What we do, is develop the mathematical
information and schedule schematic controls for industrial
production of dies, jigs, and tools, which latter will in
turn produce the final parts. This is to say that the
designer designs tools, the mechanics produce the tools,
and the tools produce the end-product--tools often produce
larger or more tools which later produce the end parts. It
is here that the primary misunderstanding of industry, by
the older world, occurs.
"In Italy, and elsewhere, we still see the artist, scientist,
mechanic embracing all of these functions, turning out a
beautiful end-product such as a racing automobile. His
product can never be amplified beyond his own personal
capacity, either in number of pieces produced nor in exqui-
siteness of production of the parts. It is when the tools
are employed to produce dimensions and effects in the end-
product, beyond the sensorial ability of the artist-"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. Mr. Brattinga, 24 Jan' 58
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tooling of Domes:
"mechanic to coordinate, that we have the really important
improvement in scientific industrial mass production.
(2)
"In producing the parts for my geodesic dome for the Ford
Motor Company's Rotunda Building in Detroit, Michigan, the
Class A Ford tooling maintained a tolerance in the position-
ing of the rivet holes, and in the diameter of those holes,
of .005 inch. This is an invisible increment to the unaided
human eye.
Maintaining this tolerance produce a structure
whose end-fixity strength was twice what it would have been
had the tolerance been slackened to dimensional variations of
.01 inch--which is the limit of human sensorial perceptivity.
This is to say that by taking advantage of the tool's
capability to operate at subvisible tolerances, double the
strength was attained and therefore the dome weighed one-
half as much as would a dome of equal strength, if the
dimensioning had been accomplished within the limit of human
visibility and hand-indexed coordination.
"It is a corollary of the above that structures produced by
the most advanced capabilities of scientific industry no"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mr. Brattinga, 24 Jan' 58

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tooling of Domes:
(3)
"longer demonstrate sensorial architectural adherence to
Sullivan's axiom: 'form follows function.' Here both the
form and the functions are invisible. You can't see the diff-
erence between alloys of steel or aluminum that may be twice
the strength of other alloys of the same metals.
If the
function is to be strong, that function is invisible--which
is to say it has no aesthetic form.
"The forms we see in geodesic structures are synergetic, which
is to say that they are visible in mathematical principle
only, and only as the interaction of a complex of functions.
No one industrial function is visible. Any one member, in a
geodesic structure, may be at one time operative essentially
in tension and at another time essentially in compression.
These are exact opposites and none of these alternating
operative behaviors would be visible to an observer of
a geodesic dome as the latter remained poised, apparently
serene, in a hurricane. Geodesic domes are then designed as
synergetic complexes of events which maintain a superficial
ultra-high-frequency integrity of constellar patterning."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mr. Brattinga, 24 Jan' 58
2.

Tools: Externalized Tooling Per Capita:
See Energy Slave
(1)

Tools: Externalized Tooling Per Capita:
See Artificial, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools of Geometry:
"The early Greek geometers and their Egyptian and Babylonian
predecessors pursued the science of geometry with three
basic tools: the dividers, the straightedge, and the scriber.
They established the rule that they could not introduce
information into their exploration unless it was acquired
empirically by the use of those tools. With the progressive
interactive use of these three tools they produced modular
areas, angles, and linear spaces.
"The basic flaw in their game was that they failed to identify
and define as a tool the surface on which the inscribed.
In absolute reality this surface constituted a fourth tool
absolutely essential to their demonstration. The absolute
error of this oversight was missed at the time due to the
While
minuscule size of man in relation to his planet Earth.
there were a few who conceived of the Earth as a sphere, they
assumed that a local planar condition existed-- which the
vast majority of humans assumed to be extended to infinity,
with a four-cornered Earth plane surrounded by the plane of
water that went to infinity."
Cite RBF dictation at SYNERGETICS Secs. 821.01+02, Sept'71
(1)

251
RBF DEFINITIONS
Tools of Geometry:
(2)
"They assumed the complementary tool to be a plane. Because
the plane went to infinity in all planar directions it could
not be defined and therefore was spontaneously overlooked
as a tool essential to their empirical demonstrating. What
they could not define, yet obviously needed, they identified
by the ineffable title 'axiomatic,' meaning 'Everybody
knows that.' Had they recognized the essentiality of
defining the fourth tool upon which they inscribed, and had
they recognized that our Earth was spherical; ergo, finite;
ergo, definite; they could and probably would have employed
completely different strategies than that of their initiation
of geometry with the exclusive use of the plane. But to the
Eastern Mediterranean world there lay the plane of the Earth
at their feet on which to scratch with a scriber."
- Cite RBF dictation at SYNERGETICS Sec. 821.03, Sept 171

Tools of Geometry:
See Scissors Held in Fixed Openings
Scribing
Straightedge

Tools Like Cut-offable Handa:
See Science as a Tool, Sep 72

Tools are Part of Human Beinga:
See Industrialization, (A)

Tool Networks:
See Rearrange the Scenery, May' 72
Industrialization, 10 Oct163
Robin Hood Sequence, (2)

Tools as Part of the Pattern Man:
See Artificial, (1)

Tools of Reorientation:
See Dymaxion Airocean World (I)
Museum, 2 Jun 71

Tool Symbol:
See Symbolism in Buildings, 1 Feb'75

Tools:
See Artifacta
Berry Picking
Bird's Nest as a Tool
Communications Tool
Externalization of Man's Own Functions
Hands
Hierarchy of Tools
Mechanics
Mechanical Extensions of Man
Monkey Wrench
Nature's Basic Designing Tools
Monkey Wrench
Pencil
Science as a Tool
Spider's Web as a Tool
Steam as a Tool
heel
Building as a Tool
Tool Symbol
Machine Tools
Book Tool
(1)

Tools:
(2)
123
See Artificial (1) (2)
Doing What Needs to be Done, 22 Jan' 73
Heisenberg, Oct166
Making the World Work (2)
Navigation, Sep 73
Politics: Accessory After the Fact, 12 Aug170
Pollution, Feb'73
Probability, Sep'73; 15 Sep'71
Proton & Neutron, 22 Apr 68
Scrap Sorting & Mongering (3)
Words, Jun 58
Options, 13 May'77
Ghana Dome:
Self-chilling Machine, (1)

Tools:
See Tools:
Craft & Industrial
Tools: Externalized Tooling Per Capita
Tools of Geometry
Tool Networks
Tools as Part of the Pattern Man
Tools of Reorientation
Tools Like Cut-offable Hands
Tools are Part of Human Beings
Tooling of Domes
(3)

Toothpicks:
See Model of Toothpicks & Semi-dried Peas

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topological Abundance:
"There is a constant topological abundance
characterizing all systems in universe in which for
every one nonpolar vertex there are always two faces
and three (vectorial) lines."
CITE NASA SPEECH pp 62-63
\sout{Cite CARBONDALE DRAFT 1.47 Jun 66}

Topological Abundance:
See Constant Relative Abundance
Vertexes, Faces & Lines
(1)

Topological Abundance:
See Domain & Quantum, (1) (2)
(2)

Topological Accounting:
See Octantation, 14 May'73
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy Of, (1)
Tetrahedral Octave Phase Model, Oct 171
Omnirational Control Matrix, 12 May'75
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (2)

Topo-aspectively:
See Generalized Topological Definability, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topological Aspects: Inventory of:
"Omnitopology deals with... domains of linear interrelationships,
... areal and volumetric domains, angles, frequencies,
symmetries, asymmetries, polarizations, structural-pattern
integrities, associative interbondabilities, intertransformabili-
ties, and transformative-system limits, simplexes, complexes,
nucleations, exportabilities, and omniinteraccommodations.'
"
-
Citation & context at Omnitopology, 9 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topological Hierarchy:
"Vacuum = novent = invisible.
"Partial vacuum results as the physical atmospheric gases are
removed beyond whose zero evacuations the electromagnetic
tensing induces reverse flows of physically demonstrable positive
energy.
"At the indispensable center of the sphere Universe turns itself
inside-out. The invisible, a priori, multiplicative twoness,
differentially disclosed in the synergetics' topological system's
hierarchy, is manifest of the integrity of the sizeless, timeless
nonconceptuality always complementing the conceptual system
takeout from nonconceptual scenario Universe's eternal self-
regenerating."
72
Cite RBF to EJA & BO'R, 3200 Idaho, 17 Feb 172; rewrite of 19 Feb'
OMNITOPOLOGY SEC. 1073.15+16
[HOLOGRAFI AT VACUUM]

Topological & Quantum Hierarchies:
See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring: Hierarchy of
Central Angles & Surface Angles,
Synergetic Hierarchies, (B); 19 Apr'66
Epistemological Hierarchy, 22 Jul 71
7

Topological Hierarchy:
See Nucleated Systems:
15 Feb 72
Idealistic Vectorial Geometry Of,
Quantum Mechanics: Minimum Geometrical Fourness,
(3)(4)

Topo-interabundantly:
See Generalized Topological Definability, (1)

Topological Minima:
See Interrelationships:
Fourness & Sixness
Self & Otherness: Four Minimal Aspects
Seven Axes of Symmetry
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects
Tetrahedron: Nine Schematic Aspects
Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedron
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics
Thirty-two Minimum Aspects of Systems

Topological Systems:
See Vertex, 1955

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"Where topology brought a certain amount of generalized
conceptuality to mathematics, whose constancy of interrelat-
ionships was illuminating, and whose formulas of relative
interabundance of vertexes, faces, and edges were rel@ible,
they were not identified operationally with chemistry or
physics until synergetics' vectorial geometry and intertrans-
formabilities identified the gaseous, liquid, and solid
interbondings and elucidated Willard Gibbs' phase rule in
chemistry conceptually."
-
Cite RBF rewrite incorporated in SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed.
at Sec. 1007.16; 11 Dec175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"Where topology had the potential of bringing conceptuality
to physics and mathematics, many of its practitioners were
content to let topology descend to the level of a game--
dealing with such Moebius strip nonsense as pretending that
strips of paper have no edges."
(Sec. 1007.16)
Cite RBF to EJA; 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC; 10 Dec175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"Topology resolves all visual experiences into three
irreducible aspects: events, novents, and traceries.
"Not until we have orbital closure of a complex or simplex
tracery do we have a defined novent. Events occur wherever
single or complex traceries cross back on themselves.
"Topology rationally equates the omniinterrelationships of
events, novents, and traceries.
->
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC: RBF rewrite of 10 Sep'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"We have topology as a pattern integrity."
Cite HBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and
structural relationships of event constellations."
"It was discovered and developed by the mathematician
Euler. He discovered that all patterns can be reduced to
three prime conceptual characteristics: to lines; pointe
where two lines cross or the same line crosses itself; and
Breas, bound by lines. He found that there is a constant
relative abundance of these three fundamentally unique and
no further reducible aspects of all patterning
P + A = L + 2
This reads: the number of points plus the number of areas
always equals the number of lines plus the number constant
two. There are times when one area happens to coincide
with others. When the faces of polyhedra coincide
illusionarily the congruently hidden faces must be accounted
arithmetically in formula"
Operating Manual for SSE Pp. 73,74.
1969

RDF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"Topology provides the synergetic means of ascertaining
the values of any system of experiences."
Citation & context at Whole System: Synergetics Principle of,
1969
CITU OPERACING MANUAL, p. 73
1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"Now this is topological and I would say to you, that these
are the only aspects of all the system. What did was to
find the minimum characterics of all patterns in the Universe
and to find that there was a constant relative abundance
relationship which made it possible to build a formula."
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, Reel 2, 25 Feb'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
"A little over a century ago the most important
comprehension of all pattern analysis was introduced into
mathematics by the German mathematical-physicist, Albert [sic]
Euler. He named his comprehensive, geometrical, mathemati-
cal pattern analysis topology. In topology Euler brought
the pure conceptual model-eschewing mathematicians back
to fundamental conceptuality and to a generalized geometrical
accounting of all inter-transformability and to a comprehensive
algebraic quantation system governing the inter-relationships
of all the components of any and all systems."
Cite CARBONDALE DRAFT TY:40
• Cite NASA Speech, p.58, Jun'66

Topology
Conceptuality:
See Conceptuality Independent of Size & Time; 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology: Synergetics & Eulerean:
"Synergetics topology integrates the geometrical angle laws
with the conceptual regularities of Euler's point-area-line
relative abundance laws, all of which synergetic integration
of topology with angular regularities of geometrical transforma-
bilities is conceptually generalizable independent of special-
case, time-space-sizing realizations."
10
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 202.03, 16 Nov' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
Synergetics & Eulerian:
(1)
You
"I am dealing with the Universe: the difference between
conceptual thought and nonunitarily conceptual Universe.
cannot make a model of that, but you can show it as one
conceptual system which is tetrahedral... plus a convex and
concave terahedron and that equals Universe.
"Euler opened up about 150 years ago the great new field of
mathematics which is topology. He discovered that all visual
experiences could be treated as conceptual.
(But he did not
explain it in those words.)....
"Topology is Euler's saying that all visual experience can be
resolved into three fundamental and irreducible aspects:
vertexes, faces and lines. (or, as we say in synergetics:
crossings, openings, and trajectories.) We have something we
call a line, but it doesn't have to be a straight line; it is
a tracery. But to trace its course you get a fix, which is
not to be confused in any way with a nodal crossing. You have
a plurality of these traces and you get areas.
When any
traceries come back upon themselves, then we get the areas."
Cite tape transcript, pp. 25-26; RBF to B. Brooks, 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
Synergetics & Eulerian:
"The areas, the traces, and the crossings are never to be
confused with one another: all visual experiences are resolved
into these three.
....
"You just look at any picture and you have to say: What is
that part? That's an area, or it's a line, or it's a crossing.
The coincidences are a little more, because they are loci.
To account for the whole picture you can elect to call it an
area... mark it A... a line, which is an L; and V is for a
vertex, a convergence. You mark.every one of them, many times.
And the number of vertexes plus the number of areas will always
equal the number of lines plus the number one.
123
(2)
"But I saw that you cannot have a plane except as a facet.
Because I am experiential I must say that a line is a consequence
of energy, an event... a tracery, anyway. So it must be some
kind of polyhedron. If you are dealing with a polyhedron, it
is separate from Universe having an inside and an outside--
a picture in a frame, or whatever it is. The number of V's
or crossings is always equal to the number of lines plus two.
Or you can put a hole through it: if you do that, you find that
V+FL"
-Cite tape transcipt, pp. 26-27; HBF to B. Brooks, 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology:
Synergetics & Eulerian:
"Now somebody did not realize that in putting the hole through
it you had removed the poles, the axis. Two points must always
be involved in every system.
"Another very powerful mathematician was Brouwer.
(3)
In his theorem,
if we have a number of points and we continually mix them up
we find that after all the stirring one of them didn't move
relative to the others. Each one is always in the center of the
total movement, each of those points.
"But the mathematicians oversimplified the plane. In synergetics
the plane has to be the surface of a system that is obverse and
inverse. Therefore, there must also be another point on the
other side that does not move. Every system has two points
that do not move. The system always has a neutral axis. Every
object has a neutral axis, two points that serve as the poles
of the system. Synergetics extracts those two points for its
topological inventorying.
"Every system has two vertexes which must be a sign, a function,
of being an axis of the system. Synergetics has the axis in
reality what physics has as the spin and quanta in theory.
-
Cite tape transcrpit, pp.27ff; RBF to B. Brooks, 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology: Synergetics Topology & Eulerian Topology:
"Synergetics topology integrates laws of angle and volume
regularities with Euler's point, area, and line abundance
laws." "
(For RBF rewrite of above see same caption, 16 Nov'74)
Citation at Synergetics, 28 Oct 73
ANGULAR TOPOLOGY-SEC. 202.03

RBF DEFINITIONS
Topology: Synergetic Topology/ & Eulerian Topology:
"As in many instances of synergetic behavior,
differenti
ations are sometimes subtle. For instance, there is a subtle
difference between Eulerian topology, which is polyhedrally
superficial, and synergetic topology, which is nuclear and
identifies spheres with vertexes, solids with faces, and
struts with edges. The subtlety lies in the topological diff-
erentiation of the relative abundance offthese three fundamental
aspects whereby people do not look at the four closest-packed
spheres forming a tetrahedron in the same way that they look
at a seemingly solid stone tetrahedron, and quite differently
again from their observation of the six strut edges of a
tetrahedron, particularly when they do not accredit Earth with
providing three of the struts invisibly cohering the base ends
of the camera tripod."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 722.02, 28 Oct'72

Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian:
(1)
See Euler vs. Synergetics

56
Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian:
See Omnitopology, 18 Jun'71; Apr172; 9 Feb'73; 17 Feb 73
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects, 12 Feb' 76; 8 Feb' 76
Push-pull Members, 28 Oct 72'
Quantum Mechanics: Minimum Geometrical Fourness,
(2)-(4)
(2)

Topology:
See Angular Topology
Gibbs' Phase Rule
Integers of Topology
Omnitopology
Permeative Topology.
Piaget: Jean: Child's Spontaneous Geometry
Triangular Topology Integrity
Vectorial Topology
Generalized Topological Definability
Vertexial Topology
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics
Minimum Topological Characteristics
Seven Minimum Topological Aspects
Synergetics Topology
Deceptiveness of Topology
(1)

Topology: Topological:
(2)
See Conceptual Systems, May172
Schematic of the Principles, 10 Sep'74
Synergetics, j2 undated; 10 Jan 50; 28 Oct163*; 15 Nov
Two (1) (2)
Whole Systems:
Principle of, 1969*
Neutral Axis, 1 Jan'75
Projective Transformation Model, (I)
Synergy, 1954
Comprehensibility of Systems, 26 May'72
Somethingness & Nothingness, 7 Oct 75
Icosahedron: Subtriangulation, (2)
Windows of Nothingness, (1)
Microsystems, 22 Mar 76
174

Topology: Topological:
See Topological Abundance
Topological Accounting
Topo-aspectively
Topological Aspects: Inventory Of
Topological Hierarchy
Topo-inderabundantly
Topological Systems
Topology Conceptuality
Topology: Synergetics & Eulerian
Topological Minima
(3)

Topsoil: Topsoiling:
See Earth, 24 Apr'67
Manifest: Four, 1973
Stardust, May'65

Top Speed: Top Velocity:
See Absolute Velocity
Eternity as Highest Speed
Intellect: Speed of
Norm of Einstein as Absolute Speed
Terminal Speed
Limit Speed
(1)

Top Speed: Top Velocity:
See Absolute Velocity, 30 Oct'73
Self-regenerative, 2 Jun'71
Velocity, 1970
Wow: The Last Wow, (B)(C)
Rate, 1938
(2)

Toration:
See Coring
Torus
(1)

Toration:
See Radiation: Speed Of (D)
(2)

Torii:
See Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross, 13 Mar 75

Tornado:
See Environmental Events Hierarchy
Fountain Pattern
(1)

Tornado:
See Dome: Rationale For (III)
(2)
23

RBF DEFINITIONS
Toronto:
"Toronto is really a very powerful, a very elegant city.
Of course now all the old water ports are finished. Tornato
is the biggest city on the direct air route from the
Americas to Moscow and Peking."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 8 Apr '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Torque:
"Parallel lines can be torqued. So may the parallel lines
A rope
of a cylinder be twisted as we see them in a rope.
and a cone are both forms of simple curvature."
Cite I&I, p. 217, PREVIEW OF BUILDING, 1 Apr 49

HBF DEFINITIONS
Torque at Center of Convergence:
"We also have learned that a plurality of lines cannot go
through the same point at the same time. Therefore the
eight perpendiculars to the centers of area of the triangle
faces and the 12 lines that led to their 12 common outer
vertexes, like the
tetrahedra's volumes and areas,
have come to common zero time-space size and can no longer
interfere with one another. We find, operationally, however,
that there never was any paradoxical problem such as Zeo's
'never completable approach' concept for we have learned of the
fundamental torque or twist always present in all experienti-
ally explored system realization and we find that as each
team of opposite triangles apprehended the other just upon
their nearing the center each is whirled 180°, or is half
spun' about, with its three corners never completely
converging.
Whereafter they diverge."
-
[34]
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1012.35, 20 Feb 73

Torque & Countertorque:
See Structural Functions
Turbining & Counterturbining

Torque Momentum:
See Omniequilibrium, (1)(2)

Torque:
See Motions:
Six Positive & Negative
Omnilibrium
Polar Torque
Torque & Countertorque
Turbining
Twist-and-torque Contractions
(1)

Torque:
(2)
123
See Transformation, 10 Oct150
In, Out & Around Experiences, (2)
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (6)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Torus:
"Explosions are pushive and emolute and involute
as do rubber toruses.
Gits RBF raption for Synergetics Ilinatration #67.
Beverly Hotel, New York, 24 April 1971.
Cisation at Explosions, 24 Apr171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Torus:
"If the pattern has a hole through it like a doughnut
then you don't have to have plus anything.
out the two from this solid.
You leave
When you leave out the two
from this solid it really is to say that it is a doughnut
and you are cutting out the axis, which is to say that the
axis is two."
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 246. 11 Jul'62

Torus:
See Coring
Doughnut
Evolute
Fountain Pattern
Hole
Rubber Tires
Toration
Reciprocating Torus Model
Reverse Fountain Flow
(1)

Torus:
See Balls Coming Together, (2)
Explosions, 24 Apr '71*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Totality:
"Every child manifests spontaneous interest in totality."
Cite RBF remarks at Design Science Institute press conference,
N.I., 28 Jun '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
->
Totality:
"Compression is inherently partial.
total."
Tension is inherently
Citation at Tension & Compression, Dec171
Cite Synergetice Draft x640-70, Dec. 191.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Totality:
"Conceptual totality is inherently prohibited."
Citation & context at Conceptual Totality, May' 72
LOVE

HBF DEFINITIONS
Totality:
"There is conceptuality within the totality but it is
always partial.
-
Citation & context at Conceptuality, 22 Jul171

Total Complexity:
See Human Being
Universe

Total Energy:
See Eternity vs Energy, 2 May'78

Total Experience:
See Energetics & Synergetics, 10 Jan' 74
Industrialization, 20 Jun'66
Synergetic Integral, 1960
Linstein Equation: E =
iic²,
1959

Total Industry:
See Halfway-round-the-Worlding (1) (2)

Total Information:
See Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom: General
Systems, (I)-(IV)

Total Han:
See Laisses-faire Process, 10 Oct'63

Total: Totality:
See Aggregate
Allness
Child's Spontaneous Interest in Totality
Comprehensive
Covariant Differentiation of Totality
Holistic
Mystery of Totality
No Conceptual Totality
Partiality
Remergent Synchronization
Starting with Universe
Synergetic Strategy of Commencing with Totality
Sum-total
System Totality
Total Complexity
Total of Experience
Total Information
Understanding is Exquisitely Total
Unitary Totality
Whole
Wholes & Parts
Womb of Total Human Consciousness
Whole System
Grand Strategy
(1)

Total: Totality:
See Comprehensive Universe, (1)
Conceptuality, 6 Sep'71; 22 Jul 71*
Conceptual Totality, May' 72*
Conditioning, 14 Feb 72°
Energetic-synergetic Geometry, Jul' 59
Energetic Information, 23 Apr 76
Enough to Go Around, (1) (2)
Energy, 17 Jun '75
Environment, 28 Apr 177.
Epigenetic Landscape, May' 49
General Systems Theory, (2)
God, 3 Apr' 74
Heaven, 23 May 172
In & Out, 19 Jun' 71
Industrialization, Jun'66
Intuition of the Child, (4)
( 2 A-I)

Total: Totality:
See Local vs. Comprehensive, (1)
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man, (2)
Order & Disorder, May 72
Organic & Inorganic, May' 49
Plurality, 5 Mar' 55
Quantum mechanics, Jun'66
1 2 L-Z)
Quantum Mechanics:
Grand Strategy, 10 Apr' 75
Scenario, 1970
Specialization, Dec'69
Synergetic Intégral, 1960
Tension & Compression, Dec'71*
Time Center, 16 Nov' 72
Truth, 29 Dec 73
Whole System, 28 May '72

Total: Totality:
See Total Complexity
Total of Experience
Total Information
Total Industry
Total Man
Total Energy
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Touch:
"If you want to do something good for a child... give him
an environment where he can touch things as much as he wants."
Cite RBF quoted by Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, Dec'72

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Touch:
EX
"Touch tex of ver-tex, i.e., converging toward touchability,
meaning a frequency-complex clustering whose frequencies
interfere, or tune in, with the frequency array of the
molecular complex of the atoms altogether constituting the
Galaxy of frequencies of our life cell tissues of Milky Way
nebulae of locally regenerative frequency, locally recurrent
through self-interference pattrning."
->
Citation and context at Radome Sequence (1) (2), 29 Dec '58

Touch Tex of vertex
See Touch, 29 Dec'58

Touchable Thing:
See Death, 5 Jul 62

Touchable You:
See Tactile Sequence (1)

Touch:
See Tangency: Tangential
Tactile
Touch - Lex of Vertex
Not Touching:
Never-quite-touching
(1)

Touch:
See Senses, 9 Apr'40; (1) (2)
Substantive Awareness, 20 Feb173
Harmonics, (2)
Children as Only Pure Scientists, (A)
(2)

Touchdown:
See Education:
Evolutionary Touchdowns
Football Player

Toward:
See Coming Towardness

Town:
See City
Local Identifications
One-town World

RBF DEFINITIONS
Toys:
"I have shunned daily the recurrent opportunities to exploit
the energetic-synergetic geometry either as toys or as
objets d'art.
•
Citation and context at Tensegrity: Depolarized Orientation
Of Tensegrity Octahedron Universal Joint (2), Dec'61

Toys:
See Games

Trace Elements:
See Isotope Tracers on Food
(1)

Trace Elements:
See Overload the System, 15 May172
Spinach, 11 Feb'73

Tracer Bullet Sequence:
See Geodesic, 5 Jul 62
Spherical Triangle Sequence, (V) (VI)
Geodesics, (1)

Trace: Traceries:
See Line
Trajectory
Severance-tracing
(1)

Trace: Traceries: Tracer:
See Topology, 10 Sep'74
Truss, 25 Jan173
Wave, Dec 71
Wind Stress & Houses, (10)
Windows of Nothingness, (1)(2)
(2)

Track to Trackless:
See More with Less
Visible to Invisible
Wire to Wireless
(1)

Track to Trackless:
See Dymaxion Airocean World, (I)
Invisible Architecture, (1)
Pirates: Great Pirates, (3)
(2)

Track:
See Path
Trail

Trade:
See Planarity of Trade-center Colonising

Tradition: In Tradition Lies Fallacy:
See Natural
20 Jan'75
Rationalization Sequence, (3)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Traffic:
"Traffic is not a
willful demonstration of street
usurpation. it is a composite of functioning transport
media designed
primarily for the transport of individuals
from shelter
to shelter."
Cite NINE CHAINS TO THE MOUN, p.3, 1938

Traffic in Ideas: Idea Exchange:
See City as Center of Abstract Intercourse
(1)

Traffic in Ideas: Idea Exchange:
See New York City, (7)

Traffic:
See Automobile
Freeways
Highway
(1)

Traffic:
(2)
See Population Density: Manhattan Jet Dispersal, 30 Mar'7

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tragedy:
"I take the word tragedy to mean poor little man being
born ignorant and helpless and not having any idea of what
is going on in the Universe. If for one instant we could
really come to understand our Universe and could perceive
ourselves as really one with Universe, we wouldn't have to
consider such a word as 'tragedy.' We would see that there
is absolute immortality. 'Tragedy,' I think is where
everything just comesout wrong, and nothing works and the
Universe is a failure. But 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 Ysublime integrity."
really
(Feb.
Cite RBF in Barry Farrell Playboy Interview, 1972
-
Draft. p. 20.

Tragedy:
See Comedy and Tragedy of Errors

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trail Making and Trail Remembering:
"In lines we see that earliest man's social experience
began with trail-making and trail-remembering. The connecting
trail line' was the basis of his establishment of communi-
cation. Today it is the essence of communication theory."
Pp. 176, 177
-
Citation and context at Communication, May'65

Trail Making & Trail Remembering:
See Intellect, 1960
Number: Tetrahedral Number, May'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trails & Wakes:
"Because of inherent lags humanity is always contemplating
the jet trails and the wakes. The trails and wakes have an
integrity of their own but far different from that of the
plane or the ship."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 8 Apr'75

Trail:
See Grass:
Trail
Putting Aside the Grasses to Isolate the
Irrelevancies:
Dismissal of
Parting the Strands
Strands
Walking
Jet Streams
(1)

Trail:
See City (1)
Number:
Tetrahedral Number, May'65
Trim Tab, 1963
(2)

Trained Mind:
See Education: Trained Mind

Trained Nurses:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity, (3)

Train:
See Gear Train
Railroads
Railway Trains: Loosely Coupled

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trajectory:
"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. These
are always as viewed, because the lines couldbe at
different levels from other points of observation."
Give RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971-
Citation at Opening, 22 Apr 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trajectory:
"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
openings, i.e., where there are no trajectories
This relates to systems."
"areas"
H
or crossings.
-
CINE RBF to JA, Bomerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971.
Citation at System, 22 Apr'71

Trajectory:
See Circuit
Critical Path
Crossing
Fireworks
Geodesic Line
Line
Intertrajectory
Spiral
Vector
-
Trajectories
Lines
Crossings, Openings & Trajectories
(1)

REE DEFINITIONS
Trajectory:
See Critical Proximity, 1971
Divergence, 1971
Interrelationships, 1971
Opening, 22 Apr 72*
System, 22 Apr171*
Cosmic Vacuum Cleaner, 16 May'75
(2)

Trampoline:
See Invisible Trampoline

Transaction:
See Information Transaction

Transceiver: Transceiving:
See Eye-beamed Thoughts
Eye as Transceiver
(1)

Transceiver: Transceiving:
See Valvability, 30 Nov'72
World-around Communication Transcends Politics, (1)
Communication, 21 Jun'77
Identity, 16 Feb 78
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transcendental:
"There is a question-asking possibility that metaphysical
omniscience may be transcendental in its velocity to that of
omnipotence, i.e., the definitive physical speed of energy
as radiation."
-
Cite UMLIDIRECTIONAL HALO
Washington DC, 21 Diem: 1921.
as rewritten by ADP in
Citation at Metaphysical & Physical, 21 Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transcendental:
"A mind may be operative elsewhere throughout Universe
1
in other than human organisms.'
Cite Museums Keynote Address Denver." p. 13 2 Jun 171

RBF DEFINTIONS
Transcendental:
"What I mean by omniscience
Is synergetically transcendental
ven to Einstein."
-
RBF to EJA-
Sarasota, Florida-
7 February 1971
Citation and context at Omniscience, 7 Feb'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transcendental:
"Generalizations are also transcendental
To beginnings and endings."
Citation and context at Generalized Principle (1), 28 Jan'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transcendental:
"There quite clearly is a capability operating that is much
greater than the capability of man. The discovery that man
has really been bumbling around in a very ignorant way in
an extraordinarily well organized affair, where things are
so well invented that he really couldn't fail despite his
ignorance and despite his propensity for eliminating the
other fellow. I am going to say that I am sure this next
half-century will be one of a comprehensive discovery of
the leaders of men as the most trusted, most reliable
intellectual explorers and, in fact, of everybody. It is
going to be a first-hand affair, and not something that
happens by virtue of somebody telling you about it. I
would say there is going to be a discovery and a developing
of individual convictions of the leaders of world society
of a comprehensive anticipatory integrity of the highest
intellectual order and it has no shape at all. It is not
a thing thing. It is completely transcendental to
anything that could be called thingness. There is no
idolatry involved here. I would say there was going to
develope something instead of, in lieu of, just a faith
in the wisdom of your parents, or other fine people who
said: young man, 1 really urge you to believe this is the
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 129, 6 Jul162
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transcendental:
(2)
"way to behave and just behave that way and everything will come
out all right. There is going to develop a working conviction
by direct discovery by the leaders of men, and then in due course
by all men. I think we are coming into an era of higher con-
fidence in the integrity of Universe than man has ever known
before."
Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p. 129, 6 Jul'62

RbF DEFINITIONS
Transcendental:
"There is a question-asking-possibility that omniscience
may be transcendental in velocity to the definitive physical
speed of energy omnipotence."
Citation at Omniscience Transcendent of Omnipotence, 1960
-Cite Omidirectional Halo, p. 163. 1960

Transcendental:
Continuous Man
See Eternal Designing Capability
Intellect: Intellections
Intellect: Speed Of
Meditation: TM
Metaphysical & Physical
Life is Not Physical
Ideal Synergetics
Metaphysical Transcendent of the Physical
Objective Intellect
Omniscience
Omniscience Transcendental of Omnipotence
Science: The Great Design
Supreme Intellect
Synergetic Integral
Threshold of Life
Universal Mind
Womb of Total Human Consciousness
Greater Intellect
God
(1)

Transcendental:
See Angle, 2 Nov' 72
Christ, 7 Oct 71
Generalized Principle (1) *
Metaphysical & Physical, 21 Dec 71*
Omniscience, 7 Feb*71*
Principle, Jun'69
Synergetic Integral, 1960
Omniscience Transcendental of Omnipotence, 1960 *
Pi, Aug'71
Large Patterns, 30 May 75
Regenerativity, 17 Jan' 75
Order & Disorder, 1964
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Transformable:
"in a necklace the angles between the pieces are
transformable until you reduce them to a triangle.
The triangles is then not transformable."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, DC, 23 Jan '72
26

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformable:
"I will give another example
Of always and only co-occurring phenomena.
Physicists today observe
That the proton and neutron
Always and only co-occur.
While they are not 'mirror' images of one another,
And have different weights,
They are transformable
One into the other,
And are thus complexedly complemntary,
As are isoscoles and scalene triangles.
None of the angles and edges of either need be the same
To produce triangles of equal area.
And the sums of the three angles of each
Will always be one hundred and eighty degrees."
-
Ofte BRAIN AND MIND, p. 128,galley 1971
Citation & context at Proton & Neutron (1), May172

Transformable: Transformability:
See Ideal Transformability
Intertransformability
Nontransformable
Omniintertransformable
(1)

Transformable:
See Physical, 1970
Proton & Neutron, May 172*
Energy Has Shape, 25 Sep'73
Finite Minus De-finite, Nov' 71
O Module, 29 Sep' 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
"Nature is ceaselessly transforming. Every event has six
equieconomical alternatives. Eternal transformation is
inexorable...."
-
Citation & context at Artifacts (1), 30 Apr 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
"In dealing with the physicists and mathea mticians who are
working with the molecular bidogists, one of the mental
blocks I began to find on the part of the mathematicians
were their tendency to still think of these Platonic
geometries as individual integrities, as not having inter-
relationship. It took me quite some time to get them to
give me enough time to let me show them the transformation
of one of these into the other. They, as physicists and
mathematicians, were very use to transformation but
transformations had no conceptual imagery at all.
They
were simply done by symbols. Just as you can make a
transformation from two sides of an equation if you choose
to take the positive and negative from one side to another
and you will have to know which wayit goes, but you can
transform the equation without knowing what is in the
equation.
It does not have to stand for any particular
given material called empty sets so you are used to
mathematical transformability and empty sts.. The mathematicians
were so used to that, that they had not expected to see or
actually witness an affair where there are the complementaries."
Cite Oregon Lecture #8, p. 281. 12 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
"Gradually now I am making you think about not only the
withinness and the withoutness, but we even have a
even though nonsimulta-
definition of a finite Universe
neous. It is one in which we are dealing always in finiteness
and is always adding up in their complementary transformations
and the transformationsare changing the rest. Something you
are looking at locally is changing and it is changing the
things around it. It has to do so."
Cite Urgeon Lecture #8, p.282. 12 Jul*62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
"Universe is the minimum as well as the maximum
closed system of omni-interacting, precessionally
transforming, complementary transactions of synergetic
regeneration.
11
•
.
-
Citation at Closed System, 1960
•CILE OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
"In the inherently subjective language of physical
transformation of an omni-interaltering and accelerating
universe there are only two fundamental kinds of observable
transformational changes, 1. e. , angular, or sub-unity
alterations, and linear, or
plural unity (frequency
modulated accelerations. These subjectively viewed trans-
formations of universe are also objectively and locally
controllable by man through designed angle and frequency
modulations."
Cote OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 156, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
... All transformation convergence-divergence, inside-
outing, oscillation, torque, precessing, and radial and
axial turbulence.'
RBF paper,
Raleigh NC, 10 Oct 50

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
"All structure is a transformative phase or complex of
tetrahedral transformations."
-
Cite I&I, DONES, p. 166. Date undetermined

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation Event:
"Once a closed system is recognized as exclusively valid,
the list of variables and the degrees of freedom are closed
and limited to six positive and six negative alternatives
of action for each local transformation event in Universe."
Citation at Closed System, 21 Oct '65
-VISION S
120, 21 Dot 65.

Transformation Pattern:
See Terahedron, 24 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformational Projection:
"The transformational projection is contained entirely within
a plurality of great-circle-bounded spherical triangles (or
quadrangles or multipolygons) of constant, uniform-module
(in vriant, central-angle incremented) subdivision whose
constantly identical edge length permit their hinging into
flat mosaic tile continuities.
RBF rewrite incorporated at SYNERGETICS draft Sec. 1101.02,
24 Jan 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformational Projection:
RBF approves the designation "Triangular Geodesics Transforma-
tional Projection" vice "projective Transformation."
(For earlier entries on this subject see
Projective Transformation)
Cite RBF to EJA, 200 Locust, Phila., 22 Jan'73

Transformational Projection:
See Constant Zenith Projection *
Projective Transformation #
Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial Globe
(*Preferred term
(#Obsolete term

Transforming Center:
See Me the Observer, 19 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transformation:
Transformative:
"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 equilibrium popularly recognized as 'order,' therafter
deviating asymmetrically to the negative phase of balancing
limits of oscillation."
-
Citation at Symmetry & Asymmetry, Jul'71
Cite bynergenics raft, "Symmetry," Sea 532:02, July 1971,

Transformation:
Transformings:
(1A)
See Associative & Disassociative
Catalog of Alternate Transformative Options
Human Ecology Transformations
Interpolyhedral Transformations
Local evolutionary Transformation Events
Limit Structural Transformative Tendencies
Minima Transformation
Minimum Momentum of Transformation
Omnidifferentiated Rates & Methods of Transforming
Pattern Transformation
Propagative Transformation of the VE
Radial-circumferential Acceleration Transformations
Reciprocally Transformative Precessional Involvements
Step-up, Step-down Transformation
Tetrahedral Transformations
Transformational Projection
Eternal = Transforming
Richter Transformation
Intertransformings:
Mex-pent Sphere:
Spiral Tube
Intertransforms
Transformation into Geodesic

Transformation:
Transformings:
See Abstractions, 1964
Acceleration: Angular & Linear, 1960
Artifacts, (1)*
Closed System, 1960*; 21 Oct*65*
Design Science, (1)
Eternal vs. Finite, 15 Dec 71
Indeterminism, 20 Jun'77.
Individual Universes, (1)
Omnidirectional Typewriter, (2)
Relativity, 1968
Tidal, May 72
(2)

Transformers:
See Vertexial Spheres, 8 Apr '75
Convex & Concave, 16 May '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transient:
P
...Transient, ergo, sensorially detectable..."
Cisation and context at You and Me, 11 Sep173

Transinvisibility:
See Invisibility, 1 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transistor:
*Transistors were not smell-discovered and can't be made to do
what is physically foreign to transistor behaviors."
Citation & context at Invisible Reality, 22 Jun'74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Transistor:
"While the physicist processes his nuclear problems with
nonconceptual mathematics, the conceptual isotropic vector
matrix equilibria model provides a means of comprehending all
the electromagnetic and nonelectromagnetic energy valving and
angular shunting controls of the solid state transistors."
Citation and context at Atomic Computer Complex (2), 13 May173

Translator:
173
See Solia State
(1)

Transistor:
See Atomic Computer Complex (2)*
Invisible Reality, 22 Jun'74*
Revolution, Aug 64
Omnidirectional Typewriter (4)
(2)

Transition:
See Zero Moment of Transition

Transmission:
See Electromagnetic Transmission
Man: Interstellar Transmission of Man
Power Transmission
Information Transmitting & Nontransmitting Model
Radiation as Information-carrier
Electromagnetically Transmittable Logistics
Electromagnetic Transmission of Human Organisms
Extraorganic Travel
Scan-transmission of Pattern Integrities
Cosmic Transmission
Electromagnetic Transmission:
Conscious
Subjective &
(1)

Transmission:
See Size-selective, 30 Nov'72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transnational:
We are now entering a transnational period of world evolvement
quite apart from nation sovereignties. The world corporations
are not so much exporting products as know-how and technology
and these do not require the protection of sea power.
So the
companies are not saying to the governments that your military
has to protect me locally."
-Cite RBF to American Enterprise Institute, Washghgton,
DC, 28 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how:
"There were no building industry exhibits, no manifests of
'National Association of Real Estate Boards, nor of home
builders associations, nor building labor unions". at the
UN Habitat Conference in Vancouver.
...
(1)
"Conspicuous by the old banking world's absence, it became
quite clear that the world bankers, confronted with escalating
building costs which had passed the point of no return, as
well as with exhaustion of the USA's--and all other major
capitalist-system nations'--building mortgage guaranteeing
creditability, had withdrawn all support of real estate
exploiters and of obsolete building technology in general.
"The big money of the world... has gone entirely transnat-
ional... had found that whereas 'you can't take it with you'
into the next world, you also can't take it with you around
the world--ergo, ownership has now become onerous. Big
money has left all the sovereignly locked-in, local-proprty-
game players holding the unmovable bags of real estate.
Machinery becomes obsolete almost overnight, ergo is
unattractive as a continuing property and must be written"
-
Cite ACCOMODATING HUTAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.6; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how:
"off the books in five years. but machinery can be melted
and reworked to ever higher earning, effectiveness only by
ever improving know-how.
(2)
"Know-how has become the apple of 1976 transnational capital-
ism's eye....
"All the great American corporations of yesterday have now
moved out of America and their prime operations have become
transnational and conglomerate and are essentially concerned
with the game of selling their corporations' very complete
technical, managerial, and vast credit-handling, and money-
making know-how. For this reason they are not interested in
the older kind of properties. This set of unpredicted
changes of volition explained the lack of concern of trans-
national conglomerate capitalism and their lack of opposition
to the UN Vancouver Conference's preoccupation with human
settlements--peanuts....
"The new transnational capitalism's grand strategies are
primarily formulated... to keep governmental power widely
deployed, ergo 'conquered.' The media it employs to aim
and focus humanity's attention on what capitalism would like"
Cite ACCOMODATING HUTAN UNSET. LEIINT, pp.7-8; 20 Sep' 76

REF DEFINITIONS
Transnational Capitalism & Export of Know-how:
"the human beings to think about and buy. Much of their
media news has been smoke-screen news diverting humanity' E
attention from what the supranational capitalism itself has
been doing. For instance, all the while the world news
was spot-lighted on the Korean and Vietnam warring, the
great USA corporations and banks were conglomerating and
moving out of America into a world theater of operation."
(3)
Cite ACCOMODATING HULAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.8; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transnationalism: vs. Colonialism:
It
(1)
"Probably the most prominent of the economic trends prognosti-
cating evolutionary events is that of the supranational corpor-
ation. The 200 largest industrial and financial corporations
originally developed within the United States have now expanded
to become world corporations with the preponderance of their
operation and income derived from outside the United States.
has been quite feasible for these abstract organizations to
obtain a world passport, but not so for human individuals.
Transnationalism is very different from colonialism. Colonialism
was primarily characterized by the most powerful sovereignties
in Europe going to nonindustrialized countries around the world
where a few unique chemical element resources existed unused in
the local arts-- crafts, hunting, and fishing economies-- and
extracting those chemical element resources whose significance
was unrecognized by the local peoples. They progressively
separated the chemical element resources from the ore bodies,
refining and importing them to the European (and sometimes
American) economies where these chemical elements became essential
ingeddients of tools or end products of mass production tools
in the modern industrial evolution of ever higher performance
technology per units of resource input.
Cite "Evening of the World's Power Structures," pp.30-31, 10 Apr++

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transnationalism: vs. Colonialism:
"In due course the same chemical elements as ingredients of
the modern technology, were exported around the world thus to
return from time to time to the countries from which the raw
materials originated. This brough a great mark-up of the price
of their original materials to the buyers in the countries of
raw .origin. Because of their meager money-producing economies,
the balance of annual trade was always unfavorable to the
'colonies' and always favorable ma of the European or American
sovereignties.
(2)
"In contradistinction to colonialism, which took resources away
from people, the new corporate transnationalism brings resources
to the lesser sovereign powers.
"In the early 1920's Mexico effected a historical shutout of
colonialism while conceptualizing and inaugurating hospitality
for transnationalism. Shortly after World War I Mexico
successfully expropriated the petroleum lands and the drilling,
pumping, and refining equipment of all the oil companies which
had invaded Mexico without any official permission other than
corruptly obtained licenses.

RBF DLFINITIONS
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism:
(3)
"With the U.S. population arms-wearied by its World War I
'saving of democracy, • American big business was unable to excite
American democracy's resentment for their plight and thereby
protection of their 'rights' by intervention of USA armed might
as in the past patterns of colonialism. Historically, colonial-
ism's democratic ideals camouflaged their exploiters might-
enforced, special-interest-advantaging, economic stratagems.
Moreover,
Mexico said to America and Europe: "Stop dumping your
worn-out automobiles in our country. We will not accept imports
of either your new or secondhand automobiles or other products.
We would be glad to have your Buick, Ford and Mercedes, but you
will have to set up manufacturing plants of your products in
Mexico and do so entirely at your own expense. You will have to
give Mexico and Mexicans stock interest in your enterprise.
effect, your plant machinery, being innobilely on Mexican terri-
tory, it will belong to us. As long as you're manufacturing
those cars in our country on a successful basis, and are paying
us dividende, using our resources, giving us excellent trans-
portation (or other end-products or services) we will be glad to
have you profit by your portion of your enterprise shares. But
you, General Moters, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, et al., will have to!"
Cite "Evening of the World's Power Structures," p.32, 10 Apr'74
In

KBF DEFINITIONS
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism:
(4)
"obtain the chemical element resources necessary to your manu-
facturing which are not available in our country and will have to
bring them to us from wherever they may be. You will have to use
the physical resources of Mexico whenever and wherever they exist
and above all, you will have to bring world import and export
advantage to us.'
"General Motors and Ford suddenly found this highly profitable,
as had also, long years earlier, Singer Sewing Machine and others.
"This is the major pattern of transnational industrialization. Thus
the transnationalized corporation no longer needs Army or Navy
from its country of origin to protect its on-foreign-soil interests
because wealth has been brought to the small country, wherefore
the small country inherently protects the transnational corpora-
tion. Transnationalism is nor being participated in by the
communist countries as well as the industrial majors. The net of
all this is that colonialism took physical wealth away from the
weaker country and left people in ignorance while transnational-
ism brings both physical and metaphysical know-how' wealth to the
the weaker country, thus increasing the minor nations' wealth and
literacy quite independently of ideological factors.'
-
Cite "Lvening of the World's Power Structures," p.33, 10 Apr 74

KBF DEFINITIONS
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism:
(5)
"Colonialism took away the physical and returned the physical in
rearranged ways. Transnationalism trades in metaphysical know-how.
"Along with its integration of world industrialization, trans-
nationalism has also developed its own world-around intramural
economic accounting facility which overflys the local, national
controls and their respective currencies and tariffs. Vast,
computer-facilitated, omni-world-operation accounting of the
major transnational industrials is now being accommodated in a
major way by the great American and European banking corporations
themselves going transnational. In effect, American banks have
taken American depositors' funds to expand themselves into world
organizations and, together with the transnational corporations'
financial managers, have used American dollars around the world
to buy the world's gold in the world markets outside the United
States as permitted by the recent U.S. presidential rescinding of
a 40-year-long federal law that monetary gold could not be
privately owned.... Altogether this flight of gold and its acqui-
sition by the new transnationalism and the Arabs, who finally
wrote the death warrant of petro-colonialism, has resulted in the
world's international import-export trade balance being divested
of any serious meaning.'
-Cite "Evening of the World's Power Structures," p.34, 10 Apr 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism:
(6)
"With the largest amount of the world's petroleum energy supply
in Arabia, and with the Arabs' conversion of their paper dollars
to gold, there came about a natural marriage of interests of
the oil capitalism and the spranational managerial capitalism.
The oil is inherently exhaustible but the know-how of manage-
ment can only increase.
"While all this was accomplished by self-survival astuteness of
the banks and transnational corporations, retrospectively it
It
constitutes the greatest economic upheaval in history.
amounts to taking away from the sovereignly-locked-in world's
humans all their life-support equity chips and transferring that
wealth to the transnational corporations and Arabs for a total
heist which is equal to 18 trillion of the USA's present Nix-
dollars."
Cite "Evening of the World's Power Structures," pp.35-36,
10 Apr 74

Transnational: Transnationalism:
See Halfway-round-the-Worlding
World Corporation
De sovereignization
Sovereignty: Elimination of
Supranational
Unsettling vs. Settlements
(1)

Transnational Corporations: Transnationalism:
(2)
See Desovereignisations Sequence, (3)
Mobile Rentability vs. Immobile Purchasing, 20 Sep' 76
Disarmament, (1)
Technlogy: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (4)

Transparent:
See Omnidirectional Shutterable Sieve

Transplants:
See Human Parts Replacement

Transportation:
See Omnimedia Transport
Trolley System for the Whole Earth
Air Delivery & Submarine Cities
Airplanes vs. Railroads
Deployment: Man's Increasing Depolyment Pattern
Locomotion: Radeus of Man's Locomotion
(1)

Transportation:
See Population Density:
30 Mar 73
Manhattan Jet Dispersal,
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep* 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Transuranium Elements:
.These alternate structural symmetries constitute typical
positive or negative, non-mirror-imaged intercomplementation
and their systematic, alternating proclivity which inherently
propagate the gamut of frequencies uniquely characterizing
the radiated entropy of all the self-regenerative chemical
elements of Universe, including their inside-out, invisible
negative, Universe-provokable, split-second-observable, imports
of transuranium, non-self-regenerative chemical elements."
Citation, context at Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model,

Transuranium Elements:
See Nonself-regenerative
Superatomics

Trans-vector-equilibrium Configurations:
See Superatomics

Trap of Dismay, Fear & Negativism:
See Myopia: Incasting vs. Broadcasting, 22 Jan'75

Trap:
See Inventions that Decrease the Degrees of Freedom
Self-entrapment
Energy Traps

Travel in a Human Lifetime:
See East Is East Theme
Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion
(1)

Travel in a Human Lifetime:
See Up & Down Sequence, (1)
(2)

Travel:
See Cotravel
Extraorganic Travel
Space Travel
Transportation
(1)

Travel:
See Flight, Oct 173
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"Nature designs the most efficient (ergo beautiful) structures,
for instance, great trees. Let us examine the structural
effectiveness of nature's tree design. Make an experiment.
Take a suitcase in each hand, each weighing about 50 poinds.
Try to hold them out horizontally at arm's length.
It's easy
(1)
for our arms to hang them vertically from our shoulders; but
the more horisontal, the more difficult. It is almost impossible
to hold 50 pounds out horizontally.
"Yet look at a tree's shoulders where the branches are attached.
Look at the branch of a tree with the same girth as that of
your shoulder when your arm is extended and muscles flexed.
Such a tree branch may weigh 500 pounds-- 10 times what you
can hold out horizontally.
"Wing root' is the aeronautical engineering term for 'shoulder,
for example, the wing root between the fuselage of an airplane's
airframe and the jet-pod-carrying aluminum wing structures,
which wing roots contain the mainspar. These air transport
wing roots accomplish almost incredible tasks with incredibly
low weight ratios. However, holding five and more ton branches"
-
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.20, 8 Sep175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(11)
"out horizontally, while yielding streamlinedly and flexing,
gracefully without breaking in great winds as do the trees in
a design accomplishment unparalleled by aeroenautical engineer-
ing even in the wing roots of jumbo jets and supersonic
fighters. How can a tree do that? Biological structures cope
hydraulically with all compressional loaeings....
"The paramount function of trees is to expose as much leafage
as possible under varying wind conditions in order to photo-
synthetically impound the Sun radiation, with which by a complex
of relationships with other biologicals to support life on
our planet, since few of the mammals can directly convert
Sun-energy into life support. Since the function of trees
requires maximum leafage exposure, its progeny will prosper
most when planted outside the shadow of its parent.
seed is a beautiful flying machine designed to ride the wind
until reaching propitious soil. Because few seeds will find
propitious sites in this random distribution system, the tree
launches many thousands of seeds. These seeds contain the
Each tree
geometric design instructions for associating the locally
available resources of air, water, and the locally available"
Cite RBF Intro. to H.Kenner's "Geodesic Math" p.25, 8 Sep 175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(111)
"soil and rock chemistries' atoms in the environs of the
seed-landing. The seeds contain coded programs for associating
local atoms in triple-bonded, ergo high-tensile capability
crystal structures, which when triple-bonded with others,
produce the long overlapping fibrous sacs to be filled with
local water and air derivatives.
"These close-packed, liquid-filled, fibrous sacs compound to
produce first the tree's root 'wood.' What nature ships in the
seeds are the DNA-RNA coded instructions on how to utilise the
resources of locally occurring water, gases, and chemical elemats
at the seed-planting site. These high tensile fiber sacs are
filled with liquid sap, developed from water brought in through
the roots by osmosis and one-way capillary valving of the
hydrogen and oxygen-laden water out of the ground to combine
with the carbon- and oxygen-laden gases of the atmosphere as
produced by mammals and other biological organisms, and by the
photosynthesis of Sun radiation, whereby the tree's leaves
combine the hydrogen and carbon atoms to produce the hydrocar-
bon, crystal-built cells of the tree, while giving off the
oxygen atoms to the atmosphere, with which the mammals' growth"
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math,' p.26, 8 Sep 75
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RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"will be respiratorially sustained.
(iv)
"Enormous amounts of water are continuously elevated through
the one-way, antigravity, capillary
valving system: the
tree feeds the rain-forming atmosphere by leaking atomised
water out through its leaves, while all the same time sucking
in fresh water through its roots. The tree's high tensile,
fiber cell sacs are everywhere full of liquid. Liquids are
noncompressible, yet distribute their local stress loadings
evenly in all directions to all the enclosing high tensile
fibrous sacs. The hydraulic compression function fills out
firmly the predesigned overall high tensile fiber shaping of
the tree. In between the liquid molecules nature inserts tiny
gaseous molecules which are highly compressible and absorb the
tree's high shock loadings, such as those from hurricane gusts.
The branches can wave wildly, but rarely break off unless
dehydratively dying, which means losing their hydraulic, non-
compressible, load distribution's integrity. Sometimes in an
ice storm the tree freezes, the liquids cannot distibute their
loads, and the branches break off and fall to the ground."
Cite RBF Intro. to H. Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.26, 8 Sep'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(v)
"With the liquids distributing loads and the gases absorbing
shocks, and the predesigned (DNA-RNA) overall high tension
crystalline tension fiber network (like a football skin) control-
ling the overall tree (or other biological) shapes to be produced
(when filled out with the liquids), we find the system transmit-
ting its hydraulic load distribution impulses through each
liquid-filled cell's contacts with adjacent liquid-loaded sacs.
"Starting with one tetrahedral bud shoot, the tree grows as a
series of concentric tetrahedral cones-- revolved tetrahedra
generate cones. Constant reorienting of the direction from
which the Sun radiation is coming, and the frequent shift in
wind direction and consequent drag forces on the tetra-tree,
Each
produce a conic revolution effect on the tree growth.
year a new cambium-layer cone grows over the entire outside of
the previous year's tetra-cone. Each branch of the tree also
starts as a tetrahedral-shoulder-cone sprouted out from the
main cone.
"This high-tension sac's web design with its hydraulic-compress-
ion coping and pneumatic shock absorbing is much the same
structural system nature employs in the design of humans."
Cite RBF Intro. to H, Kenner's "Geodesic Math," p.27, 8 Sep 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(TA)
"To be sure, the liquid does not freeze under average environ-
mental conditions: nature creates a 'good health' temperature
control of 98.6° F for all its humans. Instead of the progress-
ively larger tetra-cone form over which the tree builds from the
roots outward into successive live layers, nature intoduced the
skeleton in the mobile mammals, all around which their hydraul-
ically-actuated muscles and cushioning cells are crystallinely
grown as scheduled by the DNA-RNA program thereafter to be
automatedly operated by genetic coding."
Cite RBF Intro to "Geodesic Math," H. Kenner, p. 27, 8 Sep 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"Whereas man builds all of his buildings with compressional
strategies and all engineering analysis is in terms of compress-
ional continuity of the old stone-on-stone, nature doesn't do
any of her compression work with crystallines or solids. She
uses them only in tension because the crystalline has the most
bonding, therefore the best in tension...
You
"Nature does all of her compression just as in a tree.
take a beautiful but fairly small tree-- with its branches out--
and its wing root would be just about the same size as your
shoulder. You will find that whereas you can only hold possibly
30 to 40 pounds out horizontally, this tree is holding out
a thousand pounds. And we get to a big tree with many tons
out there, holding this thing out with all the great winds and
the hurricanes: How can it do such an extraordinary task?
"It goes back to the tetrahedron, the simplest structural system
in Universe. Where you associate tetrahedra just corner-to-
corner there is a mass interattraction occurring, but they are
free to move as in a universal joint. Tetrahedra fastened
corner-to-corner would fill a whole lot of space, but with
enormous spaces in between them. Because there is so much"
Cite RBF to DSI Meeting, Phila., transcript p.3, 22 Mar'74
(a)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"space they are so flexible and you can really fold the mass
back into its own self. This is the way gases are: the simplest
bond you could get. They are the least coherent this way and
highly compressible because of the flexible joints and the way
they could be folded back on themselves. The flexible joints
illustrate pneumatics where all the loads are very evenly
distributed.
They
(b)
"Then we come to the same tetrahedra, but with two bonds.
can be edge-bonded, or hinged. In engineering you call that
hinging and the loads are still flexibly distributed. And if you
put all the tetrahedra together edge-to-edge you suddenly find
that you have what we call the octahedron-tetra-
hedron truss. The interstices between the tetrahedra will be
octahedra and they
are structural systems. They are
eight triangles. And so they do not flex. They are noncompress-
ible; and they are like the liquids, being hinge-jointed and the
loads are distributed with all the characteristics of liquids.
"Then we get to three joints and suddenly we have the crystalline
and there is no flexibility in here at all and so no loads are"
Cite RBF to DSI Meeting, Phila., transcript p.3, 22 Mar 74
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RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"being distributed. This is very good because the three bonds
are tensionally much stronger than two bonds. One bond to pull
apart in the pneumatics; two bonds to pull apart in the
hydraulics; and three to pull apart in the crystallines.
(c)
"So we find nature-- in designing a tree-- sending a seed
bouncing into the sky. Because the tree is rooted and can't move,
it has to get that seed out from underneath its shadow so the
seeds can function as radiation impounders. And what goes into
the seed is the strict instruction for the crystalline develop-
ment. And crystals do grow; so the crystallines build the
fibers and everything that is crystalline in the tree is the
fibers to enclose the liquids, which are doing all the compress-
ion. And the liquid sac continuities are valved by osmosis.
Water can only go one way, so it keeps being pulled in by the
roots, keeping it hydraulically pumped up. Then the waters get
going out at the top a little less rapidly that they're coming
in at the bottom, so it keeps the pressure up. So we have the
crystallines acting in tension as a sac and in between them we
get water molecules which act as the springs to take the shock
loads. So you see then how this beautiful great tree is able to"
Cite RBF to DSI Meeting, Phila., transcript p.4, 22 Mar 74
L->

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(d)
"take enormous wind shock loads. They gases are contained, but
yet they distribute the loads. The minute you freeze the tree
up- off goes the branch! Because it can't distribute its loads.
"This is very much the way nature has designed you and me... using
this water to distribute the loads. And that's why we have to
have this 98.6 degrees so we're not going to freeze up. And there
are very limited conditions where the humans and the trees really
can operate, but nature is able to do it on board of our planet
within the biosphere. Hydraulics are a very good way... they are
incredible!
"Whereas man-- in the Stone Age-- would go through millions of
years in compression. Even though masonry has an ultimate, or
limit, compressive strength of about 50,000 pounds a square inch,
while masonry in tension is only about 50; so it's been built
1000 times stronger to resist in compression than in tension.
And that's the way man learned to pile that stone up....
And
"So I began to see that this hydraulics and pneumatics-- the
crystallines-- had never been in the building arts at all.
so I've gotten into tension continuities with tensegrity structures"
Cite RBF to DSI Meeting, Phila. transcript p.5, 22 Mar'74
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RBF DEFINITIONS
Tree:
"A tree is a fantastic design. It has roots to get the water
out of the ground in a one-way osmosis system that gets the
water back in the sky so it can rain again and water the roots."
"
Cite RBF quoted by Tina Jeffrey in Newport News Daily Press,
1 Apr 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tree:
"Seen in their sky-returning functioning as recirculators of
water, the ecological patterning of the trees is very much
like a slow-motion tornado: an evoluting-involuting pattern
fountaining into the sky, reaching outwardly, downwardly,
and inwardly again once more to recirculate and once more
again-- like the pattern of atomic bombs or electromagnetic
lines of force. The magnetic field relates to this
polarization as visually witnessed in the Aurora Borealis."
"
-
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (2) (3), 16 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tree:
As
"I looked on a tree as beautiful when I was a little child.
Now I can see why that tree is designed the way it is.
a comprehensive anticipatory design scientist I understand
why that tree is there, what its relation to me is.
I really
feel it too. It's not something superficial to draw a picture
of. I really feel how it's handling the wind and the rain
and what it's doing. It's a beautiful mechanism. Fantastic
technology. You try to pick up a bucket of water, hold it
out at arm's length. Suppose it weighs 50 pounds. You can't
hold 50 pounds horizontally. And this tree is holding out
a branch that weighs five tons-- horizontally. And it's able
to handle a hurricane and not get into trouble, and with all
those leaves. Quite a piece of design. And I know exactly
how it's done. I began to design like that."
Cite Rasa Gustatitis quoting RBF, in WHOLLY ROUND, (H, R&W, NY),
p. 160, Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(A)
"Nature employs the three phases of association-- as liquids,
crystals, and gases-- to very great account, assuming their
low distributing capability. Nature wanted to build something
very extraordinary such as a tree. Then the trees have a
function: transforming energy for you and me; being rooted
and pulling water through it... The impounding ends of you
me have no roots. Trees and vegetation have roots so they
can be watered. We have this enormous amount of water being
pulled through them by osmosis all the time... And I give you
the tree having to have its own young out from under its
shadow. Launching all those seeds, hoping they would land in
a favorable place. When sending off the seeds lature counts
on there being local gases, which amounts to air, and liquids
available. She sends only the tensile blueprint in the seed.
And part of this is crystals and crystals we know will grow.
So the crystals are going to grow and give you more local
tensiles.
"You have all tried picking up great weights and holding it
vertically. It's easy to carry this way, but you try to hold
that suticase out horizontally and it's approximately impossible."
-
CiteUniv. of Alaska Address, p.23 + 26, 20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
You
(B)
"We see a great tree with its beautiful limbs going out
horizontally and the wing root is really pretty small.
weigh one of those branches, sometimes they go up to five tons.
You find you have trouble holding 50 pounds out like that.
Jus try holding five tons out like that. You've got quite
some structure all in a relatively small amount of space.
And nature does that. And when a great storm comes along she
is able to sway and yield and not break. If you have a great
ice storm then off comes a branch. Nature then sends that
crystalline seed and the crystal increases, making more and
more of the fibers. And they are triple-bonded; therfore,
they have a high tensile strength. And th crstals give all
the tensile strength and it encases the hydraulic. The
hydraulics have flexibility; they distribute the load so
beautifully. But they are noncompressible. Between the
molecules of the liquids are moleculas of gases; and they are
compressible and they take the shock load. So the great branch
holding out its load does not deform, due to hydraulics being
noncompressible. It's distributing its load superbly. And
it's held together in the most high tensity we have-- which
is the triple-bonding of the crystals. And then when the wind
blows and the gas molecules in there yield to allow it to do
this, despite the noncompressibility of the liquid. So the
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, pp.26-27, 20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINTIONS
Trees:
(C)
I spoke about
all of our
use wood-- and
"great firmness in the tree is in the liquid.
the high tensile strength in our steel, but
building is still crystalline except where we
we find that it works and is very beautiful to start with."
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.27, 20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tree:
"Goethe spoke of trees as waves."
-
Citation & context at Redundancy: Reduction of, 22 Apr'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(I)
"Now it is time for me to say something about wood's lessons
to us as they relate to the design science revoltion which,
through invention, can increase capabilities and efficiencies
If we
to the point that will guarantee success to all men.
really try to do more with less then nature has some extra-
ordinary things to teach us when we study the structure of
the tree.
"First, let me say there is nothing in nature but structure.
Still I find in engineering and architectural schools
with
all of their specialization that there are always courses in
materials. In these courses it is taught that buildings are
built out of materials, but I find from my experience that
this is not the case. What we in fact do is to build visible
We
module structures out of invisible module structures.
have nothing but structures. We have microstructure and
macrostructure,
but there is nothing but structure.
look carefully and see what nature is actually doing, what
is her patterning, what is her structuring, then we can
begin to develop very high capabilities."
www
Cite Syracuse Address, Pp. 54-55, 7 Nov 167
If we
27

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(II)
"I find that man has thought structurally in what I
would call compressional logic, whereby he piles stone
upon stone to make a building. In that kind of building
you find that tension was only a secondary helper and
compression was the primary logic employed. This is to
say that I find many thinking spontaneously in compress-
ional might makes right-- logic. I found that nature
was not using that logic. In our solar system the Earth
is not touching and ball-bearing around the Moon's surface.
And in the atoms the energy components are equally remote
from one another. In the atom the electron is as remote
from the proton in the microstructure as the Earth is from
the Moon in our planetary macrostructure. In terms of
relative diameters, we still have the same kind of
celestial attraction that we have in the microcosm.
are no solids,' just as there are no 'materials,' but there
are sufficient relative proximities of these masses which
are enough to cohere; just as the carth's mass is enough
to have it held to the Sun even though they are 92 million
miles distant. I find that nature is here using continuous
tension and discontinuous islanded compression."
Cite Syracuse Address, Pp. 5-56. 7 Nov 167
There

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(III)
"These are clearly differentiated tension-compression
structures which I call tensional integrities, or tensegrity,
structures. This, as we shall see, is exactly the structure
of the tree.
"Tension and compression are complementary functions of
Therefore, as functions they only coexist. .
structure.
Wood
"The tree has an excellent structural lesson to teach us in
the efficiency of its tensegrity structure's clearly
differentiated tension and compression patternings.
Ancient man, wanting a spanning procedure used wood.
has 100 times stone's ultimate tensile strength, or about
5,000 p.s.i. But the wood beams eventually rotted out or
burned, which is why today we find only the vertical stone
compressive elements of antique man's great building ventures.
Clearly we see that compressive capability has to be
augmented to match our high tensile ability.
"It is the tree that can teach us this for nature has a very
great trick in relation to all of these structural strategies."
-
Cite Syracuse Addres, P.57-59, 7 Nov '67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(IV)
"In 1885 the scientist, van't Hoff, demonstrated to
organic chemists that all organic chemistry is tetrahedronally
configured. Consider molecules as tetrahedra and those
tetrahedra joined vertex to vertex. A constellation of
tetrahedra linked together entirely by such ine vertex or
universal jointing, which is called single-bonded, uses lots
Tetra-
of space and is very characteristic of the gases.
hedra joined by two vertexes line up to what engineers call
a 'hinge.'
when tetrahedra are attached to one another
by three vertexes they are triple-bonded.
•
"
The tree has
"How does the tree do its extraordinary work?
to impound all that Sun's energy with all of those leaves.
It has to expose an enormous amount of leaf structure in
order to be able to do so and still not dry up. To do this
nature has the tree water-cooled, sending its roots deep
into the ground to find the water to pump through its
cooling system. These deep roots also give the tree its
great stability to resist the forces of its great branches
and leaves waving around in the wind. If you take a 50
pound load, such as a bucket of water, you are able to hold"
Lyracuse Address, Pp. 59-60, 7 Nov '67

077
RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(V)
"it vertically at the end of your arm, but if you try to
elevate the bucket toward the horizontal it becomes more
and more difficult. You can't really hold it out there.
Because your arm is a pretty good size this makes you
appreciate what the tree is doing with what is called the
branch root into the trunk, Although relatively small,
this area is sometimes sustaining a branch eight of more
then two tons, compared with the 50 pounds with which you
were struggling. And the tree is able to do this in winds
of hurricane velocity and wave those tons around and still.
not have the branch break off. In the airplane we call that
joint the 'wing root' at the point where the wing comes to
the fuselage. The greatest stresses experienced by flying
a plane are at the wing root. Some of the great tree
branches are cantilevered out from their branch roots as
much as 40 feet. How can you possibly make such a structure
as that?"
"The tree uses extraordinary structural strategies both in
the tension and compression of its tensegrity patterning.
->
Cite Syracuse Addres, p. 60, 7 Nov 167

HBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(VI)
"The tension is entirely in continuous sheathing of
compression-resisting liquids and shock-absorbing gases.
The tension strength in the sheathing fibres comes from
getting those masses of atoms closer and closer to
each other and thus exerting greater and greater attraction
to each other. As they get closer the fibre gets stronger.
If examined under a microscope those overlapping fibres are
exactly analogous to the Milky Way. One Milky ay approaches
another Milky Way and the attractions between their masses
becomes enormous. The series of fibres actually overlaps
so closely as to act as one great fibre. .
"In compression, licuids are completely noncompressible,
and because they are also completely flexible, they
distribute the load evenly all over the system.
"This is just what the tree does. She does all of her
compression in hydraulics, and in between the hydraulic
or liquid molecules, are little gas molecules. They are
single-bonded tetrahedra and therefore highly compressible.
The gas molecules give springiness and absorb shock. They
are smaller than the liquid elements and fill the tiny"
-
Cite Syracuse Address, Pp. 60-61, 7 Nov '67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
(VII)
"spaces between them. An effective analogy would be oranges
in a pile in closest packing. Think then of the hydraulic
molecules as the oranges with the gas molecules filling in
the tiny corners between them. So the shock loads on the
tree are taken in the gases and the hydraulics give it its
firmness and its strength. I would say that we're probably
going to see an age of high hydraulic-compressive capabilities
coming in to balance man's advanatages of already high
tensive capabilities.
"I'll just point out to you that out tree is the greatest
structure I know. That's why if man continues to use wood
in a dried state, we shall continue to lose its greatest
strength. Incidenñally, in order to have more trees
regenerated, there cannot be a tree underneath another
tree because the new tree wouldn't get enough Sun to
sustain it. So nature has the tree produce seeds and the
tree ships a pattern in the seed which goes off by the wind
and the waters to get implanted where there will be available
the new life's regenerative needs. Trees are regenerative.
Man can actually profitably cut them down and replant them."
Cite Syracuse Address, Pp. 61-61, 7 Nov '67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
This
"spread so that each one will thrive to advantage.
structure is built and rebuilt. Nature is continually
giving man new structure which seems to be very, very
importaat.
(VIII)
"These new structures are part of Planet Earth's income,
and I think we're going to have to learn to live on income."
1
Cite Syracuse Address, Pp. 61-62, 7 Nov '67, Also titled
WOOD DESIGN IN A DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGY

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"Now let me discuss ways in which we might think about
nature's logistical strategy in an accomplishment of most
economical world-around structuring as disclosed to us
within the narrow limits of immediately visible nature.
Let us use the tree as an example. Trees are substantial
organic structures, and they frequently last for many years
more than do men or birds or fish or the contrived dwellings
or nests of men or other mobile life. Some trees stand for
more than a thousand years against great storms and earth-
quakes. while man and birds and fish are positionally
mobile, trees are not. Trees are only locally flexible.
And yet trees spread their population around the world.
way they do this is by means of their seeds which they place
in beautiful little flying machines. The maple tree's seeds,
for example, float around in the winds and come fluttering
down like little helicopters. The winds carry these seeds
so that by successive generations trees are able to go
airborne into new locations around the world. Thus are
accomplished the world's pine tree belt, and other world-
girdling tree belts.
--
Cite EPES, pp. 84-85. 1965
The
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"Let us consider the logistics nature uses in building and
We find
distributing such a lasting structure as a tree.
that in the seed nature provides a blueprint pattern
tightly folded up in a triangular tension grid."
-
Cite KEPES, p. 85.1965
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"So nature, in arranging for one tree to build another
tree, makes up a folded, tight blueprint in a tension
network grid and folds it into a tight package: a seed.
When the seed comes to rest, nature then provides the
means for expanding the tree pattern by means of locally
available compression components developed from the local
water and air. Water is highly noncompressible-- our
powerful hydraulic pumps exploit this-- so when nature
builds a tree, she takes the blueprint of the seed and
begins to pump it up, full of locally available water.
then develops regenerative patterns, using the inhibition
of more and more local waters. Fore water is needed
because so much keeps leaking out, through the process
known as osmosis.
She
"It is the noncompressibility of the water which makes for
that great sturdy stiffness of a tree also permitting a
tree trunk to hold out a branch weighing from ten to 25
tons to be waved flexibly in the wind. How can it wave
in the wind? Because in between the molecules of non-
compressible water, nature pushes in little packages of
air, little spheroids. Air is highly compressible (as in
-
Cite KEPES, pp.85-86, 1965
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"pneumatic tires), so the little molecules of air compress
like an automobile tire, allowing the branch to wave.
"Nature's great trick in making trees is to distribute
tensional blueprints which regenerate the pattern locally,
employing the compressions of local gases and local waters,
enclosing tem in beautiful tensional skins of the molecules
themselves. This is nature's major strategy of efficient
energy utilization in the distribution of structures."
(4)
Cite KEPES, p.86, 1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees:
"The microscopically observed structures of 'worked' steel
and tree trunks are, alike, comprised of myriads of
sausage-balloon-fibrous units."
Citation and context at Colloidal Chemistry,1938

Tree Rings of Experience:
See Humans, Kiay'49
Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, May'49

Trees: Invisible Growth Of:
See Buildings as Machines, (1)
Motion, 12 Jun 69
Optical Motion Spectrum, (3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trees: World-Around Colors of Trees:
"So powerful are the climatic pigmentation effects
Of the tropic to arctic
And sea-level to mountaintop
Sun radiation angling
Temperature and humidity differentialings,
That the coloring
Of the world's hardwood trees
Ranges from Northerly mountainside
White and pink woods
Through torrid zone yellows and reda
To tropical teak grays
And dark brown mahoganies
To equatorial jungle ebony blacks.
"These fundamentally dominant inbreeding effects
Are not contradicted
By exceptional cross-breeding cases
Amongst humans and trees
Produced by the world-around seed blowing
And the vast waterborne shuttling of sailors."
Cite NO RACE-- NO CLASS, 1 Aug'72

Trees vs, Humans:
See Trees, (v)(vi)

TEXT CITATIONS
Tree As An Invention:
Letter from Charles D. Stewart in "Shelter," p. 129. Nov'32
(This Stewart citation supplied by Hugh Kenner, 29 Jun'72.)

Trees:
See Fountain Pattern
Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever
Load Distribution
Lumber
Organic Model
Pine Tree
Pine-tree & Palm-tree Belts
Roots
Seeds
Wood
(1)

Trees:
See Crystallines, y Dec'73
Ecology Sequence, (C)
Ecological Pattern, ly Sep164
Information, 12 Feb'72
Lags, (1)
Pneumatic-hydraulic Structures, 22 Aug'70
Redundancy:
Reduction Of, 22 Apri71*
Wood Technology, (1)
Wind Stress & Houses, (7)
Ice, 29 Apr' 77
(2)

Trend: Trending:
See Charts:
Curves & Trends
Charting Alternating Experiences of Man & Nature
Dymaxion-concept-trend-history
Idea Trending
Invisibility:
Progressions
Trends to Invisibility
Spherical Trending of Events
Intervariable Sequences
Sequence: Sequential
(1)

Trend: Trending:
See Human Events, Feb'71
Irreversibility, 25 Mar '71
Mathematics, 13 Mar 71
Dymaxion Outset, summer'50
Navy: Theory of, 22 Dec 74
Periodic Experience, (1)
Life, May 49
Improvement, May'49
Periodic Experience, (12) (13)
Servomechanism, 15 May175
Quantum Sequence, (1)
Out-lining, 22 Mar 76
Teleology, (2)
Domes, 12 May' 77
(2)

TRENDS
Trends: Checklist:
See Darwin's Evolutionary Trends
Ephemeralization Trends
Evolutionary Trends
Measurement Trends
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
Science-Technology-Economics-Politics Sequence
Macro acro
Ninety-two Elements:
Chart of Rate of Acquisition
Industrialization: Curve Of
Industrial Revolution: Profile Of
Industrialization: Successive Halving Time of National
Industrialization
Sea Technology Conversion to Land Technology
Truth-trends
East-to-west Trends
Word Trends

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing:
Not Trespassing:
"Number one consideration
on the part of the design scientists
is the question:
What can and may the individual human do
on behalf of other humans
that will not trespass on any humans
(a)
nor frustrate any of the regenerative integrity of the omniecology?
What do I have the right to do
that is going to affect other people?
"When I can see,
that something is
but you don't,
going to fall on your head
and I jump to pull you out of the way
just as the thing crashes on the floor,
I don't think I am trespassing on you.
You might say:
"Well, I wanted to die."
And I reply:
"That has to be your option.
You didn't know that there was such an option;
I did, and had no time to tell you of it.
If you want to jump out the window that's your option."
Cite Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advantage, 31 May' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing:
Not Trespassing:
"The point is that if I see something
that is going to be fatal or damaging to you
or on the other hand might be of great advantage to you if acted
upon in time
of which your experience has not made you aware,
then as a design scientist I have the cosmic responsibility
to prevent those debilitating conditions
and to realize on your behalf the advantageous potential
which could no longer have been realized
when you too learned that there had been such a potential.
"There are many advantages for you
I or others can secure on your behalf
that you don't know about.
"I must always be sure
I am increasing your elective freedoms.
Your life can be capitalized
as the number of hours you will probably live.
How many of those hours are really free?
You will find that a great many are preoccupied
In the chemical process you and I;
there are a great many involvements in this process and"
(b)
Cite Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advantage, 31 May '74
20

HBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
"relatively few of them that we can actually direct.
So I must as a design scientist--
increase the proportion of your total life
that is at your disposal.
I must reduce the restraints.
I must reduce the number of negative restraints
set upon you by circumstances
and increase the number of your favorable electives.
For instance,
(c)
if you would like to speak with someone at a great distance away,
If I design and install a telephone where you may be
you now have the option to communicate
without spending much time
in getting from here to there.
You don't have to use the telephone;
but if you want, it's there.
I will make available, then
artifacts that make it possible
for you to do what you want or need to do
and try continually to increase the magnitude of your effectiveness
while always reducing the restraints upon you and saving you hours."
-
Cite Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advanatage, 31 May'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
(d)
"All environment controls deal with the locally convergent events
of Universe
which impinge upon you from outside you
and all the events which impinge upon you from inside.
There are all kinds of magnitudes and frequencies.
The biggest ones are least frequent
and the lesser ones more frequent.
They are on a quantum wave basis of absolute regularities.
I want to be able to provide what you want
when you want it.
"I don't try to insulate;
I provide automatic means of intercepting
and shunting angularly into holding patterns
for further usability;
The intercepted energy or materials
to be valved by you into your presence
in the magnitudes and frequencies most favorable to you
while being effectively considerate
of all the ecological sustaining contingencies.
"Environment controlling artifacts consist essentially of"
- Cite Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advantage, 31 May174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing:
Not Trespassing:
"structures and machinery.
Mechanical advantaging environment controls
consist of lever complexes.
Gear trains and turbines are lever complexes.
(e)
"There are optimally efficient structural strategies for providing
the most advantageous environment control.
We must be able to let whatever we want in from any direction.
We must think of our controls as omnidirectional.
We must be able to get in and out in any direction with least effort.
We must be free to go in any direction we want.
We need an omnidirectional shutterable sieve
where we can increase or reduce the magnitudes of our omnidrectional
environment valve openings.
"Since we wish to be able to see in any direction
and likewise to be able to obscure in any direction,
we recognize that it is difficult to make an opaque wall transparent
but it is very easy to opaque a transparent wall
by curtaining and shuttering.
"Our structures must be considerate
-
Cite Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advantage, 31 May174

00
RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing:
Not Trespassing:
"of all human requirements
from those of the newly born child to those of the most aged."
(f)
-Cite Universal Requirements for a Dwelling Advanaage, 31 May'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
"
"I think the first thing I ought to do then, thinking about
the environmental events that are going to impinge on human
beings. and also setting up another discipline which was
related to it: Whatever I must do on behalf of my fellow man
must never trespass on my fellow man. That is, I must never
increase restraints on him; I must reduce restraints on him.
I must free more of his time of his life to his own decision.
And
(A)
"I could say: What do you mean by 'not trespassing'?
I could get that pretty well defined. So I said: there's
this man and you didn't know him, so I just jump over here
and quick react. I saw that something was falling from the
ceiling and was going to hit you in the head. And you'd be
killed. And I didn't have time to say anything. So I just
went likethat to grab you and knock you over to get you out
of the way.
And you say: I wish you hadn't done that.
And I say:
say: Why? And you say: Well, I wanted to die.
Well, you've got to make that decision. I do not think I'm
trespassing on you when I give you the decision whether you're
going to die. Clearly I'm not trespassing if I see something's
going to kill you that you don't know about and I do something
"
And I
Cite RBF lecture at Wistar Inst, EJA transcript, p.9, 19 FeB 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
(B)
"about it. I do not consider that as trespassing. And then
I went from there on and it was quite easy to find out how
and what you could do. And also that you would have to be
considerate of the complex ecological balances all the
time. You must not be a deliberate changer of the fundamental
balance. You don't know enough about it. You must be
responsible about the recirculations."
Cite RBF lecture at Wistar Inst, EJA transcript p.10, 19 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
"I've got to know what I can do on behalf of my fellow man
as a designer without trespassing on my fellow man. These
seem to be very fundamental kind of questions.
"For instance, I said, I see-- you didn't see it-- but there
was a stone that's failing there and it's going to hit you in
the head and I jump up that way and deflect it. And if I
didn't you'd be killed. And you might say to me: I wish you
hadn't done that, I want to die. And then I say: You didn't
know that the stone was falling. That option has to be yours.
If I saw that the falling stone was going to kill you and I
don't act quickly like that-- then I would consider that
I am a murderer because I have allowed you to be killed when
you needn't be killed. Okay. So I said, I don't think I'm
trespassing then when I intercept on behalf of my fellow man
and divert. So we can't really insulate anything. You can't
stop Universe. It's inexorable. But what we can do is take
all the events impinging upon man and we can divert them in
preferred ways.
"We all need water, but you can't drink all the rain when it
rains. But what we can do is to shunt it angularly into a"
Cite Tel Aviv Address, 16 Jun 72, p.14
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
"into a holding operation to be valved into your presence at
the magnitudes and the frequencies that your frequency of
regeneration requires.
"So I found then what we must do with all the events impinging
upon man from outside, macrocosmically; and all the events
impinging upon him from microcosm-- and they impinge at
different rates and at different frequencies and different
magnitudes. So I said what we can really do on behalf of one
another is to begin to understand about those and learn how we
can shunt those into holding positions to be useful to man.
But we must be completely considerate of the total ecological
interactions at all times.'
Cite Tel Aviv Address, 16 Jun'72, p.15
(2)

Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
See Consideration for Others
Expense: Without Any Individual Profiting At
The Expense of Another
Golden Rule
(1)

Trespassing: Not Trespassing:
See Lags (1)
Law, May'65
Dwelling Service Industry (7)
Fuller, R.B:
Crisis of 1927 (B)
Technology, 21 Jan 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triacon:
"The triacon system using the long isosceles is less
satisfactory than the short isosceles used by Don Richter."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NY, 22 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triacontrahedron:
"The triacontrahedron displays the sixty-degreeness plus the
ninety-degreeness of its minimum spherical excess resulting
from its self-divisioning, its self-halvings."
- Citation & context at T Module, 31 Jul 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triacontrahedron:
"The triacontrahedron is the sphere in nonmotion--the
sphere in repose.
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop' 77; Phila. PA; 20 Jun 77

RBF DLFINITIONS
Triacontrahedron:
"In the rhombic dodecahedron we have the unit vector radius
at the center of the diamond faces.
"It is only when the unit radius is at the sphere center
that we get all the foldabilities where the value of the
sphere becomes exactly 5.
"With the unit radius at sphere center and with the 15 maximum
great circles describing the triacontrahedron we get the only
condition accommodating the unfoldable square of as a
model to satisfy the Einstein equation.'
-
Cite RBF to EJA by telephone from Philadelphia office,
13 May 77
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1033.131.

REF DEFINITIONS
Triacontrahedron:
"The maximum limits of the rational cosmic hierarchy are the
120 similar and symmetrical triangles of the triacontrahedron.
The mhimum limits of the hierarchy are the Mites.'
sup
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1052.342
Citation & context at Mite as Model for Quark, 3 May 177

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triacontrahedron:
Great Circles Of:
"The first four prime numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5 synergize
factorially in the triacontrahedron with its 15 great
circles--ergo, maximum-limit-case--spinnability of the
maximum number of identical triangles, dynamically produc-
ing the most spherical aspect when spun on all
of its potential axes--ergo 'sphere.'"
15
132
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 1033.9; 27 Apr' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triacontrahedron as Limit Regular Polyhedron:
"The rhombic dodecahedron is the domain of omni-closest-
packed spheres; the middle of its diamond face is the
control point for the sphere's radius, the unity vector.
"But at the maximum limit is the triacontrahedron, the
15-great circle limit regular polyhedron generatable from
spinnable symmetries. The T Modules emerge as the 120
similar units of the triacon with its 30 diamond faces."
"The T Modules are unfoldable as a square in which the
prime vector is the square's diagonal--affording, for the
first time, a physical model of Einstein's equation E
B
"
mc².
Cite RBF to EJA from Kensington Motel, Santa Monica; 13 Apr' 77

Triacontrahedron:
See T Quanta Module, 12 May' 77
S Quanta Module, 4 Jun'77
T Module, 31 Jul'77*
Trigonometry, 26 Sep'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trial Balances:
"Inventions are extemporaneous.
They represent trial
balances of immediate resource and principle
drawn off in the light of shifting needs.
Inventions are always imperfect
and always become obsolete
or may never be realized. Unlike inventions, pure
science events are absolute and irrevocable."
Citation at Inventions, 1947
etta arch, Inc. Part
Butter research Foundation.
Yellow onionskin draft

TEXT CITATIONS
Trial Balance:
Omnidirectional Halo, P.
161
-
1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trial Balance Inventory:
"I've used the phrase 'trial balance Inventory' all my life,
but I first learned of it as an accounting technique when I
was working in the finance office of Armour & Co."
Cite RBF to EJA, Aspen, Colorado, 13 Jul 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trial-balance Cut-off Year : 1977:
"That's where we've arrived at now after 50 years of
exploring--at our trial-balance cut-off year... 1977."
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77: Phila., PA; 21 Jun'77

Trial Balance:
See Individual Life as One Way Universe Could
Have Turned Out
Formulation
(1)

Trial Balance:
See Dwelling Service Industry (B) (C)
Invention, 1947*
Local vs. Comprehensive (2)
Pretending, 8 Apr'75
Periodic Experience, (13); (6)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trial and Error:
"Trial and error always produces inadvertent (i.e., sideways),
oblique results. But now humanity is learning about ecology
which is only circumferentially omni-intercoordinating. .
"
.
-
Citation and context at Ecology Sequence (F), 5 Jun'73

Trial & Error:
See Berry Picking
Error: Pullout From Error
Intuition: Hot Line of Intuition
Trial Balances
Womb of Permitted Ignorance
Mistake
(1)

Trial & Error:
See Biosphere, (2)
Cosmic Accounting System, (3)
Ecology Sequence, (F)*
Generalized Principle, 1971
Intuition Sequence, (1)
Rearrange the Scenery, May '72
Solid State, 13 May173
Universal Mind, Mar'72
Helpless: Humans Born Helpless, 15 May'75
Desovereignization Sequence, (7)
Words & Coping, 7 Nov 75
Confession, 7 Jan' 76
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (8)
(2)

Trial By Jury:
See Jury

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle cannot exist by itself; it has to be part of
a system."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC., 18 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The structural stability of the triangle is a visualizable
yet physical nothingness."
- Citation and context at Octahedron, 16 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"...We find the triangle to be not only the unique pattern-
self-stabilizing, multienergied complex, but also accomplishing
pattern stabilization at minimum effort, which behavior
coincides with science's discovery of the omni-minimum-effort
behavior of all physical Universe."
Citation & context at Necklace, (B), 9 Nov'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
(a)
"A triangle's three-vector parts constitute a basic event.
Each triangle consists of three interlinked vectors. In the
picture, we are going to add one triangle to the other.
(See
illustration 511.10.) In conventional arithmetic, one triangle
plus one triangle equals two triangles. The two triangles
represent two basic events operating in Universe.
But exper-
ientially triangles do not occur in planes. They are always
omnidimensional positive or negative helixes.
You may say
that we do not have any right to break the triangles' three-
sided rims open in order to add them together, but the
answer is that the triangles were never closed, because no
line can ever come completely back 'into' or 'through itself.
Two lines cannot be passed though a given point at the same
time. One will be superimposed on the other. Therefore, the
superimposition of one end of a triangular closure upon
another end produces a spiral--a very flat spiral, indeed, but
openly superimposed at each of its three corners, the opening
magnitude being within the critical limit of mass attraction's
180-degree 'falling-in' effect. The triangle's open-ended
ends are within critical proximity and mass-attractively
intercohered, as are each and all of the separate atoms in"
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 614.01; 9 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"each of all the six separate structural members of the
necklace-structure triangle. All coherent substances are
'Milky Way' clouds of critically proximate atomic 'stars.'
(b)
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 614.01; 9 Nov 73

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"... A triangle is a boundary line closed upon itself...
the finitely closed boundary lines of the triangle automati-
cally 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. . It is impossible to construct
one triangle alone."
Cite Spherical Triangle Sequence (i), 26 Jan 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The word 'structure' means a complex of events which interact
to produce omniangular interstability. Three points
constitute a triangle. A triangle consists of three vector
edges and three tension angles. A triangle is the only
polygon whose vector edges stabilize their own opposite
angles. Each rigid edge vector of a triangle seizes the ends
of its two adjacent vector edges whose other ends are tied
together and act as a pair of shears or levers. Thus the
third rigid vector edge of a triangle controls the size of
the opposite angle and does so with minimum effort because it
holds on to the ends of the two edge levers and therefore
stabilizes the opposite angle with minimum effort. The
triangle is not only structure but it is the only structure
in Universe.'
"
-
Cite SET X, p.13, Aug'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"You can't have something less than the triangle."
-
Cite Univ. of Alaska Address, p.30, 20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
Seems to be
"A triangle is a spiral. It is a spiral which superficially
a closed line, but we know that two lines
cannot go through one another. Two lines can within critical
mass-attractive proximity be drawn into crossing tangency
which looks superficially (only) as though the line were
closing back within itself. Because the closure is always
tangential triangles will always be stabilizingly locked"
only by mass attraction integrity in one of its many forms.
Ergo, edge-formed triangles are always very flat spirals.
"Two triangles may be combined in such a manner as to create
the tetrahedron, a figure volumetrically embraced by four
triangles. Therefore, one plus one seemingly equals four."
->
. Cite RBF rewrite of Caption to Synergetic Illustration #1,
Feb172

KBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle is a pattern stabilizing complex of energy
events."
-Cite RBF in Corcoran Gallery Address, Washington, DC,
23 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The triangle is a set of three energy event vectors
converging angula by into a closed system of critical
proximity whereby each event, with minimum effort,
stabilizes the opposite angle."
-
Cite RBF quoted in Science Today, January 172, rewritten
by RBF, Kennedy airport, 1 Apr 172.

REF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The triangle is a set of three energy events getting into
critical proximity so that one, with minimum effort, stabilizes
the opposite angle."
Cite RBF quoted in SCIENCE TODAY, Jan '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"Triangles are inherently open. As one positive event and
one negative event, the two triangles arrange themselves
together as an interference of the two events. The actions
and resultants of each run into the actions and resultants of
the other. They always impinge at the ends of the action as
two interfering events. As a tetrahedron, they are fundamental:
a structural system. It is a tetrahedron. It is structural
because it is omnitriangulated. It is a system because it
divides Universe into an outsideness and an insideness--into
a macrocosm and a microcosm.
"A triangle is a triangle independent of its edge-sizing.
Each
"Each of the angles of a triangle is interstabilized.
of the angles was originally amorphous--i.e., unstable--but
they become stable because each edge of a triangle is a lever.
With minimum effort, the ends of the levers control the opposite
angles with a push-pull, opposite-edge vector. A triangle is
the means by which each side stabilizes the opposite angle with
minimum effort."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 614.02-.04; Nov* 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"Superficially a triangle seems to be a closed line
but we know that two lines cannot go through one another
within critical mass-attraction proximity,
but can,
be drawn into crossing tangency, which locks superficially
(only) as though the line were closing back within itself.
Because the closure is always tangential, triangles will
always be stabilizingly locked only by mass attraction
integrity in one of its many forms. Ergo, edge-formed
triangles are always very flat spirals."
* Cite New caption written by RBF for SYNERGETICS Illustration
Number #1. 7 Oct. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
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
"Antitetrahedron," p. 1.
7 Oct. 1971 (Dictated to EJA.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The three angles of one 'face' of a planar triangle always
add up to 180° as a phenomenon independent of the relative
dimensional aise of the triangles. One-half of the definitive
cycle unity is 180°. Every triangle has two faces-- its
obverse and reverse. Unity is two. So we note that the angles
of both faces of a triangle add up to 360°. Externally, the
sum of the angles around each of the triangle's three vertexes
is 120°, of which 60° is on the obverse side of each vertex;
for a triangle, like a line, if it exists, is an isolatable'
system always having positive and negative aspects. So the
sum of the vertexes around a triangle (three) times 360°
equals 1080°. The remainder of 360° from 1080° leaves 720°,
or one tetrahedron. Q.E.D."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 224.06, Jun 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"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."
11
Citation and context at Spherical Triangle Sequence (e), 1 May '71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle is a triangle independent of its edge-
sizing."
TRIANGULATION
-
614.03
Cite NEHRU SPEECH, p. 14, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle: (A)
"The triangle is the fundamental component of structure
but each triangle has two component functions: the edges
(vectors) and the angles. The edges synergetically interact--
synergetically because there is naught in the characteristics
of a single linear vector, per se, that predicts the
co-existence of an angle. No angle can exist until two
vectors co-exist and interact in critically significant
proximity to permit an observed crossing of their action paths
to form an angular aspect. Then it takes three angles and
three vectors to constitute an 'event.' Two events of two
angles and three edges each constitute a tetrahedron: thus
two events constitute two event functions, the poitive and
the negative, to make a minimum structural system. The tetra-
hedron is the simplest structure known-- experimentally and
metaphysically-- to man. The triangle exists operationally
only as a positive or negative function of a polyhedron.
Of all the polygons only triangles are structurally stable.
Try a square with rubber joints: it folds up. Try another
rubber-jointed polygon-- it will fold up. Try a rubber-
jointed triangle-- it won't fold up: It is stable. Stability
relates to the angular behavior: the sides of polygons can"
Cite RBF marginalia at old Chap. 2, "Synergy," 1.6, 18 Mar 69
-
30

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"remain identical while their angles vary. If we want to
have a structure, we have to have triangles; and to have
a structural system having insideness and outsideness requires
a minimum of four triangles. A structural system may be
symmetrical or asymmetrical, but it always has a withinness
and a withoutness and its faces are always triangular."
(B)
Cite RBF marginalia at old Chap. 2 "Synergy," 1.5, 18 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The three-sided polygon is the minimum spiral of vectors."
-
. Cite RBF marginalis on old Chap 2, "Synergy", p.1.2, 18 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
" What happens is that one side takes hold of the ends
of the two levers and with minimum effort stabilizes the
opposite angle in a minimum of effort. It's also character-
istic of physical nature that nature is always doing the
minmum effort.
"And when we say 'I recognize' something, the recognizability
would be in some kind of a pattern. There must be some reason
for nature having repeat patterns; it stabilizes a pattern so
you know that it's a maple leaf or it's a rose petal. And
once you find that only a triangle can maintain a pattern,
you have to say that for anything you say 'I recognize' would
apply to a triangle."
-
Cite HBF to Verner Smythe, NYC, reel 1, pp.5-6, 25 Feb'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The transition of initial awareness
Of sensorially experienced
Physical forms and process relationships
Through their
Progressively
Ephemeral
Diaphanous,
Ethereal,
Brain to mind,
Physical to metaphysical,
Idea trending
Toward, and attaining,
Absolutely weightless'
Conceptual integrity
of interangular promotionality
Is utterly independent
Of size--
A triangle is
A triangle
Independent
Of size and time.
The concepts of"
-
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.7, 28 Jan'69
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"Isosceles, equiangular, and scalene triangles
Are utterly independent of size and time.
Fundamental conceptuality is immortal.
Utterly weightless, metaphysically abstract,
Conceptual pattern integrities
Are of the mind--
In contradistinction to brain sensing."
Cite GENERALIZED PRINCIPLES, p.7, 28 Jan*69
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle is the means by which each side
stabilizes the opposite angle with minimum effort.
"A triangle is a critical terminal proximity; an
energy event helix.
"A triangle is the only structure as a polygon."
-
Cite DEFINITIONS FOR SYNERGETICS BY PETER PEARCE, 1967

ALI
RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"Open triangular spirals may be combined to make a
variety of different figures. . . The tetrahedron and
icosahedron require both left and right handed (positive
and negative) spirals in equal numbers.
The other
polyhedra require spirals of only one handedness. "
TRIANGULATION - SEC 613.021
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS #5
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The open ended triangular spiralcan be considered
one 'energy event' consisting of an action, reaction and
resultant. Two such events, one negative and ane
positive, combine to form the tetrahedron."
"The open ended triangular spiral also represents
the proton, electron and anti-neutrino or the positron,
neutron and neutrino, which become one-half quantum." (Adapted.)
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATION #2 and #4
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"Triangle is the only structural polygon.
" N 3
Unstable polygon.
"Triangles crystallize."
Cite P. BEARCE, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The stable structural behavior of a whole triangle,
which consists of three edges and three individually and
independently unstable angles or a total of six
components, is not predicted by any one or two of its
angles or edges taken by themselves. The six edges of
the two triangles can and frequently do associate with
one another, one as left helix and the other as right
helix, to form the six-edged tetrahedron which having
four triangular faces gives synergetic demonstration of
four triangles occurring as the result of assocaiting
only two triangles.
·POSITRON ?
"Incidentally, the right and left helixes formed
of the two triangles' respective sets of three edges each
constitute the vectorial modelling in conceptual array of
the positive and negative 'half spins' or 'half quanta'
correponding respectively to the proton set and the
neutron set consisting of neutron and neutrino on the
left hand and the proton, electróh, and antineutrino on
the right hand. Together these six
make one
quantum unit-- which is identified as the tetrahedron."
-Cite DOXIADIS p. 312, 313, 20 Jun' 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The stable structural behavior of a whole traingle,
which consists of three edges and three individually and
independently unstable angles or a total of six components,
is not predicted by any one or two of its angles or edges
taken by themselves."
TRIANGULATION
SEC 314.05
-
Cite DOXIADIS, p. 312, 20 Jun'66

KBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"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. Only triangularly structured patterns
are regenerative patterns. Triangular structuring is
pattern integrity itself. This is what we mean by
structure."
. Cite NASA Speech, p. 54. Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle is a flat single cycle helix."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Prof. Theodore Caplow, 18 Feb. 166.

HBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The sphere is complex unit and the triangle simplex
unity. Here and here alone lie the principles governing
finite solutions of all structural and general systems
theory problems."
_ Cite RF Lup, to Shuji Sadao, 15 Feb. +66, p. 5.
Citation and context at Unity: Complex and Simplex Unity,
15 Feb 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle is not a closed line of three angles and
three edges" but " a critical terminal proximity
energy event helix."
-
Cite Ltr. to Dr. Hobt. W. Horne, 14 Feb 166, p. 3

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
•
Triangles
•
•
are the only inherently
stable polygons."
TRIANGULATION - SEC 610.01)
Cite KEPES. p. 82, 1965

HBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
That
"Amongat all the polygons only the triangle is structurally
stable. We are being informed that in a multiplicity of
omnidirectional actions in the close proximity of the
viewable depth of the surfaces structurally stable triangles
are everywhere resultant to the similarly random events.
triangles are everywhere is implicit in the fact that
wherever we move or view the concentric circles they occur,
and that there is always a triangle at the center of the
circle. We could add the word approximately everywhere to
make the everywhereness coincide with the modular frequency
characteristic of any set of random multiplicity. Because the
triangles are structurally stable each one imposes its
structural rigidity upon its neighboring and otherwise
unstable random events. With energy operative in the system
the dominant strength of the triangles will inherently
average to equilateralness."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. To Dr. Urmston, 8 Oct. 164, pp. 1-2.
TRIANGULATION - SEC 614.06)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"Experiment shows that
aftwo lines cannot be constructed
through a given point at the same time. One will be
superimposed on the other.
Therefore the triangle is
a spiral-- a very flat spiral, but open at the recycling
point."
SYNERGY SEC, 107.1 +107.2
TRIANGULATION-SEC, 614.01]
10 Oct 63
4
Cite MEXICO 63. p. 23

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"We do not have any such thing as a closed triangle
in a plane; all triangles are merely spirals, very flat
spirals. There are no planes. Triangles are inherently
open."
"The angles of each triangle are inter-stabilized.
Each of the separate angles which as such were originally
amorphous that is, unstable-- became stable because
we went out on the edge of each triangle-- each edge of
which is a lever-- to the ends of the levers, and there
with minimum effort, we controlled the opposite angles
with a push-pull opposite edge vector. The triangle
represents the means by which each side stabilizes the
opposite angle with minimum effort. The triangle is the
fundamental function of structure but it takes two
functions, the positive and the negative, to make a
structure. The tetrahedron is the simplest structure
known to man. The triangle exists operationally only
as a positive or negative function of a polyhedron.
Of all the polygons only triangles are structural stable."
"If we want to have a structure, we have to have
triangles and to have a structure also requires a
(I)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"minimum of four triangles."
-Cite Mexico Address, pp.25-27, 10 Oct163
TRIANGULATION-
SECS. 610.11 +614.041
(II)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle is an action that returns upon itself in
critical proximity of itself. It can be pulled apart
because it is open."
-Cite Oregon Lecture #3 p. 89. 5 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"The triangle is the geometric plane figure which has
maximum rigidity, accomplished with least effort because
the vector opposite any angle of any triangle is always
operating at and between the ends of levers which are the sides
of the angle, thus providing maximum advantage over its own
angular stability with minimum effort.
Therefore . . .
omni-triangulated, omni-symmetric systems require the least
energy effort to effect and regenerate their own structural
stability."
Cite MARKS, p. 43, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
•
In any network high energy charges refuse to
take the long way round to their opposite pole. They tend
to push through the separating space, striving to 'short.'
Thus energy will automatically triangulate via a diagonal
of a square, or via the triangulating diagonals of any other
polygon to which force is applied. Triangular systems
represent the shortest, most economical energy networks.
The triangle" is "the basic unit of energy configuration,
whether occurring as free energy or as structure.
-
Cite MARKS, p. 43, 1960
GREAT CIRCLES OF F.- SEC. 452.021
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"Every triangle has two
faces: obverse and reverse."
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 144, 1960
TRIANGULATION SEC.
-
:.610.12)

RBF JEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle (truss) is a te rahedron of zerophase
altitude."
-
Citation & context at Truss, Nov'52

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
"A triangle is a boundary line closed upon itself."
-
Cite NOAH'S ARK, p. 3.
1950

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
**Second powering' could be either 'squaring' or 'triangling,'
but triangle is minimum hole. That
there are no holes
101
of less than three edges. 'Triangling' is basic or Unity.
A 'square' istwo triangles."
-
Rbf Notes, 6 Burns St, Forest Hills, undated

Triangular Accounting vs. Quadrangular Accounting:
See Vectorial & Vertexial Geometry, 27 Jan '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model:
"The four axes of the vector equilibrium provide the
four-dimensionally articulatable model of motion freedoms
unimpeded by other motions of either contiguous or remote
systems of Universe while copermitting and concurrently
articulating both omnidirectional wave propagation and
gravitationally convergent embracement.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS (2nd. Ed.) at Sec. 465.41; RBF rewrite 11 Dec 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model:
"At Sec. 465 is the four-dimensional, motion-freedom-from-
rest-of-Universe, omnidirectional wave-propagating model.
We can also call it by the short title: Triangular-cammed,
in-out-and-around, jitterbug model."
Cite RBF to EJA & Roger Stoller, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC; 12 Nov' 75

Triangular-cammed; In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model:
See Axis: Four-axial System
(1)

Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model:
See Macro-Micro, 12 Nov' 75
(2)

Triangle in a Circle:
See Light on Scratched Metal, 9 Nov 73

Triangle & Hexagon Grid:
See Three-way Weaving
(1)

Triangle & Hexagon Grid:
See Primitive, 18 Jul'76
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle:
Minimum of Four Triangles:
The
.
"No surface is conceivable without its inherent sphere
as a flat Universe is contradictory to experience.
construction of a triangle involves a surface and a
curved surface is experimentally satisfactory.
Now the
minute a triangle is constructed on the surface of a
sphere because a triangle is a boundary line closed
upon itself-- the boundary lines of the triangle automa-
tically divide the surface of the sphere into two separate
surface areas, each of which are bounded by three lines
of arc and by three vertexes-- which is the description of
a triangle. Therefore both areas are true triangles.
It is impossible to construct one triangle alone. In fact
four triangles are inherent to the (oversimplified concept)
constructing of 'one' triangle. In addition to the
complementary surface triangle already noted there must
of necessity be two complementary concave triangles
appropriate to them and occupying the reverse or inside of
the spherical surface. Inasmuch as convex and concave are
opposite they cannot be the same. Therefore a minimum of
four triangles are always constructed and which one of
them is the 'fixation' of the constructor is irrelevant.
He might be on the inside, constructing his triangle on
Cite NOAH'S ARK, P. 3. 1950
-
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle: Minimum of Four Triangles:
"some cosmic sphere, or vice versa. 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 triangles that may be
constructed if any are constructed."
(2)
-
Cite NOAH'S ARK, p.3. 1950

Triangle: Minimum of Four Triangles:
See Spherical Triangle Sequence
Spherical Triangles on Earth's Surface
Four Triangle

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle As Signature of God:
"Buckminster Fuller has called the triangle 'the signature
of God."
Cite RBF quoted by Oliver L. Reiser in COSMIC HUMANISM,
P. 93, 1966

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangle As A Priori Two:
"As any three points define a triangle a triangular spiral
discloses two sets of three.
Two triangles:
ACD
BCD
D
D
"Because unity is plural and at minimum two each basic
spiral triangle is in fact a priori two."
Cite RBF rewrite of Caption to Synergetics Illustration
#1, Feb 72

Triangle as A Priori Two:
See Unity Is Plural, Nov 71

Triangle as Simplex Unity:
See Spherical Barrel: Spheres ag Complex Unity:
Triangle as Simplex Unity
Unity: Complex & Simplex

Triangle:
(1)
See Basic Triangle: Basic Disequilibrium 120 LOD Triangle
Basic Equilibrium 48 LCD Triangle
Basic Triangle:
Equiangularity
Minimum Cyclic Enclosed Circuitry
Necklace
Module: A Quanta Module Triangle
Minimum Hole
Minimum Polygon
Recognition
Spherical Triangle
Spherical Triangle on Earth's Surface
Structure
Minimum Polar Triangle
Surface Triangle Structures
No Altitudeless Triangle
Precessed Triangle
Open Triangular Spirals
Hedra Triangles
Four-triangular Circuits Tensegrity
Four Triangles

Triangle:
See Equi-interval, 17 Feb'73
Minimum Effort, 9 Jul*62
Octahedron, 16 Dec 73*
Prime, 17 Feb'73*
Shape Awareness, 20 Feb 73
Structure, Nov 71; 22 Jul 71
Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons, Aug' 72
Transformable, 23 Jan' 72
Unity: Complex & Simplex, 15 Feb'66*
Truss, Nov 52*
Background Nothingness, 2 Jun'75
Domain of an Area, Dec 71
Threeness, 27 May172
Necklace, (B)*
Tidal, 9 Nov 73
Object, 9 Nov' 73
(2)

Triangle:
(3)
See Triangle:
Minimum of Four Triangles
Triangle as Signature of God
Triangle as A Priori Two
Triangle as Simplex Unity
Triangular Accounting vs. Quadrangular Accounting
Triangle & Hexagon Grid
Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model
Triangle in a Circle

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangling:
"All scientists as yet, say, 'X squared, ' when they
encounter the expression 'X<,' and 'X cubed' when they
encounter 'X-.' Now we may say 'one to the second power
equals one, ' and identify that arithmetic with the triangle
as the unit of
area. Two to the second power equals four:
four triangles. Three to the second power equals nine.
Four to the second power equals sixteen. Now, we may say
'triangling' instead of 'squaring.' Every square consists of
two triangles. Nature needs only triangles to identify
arithmetical 'powering' for self-multiplication of numbers.
Therefore, ' 'triangling' is twice as efficient as 'squaring.
This method is what hature uses because the triangle is the
only structure. We must learn to say 'triangling and not
'squaring.
TETRAHEDRONAI ACCOUNTING-SEC 990.01)
-
- NASA SPEECH, 75, Jun 166
Cite Carbondale Draft
Return to kodelability, p. V.9

RBF DEFINITIONS
("Triangling")
"We may say 'triangling' instead of 'squaring.'
When we say 'triangling we are referring
to stable structures. When we say 'squaring' we are
referring to unstable * shapes. 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. When we
deal with triangling we are being more economical with
space than when we employ squares with edges equal
to the triangles', Nature
always insists on being most economical.
Nature triangles.' Nature accounts all of her structuring
entirely
rationally when measuring with triangles.
Ergo: triangular observation of physical
phenomena from any angle always produces reliable and
rational accounting not available in quadrangular
accounting.' 17
-Cite Kepes, Caption Fig. 8a
1965
P 85

RBP DEFINITIONS
Triangling:
"Now here is the way we are used to appraising area. We have a
square and we
divide the edges into two and we say that the
increments are two, so 2 x 2 = 4; and we count the squares and
we say that 3 x 3 = 9, etc. I am now going to do this with the
triangle. I divide the edge into two and I say 2 x 2 = 4,
3 x 3 = 9, etc: and you can say 'triangling' instead of
squaring.
(1)
"Maybe you never thought about doing that. None of the scientists
do they always say they always say squaring. It seems that
it never occurred to them that they could say triangling instead
of squaring. When you find you can triangle, and you recall
Mach's definition of physics-- 'nature always does things in the
most economical ways'-- and if you are triangling you only need
half the area to account it in triangles. The triangles use up
less of your area.
Let me
"Furthermore, there is a very trusting characteristic.
look at any quadrangle and I look at it prospectively-- let's
say any quadrangle in which the four edges are not the same.
I bisect those edges and interconnect and I get four dissimilar"
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p.212, 10 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangling:
"quadrangles. Let me take any triangle and I bisect its edges
and the length of its edges are different, but I always get
four similar triangles. There is no way you can subdivide an
asymmetrical triangle and not come out with identical triangles.
There is no way you can subdivide asymmetrical quadrangles and
come out with the same.
(2)
"If I am using triangling as my fundamental mensuration, and I
have a frequency of modular subdivision of the edge (that is
what we said we were doing, and what we mean by linear subdivision,
and that simply means that we must divide the edges
up evenly, and when I do so I always get an identical triangle.
Therefore, if I am playing the game intriangulation, I don't have
to look at it absolutely symmetrically to be sure that they look
nice and even. They can look like anything I like and I am
still getting the same information. When I am dealing with
quadrangular forms I am not getting the same information: I can
be completely misled.
"I suddenly found that triangling is not only more economical but
it is always relaiable."
Cite Oregon Lecture #6, p.212, 10 Jul162

Triangling: (As in powers of numbers):
See Euler, Sep' 58

HBF DEFINITIONS
Triangular Topology Integrity:
H
N.Y. Times, 15 May 172, H... Semeck, Jr. "Immunology: A Code
Spelling Life or Death": "The immune system desperately resists
the presence of any foreign tissue.
TO
R.B.F. Farginalia: "Not 'desperate,' but redundant to frequency
integrity of triangular topology integrity of constant relative
abundance of 1 V x 2 A = 3 L, plus 2 poles, plus 2 cosms: macro,
micro. The system knew what to do and has been 'overloded'
or 'starved' by ignorance. Learn how not to overload or starve.
Let trace elements
be available. Don't meddle.'
Cite RBF marginalia presumably 15 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangular Observation:
"Triangular observation of physical phenomena from
any angle always produces reliable and rational accounting
not available in quadrangular accounting."
Cite KEPES, Caption Fig. 8a, p.85
1965

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangulation:
"The 31 great circles of the icosahedron resolve everything
that goes into triangulation."
-
Citation & context at Wichita House, (1), 31 Jan 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangulation:
"Closest packing begins with triangulation, the imposition
of triangulation on the rest of the system.
triangle is inflexible.'
"
Only the
Cite HBF to HUD Engineers, Washington, DC, 26 Jan 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangulation:
"
•
The cube is not structurally stabilized
until each of its six unstable square-based
pyramidal half-octahedra are subdivided, respectively,
into two."
WE
-
Oite the marginalis in Synergetion at "Modelability,
Basic, Triangle, Foldability of freat Circles, 14 Sept. 1971.
Citation at Cube, 14 Sep' 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangulation:
"Randomness of lines automatically works back to a set of
interactions and a set of proximities which begin to triangulate
temselves.... The most comfortable condition of triangles is
equilateral so there will be a tendency for them to try to
become equilateral.... This effect goes on in depth and into
the tetrahedra or octahedra."
-
Citation at Randomness, 15 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triangulation:
"If I am nature and I want to enclose some volume
and do it with a minimum of effort, I have to triangulate,
and the icosahedron is the polyhedron which I would use."
- Gite Carbondale Draft
Aature's Coordinatin, P.VI.1,2-
- the hedgment Lab Addres, p.22, 15 Oct 16
-
Citation & context at Icosahedron, 15 Oct 164

Triangulate: Triangulation:
See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring: Hierarchy of
"Come-and-Go" Triangulation Pattern Strip
Cork: Triangular Corks in Spherical Barrels
Icosahedron
Intertriangulated
Omnitriangulation
Omniintertriangulation
Railroad Tracks:
Networks
Self-triangulating
Structure
Triangular System of Energy
Centrally Triangulated
Stabilized Vector Equilibrium
Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model
Stabilized Cube
Dynaxion Airocean World Map
(1)

Triangling: Triangulation:
See Cube, 14 Sep171*
Euler, Sep' 58
Frequency, May'67
Icosahedron, 15 Oct'64*
Randomness 15 Oct 64*
Remember, 20 Feb 72
Relationships, 15 Oct164
Structural Functions, Oct 73
Wichita House, (1)*
Light on Scratched Surface, 9 Nov* 73
Surface Strength of Structures, Mar 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Triclinic:
"Cline means an incline or slope.
special characteristics of a family.
'Clinic' means
"I use 'triclinic' to describe the three edges and three
faces around a corner: tetrahedron.
"In the goofy language of crystallography they talk of
inclines and faces, but crystallography pays no attention
to the fact that square faces lack stability. The word
'polygon' is OK as in a triangle. And the word 'trigonom-
etry' is OK for angles. But 'polyhedron' is not OK because
it refers to descriptions in terms of faces and faces are
not stable.
"We need a word to serve as the 'gons' of polygon: what it
takes six of to stabilize the cube and 12 of to stabilize
the rhombic dodecahedron."
Cite RBF to EJA, by telephone from Sunset, ME; 31 Aug 76

Trigom (Trimetric) System of Airways:
See Point: Outbound Point, (1); 6 May'48

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometric Limit:
This
"45° is the limit. You don't have to know more than 45°,
which
is the maximum asymmetry. If you have to go higher
than that
you treat it in terms of the complementary.
is the strategy of trigonometry, where the tables go no
higher than 45°.
The complementarity of the vector equilibrium with the
octahedron permits us to get down to the local and not be
afraid of missing the rest of Universe, because we know
the fundamental complementation of macro tetra and micro
tetra. We were always looking at the XYZ quadrant--
focusing on the crossing at the center of the octahedron,
rather than on the functioning of the covariations.
"This is why we factor the first 15 primes-- from 1 to 43--
that is up to the limit of the 45° angle, to accommodate
all the variations of all the trigonometries of Universe."
Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, Y, 22 Jun'72
mistoGY-SEC 1238.27)
Last two paras. above deleted from
SYNERGETICS galleys by RBF.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometric Limit: First 14 Primes:
"45 degrees is the zero limit of covarying asymmetry
because the right triangle's 90-degree corner is always
complemented by two corners always together totalling
90 degrees. The smallest of the covarying, 90-degree
complementaries reaches its maximum limit when both
complementaries are 45 degrees. Accepting the concept
that one is not a prime number, we have 14 primes-- 2, 3,
5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43-- which
primacy will accommodate all the 14 unique structural
faceting of all the crystallography, of all biological
cell structuring, and of all bubble agglomerating: the
14 facets being the polar facets of the seven and only
seven axes of symmetry of Universe, which are the 3-, 4-,
6-, 12-great circles of the vector equilibrium and the
15, 10, great circles of the icosahedron."
"
-
[20]
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1238.2*,
Santa Monica, CA, 14 Jan '74

Trigonometric Limit:
See Degrees: 45°
Octant
Octantation
XYZ Quadrant at Center of Octahedron

REF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometry:
"We were working on the text of the T Quanta Modules and
Chris Kittrick objected that the volume of the triacontra-
hedron in the geometric hierarchy does not equal 5, that
it works out to .4997. So I explained to him that all of
the rational numbers in the hierarchy derive from the
successive halving of tetrahedra. We get the irrationals
in the triacontrahedron and in the icosahedron because we
compute it trigonometrically.
"Trigonometry has no comprehensive rational quotients.
Trigonometry is inherently rough because it is predicated on
the notion of 360° around a circle in a plane."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, from Philadelphia; 26 Sep 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometry:
"Plane geometry is only a vestigial, terminal case of
spherical trigonometry. The ratio-ing of angles and edges
on a presumed
flat surface is a very special case. That's
why it seems so remote from experience. What is really
being measured
can be only central angles and spherical
surface angles. That's all there is.
"The central angles and surface spherical angles are those
of
the projection onto a sphere of the characteristics of
polyhedra as projected from the centers of volume of the
respective polyhedra."
-
Cite RBF to EJA a propos Ltr. from Hugh Kenner of
14 Jul 76; holograph, Washington DC, 18 Jul'76.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometry:
Spherical Trigonometry:
. . . If we start synergetically with whole systems
such as spherical trigonometry then you avoid the concept
of an edge and instead learn of the accommodation of
surface and central angles. Then having both surface angles
and central angles we discover that spherical trigonometry
is always dealing with tetrahedra whose interior apexes
are at the center of the system."
1050.10
Cite nergetics draft, Sec. 50, August 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometry:
Spherical Trigonometry:
That was
I can give you a very
"Many of you have been exposed to the trigonometry and
it seemed really to be the first kind of difficult phase
to kids in school because they came to words that didn't
seem familiar. A line and a face sound familiar, but you
got into some Greek words and you got into sine, cosine,
tangent, cotangent and so forth, and you said I don't know
what these are and then you said, Show it to me. They
couldn't show it to you because it is a ratio.
annoying to you to have aratio.
good case of a ratio that you are familiar with that
doesn't give you trouble. A knot is a ratio of miles
and hours.
But the trouble was that all those
functions of the angles, they were Greek words and a very
upsetting thing. The trigonometry showed us ways of dealing
in edges and angles. One of the things thatmade you kind
of upset was that you were ratioing an angle to an edge,
and that was something like ratioing cows to moons and you
are not really sure that they fit together. 19
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 271-271. 11 Jul'62
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometry: Spherical Trigonometry:
(2)
"This is one of the troubles of having started our education
with parts of starting with lines and planes as being,
simple, and solids as being very difficult and sphericals
even more difficult. I have given you a Universe where we
start with the whole and then we begin to take out all our
parts and inspect the parts, and you will always find a
finite relationship of those parts-- so we come to a
sphere long before we come to a plane. A planar trigonometry
would be a very difficult one compared to spherical.
Once I am in the spherical I have a very fundamental condition
which is, in making these circles, what we call the arcs,
is a central angle. It is an angle. Therefore, when I am
doing spherical trigonometry, when I am dealing in central
angle or surface angle, you needn't say angles and edges.
I say this is a central angle because if you look on the
circle that arc is proportional to the central
angle. It is a central angle and a surface angle.
are dealing entirely in angles. If you started again from
the outside you would never have the uncomfortable feeling
about solving ratios between angles."
You
.
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 272. 11 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trigonometry: Spherical Trigonometry:
(3)
"Now we have learned about precession. We find that there
are fuddamental conditions of waves and the effect of systems
of precessing from the 90-degreeness so you go from the
central angle to the surface angle and you find over and
over again, each one of the progression . shown in the
series of 25 great circles. We find the three, going to
the four, the four going to the five. What had been the
central angles before became the surface angles; what were
the surface angles became the external angles. We find the
systems inherently turning themselves inside-out in respect
to these angles. The angles are independent of size.
They are fundamental. They are nondestructible. And so we
get the processing of edges from insideness and outsideness
and are beginning to understand and have a feeling about
the propagation of electromagnetic waves. And I have been
showing you where things literally were turning themselves out
and the space became the sphere and the other way. They were
doing that on the 25 great circle patterns. We have agreat
pulling togetherof a concept of fundamental waves and
understanding inside and outside angles. . . "
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 272-273. 11 Jul'62

Trigonometry:
See Angles & Edges
Central Angles & Surface Angles
Octant
Octantation
(1)

Trigonometry:
See Cartography: Conventional Projections, (2)
Octahedron, 3 Mar173
Comprehensibility of Systems
Spherical Triangle, 23 Jan
26 May '72
Omnirational Control Matrix, 12 May'75
Sin, 7 Nov 75
(2)

idF LFINITIONS
Trim Tab:
"A trim tab is a physical environmental control device in
a universe where change, motion and evolution are
inexorable.
You must not just have a theoretical
luca but reduce it to practice.
That is my strategy.
"
Cite RBF to S1. Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trim Tab:
"
.
In an airplane you have this great big rudder up
there, with a little tiny trim tab on the trailing edge,
and by moving that little trim tab to one side or the other
you throw a low pressure that moves the whole airplane.
The last thing, after the airplane has gone by, you just
move that little tab. And so I said to myself, 'I'm just
an individual, I don't have any capital to start things
with, but I can learn how to throw those low pressures to
one side or the other, and this should make things go in
preferred directions, and while I can't reform man,
I just
may be able to improve his environment a little. But in
order to build up those low pressures I'm going to have
to really know the truth."
Cite Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, & Jan. 66,
pp. 64-65.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trim Tab:
"The child is really the trim tab of the future."
Cite Calvin Tomkins, TheNew Yorker, 8 Jan. 66, p. 65.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trim Tab:
"Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one
little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary-- the whole
ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny
thing on the edge of the rudder called a trim tab. It's
a miniature rudder. Just moving that little trip tab builds
a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost
no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can
be a trim tab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that
it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic
things mentally,
the fact is that you can just put your
foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going
So I said, Call me Trim Tab."
to go.
-
Cite RBF tape_transcripf gor Barry Farrell for PLAYBOY
Interview, Feb 172. p. 46 of transcript, 199 of Nag.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trim Tab Sequence:
(1)
"Something hit me and hit me hard once-- thinking about what one
little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary, the whole ship
goes by and then comes the rudder. The rudder does a little
tiny thing and causes the great big ship to do so much. So I
said, I'm just little me and we have this great ship of state
and society moving this way and I'm not going to get anywhere by
getting out front and trying to push the bow around. That's
what all the reformers try to do.
"So what could I do? Next thing, take flying. The rudder of
your airplane, when you're moving it's a terrific job to move
that thing. There's a tiny section on the trailing edge of
the rudder called a trim tab. It's a miniature rudder. Just
moving the trim tab like that builds a low pressure and that
pulls the rudder around. It takes almost no effort at all.
When you get into jets you have to do it that way; to move the
jet at the velocity it's going is like trying to move it in
concrete. So the little trip tab pulls the big rudder around.
"
"So I said: What does the little individual do? A little
individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it's going right"
-
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #8, Side A,
transcript p. 1; 22 Aug 70.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trim Tab Sequence:
"by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing
dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put
your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is
going to go. So I said, if you've read some of my things,
Call me Trim Tab. I'm going to get some of these big things
to happen by doing little things.
(2)
"And there's no little thing quite so powerful as integrity.
And the truth is that you get the low pressure to do things
rather than the positives: and so you get rid of a little
nonsense, you get rid of everything that doesn't work and is
untrue, and you get the trim-tab motion every time. These are
the grand strategies you're going for. And really, I'm positive
that what you do with yourself-- just the little things you do
yourself: do you throw a little piece of paper on the ground?--
these are the things that count.
"To be a real trim tab you start with yourself. Once you start
with yourself it starts the low pressure and suddenly things
begin to work in a beautiful way. You started me off by asking
the question: How do these enormous things happen? Well, I've"
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #8, Side A,
transcript pp. 1-2; 22 Aug 70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trim Tab Sequence:
(3)
"seen enormous things happen. I've really tried things and I've
seen them
happen. But they can only happen when you're dealing
with really great
integrity. You must be helping evolution--
and then
they happen like that! She's trying very hard to make
man
a success. He was designed to be a success, even if he's
been
assuming he was supposed to be a failure."
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Isand; Tape #8, Side A,
transcript
p.2; 22 Aug 70

HBF JEFINITIONS
Trim Tab:
"Philosophically it is clear that trim tabs occur in the
trailing edges of trailing devices-- in the tail-end of
tail-end events-- at the stern of the ship as the last
event and not at the bow as the first event."
Citation and context at Ruddering Sequence (5), 1963

TEXT CITATIONS
Trim Tab:
New Forms Vs Reforms, WDSD Doc. #1, p.54. 1963

Trim Tab:
See Cybernetics
Rudder
Ruddering Sequence
Feedback
(1)

Trim Tab:
See You, Nov'67
(2)

RBF JFINITIONS
Trinity: Equation of Trinity:
"Einstein's formula, explaining as it does imperfection and
interference in terms of diffused but non-lost energy, provides
a specific means for the scientific measurements and rational-
ization of all life phenomena. This formula quite interestingly
represents as a mathematical explanation of life, what the
Christian religion attempted intuitively and philosophically to
express in name-words: god (the father in heaven)
holy ghost (on arth).""
son and
-Cite NING CHAIRS TO THE FOUN, p.63, 1938

Trinity:
Equation Of:
See Equation: Philosophical Equations

Trip: How Was the Trip:
See Flight, 3 Oct 73

Tripartite Component of Universe:
See Basic Event, Dec 71

Tripartite:
See Vector:
Vectors:
Threeness of the Vector
Three-vector teams
(1)

Tripartite:
See Basic Event, 18 Feb '66
Cosmic Complementary, 6 Nov' 73
Mite: Positive & Negative Functions (1)
Proton & Neutron, May172
Action-reaction-resultant, Jun'66
(2)

Triple-bonded:
See Chemical Bonda
Inter-triple-bonded

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tripod:
"Goldy now sees that gravity makes the three legs of the
tripod spread apart, but gravity also pulls the tripod
toward the Earth and also coheres
the Earth on which
the
tripod stands and gratuitously provides three more base
lines formed as a closed tension triangle which keeps the
three disintegrating tripod legs from coming apart and
thus guarantees the structural integrity of the tetrahedron
so formed.
"Since each of the tripod's three legs are trying to part
from the others, they are trying to subtract themselves from
one another so they are minus quantities. Therefore, in this
particular synergetic formulation's formula, one vector
leg
minus a second vector leg minus a third vector leg equals
(results in) the six positive vector legs (3-3-+6)
which
is
the minimum number of structural members of a
structural
system."
27
Cite GOLDYLOCKS, pp.C1-C2, May 75

Tripod:
See Tepee-tripod
(1)

Tripod:
See Topology: Synergetic & Eulerian, 28 Oct 72
Redundancy: Reduction Of, 22 Apr171
(2)

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Trisection of an Angle:
"We now have the hexagonally divided circle as a construct-
ionally proven geometrical relationship; and therefore we
have what the Greeks could not acquire: 1.e., a trisected
180-degree angle; ergo a six-equiangular subdivision of
spherical unity's 360 degrees into 60-degree omniaquiangularity;
ergo a geometrically proven isotropic vector matrix operat-
ional evolvement field.
-
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 841.16, 22 Nov'73

Trisection of an Angle:
See Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr*43

Trivalent:
See Chemical Bonds: Triple Bond
(1)

Trivalent:
See Compoundings of Systems, 10 May' 76
Quanta Loss by Congruence, (2)
Bubble Bursting, 20 Jan' 78
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Trix:
"Trix: My invented word for a sixtieth of a second of
angle or time.' n
$48
Citation and context at Angle: Pumping Fraction Factors, 15 Man'

Trolley System for the Whole Earth:
See Most Economical, 15 Jun 74

Trough as Contracted Phase of Universe:
See Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid, Feb 73

Trucks:
See Dymaxion Airocean World, (I)

RBF DEFINITIONS
True:
"It is preposterous to be deliberately ignorant about
'solid state' or 'black hole. They cannot see what is
true until they relinquish what is not true.'
"
-
Citation and context at Invisible Circuitry (2), 28 Oct 72

True:
See Real
Trix
Truth
(1)

True:
See Principle, May'49
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Truncated Tetrahedra:
**Surface' triangle structures are always truncated tetrahedra."
Citation & context at Structure, 26 Dec*74

Truncated Tetrahedra:
See Fourteen Axes of Truncated Tetrahedra
(1)

Truncated Tetrahedra:
See Rigidity vs. Resilience, 20 Dec 74
Prime Nuclear Structural Systems, 27 Dec 74
(2)

Truncation: Truncated:
See Complexocta
Truncated Tetrahedra
Untruncate
(1)

Truncation:
Truncated:
See T Module, 21 Jun 77
621
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truss:
"Intertrussed and intertriangulated are the same words: Truss:
And Triangle."
Trace:
-
Citation and context at Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot
Celestial Sphere (8), 25 Jan'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truss:
"Strutted trusses are high-tide aspects of edges
- Cite RBF tape Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 31 May 1971. p.,37.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truss:
"...A sphere is a polyhedron of invisible plurality
of trussed facets ('trussed because all polygobs are
reducible to triangles or trusses and are further irreducible)
and trusses are therefore basic polygons. Infinite poly-
hedron is infinitely faceted by basic trusses."
"A triangle (truss) is a tetrahedron of zero phase
altitiude."
Cite MCHALE, Plate 36 caption. 1962
Citation & context at Sphere, Nov 52
ISOTROPIC VECTOR MATRIX - 420.07

RAF JAFINITIONS
Truss:
"When later men learned that the structural strength at
the surface was not provided by the 'solid' quality of the
exterior shell, but by triangularly interstabilized lines
of force operative within that shell, they perforated the
shell with holes between the force lines. The minimum
holes were triangular. The pattern of triangulated force
lines, peppered with triangular holes in the hollowed out
structural shell, became what we call a truss.
We can say
the, firstly, that the hollowing out automatically reduced
the third power volumetric multiplication of relative
weight increase of structures as they increase in respect
to their primary linear dimensions."
-
- Cite "Tensegrity," PURTF LIC ART NEWS, p. 124,
Dec. 161

Truss:
See Beam
Gusset
Intertruss
Octet Truss
Strut
(1)

Truss:
See Sphere, Nov'52*
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial
Sphere (8)*
Universal Vertex Center Model, 29 Apr' 43
(2)

Trust:
See Cosmic Synergy, Jan'72
Death, 11 Sep 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"We may say that thinking about the truth alters truth, but
only to the extent of defining it. We may always clarify and
redefine the truth by making it more comprehensively considerate
and more incisively exquisite. Truth alters truth only by
refining the definition. The substance of the sensing and
instrumental control of the physical means of communication
are always refinable and trend toward the ephemeralization
of doing ever more with ever less, but you can never get to
the exact,
most economical statement of the truth for the very
communication will have ephemeralized to pure metaphysics.
Truths are like generalized principles: interaccommodative
and nonintercontradictory. Truths are special case realiza-
tions of the generalized principles; by these very aspects
are they discovered to be truths.
"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 504.11, 30 Jun'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"The truth belongs to everybody."
Cite RBF to EJA, Pagano's Rest., Phila., PA., 22 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
As
"As humans are physically situate halfway between the largest
and smallest known bio-organisms, they are also halfway between
the astro-largest and nuclear-smallest physical phenomena;
humans thus find themselves between an absolute, omnidirection-
al, equilibrious, dimensionless, metaphysical core contained
within a spheric sone twilight of macro-almost-true and
containing a spheric zone twilight of micro-almost-true.
humans are in the middle of the cosmic scheme metaphysically,
truth itself is an unreachable, omnidirectional, cosmic
center. The truth is zero eternal. Temporality = tempo-
reality time-reality. In temporality you cannot reach the
truth. You cannot be exact because truth is zero. Absolute
truth is an omnizerophase condition. The metaphysical
comprehension passes through, expandingly and contractively,
but fails ever to remain at the zero core of equilibrious
truth."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 504.14; RBF rewrite,
Phila. PA., 22 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Truth is special case. Truths tend to articulate
generalized principles.
"God is the synergetic integral of all truths... but these
are just words, utterly inadequate. You can only talk to
god on behalf of everybody.
"I have had experiences that make me feel that god knows
what I am doing."
SPECIAL
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 31 Jan' 75
CASE 2ND ED. SEC. 504-13)
-
-

REF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Truth is cosmically total: synergetics.
Verities are
generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms.
Verities are differentiable. "
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1005.54,
29 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal
is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations
of generalisations. The truth could not be more omni-important,
although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear
identification of a special-case experience on a specialized
subject. Verities are semi-special-case. The metaphor is
linear."
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 1005,52, 29 Dec'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"All the cosmic generalized principles are omni embracing-
always-true. Truth, like gravity, is nonlinear; it is
omniembracing. And of all the creatures on our planet, only
humans have demonstrated the ability to discover such truth."
SPECIAL CASE
Context and citation at Radiation-Gravitation Sequence (3),
5 Jun'73
2ND ED SEC 504.13)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
... You keep reducing the tolerance for error. As we reduce
the tolerance for error we begin to get near the eternal, which
is what we'll call the truth. But we'll never quite get there...
Man being pretty much in the middle, as is the truth itself in
a kind of twilight zone on either side of the truth-- both
microcosm and macrocosm. kind of closing in on it."
Citation and context at Middle, Feb 73
2ND ED
SEC 505, 14 +15
SPECIAL CASE

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"The eternal is embracing and the temporal is linear. This
opens up a very high order of generalizations of generaliza-
tions. The truth could not be more important, although it
is often only a linear identification of a special-case
experience on a specialized subject. Truths are semi-
special-case. The metaphor is linear."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1005.53, 16 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"In the inherently endless scenario model of Einstein's
Universe truth is ever approaching a catalogue of alternate
transformative options of ever more inclusive and refining
degrees, wherefore the metaphysical might continually
improve the scenario by conceptual discoveries of new
generalized principles."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 217.03, 10 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"But as long as self-consciousness continues
The inherent inexactitude of
Earthian mind's self-and-environment apprehending--
Yclept life-- will continue
Only as a dependent function
Infinitely subordinate
To cosmic totality.
"But life will-- ever and an on--
Experience inspirational glimpsing
Of the orderly cosmic vectors
All of which point convergingly to absolute--
Ergo incomprehensible to temporality--
Truth."
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan 172, pp. 8-9.
SPECIAL
-
CASE 2ND ED
SEC 504.12

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Conceptual totality
Is inherently prohibited.
But exactitude can be bettered
and measurement refined
by progressively reducing
Residual errors
Thereby disclosing
The directions of truths
Ever progressing
Toward the eternally exact
Utter perfection,
Complete understanding
Absolute wisdom
Unattainable by humans
"P
Cite IRAN, 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Truth is spontaneous; lying has to be learned."
(also appears in verse)
Cite RBF to EJA in N.Y.C.
10 Dec 70

RBF DEFINTTIONS
Truth:
"The truth is sero. You can't get to the truth.
You can't be exact because truth is sero."
Cite WATTS TAPE, p. 39, 19 Oct 70
SPECIAL CASE
-
2ND,
ED
SEC 504.14

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Truth is ever approaching evolutionary and constantly
intertransforming, precessionally behaving, process of
a complex of omni-accommodative intercomplementary
transactional events . . . in ever closer proximity to
perfect equilibrium of all transformative forces, but
never attaining such equilibrium.
1
Cite Pendulum Model VS, Scenario Model. 23 Dec168
SPECIAL CASE 2ND ED
SEC. 504.15\

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
Absolute Truth
an omni-zerophase condition
Metaphysical passes through but fails to remain
at the zero of equilibrious truth.
TT
Cite Penduln Model VS, Scenario Noodel. 23 Dec'68
SPECIAL CASE,
2ND ED- SEC 504.147

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"We've gotten so that you cannot get to any absolute truths.
The word truth is simply a direction rather than an attain-
ment. It's not a static. Truth is really then a yielding to
the integrity of the intellect, not trying to persist in
sticking with something familiar, just trying to rationalize
what you thought was an explanation. I say then that we're
coming very swiftly into an era when we will think together,
an enormous comprehensive spontaneity of society to act in
unison- as you see a beautiful flight of birds acting,
simply because we will be adhering to the information which
is closer to the truth, and the truth will be guiding us all
the time. The nuances will be much more impressive, much
more delicate, much more exciting!"
Cite RBF quoted in the San Francisco Oracle, Voll, No.11,
2ND ED. SEC
504.161
1967
SPECIAL CASE,

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"I have learned that truth
Is an omnipresent, omnidirectional,
Evolutionary awareness,
One of whose myriadly multiplying facets
Discloses that there are no 'absolutes'
No 'ends' in themselves-- no 'things'--
Only transitionally transformative verbing."
Cite HOW LITTEE, p. 52. Oct166

RBR DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Post-Greek electron-microscopy and Heisenberg's indeterminism
show that the seemingly self-evident is always superficial and
utterly deceptive and that truth is at best inexact."
Citation and context at Axiom, Jun*66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement, and
magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability,
which referes, as directional or angular sense, toward
centralized truths. Truth is a relationship."
Gite TOTAL THINKING;
233, Mayt49-
-
Citation and context at Relativity, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
"Even thinking about truth alters truth."
-
Compare this to Observation entry cited to Hugh Kenner
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p. 226. 1949
(Context at Epigenetic Landscape, May'49)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
11
Truth may not be dealt with as isolated, but only as
relative relationships of interaction governing in
principle the interactions of specially nonsimultaneous
sets of dynamic principles."
-
Citation and context at Reciprocity (4), May'49

HBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
so
"It is only on first revelation that a truth is obviously
new. Its recurrence as an idea appears to be age old
and common knowledge. That is the way of truth. It
thoroughly harmonizes within all the scope of our reason
that it makes little note of its entry. On the other
hand a warped truth or fallacy lingers long within our
reasoning chambers and makes much impression. The
truth-loving, non-procrastinating mind analyses to the
end. The laggard mind merely marvels at the sensation
set up by the discordant fallacy. In either case there
is more sensation in the fallacious statement than in the
truth. We constantly overlook the harmonious and
important truth in life until, at some distance of time
or space, our perspective is repaired."
Cite 4-D, Preface, May 1928

RBF DEFI.ITICS
Truth and Love:
"Truths are then differentiable. But love is omni-embracing,
omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exoptions. Love,
like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
Differential means locally-discontinuously linear. Integration
means spherical. And the intereffects are precessional.
"In the highest order of generalizations is the comparison
of truth and love."
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1005.55 + 1005.57, 16 Feb'73

REF DEFINITIONS
Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual Error:
Q.
What do you mean by the contrast of acceleration vs.
eternal slowdown?
RBF:
"We are going faster. It is more than just the
60,000 M.p.h. of the Earth-around-the-Sun. Our jet planes add
to that and so we are getting enormous acceleration compared to
our forebears.
"The generalizations are eternal.... Heisenberg.... The more
accurately we state the truth the less frequently it becomes
necessary to modify our statement of it. We have to change
what we say less and less. Eventually it works back to the
eternality of No Change.'
SPECIAL
Cite RBF to videotaping session, Philadelphia, PA., 1 Feb'75
2ND, ED SEC 504.171
CASE

RBF DEFINITIONS
Diminution
of Residual Error:
Truth as Progressive
"It seems thar Truth
Is progressive approximation
In which the relative fraction
Of our spontaneously tolerated residual error
Constantly diminishes.
This is a typical
Antientropy proclivity of man
--
Entropy being the law
Of increase of the random element.' "
Cite HOW LITTLE, p. 53, Oct166

Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual Error:
See Eternal Slowdown
Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence
No Finality of Human Comprehension
Perfect Direction
Residual Ignorance of Temporality
(1)

Truth as Progressive Reduction of Error:
See Synergetics, 22 Jun 77
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Truth & Nontruth:
"To perceive of and say 'truth' invokes the concept of
non-truth, ergo diffrentiation."
Sec. 529.07
- Citation at Differentiation, 20 Dec'71
Cite fit marginalia, 20-Dec. 7 SYNERGETICS-Draft,
Sec. 529.0

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth:
Thinking About Truth Alters Truth:
"Thinking about truth alters truth only to the extent of
defining it."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 15 May'75
SPECIAL CASE
2ND ED SEC 504.11

Truth: Thinking About Truth Alters Truth:
See Heisenberg-Eliot-Pound Sequence, May'49
Truth, 30 Jun'75

Truth-trends:
See False Property Illusion, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Truth: Zero of Equilibrious Truth:
" ...Disorder attains and passes through maximum asymmetry as
the metaphysical passes through but fails to remain at the
zero of equilibrious truth...
"
Citation and context at Metaphysical, 23 Dec'68
SPECIAL CASE
2ND ED SEC 504.14)

Truth:
See Conceptual Totality
Industry as Broadcasting of Truth to Individualism
Lies
Local Truth
Lying
Spontaneous Truth of Childhood
Verities
Youth, Truth & Love
(1)

Truth:
See Architecture, Jan'34
Axiom, Jun'66*
Child Sequence (2)-(4)
Communications, Oct 170
Differentiation, 20 Dec 71*
May 49*
Epigenetic Landscape,
Industrialization, 1928
Integrity, 11 Aug170
Intellection, Oct'66
Lying, Deci73
Measurement (1)
Middle, Feb 73*
Metaphysical, 23 Dec'68*
Pendulum Model vs. Scenario Model, 23 Dec '68*
Radiation-gravitation Sequence (3)*
Reciprocity (4)*
Relativity, May'49*
Rememberable Names, 14 Jan'74
Trim Tab, 8 Jan166'
Vector Equilibrium,
Summer' 74
Possession, 10 Jun 74
(2A)

Truth:
See Mistake, 7 Nov' 75
Self-discipline, 28 Kar' 77
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (2)
(2B)

Truth:
See Truth & Love
Truth as Progressive Diminution of Residual Error
Truth: Thinking About Truth Alters Truth
Truth-trends
Truth: Zero of Equilibrious Truth
Truth & Nontruth
(3)

Tube:
See Cylinder
Pipe
Plastic Tube of Universe
Rod
Geodesic Spiral Tube
(1)

Tube:
See Curvature:
Simple, (1)
(2)
Plastics, 10 Aug170
Octahedron as Conservation & Annihilation Model, 23 Jun 75
Wind Stresses & Houses, (10)

Tuck in a Plane:
See Visibility, 19 Jun'71

Tuck in the Universe:
See Disparity, 1960

Tuck:
See Takeout
Tetrahedral Tuck

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"You can get a new Universe every time you get a new
tuning. But they are all complete Universes; they are all
systemic.
"The multipliability and infinite range of frequency of
modular subdivisibility of the primitve whole system and the
multiplicity of optional intertransformabilities accomplish-
able at alternate frequencies and durations provides the
synchronous and dissynchronous overlappability of episodes
of Scenario Universe as always uniquely tuned in by the
variable cognition relay lags of any individual tuners."
Cite RBF rewrite of 24 Apr 176

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"You can get a new Universe every time you get a new
tuning. But they are all complete Universe; they are
all systemic."
Cite RBF to EJa, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC: 23 Apr176

HBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"Convergence to frequency magnitude is tunability.
As
with all wave phenomena, tunability is in terms of whole
cycles converging to a vertex.
"
-
Citation and context at Cycle, 10 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"Any point can tune in any other point in Universe. All that
is necessary is that they both employ the same frequency, the
same resonance, the same system, center to center."
Citation at Point, 16 Nov' 72

ROF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"When we speak of allspace filling, we refer only to a
conceptual set of in-
time local relationships. This is
what we mean by tunability."
Citation at Allspace Filling, 22 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
But
"The eye can resolve intervals of about 1/100th of an inch,
or larger. Below that we do not see the aggregates as
points. Therafter we see only 'solid' color surfaces.
our color receptivity, which means our only-human-optics-
tunable range of electromagnetic radiation frequencies cannot
'bring in, i.e., resonatingly respond to, more than about
one-millionth of the now known and only instrumentally
tune-in-able overall electromagnetic frequency range of
physical Universe. This is to say that humans can tune in
directly to less than one-millionth of physical reality,
ergo cannot 'see' basic atomic and molecular structuring
events and behaviors, but our synergetic tensegrity principles
of structuring are found instrumentally to be operative to
the known limits of both micro- and macro-Universe system
relationships as the discontinuous, entropic, radiational,
and omnicohering, collecting, gravitational sytropics."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec.713.06, 19 Oct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"Apprehension means information furnished by those wave
frequencies tune-in-able within man's limited sensorial
spectrum."
Cite SYNERGETICS, "Universe," Sec. 302. 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"Any large auditorium could theoretically accommodate the
physical presence of more then 100,000 radio sets each of
which could be tuned in simultaneously to receive a program
different from any and all of the others for today there are
at all times more than 100,000 different programs being
broadcast coincidentally from places around the Earth.
There are everywhere invisibly present those more then 100,
000 programs, purveying very real information permeating our
space, passaging our walls and our bodies. All and more of
the phenomena that yesterday were assumed to be mystical
or magical are now physically explicable and deliberately
employable."
Cite ARCHITECTURE AS ULTRA INVISIBLE REALITY, Dec. '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"At almost any spot anywhere around the earth there
are always thousands of different radio or TV programs
silently and invisibly present. With a wide band radio
set we can tune any one of their "12" components of
the environment, in the same way the other factors tune
in or out."
-
Cite NASA Speech, pp 33,34
Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"Not only does man have a very narrow range of tunability
in the electromagnetic spectrum where he can actually
see, but he also has a very narrow spectrum of motion
apprehension.
He cannot see the hands of the clock moving
or the stars or any of the atoms in motion."
Git THE YEAR 2000, San Jose State College
Mar+66
-
Citation & context at Extrasensoriality. Mar'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"A wave is a principle. Discovering that we have waves
which are tunable waves, which we will call the spectrum
of light, and that we have waves of the air which we call
sound, and other kinds of waves, there are tunable limits
to what hear and then we get into infra and ultra sonic.
We recognize then that we have a very small spectrum of
tunability in respect to each one of our apprehending
capabilities, Recognizing then that we have discovered this
wave that operated in the phenomena water, milk or
whatever it was, and yet was not a tunable wave. It was
not in the spectrum of tunability, but yet we got
information from it by what we call step-up or step-down
transformations. Time and again as scientists we go
through step-up and step-down frequencies and bring things
into the audible range by relayings and stepping-up until
finally we get the messages coming over the air, coming out
of electromagnetic waves, and we put these together as
familiar sounds."
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
p. 164, 9 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"When television or radio waves pass through the walls of a
house, when light waves pass through a window or a lens,
there are always some comprehensively relayed local jostlings,
some sets of submicroscopic eddies of force that accommodate
the push through. The complementary effect-- what in conver-
sational language is the 'resistance'
of the wall,
window or lens-- and what in synergetics is called the
precessionally shunted pattern relay.."
Citation and context at Wave, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability:
"Newly recognized generalized principles seem emergent in
unprecedentedly accelerating accumulation as reported from the
instrumentally extended range, velocity, and exactitude of
special case experiences in the most recent moments of history's
scientific venturing. The manywhere local probings have been
meticulously organized and reported regarding measurable rela-
tionships and rates of changing relationships throughout the
vast macrocosmic and exquisite microcosmic angle and frequency
Universe events both infra and ultra to man's direct tunability
yet instrumentally tunable and transformably readable within
regenerative informative tolerance despite inherently limited
observational exactitude."
Cite INTRODUCTION to OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.120, 1959

Tunability Convergence:
See Convergence, 10 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tunability: Intra & Ultra:
"Universe is the sum total of all men's progressively
sensed,
imaginable, and teleologically translated experience
by inherency of man's
available circuit tuning limits and
relative
feedback lags. All man's experiences may not be
consciously tuned in.
Ergo Universe is both ultra- and
intra-
tunable. Ergo Universe is simultaneously untunable
and only
progressively thinkable."
Citation at Universe, 1954

Tunability: Infra & Ultra:
See Infratunable
Non-sensoriality:
Infra & Supra
Infra & Ultra Tunable: Infra & Ultra Visible
(1)

Tunability:
Infra & Ultra:
See Minimum of Four Tetrahedra, 22 Feb'77
Polyhedra, 18 Jul176
Silence, 30 Sep' 76
Somethingness & Nothingness, 7 Oct'75
Thinkaboutability, 8 Feb' 76
Universe, 1954*
Visibility & Invisibility of Systems, (1)
Tetrahedron as Microsystem, 12 May' 77
Tetrahedron, 8 Aug'77
(2)

Tuning Dismissal of Irrelevancies:
See Tuning, 20 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tune-in-ability:
"Humans' senses... and possibly an ultra-high-frequency
electromagnetic wave tune-in-ability."
-
Citation & context at Human Mind & Physical Evolution, (4) (5)
5 Jun175

Tunable Set: Tuned-in Set:
See Death, 29 Mar 77
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tuning:
"Tuning = dismissal of irrelevancies. Those too large and
too low frequency are dismissed omnidirectionally. Those too
small and too high frequency are dismissed inwardly. The
tuning phenomenon is either inward or omnidirectional."
-
Incorporated in SYNERGETIC 2 draft at Sec. 526.17
Cite RBF videotaping sessipn Philadelphia, Pa., 20 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Tuning-in & Tuning-out:
"Out is any direction. You go in to go out because out
is not only any direction but is all directions--electro-
magnetically speaking it is 'tuned-out. In is what we are
thinking about now. In is the momentary reality into which
we are tuned. All the rest is for the moment tuned-out but
equally real as progressively tuned-in.
"Physics finds that Universe has no solid things surrounded
by and interspersed with space. Life is an inventory of
Birth is the first tuning-in; death may
in-and-out tunings.
not be the last.
-
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 at secs. 526.26 & 526.27
Citation & context at In, Out & Around, 17 May' 77

Tuning-in & Tuning-out:
See Irrelevancies:
Sorting
Thinkability
Tunability
(1)
Dismissal of
Articulated & Unarticulated
Interference . Nonintereference
Somethingners & Nothin;;ness
Frequency Interval
Visible Invisible

Tuning-in & Tuning-out:
See Synergetics, 17 Oct'77
(2)
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Tunability: Tuning:
See Conceptual Tuning
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Equi-interval = Tuned
Finitely Tuned Somethingness
Frequency Modulation
Instrumentation
Intellectually Tunable
Invisible Motion
Invisible Operation of Thousands of Radio Programs
Invisible Reality
Minimum Tunability
Optical Tuning Crystal
Optical Tuning & Scanning
Radio Tuning Crystal
Sensorial Spectrum
Step-ip, Step-down Transformation
Intertunable
Infratunable
Ultratunable
(1A)

Tunability: Tuning:
See Telepathic Tunability
Tetratuning
Time-sizing
Transmission:
Consciously Tuned
Tunability = Convergence
Unpremeditated Tuning
Tune-in-ability
Somethingness
Subtunability
Untunable: Untuned
Organic Tunability
Valving: Valvability
Vertexes = Tunings
(1B)

Tunability: Tuning:
See Accommodation, 1960
Apprehension, 1971
Cycle, 1955; 10 Feb 73*
Design Covariables:
Principle of, 1959
Equi-interval, 17 Feb'73
Environment Events Hierarchy, (2)
Extrasensoriality, Mar'66*
Infinite, 1955
Instrumentation, 1963
Isotropic Vector Matrix, 30 Nov 72
Omnidirectional, 1954
Pattern, 1954
Point, 16 Nov 72*
Principle, 12 Jun'50
Scenario Principle, 1959
Spheric Experience, 20 Feb'73
System Zoneness 8 Jan '55
Touch, 29 Dec'58
(2A)

Tunability: Tuning:
See Universe, 1954*
lave, 1960**
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid, (A)
Zoned System: Zoned Limits, 1954
Allspace Filling, 22 Oct'72*
Nonpolarized, 12 Nov 75
Compoundings of Systems, 10 May' 76
Aural, 22 Feb 77
Olfactoral, 22 Feb'77
Tactile, 22 Feb'77
Visual, 22 Feb 77
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid,
22 Jun 177
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (4) (5)
(28)

200
Tunability: Tuning:
See Tunability
Tunability
Tunability:
-
Convergence
Infra & Ultra
Tuning = Dismissal of Irrelevancies
Tune-in-ability
Tunable Set:
Tuned-in Set
Tuning-in & Tuning-out
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
-
Turbining:
"We have said that this is a vector equilibrium and in a
zero-condition and is non-reality. Nature would not permit
it but a minute after that these six edges turbine around
that point one way or another and you see plenty of the
models of the lines turbining, abounde will have to say
that there had to be a moment theoretically when this plane
went from being a positive tetrahedron to a negative tetrahedron
which it could be, and had theoretically to pass through
that point."
239, 14 Juli6e
Citation & context at ector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron (3),
11 Jul 62

Turbining-counterturbining:
See Energetic Functions
Male & Female Turbining Hubs
Torque & Countertorque

Turbining Model:
See Hole in the Victrola Disc, 24 Jan 75

Turbine: Turbining:
See Gas Turbine
Lever Complexes
Turbine Model
Turbining-counterturbining
(1)

Turbining: Turbinal: Turbine:
221
(2)
See Irreversibility, 4 May'57
Parity, 1967
Tensegrity: Vertexial Connections, Dec'61
Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron (2) (3)*
Wire Wheel, 4 May'57
Crystallography, 17 Aug'70
Stark, Apr 44
Duality of Universe, May'49
Tensegrity Kasts:
Pentagonal Polarity, 27 Dec' 76

Turbo-system:
See Convergence & Divergence, 1955

Turbulence Model:
See Rubber Tires, 24 Jan' 75

Turbulence:
See Relative Asymmetry Sequence, (1)
Transformations, 10 Oct' 50
Weather, Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Turn:
"You will be turning, or angularly reorienting your direction."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draf aa Sec. 539.06, 23 Sep'73

Turnaround Limit:
See Spherical Wave Terminal Limit Velocity
(1)

Turnaround Limit:
See Nuclear Sphere, 16 Dec'73
(2)

Turnaround:
See Inbound-outbound Turnaround
(1)

Turnaround:
See Syntropy & Entropy, (A)
T Quanta Module, (1) (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Turtle Dome:
"Look at this turtle. This is the way I am going to do another
dome... where the outer ring is continually opening from the
inside out, so it gets to be bigger. You build on the inside
and it keeps on
unrolling. You get to a great conch
sheel and every time the creature pushes more goo out-- the
creature keeps pumping in and out--it gets built on the outer
rim as he keeps pushing it out. The big turtle does not have
All
more rings than the small one, he just has bigger ones.
the plates grow locally.
"How do you make a whole building grow? I saw that this was
a way to make a whole geodesic dome grow; where the hexagons
simply grow you can have an expandable dome with no trouble at
all. Local finite closures: expanding each hexagon from the
inside. That solves the problem when people say you can add to
a rectangular building but you can't add to a dome. But you can
in this way. Notice how long the turtles live. They last out
pretty well; they can accommodate their growth with a hard shell."
-Cite RBF to HUGH Kenner, Phila., PA, Transcript p.11, 9 Jun 75

Turtle Dome:
See Evaginating, 22 Jun 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Turtle Hex-pent:
"The back of a turtle is a combined pattern of pentagons and
hexagons a hex-pent matrix. As the turtle grows, each
individual hex-pent pattern adds a new ridge in the outer
edge. This is apparent when you closely examine the turtle's
back.
"The process is analagous to how I have provided for the
organic growth of geodesic hex-pent domes, which could be
done just by inserting successive caulkings or layerings
around each hex-pent module.
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 12 May'75

TV:
See Television: TV

TV: The TV Generation:
See Daddy, (1)(2)
Young World, (1); 4 Jul172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve:
"There were systems based on modulo twelve.
The system was in twelves
For the very simple reason that the decimal system doesn't
Embrace the number three rationally.
Since they had so many threefold experiences,
And the triangle was so important,
They really wanted something that would embrace it evenly.
So they came to twelve."
Cite RBF Draft, Numerology 4.2
1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve:
"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-foldedness or its
various multiples."
Structures," dated 25 December 1968
- Citation & context at Structure, 25 Dec 68
311

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Alternate Options of Action:
"The octet truss is the evolutionary patterning, intervectory-ing,
and intertrajectory-ing, 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'73

KBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve-Inch Steel World Globe:
(1)
"I want to share with you a little exercise I frequently give
myself in order to decondition my subconscious reflexing whenever
that reflexing produces spontaneous behavior in ways that we
know through experience to be ignorant, inept, irrelevant, and
evolution-frustrating. This is my cosmological exercise. I
think about the following: The planet Earth is about 8000 miles
in diameter. The highest mountain is five miles above sea level.
The deepest ocean is five miles below sea level. There is a ten-
mile differential between the innermost and outermost aberrations
in the spheric surface of our Earth. Ten miles in relation to
8000 miles is 1/800.
"If you take a twelve-inch world globe of polished steel, it
probably has greater radial dimension aberration than 1/800 of
its diameter. Astronauts cannot see any signs of humans aboard
our planet as they ancroach the arth from the Moon. They do
not even see mountains. They see only a polished, color-
marbleized ocean and continents' pattern through the dominant
cloud cover. The average height of humans of all ages is about
five feet. There are approximately 5000 feet in a mile. If
1000 humans made a column by standing on one another's heads,
we could make a column.
ten miles high. Ten miles is the"
colum
(2)
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD:
ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE PROGRAM,1

RBF JFINITIONS
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe:
(2)
"difference between the deepest ocean and the highest mountain.
bo you and i, then, are 1/10,000 of invisible on our twelve-
inch globe. Now 75 percent of our planet Earth is covered with
water and another 20 percent is uninhabited for one 'frozen
mountain reason or another. Uur 3.6 billion Earthian humans
are invisibly secreted in fractional percentages on those little
continents, with six percent in Central and South America,
eight percent in North America, ten percent in Africa, 20 percent
in Europe, and 50 percent in Asia.
"The diameter of the star bun is exactly 100 times that of our
8000-mile diameter Earth. With an engineer's scale you can see
1/50 of an inch, but you can't see 1/100 of an inch-- it is a
blur. if you make a little circle of wire one-inch in
diameter and hold it at arm's length from your eye, you will
find that it matches the size of the perimeter of the white-
ghost disk of the sun on a day when the Sun can be looked at
through thin clouds. And so, against that one inch, the 1/100
of an inch that is our Earth's diameter would not be visible."
"The star Betegeuse in the constellation Urion, has a diameter"
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD: WE ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE PROGRAM,
World Fag., 17 Jul'73

12
HBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve-Inch Steel World Globe:
(3)
"larger than that of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
Betelgeuse is one of the big stars. Our Sun is one of the
small stars. There are 100 billion stars in our galaxy. There
are a billion other such galaxies within the 22-billion-diameter
sphere of observation of Kount Palomar's 200-inch 'reflector.
Ninety-nine percent of the 100 quadrillion 'known' stars are
beyond the range of the naked eye, but altogether they form,
in effect, a thickly galactic, spherical-cloud array omnisurr-
ounding us, at whose 66 quintillion-male-radius center is
located our little Falky Way galaxy and, deep within it, our
minuscule solar system, deep within which rotates and orbits
our minuscule Earth. That will give you an idea of what a
fantastically negligible cosmic speck is this Earth of ours.
We are y2 million miles away from the Sun, and we receive all
our life-supporting energy from it.
"If our local 'gas station,' the sun, ran out of life-supporting
energy, the next closest refueling star is 25 trillion miles
away. Its li"gets 4-2/3 years to get to us-- coming at 700
million miles an hour. So when someone says, 'Never mind that
space stuff-- let's get down to Earth; Let's be practical!' pay
no attention. We are nothing but a space program. We are so
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD: WE ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE PROGRAM,
World Fag., 17 Jul'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe:
"physically negligible as to be approximately space itself.
(4)
"I don't think that stars are paying much attention when one
of those little 3 billion specks on board this almost invisible
Earth saya,
'We can't afford it.' I don't think the Sun 18
saying, "We can't afford to keep those people living on planet
Earth because they haven't paid their bill.' The Universe is
not concerned with how Earthians raise millions of something
they call dollars."
(2)
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD: WE ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE PROGRAM,
World Mag., 17 Jul173

MBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe:
(A)
"...And Professor Goddard then said: Here's our planet Earth
going around the Sun at 60,000 miles an hour. And you and I are
on board with it going at 60,000 miles an hour around the
Sun.
If we take any of the objects on board in this co-orbiting
of
the Sun, and accelerate one of them, as it leaves this Earth
every time it doubles its distance away, the attraction-- the
tendency to fall back in-- is only one-quarter of what it had
been before. It wouldn't have to go very far out before there
would be no tendency to fall back in at all. That is you would
Out
of this
then be affected by other bodies in the Universe.
came our rocketry but very few people would have really pictured
this in any kind of a model form. To get a little idea--
when
we were first told that the vehicles being rocketed into the
sky had gone into orbit the altitude that they did so was about
100 miles out from the planet Earth. You and 1, with the highest
mountain at five miles, and the highest flying jet plane flying
And it is so far
at about ten miles out, 100 miles is way out.
out that people don't start to try to picture it.
"But I'd like you to take a twelve-inch globe representing an
8,000-mile diameter Earth: and 100 miles in relation to 8,000
miles is 1/80th. And you'll find then that if you take a
twelve-inch globe, the thickness of a paper match, the thinness"
Cite RBF Address, transcript p.5, Tel Aviv, 16 Jun 72

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve-inch Steel World Globe:
(B)
"of a paper match, gives you 100 miles. So if you glue just a
little paper match on to a twelve-inch globe, that's the altitude
at which it goes into orbit. In other words its just presumably
almost still in the print of that globe. In other words, then,
And
The
almost no distance at all when the other bodies take over.
at this point we say it goes into orbit. Instead of trying to
fall in, it now goes off in orbit at 90 degrees. Now this is
very strange because 180 degrees is what we had with the falling-
in, it now goes off in orbit at 90 degrees. Now this is very
strange because 180 degrees is what we had with the falling-in
and now suddenly it's going at 90 degrees-- going around.
effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion is what we
call precession. And precession is to affect them at angles
other than-- they do not tend to at 180 degrees of faling-n--
but to operate at angles tangent, sometimes y0-degreeness,
sometimes maybe at other angles, but primarily in the yo-
degree range. Ukay?
"if you think about the dimension that I've just given you in
relation to our tiny little Earth, and to think about the
distance to our own Sun, 92 million miles, or the next nearest"
Cite RDF Address, transcript p. 5, Tel Aviv, 16 Jun 172

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve-Inch Steel World Globe:
(c)
"starit takes light coming at 700 million miles an hour.
it takes 4 and 2/3rds years for the light to get to us. That's
from just the nearest star in the whole of universe. Our little
8,00-mile globe is a very small thing, and just 100 miles out
from it and you don't tend to fall back in. in fact you find
that 99.9999999 percent of Universe you'd do nothing about
falling into anything else. You'd just be in orbit. Falling-
in' is a very unique condition."
NO
Cite RBF Address, transcript p.5, Tel Aviv, 16 Jun 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Pentagona:
"In every geodesic sphere, you can always take out 12
pentagons. These 12 pentagons each drop out one triangle
from the hexagonal clusters around all other points. Assum-
ing the dropped-out triangles to be equiangular 1.e., with
60-degree corners, this means that 60 x 12 = 720°, which has
been eliminated from the total inventory of surface angles.
You can always find 12 pentagons on spherically conformed
systems such as oranges, which are icosahedrally based; or
four triangles with 120-degree corners if the system is
tetrahedrally based; or six squares where the system is
octahedrally based.
Citation & context at Geodesic Sphere, (2)(3), Aug171

Twelve Pentagons:
See Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons
Nex-pent Sphere
(1)

Twelve Pentagons:
See Geodesic Sphere (2)(3)
Dodecahedron, 23
Feb
72
12:
(2)

REF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
There will
"Everything in Universe is divisible by two.
always be two poles to any system. Unity is two.
"All the aspects of the constant relative abundances of
facings, crossings, and lines are divisible by two: two
and six edges.
Thus there are
six
faces, four crossings,
vectorial moves for every event; and each of the vectorial
Positional differentials in
moves is reversible, hence 12.
Universe derive only from the sixness of the 12 degrees of
freedom."
(IKORPORATED in SynenCETICS 2 AT
537.08-09
-
Cite RBF in videotaping session, Philadelphia, Pa. 1 Feb 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"The behavioral interpatterning frame of reference of the
six degrees of freedom in respect to omnidirectionality is,
of course, the vector equilibrium, which embraces the three-
dimensionality of the cube and the six-dimensionality of the
vector equilibrium. Experience is inherently omnidirectional;
ergo there are always a minimum of twelve 'others' in respect
to the nuclear observing self.
"The 24-positive- and 24-negative-vectored vector equilibrium
demonstrates an initially-frequenced, tetrahedrally quantized
unity of 20; ergo the Universe, as an aggregate of all humanity's
apprehended and comprehended experiences, is at minimum a
plurality of 24 vectors."
131
-TO
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 537. 19 Nov' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"With each and every event in Universe, no matter how
frequently recurrent, there are always twelve unique, equieco-
nomical, omnidirectionally operative, alternative action
options: which twelve occur as four sets of three always
interdependent and concurrent actions, reactions, and resultants."
-
Citation & context at Gravity (a), 12 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Each of the six positive and six negative energy lines
impinging on every nonpolarized point ('focal event') in
Universe has a unique and symmetrical continuation beyond
that point. The six positive and six negative vectors are
symmetrically arrayed around the point. Consequently, all
points in Universe are inherently centers of a local and
unique isotroic-vector-matrix domain containing 12 vertexes
as the corresponding centers of 12 closest-packed spheres
around a nuclear sphere."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 537.11; galley rewrite 7 Nov' 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Universe has always operative 12 uniquely alternate degrees
of
freedom of realization of physical events."
-
Citation and context at inventability Sequence (2), 9 Jul*73
21

REF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Gibbs deals with energy associative as matter, and what
the degrees of energetic freedom may be within a local
physical complex, and what amounts of energy would have
to be added
locally to bring about other
states."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1054.12, 6 Mar 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"First powering expresses only one vector, 1.8. 1/12th
of relevant system potential.'
- Citation and context at Powering: One Dimension, 14 Oct 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
•
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

14
RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"The eternality of the generalized principles brings about
differential lags, the aberrations in the rates of recall.
Differential lags are inherent in the mathematics of the
twelve universal degrees of freedom of the vector equilibrium
which characterize an event in pure principle. The six
vectors of an event can be articulated linearly or in a
hexagonal circle. It is inherent in the mathematics of
the degrees of freedom which demand the invention of time
due to the varying rates of recall of observation of the
behavior of the vectors."
-
Cite RBF to JA, 3200 Idaho, wash DC, 29 May 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
12 DEGREES
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"With respect to every nonpolar point in omnitriangulated
systems there are three lines, or edges, networking the surface.
There are also always three lines (which can be regarded
either as tetragonal edges or vectors) connecting the points
by omnitriangulation either to the next inwardly or outwardly
concentric omnitriangulated point layer.
"It follows from this that every nonpolar point in the energy
Universe monopolizes an inherent inventory of six energy lines.
Of even more significance is the fact that each of these six
energy lines, impinging on every nonpolarized point (focal
event) in the Universe has a unique and symmetrical continua-
tion beyond that point. The continuation of the lines can
be regarded as negative vectors. The six positive and and
six negative vectors are symmetrically arrayed around the
point. Consequently, if we exclude two points in Universe,
all other points in Universe are inherently the center of a
local and unique (vestor-equilibrium-domain) isotropic vector
matrix containg 12 vertexes as the corresponding centers of the
12 closest packed spheres around a nuclear sphere."
Cite MARKS, p.47, as rewritten by HBF Feb 72 SUPERSEDED_BY
RBF GALLEY REWRITE 7 NOV 737
OF FREEDOM SEC. 537.117

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal 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. Experience is inherently omnidirectional.
Ergo, there is not just one 'other.' There are always
at least 12 'others.' Ergo, vector equilibrium, which is
subfrequency. Happenability has the vector equilibrium as
its minimum model, ergo the Universe, experience, can't be
one quantum.
"
Cite RBF to EJA, Bear Island, 25 August 1971.
12 UNIVERSAL DEFACES OF FREED-SEC. 537.111 + SEC. 537,14

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees. of Freedom:
"It is experientially demonstrable that the structural
interpatterning principles governing all the atomic
behaviors are characterized by triangular and tetrahedral
based associations governed by the twelve degrees of
freedom.
+1
Citation and context at Nucleated Systems: Idealistic
Vectorial Geometry Of:, 14 Feb 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
in synergetics a 'line' is "the axis of intertangency of
unity as plural and minimum two. . The line becomes the
axis of spin. Even two balls can exhibit both axial and
circumferential degrees of freedom.
PO
-
Citation & context at Line, 19 Jun'71
Cite RBP to KJ, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.
12 UNIVERSAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM - SEC 537.22)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"...There are always and everywhere 12 fundamental degrees of
freedom (six positive and six negative)..."
-
Citation & context at Structure, 25 Dec168

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"In order to be able to think both finitely and com-
prehensively, in terms of total systems, we have to start
off with universe itself as a closed finite system which
misses none of the factors. We must also include all the
universal degreees of freedom. Though containing the
frequently irrational and uneconomic XYZ dimensional *
relationships, universe does not employ the three dimensional
frame of reference in its ever-most-economical, omni-rational
coordinate system transactions. Nature does not use recti-
linear coordination in its continual intertransforming.
Nature coordinates in, twelve alternatively equi-economical degrees
of freedom-- six positve and six negative. For this reason
twelve is the minimum number of spokes you have to have
in a wire wheel in order to make a comprehensive structural
integrity of that tool. You have to have six positive and
six negative spokes to offset all polar or equatorial
diaphragming and torque.'
12 DEGREES OF FREEDOM SEC 537.041
Cite NASA Speech, pp 23,24, Jun'66

REF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Experiments show that there are six positve 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."
12 UNIVERSAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM - SEC 537.111
-
Cite NASA Sprech, p. 37, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"A basic event consists of three vectorial lines: the action,
the reaction, and the resultant. This is the fundamental
tripartite component of Universe. One positive and one
negative event together make one tetrahedron or one quantum
unit. The number of vectors (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 adds up to six. This holds
true topologically in all abstract patterning in Universe as
well as in fundamental physics. The six vectors represent the
fundamental six, and only six, degrees of freedom in Universe.
Each of these six, however, has a positive and a negative
direction and we can speak therefore of a total of twelve
degrees of freedom. These twelve degrees of freedom can be
conceptually visualized as the radial lines connecting the
centers of gravity of that central sphere. The twelve degrees
of freedom are also then identified as the push-pull directions
of the tetrahedron's six edges."
- Cite RBF Ltr. to Prof. Theodore Caplow, 18 Feb 166..
incorporated at SYNERGETICS Draft, Sec. 537.13, Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Once a closed system is recognized as exclusively valid,
the list of variables and the degrees of freedom are closed
and limited to six positive and six negative alternatives
of action for each local transformation event in Universe.
Cite KEYNOTE VISION 65, p. 120, 21 Oct '65
12 DEGREES OF FREEDOM
SEC 537.05+ SEC. 251.46]

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Here are some drawings I made to show the different degrees
of freedom for a mast. If I wanted to have a mast on the
face of the Earth it would take me a minimum of three legs,
and a tension member to hold these legs down: so it takes
four members. I can have one compression member and three
tension members or three compression members and one tension.
It always comes out four. I can put the hole in the ground
We will find
and we will find that there is still the four.
that we might have to have the mast bending over like that,
and it would take two tension members going up to hold it: that
is called a gin pole; and then it takes a fourth member of
gravity to pull this end down so there are four members
operating. You could do that with two compression legs,
sometimes called a jack in the Navy, and one tension member
So there are the four
and gravity: four members every time.
degrees of freedom and the local twist you will remember
which gave us twelve.x 1 began to see then that we would
always have these kinds of fournesses always operative."
Cite OREGON Lecture #b, p. 201, 10 Jul '62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Suppose we start with universe as a closed system of
complementary patterns, that is reganerative, that is,
adequate to itself, that has at any one moment for any
one of its subpatterns
twelve degrees of freedom. There
is an enormous complexity of choice. We will start playing
this game and it is the most
complicated game of chess
that has ever
been played. We start to play the game with
universe but there
must be integrity from now on.
made that move
and from there you can make so many moves.
You
The number of moves
that can be made are really billions
fold or
quadrillion fold of the sum total of complexity
of the moves that can
be made in that universe.'
OREGON Lecture #5 - p. 1729 Jul 62
- free on
-
Citation & context at Chess:
Game of Universe, 9 Jul'62
12 DEG REES OF FREEDOM - SEC. 537.02

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:_
"We find that in the twelve degrees of freedom, the
freedoms are all equal, but they are all of minimum effort."
-
(Adapted.)
Cite OREGON Lecture #5 - p. 178, 9 Jul'62
12 UNIVERSAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM - SEC 537.121

RF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Thus I found a mathematics of natural coordination
fundamentally governing the universally constant and
alternate minimum of 12 unique vectors of freedom, each
of equally minimum energy involvement. Out of the 12
vectors of unique and alternate freedoms of
nature's fundamentally
accommodating cordina-
tions, there emerged a comprehensive hierarchy of entirely
rational mathematical relationships apparently governing
all known fundamental transformation behaviors of nature.
[synergetic geometry 7.
.
. . which also proved to
be everywhere the most economically accommodating to the
inherently diverse local effects of the sum total universal
coordinations, and respective progressions, of local
energy investments."
Cite "Tensegrity," PURTFOLIO AND ART NEWS, p.118, Dec 161

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"For every point in universe there are six uniquely and
exclusively operative vectors.
"Each vector is reversible having its negative
alternate.
"Every point may export all or any of its six positive
or six negative vectors by importing like numbers."
"Each point in Universe could be said to have twelve unique
and exclusive vectors, but one set of six is operative and its
alternate reverse set is only potential."
T=COLLEGR
Citation at Vector, Oct'59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
"Each point in universe
could be said to have
twelve unique and exclusive vectors,
but one set of six is operative
and its alternative reverse effect set
is only potential."
Cite COLLILR'S LTR, CHALE, p. 113, Oct 59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
(1)
"In regard to your degrees of freedom, these are at minimum
twelve for the wire wheel which requires twelve spokes which
are the six edges of the combined positive and negative
tetrahedra whose vertexes are inherently turbinal and there
can be the explosive wheel and the contractive wheel by which
all the tensions and compressions are reversed. Then it is
to be noted that we need twelve double rim increments between
the external terminals of the spokes. This makes 24. My
vector equilibrium model shows 24 circumferential vectors and
24 radials. This is the omnidirectional closest packing model
of twelve spheres around one. This means a total of 48 vectors
representing the two main classes of accelerations of physics:
angular (circumferential) and linear (radial). We now have 48
vectors which may be reversed, explosively or contractively,
into tension or compression. And tension and compression are
not equal opposites as tension tends to arcs of greater radius
and compression to arcs of lesser radius, ergo the spiralling
arcs of greater radius of tension must finally come back on
themselves and are therefore inherently self-closing and
finite and account for the comprehensive cohesive integrity of
local systems and their intertwined comprehensive adhesiveness"
Cite RF Ltrs to Lewis E. Lloyd, Dow Chemical economist,
Midland, Mich., 4 ay'57

RDF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom;
(2)
"account for the universal cohesive integrity, despite that
the compressive arcing to lesser radii of locally islanded
associative systems tends to polar contractions which are
locally divisive. We therefore tend to local islands of
infinitely self-divisive intellectual-observer's considerability,
comprehensively cohered by tension. Therfore,
I would note
that there are seemingly 96 total degrees of freedom of which
apparently four are the constants and 92 the variables, as four
are essential to the event definition of the system-integrity
of the observer himself."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Lewis E. Lloyd, Dow Chemical economist,
Midland, Mich., 4 May 157

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom: General Systems:
...
(I)
"I have been tremendously interested... in how we would take
the organization of our total information and try to see
total information as always interrelated. My own generalizations
brought me to a clear cut discover off twelve fundamental
degrees of freedom governing the external and internal
motions and transformations of all independent systems in
Universe. In order to be able to think comprehensively and
anticipatorily, in terms of total systems, we have to start
off with Universe itself as a closed finite system which
misses none of the factors. We must also include all the
universal degrees of freedom... Nature coordinates in twelve
alternatively equi-economical degrees of freedom.... six
negative and six positive, which cover all variable inter-
relationships of Universe. They become the controlling facts
governing general systems and thereby such supercomplex
systems as the design of a nation's navy or a fundamental
program for world resources. I have developed a completely
workable generalized systems approach-- starting with
the differentiation of Universe, including, both the meta-
physical and physical.... which has permitted progressive"
-
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island 26 Aug. 166, p. 199.
FREEDOM SEC. 537.3al
12 DEGREES OF

RBF DEFINITIONS
12 DEGREES
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
General Systems:
"subdivisions in cybernetical 'bits' to bring any local
pattern of any problem into its identification within the
total scheme of generalized system events. This means that
I always start all problem solving with Universe and
thereafter subdivide progressively to identify a special
local problem within the total of problems.... What ever we
call seeing is done in our brains and not on the screen.
With our enormous specialization we have powerful insights
in a variety of unique directions, but we have very little
integrated comprehension of the significance of the total
information. I find that not only does our vision have a
narrow electromagnetic spectrum range but that also we have
a very limited apprehending range within the spectrum of
motive velocities. For this reason we see and comprehend
very few motions among the vast inventory of unique motions
and transformation developments of the Universe.
"Universe is a nonsimultaneous complex of unique motions
and transformations. Of course, we don't 'see' and our
(II)
eyes cannot 'stop' the 186,00 miles per second kind of motion."
who
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166, p. 199.
OF FREEDOM, SEC. 537.301

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom : General Systems:
(III)
"We don't see the atomic motion. We don't even see the stars
in motion though they move at speeds of over a million miles
per day. We don't even see the hands of the clock in motion.
We remember where the hands of the clock were when we last
looked and thus we accredit that motion has occurred.
experiment shows that we see and comprehend very little of
the totality of motions.
In fact,
"Therefore, society tends to think statically and is always
being surprised, often uncomfortably, sometimes fatally.
Lacking dynamic apprehension, it is difficult for humanity
to get out of its static fixations and specifically to see
great trends evolving. Just now man is coming into discovery
of general systems theory in his own right. The experimental
probing of the potentials of the computers awakened man to
realization of the vast complexes of variables that can be
mastered by general systems theory. So far, man has dealt
but meagerly and noncomprehensively with its powerful
planning capability. So far, he has employed only limited
systems theory in special open-edged systems-- tic-tac-toe'
rectilinear grid systems.
Cite HBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 28 Aug. 16, p. 199.
12 DEGREES OF FREEDOM, SEC. 537.30)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
General Systems:
"My skyocean world map is only one of many devices that
could provide man with a total information integrating
medium. We are going to have to have some way for all of
humanity to see total Earth. Nothing could be more
proment in all the trending of allhumanity today than the
fact that we are soon to become world man; yet we are
greatly frustrated by all our local, static organizations
of an obsolete yesterday."
"
(IV)
-
Cite RBF, Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug. 166, p. 199.
12 DEGREES OF FREEDOM, SEC. 537,30)

RECENTES
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
See Chess
Degrees of Freedom
Differential Lag
Dimensional Reference Frame
Free Will
Gibbs
Omnilibrium
Man's Degrees of Freedom of Action
Phase Rule
Six Degrees of Freedom
Twelve Alternative Options of Action
Vector as 1/12th of Relevant System Potential
(1)

Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
See Awareness, 10 Feb'73
Basic Event, Dect 71
Dymaxion, 4 May'66
Environment Events Hierarchy, (2) (6)
Game of Universe, 9 Feb 73
General Systems Theory, (1)
Gravity, (a)*
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
Inventability Sequence, (2)*
Line, 19 Jun 71*
Nucleated Systems:
Of, 14 Feb'72*
(2A)
Idealistic Vectorial Geometry
Nucleus (1) (2); 14 Feb 72
Other, 25 Aug 71
Polar Vertexes, 19 Feb '72
owering: One Dimension, 14 Oct 72*
Restraints, 12 Jul 62; Dec171
Omni equilibrium, (1)
Structure, 25 Dec 68
Tetrahedron, 18 Feb'66
Timeless, 1 Apr' 72*
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (A)
System, 16 Feb'78

Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
See Tunability, Jun'66
Vector, Oct 59*; 15 Oct 72
Vector Equilibrium, 11 Jul'62
Will, (1)
(2B)

Twelve-around-One:
See Heavenly Host Phenomenon
(1)

Twelve-around-One:
See Vector Equilibrium, 23 Oct 72
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, 7 Nov '73
Basic Event, Dec'71
(2)

Twelve:
See Decimal & Duodecimal
Heavenly Host_Phenomenon
Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons
Otherness: At Least Twelve Others
(1)

Twelve:
(2)
223
See Coupler, 20 Dec 73
Frequency: Initial Frequency, 6 Nov'72
Nuclear Uniqueness, 18 Feb '73
Structure, 25 Dec 68
Tunability, Jun'66
Wire Wheel, 4 May157
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics, (1)
Geometrical Function of Nine, (7)
VE & Icosa, 26 Aug'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty:
"P
we
hen we stack planar groups of triangular aggregates
of spheres on top of one another in such a manner that they
will be structurally stable without binding agents
nest
six balls in a closest-packed triangular planar array
on top of the first triangularly arranged ten-ball aggregate.
And on top
of these six balls we nest three more. We now
have a total of 19 balls. le may now nest one more topmost
ball in the one 'nest' of the three-ball triangle.
"Je now have a symmetrical tetrahedral aggregate consisting
of 20
balls without any nuclear ball occurring in the
center of the tetrahedronal pyramid of balls.
Vertical stacking with a
"we began our symmetrical base triangle of ten balls and now
w have a tetrahedron composed of 20 balls. Just as fingers
alone might not have been the only reason for the choice of
buse ten, fingers and toes together may not have been the
only reason the ayan priests cose congurence in modulo 20,
or
that 20 was considered a Fagic Number. It might have been
the result of an intuitive understanding of closest packing
of spheres, which is something more fundamental. For unlike
our fingers which lic in a row, the packing of 20 spheres
which can be grouped symmetrically together without a nucleus
Cite draft Synergetics chapter 'Numerology,' Pp.2-4, Oct 171
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty:
"is a fundamentally significant phenomenon."
"In a tetrahedron composed of 20 balls there is no nucleus.
I think this is why 20 appears so abundantly in the different
chemical element isotopes. And 20 is one of the Magic Numbers
in the inventory of chemical element isotopal abundancy in
Universe."
Cite draft ynergetics chapter, "Numerology," pp.2-4, Oct '71
(2)

RBF FINITIONS
Twenty-ness:
"The vector equilibrium and the icosahedron are the same
twentyness."
- For Citation and context see Universal Integrity: Vector
Equilibrium and Icosahedron (1), 1 Apr 72

RBY DEFINITIONS
Twentyness in Mass Ratio of Electron and Proton:
"It is relevant in this exploratory speculating to consider
that since enzymes are molecular event integrities and involve
electron binding proclivities, this introduces further identifi-
cation with the fact that the icosahedron's non-closest-
packability tends mathematically to be identificable exclusively
with the migrating, trading independence of the electron and
its volumetric relationship to the vector equilibrium, i..,.
18.51 : 20, which is akin to the fractional number relationship
of the electron's mass to the proton's mass."
Stat
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1055-06, 2 Oct 72

TEXT CITATIONS
Twentyness:
SYNERGETICS Sec. 1055: Twentyfoldness of Ename System
Indestructibility," 2 Cct'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty Questions:
"Many humans alive today are old enough to realize what has
happened and can recall many things that have happened contra-
dicted by popular thought.
"In the game of twenty questions as played in my childhood, the
first question to be asked was, Is it animate or inanimate?
The words animate and inanimate had been invented by man long
before chemistry and biology started. Early humans apparently
assumed there was obviously a fundamental difference between
warm soft flesh and cold hard stone; ergo the quickest way to
narrow the field of potential answers was first to ask, Is it
animate or inanimate?
"As humans learned more and more about self and environment,
they identified various species by names. At this late 20th
century with Darwin's work only 100 years old-- humanity has
acquired a great deal of knowledge about biological phenomena.
A contemporary of Darwin, Dalton, was the leading physicist of
the time. Dalton wrongly assumed that the hydrogen atom was
the 'building block' of all the
60-other then-known
(1)
chemical elements. Looking for the building block, or the 'key',
to any subject seemed popularly logical."
-
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD: PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY AND ETERNAL
PRINCIPLES, World Mag. 11 Sep*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty Questions:
(2)
"Darwin's theory of evolution was based on the concept of the
single-cell amoeba as the building block. In their early days
physics, chemistry, and biology were three different worlds.
"Suddenly, scientific instrumentation increased the macro-micro
range of eye-piece-visible exploration. It was only as recently
as World War II that the interrelatedness of physics, chemistry,
and biology dawned. In 1940 appeared the hyphens-- bio-chemists,
bio-physicists, et. al., The instrumentation produced overlap-
ping of these previously separate worlds. Post World War I
biology developed knowledge of the genes controlling the design
of biological species. Further biological exploration focused
on the even more fundamental virus. For example, teams con-
sisting of physicists, chemists, geneticists, biologists--
really across-the-board teams of different specializations--
zero in on virology.
"The virology exploration brought discovery of the protein shell
of the virus and, within it, the DNA and RNA tetrahedral design
codifications of all biological phenomena. All this time there
was thought to be a fundamental cosmic threshold lying between"
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD (3): PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY AND ETERNAL
PRINCIPLES, World Mag., 11 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty Questions:
(3)
"animate and inanimate phenomena. The individuals co-working
in virology have been too busy and too specialized to philoso-
phize on the significance of the incidentally-discovered fact
that no threshold exists separating animate from inanimate.
The inanimate crystalline behavior of inanimate atoms crosses
right over the threshold. We know that humans, too, physically
consist entirely of atoms and that atoms are completely inani-
mate.
Inanimate
"What is
X about all biological organisms has become
clearer and clearer, and what is physically animate has become
not only less clear but is apparently zero or physically
nonexistent. There is no experimentally demonstrable physical
animism. Cinema cartoons can be 'animated' to simulate super-
ficially the presence of animism in exclusively atom-structured
organic mechanisms. Apparently the original hypothesis erred
in assuming that both animate and inanimate were physical.
There have been quite a number of weighings of people as they
died. Many cancer-doomed paupers have been willing to have
their beds placed on scales. The only difference manifest
between weight before and after death is that caused by air
exhaled from the lungs or urine that has been passed.
What-"
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD (3): PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY AND ETERNAL
PRINCIPLES, World Mag.. 11 Sep173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty Questions:
(4)
"ever life is, it doesn't weigh anything. I am not credulous
when I hear 'pure science' research chemists talking about
finding the key chemical constituents of life in Earth-inter-
cepted stardust, or the means by which to synthesize the key
enzymes of life and thereby to institute and control the design
of life. This chemistry is not life; it is physical.
That is,
it comprises 100 percent of the physical inventory. Life is
metaphysical, weightless, limitless. Each life is an eternally
individual, unique pattern of integrity."
->
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD (3): PHYSICAL TEMPORALITY AND ETERNAL
PRINCIPLES, World Mag., 11 Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty Questions:
"Once you state what your realistic optimum recognition of
totality consists of, then you will find how many bits or
subdivision stages it will take to isolate any items within
that totality. It is like the childhood game of Twenty Ques-
tions: You start by saying, 'Is it physical or metaphysical?'
Next: 'Is it animate or inanimate?' (One bit.) 'Is it big or
little? (Two bits.) 'Is it hot or cold? (Three bits.)
takes only a few bits to find out what you want.
When
use bit subdivision to ferret out the components of our
problems, we do exactly what the computer is designed to do."
It
we
1
Citation and context at Bita, Jun'66

Twenty Questions:
See Irrelevancies:
Bits: Bitting
Dismissal of
Reduction ad Absurdum

KBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
"The zenith constancy of the transformational projection's
topological trigonometry discretely locates the common zenith
points of any commonly centered concentric surfaced systems.
(1)
"if camera-equipped telescopes were mounted aboard Earth-dispatched-
and-controlled satellites, which satellites were 'locked' in
fixed formation flight positions around our planet Earth with
one such fixed satellite hovering steadily over each vertex of
a one-mile-edged triangulation grid, and each telescope was
trained in such a manner that the eyepiece of its eyepiece-to-optics'
axis is pointed exactly toward the center of the plant Earth, and
its outer optics' end is pointed exactly toward whatever star,
if any, may be in exact zenith over the point on the surface of
Earth above which the satellite was vertically positioned
human on Earth at any one of those points looking vertically
outwardly into the heavens with a radarscope would discover that
satellite as a blip in the middle of his scope-viewing-tube's grid.
"Now let us have an around-the-world simultaneous clicking of
the shutters of the cameras attached to each of the telescopes
of each of
those around-the-Earth-fixedly-hovering photo-satellites with"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1110.01-.03, 25 Jan'73
a

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(2)
"their telescopes pointed to whatever stars may be vertically
outward from the Earth at their respective omni-Earth-triangula-
ted, one-mile-apart, grid vertexes. Let us assume the photo-
graphing telescopes to be very long-barreled to shield those
not pointing at the Sun from its intense luminosity. A composite
mosaic of all those pictures could now be print-mounted spheric-
ally on the inside of a translucent 200-foot globe of Earth's
conventional geographic data of continents, islands, etc.,
together with the conventional latitude-longitude grid. Because
they were photographed outside the Earth's cloud cover they
would present a composite and accurate spherical picture of what
the navigators and astronauts call the celestial sphere with the
relative brilliance of the stars in evidence with astronomically
calculatable corrections being made in the printing for the Sun
luminosity effects.
"While this picture was orientationally unique to its one moment
in eternity in respect to the Earth-to-celestial-sphere orienta-
tion, the Earth data per se and the celestial sphere data per se
remain constant at their magnitude of scrutability within the
lifespan of any human.
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1110.03-04, 25 Jan*73

MBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(3)
"Because of the accuracy with which this spherical picture was
made it would also be possible to take a transparent plastic
20-foot globe of the Earth with the latitude-longitude grid and
the continents and islands outlined, together with the marker
points identifying the respective positions of the satellite-
mounted telescope cameras at the time of the photographing, and
to position the 20-foot Earth globe within the 200-foot coles-
tial sphere globe within the miniature Earth's spherical
center congruent with the spherical center of the 200-foot
celestial sphere.
"it is then possible to orient the miniature 20-foot diameter
Earth globe so that its polar axis is pointed toward the North
Star, making a small correction to correspond with the astro-
nonical correction for the small aberration well-known to exist
in this respect, which is negligible in this description of the
properties of our triangular geodesics transformational projec-
tion. We may then rotate the miniature barth 20-foot globe
around its axis until a sighting from its exact center will
register each of the stars of the 200-foot celestial sphere
which the satellites photographed in exact verticality outward
from Earth."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at becs 1110.05-06, 25 Jan '73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
"The Earth's highest mountain top is five miles above sea level
and the ocean's deepest bottom is five miles below sea level.
We could now modify the surface of our transparent plastic 20-
foot model of the Earth to show those aberrations which would
show that some parts of the Earth's surface have a different
radial distance from the Earth's center; but it would be in
evidence that the stars would be in zenith over the same lat-
itude-longitude grid points as would also be all of the satel-
lite photographic stations.
(4)
"Finding that surface aberrations include only radial distance
variations and changes in the spherical surface line-of-sight
projections from the @cnter, we will now introduce a clear
plastic shell model of a whale, and another of a crocodile,
of such sizes that the crocodile is
large enough to omni surround or swallow the 20-foot miniature
Earth globe, and the whale is large enough to swallow the
crocodile yet small enough to be inside the 200-foot diameter
clear plastic celestial sphere. With omnidirectional spoke-
wires we will now tensionally position the whale within the
200-foot celestial sphere and we will tensionally wire-position"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1110.07-08, 25 Jan'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(5)
"the crocodile within the whale, and the 20-foot miniature Earth
within the crocodile with the miniature Earth oriented as before,
its volumetric center exactly in congruence with the center of
volume of the celestial sphere, with all the stars at the time
offthe photographing in register with the same satellites which
photographed those particular stars.
"Now the whale's and the crocodile's surfaces will be at a great
variety of different radii distances from the concentric volu-
metric centers of the 200-foot and 20-foot spheres. We are
going now to coat the surfaces of the transparent whale and
transparent crocodile with a photosensitive emulsion after whith
we have a high intensity light source flash at the common volu-
metric centers of the 20-foot and 200-foot spheres. This
process will reproduce on the plastic skin of both the whale
and the crocodile-- as well as on the celestial 200-foot sphere--
the triangular satellite positioning grid together with the
latitude-longitude grid and all the Earth's continental and
insular outlines. Then, traveling with a pencil beam strobic
light on the outside of the 200-foot celestial sphere we will
point vertically inward against each of the stars, thus project-*
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Seca. 1110.08-09, 25 Jan*73

KBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(6)
"ing their positions radially, i.e., vertically, inwardly to
register on the skins of both the whale and the crocodile and
on the 20-foot Earth globe. Now, with the human eye at the
common concentric centers of volume of the 20-foot and 200-foot
spheres, as well as both the whale and the crocodile, we may
sight outwardly-- which is inherently radially-- in all direc-
tions, and will observe that all the grids and all the gegraph-
ical and celestial star data appear as one grid, being in exact
radial register. We have all the same grids and data on all
four of the concentric surfaces: 200-foot celestial sphere,
whale, crocodile, and 20-foot Earth globe. That registering of
all data is obviously independent of radial distance from the
common center; ergo, the only variable in the system is the
radius to any given point within the concentric systems.
what
"As we have demonstrated with geodesic domes and spheres
is meant by compound curvature is 'omni-intertriangulated struc-
turing (i.e., balanced connectors) of concave-convex surface
points'. Given a unit radius sphere and the known central
angle between any two radii of known length, then the length of
the chord running between their outer ends may be calculated
by trigonometry by running a line from the sphere center per-"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs 1110.09-10, 25 Jan173

KBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(7)
"pendicular to the midchord and solving for the right triangle
thus formed, whose halved-chord outer edge is the side opposite
its central angle which is half the central angle originally
given, and we know that the sine of an angle is the side oppo-
site. When radius is assumed to be one then the well-known
sine of 1/2 the original angle given is the length of that half
chord. With the chord length calcula table for a given central
angle it is easy to calculate the length of any line running
between the outer end of one of the radii to a position on the
other radius at a known distance outward from the spherical
center. With this knowledge we can design struts of suitable
structural material, say aluminum tubes, and we may triangularly
interconnect all the vertex points of the triangular grid of
the 200-foot sphere, then we can triangularly interstrut all
the grid points on the inside of the whale, then we can interstrut
all the grid vertexes of the crocodile, and finally intertri-
angularly strut the 20-foot Earth globe.
"Now again, viewing outwardly in all directions from the common
volumetric centers of those concentric forms, we will see nothing
changed because all the struts will be in register with all the"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs 1110.10-11, 25 Jan 73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(8)
"lines of the four separate grids. We may now dissolve the
plastic skins from all four shells: the 200-foot celestial
sphere, the whale, the crocodile, and the 20-foot globe, and we
will find that all four hold their shapes exactly as before and,
being intertrussed (intertrussea and intertriangulated are the
same words: Truss: Trace: and Triangle.) between vertexes of
the grid, and the grid now being omnitriangularly interstructured,
we may again sight outwardly from the volumetric center and, if
photographing what we see, we will see only the same lines in
exact register that we saw at the time of the original first
spherical printing.
"Since the speed of light permitted astronauts to understand and
adopt the light year in their observational data, we have learned
the great variation of radial distances outwardly to the different
stars. in the Big Dipper one star is hardly 200 light years
further from Earth than the next one on the handle that is a
distance of 200 quadrillion miles further away from you and me
than is the other. if we ran rods radially from the volumetric
center of our model outward perpendicularly through each of the
stars shown on the 200-foot celestial sphere to a distance
perpendicular outwardly from the 200-footer equal to their"
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at secs. 1110.11-12, 25 Jan'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(9)
"distance away in light years from the Earth, with the 200-foot
sphere's 100-foot radius equalling that of the nearest star
other than the sun, and assume that the cameras had photographed
only those stars visible to the naked eye, then a few of the
rods would reach outwardly ten miles, but most of them would be
much nearer in, with one of the Big Dipper's one mile out and
another a half-mile out. It would make a vastly varied porcupine
if we intertriangularly interconnected the outer terminals of the
lines of interconnection which would as yet be in exact register
with the original grid as seen from system center.
"Now let us separate the four structures by opening up an
approximate equator in the outer ones and rejoining the equator-
ial points. The celestial porcupine rolled into our deepest
ocean and then resting on the bottom, its top would reach
outwardly above the ocean surface to the height of Mt. Everest
with its densest, most high-frequency trussed spherical core
being only 200 feet in diameter and occurring at ocean surface.
The triangularly trussed 175-foot whale would hold its shape and
size as would also the 60-foot crocodile and the little 20-foot
miniature Earth. Obviously they could not appear more differently."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Secs. 1110.12-13, 15 Jan'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(10)
"Our triangular geodesica transformation projection would show
all of these four dissimilar systems in the flat plane in
exactly the same manner and in exact register with that of the
Earth alone as shown later in the icosahedral flat-out of the
world map, but with a number (or numbers of different styles)
shown at each grid vertex, which number indicates the radius
distance of that vertex outwardly from the center point of the
system Earth.' Four different colors: blue for the celestial,
black for the whale, green for the crocodile, and brown for the
20-foot Earth globe, would identify the relative radius distances
outwardly from the congruent systems' center which occurs at
each vertex of these four utterly differently shaped and sized
systems all on the same map. This would provide all of the
data necessary to reconstruct each of the four systems in
exactly the same relative sizes. Every point in the four systems
remains in exact peprendicular (zenith) whether in the spherical
or planar flat-out phase or any interim transitional phase.
makes possible the design of an airplane or an ocean liner all
on one map. And the flat-out map may have its triangular
mosaic pieces rearranged in many ways, for instance, to center
the oceans or to center the lands. And the building of that
airplane or ocean liner, as with the geodesic dome, will generate"
- Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1110.14, 25 Jan 73
This

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twenty-Foot Earth Globe and 200-Foot Celestial Sphere:
(11)
"
'compound curvature, omnifinite, tensegrity trussing far
stronger and lighter than the presently designed and built
XYZ-parallel coordinate grids and their parallel plane sectional
designing.
"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.
"Just as triangular geodesics transformational projection can
alone reduce the astronomical to the cosmic middle ground of
eye-comprehendible coordination with the mind explorations and
formulations in metaphysics in general and mathematics in
particular, especially in relation to computer programing, BO
too, may the triangular geodesics transformational projection
enlarge the complex invisible microcosmic patterns to eye- and
sense-comprehendibility."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Secs. 1110.14,15-10, 25 Jan '73

Twenty: 20:
(1)
See Amino Acids
DNA-RNA: Twenty-sphere Models
Icosahedron
Magic Numbers: Isotopal Magic Numbers
Precession of Two Sets of 10 Chosest-packed Spheres

Twenty: 20:
(2)
123
See Equilateral, 11 Oct*71
Nothingness, 16 Nov 72
Omnilibrium, 19 Feb 72
Powering: Fourth Dimension, 18 Nov'72
Universal Integrity: VE & Icosa (1) *
Tensegrity: Twelve Pentagons, Aug'72
Some thingness, 16 Nov 72
Vector Equilibrium, 2 Oct 72; 19 Nov 74
Fourth Dimensional Modelability, 24 Feb'75
Tetrahelix, (1)
Hex-pent Sphere, 15 Sep' 76
Hex-pent Sphere: Transformation into Geodesic
Spiral Tube, (1)
Rhombic Dodecahedron, 12 May' 77
Vector Equilibrium: Potential & Primitive
Tetravolumes, 12 May' 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twilight Zone:
" Humans thus find themselves between an absolute, omni-
directional, equilibrious, dimensionless, metaphysical core
contained within a spheric sone twilight of macro-almost-
true and containing a spheric zone twilight of macro-almost-
true."
(Synergetics: 504.14)
- Citation & context at Truth, 22 Jun '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twilight Zone:
"
Man being pretty much in the middle, as is the truth
itself in a kind of twilight zone on either side of the
truth both macrocosm and microcosm, kind of closing in
on it. No chemist is ever going to improve that situation."
Citation and context at Middle, Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twilight Zone:
"And I speak of intuition as the phenomenon that occurs in the
twilight zone between the clearly conscious and the clearly
subconscious. There is a twilight where there are drives and
capabilities, where the genius that is in us makes us look in
a direction intuitively.
Citation and context at Intuition of the Child (1), Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twilight Zone:
"...There is a twilight zone that is neither clearly sub-
consciousness-- no consciosness at all-- and clearly something
you and I tend to call consciousness.
"
-
Citation and context at Conscious and Subconscious, 19 Oct'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twilight Zone:
"There are two inherent twilight zones of tantalizingly
almost-relevant recollections spontaneously fed back in
contiguous frequency bands-- the macro-twilight and the
micro-twilight."
Cite INTRO. TU OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p.125, 1959

Twilight Zone:
See Conscious & Subconscious
Considerable Set
Considered Set
Intuition & Aesthetics
Intuition: Second Intuition
Irrelevancies: Dismissal Of
Relevant: Almost Relevant
Relevant:
Threshold
Lucidly Relevant Set
(1)

Twilight Zone:
(2)
See Cognition, 1960
Conscious & Subconscious, 19 Oct170*
Halo Concept, 1960; Nov 71
Intuition of the Child (1) *
Middle, Feb 73*
Reality as Structural Interaction of Principles, 1963
Truth, Feb 73; 22 Jun 75*
Zoned System:
Zone Limits, Feb'73
Intuition Sequence (3)-(6)
Point, 9 Jun 75

Twins:
See Heavenly Twins
Twin-spin
(1)

Twins:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity, May 28
223
(2)

MBF DEFINITIONS
Twinkle Angle: 5° 16' :
"There is a unique 5° 16'-ness relationship of the A Quanta
Module to the symmetry of the tetrahedron-octahedron all space-
filling complementation and other aspects of the vector
equilibrium that is seemingly out of gear with the disequilib-
rious icosanearon. it has a plus-or-minus incrementation
quality in relation to the angular laws common to the vector
equilibrium."
--
[02]
Cite RBF rewrite of SYNERGETICS galley at Sec. 915.01, 19 Dec 173

HBF DEFINITIONS
ST. PARA
Twinkle Angle:
5°16'.
"There is a 5°16'-ness in relation to the A Module which
is part of the symmetry of the terahedron-octahedron and
which is seemingly out of gear with icosahedron. It is
the same 5 degrees and 16 minutes which has a plus and
minus quality in relation to the icosahedron but we don't
usually think of much connection between the angular
laws of the vector equilibrium and the icosahedron. But
the 5°16' is in there. Common to both is the 5°10' where
it goes minus this or plus this.
"There is a very very small fraction of difference between
6° and the 5°16'. We are talking about the A Module relations
as the foldable triangle consisting of four smaller traangles
which fold into the A Module. And the basic triangle, or
"120th of a sphere which is the six right no triangles
subdividing each of the 20 equilateral triangles of the
icosahedron. It occurs spherically, but it doesn't make
any difference whether it is spherical, the angles are
the same: the thing would fold over if it weren't for the 6°."
A+ B. QUANTA
Cite HBF tape transcript, Chicago, Blackstone Hotel -
Synergetics V, 1 June 1971. Pn. 15.16.
MODULES - SEC. 922.31

RBF DEFINITIONS
30° 00
35° 16'
19° 28
84°44'
Twinkle Angle:
"The faces of an A particle unfold to form a triangle
with 84° 44' as its largest angle. This is 5° 16' less
than a right angle. 5° 16' is Fuller's 'twinkle angle.**
130°
"35°16'
1928
90°00'
84.44
5°16'
-
ITEM
Cite "0", p. 20. Signed R.B. Fuller, Copyright 1955
A+B QUANTA MODULES - SEC. 922.30)

Trinkle Angle:
See Equimagnitude Phases
(1)

Twinkle Angle:
See Cosmic Neutral, 16 Dec'73
Dihedral Angles of Tetra & Octa, 16 Dec*73
(2)

Twin-spin: Earth & Moon Flying Twin-spin Formation:
(1)
See Co-orbiting

Twin-spin: Earth & Moon Flying Twin-spin Formation:
See Tension, 28 Jan'69
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twisting:
"We always have the twisting-- the vectorial near-miss-- at
the corners of the tetrahedron because not more than one line
can go through the same point at the same time."
->
Citation and context at Tetrahedron: The Leak in the
Tetrahedron's Corners, 20 Dec'73

Twist-pass:
See Domains of Convergences, 7 Nov 73

Twist-and-torque Contractions:
(1)
See Jitterbug

Twiat-and-torque Contractions:
See Omniequilibrium, (2)
(2)

Twist Vertex of Exit:
See Tetrahedron:
Leak in the Corners
Vertexial Connections
Vectorial Near-miss

Twist:
See Local Twist
Motion: Six Positive & Negative Motions
Half-spin Tepee Twist
Tepee:
Torque
Turbining
(1)

Twist: Twisting:
See Interprecess,
Tetrahedron:
29 May' 72
Leak in the Corners, 20 Dec' 73*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two:
"Interval and differentiation are introduced with two."
-
Citation and context at Prime, 17 Feb'73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Two:
"We should not use this illustration (#45) in SYNERGETICS.
It doesn't say anything. What is the cube doing in there?
My arrow at the bottom caption is meant to illustrate
Peter Pearce's characteristic tendency to confuse Euler and
Synergetics with a failure to identify and credit Fuller.
The extraction of two polar vertexes is presented by Pearce
as an established generalized consequence of Euler; not as
a unique aspect of Synergetic Geometry. This function of the
two vertexes was not known to Euler; it was a discovery of
R.B.F."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 25 May '72

RBF FIKTIONE
Two:
"The difference between infinity and finity is
always exactly two, or 720 degrees, or two times
360 degrees, or two times unity."
Cite RBF to JA
Beverly Hotel, New York
7 arch 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two:
"It takes two to make a baby
But it takes God to make two."
God is twoing."
Citation & context at God, Oct'66

34
RBF DEFINITIONS
Two:
"Substituting the word tetrahedron for the number two completes
my long attempt to convert all the residual heretofore unidenti-
fiable integers of topology into geometrical conceptability."
- Citation at Unity as Two, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two:
"My main conclusion when I first explored the field of
topology (after energetic geometry experience) was that there
is far more significance in the 2 of the F,
V, E, 2 relation-
ships than meets the eye. For instance,
it could be written
(V - 2) FE, and what is really important
is that this 2
is (thus an?) extra 2 or pair for axis (isolation)
that
appears
in the plus two balls in every layer of the vector
equilibrium
spherical agglomeration.
Verexes + Faces +
Poles = Edges
,
is my form of topological law, which also makes a value of 2
implicit for the central
ball which is 02 radius x 10 + 2 =
2
( = 0 + 2).
"This assumption turned out to be well supported when a hole
was made in our planar bound solid, for it
eliminated the
axis,
cored it out as with an apple, and left the
neutral axis in
space (but implicit) and the 2
seemingly dropped out (of?)
the formula as would the neutral axis drop
out of a
victrola
disc by putting in a central hole."
-Cite Ltr. from RBF to Duncan Stuart, 10 Jan 50;
as transcribed by DF; first parenthetical query by DF;
second parenthetical query by EJA.
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two:
"I then went on to calculate that which really happens when
a ring or doughnut construction is considered
, is that all
such rings are lines-- lines-- which are all
inherently
curved and must eventually meet or rejoin their ends.
(COMPRESSION
LURVATURE
Serb IN
"Note:
Evolution of Point to Ring
Point shuttles 2 ways, passing midpoint twice for each
terminal visit. .. its occupational frequency
swells the
center of the shuttle trajectory space involvement
."
Cite Ltr. from RBF to Duncan Stuart, 10 Jan' 50
(2)

Two Balls Coming Together:
See Balls Coming Together
Lines Between Two Sphere Centers

Two: Bonus Two:
See Somethingness, 16 Nov 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two-dimensional Polarity:
"Three individual unresolved somethings (points) identify
a plane: two dimesionality, which... has polarity
consisting of its obverse-reverse congruence.
inherent in the plurality of the con of congruence."
Polarity is
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Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 1013.13, 11 Sep 175

Two-dimensionality:
See Powering:
Second Powering
Superficiality
No Two-dimensionality
(1)

(2)
223
See Geometry of Reality, May'49
Left & Right, 4 May 57
Omnidirectional, 17 Feb172
Variables: General Theory of Variables, 1960; Nov' 71
Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom, (1)
Tro-dimensionality:

Two-and-a-half Split:
See Number: 21

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two Kinds of Twoness:
"There are two kinds of twoness:
(a) the numerical or morphationally unbalanced twoness;
and
(b) the balanced twoness.
(A)
The vector equilibrium is the central symmetry through which
both bahced and unbalanced asymmetries pulsatingly and complexedly
intercompensate and synchronize. The vector equilibrium's
frequency modulatability accommodates the numerically different-
iated twonesses.
"There are four kinds of positive and negative: (1) the eternal
equilibrium-disturbing plurality of differentially unique, only-
positively-and-negatively-balanced aberratings; (2) the north
and south poles; (3) the concave and convex; and (4) the inside
(microcosm) and outside (macrocosm) always cosmically complement-
ing the local system's inside-concave and outside-convex limits."
"There is a fourfold twoness: one of the exterior, cosmic finite
("nothingness") tetrahedron, i.e., the macrocosm outwardly"
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Secs. 223.05-.07, 10 Nov'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two Kinds of Twoness:
"complementing all ("something") systems and the interior micro-
cosmic tetrahedron of nothingness complementing all conceptually
thinkable and cosmically isoltable "something" systems.
(B)
"A rock dropped into water precessionally produces waves moving
both outwardly from the circle's center; i.e., circumferentially
of the Earth sphere, and reprecessionally outwardly-and-inwardly
from the center of the Earth, i.e., radially in respect to the
Earth sphere; which altogether interregeneratively demonstrate
(1) the twoness of local precessional system effects at 90
degrees and (2) the Universe-cohering gravitational effects at
180 degrees.
"These are the two kinds of interacting forces constituting the
regenerative structural integrity of both subsystem local twonesses
and nonunitarily conceptual Scenario Universe.
"The four cosmically complementary twonesses and the four local
system twoness altogether eternally regenerate the scientific
generalization known as complementarity. Complementarity is
sumtotally eightfoldly operative: four definitive local system
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Secs. 223.07-.08, 10 Nov 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two Kinds of Twoness:
(C)
"complementation and four cosmically synergetic finitive
accountabilities.
"Topologically the additive twoness identifies the opposite
poles of spinnability of all systems; the multiplicative twoness
identifies the concave insideness and convex-outsideness of
all systems: these four are the four unique twonesses of the
eternally regenerative, nonunitarily conceptual Scenario Universe
whose conceptual think-aboutedness is differentially confined to
local "something" systems whose insideness-and-outsideness-
differentiating foci consist at minimum of four event "stars." 1
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Secs. 223.08 and .09, 10 Nov* 74
-

Two Kinds of Twoness:
See Heavenly Twins.
Inward & Outward Twoness
Twoness: Additive & Multiplicative
(1)
326

Two Kinds of Twoness:
See Syntropy & Entropy, (3)
Local Definability, Nov'71
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"Twoness constitutes a wavilinear relatedness."
Citation & context at System, 27 May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"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."
-
Citation and context at Eternity (2), 23 May172

26
RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"The word 'line' was nondefinable: infinite. It is the
axis of intertangency of unity as plural and niaus two
Awareness begins with two. This is where epistemology
comes in. The 'line' becomes the axis of spin. Even two
balls can exhibit both axial and circumferential degrees
of freedom."
-
-
Citation at Line, 19 Jun '71
Cite Refto Eik, Beverly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"It is a surprising thing that all closest packing begins
with two balls rather than omnidirectionally. Two balls
it is a
coming together is where thought begins.
wedding thing. . and it is very beautiful the way the
•
two balls reoccur at each wave outwardly."
CI RE
Bavarly Hotel, New York, 19 June 1971.
Citation at Balls Coming Together, 19 Jun 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
•
Twoness is the beginning and essence of
consciousness, with which human awareness begins:
consciousness of the other, the other experience,
the other being, the child's mother.
•
Life
and the universe that goes with it begins with
two spheres: you and me . . and you are always
prior to me."
- Citation and context at Other, 19 Jun'71
Cite RRP marginali
Synergetics Draft, See, 223.31 19-J

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"Maybe twoness is the axis of refernce."
チチョ
Beverly Hotel, New York
15 March 1971
Citation at Axis of Reference, 15 Mar 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"A minimum of two cycles is essential to frequency
fractionation."
-
Citation & context at Fractionation, 1971

HBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"The extension of edges through any one vertex of a
tetrahedron form positive and negative tetrahedra.
"A vertex passed through the opposite face will form
another version of positive-negative tetrahedra.
"These are examples of the essential twoneas of a system."
(See Illustration. 19.)
(Adapted.)
Cite SYNERGETICS ILLUSTRATIONS, caption #19.
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
•
•
"The discover that a structural system may be
described as the sum of its surface angles in increments
of 720°
bears out
that the tetrahedron is the
basic quantum unit. It also demonstrates the fundamental
It also
twoness of the energy quantum's proton-neutron.
provides the experiment basis of the Theory of Functions
in which a function can only and always coexist with
another function as demonstrated experimentally in all
systems as the inside-out, convex-concave, tension-
wompression couples."
das
Cite CARBONDALE
Cits #aga Speech, pp. 63-6; Jun 66
-
Citation at Functions:
Principle of, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"The octahedron has a fundamental twoness: its
volume of four being made up of the prime number two."
-
Gite Carbondale Draft_
Return to Modelability, PaXZ
Citation at Octahedron, Jun'66
Five MASA Speech, p. 72, Jun 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"The theory of functions holds for universe itself.
Universe consists at minimum of both the metaphysical and the
physical. The fundamental twoness of physical universe was
embraced in Einstein's one word, 'relativity,' and in a more
specific and experimental way in the physicists' concept of
complementarity."
Cite Carbondale Draft
. Return to Modelability, Pr Vr:
Pat NASA Speech, p. 68, Jun166
* citation at Relativity, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"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."
(See Illustration # 17.)
Cite CARBONDALE DRAFT IV.46
-
Cite NASA Speech, p.62, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"Twoness and Uneness can't make a system. They don't have
insideness and outsideness at all."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #7, p. 248. 11 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"Because the permitted conceptuality involves a
unit expenditure from Universe of a de-finite twoness,
unit conceptuality must have a finite twoness penditure
value, ergo prime conceptuality unity acquires an
inherent value of two. Unity is inherently plural.
Unity is always divisible as twoness, or fourness, or
sixness, of inherent minimum relationships."
CITE OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO
Citation at Unity, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"Unity is complex and at minimum two.
-
1
Cite Synergetics Corollaries, COLLIER'S. Oct159

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
"... The system has inherent yet empty twoness.
-
Citation and content at Magnetic Field, May'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness: Additive Twoness & Multiplicative Twoness:
"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.
"A splash of water demonstrates waves and we get precessional
at 90° and gravitational at 180°.
"There! Two kinds of twoness.'
good song?"
Wouldn't that make a pretty
Citation & context at Syntropy & Entropy (2) (3), 23 May'72
SYNERGETICS - SEC 223.05)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness:
Additive Twoness & Multiplicative Twoness:
"We find all the hierarchy of all the crystali-
zations to be rationally developed in respect to the
prime system. This hierarchy, always can be topologically
analyzed
in the terms of two polar vertexes which we
call the additive twoness and a congave-convex
multiplicative twoness, after the removal of both of wheth
twonesses we find a constant relative abundance of one
vertex plus two faces and three edges times one of the
first four prime numbers, times frequency of modular
subdivision to the second power.
"
-
Gite Speech,
Jun 66
Citation & context at Frequency, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Twoness: Additive Twoness & Multiplicative Twoness:
"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."
Citation at System, Jun'66

RHF DEFINITIONS
Twoness: Additive Twoness & Multiplicative Twoness:
The
"...The difference between finiteness and infinity is two.
inherent disparity of convexity and concavity introduces an
inherent multiplicative two ness. As the chart shows... the
additive twoness is that of the two polar points... When the
additive twoness and the multiplicative twoness are extracted
from any symmetrical and omnitriangulated system, the numbers of
vertexes will always be a rational product of one or more of
the first four primes: 1, 2, 3, and 5. The number of faces will
always be twice the number of vertexes minus two%; the number
of edges will always be three times the number of vertexes
minus two."
-
Cite Marks, p.138, Fig. 1-8, caption. 1960

Twoness:
Additive Twoness & Multiplicative Twoness:
(1)
See Heavenly Twins
Inward & Outward Twoness
Two Kinds of Twoness
Interrelationship Twoness:
Third Kind of Twoness
Spin Twoness & Duality Twoness

Twoness: Additive Twoness & Multiplicative Twoness:
See Axis of Spin, (5)
Cosmic Discontinuity & Local Continuity, 15 Jan'74
Eternity, (2)
Frequency, Jun'66*
Radial-circumferential, Aug'71
Synergetics, 29 Nov 721
Syntropy & Entropy, (3)
System, Jun'66*
Twoness, Jun'66
Vertexial Topology, Aug171
(2)

Twoness of Dynamic Reciprocities:
See Reciprocity, (2)

DwQ: Multiply the Universe by Two:
See Mirror-image; 22 Jul 71

Two: Universe Divisible by Two:
See Unity as Two, 1 Feb'75

Two: Twoness:
See Additive Twoness
Binary
Connectivity
Coring
Dual: Duality
Euler's Twoness
Implicit Two
Inward & Outward Twoness
Magic Numbers
Minimum Twoness
Minus Two
Multiplicative Twoness
Plus Two
Second
Triangle as A Priori Two
Unity As Two
Unity Is Plural
Spin Twoness
Duality Twoness
Interrelationship Twoness
Environmental Twoness
(1A)

Two:
Twoness:
See Tetrahedron:
Polar Vertexes
No Twogon
Two Tetrahedra
Invisible Twoness
Interconnection of Any Two Lines
Interconnection of Any Two Points
Fourfold Twoness
(1B)

Two: Twoness:
See Axis of Reference, 15 Mar' 71*
Balls Coming Together, 19 Jun'71*
Circuit, 6 Nov 72
Energetic Functions, 1954; 8 Aug177
Eternity (2)*
Finite Furniture, Feb 50
Fractionation, 1971*
Functions: Principle of,
God, Oct 66*
Integral, 11 Mar'69
Line, 19 Jun' 71*
Magnetic Field, May'49*
Jun'66*
Number: Even Number, 26 Sep'73
Octahedron, Jun'66*
Other, 19 Jun'71*
Prime, 17 Feb'73*
Radial-circumferential, Apr 172
Reciprocity (2)
Theta, 11 Mar'69
(2A)

Two: Twoness:
(2B)
See Unity, Feb'50;
Zero Frequency, 29 May172
Unity as Two, 1960*
Universe, 10 Dec164
Universe: Toward Oneness, 10 Dec'64
Scheherazade Numbers: Declining Powers Of, 1 Feb'75
General Systems Theory, (1)
Inside-outing, 17 Jun 75
System, 27 May 72*

Two: Twoness:
1
(3)
See Two Balls Coming Together
Two: Bonus Two
Two-dimensionality
Two-and-a-half Split
Two: Multiply the Universe by Two
Twoness: Additive Twoness & Multiplicative Twoness
Two:
Universe Divisible by Two
Twoness of Dynamic Reciprocities

Two-way Crisscross:
See Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross
Two-way Rectilinear Grid

Two-way Feedback:
See Dia-logue, 14 Feb'72

Two-way:
See Curvature: Simple, (2)
Decentralization & Centralization, 1 Apr'49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Two-Way Rectilinear Grid:
"To the Greeks a two-way rectilinearly intersecting grid
of parallel lines seemed simpler than would a three-way
grid of parallel lines. And the two-way grid was highly
compatible with their practical coordinate needs for
dealing with an assumedly flat plane Universe. Thus the
Greeks came to employ 90-degreeness and unique perpendicularity
to
the system as a basic additional dimensional requirement
for the exclusive, and consequently unchallenged, three-
dimensional geometrical data coordination.
Two
"Their arithmetical operations were coordinated with geometry
on the assumption that first-power gambers represented linear
module
tallies, that second-power N² = square increments,
and that
third-power N = cubical increments of space.
First dimension was length expressed with one line.
dimensions introduced width expressed with a cross of two
lines in a plane. Three dimensions introduced height
expressed by a third line crossing perpendicularly to the
first two at their previous crossing, making a three-way,
three-
dimensional cross, which they referred to as the XIZ
coordinate system."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS at Sec. 825.31 + 32, Sept 72

Two-way Grid: Two-way Rectilinear Grid:
See Local Squareness
Rectilinear Grid Syste
Two-way Crisscross
ems

TEXT CITATIONS
Tycho Brahe:
1210 (p.738)

RAT AFTITIONS
Type: To Save Time, Tape & Type:
See Creativity, May'65

Typewriter:
See Omnidirectional Typewriter
(1)

Typewriter:
(2)
See Buildings: Multiple Occupancy, 30 Apr* 74
City (3)
City as Center of Abstract Intercourse, 14 Oct169; (1)
Nature Has So Many Options, 19 Oct 70
Office Building, 28 Jun 72
New York City, (7)
Invented Jobs, 20 Sep' 76

Typhoon:
See Energy Magnitudes:
Order Of,
Jun'66