
W

Wagon:
Wagons:
See Buggy Industry

Wake:
See Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship
De-vacuumizing the Wake
Trails & Wakes
(1)

Wake:
Wake of a Ship:
See Wind Stress & Houses, (4)
(2)

Waking Up:
See Awakening
(1)

Waking Up:
See Subconscious, 20 Feb'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Walking:
"Man walks the same before or after the automobile, whether
he gets out of the chair on his porch or gets out of the
chair in his car. His mobility greatly increases, but his
walking distance per year does not decrease.'
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Walking:
"If you have one post you have to keep it balanced or
it falls/ Stand it up and it falls over.
What happens
for instance if you are on stilts. You have got your two
legs.
You move one. So you lift this leg up over here
and you stop yourself. If you have such a power of the
But it
momentum of the hinging of the specific direction.
is very easy to frustrate by putting it over here and out
comes a new hinge. And so all we're doing when we're
walking, we are continually falling on hinges in the
specific directions which you can frustrate by turning
into a tetrahedron so we have nothing but dynamic
tetrahedron.
It
Cite RBF tape Chicago, Blackstone Hotel, 31 May 171. p. 30.

165
KBF DEFINITIONS
Walking:
"Rationalization is an act similar to walking through a half-
frozen, marshy, unexplored country to mark out a trail that
others may eventually follow. It involves not only the
familiar one-two progression of shifting the weight and
balance from one foot to the other, but an unknown quantity
progression of selective testing to avoid treacherous ground
before putting full weight upon the forward foot."
Citation and context at Nationalization Sequence (1), 1938

Walking:
See Step
Trail Making
Space Walking
Crabs Walk Sideways
Left & Right
(1)

Walking:
See Inertia, 20 Dec'71
Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (2)
Rationalization Sequence, (1)**
Human Unsettlement, (5)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Walls:
"In the 1927 Dymaxion House... the walls were shutterable
membranes; there were no partitions or space dividers to
say: You shall not pass. There were just natural barriers,
like a kitchen or a tree....
"Opaque walls are difficult to let light through. There
are four kinds of privacy: aural, tactile, visual, olfactory.
Occulting cutting off the line of vision-- is better than
opacity.
Citation & context at Dymaxion House, 29 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Walls:
"You people keep talking about architecture. The future I
say will be really invisible. The walls that you're familiar
with were very terrible walls. They're walls of bad faith
and ignorance-- so you had to have something to stop the bow
and arrows. Somebody was trying to come in and kill you.
Walls for protection. Walls represent great ignorance, fear
and
ignorance.
"
Cite RBF quoted in San Francisco Oracle, VolI, No.11, 1967

RDF DEFINITIONS
Halls vs. Airapace Technology:
(1)
"Allied with ancient Crete and allianced with its sea power,
Mycenae was a very success ful city-state, so successful as to
have developed the additional capability of building ships
and going to sea. Its peoples were able to control the line
of supply to besiege the walls of Troy. Homer's epic
probably represents the first change in the grand strategy of
the world from the power of the almost invincible walls of the
great city-states to the power of the line of supply at sea.
"The higher and bigger the walls, the more secure had the
human insiders felt themselves to be. Economic mastery of the
world affairs by the mobile, more-with-lessing, frail wooden
ships of the sea gradually overwhelmed the static state's
security. Their symbol was the six triangle hexagon, for
only triangles are stable. Those ancient water people of the
world had the stem ends of their ship's keels curved upwardly
to best cope with the waves. The swift changes occurring
within my own short life span are undoubtedly related to the
swift advancement in the technology of the sea and the sky.
"With the world's comprehensive disarmament occurring possibly
within the next decade, the airspace technologies bid fair"
-
Cite RBF Foreword to "Great Architecture of the World": 13 Mar 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Walls vs. Airspace Technology:
"to take over all the environment-enclosing arts, ergo the
architecture of tomorrow. Exciting though such prospects for
humanity may be as inherent in the vast more-with-lessing
technology of the sea and the sky, all of such development
would be meaningless, were not the integrities, thoughts,
feelings, loves, and inspirations of all those who have gone
before us to prevail and inspire us...'
1▸
(2)
Cite RBF Foreword, "Great Architecture of the World": 13 Mar 75

Wall: Walls:
See Curtain:
Membrane
Curtaining
Walls vs. Airspace Technology
(1)

Wall: Walls:
See Horizontal vs. Vertical, 1963
City, 28 Jan 75
Orbital Escape from Critical Proximity, (2)
Invisible Operation of Thousands of Radio
Programs, Nov '71
Building Business, (4)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wankel Engine:
After a careful reading of the article on Wankel Engines
in the New York Times Magazine of Sunday, 4 October 1971,
RBF observed that operation of the lankel Engine combustion
chambers might represent the reciprocal actions of the
energy centers of the A and B Modules.
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho Ave., Washington, 4 October 1971.

Want:
See Death By Want
Resource Inadequacy
Scarcity

RBF DEFINITIONS
War:
"If you have enough to go around war becomes murder.
"Since it is now physically and metaphysically demonstrable
that the chemical elements resources of Earth already mined
or in recirculation, plus the knowledge we now have, are
adequate to the support of all humanity and can be feasibly
be redesign-employed by 1985 to support all humanity at a
higher standard of living than ever before enjoyed by any
human, war is now and henceforth murder. All weapons are
invalid. Lying is intolerable. All politics are not only
obsolete but lethal."
Cite RHF to Yale students, 10 Dec 73, as rewritten by
RBF, 3200 Idaho, 13 Dee 73.

RBP DEFINITIONS
War:
"If you have enough to go around, war becomes murder."
Cite RBF to Yahe students, New Haven, 10 Dec 173

KHF DEFINITION
War:
"War is the physical commandeering and enslavement of
the physical."
Cite RBF Holograph, Delos Conference, 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
War:
"Society neither hears nor sees the great changes going on.
Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool
Political leaders look out only for their own
of politics.
side.
Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for
the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-
solvers."
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Bantam, 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
War:
"War represents the uniformed hospital and operating room
phase of an overall remedial pathology in treatment of
man's affairs. In this inherited scheme of life, science
and technology are invoked directly by society only at the
eleventh hour to arrest the malady fostered by laissez
faire, ignorance, opinion, shortsightedness, prejudice and
egocentricity. Formally declared war is the final
spectacular and open chapter following the prolonged and
far more sanguinary private and non-spectacular chapters
of strife under the guise of 'Peace.1"
Cite Earth, Inc. (RBF Reader, Ed. J. Meller), p.236. 1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
War:
"That is why we have had to have a war: because we
couldn't free ourselves for thinking without the detaching
effects of war. Short of war, we just let well enough
alone. We were swivel-moored to the rooted-down tonnage
of our lugubrious past."
Cite I&I, I FICURE, p. 106, 1 Nov 142.

RBF DEFINITIONS
War:
Eliminating the Causes of War:
"When it becomes commonly known that there is enough to go
around, there will be no war."
"
->
Citation and context at Design Science (1), 29 Jun 173

War:
Eliminating the Causes Of:
(1)
See Design Revolution
Resource Inadequacy

War: Eliminating the Causes of:
See Fellowships: Life Fellowships in R & D, 1969
123
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
War is Becoming Invisible:
"In world affairs, you realize, not only that we're
spending $200 billion annually for getting ready for war,
but it's a war that gets more and more invisible...
Electronically, you can't see the wireless... The psycho-
logical war... You don't have to have the war if you break
down the other man's economy before you get to the war.
It's cheaper than fighting."
->
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.17, 28 Jun 72
169

RBF DEFINITIONS
War:
Official War and Unofficial War
"Success for all is the only way of overcoming the need
to kill, either in the swift death of official war, or in
the slow slum death of unofficial war, mistakenly
labeled peace-- when the lack of knowledge of how to provide
for all
includes lethal competition as vast numbers are
shunted into poverty and a far more protractedly painful
and humiliating slow death. The you will learn in due
course that their idealistic compassion and hope to
eliminate lethal warfaring cannot be gratified by political
action means, for the last resort of politics is always
inherently to physical force, be it actively waged with
guns or passively provoked by sitdown blockades."
Cite ARTS AND LETTERS COLD MEDAL SPELCH, p. 16., May 168

KBF DEFINITIONS
War:
Official War and Unofficial War:
(1)
"There are official wars and unofficial wars. There has
never been anything approaching peace. The unofficial wars
occur as billions of lives deteriorate prematurely and
finally die for lack of vital necessities. They are deprived
by economic warfare which is shrewdly and cruelly waged
during the preposterously called 'peacetimes' as well as in
anticipatory competition for access to the inadequate
supplies or in hoarding against feared for scarcity.
"There are no medals given during unofficial warfare. The
brotherly excitations occurring amongst each of the opponents'
respective peoples during official warfare are almost entirely
lacking in unofficial warfare. Though much discomfort exists,
the lowest death rate anywhere on Earth is now manifest in
the direct combat deaths amongst official warfaring opposed
fighting forces in Viet Nam. On the other hand, within the
economic struggles and reflexive indulgences of the unofficial
warfaring people on the North American continent.
lives have been lost in the automobile toing and froing witthin
the last century than in the official warfaring of 100 percent
of humanity in all history."
- Cite RBF in Syracuse Address Pp. 45-46, 7 Nov '67
"
more

RBF DEFINITIONS
War:
Official War and Unofficial War:
(2)
"Today's youth will soon learn that success for all is the
only way of overcoming the need to kill; either in the
swift death of official war or in the slow slum death of
unofficial war. Because the lack of knowledge of how to
provide for all includes lethel competition as vast numbers
are shunted into poverty and a far more protractedly painful
and humiliating slow death, today's youth will learn in due
course that their idealistic compassion and hope to eliminate
lethal warfaring cannot be gratified by political actions,
for the last resort of politics is always inherently to
physical force, be it actively waged with guns or passively
provoked by sitdown blockades.
•
"
Cite WOOD DESIGN IN A DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGY, 7 Nov '67 P. 46

War:
Official & Unofficial:
See War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death

War as Official Panic:
See Biosphere, (2)

War as Quick Death:
See Resource Inadequacy, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death:
"Death by want, i.e., by metabolic inadequacies is much slower
than by the sword or gun and causes much more anguish and pain
than that of the swift hero's death. Death by want imposed on
many by the successful politicians' warfaring only with laws
and police guns, obscures the identity of their executioner
from both the politician and the slow-dying victim."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Indira Gandhi, p.5, 4 Jan'70

War:
Slow Death by Slums ya, War an Quick Death:
(1)
See War: Official War & Unofficial War

War:
Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death:
(2)
See Politics, 4 Jan 70
Resource Inadequacy, May 72
Socialism, Jul'61

War:
See Armament:
Armor: Arms
Balance-of-Power Poker Game
Civil War
Cold War
Death: Slow Death by Slums vs War as Quick Death
Detente
Disarmament
Fighting
Military
Politicians & Defense Budgets
Weaponry
Weapons Technology
World War I
World War Il
Might Makes Right
(1)

War:
See City, (A)
Design Science, (2)
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer, 4 Mar'69
Politics, (1) (2)
Womb Population, (3) (4)
(2)

War:
See War: Eliminating the Causes of War
War is Becoming Invisible
War Official War & Unofficial War
War as Official Panic
War as Quick Death
War: Slow Death by Slums vs. War as Quick Death
(3)

Ward, Barbara:
See Spaceship Earth, 1966; 23 May'66
Water, 20 Sep' 76

Warehouse:
See Fireproof Warehouse of Civilization

Washington, George:
See Puzzle of Washington Crossing the Delaware

Waste:
See Excrement
Human Food Waste
Pollution
Resources:
Fresh va. Waste
(1)

Waste:
See Aesthetics of Uniformity, (1)
(2)
13

RBF DEFINITIONS
Water:
"The fourth resolution" at the 1976 UN Habitat Conference
in Vancouver "was one which Barbara Ward herself had
conceived of and introduced. It recommended that all around
the world--by 1985--it would be made physically and
practically possible for any and all human beings to have
fresh, safe, potable drinking, bathing, and washing
water. It is highly feasible within the present technology
to make such pure, safe water available to everybody
anywhere around the world."
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, p.10: 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Water:
"Water is a liquid solid absolutely noncompressible."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash, DC; 12 Nov 75

20
RBF DEFINITIONS
Water:
"By design we are all born naked... Consisting predominantly
of water--which freezes, boils, and evaporates within a
cosmically minuscule span of temperature limits within the
vast spectrum of humanly-measured cosmic temperatures, ranging
foom absolute zero to those temperatures, for instance, of the
star Sun..."
-
Citation & context at Helpless: Humans Born Helpless, 7 Nov 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Water:
We don't know of
And we flush five
"Water is so extraordinarily valuable.
any other planet with any water on it.
gallons down the toilet each time we get rid of a pint of
waste.
"
- Citation & context at Wichita House, (2), 31 Jan'175

RBF DEFINITIONS
Water:
"Water takes on heat and loses it at the slowest
rate of all known substances."
Citation and context at Temperature of the Human Body (1), May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Water:
"I apply the same kind of subjective-objective disciplining
to my design-science undertakings. In developing environ-
mental controls, I don't even try to avoid incidents. I don't
try to insulate against forces and events. I try to turn
each event to advantage. We consist mainly of water. We
must inhibit water frequently. But water comes to us in
uneven quantities at uneven intervals. When it cloudbursts'
we can't use it that fast. I must shunt the water into a
cistern. Then I am able to valve it into my presence in
usable increments when I want it."
-
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 178, May 165

RBF DEFINITIONS
Waterfall:
11 The scientist discovers those principles that are operative
in nature. He discovers the principles of the lever.
Not only
the lever but also the electromagnetic principle, and the
development of the waterwheel with a series of levers on the
hub. . . .
and having experienced going under a waterfall,
realizing the waterfall had the same kind of power as your body
had when you got on the end of a lever, so that by putting
under the waterfall, it's going to go around-- and using then
this extraordinary discovery of the electromagnetics genera-
ting electricity."
-
Cite RBF in Edward Newman TV Interview, Feb 73

Waterfall:
See Relative Asymmetry Sequence, (1)
Human Unsettlement, (2)
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep'76

Water Fountain as System:
See Wind Stress & Houses,
(9)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Watergate:
"Watergate is the end of the use of the lie as a weapon in
the history-long, you-or-me, yours-or-mine, not-enough-for-
all-of-us, mortal struggle. For the first time in history
it is now scientifically and practically demonstrable that
there is enough for all humanity to be supported at highest
standards. Ergo, all weapons are now invalid, including
the lie."
Cite RBF Ltr. to James Coley, Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Watergate:
"The watergate affair is the beginning of the end of the
line for the lie.
"Humanity, starting naked and learning through trial and
error was left with a deep impression that there were not
enough resources to go around for all people. As a result
war- and, short of killing, lying-- came to be considered
tolerable. Yesterday, you had to have that lie. And now
people feel that the lie is no longer necessary.
"We have a young world that is realizing that man can not only
go to the Moon, but can do anything. It's highly feasible to
take care of humanity with a higher standard of living than
anyone has ever known."
Cite Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, front page,
report on
RBF Address at Third Annual Recognition Dinner for Donors
Presbyterian Medical Center, 26 Jun 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Watergate:
"Watergate is a fantastically, extraordinary, beautiful moment
in history the end of the line in lying and game-playing.
It
"Man is the only phenomenon in Universe that lies. Hydrogen
doesn't lie to itself that it doesn't join up with oxygen.
doesn't consider this sexually, something it has to do on the
quiet. Children are born spontaneaously truthful. But older
people say, 'Darling, that will get you into trouble. Or,
That will get your daddy into trouble.'
"Lies, and how to get on, end justifying means, really begin in
delicate, polite ways and in fear of the mother that their
child is going to get hurt. But young people are now saying
they won't tolerate hypocrisy, and Watergate is the end of
game-playing.
"I think they're all saying, "We
do not think that ends
Justify means, we do not think it worthwhile lying to protect
those we love if they have to live in a world where we keep
on lying. Society is well-informed theoretically, but its
conditioned reflexes are half a millenium behind that knowledge."
Cite RBF quoted by Marian Bruce in Vancouver SUN, 14 Jun 73

Watergate:
See The One: Watergate

Waterocean:
See Dymaxion_Airocean World
Water:
Trend Toward Living on Water

RBF DEFINITIONS
Waterapout:
"A waterspout is . . . a kind of wave. I could take
two or three waterspouts-- and this begins to happen--
they curl around each other.
out to be wave phenomena."
What we call rope turns
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 102. 5 July '62

Waterspout:
See Fountain
Torus

RBF DEFINITIONS
Water: Trend Toward Living on Water:
"Now the sails are coming back in great numbers as a new chapter
of economic success for many millions has launched an ever-
increasing fleet of cruising yachts and recommissioned 'wind-
jammer vacation cruise vessels. This new trend is part of a
general trend of humanity all around the Spaceship Earth's
surface to occupy and enter into the three-quarters of the
planet's surface covered by water. Men go into the seas by
submarines, skin diving and offshore steel-structured 'islands'
as well as by surface boats.'
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.29, 1968

Waterwheel:
See Lever, (b), (I) (II)
Waterfall, Feb 73

Waterworks:
Water Supply:
See Artifacts, 28 Apr 74
Building Industry, (7)
Houses & Infrastructure, 20 Sep' 76

Water:
See Bubbles in the Wake of a Ship
Rain
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Ocean
Solar Panel Water Heating
Ice
Desalinization
(1)

Water:
(2)
621
See Matter, 3 Oct'72
Science, (2)
Trespassing: Not Trespassing, (1) (2)
Temperature of the Human Body, (1)*
Wichita House, (2)*
India, 12 May' 75
Vector Equilibrium Involvement Domain, 24 Apr1 76
No Energy Crisis, (1)
Human Tolerance Limits,
Subconscious, 20 Feb'97
(A)-(D)
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"Waves require hierarchies."
Citation & context at Minimum Limit Case, 12 May 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"The wave is as abstract as the concept of an angle.
Waves are weightless patterns.
"
->
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 505.33; RBF galley rewrite
6 Nov 73

HBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"This is what science has discovered: a world of waves
in which waves are interpenetrated by waves in
frequency modulation."
Citation and context at Pulsation, 9 Nov'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"Physics has found no straight lines Universe and has found
only waves. All lines are wavilinear: high-frequency short
waves and low-frequency long waves. Unit energy may be
invested in many of the short waves or in a few of the long
waves."
Cite RBF holograph for Herman Wolf, Boston, 1:20 a.m.,
8 May '72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"Waves are inherently curvilinear, that is, they are corkscrew
or spiral traceries between covariable events, such as You and Me."
- Citation & context at Rope, Dec'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"Waves are not metaphysical. Waves are physical."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash. DC, 19, Dec. '71.
(In response to direct query.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Waves:
"Physics has found the whole physical Universe to be
uniquely differentiated and locally defined as 'waves."
Citation at Physical Universe, Nov'71
Gite RBF Narginalis
Hovy +21..

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"The overall longitudinal length of wavilinear vectorial
lines is determined by the number of waves contained."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240, by RBF 11 Oct. 171,
Haverford, Penna.

KBF JEFINITIONS
lave:
"It is characteristic of waves that they always
make a cycle."
Cite HBF to SMS Seminar,
U. lass., Amherst, 22 July 1971.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"Waves are octave
And one reason why they don't interfere with one another
Is because of the zero.
If we apply the octave wave pattern
To the wave phenomenon or radio waves and other high
Waves passing through seeming solids,
Or low frequency waves,
frequencies,
We can imagine that the lack of interference could be explained
Through the crossing of the high frequency waves
Through the much lower frequency waves
At the zero point."
Cite NUMEROLOGY Draft, April 171

RBF DEFINITIONS
wave:
"Man's experiences with curvilinear paths suggested that
waviness could be reduced to straightness. Physics finds
only waves. Some are of exquisitely high frequency, but
inherently discontinuous because consisting of separate
event packages. They are oscillating to and from
negative universe, that is to say, in pulsation."
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"'Waves
•
.
consist of frequencies of directional
inflections in respect to duration of experience."
Cite RBF SYNERGETICS Draft Mar '71.

RBF DEFINITIONS
ilave:
"The remote aspect of a spiral is a wave because there
are no planes."
Cite RBF to EJA
Beverly Hotel, New York
7 March 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"Because precession imposes angles other than 180° upon
all interactions of all moving systems of the Universe
there are no straight lines demonstrated in nature.
fundamental wave behavior of all nature is a consequence
of the omni-intereffective precession."
The
Citation at Precession, 13 Nov'6y

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"The cyclicly moduled length of the edge of any
triangulated, special case, structural system can in
represent the basic 'standard' of relative comparison
on a recycling gasis of subdivision. Each increment is
one unit of frequency and each increment is one unit of
wave.
"
Cite NCA Speechy p
103, Jun*66
Citation at Cycle, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"Six great circles can make two spherical tetrahedra,
So, the fewest great circles
the positive and the negative.
can be folded up and made into bow ties and reassociated and
then, even though we made them into a local bow tie, they
seem to re-establish to all the great circles. These are
very typical characteristics of fundamental wave phenomena.'
(See Illustration # 72.)
ite Cachondale Draft-
Nature's Coordination,
VI.40
Cite Oregon #7, p.268, 11 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
The formation of "Bow tie" units from a circular
disc (Illustration No. 72)
"is an important phenomenon
because it is a basic characteristic of wave phenomena which
act really like propeller blades. That is, all waves always
come back upon themselves. We have then a perfect wave
control by dealing in 360 degrees and it comes back on itself
and yet we have precessional inteferences with itself where
it makes itself into little local bow ties."
(Adapted.)
- Gide Carbondale Draft
Nature's Coordination_p. VI.39-
Cite Oregon #7, p.268, 11 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"When radio or television 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 conversational language is the 'resist-
ance of the wall, window or lens-- and what" in Synergetics
"is called 'the precessionally shunted pattern relay' -- is
responsible for reflection, refraction, and filtering."
- Cite MARKS, p. 20, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"A wave of water moves in integrated principle, schematically
only, maintaining its general shape, magnitude, direction,
and velocity, but never reemploying any one set of points,
particles, or molecules to perform the same function a
second time, and only a following wave may approximate the
reemployment."
Cite NOAH'S ARK, p. 6. Summer, 1950

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave:
"It is fascinating to learn that, with the development
of the computer, nature uses a Yes-No or binary system.
This is the Basis of waves. Consequently the Polynesians
have been using the most advanced techniques during the
period that we have presumed them to be inferior because
they only counted to two."
-
Cite Nath TO INVISIBLE SEA, p. 6. Undated
Citation at Binery, 9.6, undated

Wave-angle Oscillating Extremes:
See Atomic Triangulated Substructuring:
18 Nov'65
Hierarchy of,

Waveband:
See Pattern Strip

Wave Connection:
See Redundancy:
Tetrahedron:
Reduction of, 22 Apr 71
Coordinate Symmetry, Nov'71

Wave-frequency Aberrations:
See Lag, 11 Oct 73

Wave-frequency Language of Electromagnetics:
See Nature in a Corner, 17 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave-frequency Relations:
"Wave-frequency relationships have a minimum limit and not an
infinite series behavior."
-
Citation & context at Equi-interval - Tuned, 30 Dec 173

Have-frequency Relations:
See Frequency & Wave
(1)

Wave-frequency Relations:
See Equi-interval
=
Tuned, 30 Dec173*
Isotropic Vector Matrix, (p.j2) undated
Lag, 11 Oct173
Prime Nuclear Structural Systems, 27 Dec'74
Environment, 29 Mar' 77
(2)

Wavelength, Frequency & Resonance:
See Tensegrity Masts: Pentagonal Polarity, 27 Dec' 76

Wavelength:
See Angle & Frequency Modulation
Frequency: Alternate Wavelength Frequency
Radiant Valvability of IVK-defined Wavelength
(1)

Wavelength:
See Isotropic Vector Matrix, undated; 30 Nov 72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Waveless:
" ...The only metaphysical (ergo, physically unattainle)
waveless exactitude of absolute equilibrium."
Citation and context at Omnianymmetry, 11 Oct 173

Waveless:
See Awavilinear
Frequencyless

ba
adas
510
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Wave Mechanics:
See Quantum & Wave Mechanics
To 20
abr
lo 17

Wave Machanica: Law Or:
See Floating City, Aug'72

Wave Network Mensurability:
See Vector Equilibrium, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave vs, Particle:
"Particle is frequency-definable special case and wave is
angularly-defined generalization. The numerically unique
condition of special case 54 of generalizations
identifies the dilemma of physics in reconciling the minimum
fourfoldedness of wave definability by angles and the
minimum fivefoldedness definability of particle particular-
ization by unique frequencies."
-
(a1072.32)
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. RBF Ms. at Sec. 1072.32; 19 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave vs, Particle:
"While physics is as yet formally puzzling over the
paradox of the wave and the particle the apparent contra-
diction is occasioned only by the superficial misconception
of a particle where none exists. We deal only with events
in pure principle.. The sense of physical textural reality.
and awareness itself, which uniquely identifies life and time
(in contradistinction to eternal weightless metaphysics),
is inherent to the plurality of frequencies and degrees of
freedom which in pure principle theoretically provide
different interpositionings within given amounts of time."
[36]
1-7
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 1009.37, 10 Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Waye ya, Particle:
"One of the things we have to make clear for society
is the dilemma of the Max-Planck-descended scientists,
the way they do their problems, you can have either a
wave or a particle, but not both simultaneously.
Heisenberg has the same fault. They make the error of
having a wave as a continuity, as a picture-- not as a
pulsating frequency. A planar reflex causes them to
think of continuous waves,"
Cite BF LO EJA
Somerset Club
Boston, 22 April 1974
Citation at Pattern, 22 Apr 71
¶ Card C20511 Wave & Particle Definability

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave & Particle Definability:
"Wave as a constant topological aspect is exclusively defined
by angle, conceptually independent of frequency; ergo, frequency
is the additional special case fifth characteristic: the
generalization realized in time.
"Particle is frequency-definable special case and wave is
angularly-defined generalization. The numerically unique
condition of special case 5 ≠ 4 of generalizations, identifies
the dilemma of physics in reconciling the minimum fourfoldedness
of wave definability by angles and the minimum fivefoldedness
definability of particle particularization by unique frequencies."
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Secs. 1072.31 & .32, 27 Dec 74

Wave vs. Particle:
See Corpuscular, y Jul'62
Synergetics, 17 Oct '72
Tepee: Half-spin Tepee Twist, 20 Feb 73
Pattern, 22 Apr'71*
Invisible Quantum as Tetrahelix Gap Closer,
23 May 175
Powering: Fourth Powering, 9 Sep 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"Electromagnetic wave generation is omnidirectional like a
stone dropped in water... If you stop moving the magnet
everything stops... As a complex of hinged vector equilibria
can be vertex-connected to fill all space, and you can touch
any one of them anywhere and the spheres become spaces and
the spaces become spheres in an omnidirectional pulsing.
"The model of a stone dropped in water requires tunability
and memory--the succession of images disturbing the set of
images we can tune--colors, or whatever it may be.
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA; 22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"When we drop a stone into water, we see a wave emanate
outwardly in a plane. We agree that it is not water but
that we are seeing a wave in pure principle. It is not
simultaneous: therefore to conceptualize we are using our
memory and afterimage. We can never have static waves; they
have nothing to do with statics. We see a wave operative in
time and in pure principle. If we initiate wave-propagating
energy action at one point, a complete omnidirectional wave
develops.
(a)
"When a stone is dropped into a tank of water, the stone does
not penetrate the water molecules. The molecules are jostled;
they 'accommodate' the stone and in the process jostle their
neighboring molecules, which, in turn, jostle their own out-
wardly surrounding water molecule neighbors. Thus waves of
relayed jostling are propagated.
Each relayed wave, although
a composite of locally forwarded actions, provides a synergetic
continuity scenario of those actions. The consequence is a
pattern of events that has an integrity of its own, independent
of the local displacement accommodations (which are innocent
with respect to the overall synergetic pattern)."
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Secs. 505.301-.31, galley rewrite
of 6 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
(b)
"The same stone dropped successively in pools of water, milk,
or gasoline will generate the same wave patterns.
Yet the
waves are essences neither of milk nor of water nor of gasoline.
The waves are distinct and measurable pattern integrities in
their own right, visibly growing and traveling outwardly as
each locally involved molecule of the liquids develops a
narrow vertical ellipse circuitry returning to where it
started, unless a powerful wind operating parallel to and above
the liquid blows the top molecules free as bubbles to tumble
down the wave side like water on a hillside.
Cite SYNERGETICS text at Sec. 505.32, galley rewrite of
6 Nov 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of A Stone Dropped in Liquid:
$9 '... 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."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft At Sec. 1005.14, 16 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
PATTERN
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid:
3
(A)
"Humans about to die in hospitals have been carefully weighed
as life departed. No weight was lost. Whatever life is, it is
imponderable. Iam convinced that 'we' the utterly abstract
integrities regenerate our own waves and ripples in the physical
apparatus and environment which we employ just as stones create
waves and ripples in the different liquids into which they are
thrown. I am convinced that those waves and ripples are not
the liquid milk, kerosene, or water into which the stone
happened to be thrown
. If we dump milk upon water and
quickly
drop a stone into the milky area, the waves rippling in the
milk roll on from milk into water. The wave is neither milk
nor water. The wave is an abstract pattern integrity, just
as is the abstract concept of an angle. Waves are weightless
patterns. The room we sit in is permeated by thousand of
You can tune in
weightless waves, each of unique character.
hundred of wide frequency range radios within your room and
each can bring in a different program from a different part of
the world because the individual weightless waves were flowing
through trees and house walls. That extraordinary world of
weightless, invisible waves is governed by mathematical laws.
and not by the opinions of men. The magnificent orderliness"
->
Cite MEXICO Address, p. 102, 10 Oct163
SECS
505.10 + 505.33+34)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"of that ever individually and uniquely patterning weightless
wave Universe is not of man's contriving. The infinite
variety of evolutionary complexities inherent to the orderli-
ness of complementary principles operative in the Universe
is of unending synergetic uniqueness.
Cite MEXICO Address, 10 Oct '63
(B)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"When we drop a stone into water we see a wave emanate
outwardly in a plane. We agree it isn't water but that we
are seeing a wave in pure principle. it is not simultaneous
We
and we are using our memory and after image. We can never
have waves static; they have nothing to do with statics.
see a wave in pure principle. if we make a single energy
action at one point a complete omnidirectional wave occurs.
"This is similar to a steel frame cube with a triangle
rotating in it." (See Illustration # 64.)
-
Cite Carbondale Draft
Nature's Coordination, p. VI:55-+-56
Cite Oregon Lecture #7,
CONCEPTUALITY PATTERN
7
SEC.505.30)
P.
260.
11 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid:
(1)
"We drop a stone into the water and everybody is used to
something happening. A set of rings appears; we call them
waves. There are a set of circular waves that appear. It
is a very reliable pattern and it is wonderful that this thing
should happen this way... You see the waves,
and say, What
are the waves? Are they water? The fact is that I am going to
drop some popcorn on the water first. I'm going to have a few
pieces of red popcorn and the rest are yellow. Now I'm going
to drop this stone. You will see the waves go and they are
nice yellow waves, but you discover that the red popcorn
doesn't go from here to there. It simply went outwardly,
inwardly, and outwardly, but stayed in place. All the popcorn
stays in place. We begin to discover that the wave is not
the popcorn going from here to there; then you discover that
the water molecules don't go from to there. They simply
accommodate the wave. They go inward and outward from the
center of Earth accommodating a pattern that took place, but
it really isn't water. The wave isn't water. The wave went
on and the water didn't move.
"I can do this now in kerosene and I find it works just as well."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 100-101, 5 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of Store Dropped in Liquid:
We
(2)
"And I can do it in milk; and it isn't kerosene, milk, or water.
In fact, I could dump some milk fast on top of the water and
drop the thing and it goes from the milk into the water.
can then say: it isn't water; it isn't milk; and it isn't.
7 ssarily liquid-- and it isn't just something you are looking
au, because if it is night you don't see it. You may hear a
plop on the dock when the wave hits and you get a kind of
aural information, but you don't think of that in quite the
same way.
"It is a very still day, and I have begun to discover looking
at the water, and I have dropped this stone, and I see the
mast of the boat floating out there-- maybe the mast was doing
this and the dock was doing that. In other words, there was
a temporary set of distortions. What is happening is that
light emanating from the Sun, coming through the atmosphere
and getting refracted in different wavelengths so there is
some blue sky and the radiation is hitting the mast, and so
forth, being reflected in different frequencies. I see the
yellow frequencies as masked in fron of the blue, which is not
distorting.
I am getting a set of interferences from different.
kinds of frequencies. I am getting some frequency information,"
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p.101, 5 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of Stone Dropped in Liquid:
(3)
"wave information. We are saying the wave isn't water; it
isn't air. We are beginning to discover that it has some
kind of integrity of its own. We see waves from the sea
coming into this concrete wall, and we see a new pattern of
wave as it hits here and bounces out there, and we find the
outgoing wave over the incoming wave. They accommodate wach
other very nicely. We find they do angle just like the
reflecting of light. Every once in a while a peak comes
together with a peak and they will send a spurt outwardly.
Sometimes two valleys come together exactly and we get an
inward swirl. We have gone then from a long set of waves,
part of very big circles where they get into, almost into
linears. We begin to discover, for instance that a waterspout
is just such a kind of wave...
"I am beginning to talk about wave in pure principle. Pure
principles are usable. They are reducible from theory to
practice."
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 102, 5 Jul 62

RBP DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"I had yesterday the stone drop in the water and nobody
really explains why it did what it di until you know about
precession. Themolecules are all little molecular actions,
So
kinetics, little locals, and all kinds of shuntings.
there is a great deal of motion going on-- atomically
enormous. When this stone impinges on the atoms, with
everything in motion, immediately at 90 degrees there is
a resultant that goes like that. The stone is going like
The resultant is
that and goes at 90 degrees precession.
the wave. The 90 degreeness begets another 90 degreeness;
and this 90 degreeness begets another 90 degreeness, and so
The stone
on until you have a series of 90 degreenesses.
Precession is
falling like this, goes boom, boom, boom.
It is very
regenerative and that is why you have the wave.
simple then to see why there is a wave. Pure precession.
- Cite Oregon Lecture #4, p.152, 6 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
"Action and interaction of events are accompanied by
relative displacements and accommodations of other events.
For example, when a stone is dropped into a tank of water,
the stone does not penetrate the water molecules. The
molecules are jostled; they 'accommodate the stone; and in
the process jostle their neighboring molecules, which, in
turn, jostle their own border companions. Thus waves of
relayed jostling are propagated. Each relayed wave, although
a composite of local actions, provides a synergetic con-
tinuity of those actions. The consequence is a pattern of
events which has an integrity of its own, independent of the
local accomodations (which are innocent with respect to the
overall synergetic pattern). The same stone, dropped success-
ively in pools of water, milk, and gasoline, will generate
the same wave patterns. Yet the waves are essences neither
of milk nor water nor gasoline; the waves are distinct and
measurable pattern integrities in their own right. The
invariant relationships which govern pattern integrities in
nature" are "pure principle. The stone thrown into the
tank inaugurates a complex of accommodative events operative
in pure principle.
Cite MARKS p. 20, 1960

TEXT CITATIONS
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
How Little I know: Oct'66 : pp. 16-17
463.02
465.04-465.05
505.301-505.34
533.04
965.02
1005.14
1032.20
8223.08

Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid:
See Accommodation, 1960
Particle, (2)
Push-puli, 22 Feb173
Regenerative, 1960
Tensegrity Sphere, 19 Dec'73
Tunability, 9 Jul 62
Two Kinds of Twoness, (B)
Vector Equilibrium:
Spheres & Spaces, (1)
Nature Has No Separate Departments, May 72
Metaphysical Wave Patterns, 6 Nov'73

Wave Phenomenon: Inside of a Woman Out:
See Womb Population, May 65

Wave Propagation Model:
See Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model
Cube & VE as Wave Propagation Model
Triangular-cammed Model
(1)

Wave Propagation Model:
(2)
See Vector Equilibrium, 18 Sep'69
Triangular-cammed, In-out-and-around Jitterbug Model
12 Nov 75

RECEPTIONS.
Wave Propagation: Wave Propagation Mechanica:
See Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
Synergetic Proclivities
Alteration of Face Couples
(1)

Wave Propagation:
See Calculus, Jul'71
Cheese Polyhedra, Nov 71
Radial Depth, 20 Dec'74
Telepathy, 29 Jun 72
Vector Equilibrium, (2)
Pattern, 1954
(2)

Wave Quantum:
See Divide & Conquer Sequence, (1)

100
TEXT CITATIONS
Wave Quanta and Indig Bow Ties:
See Synergetics Illus. 1012.14A

Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties:
See Geometrical Function of Nine
(1)

Wave Quanta & Indig Bow Ties:
See Nine, 16 May 175
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wave System Propagations:
"Because the unsynchronizable, asymmetric exces508
Are inherently exported
The internal-external events
Propagate both inward- and outward-bound waves.
These unique wave-system propagations
Only infrequently coincide
With the unique symmetry patternings of others,
The orderly patterning energy releases of any one system
Only superficially appear to be disorderly--
Being unsynchronized immediately with other systems,
Though each system is internally orderly
And each is uniquely symmetrical dynamically.
This relatively minor yet true disorder, external to local systems,
Is spoken of by the confused observer as 'diffuse.'
-
Cite BRAIN & MIND, p.88 May '72

Wave:
See Carrier Wave
Corpuscle: Corpuscular
Cube: Diagonal of Cube as Wave Propagation Model
Cycle
Discontinuous Wave Pattern of Indige
Earthquake
Embracement Successive Wave Layer Embracements
Frequency & Wave
Interwave Behavior of Number
Metaphysical Wave Pattern
Microwave
Nuclear & Nebular Zonal Waves
Ocean
Octave Wave
Oscillation & Pulsation
Propagation
Quantum Wave Phenomenon: Quantum & Wave
Push-pull: Push Wave & Pull Wave
Radial Wave Modular Growth
(1A)

Wave:
See Six-wave (Sexave) Phenomenon of Number
Spherical Wave
Surf
Surf Poundings
Synchronization
Zerophase
Zero Wave
Sound Waves
Omniwave
Harmonic
Ship's Bow Wave
Omnidirectional Wave
Interference Wave
Hypotenuse - Wave
Cyclic Experience
(1B)

Wave:
See Binary, undated*
Frequency, 22 Jun'72
Gears, May 72; 22 Jul 71
Nucleus 18 Jun 71
Order, 10 Oct '63
Physical Universe, Nov' 71*
Precession, 13 Nov 69* ; 6 Jul'62
Principle, 12 Jun'56
Pulsation, 9 Nov'72
Radiation, May 72
Rope, Dec 71*
Reality, 14 Feb'72
Superstition, 1938
Tangible Me, 9 Jul 62
Tetrahedron: Coordinate Symmetry, Nov'71
Tunability, 9 Jul'62
Trees, 22 Apr 71
Male & Female, 1 Feb'75
Step-up, Step-down Transformations, 22 Jan'75
(2A)

Wave:
See Necklace, (1) (2)
Ball at the Center, 9 Mar 73
Ellipse, 14 Feb 73
Initial Frequency, 6 Nov$72
Cyclic Bundling of Experiences, May'49
Minimum Limit Case, 12 May175**
Error, 30 May '75
Life is a Sumtotal of Mistakes, (2)
Remote, Nov* 71
Left & Right, 7 Nov' 75
Verse vs. Prose, 11 Dec'75
(2B)

Wave:
Wave Connection
See Wave-angle Oscillating Extremes
Waveband
Wave: Blocked Wave and Contnuous Waves
Wave Frequency Aberrations
Wavelength and Frequency Event System
Wavelength
Waveless
Wave Mechanics
Wave Mechanics:
Law Of
Wave Network Mensurability
Wave vs. Particle
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid
Wave Phenomenon: Inside of a Woman Out
Kate Place Whern Wavery Can Paes Theb
Wave Propagative Immand eaten
Wave Propagation Model
Wave Quantum
Wave Quanta and Indig Bow Ties
Wave System
Hexency
Wave-frequency Language of Electromagnetics
Wave Returns Upon Itself
(3)

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

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wavilinear:
"Potential lines are only inscrutably nonstraight; all
physically realized relationships are geodesic and wavilinear."
-Cite RBF galley correction to SYNERGETICS at Sec. 240.29,
28 Oct 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wavilinear:
"Wavilinear is physical but not structural, since it is
not accounted for by tetrahedron, octahedron, vector
equilibrium, and icosahedron."
(For context of above see Ed. Note at Physical, 9 Jul'62)
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, 30 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wavilinear:
"The overall longitudinal length of wavilinear vectorial
lines is determined by the number of waves contained."
- Cite SYNERGETICS Corollaries, Sec. 240, by RBF 11 Oct. 71,
Haverford, Penna.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Havilinearity:
"Regenerative precession imposes wavilinearity upon
vectors and tensors.
Wavilinearity is spiralinear."
WAJILINEARITY, FIXES - SEC. 520.10
Cite RBF to EJA
Blackstone Hotel, Chicago
25 March 1971

Wavilinear: Wavilinearity:
See Awavilinear
Deliberately Nonstraight Line
Prime Vector
Spiralinearity
Vector
(1)

Wavilinearity:
Wavilinear:
See Critical Proximity, 15 Feb'73
Integer, 15 Oct172'
Now, 7 Nov 73*
Omniasymmetry, 11 Oct 173
Physical, 9 Jul*62*
Rope, Dec 71
Tetrahedron:
Wave, 8 May'72
Inside-outing Of, 28 Oct 73
Prime Vector, (3)
Twoness, 27 May 72
System, 27 May 72
Feedback, 7 Nov* 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
We-Me Awareness:
"Me the observer, Me the awareness
Life is awareness.
No otherness no awareness.
Environment is all the otherness
Of which the we-me life
Becomes progressively aware
And must progressively complement.
"All the Otherness'
Is a scenario of nonsimultaneous
And only partially overlapping sets
Of physically and metaphysically
Transforming events
Of and by which we-me
Becomes progressively and cumulatively aware
And teleologically inspired
In a succession of sleep and attention spaced
Special case frames
Each integrating a plurality
Of differentially sensed info-concepts...*
-
Cite Universal Requirements of a Dwelling Advantage, 31 May'74

We:
We-me:
See Pronouns:
Experiment:
I - Wo = Us
We Are Not the Only Experiment
(1)

We: We-even:
See Time-sizing, 30 Nov 72
Individuality & Degrees of Freedom, (2)
(2)

Weak Force:
See Gravity, 12 May '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Energy is the essence of wealth, wealth being the
organised capability to support life."
-
Citation & Context at Human Unsettlement, (2); 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"With the computers' integrative examination of the physical
and metaphysical resources available to human beings it will
be discovered that we are incredibly wealthy.
"Wealth
being predicated on the degree of organised
competence to nurture, protect, and accommodate today's and
tomorrow's human lives. It will be clearly manifest that we
have aboard Spaceship Earth four billion billionaires--
heirs-apparent who have never been notified of their magnif-
icent inheritance, which have been overlong hidden within
the world's probate courts of obsolete laws, customs and fee-
hungry fiduciary administrators, whose ignorant divorcement
of money from wealth has altogether hidden from the fiduciary
administrators themselves as well as the rest of the world,
the late-20th-century-realized existence of omni-humanity-
sustaining, inexhaustible wealth."
Citation & context at Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"I want to stress very much the things that Gerard Piel]
talked about: wealth.... Wealth is--as far as I am concerned--
the extent to which human beings have discovered principles
that are operating in our Universe and the extent they use
the experiences that come before us and the principles that
we have learned (of leverage-- or whatever it may be), the
extent to which we have organized our life, our environment,
to take care of how many lives for how many days-- the
capability to protect it, accommodate it, to feed it-- that
is wealth.
"We are now in a great deal of confusion in our Western world
by what has been done by the digits with which we recorded the
wealth and tried to give the people producing it a chance to
save it. The gains of that wealth have been plagues with
interest charges--lending that wealth out to others when
people didn't know whom it was being lent to.... Then there's
the money game, where the money is really very remote from
the wealth. When we consider that this is so we can begin
to look at our cities in a little different kind of a way.
We have all kinds of very important resources available when
we begin to resurvey the accounting system we are using on
our planet."
-
8 Dec175
1.7
Cite RBF to National Geographic Land Use Symposion; transcript

RBP DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Wealth is the measurable degree of established operative
advantage locally organized by intellect over the locally
occurring differentiable behaviors of universal energy.
Wealth is an irreversible advantage: it cannot be expended
in preferred reorganization of past events; it can only be
expended on organizing forward events in preferential patterns."
Citation & context at Intellect: EquationOf, (B), 17 Jun '75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Wealth includes the accommodation of man's proclivities,
degrees of freedom, and needs for information.'
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Wealth, I would say quite clearly, is our capability to take
care of lives. To what extent do we, then, know how to cope
with principles to take care of how many lives for how many
days? That's what real wealth is. Nothing else really counts.
And they can only be articulated forwardly; they can't be
articulated backwardly."
-
Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
(A)
"The big problems that come out are really not being put on the
books, because society was not really thinking in big enough
ways-- not realizing. Pretty much one-waying. There's a fairy
godmother operating here and it's not really being put on the
books. Society is going to be kidding itself a whole lot.
"I've had a number of big audiences in university lecture series;
and I've said, 'I'm sure everbody in this room has a little
different idea of what wealth is. And I'm going to ask if anybody
in this room will contradict me in this audience if I say that
no matter how much you have of it, no matter what you think it
is, but how much you have of what you think as wealth, will you
all agree with me that you can't alter one iota of yesterday?
It wouldn't do you any good. They agreed. So then I said,
what ever it is, it is irreversible. It's something to be
articulated now-- or forwardly
"When we ant to do our thinking about what is wealth, I've
eliminated a lot of things I don't have to think about any
more.
"Now I'm going to have a man we'll call a millionaire, a
billionaire. And he has all his check books and all his stock"
-
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (pp. 6-7), New York, 13 Mar 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
(B)
"certificates and his deeds and contracts; the works-- and so
he can articulate at any moment. And he's going from here to
another country and he's going on a ship and the ship is sinking
from fire and all the small boats are burnt. And he holds on
to his gold and he sinks a little faster than the other people.
So he doesn't have any future either. So whatever that kind
of wealth is-- he has all the controls of what we call
wealth. We have one man on board who brought along a pneuma-
tic life preserver; and he's floating out there and he says,
'Hey, Mister, I'll give you a billion dollars cash.' And he
says, No thank you.
"In other words, I think that what man really means by wealth,
then, is its capability to support forward life. I really want
to get now to hard accounting when we get to cosmic accounting.
As far as human beings go: do you have any more life? And
wealth would be: for how many lives, for how many days-- every
thing you need to keep life going-- have you already organised?
... The environment is always changing around, transforming.
And the resources are there, but how much 'know-how' do you
have?
"In the terms of yesterday, up to this century when thermodynamics"
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.7), New York, 13 Mar' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
(C)
"was discovered by the scientists and they discovered that
local systems always lose energy. And they discovered that
because man didn't know that light had a speed-- and he thought
of Instant Universe... Everything Einsetin introduced as not
thinking Instant Universe because Mr. Newton did think Instant
Universe. And if that was so, then Universe itself was a system
and it too was losing energy, running down. Therefore we had a
basic negative accounting. When I cam to Harvard University
before World War I, the intellectuals assumed that the Universe
was something being run down. What we used to call a fundamental
conservatism was based on the bias that energies were always
being exhausted anywhere. And anyone who makes any changes,
that just means that it's running down a little faster.
"This was very convenient actually for the early great fortunes
who went from the sea onto the land to produce steel
steamships and the equipment for them. Suddenly they found
they could make money with both-- and up on the land, too!
Once they had a factory, they didn't want to change the
factory. Up to Warld War II, anybody who wanted to propose
change he got fired. And after World War II, suddenly it
was an entirely new story: if you didn't propose change, you"
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Bo., (p.7), New York, 13 Mar'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"didn't get advanced. What a big jump that was... from a basic
accounting viewpoint. These are the things I find are not
properly discussed by anybody, looking at things sumtotally,
and I was thinking that it's your business to understand what
really is there and be able to tell management what they have.
That is why I think this meeting is possibly one of the most
important meetings I've ever had in my life.
(D)
"Q. When you say that you can't change wealth, are you saying
that wealth can't be destroyed?'
"I'm first trying to run down what wealth is. And I'm only
saying that--whatever it is-- it won't work backwardly; it only
works forwardly, today or tomorrow.
And you just add all the things that seem to
make a man wealthy, and I find it didn't give him any forward
tomorrow. So maybe that's not what we're looking for. I'm
trying to find out what it really is. So I find out that
whatever it is, it has to be one of two things. One is our
Universe. Universe is physical, and, as Einstein said, is all
energy. Energy associative as matter; energy disassociative as
radiation. And we find it pulsing, going back and forth between"
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.7), New York, 13 Mar' 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"the two. And, as of this century, we come to discover that the
energies are not lost. This is a great jump-- where we've had
such specializations, with the economists and the philosophers
not really being able to listen to what they physicists have
been saying.
(E)
"So the physical side of wealth, which we will use then to make
tools, or whatever it may be, is now inexhaustible.... What we've
had on the books up until this century-- these things were always
being written off. Very logically. Nature seemed to have a
negative accounting of the capital account.
So
"But I'm saying that the capital account is not going down.
the other variable is metaphysical. What we did, getting those
more messages on the same copper. That was our 'know-how."
Learning principles. There is a principle of leverage. There
is a principle of refraction. There is a principle of really
exponentials that really do become operative. So I said, the
difference here is metaphysical.
"Next thing I found out about this metaphysical was that every
time we make an experiment, we always learn more; we don't
learn less. There are numbers of words in the dictionary to"
-
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.8), New York 13 Mar 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
(F)
"accommodate all the things we've found out about Universe--
they don't get less, they get more. I find then, that the
metaphysical side of wealth is always increasing and this is
what has brought the words 'know-How' (metaphysical sounds
fancier). But know-how always increases. The physical does not
decrease. Wealth is very extraordinary and this is what happens
with World War I. The great change is that wealth always
increases. Now it can increase faster or lesser-- as you use
the principles properly. And I've discovered that the negative
accounting that we've really been operating in, is no longer
valid. The minute we began to pay attention to what Einstein
and Max Planck and everybody really found out, that accounting
has to change. This is a very, very severe change.
"
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.80, New York, 13 Mar'74

RBP DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"We have no knowledge today of what wealth is.
the ability to take care of lives."
-
Real wealth is
Cite RBF address to Harvard Law School Forum, Cambridge,
10 Dec 73 as qubted in next day's Crimson

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Humanity's productive and distributive
Life-supporting capability-- wealth--
Had been irreversibly amplified."
Citation and context at Copper (2), May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Wealth is the capability to live."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Wealth is the number of forward days for a specific
numberof people we are physically prepared to sustain
at a physically stated time and space liberating level
of metabolic and metaphysical regeneration."
- Cite RBF quated by Jerry Judelson in LosAngeles
underground newspaper, spring 1971, p. 17

HBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"it is obvious that the real wealth of life aboard our
planet is a forwardly operative, metabolic and intellectual
regenerating system. Our children and their children are
our future days. If we do not comprehend and realize
our potential ability to support all life forever we are
cosmically bankrupt."
Cite RBF quoted by Jerry Judelson in Los Angles underground
paper, p. 17, spring, 1971

HBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Real wealth is knowing what to do with energy.
-
Cite I SEEM TO BE A VERB, Queen, May '70 (Not in Bantam edition)
UNIVERSE SEC 343.10 REJECTED
BY RBF, 11 NOV'74

HBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Wealth is as much everybody's as is the air and the sunlight"
-
Citation and context at Fellowships: Life Fellowships in Re-
search and Development, 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"To account our success in terms of gold and various
Real
traditional banking practices is irrelevant.
wealth is organized capability. One of its important
characteristics is that it is irreversible-- no matter
how much wealth you have, you cannot change one iota of
yesterday. Wealth can only be used now and in the
future. What we really mean by wealth is how many days
forward we have energy available and organized for work
to keep the machines running, to keep the foods growing,
the refrigeration, transportation, and so on. The basis
for our new accounting system will be 'How many forward
days of organized capability do we have available to
serve how many men?" We will be able to make the working
assumption that it is normal not only for man to be
successful but also normal for him to be able to move as
freely as he wishes without interfering with any other
Our overall accounting assumption will be based on
whatever amount of organized energy capability is required
so as to make it possible for any man to travel around and
enjoy the whole Earth, and be completely supported in
doing so. There will be no such thing as deficit accounting.
You cannot live on deficit accounting. You cannot eat "
man.
-
(1)
Cisation & context at Economic Accounting System, (1) (2), Feb'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"deficitly or drink water deficitly. What is to eat is there--
as the water is there.
"All such negative accounting procedures went along with the
need for exploiting others in the 'you or me' phase of man's
past struggle for basic survival."
-
Citation & context at Economic Accounting System (1) (2), and
Population Sequence (7) (8), Feb'67
(2)

RB DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
1
. . . Wealth cannot alter one iota of yesterday.
Wealth has an irreversible direction of articulation."
Cite NASA Speech, pp. 26,27
Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
One of its important
"Real wealth is organized capability.
characteristics is that it is irreversible..."
UNIVERSE
Cite The Year 2000, San Jose State College, Mar'66
SEC. 343.10 REJECTED BY RBF, 11 Nov '74

RBF DLFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Happily realized augmentation of forward capability
is all that we mean by wealth."
-
Citation and context at Science-Technology-Industry-Economics-
Politica Sequence
(2), 9 May'62
Cite NG FORS SECONDMANS GOD, Preface, p. ix 9-May162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"Energy-- larger and larger blocks of which as inherent
principles of inexhaustible Universe become available to man's
control account
. The impoundment of ever greater blocks of
energy within the arrangements of the 92 chemical elements
to give higher degrees of performance of structure and mechanics
constitutes the actual means of harvesting of universal wealth.
"It is as though the phenomenon which we call raw materials,
which
are in fact our 92 chemical elements, were a fleet of
cargo
vessels into which we load ever greater cargoes of
energy
, and as we load them they give higher degrees of controlled
performance,
as a result we increase our control over fate and
that is the
function of wealth."
Fuller Research Foundation, yellow
-Cite Part II, Earth, Inc.
typescript (pp. 13-14), 1947

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
"The measurable degree of forwardly organized
environmental control, in terms of quickly convertible
energy, capacities and performance ratioed system
capabilities per capita, per diem."
-
Cite WEALTH (I&I) pp 142
1947
145

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth: Equation of Wealth:
"For we now know scientifically
That wealth consists exclusively
of physical energy
Which cannot be depleted
Plus intelligence's know-how
Which can only increase...
-
Cite INTUITION, p.66 May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
Equation of Wealth:
"Wealth 2 Energy + Intellect, with energy as (1) electr-
magnetic matter; (2) electromagnetic radiation."
-
Cite P. Pearce, Inventory of Concepts, June 1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth: Equation of Wealth:
"Wealth consists of indestructible energy plus intellect's
ever-increasing 'know-how' and is the means of sustaining
forward life. Wealth can only increase."
Cite RBF Glossary of Terms (Appendix B),
1967

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth:
Equation of Wealth:
"Wealth is the organized and operative
Tool and energy capability
To sustain man's forward metabolic regeneration;
To physically protect him;
To increase his knowledge
And degrees of freedom
While decreasing his interfrustrations.
Solo wealth is to commonwealth
As X is to X+.
Wealth is: Energy compounded
With intellect's know-how."
Cite HOW LITTLE, p. 36. Oct'66

Wealth: Equation Of:
See Intellect:
Equation:
Equation Of
Philosophical Equations
(1)

Wealth: Equation of:
See Health as "Know-how", (3)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth As Know-How:
"The accounting system would include a redefinition of
wealth with the garcity model of economics to be made
obsolete by the magnitude of man's participation in the
irreversible amplification of the inventory of information,
i.e., know-how. This eliminates economic competition."
Citation and context at Economic Accounting System, 29 Jun 72

REF DEFINITIONS
Wealth as "Know-how": (1)
"Let us ask ourselves some fundamental questions regarding
the meaning of wealth. The biggest question we can formulate
proposes that 'no matter what it may be or how we define it,
will you agree that wealth cannot alter one iota of yesterday'?
The answer is always that we agree to the proposition.
"We discover that whatever wealth is, it has an irreversible
direction of articulation. We next note that if a reportedly
very wealthy man is in a shipwreck in midocean and has all his
checkbooks with him for all the monies he has on deposit in
the bank plus all his stocks and bonds and physical property
deeds and there are no physical means of saving himself from
drowning that his wealth becomes meaningless to him. If he
had all of his assumed-to-be-wealth with him in gold coins, he
would only sink faster. If, however, he knew how and
did convert physical components present in the disaster
environment into energy-mastering tools that could keep him
from drowning and from perishing from cold and sharks while
also propelling safely to land, might we not logically
designate wealth as the means of sustaining forward life and
the magnitude of the wealth in terms of how many forward days
of healthy metabolic regeneration have been provided for in "
Cite NASA Speech, p. 26, Jun 66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth as "Know-how":
"tools and energy mastery?
"We will also have to recognize that Robinson Crusoe's wealth
was limited due to his enforced imprisonment on an island
seemingly devoid of eother humans and with whom he might pro-
create further life. If we recognize the built-in drives and
selective functioning of humans, we will concede that the more
freedom and the greater tooled energy at his command, the
further and the more swiftly could the individual travel and
the greater the opportunity thereby derived to increase or
regenerate both his 'know-how' for dealing with forward evolu-
tionary events and for meeting the individual of opposite sex
most favorably and logically suited to marriage and their
mutual regeneration and forwarding of human life.
(2)
"Thus we begin to discern that wealth may be at least partially
defined as our energy-mastering, tool-organized
capability
to cope effectively and healthfully with our forward life
regenerating and protecting and physically advantaging needs
and development with ever increasing degrees of freedom and
without gaining advantage through the disadvantaging of
another human.
Cite NASA Speech, pp.27-28, Jun'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wealth as "Know-how":
"Because the 20th century physicists have shown that energy is
finite and can be neither destroyed nor created, the energy
component of wealth cannot be depleted. The other fundamental
component of wealth is intellect. Intellect's 'know-how' can
only increa es e. Every time intellect makes an experiment with
energy it learns more. Therefore wealth, consisting of
indestructible energy plus ever-increasing 'know-how' can only
increase. The more we employ the wealth, the more rapidly it
increases."
(3)
-
Cite NASA Speech, pp. 28-29, Jun'66

Wealth as Knowhow:
See Humane City, (2) (3)

Wealth:
Affluence
See Afford
Commonwealth
Earning a Living
Economic Accounting System
Energy Wealth
Rich Man Drowning in a Shipwreck
Spending
Success
Intellect: Equation Of
(1)

Wealth:
12:
(2)
See Conservatism, Jun'66
Copper (2)*
Debt, 1944
Economic Accounting System (1) (2)*
Fellowships:
Ship (3)
Life Fellowships in R & D, 1969*
Intellect: Equation Of, (B)*
Cosmic Accounting, 20 Sep' 76*
Human Unsettlement, (2)*

Weaponry:
See Disarmament
Dollars Bills: $200 Billion One-dollar Bills
Circling Around Earth
Gross World Product Sequence
Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence
Killingry
Livingry
(1)

Weaponry:
See Acceleration of Change (2)
Metals: Recirculation of (1)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weapons:
"All weapons are invalid."
Citation and context at War, 13 Dec'73

RBP DEFINITIONS
Weapons Technology Sequence:
(A)
"The integration of the new 20th century science and technology
during World War I resulted in entirely unprecedented magnitudes
of technical advantage gains accomplished in all the
fundamental capabilities of the world's industrial networks.
As a consequence of this major mobilization of industry, brought
about through realizations of the long-suppressed scientific
backlog, the industrial advantage subsequently accruing in the
domestic economy as by-products of the munitions industry, had
so increased that by 1919 six percent of humanity were enjoy-
ing the prevalently high' standard and ever-advancing physical
advantages of the industrial network. By 1940 the percentage
of the ever-increasing world population that had now come to
enjoy high standard industrial advantage increased to 20
percent.
As a consequence of the again extraordinary advantages
of technology during World War II, and in the post-World-War
II cold wars, we have now increased the numbers of those
humans who are participating in the industrial network to 44
percent of the world's total population. The continually
accelerating rates of increase in the number being served
with ever-higher standards of industrialization has occurred
despite the ever-more rapid increase in world population,'
-
Cite RBF to William Marlin, Architectural Forum, Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weapons Technology Sequence:
"concurrent with a continual decrease in the world metals
per capita.. The surprising rise in the number of people
enjoying higher standards may only be accounted for by the
fact that the increased ability of man and the increase in
the number being served is an indirect consequence of our
constantly doing more with less per given unit of resources,
per given function.
"Doing constantly more with less came from the world of
seaborne or airborne weapons. To persist as a 'winner' in
the game of world armaments a constantly accelerating
evolution must be regeneratively initiated in specific
improvements in performances per pound of physical resources
and per hours of scientific and technical expertise invested
in a given task in order to be supreme in carrying the
greatest hitting power the greatest distance in the shortest
time, with ever-increasing accuracy of aim and at ever-
higher degrees of energy efficiency."
(B)
-
Cite RBF to William Marlin, Architectural Forum, Feb'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weapons Technology:
(1)
"The high performance technology developed for the production
of weapons comes progressively to levels of obsolescence--
for instance, the premier type of submarine or airplane
finally becomes eclipsed by competition and therfore becomes
obsolete. Second grade weapons are worthless. The
contractor who has been producing the now obsolete item
often finds himself failing to get the next contract for the
newer kind of weapon or tool. However, the ex-contractors
are tooled up with the powerful high performance technology.
They can produce a great deal with very little, i.e., with
high performance per pound. For these obvious reasons the
ex-government contractors look around in the domestic market
to find ways in which to exploit their super technical
ability. The ex-government supplier thus brought the dynamo,
originally developed
exclusively for the battleship, into the city to light man's
streets and the electric lights developed for the battleship
came thereafter to replace the candles in our domestic
candelabras, but the candelabras were not changed.
domestic economy was never made the comprehensive focus of
generalized system theory and the prime beneficiary of
scientific knowledge."
The
Cite MEXICO 163, p.8, 10 Oct 163

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weapons Technology:
"The high performance technology items were only progress-
ively substituted for low performance items within the
overall low performance, or indifferent performance, of the
total structural and mechanical
scheme of the
(2)
forever fortuitous land-borne edifices. Parts became
improved without improvement in the total concept of land
borne technology. All of our television, or radios, our
electronic developments in general, came out of the original
weaponry development. We see millions of glistening metallic
TV antennae sprouting above the roofs of filth-festering,
bathroomless, fire-trap living shacks the world around
.
Thus we find ourselves continually advancing in domestic
technology, but only as the second-hand gadgetry, by-producted
by the cast-off segments of the weaponry industry.
"Livingry vs. weaponry" characterizes "the causal pattern
and curve of comprehensive improvement and amplification of
world technology."
-
Cite MEXICO 163, pp.8-9. 10 Oct 163

Weapons Technology:
See Airplane Technology
Fallout from Weapons Support System
Sea Technology
Battleship
(1)

Weapons Technology:
See Evolution, (p.72) May 72
Money-bee Humans, 12 Jun' 73
Revolution by Inadvertence, 10 Oct'63
Technology, 13 Mar 73; 22 Jan 75
War, 13 Dec'73*
Everybody's Business, (1)-(3)
Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep' 76
Disarmament, (1) (2)
Universe is Technology, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weather:
"I'll give you in my own words very much the pattern of what
we speak about as the weather. In the weather, we have the
Sun shining on the atmosphere of our little planet; on the
sunny side, heating it up, and making it expand; and on the
shadow side-- cold, and it's contracted. Then there's a
difference of rate of absorption of the Sun's radiation by the
rock and the water and the atmosphere, so that in the shadowed
side the waters are still warm. So there are all kinds of
turbulences set up. As a consequence, there are low pressure
areas and high pressure areas-- that's where we get our weather
being reported. And the lows exhaust the highs; they pull on
them, tense on them; finally they become the high and there's
a new vacuum over here beginning to pull. So there's a pulsing
pulsation going on in our Universe of collectings here and
disbursements there. "
Cite RBF in Edward Newman TV Interview, transcript p.21, Feb173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows:
(1)
"We discovered that the motion of wind along the surface of the
Earth is a turbulent affair, rising here and hitting the Earth's
surface there and rising again. We discover that the wind,
instead of being considered blown horizontally along the Earth
from a god's mouth or by a mysteriously hidden blower, should be
recognized as enormous convection columns in the thin atmospheric
layer surrounding the Earth and caused by a warm Earth in the
presence of a cold outer space, so that Earth continuously heats
the atmosphere at its lowest point, thus expanding it, which
causes it to be of lesser specific gravity and therefore to be
less attractive to gravity, which pulls the top layer of chilled
and concentrated air downward and causes the heated air to rise
in columns somewhat as water boils upward in expanded bubbles
There
and draws downward in concentrated pinnointed bubbles.
are predominat heat points on Earth caused by less insulation
or color variations of surface. There was a strong column
here and more of a tendency to have that column go here than
-
there.
"As a net result of these convection column tests it was dis-
covered that the rising winds tend to greater velocity than
that of the lowering air moving in from the outer reaches to"
Cite DESIGNING AN INDUSTRY, (PBF Reader, p. 204), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows:
"satisfy the concentrated columns, and therefore that the
resultant focus of wind stress near the Earth's surface is
in an upward direction in the lee of an obstruction-- such as
a house at the Earth's surface.
11
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.204), 1946
(2)

Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lowe:
See Wind Sucking Sequence
Importing & Exporting
(1)

Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows:
See Boltzmann Sequence (1
Radiation Sequence (2)
Regeneration, 28 Apr 71
Wind
Wow (3)
Power Sequence (4)
Boltzmann System, 4 Nov' 73
(2)

Weather:
See Atmosphere
Biosphere
Hydrosphere
Photosynthesis
Wind Power:
Effect of Earth's Rotation
Lightning & Atoms
Wind
Hurricane
Typhoon
Climate
(1)

Weather:
See Manifest: Six, 1973
Photosynthesis, Oct169
Radome Sequence (1) (5)
Wind Power Sequence (5)
(2)

Weare: Weaying:
See Interweaving
Tapestry
Variable Strands Braiding
Thread
Strands
Basketry Interweaving
Interweave:
Interweaving
Three-way Weaving
Three-way Weaving vs. Two-way Crisscross
(1)

Weave Weaving:
See Female, May165
Male & Female, 19 Dec'71
Scenario, May 72
(2)

Web:
See Spider's Web

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wedding:
•
•
all closest packing begins with two balls rather
Two balls coming together is
than omnidirectionally.
•
where thought begins. . it is a wedding thing.
•
and
it is very beautiful the way the two balls reoccur at
each wave outwardly."
▪Beverly Horsty New York, 1990
Al, 19. Jun 71
Citation & context at Balls Coming Together, 19 Jun'71

Wedding:
See Marry: Marriage: Marrying
(1)

Wedding:
See Balla Coming Together, 19 Jun171
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Week:
"Nature has no 'weeks.'
'friday' in nature.'
There is no 'Monday,' 'Tuesday,'
1
Cite RBF to Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Week:
"I no longer think in terms of weeks' except as
I stumble over their antiquated stop-and-go habits.
Nature has no weeks.'"
-
Cite OPERATING MANUAL, p. 131, 1969

Week:
See Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence, (2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weighable:
"The absolute would be weighable... experimentally meaningless."
Citation and context at Absolute, Oct'66

KBF DEFINITIONS
Weight:
"Without weight you do not exist physically-- nor without
a specific temperature."
-
->
Citation & context at Temperature of the Human Body, 21 Dec 171
3200 idatro, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 17

RBF DEFINITIONS
Weight:
"Time and heat and longevity and weight are inherent in
every dimension."
Citation & context at Dimension, 21 Dec'71
CITO ABF LO JA, 3200 Taho Ave, Washington DC,

Weighable & Unweighable:
See Universe (p.62) 1969

101
Weighing in at Seven Pounds: Then70: Then 170:
See Automation, 12 Jun169
Automation of Metabolic & Regenerative Processes,
Kay'65
Evolution (A) (B)
Knot, Dec 67
Life is not Physical, 11 Sep' 73
Metabolic Flow
(1)
Pattern Integrity, (A)(B)
Technology, Jun'69

Weight of Buildings:
See Displacement of Ships & Buildings
(1)

Weight of Buildings:
See Architecture, 24 Apr '67
Design Science, (2)
(2)

Weighable: Weight:
See Death: Weighing of People as they Die
Ponderable
Unweighable
Volume-weight Relationship
Weighable & Unweighable
Weightless
Zero Weight
(1)

Weighable: Weight:
See Absolute, Oct '66*
Air, 26 Sep'68
Dimension, 21 Dec'71*
Mass, 14 May 73
Temperature of the Human Body, 21 Dec'71*
Four-dimensional Reality. 30 Apr 77
Fourth Dimension:
22 Jun '77
VE as Fourth-dimension Model,
(2)

HEF JEFINITIONS
Weightless:
"I speak about the mind and the mind's manifestations as
metaphysical or weightless.
physical as moving a needle.
between us here in this room.
is weightless.
The physicist speaks about the
Everything that's going on
•
as I'm thinking out loud
I may push a little air, which makes sounds,
to communicate to you, but the relative value of the words
I'm using is unweighable."
-
Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 171,
Talk 13, p. 11.

Weightlessness of Thought:
See Zero Weight, 1968

Weightless:
See Conceptual Integrity
Conceptuality
Death: Weighing of People as they Die
Ephemeral
Generalized Principles
Imponderable
Life
Metaphysical
Nonponderable
Eternal Universe
Pure Principle
Unweighable
Zero Weight
(1)

Weightless:
See Animate & Inanimate Sequence, (2)
Closed System, 1968
Conceptions, Dec'69
Ephemeral, Oct 66
Intellection:
Life, 13 Nov'69
Mind, 13 Nov'69
Particle, (1)(2)
Intellecting, Oct'66
Process Relationships, 28 Jan'69
Principle, 9 Jul*62*
Triangle, (1)
Wave 6 Nov 73
New York City, (6)
Life is Not Physical, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wellspring of Reality:
"...This is what the intuition of world-around youth is
trying to do. Mind can see that reality is evoluting into
weightless metaphysics. The wellspring of reality is the
family of weightless generalized principles. It is essential
to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday..."
Cite SYNERGETICS "Introduction: The Wellspring of Reality,'
pp. 17-18, 25 Jul 72

Wellspring of Reality:
See Reality, 13 Nov*69

Wellspring of Work:
See Energy, 1960

Wellspring:
See Eternal Wellspring

West-to-East: Prevailing Winds:
See East-to-west Trend
(1)

West-to-East: Prevailing Winds:
See Most Economical, 15 Jun'74
(2)

Whale Sounds:
See Universal Language, 28 Apr'71

Whale:
See Stature. 20 Feb '73
Tetrahedron, 20 Feb '73
Twenty-foot Earth Globe & 200-foot Celestial
Sphere, (4)-(10)
Human Beings at the Center, (1)

What I Am Trying To Do:
See Fuller, R.B:
What I Am Trying To Do

What Needs to Be Done:
See Doing What Needs to be Done

What:
See Know-what
Verbs: No 'Where's, No 'What's, Only 'When's

RBF DEFINTIONS
Wheel:
"/To say that there are no examples of wheels in
in nature' is an observational error ( as is the
assertion that the invention of the wheel required 'abstract
thinking at a highly philosophic level.
preposterous
The
in view of the frequent presence about the earth of tree logs
which have been used by man as rolling supports or wide tired
wheels, probably to the earliest times of man on earth.
log wheel was the fulcrum of man's lever-- probably amongst
his earliest discoveries, as he stepped on the long end of a
big log lying across another log and found himself lifting
yet another log on the other end of the lever, which lifted
logs he knew to be beyond his ability to lift alone with his
arms, back and legs. Every pebbled beach contains rolling
stones which are omni-directional wheels, or 'ball bearings.
Very few squares or cubes occur in nature-- everywhere nature
uses the round wheel sectioned form.
the presence of the
I
wheel principle in nature. Wheels were, however, probably
'a flop' as
an invention, for milleniums, becoming successful
only after proper lubricants and metals were developed for
their axles."
Cite DISSONANT CHORDS 9 Feb164
'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wheel:
Artillery Wheel:
°
"The old fashioned artillery wheel is an interesting thing.
It
has a roadway like a pole vaulter and you pole vault
over and your weight is at the hub. By the time you get
rid of one pole you get another pole. Therefore the wheel
is just a method of having a series of poles to keep moving
along with."
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 108. 5 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wheel:
Artillery wheel vs Wire Wheel:
"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. I saw that the exterior of
the equatorial compressional island rim atoll of the
wire-wheel must be cross-sectionally in tension as also
must be its hub-island's girth. I also saw that all
these tension vs. compression patterning relationships are
completely reversible, and are entirely reversed as when
we considered the compressively spoked 'artillery wheel'
vs. the 'tensionally spoked wire wheel.'"
-
Cite PORTFOLIO ART RE, p. 120, Dec 161
TENSION COMPRESSION SEC 640.22 401
+

Wheelbarrow:
See Omnimedium Transport Sequence, 131

Wheeling About of Humans:
See Omnidirectional, 1960

Wheel:
See Bicycle Wheel
Omnidirectional Wheel
Waterwheel
Wire Wheel
(1)

Wheel:
See Industrialization, (1)(2)
Intellectual Perspective, 1 Jul'62
Halo, 1938
(2)

Wheeler, John Archibald:
See Black Holes & Synergetics, 1 Mar' 77

When:
See Anywhen
Elsewhen
Verbs:
Everywhen
No 'Where's, No 'What's, Only 'When's

Where:
See Elsewheres
Manywhere
Verbs: No 'Where's, No 'What's, Only 'When's
Always & Everywhere
Not everywhere
Ever & Everywhere

Whipa
See Gears, 7 Nov 73
Lasso, 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whitehead's Dilemma:
"I am very much concerned with the uses of power.
"When Alfred North Whithead first came to this
country from England, in the early part of this century,
he remarked upon the fact that the graduate schools were
all turning out specialists. Not that specialists weren't
needed. But all the bright ones were becoming specialists.
They were the only ones being educated for the graduate
schools. As a result, the best brains are highly
specialized. Not only that, but along withhigh intellectual
ca pabalities they developed a high intellectual integrity--
no specialist of integrity would think of going into some
other expert's field and making quick assumptions as to
the significance or lack of significance of the work of a
specialist in another field. So communication ceased
between them. We have teams of all-stars supposedly
designing the system-- and they can't even talk to each
other!"
Cite MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Winter 1966, Vol. 1., No. 2., p. 38

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whitehead's Dilemma:
"Then hitehead said we now come to a surprise because we
then will discover that the specialists will not have the
capability to integrate the potentials that are accruing to
the special information they are finding because they are
not able to communicate in this way. Certainly they wouldn't
feel they could look into the significance of this as it might
impinge on general technology-- they are pure scientists.
Therefore, he said, having suddenly discovered that these
people would not have the ability to integrate their
capabilities, then society's hopes would be frustrated.
Somebody would have to put their potential together. He said
that inasmuch as they couldn't do it themselves and someone
else was going to have to do it-- who would do it?
Now we
discover that we may have possibly made a mistake, because,
having deliberately sifted out the bright ones, we had left
over a pile of tailings of the not-so-brights and inasmuch as
the bright ones cannot put their work together, we will have
to leave it to the not-so-bright's to put these things
together. I gave this the name of whitehead's Dilemma."
-
Cite URLGON UNIVERSITY Lecture "2
-
p. 40, 2 Jul 62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larget the Task, the Duller the Brain:
"Whitehead's Dilemma: The larger the responsibility, the
lower the level of intellectual capability that is brought
to bat."
Cite Orgeon Lecture #2, p. 43. 2 Jul 62

Whitehead's Dilemma: The Larger the Task the Duller the Brain:
See Computer, (1)
Diplomats, 5 May 72
Politics, 10 Jun'71
Real Estate Development
10 Jun 71
Specialization, (1) (2); 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whites:
"Whites are bleached out colored people who are the normal
people."
Citation and context at Race (2), 7 Aug'70

Whitman, Walt:
See Reproducible, 22 Apr 168
10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole:
"A child plays with balls that are round like the Earth
and touches whole things. He touches his mother a lot
when he is young... and she is big and sort of round.
A child thinks in terms of wholes.'
n
-
Cite RBF quoted by Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, Dec'72

KBF DEFINITIONS
Whole:
"Because 1 don't talk space, I don't have to have a
vacuum. I don't start with a spole. I start with
nothing. I start with the whole."
Cite RBF to EJA + BU'R, 3200 Idaho, DC, 17 Feb 172

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

106
Whole Numbers:
See Rational Whole Numbers
Low Order Prime Numbers
(1)

Whole to Particular:
See Starting with the Whole
(1)

Wholo to Particular:
See Quantum Mechanics:
Limit, 23 Jun'75
Grand Strategy, Jun'66
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wholes & Parts:
"In modern science-- coming just to the quantum mechanics--
from a lawyer's viewpoint it's really worth realising that in
quantum mechanics no part exists except as a part of a whole.
You must start with the whole. If we want to be effective we
must start with the largest complex."
-
Cite RBF to Harvard Law School Forum, 10 Dec'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wholes & Parts:
"The Ancient Greeks initiated problem solving
By recourse to cosmology and cosmogony,
By proceeding from the whole to the part
Lest they miss
The exquisite relevance
Of each little part or event."
Cite INTUITION, p.74 May 172

TEXT CITATIONS
Wholes & Parts:
101.01
541.10
1053.61
$1075.23
102
643
1056.12
106
645.12
109.02
782.22
113
905.42
114-117 960.05
141-143 973.32
151-153 981.19
411.38 982.20
501.02 1001.15
509.06
1050.13
522.33

Wholes & Parts:
See Bits:
Bitting
Chain Stronger than its Weakest Link
Experiences as Local Instances
Infinity & Finity
Irrelevancies:
Dismissal of
Keys: Fallacy of Keys from which to Predict Wholes
No Absolutes
No Sphere Integrity
Starting with Parts
Starting with Universe
Synergetics vs. Model
Tensile Strength of Chrome-nickel-steel
Generalization & Special Case
Teleology Reuniting of Parts
Synergetic
(1)

Wholes & Parts:
See Alloy, 18 Kar'69
Applied Sciences, 29 Jun'72
Change, 12 Jul*62
Child, 16 Jun 172
Conditioning, 14 Feb 72
Conceptuality, 22 Jul 71
Education, 1 Jul'62
Functions, 1960
Gestalt, 1960
Infinity & Finity, Feb 72
Mechanical Mind, 22 Jul 71
Plurality (2
Science,
5 Mar 55
Tension & Compression, Dec'71
Tetrahedron, 7 Kar' 73
Triangle, 18 Dec'74
Undefinable, Oct 66
Unity, 6 Jul'62
Universe, (p.131) 1960
Vertex, Jun'66
(2A)

Wholes & Parts:
See Design Science:
Grand Strategy, 31 Jan '75
Weapons Technology, (2)
Large Patterns, 30
General Systems Theory,' {(2)
Academic Disciplines,
11 Aug 76
Apple, 24 Sep' 76
Design, 29 Mar 77
Critical Mass, 12 May177
Synergy, 20 Feb'77
Human Beings & Complex Universe, (1), (11)
(2B)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Whole Systems:
"I said synergy was behavior of whole systems unpredicted by
the parts. A minimum system would be two. We can deal with the
whole of the solar system if we want, but minimum system is two.
And the behavior which can only be observed when theres
the plurality; it's not any of the parts by itself. This makes
it also very clear, once you get to the beginnings of things,
that out of what we have as an a priori complete mystery...
to many of us what Newton had really hypothesized-- that a
body ought to keep in a straight line, that it really is
deviating and being pulled by another-- is a very strange
matter. Nothing could be stranger. The whole integrity of
our Universe is here. The very essence of why there is any
consciousness, any Universe. And yet it starts with absolute
a priori mystery, within which a priori mystery there suddenly
is a lucidly apprehendible mathematical behavior."
Cite KBF Address, Tel Aviv, transcript p.4, 16 Jun' 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System:
"Instead of starting with parts: points, straight lines,
and planes, and then attempting to develop these inadequately
definable parts into omnidirectional experience identities,
we start with the whole system in which the initial 'point
turned out to self, which inherently embraced all of its
parameters wrapped tightly in that initial underdeveloped
self focused aspect of self and went on to self develop through
successively discovered relative awarenesses whereby the
proof of totality and omni-integrity is not only always
inherent but all the rules of operational procedure are always
totally observed."
Cite SYNERGETICS draft at Sec. 488.00, from RBF holograph
28 May172

KBF DEFINITIONS.
Whole Systems:
"1 start thinking with a No-Size conceptual model of
a whole system."
-
For citation and context see Vacuum, 17/19 Feb 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole Systems:
"Once you start with whole systems you do not have
infinities."
Cite tape transcript RBF to BO'R, Carbondale Dome, 1 May '71

Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables:
See Minimum Twonese
(1)

Whole Systems as Minimum of Two Variables:
See Synergy, 31 Jan'75
Whole Systems, 16 Jun'72
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System: Synergetics Principle of:
"A generalized Principle--
Corollary to synergy--
Whose mathematical characteristics are statable as:
The known behavior
Of whole systems
And the known behavior
Of some of its parts
Make possible the discovery
Of other-- if not all--
Of the originally unknown
Component parts
Of the system."
-
Cite INTUITION, p.45, May'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System: Synergetics Principle of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
"There is a corollary of synergy which says that the known
behavior of the whole and the known behavior of a minimum of
known parts often makes possible the discovery of the values
of the remaining parts as does the known sum of the angles of
a triangle plus the behavior of three of its six parts make
possible evaluating the others. Topology provides the
synergetic means of ascertaining the values of any system of
experiences."
-
Cite OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, p.73, 1969

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System:
Synergetics Principle of:
"A corollary of synergy discloses that the known behaviors
of the whole plus the known behavior of some of the parts
may make possible discovery of the presence of other parts
and the latter's kinetic behaviors, structural form and
relative dimensional characteristics.'
"
Cite Nehru Speech, p.35, 13 Nov'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System:
Synergetics Principle of the Whole System:
(1)
"It is a corollary of synergy that the recognized behaviors
of whole systems may disclose discretely
required
behaviors of their components. Known behaviors of wholes and
some of their parts may provide clues to behaviors of
unknown parts. The concept of the triangle as a synergetic
unity and the assumption of 100 per centum totality of angles
independent of asymmetrical variations of the whole triangles
constituted the earliest synergetic strategy of scientific
exploration. Newton's gravtation was synergetic as it involved
behavior of a plurality of bodies. Its
assumption
required more planets that were then known in the
solar system. Its 'known' total behavior required the coexistence
of unknown planets of specific dimensions which were later
discovered with more powerful telescopes than those of Newton's
day. Euler's topology was a successful synergetical stratagem.
Gibbs' phase rule was a successful synergetical stratagem.
Ohm's law was synergetic.
"Einstein, Planck, and other physicists adopted the working
synergetic theory known as the law of conservation of energy,
wherein it was posited that energy could neither be created
nor lost. By adopting the concept of physical Universe as"
-O
Cite RBF Ltr. to Colliers (full text), p.4, July159

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System:
Synergetics Principle of the Whole System:
"the sum of universal energy, they obtained a theoretically
finite physical Universe whose component behaviors could be
definitely differentiated and progressively accounted E
Mc².
=
The Einsteinian' synergetic strategy is responsible for
the exploratory success of subsequent nuclear physics. The
100 per centum requirement of their synergetic energ-Universe
accounting disclosed progressive increments of nonaccounted
behaviors, whose exploratory pursuit progressively unraveled
the atomic nucleus.
(2)
"Common to all the synergetic and therefore powerful strategies
of scientific endeavor has been the fact that their success was
local because it was won by excluding other considerations of
universal behavior. The results were that awkward complications
always arose when the special local advantages were completely
interassociated."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Colliers (full text) pp4-4A, July'59

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System: Synergetics Principle of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
"There is an important corollary of synergy which postulates
that the known behavior of the whole system and the known
behavior of at least three of the parts of the system makes
possible the discovery of other parts of the system and their
respective behaviors."
-
Cite Senate Hearings, p.12, 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
Whole System: Synergetics Principle of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
"The synergetics principle of the whole system holds that given
a whole system, its components' behavior may be differentially
discovered and predictably described as required by the
already evidenced behavior implicit in the a priori-definitive
experience and conceptioning of any given experience-verified
system."
-
© Cite RBF Glossary of Terms bound with "The Live Book Squad,*
May'67

RBF DEFINITIONS
PRINCIPLE
THE LEWEY The Whole System: THE SYNERGETIC PRINCIPLE OF
"Coollary to synergy is the IW of the whole system.
Systems are definite as they return upon themselves in
a plurality of directions, ergo have concave inwardness
and convex outwardness, ergo inherently subdivide
universe into mutually exclusive definitive macro and
micro entities. The law of the whole system, states that,
given the sum of whole system pattern conception its
component behaviors may be differentially discovered and
predictably described as required by the already evidenced
behavior functions implicit in the a priori-definitive
experience and conceptioning of any given experience-
Thus by the law of whole system as
verified system.
corollary of synergy, the component behaviors of systems may be
predictably differentiated as primary and secondary
componential sub-divisions of whole system and then
progressively isolated and locally reconsidered for
further dichotomy."
11
Cite Introduction toOMNIDIRECTIONAL
HALO, p. 123 1959

Whole System:
Synergetics Principle of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
See Prediction
Starting with Universe
Synergetic Advantage
(1)

Whole System: Synergetics Principle of:
(Corollary of Synergy)
(2)
See Ephemeralization, 1 Jun'49
Parts, 1954
Synergetic Accounting Advantages: Hierarchy of (2) (3)
Synergetics, 1969
Generalized Dichotomy: Grand Strategy, (1) (2)

Whole Systems:
See Big System
General Systems Theory
Spherical Propagation
Sphericity: Laws of Sphericity of Whole Systems
System Totality
Starting with Universe
(1)

Whole Systems:
See Central Angles & Surface Angles; Aug' 71
Spherical Triangle Sequence,
Synergetica Constant, (A)
Tetrahedron, 7 Mar' 73
Time-energy Economics, 15 Jun'74
Vacuum, 17 Feb 72*
(2)

Whole of Universe as Minimum Consideration:
See Elementary, 15 Apr 55

Whole: Wholeness:
See Dome: Rationale for the Geodesic Dome
Hierarchy of Patterns
Holistic
Omniwholeness
Positive or Negative Set of the Whole
Parts
Rational Whole Numbers
Total: Totality
Wholes & Parts
Starting with the Whole
Fractionating the Whole
(1)

Whole: Wholeness:
See Artist, Y Jul'62
Child, 1970
Death, 13 Mar' 71
Gestalt, 1960
Multiplication by Division, 4 Nov'73
Omni embracing, 23 Sep' 73
Responsibility, 14 Oct'69
Utopia or Oblivion, 1938
Love, 3 Apr 75
Comprehensive Realizer, May'49
Fleet of Sailboats, May'49
(2)

Why For? & How Come?
See Omniinteraccommodation, May 72
Synergy of Synergies, 31 May '71
Cosmic Synergy, Jan'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Why: The Unanswerable Why:
"Whatever nature permits is natural. If nature does not
permit it, it cannot occur. Human scientists have learned
to a mathematically elegant degree how mass interattraction
behaves but the mathematical-principle-discovering
scientists have no idea what mass attraction is. An eternal
principle is found to exist as a relation between special-
case experiences. Out of the a priori cosmic mystery we
learn a new principle "How it behaves" only to discover the
concomitantly unanswerable "Whay does it so behave?" What
is it? No answer. Only the eternally unlimited could
comprehend and elucidate the eternally unlimited.
Humans are temporal, finite, limited, inherently unable to
comprehend the incomprehendable. Out of the a priori void
of absolute mystery, i.e., out of the unanswerable 'Why?'
a little how is extracted."
Cite VERY FOGGY OUTSIDE, 8 Mar'73

Why:
See Answer: Answerable
Question
Unanswerable

Whyte, L.L: Point System:
See Synergetic Hierarchy, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wichita House:
"Geodesic domes derive from converting the Wichita House
mast to a sphere. This was the origin of the geodesic dome
strategy. I decided to commit myself to shells, making a
sphere of the Wichita House mast. The great circles of the
vector equilibrium are like the first picture of an atom--
the squares are a little more open. The 31 great circles
of the icosahedron resolve everything that goes into
triangulation.
"Geodesic diamonds: there is always an even number of
triangles on a sphere so they may be treated in pairs as
diamonds, always made with straight lines but the lines are
different in length. The fats and thins have equal length.
"Bernouilli Principle: pulling the air through a small hole
makes it cold. The Butler grain bin was the first air
conditioning dynamic structure.
"The Wichita House parts were stamped out of aircraft forms
in a stretch-press, in hollowed out wooden forms of half
sections. Two fists could pull the metal down over the"
form. We used the aircraft industry tools."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 31 Jan'75
(1)

REF DEFINITIONS
Wichita House:
(2)
"I decided to pay attention to the equipment needed to keep
yourself clean and take care of your processes. And I developed
the fog gun. Hydraulics are noncompressible and more
effective than gases in the form of a needle-spray. The
spray was mixed with compressed air to conserve water and
penetrate the pores with out the pain of a direct needle spray.
In the form of fog it gets closer into the pores than does
water. Fog scavenges out the pores and floats the dirt away.
"You've seen people cleaning the outsides of buildings; you
might have thought it was steam, but it's compressed air.
Our
experiments at the Institute of Design in Chocago showed that
you had to go over 200 pounds p.s.i.-- more than a simple
compresser. The atomized water gives the desirable
massage effect on the skin.
"Water is so extraordinarily valuable. We don't know of any
other planet with any water on it. And we flush five gallons
down the toilet each time we get rid of a pint of waste!
"We package our foods coming inbound: Why don't we package
them going outbound? It's just exactly as easy.
Cite RF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 31 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wichita House:
"When nature takes so much trouble to separate liquids and
solids it is preposterous to put them together again....
MIT does no such research at the site.
"The Dymaxion bathroom is now virtually obsolete at just
about the time that it is getting into production.
97
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 31 Jan'75
(3)

Wichita House:
See Dwelling Service Industry (B) (C)
Wind Stress & Houses, (1)-(11)
Dome House Grand Strategy:
1927-1977, (1)-(3)

Wide: Width:
See Local Radius vs. Wide Arc
Height, Length & Width

Width:
See Time-size, 30 Oct 72

TEXT CITATIONS
Wiener, Norbert:
NASA Speech, p.89, Jun 166
Brain & Mind, pp.142-143, May 172

Wiener, Norbert:
(1894-1964)
(1)
See Cybernetics

Wiener, Norbert:
See Computer, 10 Oct 163
Ruddering Sequence, (4)
Feedback, 7 Nov' 75
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wilderness Resource:
"The Bear Islanders deem themselves to be the temporarily
fortunate custodians of an important wilderness resource
which, if guarded with thoughtfulness and vision will event-
ually be laid open to society when newer generations have
come to appreciate to adequate extent the inspiration to be
had from such wilderness paradise that society will spontane-
ously refrain from despoiling the regenerative enchantment.
"The inspiring beauty of nature in grand scale such as that
of Penobscot Bay transcends human comprehension of its power
to invoke the most effective employment and enjoyment of
humanity's ever increasing metaphysical mastery of the physical.*
Cite BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley p.32, 1968

RBF DEFINITIONS
Will:
(1)
"I think that I tend to avoid using the word will because
I spontaneously associate it with the term 'free will' and
all the controversies regarding the latter. I have felt all
such controversies to lack adequate knowledge of science's
generalized
laws. To me it is obvious that no amount of
individual will can nullify any cosmic law. It is also
obvious to
me that few know of and comprehend the significance
of nature's
having six positive and six negative equieconom-
ical alternative
moves to make with each turn to play in
cosmic
events.
"It is clear to me that most humans tend to think in linear,
go-or-no-go, greenlight-redlight manner. To me will is a
control which is optionally exercisable over brain by mind--
by
wisdom over conditioned reflex, which becomes realizable
when mind is adequately convinced regarding which of the
12
alternatives will produce the most comprehensively
considerate vital advantage for all.
"In a lesser way, will becomes operative when the individual
finds
itself in terminal peril and has only seconds to"
Cite RBF holograph rewrite of Will; 30 Apr'78.
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 at secs 537.50-.53

RBF DEFINTIONS
Will:
(2)
"'pull out of a tailspin--becomes 'cool,' that it discovers
swiftly which of the alternative moves can save it, and
exercises its will to execute the survival procedures.
"ill determines what we should do in all the special case
circumstances. Will is not a muscle thing at all. People
say I have a strong will, but what I have is a fairly clear
view of the options of humanity and commitments to their
realization. It is thus that I determine what course to
take in the special cases confronting us.'
"
Cite RBF holograph rewrite of Will; 30 Apr 78;
Incorporated in SYNERGETICS 2 at secs 537.53 and 537.54.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Will:
"I think I don't tend to use the word will a whole lot
because I wasn't thinking in terms of free will' with
its theological associations.
"Will relates not to the individual, but to the main
engines of Universe...
"ill is the relationship between mind and brain. Will
determines what we should do in all the special case
circumstances. Will is not a muscle thing at all. People
say I have a strong will, but you just have to determine
what course to take in the special cases confronting you."
Above is in response to direct query from EJA
about RF's rare use of the term despite Margaret
Fuller's interest in the German metaphysicians,
Schopenhauer's world as will and idea, and so forth.]
Cite RBF to EJA; Washington National Airport; 20 Apr '78

Hill:
See Freedom:
Free Will
Options
Volitions
Degrees Of
Electable: Elective
Voluntary & Involuntary
(1)

Will of History:
See Neek Have Inherited the Earth, (1) (2)

Will of Organizations:
See Space Technology, (7)

Will to Structure:
See Structure vs. Reflexes

OF
Will:
See False Property Illusion, (1)
22:
(2)

KBF DEFINITIONS
Williams:
Robert:
"He's just an intellectual klantomaniac.'
(A propos of first seeing Robert Williams'
"Natural Structure.")
- Cite RBF to EJA, Boar's Head Inn, Charlottesville, Va., 3 Jun'72

Williams: Robert:
See Histake, 3 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind:
"The wind is just Sun power disturbing the atmosphere."
Citation & context at Wind Power Sequence (a), 13 Mar 74

Wind Always Blows within 100 Hilea:
See Windworks Windmill, (2)
Wind Power, y Feb' 76

Winding & Unwinding:
See In, Out & Around Experiences, (1)

Winding:
See Unwinding

Windlass:
See Precession, (II)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windmills:
"Windmills turn out electrical power which operates on a
direct current. The problem has been to adapt that direct
current to electric utility systems which operate on alter-
nating currents.... In Wisconsin and 21 other states, utility
companies using these converters, are allowing individuals to
feed wind power into their electrical lines. The utility
companies give these people wholesale credit for the power
they feed into the system and charge them retail for what
they take out. The public benefits by harvesting windmill
power. The young people got busy and used their heads.
Instead of having the public utilities fight them, they cut
the utilities in on the action.'
Cite RBF to Susan Watters in (Women's Wear Daily): 13 Kay'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windmills:
"In windmills the total frontal area is what counts.
Just
as that is what counts in designing buildings. We have a
penetrating body in a penetrating medium. The bigger it is
the more low pressure it builds up.
"A windmill is designed for average wind speeds. In the Greek
isles, at kykonos, they furl them at over 30 m.p.h.; the
furling is like the gimballing of an umbrella."
-
cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 28 Jan'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windmill:
"I have a project going on windmills. Men began to give up
windmills when they began to burn their fossil fuels.
Burning up fossil fuels, because those are the energies
impounded by the vegetation and buried deeply in the soil.
We are part of the Universe, this planet is, where energies
are being collected, some day to become a star. And we are
only really entitled to use a very little of our savings
account energy-- to get things going but not to continually
exhaust the savings account. Anybody knows better than
that we've got to live on our energy income. At any rate,
once man got rural electrification and began burning up the
fossil fuels, the farmers wanted to give up their windmills.
Windmills, of course, did not produce very much power. So
what can we do about it?
(1)
"Of course, wind power is Sun power; it's the effect of the
Sun on the atmosphere of the Earth. And of all the energies
that are available anywhere in large magnitudes, there is
nothing to compare with wind power. But the only thiis,
it is intermittent. So we're developing a beautiful new
windmill using all the knowledge of Brodynamics. Aeronautics
started just after the windmill had been given up, so the
interim knowledge which has been acquired is phenomenal.
雜
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, pp. 13-14, 28 Jun 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windmill:
"We have some beautiful new windmills. And we're using the
energy harness to generate electricity... and also to make
hydrogen. With hydrogen and oxygen we have a circuit and
then we make a fuel cell which is going to be 85 percent
efficient. Finally we are going to get one windmill which
is going to be able to take care of all the energy needs of
one family. This is a very different story from when it just
produced enough energy to put running water into your house,
which the farmer used to do."
(2)
Cite RBF at DSI Press Conference, NYC, p.14, 28 Jun 72

Windmill:
See Sailing Ship Effect
Windworks Windmill
(1)

Windmill:
(2)
Successive Halving Time of National
Industrialisation (1)
See Industrialization:
Precession (b)
Everybody's Business, (2)
Now House, (4)
No Energy Crisis, (2)
Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens, (A)
Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (5)

Wind-0:
See House, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windowing the Nothingness:
"I've just come to the most extraordinary discovery of
the meanings of the words outline, inline, and insight...
all in our language of ins and outs...those words
, all
this
time, have been windowing the nothingness."
Cite RBF by telephone from Windsor Castle, England, to
EJA, Wash. DC; 25 Mar 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
(01
Windows of Nothingness:
(1)
"What Euler and all professional topologists called 'areas' are
only windows in polyhedrally conceptual systems.
You look out
the window at the nothingness of undimensional night--or of
fog. The windows packaged the undimensionable nothingness
into arbitrary somethingness which thus misassigns the
dimensions of the windows and their closed-circuit edges to
constitute dimensional attributes of the undimensional nothing-
ness so framed. It is just like going to the blackboard and
drawing a 'square' and saying to the students, 'A square is an
area bound by a closed line of four equal-length edges and four
equiangled corners, without paying any attention to the inher-
ently existent complementations of Universe. To start off with,
the phenomenon 'square' is dependent on the phenomenon 'black-
board, whose structural matrix alone maintained the symmetrical
shape of the non-structurally-stabilized pattern of the square.
The closed-line pattern of the square inadvertently subdivides
the whole surface of the polyhedral blackboard into two areas,
both bound by the closed line of four equal edges and four equal
angles. The four equal edges of the large complementary
square are the same length as those of the small square; the
big square's corners are 270° each while the small square's
corners are 90° each. Moreover the drawing of the square also
inadvertently subdividided the insideness and outsideness of"
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed. at Sec. 261.02; 13 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windows of Nothingness:
(2)
"the blackboard into concave and convex big and little squares,
and also deposited part of the Universe as 'chalk' atoms onto
the blackboard's agglomeration of atoms, which inadvertently
rearranged the chemical element resources of Scenario Universe."
-
Cite SYNERGETICS, 2nd. Ed., at Sec. 261.02; 13 Nov' 75

Windows of Nothingness:
See Somethingness & Nothingness, 7 Oct 75
Nature in a Corner, 17 Nov! 75

Window:
See Area
Nothingness
Opening
(1)

Window:
See Probability Kodel of Three Cars on a Highway. (3)
Thirty Minimum Topological Characteristics, (1)
Infratunable & Ultratunable, 8 Feb 76
(2)

505
KBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power:
"Anywhere on Earth within 100 miles the wind is always
blowing."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Wash, DC; 9 Feb 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power:
"Sun radiation effect precesses Earth's atmosphere in 90-degree
circumferential direction as wind power, which wind power in
turn precesses the windmills into 90-degree rotating.
Citation & context at Precession, (II), 19 Nov 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
(a)
"Your power companies like to get things going over wires and
pipes so that can put a meter on it. To make money. The sailor
learned to go from here to there just by the wind, which is just
Sun power disturbing the atmosphere. The Navy Department agrees
that there is no power on Earth such as the wind power.
In one
minute of one hurricane there is more power being released than
in the joint atomic stockpiles of the United States and Russia.
But this is not something that the company can make money out of.
"Now Mrs. Rockefeller has gotten very interested in my windmills.
Windmills went out just as aeronatutics began. And I've got a
very fine young aeronautical engineer working with me, really
we're doing very well with windmills. Mrs. Rockefeller wants to
start something in Maine-- going to get the people in Maine-- in
the windmill business.
"And I said that what you've got to do is get in on a service
business where you don't sell windmills. What you want to do
is to have a truck-- a platform-- it has the windmill and all
the generators and everything and you rent it to people while
they're going to use it. Because the Maine people are going to
go to Florida in the winter and they're not going to be around"
-
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.23), New York, 13 Mar'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
"when it might be vandalized. This equipment should not be
anywhere except where it's working. So you have a service
industry here which can rent such equipment.
(b)
"So I can see the big power companies being jealous about sending
something over their wire. They don't want man to really hook
on to energy directly."
Cite RBF to Arthur Anderson & Co., (p.23), New York, 13 Mar 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
"Although five percent of the Earth's surface can impound
Sun energy by vegetational photosynthesis, only one percent of
the Sun's locally impinging
energy is actually converted by the vegetation
because the vegetation cannot impound the infrared and other
radiation energy in the electromagnetic spectrum.
(A)
"Among the vegetation Sun-energy impounders, no others can match
the performance of corn. Corn converts and stores as recoverable
energy 25 percent of the received ultraviolet radiation in
contrast to wheat and rice-- which average only an 18 - 20
percent 'efficiency.'
"These considerations underscore the conclusion that wind power
is in a class by itself as the greatest terrestrial Suneenergy
harvesting, hanpessing, and conserving medium."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May '73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
(B)
"Present experiments show that flywheels-- as energy accumulators..
can
be
employed efficiently in connection with variable winds
to drive generators. The water and air waves circulating around
our planet are
also energy accumulators whose captured energy
may be
used to generate electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic
power systems.
-
Cite Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
(c)
"All biological life on Planet Earth is regenerated by star
energy and overwhelmingly by the star Sun's radiation.
The Sun radiates omnidirectionally 92 million miles away from
Earth, with only one 2-billionth of its total radiation
impinging upon Earth. The radiation arrives at a rate of
two calories of energy per each square centimeter of Earth's
sunside hemispherical surface per each minute of time. About
half of that is reflected back omnidirectionally to Universe.
The other half, i.e., one calorie-per-minute-square-centimeter,
is impounded by our planet's biosphere in ways known to humans
and in ways making them available to human use granted humanity's
permitted comprehensive, ecologically considerate, employment
of its inventive capabilities and spontaneously cooperative
potentials.'
10
-
Cite Ltr. from RBF to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence: (
LOGICAL
(D)
"No matter how dubious one may be of such realizations
of our potentials, the fact remains that our net receipt and
impoundment of cosmic energy amounts to 168 quintillion
horsepower-per-minute, which is also statable as 125 quintillion
kilowatts per minute which, with 525,600 minutes per year
amounts to 66 septillion kilowatts per year (66 x 102 KW),
which is eleven-billionfold the world's present 5 x 10° KW
production of electric energy power.
"If all humanity enjoyed 1973's 'highest living standardies
each human on Earth would consume 200,000 (2 x 1015)
per day. Assuming 5 billion ( 5 x 189) humans by 2000 A.D,
each consuming 2 x 105 calories daily, we will need 1 x 1015
calories per day. Our actual daily terrestrial income of
cosmic energy is 72 x 10 calories. Our planet's usable
daily energy income is therefore 72 x 10 = seven-millionfold,
our daily requirements of 2000 A.D."
Cite RBF Ltr to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 25 May'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
"About wind power, I am glad we pioneered in such experiments
on Little Spruce Head Island 'early on,' I have been pursuing
the subject in varying degrees of intensity since 1927 when I
included windmills, air compressors, liquid oxygen, liquefac-
tion equipment, and air turbines in the design of the first
Dymaxion house.
"At Little Spruce Head Island in Maine in the summer,
and on
a Wisconsin farm throughout the remainder of the year, our
program is well under way to develop windmill-generated
electricity to electrolytically convert pure Sun-stilled
water into hydrogen and oxygen, thereafter to use the hydrogen
directly for power purposes, or to reassociate the hydrogen
and oxygen through the now well-developed and much reduced-in-
cost fuel cell to produce electric current at an overall 85
percent efficiency....
"Concurrent with rural electrification a third of a century
ago, I saw that windmills went out just as modern aerodynamic
research began. In order to take advantage of this potential
scientific harvest, four years ago,. I took on Hans Meyer, a
brilliant aerodynamics scientist. We have had great success"
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May '73
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
(2)
"in propeller blade development. We have not only developed
much better blades, but with an accompanying 90 percent
reduction in aerospace industry's cost of advanced propeller
manufacture. In addition to Hans' new blades and aerodynamic
cowlings, we have developed low-cost methods of mechanical
linkage from the mills to the generator and have also developed
new octahedral windmill mast structures employing some of my
geodesic principles-- which are transportable, powerful,
economical, and swiftly erectable.
"In addition to our own windmills, we are installing on Little
Spruce Head some of the Greek-island-type windmills with self-
furling sails. They are very efficient.
"I have some interesting and comprehensively considerate
figures in relation to wind power. Whereas three-quarters
of the Earth is covered with water, the 25 percent that is not
covered with water is covered in major percentage by ice, snow,
deserts, rocky mountains, et. al. The percentage of our
planet's surface whereon vegetation is impounding Sun (star)
radiation by photosynthesis amounts to approximately 10 percent."
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
(3)
"Half of that 10 percent is always in the shadow or night
side, which reduces to 5 percent the working area of the Earth's
surface where vegetation is impounding Sun energy from which
humans can produce commercial alcohol or leave to nature's
further-ages-requiring fossil fuels production and storage in
Earth's crust. Though solar energy impoundment inventions are
fascinating to the imagination, as we shall discover, the
amount of energy that can be captured by any local Sun-reflecting
or lensing devices is relatively insignificant. Even though
one-half of Arizona were turned into a direct sunlight energy-
converting mechanism, that source would be negligible in produc-
tivity as compared to other sources. The local solar power-
capturing devices will not work at night or when there are
clouds. In fact, they work only during a few hours daily when
The Sun is at a favorable angle.
"The area of the surface of a sphere is exactly four times the
area of the sphere's great-circle disc (as produced by a plane
cutting through the center of the sphere). The surface of a
hemisphere is, then, twice the area of the sphere's great-circle
plane. When we look at the 'full' Moon, we are looking at a
surface twice the area of the seemingly flat circular disc in the
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May 73
aky."

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
"All of the energy of our Earth comes from the stars, but
primarily from the Sun (star) as radiation or as inter-astro
gravitational pull.
(4)
"Twenty-four hours a day the Sun is drenching the outside of
the hemisphere of the cloud-islanded atmosphere's 100 million-
square-mile surface area which is twice that of the disc of the
Earth's profile.
"His gives us one billion cubic miles on the sunny side and
one billion cubic miles on the shadow side. The atmospheric
mass is kinetically accelerated in the constantly Sun-energy-
saturated hemisphere, while simultaneously the atmospheric
kinetics in the night hemisphere are decelerated.
"All around Earth, yesterday's Sun-impoundings perturbate the
atmosphere by thermal columns rising from the oceans and lands.
The shadow side consists of one billion cubic miles of contract-
ing atmosphere, while the one billion cubic miles of atmosphere
on the sunny side is sum-totally expanding. This brings about
a myriad of high-low atmospheric differentials and world-around"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May 173

RBP DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
"semi-vacuumized drafts, which altogether produce the terres-
trial turbulence we speak of as the weather. The combined
two billion cubic miles of continual atmospheric kinetics
converts the solar energy into 'wind power. Wind power is
Sun power the greatest, by better than 99 to
(5)
"All the winds around Earth together with all the force they use to
produce the 150 million square miles of ocean waves, and to bend,
twirl, twist, and to sometimes uproot the world's trees, bushes,
grasses, dust storms-- and to form and scud around the Earth
the 150 (sic) billion cubic miles of clouds and their many
violent storms as well as all the billions of tons of water
raised hourly into the sky to rain back upon Earth to maintain
the vegetation-- this, and its many side-effect tasks, altogether
constitute a 100-mile thick, 20 billion cubic mile spherical
mantle which is indeed a Sun Energy Accumulator or SUN ENERGY
STORAGE BATTERY whose power capacity is adequate to accommodate
and eternally regenerate all of humanity's and all of its all-
time-to-come needs and pleasures with a safety factor coefficient
to 10,000 to 1."
* 200,1 M
TEFT
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
"As the U.S. Navy reckons it, one minute of one hurricane
releases more energy than that of the combined atomic bomb
arsenals of the United States and Russia. Design-scice-wise
it is simply a matter of coping with the calm zephyr, gale, or
hurricane variabilities of wind power.
(6)
"Great corporations have not as yet ventured into this field
because wind energy has not seemed to be monopolizable over a
pipe or wire. However enterprise can be rewarded, in greater
magnitude than ever before, by producing and renting world-around
wind-harnessing apparatus-- as they already do in the computer,
telephone, car rental, and hoteling service industries.
"Hydrogen, harvested in the manner I described, can be used
immediately to operate all the world's piston or turbine-
driven engines now driven by gasified petroleum products.
The National Science Foundation spokesman has recently and
publicly confirmed my statement that wind power can take care
of all of our Earth's energy needs, and this can be accomplished
in short order. The National Science Foundations development
strategy, however, is aimed exclusively at producing large,"
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller, 15 May'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power Sequence:
offshore, ship-mounted windmill batteries to supply large
cities. In contradistinction, my windmill development work
is aimed at supplying individual consumer families....
(7)
"Wind power permits humanity to participate in cosmic economics
and evolutionary accommodation without in any way depleting or
offending the great ecological regeneration of life on Earth."
15
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Mrs. Peggy Rockefeller,
May 173

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power:
Wind power is Sun power; it is the effect of the Sun on
the atmosphere of the Earth. And of all of the energies
that are available anywhere in large magnitudes, there
is nothing to compare with wind power. But the only thing
is, it is intermittent."
Citation and context at Wimill (1) 28 Jun 72

Wind Power Harnessing Equipment:
See Inventability Sequence, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Power:
Q:
A.:
Effect of Earth's Rotation:
"What is the effect of Earth's rotation on wind
power?"
"Rotation is the heating-cooling pressure
differential input. Rotation does not cause
the wind. In fact, the wind goes faster from
west to east than the Earth turns in the same
direction. The rotation of the Earth changes
sunlight and shadow, causing changes in
temperature, causing changes in
causing the wind."
the weather,
Cite RBF reply to EJA Query re Ltrs. to Mrs. Peggy
Rockefeller, 200 Locust, Phila., 5 Nov 73

Wind Power: Effect of Earth's Rotation:
See Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (2) (3)
Wind Power Sequence, (2)-(5)
In, Out & Around Experiences, (2)

Wind Power Feeding into Electric Utility Grid:
See Windworks Windmill, (1) (2)
Windmills, 13 May: 77

Wind Power
(8533.12)
Sun Power:
50

Wind Power:
See Energy Income
Windmills
Flywheel
(1)

Wind Power:
See Energy Crisis, 14 Jun 73
Precession (b); (II)*
(2)
123

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
(1)
"Then we discover additional mutual advantage to our house
inherent in combination of the geometry of circle and the
curving of sheet, not by virtue of the respective unique proper-
ties but by their interactive virtue when associated for
purposes of housing. This new advantage is discovered as we
consider the second major stress applied to house by nature.
Second to gravity is wind stress.
"The average wind speed over the United States is computed by
widely reported recordings is approximately 12 miles an hour.
Houses may be considered aerodynamically as little ships whose
standard cruising speed is 12 miles an hour, but which suddenly
are accelerated to 30 miles an hour, then suddenly again have
to go 50 miles an hour, and sometimes suddenly they have to go
to 70 miles an hour and then the flat planking begins to fly
off as flat boards develop lift in parallel with the wind,
which lift is opposed only by the friction of the nails amount-
ing to but a few pounds in tension as nail pulling experience
confirms.
"Designed to look secure by guess and by prayer to the gods of
inertia, conventional houses are not engineered from measured"
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.220), 1946
-.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
(2)
"data to cope with the greater wind speeds which they sometimes
encounter.
"Looking for chances to take advantage of high tensile ability
of the new sheet, I became interested in the effects of wind
stresses on houses and discovered in wind tunnel tests that a
cube and hemisphere of equal volume indicate a drag advantage
of 10 to one in favor of the hemisphere, that is the drag is 10
times greater on the cube. That indicates that we might either
cut down the size and weight of our original structural members
in the hemisphere to maintain equivalent wind strength to that
of the cube or we might take part of the increment and turn it
to greater strength advantage. Thus we might build a hemsphere
structure that could take enormous wind stresses many fold
those which a cube of an equal weight of structural members
could withstand.
"Another interesting discovery in the wind tunnel was that the
heat losses were in direct proportion to the drag. It was indic-
ated that you might be able to reduce your amount of heat necess-
ary to heat the building, to a very high degree, by employing
efficient aerddynamic shape. Shape factors are used very little"
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.201), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
(3)
"today in heating and ventilating, they have been toyed with
to date only by higher mathematics, which concludes that there
are great potential deficiencies to be had by measured evolution
of shape control. In our own tests we had discovered
the
relative degree of that shape importance to heat savings in the
coincidence of drag and heat loss curves.
"Having been in the building business in the 20s, I was particu-
larly interested in heat losses because my material...
was a
very good insulating material.... We discovered that heat losses
in buildings of comparable tolerance of joint fittings was
Houses represented very
directly proportional to the drag.
large obstacles, and the low-pressure tails on buildings are
very long. They stream out to 200 to 300-yards in relatively
mild winds. Houses are usually surrounded by
trees and other
houses and those tails get mixed up with each other, but if you
discover a house out in the open you can observe this 300-yard
pattern in the snow shaping as seen from an airplane.
"Air being, highly compressible as it goes around large objects
like houses you get a fairly high degree of compression at the
widest beam of the obstacle to
the wind. The result is a very
"
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.203), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
(4)
"long low pressure tail because the pressured air shoulders
dissipate their pressure outwardly as well as into the wake.
You have a long lag in the rate of re-establishment of pressure
equilibrium in the wake, and much energy is required from some-
where in the form of high pressure to satisfy the long low-
pressure streamer. This wind wake is mildly dissimilar in
behavior to the water wake of ships in that water is approx-
imately noncompressible and such low pressure as enters a ship's
wake must take place in the form of air bubble expansions
which whiten the ship's wake for great distances.
"The heating energy inside buildings is converted in the air
of rooms into the work of expanding air, and expanding it
within enclosed chambers necessarily develons an increase in
pressure. So you have a high pressure in this side of your
house wall and an enormous low-pressure tail on the outside to
be satisfied, and your high pressure inside the house simply
is extracted by successive energy conversions right through a
masonry wall to satisfy the low pressure as does gravity pull
the water down Niagara Falls. The high pressure is drafted
directly through chinks or cracks, ergo the fine showing of
weather stripping.
© Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.702), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
..People still say that cold comes into their houses... they
would say 'the cold is coming in and chilling the
(5)
radiators upstairs on the northwest side so rapidly that we
can't keep any heat in.' I'd go up and the radiators were cold.
I went aroun the front of the building and even with a fairly
good wind on that northwest side, it was almost still air;
it was just the ideal place to light your cigarette. I had
learned in the Navy that when we wanted to light a cigarette
on board ship, you would go up in front of the nearest housing
to discover almost still air. If you followed the radiator
pipes down through the wall and floors you found that they
were cold all the way down to the cellar. In fact no heat was
going up on the northwest side, and the pipes going to the
southeast side were very hot, even when you shut off the
valves. The heat seemed to be working toward the lee side
and creating high pressure there to satisfy the low pressure.
The balancing between high pressure and low pressure was using
up all your fuel. We cha: ged the pipes around from the furnace
down in the cellar so that the pipes that started northwest
were turned around and led southeast, but the heat still went
out into the lee side so it was very clear that the chain of"
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, n.283), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
"energy exchange events worked to provide a high pressure in
closest proximity to the low-pressure side of the house and
employed further energy to effect the energy release through
the wall by various energy conversion principles to stabilize
energy balance in the wake of the house....
(6)
"One way you ought to talk about the phenomena house and cold
is that cold and vacuum are in physics almost identical-- that
is you have energy in the presence of cold and in the presence
of vacuum and when your energy-- either as heat of kinetically
accelerated gas molecules or as radiation-- is eliminated, cold
or vacuum alone remain. That is the best way for you to look
at it. You see, when they say 'cold is coming in, it is
because energy as heat is dissipating so fast as to leave cold
gases in your presence. Air that is cold because low in energy
content moves to you so that you seem to feel cold draft but
there is no physical entity 'cold'. Temperature should be
thought of as relative heat concentrations or dissinations....
"The large low-pressure area in the lee of the house, of course,
tends to float upward thus adding to the upward angle."
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p. 204), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
(7)
"Trees are also aerodynamic design structures to permit a large
frontal area necessary to the functioning of the trees.
"Trees tend to avoid destruction by the wind by rounding their
lower frontal branches to the approaching air and by coning
their upper branches to point in the direction of the leeward
and upward draft, thus reducing drag to a vital degree.
"In the same way it became evident that a large ventilator
could be designed to rotate upon the top of the house in such
a manner as to focus the low pressure-- caused by the air
passage about the building-- at a point about 45 degrees
leeward and upward from the center of the house. The ventilator
was developed... until a successful design was arrived at which
reduces drag to a minimum and prevents oscillation of the menti-
lator, while at the same time putting the focused low pressure
to work in pulling the draft out of the building through a
duct system that induces the draft to create an air condition-
ing circuit, as well as to remove dust from sweeping traps in
the floor and odors from the kitchen and bathroom.
"Certainly air conditioning is a requirement of housing which"
- Cite DESIGNING AN INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.205), 1946

REF DEFINITIONS
-
Wind Stress & Houses:
(8)
"attempts to raise the standard of living and to serve men over
wide geographical ranges. It makes possible comfortable
conditions for man in the atmospheric extremes of arctic and
tropical zones from which he has been previously excluded by
the inability of housing to provide atmospheric-- thermal
and humidity-- balances with man's precise requirements: to
complement, for instance, his unique temperature of 98.6°F.,
whether white, black, or yellow, whether at pole or equator.
"Another effect served by the large, rotating, 18-foot diameter
ventilator... is that of proofing the house against the
explosion effect... of tornados, hurricanes, typhoon, and major
explosions.... It is mounted not only rotatively but on a
splined shaft which allows it to rise three feet above the
house thus to release the pressure and then fall back into
place as does the safety valve on a steam boiler....
"This conversion of advantage is entirely an engineering respon-
sibility to society.... So it becomes profitable to explore the
advantage of the circle in terms of the efficient placement
of energy units for the service it is desirable to provide."
"Placement of the energy units at the center of the circular"
Cite DESIGNING A NE INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.206), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
"area at once affords the shortest possible service distances
in all directions and the greatest possible isolation... for
conservation of energy potential. The energy loss is very
It...
great... so that a circle advantage is very important.
indicates a maximum of service for least weight.
"With the central vantage point for generating air, light,
sound, and work services, we discover that those services when
in operation describe fountain-like flows upward, outward,
downward in all directions with concentric flow for recycling
below.... This fountain flow can be reversed, but in either
case, maximum coverage with least distance is effected.
"The fountain flow is important for maintaining relatively
warm atmospheric flow in winter, and verse fountain... is
most efficient in summer.
(9)
"As a fountain of water is seen to operate freely in space as
a system, or a_ _ _ _ a light outdoors in the night creates a hemi-
spherical system of illuminated space by atmospheric refraction
of light, so also do these other dynamic functions of heat,
light, air, sound, and smell constitute natural systems of"
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, D.206) 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
(10)
"physical phenomena.... as does a lamp chimney protect the
flame or an electronic tube protect the free functioning of its
central element. The principle demonstrated by the boomerang
refrac-
is only a tracer device to demonstrate the boomerang
tions in all directions...
"Complementary handling of dynamic flows teaches that... in
effect the principles of push and pull and their unique
characteristics of distinctly limited compression behavior
and almost unlimited tension behavior hold true also in,
hydraulics, pneumatics, sonics, and electronics.
You can Dull
or draft air over vast distances but you can push it only a
few feet by blowing.... In the same way visible light is a
pushed phase of radiation and is limited to relatively short
distances through atmosphere and required enormous Dower to
push it, while what we call electricity is tensed or pulled
radiation and the distances over which radiation can be drawn
by wire is very great compared to searchlight beaming....
"Even as a tension-controled lasso can be gyrated and thrown
and wave impulses can be sent out corollably over it, as a
snake whip may receieve a wave by the wrist to hit an object and"
Cite DESIGNING AN INFUSERY, (RBP Reader, p.207), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Stress & Houses:
(11)
"return the wave as a tension circuit again to the sender, so
does radio and radar tensively induce circuits to pull radiation
phenomena over almost unlimited distances.
"By simple attention to this phenomena of push-pull, enormous
advantages can be gained by man over his environment through
... our dwelling machine.... Now with our ventilator employing
outside air motion to accelerate interior dynamic fountain
motion it becomes an inexpensive feat to provide excellent air
conditioning. The aluminum duct subfloor makes a very good
energy exchanger and recirculates enough warm air through it
to keep your energy poised at the ankle level by the counter
convection fountain motion, thus to retain the heat units in
the house and to run the air through them usine very little
heat."
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.208), 1946

Wind Stress & Houses:
See Dynamic Air Conditioning
(1)

See Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows, (2)
Now House, (5)
Wind Stress & Houses:
(2)
23

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Sucking Sequence:
The Earth "is then, very clearly to us, a place in the
Universe where energies are being collected and impounded
and put away. Apparently, then, as we would have in our
weather, there
are low pressures and high pressures. We
have
discobered of course that the high pressures don't
blow
the wind from here to there. It's the low pressures
that suck the air from here to there.
"You know, I've found that you can't push air any distance
at all.
The minute you pust it it turns right around-- and
stuff like this. But you can pull it over enormous distances.
You can't push the air through the house, but you can pull
the air through the house. Open the front door and open all
the
windows and all the doors inside and have a fan
exhausting. Anybody got a piece of fabric? Just hand me
quick a piece of
fabric. Because you can just take a
handkerchief and put your fingers like that and find out how
you can pull it. It pulls around corners. You can pull it
around the
windows and the doors. You can't push it around
those corners at all, but tension will pull it. So tension
can pull the air over enormous distances."
-
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69
(1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wind Sucking Sequence:
(2)
"So when they tell you the wind is blowing, it's always
sucking.
If there's a low pressure to the southeast, it's
sucking it
that way though it seems to be blowing off west.
So you tend to like to face into the wind, but the fact is
that what's
bringing it about is the suction to the southeast.
"Having learned that there are atmospheric highs and lows,
you
can really begin to think about the way in which the
Universe itself
ought to be able to have Suns that are
giving off energy in enormous ways; there must be some place
where energy is being
concentrated to become a new Sun.
Cite RBF to World Game at NY studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film
transcript, #327, pp.12-13.

Wind Sucking:
See Hammering Sheet Metal, (2)
No Energy Crisis, (1)'

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windworks Windmill:
"The windmill from Kedco of Inglewood, California, was
equipped with a synchronous inverter from Windworks of
Mukwanago, Wisconsin, which embodies the latter's new, much
advanced in efficiency, electronic circuitry for converting
the direct current inherently produced by the windmill into
the 110-volt alternating current required by most electrical
equipment.
(1)
"Windwork's new high sensitivity electrical meters permit them
to feed their alternating current directly into the public
utility's power lines. When windpower-generated electricity
is fed into batteries and that electric charge is later taken
from the batteries for final light or power use, a loss of
approximately 50 percent of the energy occurs. Feeding the
unscheduled wind energy harvest directly into the power grid
avoids this 50-percent, in-and-out storage loss. This
innovation of windworks has now been accepted by the public
utilities in 20 of the 50 United States. The utilities pay
the local windmill owner at wholesale rates for the energy
he puts into the system and charge him at retail rates for
the energy he takes out. This increases the economic
advantage of both the private windmill owner and the public
utilities."
Cite ACCOMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEMENT, pp.12-13; 20 Sep' 76

RBF DEFINITIONS
Windworks Windmill:
(2)
"It is a fundamental energy-income gain by humanity over and
above dollar consideration.
"It is found that somewhere within a 100-mile radius the
wind is always blowing: i.e., within a 200-mile-diameter
circle of 31,000 square miles. With proliferation of such
local windmills, the public utilities can progressively
retire significant amounts of their standby generators while
also reducing their fossil fuel burning."
Cite ACCOMMODATING HUMAN UNSETTLEIENT, p.13; 20 Sep' 76

TEXT CITATIONS
Wind:
"Designing A New Industry," (RBF Reader), 1946: p. 204

Wind:
See Head Winds
Hurricane
Jet Stream
Sailing with the Wind: Sailing into the Wind
Typhoon
West-to-East:
Prevailing Winds
Beating to Windward
Weather as Exchange of Highs & Lows
(1)

Wind:
See Ecological Pattern, 19 Sep'64
Cosmic vs. Terrestrial Accounting, (2)(3)
Wave Pattern of a Stone Dropped in Liquid, (b)
(2)

Wind: Wind Power:
See Wind Always Blows within 100 Miles
Windmills
Wind Power
Wind Power Harnessing Equipment
Wind Power:
Wind Power
Effect of Earth's Rotation
Sun Power
Wind Stress & Houses
Wind Sucking
Windworks Windmill
(3)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Window:
604)
"As we have partially noted elsewhere (secs 536 and
Euler's three primitive topological characteristics of
vertexes, faces, and lines are structurally identifiable as
joints, windows, and push-pull struts respectively. When
you cannot see through the windows (faces) it is because
the window consists of vast numbers of subvisible windows,
each subvisible-magnitude window being strut-mullion-framed
by a complex of substructural systems, each with its own
primitive topological and structural components."
-
986.065
Cite SYNERGETICS 2 draft at Sec. 6013; 22 Nov$77

Window:
See Joints, Windows & Struts
Area
Face
Opening

Wing:
See Bird's Wing

RBF DEFINITIONS
Winter:
"I had hoped you could bring the book out this winter
...
so it could be received during the metaphysical
umbrella of the cold months."
-
Cite HBF to Bill Whitehead of Doubleday re "Intuition,"
14 Sept. 1971.

Wirable by Conductors:
See Focus Beamable
Wirable, 1 Apr 72

Wires: Closest Packing of:
See Closest Packing of Rods

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wire Wheel:
"Nature coordinates in twelve alternatively equi-
economical
degrees of freedom-- six positive 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
comprehensive*
a structural integrity of that tool. You have to have
six positive and six negative spokes to offset all polar
or equatorial diaphragming and torque."
Cite NASA Speech, p. 24
* from RBF Univ. of Rhode Island, 26 Aug 166, p. 199
SYNERGETICS CONCEPTUALITY SEC 537.04)

RBF DEFINITIONS
11
Wire Wheel:
How many restraints do we have to have in order to
make a really satisfactory wire wheel that is not going to
be oscillating and getting into trouble? We find that we
have to have a hub-- there has to be some dimension to it
carrying the load, and three restraints as in the drumhead.
. We duscover that the three restraints make six
altogether coming in tangent to the hub so the hub can
rotate in place. Therefore we have to split each one
into two, and each one becomes tangent to the wheel on one
side or the other. We discover that it takes a total of
12 spokes to make stability. The minimum wire wheel has
12 spokes. We are beginning to get into some thing interesting
here-- some basic information of fundamental degrees of
freedom of equal and alternate. . and the first set of
really predictable structural relationships."
•
-
Cite Oregon Lecture #3, p. 108. 5 Jul*62

RbF DEFINITIONS
Wire Wheel:
"In the wire wheel man had made an island of compression
which was the hub at a center of an atoll of compression
which was the rim and the whole thing cohered tensionally.
The integrity of the whole was invested in the tension so
there was discontinuous compression, continuous tension."
->
Cite OREGON Lecture #5
P. 159, 9 Jul162

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wire Wheel:
"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...."
Citation & context at Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, (1),
4 May 57

Wire Wheel:
See Tensegrity: Wire Wheel
Wheel: Artillery Wheel & Wire Wheel
(1)

Wire Wheel:
See Restraints, (2)
Twelve Universal Degrees of Freedom, (1)*
(2)

PRE BREINITIONS
Wire to Wireless:
See More With Less
Track to Trackless
Invisibility:
Trends to Invisibility
Visible to Invisible
(1)

See Economic Accounting System (C)-(D)
Invisible Architecture (1)
Pirates: Great Pirates (3)
Extrasensoriality (1)
Humans as Machines, (2)
Wire to Wireless:
(2)
123

Wire Wiring:
See Cable
Copper
Reel
Monopolizable over
Pipe
or Wire
Series vs. Parallel Circuitry
(1)

Wire:
See Invisible Pneumatics, 27 Dec '73
Visible Light va. Electricity, 1946
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wisdom:
"In due course the individual mind may comprehend
The cosmically ranging magnificence
Which synergizes of transforming the totality
Of already mind harvested knowledge
Thus compounding its unselfish considerations
And expanding its tolerance
Into appreciative awe
As all these synergize to generate wisdom.
Wisdom is evolved only by synergy
Which is the behavior of whole aggregates
Not predicted by the separate behaviors or ch Practeristics
Of any one integral part.
Ergo synergy is non-occurrant cerebrally
During monofocus upon self
in preocupations
Essentially exclusive of others."
Cite EVOLUTIONARY 1972-1975 ABOARD SPACE VEHICLE EARTH,
Jan. 172, pp. 5-6.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wisdom:
"Wisdom is
Experientially discovered
Synergetic awareness
Inherently transcendental
To separate informational data.
Wisdom contemplates
With wholistic advantage
And eschews lesser magnitude opining."
Cite RBF Dictation
for INTUITION
Sarasota Fla.
8 Feb 17
(Compare with INTUITION Feb, '71 Draft, Insert A, p. 8.)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wisdom:
"The synergetic effect produced by the interaction of
the known family of generalized principles is probably
what is spoken of as Wisdom."
-
->>
Gite Nehru Speech, pp. 34-35. 13 Nov*69
Citation & context at Synergy of Synergies, 13 Nov'69
SEC. 153
SYNERGETICS

KBF DEFINITIONS
Wisdom:
"Intellections are cumulative pattern apprehensions
and are synergetically integrative as wisdom and
wisdom initiates new mathematical hypotheses."
For citation and context see
Intellections, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wisdom of Wisdoms:
"Knowledge is of the brain
Wisdom is of the mind
And there is herewith implicit
An a priori wisdom of wisdoms."
- Cite INTUITION p.43, May 172

Wisdom:
See Cosmic Synergy
Synergy of Synergies
Truth
Cosmic Wisdom
(1)

Wisdom:
See Intellections, 1960*
Synergy of Synergies, 13 Nov'69*
Wizard, 18 Jul 72
Words & Coping, 7 Nov' 75
Confession, 7 Jan '76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wish:
Q. Do you wish to continue this communications mode?
A.
"I do not wish anything. I am grateful for 'what happens.""
Citation and context at Questions: Answering Questions, Sep'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Withinness & Withoutness:
"Three planes can never have a system because it takes four
planes to have a withinness and withoutness. "
- Cite RBF to EJA, Beverly Hotel, NYC, 14 Sep171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Withinness and Withoutness:
The minimum zonally defined withinness
conformation is tetrahedral and the minimum zonally
defined withoutness is spherical."
->
Cite OMNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 142, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Withinness & Withoutness
The most extensive lucidly conceptual and
definable recollected-experience zone range lies between
a tetrahedronal 'withinness' twilight and a spherical
'withoutness' twilight, beyond which are the non-
tuneable (1) outwardness and (2) inwardness-- the sub-
tracted Euler's twoness from nonconceptual finiteness
which permits conceptual de-finiteness or definition
of cognition."
-
Gite UNIDIRECTIONAL HALO,
Citation at Cognition, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Withinness and Withoutness:
A locally definitive system . . .
has an
inherent withinness and withoutness, which two
differentiable functions inherently subdivide all
universe into the two unique extremes of macro and
micro frequencies."
CH
IRECTIONAL HALO, p. 123, 1959
-
Citation and context at Considerable Set,
1959

RBF DEFINITIONS
Withinness and Withoutness:
"There are a minimum of three inherent 'awareness' aspects
of all experience: withinness, withoutness, and the
hemispherical reflexive... pulse pattern.
-
Citation and context at Experience, Feb150

Within-ness & Withoutness:
See Considerable Set
Insideness & Outsideness
Recipricals of Permissible Viewpoints
System
System vs. Withoutness
Insideness & Outsideness
Internal & External
(1)

Withinness & Withoutness:
See Cognition, 1960*
Cosmic Synergy, Jan' 72
Critical Proximity, 15 Feb 73
Experience, Feb'50*
Model of Nonbeing, 11 Sep'75
Omnitopology, 19 Dec 73
System, 27 May 172
XYZ Coordinate System, 14 Feb'71
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wizard:
"... The functions of the Grand Vizer to the ruler was
that of the mathematical wizard. the wis of wiz-dom; and the
wizards kept their mathematical navigational ability to go
to faraway strange places and to bring back strange miracle
objects..."
Citation and context at Scheherazade Number, 18 Jul'72

Woe:
See Merchants of Woe

TEXT CITATIONS
Wolf, William:
Transcript of RBF tape with Verner Smythe,
New York, tape 1, pp. 1-3, 25 Feb'69

Wolf: Wolves:
See Sweepout, 17 Oct172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb:
The child
"...At first we were just the inside. In the womb. In the
womb we had tactile sensorial awareness of volumetric
surroundment by the otherness, but no visual, aural, or
olfactoral awareness of the otherness-surroundment.
develops otherness awareness only as outside volumetric
surroundment within which he finally discovers Me the
Observer."
Citation and context at System Awareness, 20 Feb 73

KBF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Total Human Consciousness:
"Each child emerging from its mother's womb is entering
a larger womb of total human consciousness, which is
continually modified and expanded by subjective experiences
and objective experiments. As each successive child is born
it comes into a cosmic consciousness in which it is
confronted with less misinformation than yesterday. Each
child is born into a much larger womb of more intellectually
competent consciousness.
Cite RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA, p.31, Oct 70

Womb of permitted Absolute Helplessness:
See Synergetics, 6 Nov 72

Womb: Humanity Cannot Return into the Womb:
See Humanity, 30 Oct 73
Humans, Oct 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Ignorance:
"The young world.
is intuitively skeptical of the older
world's customary ways of coping. That doesn't mean the
young don't like their elders. It doesn't mean they disrespect
all humanity born before them, but they realize intuitively
that humanity is emerging from a womb of ignorance. The kids
really feel this. And this is the most encouraging thing
I know."
-
Cite RBF quoted in HOUSE & GARDEN Interview by Beverly
Russel, p. 202, May 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
(1)
2.
RBF:
"How do you cope with human suffering from
craving and want and ignorance... from preoccupation
with the body and things?"
"You and I are life and not the organisms we
employ. Cravings and wants do come from ignorance--as agit-
ated by advertising. The answer lies in increased knowledge
and gradual freedom from the conditioned reflexes of our
elders.
"The physical is purely a complex of events--not things--in
pure principle. The environment has everything to do with
the way I behave. Here I am composed of 65 percent water
which freezes or boils within very narrow limits. We had
nothing to do with our design. We are here to employ our
minds on a planet where gears and muscle are still in control.
We are at the point of our final examination--emerging from
the womb of permitted ignorance to function as a local
monitor in relation to the regenerative integrity of Universe.
first came out of the orifice with muscle in control."
Cite RF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77

REF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
(2)
"But the physical is nothing! Now that we have so many words
to communicate with one another... it is all part of the
great gestation process... we have maybe around eight more
years to go... truth is emerging from an unprecedented accel-
eration of events. We have the option: we may stop burning
up the ship. While the numbers who are not thinking, the
numbers in the system and in the bureacracies is enormous,
but we have the options. But options do not mean the same
thing as optimism. Birth is a very extraordinary and dangerous
time.
11
-
Cite RBF to World Game Workshop'77; Phila., PA: 22 Jun'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
"The group womb of permitted ignorance is the resonance rich
cushion for trial-and-error discovery of the mind by the mind,
at which point of discovery of permitted universal survival
by mind-discovered principles-- in contradistinction to the
inefficient power struggle of unilateral survival-- all the
'cream rich' initial discoveries of original resource geography
lodes become exhausted and humanity must operate with
resources as M in E = Mc2 that is in pure principle.
"The group womb metabolic sustenance of naked, helpless, and
ignorantly born humans and its progressive exhausting is cosmic
gestation of Universe functioning local syntropy."
Cite HBF to Yale students at Berkely College breakfast,
173
New Haven, 10 Dec'73; as rewritten by RBF at 3200 Idaho, 13 Dec

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
"The group womb of permitted ignorance is the cushion for
trial and error."
-
Cite RBF to Yale students at Berkely College breakfast,
New Haven, 10 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
"Playboy: And you say that man is on the point of discovering
his role?
"RBF: I think he's just discovering himself in his full
significance. The child in the womb is absolutely innocent
Then he comes out and has
and completely looked out for.
to do his own breathing. Then he gets to his feet and has
to do a little more. He takes on a little more responsibility
and gains in self-discovery. Well, man is just now coming
out of the womb of what I call permitted ignorance. . . .
I find that we are in a moment of fantastic self-discovery
and are approaching an entirely new relationship with our
Universe."
CITE RBF in Barry Farrell Playboy Interview, 1972
Draft. p. 15.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
"Humanity as a whole is indeed being emitted from a two-
million year gestation within the womb of permitted ignorance,
for which infantile period cosmic mechanics have been making
ample provision not only to offset ignorance and waste abut
also to permit humanity's gradual trial-and-error experimental
discovery of the relatively negligible effectiveness of its
muscle-- which it had at first employed not only exclusively
but savagely-- and the concomitant discovery of the infinite
appreheddeing and comprehending effectiveness of the human
mind, which alone can discover and employ the universal
verities-- and therby realize comprehensively the potential
progressive, non-wasteful, competent, considerate mastery of
the physical environment by the metaphysical intellect."
Cite RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood' EXPANDED CINEMA, p.23.
Oct170

Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
See Birth
Gestation
Metabilical Cord
Mind Over Muscle
Stillbirth of Humanity
(1)

Womb of Permitted Ignorance:
See Desovereignisation Sequence, (7)
(2)
221

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb Population:
(1)
"At all times nowadays there are approximately 66 million
human beings around Earth who are living comfortably inside
their mothers' wombs. The country called Nigeria embraces
one-fourth of the human beings of the great continent of
Africa. There are 66 million Nigerians. We can say that
the number of people living in Wombland is about the same as
This 66 million
one-fourth of the population of Africa.
Womblanders tops the total population of either West Germany's
58 million, the United Kingdom's 55 million, Italy's 52 million,
France's 50 million, or Mexico's 47 million. Only nine of the
world's so-called countries (China, India, Soviet Union,
United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Japan, and Brazil) have
individual populations greater than our luxuriously-living,
under-nine-months-old Womblanders.
we
"Seemingly switching our subject, but only for a moment.
note that for the last two decades scientists probing with
electrodes have learned a great deal about the human brain.
The brain gives off measurable energy and discrete wave
patterns disclosed by the oscillograph. Specific, repetitive"
dreams have been identified by these wave patterns.'
-
"
Cite RBF Intro. to "Expanded Cinema," p.16, Oct 70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb Population:
"The neurological and physiological explorers do not find it
extravagant to speculate that we may learn that what humanity
has thus far spoken of mystifiedly as telepathy, science will
have discovered, within decades, to be ultra-ultra high-
frequency electromagnetic wave propagations.
"All good science fiction develops realistically that which
scientific data suggest to be imminent. It is good science
fiction to suppose that a superb telepathetic communications
system is interlinking all those young citizens of worldaround
Wombland. We intercept one of the conversations: 'How are
things over there with you?' Answer: 'My mother is planning
to call me either Joe or Mary. She doesn't know that my call
frequency is already 7567-00-3821. Other: 'My mother had
better apply to those characters Watson, Crick, and Wilkerson
for my call numbers!! And another of their 66 million Womb-
landers comes in with, 'I'm getting very apprehensive about
having to go outside." We have been hearing from some of
the kids who just got out-- they say we're going to be cut
off from the main supply. We are going to have to shovel fuel
and pour liquids into our systems. We are going to have to
make our own blood. We are going to have to start pumping"
-
Cite RBF Intro. to "Expanded Cinema," p.16, Oct 70
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb Population:
We
(3)
"some kind of gas into our lungs to purify our own blood.
are going to have to make ourselves into giants 15 times our
present size. Worst of all, we are going to have to learn to
lie about everything. It's going to be a lot of work, very
dangerous, and very discouraging. Answer: 'Why don't we
strike?? We are in an excellent posture for a "sit-down."
Other: Wow! What an idea. We will have the whole population
of worldaround wombland refuse to go out at graduation day.
Our cosmic population will enter more and more human women's
wombs, each refusing to graduate at nine months. More and more
Earthian wome will get more and more burdened. Worldaround
consternation-- agony. We will notify the outsiders that,
until they stop lying to themselves and to each other and give
up their stupid sovereignties and exclusive holier-than-thou
ideologies, pollutions, and mayhem, we are going to refuse to
come out. Only surgery fatal to both the mothers and ourselves
could evacuate us.'
"Another: 'Great! We had might as well do it. If we do come
out we will be faced with the proliferation of Cold War's
guerrillerized killing of babies for psycho-shock demorali-
zation of world around innocent communities inadvertently"
- Cite RBF Intro, to "Expanded Cinema," p.16, Oct 70

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb Population:
"involved in the abstruse ideological
(4)
warfare waged by
diametrically opposed, equally stubborn would-be do-gooder,
bureaucratic leaders and their partisans who control all of the
world's means of production and killing, whose numbers
(including all the politically preoccupied individuals around
Earth) represent less than one percent of humanity, to whose
human minds and hearts the politicos and their guns give neither
satisfaction nor hope. Like the women in Lysistrata who
refused intercourse with their men until they stopped fighting,
we Womblanders would win.""
Cite RBF Intro. to "Expanded Cinema," p.16, Oct170

RBF DEFINITIONS
Womb Population:
"I think man is about to be born into an entirely new
relationship with the Universe. To comprehend the utter
surprise, I will give you an analogy. Let us assume that
there are at this moment more than a hundred million babies
living in the wombs of women around the Earth. What an utter
surprise to be born and to be brought out into what we call
'life.' What an extraordinary experience for 100 million
lives to emerge suddenly into external oxidation! Life
coming from the inside of a woman out, in a wave phenomenon.
Total man may be going through a total wave of transformation,
into an entirely new relationship with the Universe.
Cite RBF in AAUW Journal, p. 178, May '65

Womb: Wombland:
See Birth
Pregnant Mother
Umbilical Cord
Womb Population
(1)

Womb: Wombland:
See A Priori Environment, 20 Feb 73: May172
Bird's Nest as a Tool (C)
Four, 27 Dec '73
Omnidirectional, 1960; 2 Jul 62
Race (4)
System Awareness, 20 Feb 73 *
Tactile Sequence (1)-(3)
Child, 1 May'77
Woman is Continuous, 11 Aug'77
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Women:
"I find women are tensive.... Women know how to reel people
in-- how to play them on a tension line."
- Citation & context at Fish: Playing the Fish on a Real, 20 Apr 172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Women:
"Women are going to accomplish world-merging and stability..."
-
Citation & context at Child:
May165
A Little Child Shall Lead Them,

fusF DEFINITIONS
Homan is Continuous:
"Woman is continuous. Women like to hear that. The male
is discontinuous, but in the woman there is always a womb
in a womb in a womb like the picture on the can of pet milk.
That's why awareness and identity begin, not with conception,
but with the cutting of the umbilical cord. Baptism can
only come after that."
Cite RBF to EJA in discussion of abortion and astrology
at La Potiniere Restaurant, Phila. PA; 11 Aug 77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Women As Mathematicians:
"In mathematics women are not very great explorers
but they are great understanders and consolidators."
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, re Michele Cuevas of Montreal,
14 Oct 72

Woman: Women:
See Baby-making Machines
Female
Mother
Trained Nurses
Wave Phenomenon:
Inside-of-a-Woman-Out
(1)

Women: Woman:
See Child:
Fish:
A Little Child Shall Lead Them, May'65*
Playing the Fish on a Reel, 20 Apr 72
(2)

Women:
See Woman:
Women

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wood:
It
"The most creative woodworking I know of is a tree.
can grow its branches straight out...And each limb can
support tons of weight.
There
When I use wood
"We should do things to wood that the wood likes.
are certain things it likes to be used for.
I make sure it likes what I'm doing to it."
à Cite RBF quoted by Cam Smith in RBF TO CHILDREN OF EARTH, DEC172

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wood:
"Building houses of wood will within a few decades sound
as Deculiar as building houses with slabs of human flesh."
Cite RBF holograph on program of N.Y. State Institute of
Housing meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania, NY, 3 Jun'48

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wood Technology:
(1)
"....Housing, as you have known it up to now, used the wood or
stone or clay which was at hand. These component materials
were not understood scientifically to any important degree.
Wood might be considered pretty as oak, or pretty as maple.
One was a little harder or softer to work and suited a man
better than another. But it was little understood what a tree
was. Despite academic study, man's understanding of trees was
popularly vague. Then trees began to be used industrially by
the chemical industry. It began to develop wood pulps and
other by-products of wood. To some extent this began to
affect the 'scarcity' or 'quantity' of wood relative to its
availability for house building. These new industries, partic-
Builders had to
ularly newsprint pulp, exhausted a lot of it.
take greener and greener lumber as stockpiling dwindled.
"During World War II one of the most extraordinary things that
happened, in its broad effects on technology and on economics,
is what the Germans were forced to accomplish in wood chemistry
in order to plan on how to survive during this extraordinary
industrial warfare, which they introduced and in which energy
played such an important role. The Germans had to plan in"
-
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Readr, pn.214-215), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wood Technology:
"advance on being bombed out of their oil fields. It was ob-
vious that they could plan to use oil to a certain extent but
that eventually their most vulnerable position was their oil
supply. This was an 'oil warfare' in a big way. Therefore
the Germans set about finding other important sources of
energy. They went to wood technology. The chemistry of wood
developed in many directions in Germany. They suddenly dis-
covered that here was nature's most importat trick in im-
pounding Sun energy-- and in a most useful way, for therefrom
you could release energy in many useful directions.
(2)
7
"They immediately brought it to the one great "Grand Central
Station" of energy, in its most stable storage form, which
was alcohol. From alcohol of various kinds you could make
foods- first for cattle, then for people. You could make
The chemistry
high octane gas or synthetic rubber or plastics.
of wood began playing such an important part that the scien-
tists in Washington were talking about it constantly and there
was a book published called 'The Nigger in the Woodpile' which
was what Germany had."
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, p.215), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wood Technology:
(3)
"Wood technology has advanced the basic economic case for wood
to such an important position in the advancing technical world
that we can no longer afford to use wood in the careless way we
have in the past-- to put it in houses for termites to eat up,
or a possible fire to consume. Even if we could, worldwide
technology forces our technical hand as it never has before,
the rest of the world is now industrializing and is starting
the most advanced World War II levels of technology and not at
our 1861 or 1890 or 1917 level. Industrial technology is born
of latent knowledge and is not an inventory of obsolete machin-
How does
ery, so wood is in a very new historical position.
that affect the historical wooden house picture?
"As children of the pioneers also came along to build a house--
or their grandchildren wanted to-- there was no longer much
wood on the farm. They had to go increasing distances for it.
Finally
they went out of the state for it. Today they have to send
1,000 to 5,000 miles for most of their building wood."
"They were using it simply by habit because it was originally
handy and suddenly they had exhausted that supply. Long ago
-
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, (RBF Reader, np.215-216), 1946

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wood Technology:
(4)
In the war's great
"wood boxes disappeared from our cellars.
motion, packing cases went all over the world. That broke the
wood supply equilibrium altogether. World increased paper needs
and the new chemistry of wood-energy conversion makes it un-
thinkable that wood will ever again be available in any large
way for building it into houses, even into prefabs which
average 70 percent wood, Wood is suddenly going from 'for free'
as it sat stacked on the farm because it had to be cleared away,
to a rapidly inflating price structure-- owing not so much to
its scarcity, as to its newly recognized inherent wealth.
"On the other hand there are now many by-products of the soil
and by-products of the wood, which chemistry is developing,
whether it is cellulose as plastics, or the metals developed
from the clay, etc., which were just kicking around unrecognized
on the early farm. These by-products, however, were very
expensive to extract in the beginning and called for a large
energy expenditure and fancy and complicated mammoth plants with
giant stills and ovens such as required millions of dollars to
install and develop. Few industries could afford to buy the
original speciality by-products of high performance characteristic.'
-
Cite DESIGNING A NEW INDUSTRY, ( RBF READER, p.216), 1946

Wood:
Sea Log
Lumber
Trees
Fireplace Log
(1)

Wood:
(2)
See Celestial Radiation Accumulators, 28 Apr'77

RBF DEFINITIONS
Woof:
"What we call life is a complex of multidimensional
oscillations and palpitations between various degrees
of positive and negative asymmetries, whose multi-variant
lags in conceptioning bring about what seems to be
temporal substance. The complex WOOF of a plurality of
lag rates of after-images and recalls-- produces pure
weightless metaphysical images-- produces the awareness
we speak of as life."
LIFE
-
Cite SYNERGETICS Draft
-
A
"Conceptuality: Time" RBF
marginalia added at Somerset Club, Boston, 25 Appril 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"Words are descriptions of mutually acknowledged experiences."
- Cite RBF to EJA & Roger Stoller, 3200 Idaho, Wash.DC; 12 Nov' 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"Know-how is always increasing. As know-how builds up
irreversibly it is essential that words get better so we can
compound our information. As we continually learn ways to
compound our experiences they are mounting exponentially.
I would think that there's probably a fourth-power exponential
rate of information gain."
-
Cite Tape transcript #4, p.8; RBF to W.Wolf, Phila., PA, 15 Jun 74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"We've got enough experience now to have been able to develop
an Oxford Dictionary of 100,000 words. We discovered 100,000
nuances of experiences, each so unique that it required its own
word. And you and I know how difficult a thing it is for
human beings to agree on anything but we have agreed on
100,000 words to identify those 100,000 unique experiences.
What an extraordinary inventory we have!"
Cite tape transcript. p/15; RBF to W. Wolf, Gloucester, Mass.,
2 Jun 174

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
" ...Understanding and meaning has nothing to do with the
length or the size of the words I am using, or the sound-wave
disturbance I am making in the air, or the language I am
employing.... each of us is communicating to one another in
spoken words, gestures, postures, and flashes of the eye.
can't see one another; we can see only our respective communi-
cations devices."
We
Citation and context at Communicating (1), 11 Sep 173

RBP DEFINITIONS
Words:
"We have learned a little from the cumulative experience of
all human beings who have inhabited our planet. We have
invented words so that we can accumulate human experiences,
and we have invented successively sign language; pictographs;
phonetics; television; video%;B video-cassette; around-the-
world satellite to relay any program; and world-around
computerization with which to recall any formation anywhere,
any time, by anybody, in order to make man's cumulative
experience available to ensuing generations."
-
Cite THINKING OUT LOUD
(2): WE ARE NOTHING BUT A SPACE
PROGRAM, World Mag., 17 Jul*73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"I hope that I have been successful in communicating this to
No man has
you conceptually without recourse to pictures.
ever seen outside of himself. He always sees in his brain.
I think it is easy to stimulate the brain conceptioning by
words as it is by graphics. I often find in lectures that I
don't have to show the slides-- which I had been prepared to
do- because I found as intuitive or telepathic feedback from
the audience that people had conjured up in their own brains
from my words the very picture which I had intended to show
but had gone on spontaneously to describe in advance.
my intuitive surmise that the pictures thus conjured up are more
powerfully planted in the other man's brain than those resulting
from the beams of light bounced off a photograph back to the
human eye lenses, retina, and nerve connections and after
to be scanned and image-ed (imagined) in the brain."
(Underlåned clause added by RBF in 1972- eja.)
It is
Cite Ltr to Dr. Urmston, p.2, 8 Oct'64

RBF DEFINITIONS
Word:
"You cannot invent a word without two people-- the
identification of experience."
-
Cite RBF at Catholic University Address, Jashington DC,
24 Feb 7/2

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"Time and a gain I find our vocabulary the most extraordinary
phenomenon. that human beings before us have contrived
these words and the thought that required these words. I see
our vocabulary which would include all the words of all
the languages as all the attempts of all men to communicate
all their experiences and I am amazed at how many experiences
must have gone before us and how many there must have been
of them to generalize them to the point where you have a
generalized word for experience. When I recollect I
reconsider the significance of the collection and reconsider
is a beautiful word because "consider" is putting together
of stars. "Sider" is from the Latin "sedes" for star and
"consider" is stars that stand together, as when we look at
constellations. If we reconsider I review stars that seem
to stand out in my experience. You are amazed at the poetic
lucidity and eloquence of the thinking that went on before
us that could invent the word "reconsider. At times I am
appalled with the velocity at which we use these tools
without understanding the beauty and significance of their
buildup."
-
11
Cite OREGON Lecture 2
-
p. 60 + 59, 2 Jul'62

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
.The dictionary is a finite collection of
in turn consisting
finite word entities each
of collections of finite letter symbol entities."
1010
Cite OMNIDIDRECTIONAL HALO, p. 132, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"Encyclopedias and dictionaries inventory man's
progressively invented words for communicable identifi-
cation of
all his evolving experience cognitions."
Cite ONNIDIRECTIONAL HALO, p. 131, 1960

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"... I decided that the way I had acquired bad rules and
conflicting thoughts was through words-- when somebody told
me these things. Therefore I became very suspicious of
words. I said, 'Words seem to be one of the most extraordinary
tool acquisitions of men; I don't think men were born with
words, but rather from what I have learned in education and
of the educational system I suspect that men have evolved words...
They are obviously tools and I'm enough of a mechanic to know
that you can use tools in the wrong way...' It was very tough
on my wife, but I decided I was going to hold a moratorium on
speech for myself... I thought I would see if by doing that I
could force myself back to the point where I would really
understand what it was I was thinking and be sure that when
I made a sound that I really meant to make that sound-- that
it wasn't something I was parrotting and that was just coming
off my tongue.
"
-
Cite B quoted in Times Literary Supplement review 19 Mar 70,
from LATER INFLUENCES ON MY WORK, p.47, Jun'58.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Word:
"Principles of physical Universe may be treated of in words,
which themselves were developed in principle out of dawning
comprehension of implicit significance in the relative
identities of complex bundles of principles. Relativity
treats with concepts in principle; therefore, it can be
treated in words as well as in mathematical phrasing.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent
toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees
of accuracy are only degrees of refinement, and magnitude
in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers,
as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.
Truth is a relationship."
Cite TOTAL THINKING, I&I, p.233, May 49

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"Poets manage to advance without employing the lethal
tactics of intolerance. Poets, in distinct contrast to
jinglers and rhymesters, also apply exquisite precision in
the selection of each word. The honor of words is appreciated.
That honor is inherent in the service function of words to
man.
As homo sapiens, the poet recognizes that words are
his unique and first tools of external action and contain
his highest potential of environment control if, and only
when, intelligently employed. Words, like tools, often and
carelessley repeated, become dull and ultimately useless.
Thus new words must be invented to take their place, or the
old words resharpened."
Cite Motion Economics, p.23; May144

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words:
"Words, words!
symbols in sound to carry a diminutive
degree of understanding into the limbo of goo-goo, broad
designators of general categories of discussion."
-
Cite NING CHAINS TO THE MOUN, p.10, 1938

RBF DEFINITIONS
Words & Coping:
" ...Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a conseq-
uence only of trial-and-error experiences. Humans have learned
only through mistakes. The billions of humans in history have
had to make quadrillions of mistakes to have arrived at the
state where we now have 150,000 common words to differentially
identify that many unique and only-metaphysically-comprehdible
nuances of experience. The number of words in the dictionary
will always multiply as the progressive complex of cosmic
episodes of Scenario Universe are subjectively experienced and
thoughtfully considered by each of us.
"The whole complex of omniinteraccommodative generalized
principles... altogether manifest an infallible wisdom's inter-
considerate, unified design, and an a priori, intellectual-
integrity conceivability as well as a human-intellect discover-
ability. By wisdom of the great design humans have the capabil-
ity to formulate and communicate from generation to generation
through words and thus to progressively accumulate knowledge
through sharing the exclusively self-discovered significant
nuances of experience. The quadrillions of mistakes were the
price paid by humanity for it presently accrued competence to
cope with both survival and growth problems."
-
Cite RBF Ltr. to Bro. Jos. Chuala, p.2; 7 Nov'75

RBF DEFINITIONS
Word as Industrial Tool:
"The first industrial tool is really a very interesting one.
We have the description: In the Beginning was the Word. So in
the beginning of industrialization was the word. Because one
man could not invent a word... he'd have no reason to invent
it.
And it would take a great deal of identification of experi-
ence and the sounds for it for him to begin to realize that
you'd have something called a 'word.'
And
"This was, then, the beginning of the intercommunication of
experiences, compounding the experience of the individual.
with the written word you had it from generation to generation.
This cumulative experience is a very extraordinary matter
"The craft tool was inherently local in time and geography.
But the industrial tool was for the total experience of all of
humanity that had ever been communicated with one to the other,
covering the total sweepout of humans. it
Forum
-
Cite RBF at Harvard Law School, 10 Dec 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
Word As Industrial Tool:
*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 to relay information both in terms of
overlapping lives and also travel, they began to consolidate
all kinds of
information."
Citation and context at Tools: Craft Tools and Industrial
Tools (1)(2), 1970

RBF DEFINITIONS
Word As Industrial Tool:
...The very first industrial tool was the spoken word.
Without another man to employ it with him one man would have
no reason to
invent a spoken word. The meaning of a word had
to
be
cooperatively arrived at between at least two human
beings
. We read in the Scriptures: 'In the beginning was the
Word. We may
modify that now to say, 'In the beginning of
industrialization was the
word,' and with the word came the
eventuated
increasingly swift compounding of man's experiences
and the integration of
knowledge of everyone everywhere and
from one generation
to another."
Cite BEIRUT ADDRESS, p.10, 1967

Word as Industrial Tool:
See Language as Industrial Tool
Tools: Craft &
Industrial
(1)

Word as an Industrial Tool: Word Tools:
See Limit Case, 10 Dec'73
Industrialization, 20 Jun'66
Words, May'4444
Sleeping & Thinking, (2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Word Trenda:
"Key words and catch phrases trend by composite into
cliche Cliches trend by composite into rules of thumb.
Rules of thumb trend by composite into fables. At this
point of most solid compression a trend to segregation
supplants the trend of concentration--but along new lines.
"Scripture trends by first division into 'Religious" and
'Civilized'
law. Thence these two formalized trends double
back to common man as dogma which is the official interpreta-
tion of the meaning
of the laws by the professional authorities.
"The dogma manifolds into canons and statutes. Thence by
vulgar
proclivity the laws trend to ultimate disintegration--
as dynamic man resents and fractures his self-entrapment."
Cite Motion Economics, Ch. 1; May' 44

Words:
See Behaviorist Word vs. Static Word
Communication Tool
Definitions
Dictionary
Energetic Words
Etymology
Games of Words
Generalizations Reduced to One Word
Invented Words
Logos
Meaning
Meaningless:
Inventory of Meaningless Concepts
Names: "Named" Phenomena
Obsolete: Inventory of Obsolete Concepts
Old Words
Packaged Word
Figures & Words
(1A)

Words:
See Scientific Words
Semantics
Slides: Graphics vs. Words
Sound Word
Static Word
Time Word
Unitary Communications Tools
Verbs
Vocabulary
World-around Language
Sound Name
Disapproved Words
Thing Word
Label
Categoryitis
Cliche
Countercliche
(1B)

Words:
See Consideration, 1965
Experience, Oct 171
Communicating (1)*
Industrualization, 20 Jun'66
Logistics, 10 Dec 73
Responsible, Feb 73
Visual Symphony (1)
Epistemology, Oct 66
Weightless, 22 Jul 71
Windowing the Nothingness, 25 Mar 76
Teleology, Apr 77
Awareness, 28
Universe is Technology, (2)
Womb of Permitted Ignorance, (2)
(2)

Wordless: Wordlessness:
See Nameless
Nonverbal
Unspoken Communication
Ineffable
No Nouns
(1)

Wordless: Wordlessness:
See Conversation Sequence (2)
Nature Permits It Sequence (2)
Self-communicate, 9 Jan '75; 8 Apr$75
Primitive, 19 Jul 76
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Work:
"Work and the right-to-live must be divorced. Work must be
considered the greatest human privilege."
Citation and context at Earning a Living, Dec'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
Work:
"All objective work must be spontaneously inspired and
cooperatively initiated as with children's games.
Participation
on all varsity' production and service playing teams must be
attained through demonstrated competence.
"
-
Cite RBF revisions of "Ten Proposals for Improving the World,"
for Earth, Inc, New Delhi, Dece,ber' 72.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Work:
"On impact, mass at velocity transforms into heat and
work. These energy factors can be translated not only
into work, but into heat, or into time as well."
Cisation and context at Vector, 27/2 May'72

Workability:
See Copper, 15 Aug'70

Work:
See Doing What Needs to be Done
Earning a Living
Industrial Hypocrisy
Labor: American Labor
Make-work
Making the World Work
Wellspring of Work
(1)

Work:
See Earning a Living, Dec '72*
Efficiency, 22 Jan'75
Energy Slave, (1)
Vector, 27 May'72*
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
World:
"I do not tend to use the word 'world.' I use Universe' or
'Earth'. when people say world they mean our life on this
planet.
11
-
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping session, Philadelphia,
22 Jan175

RBF DEFINITIONS
World:
"World is a bad word for system. I use 'world' for the life
of humans on Planet Earth, but it's just a bad word for
'system' that's all."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Penn Bell Studios, Philadelphia, PA, 24 Jan'75

World Accounting System:
See Cosmic Accounting
Economic Accounting System

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-around Communication Transcends Politics:
(1)
Q: (Sen. Percy): "Dr. Fuller, you state, and I quote,
"Whether the world survives birth into an entirely
new world and Universe relationship depends on our
individual integrity, not on that of political
representative. This is a very powerful and provoc-
ative statement, with particular interest to the
political representatives right here. Would you
care to expand on that very briefly?"
A: (RBF)
"You speak of phenomena of which we know little,
the as-yet mystifying phenomenon that transpires
as that unspoken communication between humans which occurs
when human beings are, within themselves, highly convinced
of the integrity of their decisions having been made only on
behalf of the many. I am quite confident that we will have
scientifically reproducible proof within the next decade that
what humans experience as telepathy is ultra-ultra-high
frequency electromagnetic wave communication to transceive
which all humans are innately equippped.
"Humanity has been asking too much of its political represent-
atives. It has asked them to be responsible for thinking."
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May175

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-around Communication Transcends Politics:
"Now, for the first time in history, all of humanity is
literate and all of humanity knows everybody else. For the
first time in the history of humanity we have the capability
of safely implementing direct democratic expresssion.
(2)
"I meet very large numbers of audiences-- this last year an
averag of 1,500 people on 150 occasions. The majority of my
audiers are young. I established a self-discipline a half
century ago whereby I was never to ask anybody to listen to me.
I was to talk to others only when I was asked to do so-- and
then I must give them my best. More and more people everywhere
ask me to come talk to them. I am telling them about our
'final exam' and that I feel that whether humanity can 'pass'
is to be answered entirely within the mind of the individual.
Do we really have the integrity? Do we really understand that
each of us is only here for all the others? If the answer is,
I am here for me, then I think humanity is going to fail its
exam.
"I think that extraordinary individual courage-- which dares
to listen to its own cognition of the truth-- is going to have"
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May 75

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-around Communication Transcends Politics:
"to be manifest. I feel the knowledge that this is so is
now emerging into prominence in human thought everywhere
around the world. I have been around the world 37 times now;
I do not have
not as a tourist, but incidental to my work.
any agency or sales staff who solicit employment of whatever
my potential functioning may be. I do not compete with
others. Whatever I do with other humans must be spontaneously
initiated by others. In this way a stay attuned to Nature's
evolutionary wave front. I have been invited to speak or take
an appointment at 421 universities and colleges around the
world. From direct spontaneous talk with people around the
world, I find arising a spirit of truthfulness, comprehension,
and tolerance as most powerfully manifest in the young world
which transcends all political biases.'
(3)
-
Cite RBF in committee transcript, US Senate, 15 May175

World-around Communication Transcends Politics:
See Electronic Referendum
Planetary Democracy
North-south Mobility of World Man
News & Evolution

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-Around Language:
"The trend to world integration by world-around
service industries, operating with the most advanced
electronic techniques including those of the swiftly
multiplying computer technology, promise an ever
swifter evolvement of a world-around language common
to all human experience."
Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning."
28 April 1971, p. 18

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-Around Language:
"Advertising's progressive squandering and ultimately
lethal abuse and misuse of the rich word tools of the
second millenium, Anno Domini's language wealth may be
surprisingly one of these evolutionary 'blessings in
disguise'. . . .
The assassination of meanings in the
twentieth century word wealth of humanity by corporate-
business advertising may be Tennyson's fulfillment of
Himself by God in many ways, Lest one good custom
should corrupt the world.'
"The decease of meaning in the old tools of communication
makes room for the new World Humans Language. "
* Cite Dreyfuss Preface, "Decease of Meaning"
28 April 1971, p. 23

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-Around Language:
(1)
"In marked contrast to the accelerating increase in organized
misunderstanding, combatively led by political representatives
of world peoples employing over two hundred different language
tools to identify single meanings, and no individual capable
of cross-translating in more than ten percent of those
languages, there is an accelerated emergence of a world
language within the supra-national network-integrated world
industrialization. World industrialization stripped of its
thin garment of political expediency thrown upon it by its
would-be masters for purposes of exploitation, discloses a
naked organism integrated entirely of precise functions
derived only from the findings of the full gamut of the exact
sciences. The increasing precision of function is accompanied
by increasing precision of behaviors and an increasing
commonality of word-taggings for those efforts and accomplish-
ments transcendental to national or ethnic boundaries. Led
by the world-around radio-hamming's international electronic
and communication language, and followed closely by the
identities of the totalities of the evolving apparatus of
the world Airocean, technicians from any part of the world
can communicate with other technicians regarding Airocean
technology apparatus.
-
Cite
"
typescript, Synergetics Notes, circa 1955

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-Around Language:
(2)
"World nut-bolt-and-screw standards now trend towards world
interchangeability through events such as swiftly shifting
world orientations implemented by lend-lease apparatus,
successful operation of which is dependent upon comprehensive
interchangeability. These trends towards interchangeability,
gaining swiftly in the last decades, are counter to the many
exclusive international policies of commercial exploitation
adopted in the first century of industrial revolution which
sought anarchistically for unique standards representative of
the industrialization originating in the respective economies
to be superimposed upon the respective competitive colonization
with hope of insurance of perpetuated dependence of the
colonies through lack of interchangeability of their mainten-
ance requirements with out-nation sources. The net of the
world integrating events is that wherever generalized physical
principles exist these generalized principles trend to
persistent re-emergence while false clues dwindle and fade,
and as all the while the scientific and technical leadership
identifying generalized principles, seeks clarifying
communicatable identity of the underlying phenomena."
Cite typescript, Synergetics Notes, circa 1955

RBF DEFINITIONS
World-Around Language:
"The strength of the emerging supra-national unitary
communication tools gains and the meanings become ever
sharper, whereas the dubious meanings for untenable
superstition and propaganda first become ragged,
foggy,
then deteriorate into obsolescence."
and
(3)
Cite typescript, Synergetics Notes, circa 1955

World-around Language:
See Universal Language

World-around Service Industry:
See Service Industry

World-around Tool Networks:
See Tool Networks

World-around:
See One-town World
One World
Service Industry
Tool Networks
Universal Language
Dwelling Service Industry
Unsettling vs. Settlements

World Citizen:
Earthian
See Universe Citizenship
World Man
Home: At Home in the Universe
(1)

World Citisen:
See Private Property, 28 Apr'71
Property, 29 Jun 72
Humane City, (1)
Human Unsettlement, (5) (6)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Corporations:
"World corporations' ownership shares are so worldwide in
distribution pattern that soon all big corporations will
no longer be known by prefixes, such as American, German or
English. They will be known simply as world corporations.
.... While this hatching of a World breed of chickens out
of nationally laid eggs is an economic trend as yet popularly
undiscernible, it is unquestionably one of the most important
of present world history's developments. Corporations need
no passport. They do not need to give up one brand of
citizenship to take up another..... Many had thought that the
development of 'woold man' would be a uniquely political
phenomenon. I do not think so. I think that the phasing
out of
all sovereignties and emergence of a one world society
and its governing system will come about uniquely through
the economic development of world industrialization
economic systems-- i.e., world corporations. The latter
inanimate legal entities will ultimately require world
passports for their personnel. 'World' citizenry will
finally be recognized politically after a majority of humanity
become involved in the world-around industrial activity as
consumers and share-owners, physical workers having been
progressively displaced by automation."
Cite RBF Ltr. to D.W. Robertson, 24 Feb '65, Pp. 3-4.

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Corporations:
"In regard to a territorially exclusive license, geography
is an absolute category as 'territory,' and exclusivity is
far more quickly reached and maintained by uniquely advanced
service within areas of unique functioning. This is the new
world coming up when local town, county, state and national
identifications are absurd other than as APO foci for communi-
cations between a world-around circulating and integrating
humanity.
"This is a powerful trend. Private enterprise is taking the
initiative entirely away from politics. Politics lingers in
the twilight of geographical islands. Enterprise operates
transcendentally to such limits. Major enterprise is
inherently bound by Universe alone. The limits are the
physio-chemical-mathematical economies of nature's multi-
freedomed equi-economies. You can't be in the enterprise
frontiers unless you are ready to operate transdendentally
to yesterday's politically-fortified, Maginot-circumscribed,
earthworm islands...."
Cite CULTIVATE THE POSITIVE, 9 May'57

World Corporations:
See Automation of World Production & Services
Corporation
Industrial Network Functions
Service Industry
Transnational
(1)

World Corporations:
See Canada, 15 Jun 74
(2)

World Democracy:
See Planetary Deomcracy
(1)

World Democracy:
See Electronic Referendum, 29 Jun'72
News & Evolution, (2)(3)
(2)

HBF DEFINITIONS
World Design Science Jecade:
"Quite cleary our undertaking will be looked at, if
looked at at all, as an innocuous diversion of an
inconsequential profession of interior and exterior
house and building decorators. This will be all to
the good.
The project will be left alone to do its
hard work."
-
Cite RBF quoted in "Observations: Fuller's Earth,"
NewSociety, London, 13 Aug '64

HBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"I object to the idea of World Game as an 'education medium'
as if it's something like a book that you can use in the schools
if you want to, or not.
"The biggest problem of humanity right now-- and Martin Meyerson
agreed with me-- is how to get all of humanity to learn what it's
all about in the shortest possible time.
"That is educational, but my idea of education is really highly
inductive. The child must experience gravity many, many ways
before you give him the word-- gravity. He doesn't need the
word-- gravity-- he's really learning how the thing works....
"The point is that World Game can make visible what is not
visible in statistics, or in curves.
"
-
Cite Tape #3, pp.5,6 & 8; RBF to W. Wolf, Phila. PA, 15 Jun '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"The World Game is a scientific means for exploring
expeditious ways of employing the world's resources so
efficiently and omni considerately as to be able to provide
a higher standard of living for all of humanity-- higher
than has heretofore been experienced by any humans-- and on
a continually sustainable basis for all generations to come,
while enabling all of humanity to enjoy the whole planet
Earth without any individual profiting at the expense of
another and without interference with one another, while
also rediverting the valuable chemistries known as pollution
to effective uses elsewhere, conserving the wild resources
and antiquities.'
-
Quoted by Rasa Gustaitis in WHOLLY ROUND, p. 124, Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, NY 1973 Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
He says he wants "to computerize World Game and develop
large mechanical devices, great miniature Earths where
society could see things happening. I find that unless
people see things move they don't pay much attention to
them...
"Not only do we have a very limited color spectrum of red
orange, green, blue, violet, which are less than a millionth
of all frequencies operative in physical Universe, but we
have a very limited motion spectrum. You don't even see the
hands of the clock move. We do have afterimage enough to
remember that the hands were over there.
"You don't see the trees grow and you don't see the child
grow. So I've learned that when you do see things move you
change. And it is possible to take a moving picture and
accelerate the picture. In one of the pictures Bob Snyder
[his son-in-law who makes films of Bucky and his work 7
has, you see-- the Kaiser dome in Hawaii I believe it was--
you see it all put together in one minute or a half-minute.
So it is possible to accelerate in such a way that people
will understand what they're seeing. "
(A)
Quoted by Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY Round (HR&W) NY, p.153, Feb 73

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
(B)
"Or you decelerate. Like those atoms that are moving at such
speed that you don't see them in motion at all so it looks
like a solid. It is possible to slow that whole thing down
so that you can comprehend it. In my population movie, every
second is a hundred years. You see it growing around the world
like a bonfire... Being a sailor, mechanic, a scientist, I can
visualize my boat in motion. I find lots of peaople don't
do that. I can think of the different angles of keel.
I can
look at trends, I can look at figures..."
-
Quoted by Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W) NY, p.154, Feb'73

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"The energy of Universe is eternally regenerative and
inexhaustible. The metaphysical resource always increases.
The game is 'How to make humanity a successful member of
succesful Universe?'
Ab
Cite RBF revision of "Ten Proposals for Improving the World,"
for EARTH, Inc., New Delhi, Dec 72

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"Theoretical Exploration Through World Game: World War gaming
considers total use of total resources only for the maintenance
of killingry in support of unilateral survival, on the mistaken
a priori assumption of fundamental inadequacy of planetary
life support. World Gaming discovers the inventory of meta-
physical capabilities can amplify the life support effectiveness
of the inventors of physical resources to accommodate all
humanity.
"The 92 regenerative chemical elements themselves are only
non-dissipatable and are only re-circulatable."
Cite WORLD-AROUND PROBLEMS THAT HABE TO BE SOLVED BY BLOODLESS
DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION, NY. Times, 29 Jun'72

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
Q.:
"In the world game do you think it's the word ' ' game'
that leads people into false preoccupation with game theory
and so on?"
RBF:
"Very definitely. Some of my advisors and friends
have been worried about that word. They think it will get
people off on the wrong idea; and it may do so. I chose it
because of war games, because was really converting the
negative playing of total data logistics into the positive;
and in a sense it mught be a unique phrase. I am sure the
word game' introduces a hazard, but it never bothers me
because it may act as a weeding process for people who oughtn't
to be in it. Maybe their children will; but they may not be
ripe.
It
-
Cite tape transcript #5, Bide A., p.9; RBF to Barry Farrell;
Bear Island, 15 Aug170

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"The objective is to explore for ways to make it possible
for anybody and everybody in the human family to enjoy the
total Earth without any human interfering with any human and
without any human gaining advantage at the expense of another.
The programs that the computers will select as being most
favorable for all humanity will go far beyond man's ignorant
ways of assessing what he can afford.' The computers will
demonstrate that he can afford nothing short of the best,
which is to make spaceship Earth a successful environment for
If anyone playing the game employs ideological biases
and attempts to enforce the dominance of one by another, that
player will be disqualified. The game must be won by peaceful
means, by the use of intelligence and proper use of our
resources. The players will not compete.
They will engage
in cooperative exploration to see how all humanity can win
a successful, pollution-free life."
man.
Cite RBF quoted in Gane Youngblood piece in L.A. Free Press,
reprinted in Whole Earth Catalog, Mar 70

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"I'm going to try to give the best definition I can today
of world game.
We've discovered that while you can't be
exact, you can progressively reduce error, and that's
exactly what mechanics and technology are doing
•
(See Tolerance Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
(1)
"At any event I'd like then to try to be as exact as we can
in talking about world game. We will make the best definition
we can, to start off with, and then we'll keep refining it,
making the first sorties at what we're talking about.
"World game is an attempt to ascertain the most effective way
of complementing man's functioning in the Universe, in
evolution. We're seeking to discover what the options are,
if any, and then we're seeking to measure what the effects
of our employment of various options are. Our resource is
synergetic capability. Our strategy starts with the whole
and works toward the particular. We've already ourselves
learned that there is a phenomenon synergy and the very
simplest case was that one single massive sphere hung up in
no way indicates that there would be mass attraction if"
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"there were another sphere
(2)
(See Synergy Sequence:
Two Massive Spheres, Jun-Jul'69)
"This is simply saying that taking our statistics and starting
with parts is never going to give us the kind of results we
get when we start with wholes and and find out what behaviors
as a whole are. To begin with, that gives us clues as to
ways of exploring the behaviors of the parts. We find that
we deal in a Universe in which unity is plural and at minimum
two. We find that this is what we really mean by fundamental
complementarity-- what the physicists are trying to get society
to realize.
(See Keyhole Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
"So we find that complementarity is even more complex, that
there had to be not only the keyhole, but the keyhole had to
be in something, and the keyhole that was in something had
to be related to the rest of the Universe. . .
(See Rubber Glove Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
- Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"We have discovered that man has a function in Universe.
If we know that he has a function, which man had not tended
to think of before. I think that generally society looks
on experience the way Shakespeare did: that man may be a
theatergoer to be pleased or displeased.
(3)
"And I have not read anyone else finding or asking the question:
Does man have a function in Universe? We have found one, which
is a good tentative one, which is found in the same synergetic
manner, looking at things in the biggest possible way.
Observing that there is a fundamental complementarity, and that
the complementations are rarely mirror images of one another,
we find that the physical Universe is always locally entropic--
that is, it is always giving off energy in one way or another.
Because each local system has its own orbiting, and its own
frequencies, and so forth, the ways in which they give them
off are not synchronized with the others. Therefore, as they're
given off, they're relatively disorderly.
(See Relative Asymmetry Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
-
Cite RBF to World Game,
Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
(4)
"There seem to be phases when you and I automatically check
in and say, 'That's a man.' I can see that's a living organ-
ism. And another might say, 'I can see that's a crystal."
But we've learned now there's no threshold between these two.
They used to be called animate and inanimate, and then we
found that that is not true. .
(See Animate and Inanimate Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
"Man is so specialized that he didn't notify society that
he had found no threshold between animate and inanimate.
This is simply to say, then, that whatever we really are,
whatever life is, there is no identity of any threshold
between or within the physical. And I'm saying to you very
powerfully that I'm confident that our communication
everything you and I do, is absolutely weightless. The only
thing that counts between you and me is thinking. The
difference between human and other physical organisms is
always the metaphysical, the thought.
(See Tactile Sequence, Jun-Jul169)
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Came:
"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 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 those
touching things. Only in the past hundred years 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.
(5)
"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.
"These are a lot of reviews and I want to review with you
We have our
our looking for man's function in Universe.
observation that every local physical system in the Universe"
-
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"is entropic and becoming increasingly disorderly, taking
up much more room. Because we've found out a fundamental
complementarity-- that when the wave goes positive it also
goes negative later on-- then we say there must be some
phase of Universe where Universe is contracting and becoming
increasingly orderly.
(See Radiation Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
(6)
"And so this enormous energy is being collected here. Radiation
is atomizing the ocean, and it gets dropped back again,
pulled back by gravity as rain. We find vegetation operating
on the dry land and the algae in the sea impounding the
energy of the Sun by photosynthesis.
(See Fossil Fuel Sequence, Jun-Jul169)
(See Wind Sucking Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
"Having learned that there are atmospheric highs and lows,
you can really think about the way in which the Universe
itself ought to be able to have Suns that are giving off energy"
-
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul169

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"in enormous ways and there must be some place where energy
is being concentrated to become a new Sun.
(7)
"All the biologicals are antientropic. A baby couldn't grow
to be entropic; the child would shrink, get smaller and
smaller. But a child gets bigger, so it's antientropic.
And it's absolutely orderly-- the most beautiful pair of two
eyes doing whatever. Everything about it is antientropic.
And everything about a human being that makes you sit where
you're sitting in a quiet way is because we're seeking to
understand and put in order. Understanding is finding order.
(See Generalization Sequence, Jun-Jul'69)
"There's no drify we have quite so great as the sense of
order and the urge to employ the sense of order. The best
I can see of man's function is the one of the mind. The
mind has the ability to generalize. We don't have any
experimental suggestion that the physical would be able to
generalize. The physical is always special case."
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul169

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"The great scientists and artist-scientists finding these
life principles find them all never contradictory one of the
other. They are intercomplementary; they are interaccommo-
dating. There can't be a principle that has a 'beginning'
and an ending
.' We cannot suggest that an abstraction
could have a beginning and an end. The words 'beginning'
and
'
end' have to do with the physical. .
1P
(8)
"All of this has to do with summarizing the why of the world
game and what we're trying to do in the world game. I've come
to my own working conclusion that the human does have a
function; and that he is to be the most effective metaphysical
orderer, comprehender, employer of information to be employed
in different ways to make the world even more orderly-- and to
do so without undue wasting of energy. Energy is supposed to
be
collected here. Therefore man can learn how to employ the
energy patterns of Universe to do work. His job as meta-
physical orderer has antientropic force or capability. His
job is to rearrange the scenery continually-- to rearrange
the somewhat random receipts of the stardust, and so forth,
and to keep rearranging them in more effective ways and
certainly for the regeneration of life itself."
Cite RBF to World Game, Jun-Jul '69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
(9)
"Part of this great orderliness is to try to understand that
there is this function of understanding in the Universe.
Man
seems to be the prime, the only, manifestation we have of it;
other than the a priori Greater Understanding, and I would
think that our functioning is in every way to make that
functioning successful aboard this spaceship Earth."
-
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Satuan Film transcript #327, pp.1-17.

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"All that you see here, it's very amateur-- as we've all
said before-- but it's amateur in a field where there are
no professionals, really. This kind of thinking."
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 15 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, p.72.

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"What we're proposing here is that the computerized world
game become, really, world acceptable, because it is not
in terms of bias. It's going to come out with answers all
the time that don't correspond to any of the political
theories of any of the countries. But what is important
is assimilation by our society, and particularly by the young
world that is finding the older world locally preoccupied.
A young world that's suddenly informed by television and thinks
about total spaceship Earth for the first time. But the
older generation doesn't. The younger generation has the same
compassion old generations and young generations have always
had, but now it's for all of humanity, and the young generation
is extraordinarily ell apprised of all kind of new technical
capabilities. They feel they're just going in the wrong
negative directions. So they feel very intuitively that the
older people are asleep at the switch and that something needs
to be done. This is the first public witnessing of this group
playing the world game. You are going to be confronted with
finding out whatare the potentials and actually mastering them."
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 1, Reel 1, pp. 109-111.

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
...Most important of all we can't see the abstract weightless
thoughts in the minds of other men. When we survey the total
inventory of the motions and informations which we can sense,
we find it to be very limited. The significance of all the
foregoing is appreciated when we realize that it is only by
such phenomena as can be seen to be moving or changing by the
public that are politically recognized and heeded. That is
why public opinion and vote sampling has come into ever more
relible use.
The game
"Our computerized world game is designed to accelerate the
too slow and decelerate the too fast of all the known vital
trendings and thereby to bring them dramatically within
popular consideration and our world game's solution.
will show clearly how the trends will affect everybody's
lives everywhere around Barth and how they could be taken
advantage of in ways favorable to all humanity."
1
Citation and context at Optical Motion Spectrum (3), 4 Mar'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"The World Game I proposed for an exhibit in my dome in
Montreal for the U.S. but the U.S. did not accept it as an
exhibit but they did take my dome. I propose the World
Game which would be played in the same comprehensive way
that the navy has played war games-- through the ages,
dealing totally with all resources.
(I)
"But with the computer comes a new capability. I have proposed
that the United States have an enormous setup with miniature
lights and have my map spread out flat so you see it as a
football field. And there is an enormous bank of data in
the inventory of world resources. You would then with the
computer play the game which is the opposite of Von Neumann's
game theory, where it is assumed that one side has to lose.
It is assumed that there's nowhere near enough to go around,
so one side has to die. He just plays off the dead and that's
all you have, Sum zero.
"There is another game which is not really played in any
general way, except it's sort of a lovely way, which is:
'How can both of us win?' Is it possible for both to be
successful? Is it possible for all sides to be successful?"
RBF with Verner Smythe, New York, Tape 1, pp.1-2, 25 Feb'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"That, of course, looms as possible in terms of science.
But the trouble is all the international setups; you see the
bureacracy of politics everywhere. We are not educatable fast
enough to realize that scientists could bring us enough to go
around. But you can't do it if you have the protective
barriers because the resources must be able to flow very
evenly around. You would have to make all these alloys, and
so forth. Have to be equal. You don't judge people in terms
of where they live. They are simply world men. You must
produce the world man. Science says you could make the world
succesful if you do that.
"So in my World Game I have proposed that we play the computer
game and with this very dramatic setup, electronic capability,
to see we might say: 'Where is all the copper?' and here's
where it is. Which is low grade? How much is in buildings?
How do we re-use our copper in such a way that we can improve
the performance per pound, which lots of people haven't
realized you could do. The game would be played by anybody.
We would like the Russians to play this game. And everybody."
(II)
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, New York, tape 1, pp.2-3, 25 Feb'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
(III)
"And quite clearly the game would come out in a way to be very
contradictory not only to United States policy but to Russian
policy and every policy. And it would be so dramatic-- what
is going on-- that it would have to be published by all the
magazines and television. It is so photogenic because
everybody is so concerned. So we keep on playing the game
and finally we find we could make it work, but it would take
a thousand years to work out. So you play it safe. How do
you reduce those years to get it down to 10 years? On top of
this publicity, handin hand with all the bad the world knows,
we would get the world pushing on with: 'Why don't we follow
the computer instead of following the old politicians and our
reflexes.
.
"1
-
Cite RBF to Verner Smythe, New York, tape 1, pp.2-3, 25 Feb'69

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game:
"How may we organize our self-disciplining to deal
comprehensively and capably with the maximum and
minimum of limiting factors of the combined and
complementary physical and metaphysical prime subdivision.
of universe?"
- Cisation at General Systems Theory, Jun'66
24
Jun166

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game: as Football Game:
"I've been making a fantastic error in saying that World Game
was not played against anybody and had no opposition.
You play
it against a fantastic number of things. For instance, inertia--
unfamiliarity, fear. We worked out a football team. We have
Who was
11 very important players, life fear, and so forth.
the quarterback? Ignorance! He plays center. Cne of the
guards is Inertia..."
"So we do have great opposition,"
-
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear Island; Tape #9, Side A,
Transcript p.3; 23 Aug'70

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game: Grand Strategy:
Bob Brooks: "What is the grand strategy of World Game?"
So you
HBF:
"I start with the Universe and everything in the Universe
counts. So there's a theory of first things first.
do have critical paths, overlappings, and the scenarios, of
course.
BB: "What are the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of
your strategy?"
RBF: "The support of life on our planet."
BB: "So what in Particular?"
RBF: "Actually you get down to two things: metaphysical and
physical. So there's the physical regeneration and the
metaphysical know-how of how to employ all the resources, all
the patterns, that are operating in Universe.... These are the
criteria of what you need to keep a human being going.'
"
Cite Tape transcript, pp. 16-17; RBF to Bob Brooks, 2 Jun'74

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Game: Men Landing on Moon:
"Well, I might just also say that at the same time we were
playing the world game was the first time that a man landed
on the Moon. And I don't think it's coincidental.
I mean
I think that the consciousness of the world manifests itself
in several different ways, and I think it was just absolutely
vital that we were playing world game at the same time, and
we could get the idea that there was a man, one of us, standing
on the Moon looking back and seeing the whole Earth for the
first time. It's really quite astonishing that we've never
been able to see the whole Earth before, and we've never been
able to play, not as politicians, but as world men.
"So I think the basic assumption that there are going to be
political problems that will exist for a long time, but now
for the first time we can really see the whole Earth, we can
begin to work with the whole Earth in mind. . . There's been
an enormous amount of attention paid to politics, and not auch
attention paid to understanding the whole of the world at one time."
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 78-79.

World Game: World Peace Game:
See Peace, 19 Oct 171

World Game:
See Automation of World Production & Services
Bare Maximum
Club of Rome: Limits to Growth
Design Science & World Game
Dwelling: World-around Network Dwelling Service
Economic Accounting System
Energy Capital Sequence
Energy Income Sequence
Energy Slave
Exponential Model vs. Limits to Growth
Gross World Product Sequence
General Systems Theory
High Voltage Power Transmission
Leaders Can Yield to the Computer
Metals: Recirculation of Metals
Options: Discovering What the Options Are
Pollution Control
Population: Population Stabilization
Geoscope
Politics vs. World Game
(1A)

World Game:
See Resource Inventorying
Service Industry
Starting with Universe
Spaceship Earth Sequence
Tools of Reorientation
Wind Power Sequence
World Power Grid
(1B)

BB BEZDETIONS
World Game:
See Politicians, Mar'70
Scenery: Rearrange the Scenery (2)
World Power Grid (3)
General Systems Theory, Jun'66*
Inventory, 28 Apr 74
Local vs. Comprehensive (2)
Visual Symphony (1) (2)
Navy Sequence (7)
Economics, 1 Feb'75
Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens, (A)(B)
(2)

World as Idea in the Mind of God:
See Eccles, Sir John. C., 14 Feb'72

World Language:
See Anglo-American
Universal Language
World-around Language

World Looks at Itself:
See Geoscope World Looks at Itself
Universe Considers Itself
Seeing the Whole World at Once
Geoview

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Man:
"The definition of a town as a place where you work and
sleep will become realistically that of a one-town world.
The whole historical pattern is going to be completely
altered where men are inherently intimate with one
another. Instead of being inherently remote we are
inherently intimate. Everything we have done in all of
our economic organization, the whole past history of man
has been on the basis that we are remote. He are just
going to have to reorientate ourselves to the fact that
we are inherently intimate. This is going to bring about
an entirely new set of circumstances. We are not separate
countries or separate nations. We will be just as intimate
as we are on the subway: you don't really know where anybody
comes from. There will be no national or continental
distinctions whatsoever."
-
Cite Uregon Lecture #4, p. 117. 6 Jul'62

World Fan Curve:
See Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)

World Man:
See Crossbreeding World Man
North-south Mobility of World Man
One-town World
Sovereignty:
Elimination of
Universe Citizenship
Water: Trend Toward living on Water
World Citizen
Young World
Homogenizing of Nations
Unsettling vs. Settlements
Earthian
Universe Citizenship
Human Unsettlement
Home: At Home in the Universe
(1)

World Man: Worldians:
See China, (C)
Economic Accounting System: Human Life-hour
Production, (1)(2)
Philosophers, 22 Aug170
Planet Earth, 10 Nov'72
Private Property, 28 Apr 71
Property, 29 Jun 72
Soleri, Paolo, 10 Sep175
Television: Third Parent
14 Oct169
General
Delve Universal Degrees of Freedom:
Systems, (IV).
World Game, (II)
Ghana Dome:
Self-chilling Machine, (2)
(2)

World Map:
See Dymaxion Airocean World Map
Transformational Projection

World Measurement:
See Cosmetry

World Passports:
See Transnationalism vs. Colonialism, (1)
World Corporation, 24 Feb'65

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Pattern vs. Local Pattern:
"Ideologies and passport-- we don't need them. They were
originated by people locked into their national identities.
Passport regulations are no longer appropriate.... The whole
world is still locked into its petro-pap-pipelines.... The
great silence is the thorough intuitive awareness that world
pattern will replace local pattern and that know-how accounting
will supersede physical accounting."
Cite RBF at Penn Bell videotaping, Philadelphia, 29 Jan'75

World Pattern vs. Local Pattern:
See Cosmic & Local
Human Unsettlement
Proximity & remoteness
Privacy vs. Community
Unsettling vs. Settlements
(1)

World Pattern vs, Local Pattern:
See Human Unsettlement, (6)
Locomotion:
20 Sept 76
Radius of Man's Locomotion,
Dymaxion Car, (1)(2)
(2)

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Power Grid:
"This now feasible intercontinental network would integrate
America, Asia, and Europe and integrate the night and day.
spherically cycling, shadow-and-light zones of Planet Earth
and would occasion the 24-hour use of the now only 50 percent
of the time used world-around standby generator capacity
whose 50 percent unused capacities heretofore were mandatorily
required only for peak load servicing of local interconnected
energy users. Such continental network integration would
overnight double the already-installed and in-use electric
power generating capacity of our Planot."
Cite RBF quoted from his writings by im. Marlin, Archi-
tectural Forum, p. 76, Feb'72'

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Power Grid:
"The problem is always the electrical power. It's always
the necessity of processing the food and getting the food to
the people. It's fine to grow it in this area, but if you
can't store it, you can't feed the people who are living in
the other area.
(1)
"So, using all the information we've gotten about power and
generating stations, and realizing that really the most
efficient thing would be to overlap day and night and seasonal
changes, we developed a way of
in a sense, cycling all
the information toward one central scenario
which was
to set up a major power grid over the face of the Earth.
"
•
•
"The first thing we find out is that if we do this, if we
incorporate all the total potential, we gain about 15
trillion kilowatt hours, which is about a fifteenth of the
total required. We begin to see that all over the globe
we're able by 1980 to bring everybody to the bare minimum,
which is about 2000 kilowatt hours per capita.
on this information we draw one continous network which is
essentially a closed system with existing transmission technology.'
. Based
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul 69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 53-56.
"

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Power Grid:
"Due to the fluctuations in local systems where peak demands
occur at different times, you can use the same amount of
generating capacity more efficiently, with no increase in
terms of more plants.
(2)
"Another efficiency factor comes when we begin to cross the
continent and we
see that we begin to change seasons,
so there are different amounts being used-- seasonal changes
like day and night.
"This network allows you to bring in the income energy sources.
One of the problems with wind power or solar power is that
they are not dependable. For instance, if this city depended
on solar power-- for the last two weeks it's been cloudy-- and
we would have been in a lot of trouble. If you can tie into
a network though, then it can feed in at times when the Sun
is shining, but you don't worry about it, because you have
other sources that you can get through your network.
"All these lines represent an enprmous quantity of metal tied
up in shipping, which could be scrapped and cycled into the
power network. . . The synergetic effects of new technologies"
Cite RBF to World Game 12 Jun-31 Jul169

RBF DEFINITIONS
World Power Grid:
(3)
"would probably reduce or eliminate the need for the actual
metals to be invested in the system. But we are not investing
anything new. What we're trying to do, and what world game
is really always trying to do, is just to show what can be
done with present efficiencies."
Cite RBF to World Game at NY Studio School, 12 Jun-31 Jul'69,
Saturn Film transcript, Sound 2, Part 3, pp. 57-65.

TEXT CITATIONS
World Power Grid:
Utopia or Oblivion: Geosocial revolution. p/198

World Power Grid:
See Electrical Network
High Voltage Power Transmission
(1)

World Power Grid:
See Technology: Enchantment vs. Disenchantment, (5)
(2)

World System:
See World, 24 Jan'75

World Universe:
See Intuition, 1 Feb'75
World, 24 Jan'75

World War I:
See Copper, (A)
Copper Sequence, (I) (II)
Daddy, (1)
Electromagnetic Spectrum, 22 Apr161
Extrasensoriality, (1)
Inhibit, 9 Apr'40'
Locomtion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
Metals: Recirculation Of, (a) (b)
More With Less, May'70
More with Less: Sea Technology,
Navy Sequence, (3)-(7)
Pure Principle, 6 Jul 62
(1)(4)
Transnationalism vs. Colonialism, (3)
Wealth, (F)
Weapons Technology Sequence, (A)
Building Business, (2)
Human Unsettlement, (1)(2)(4)
Fortress Mentality, 12 May' 77

World War II:
See Copper Sequence, (VIII)
Daddy, (1)
Dome: Rationale For, (I)
Dwelling Service Industry, (A)(B)
Extrasensoriality, (2)
Locomotion: Radius of Man's Locomotion, (1)
Solid State, 13 Kay'73
Wealth, (C)"
Wood Technology, (1), (3)
Pathology: Preventive vs. Curative, (1)
Mutual Survival Principles, (1)
Human Unsettlement, (3) (4)
Politicians & Defense Budgets, 20 Sep' 76
Culture, 27 Jan'77
Fortress Mentality, 12 May' 77
No Energy Crisis, (B)

World One:
Prior to 1975 the Dymaxion Airocean World: Waterocean
was known as "World One." RBF has now redesignated this as
"World Two."
Cite RBF to EJA, Phila. PA, 22 Jun 75

World Two:
See Dymaxion Airocean World: Waterocean

World Three:
Prior to 1975 the Dymaxion Airocean World:
Airocean was
known as "World Two." RBF has now redesignated this as
"World Three."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Phila. PA, 22 Jun 75

World Three:
See Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean
(1)

World Three:
See Invisible Masters, Jun' 56
(2)

World:
See Conscious World
Earth
Gross World Product Sequence
Halfway-round-the-Worlding
Making the World Work
Satellite: World Satellite Sensing
Trees: World-around Colors of Trees
Not Out of This World
Old World
Population:
Real World
Center of World Population
One-world Management
One-town World
Seeing the Whole World at Once
Third World
City Management Concept of World Government
(1)

ROP DEFINITIONS
World:
See World Accounting System
World-around Language
World Service Industry
World around Tool Networks
World Citizen
World Corporations
World Democracy
World Design Science Decade
World Game
World as an Idea in the Mind of God
World Language
World Man
World Map: Dymaxion Airocaan World Map
World Measurement
World One: World Two
World Power Grid
World War I: World War II
World Passports
World System
World Universe
(3A)

World:
See World Looks at Itself
(3B)

HBF DEFINITIONS
Worm:
"The almighty might decide to invest mind in a worm,
but the worm wouldn't get enough information to make
it worthwhile.
Man is unique in being in the middle
of the animal kingdom."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Carbondale, 2 April 171-
FO
Citation at Mind, 2 Apr171

RBF DEFINITIONS
Norm:
"
·
And then the male birds fly off to sweep out areas
of maximum anticipated metabolic advantage.
Worms.
"
Cite RBF quoted by Reyner Banham in "The Dymaxicrat,"
Arts Magazine, Oct 163. (RBF speaking at University
College, London.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Worm:
"The other day I was complaining that
was acting
like a worm and was destroying the assets of the company,
to which Bucky aptly retorted, "Well, what do you expect
a worm to do, start building apples?"
Cite RBF quoted in letter from Cynthia Lacey to
EJA, Ltr. dated 21 Aug 1946.

Worn:
See Bird's Nest as a Tool (A)(B)
Boltzmann Sequence, (6)
Ecological Pattern, 19 Sep'64
Mind, 2 Apr'71*
Organic Model, Oct'66

RBF DEFINITIONS
Now:
"Energy 18 being given off by the local systems, then when
the gears are not meshing-- though each gear is in orderly
matter in its own right. When the gears don't mesh they're
just tangent, as they take up much more room than when they
mesh. And these are omnidirectional gears, more or less
spikes. So that when they don't mesh they take up much more
room. So the local physical world is continually more
disorderly and nonsynchronized and taking up more room and
therefore expansive. So the physical is increasingly
disorderly..
I would point out, however, that there are
times when the disynchronous systems do synchronize. Lost
of you have had the experience of hearing maybe an airplane
with two engines that are not synchronized, a boat with
two engines ab that are not synchronized, but every so often
they synchronize accidentally in a sense and so you hear it
goAAUUUU as they come into syncrhonization.
(1)
"So while the locals are giving off energies that are not
synchronising, every so often they do. Some of the WA..OU'S
are fairly high frequency. Some of the AAUU's are very slow."
Cite RBF at SIFS, U.Pass., Amherst, 22 July '171,
Talk 13, pp. 9-10

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow:
(2)
"Some of them take over hundreds of millions of years for each
WOW. And if you haven't been around long enough to come to
the next wow, you don't realize that it is orderly, that in
due course it is matching, but on a very slow frequency basis.
So because all of us have relatively very short lives, there
seems to be a great deal of disorder to us, which would
not seem disorderly to us if we had longer spans of observation.
We have very significant information coming to us from
those who are doing the largest measuring and the most minute
measuring. We do have entropy and the physical is expanding
and temporarily, locally, very disorderly. It seems very
clearly demonstrated in all our experience that the physical
assumes a complementary oscillating phenomenon often when we
have not been able to discover it. He suspects the positron
to be possibly demonstrable sometimes when he's only found
the electron. And he has this theoretical existence which
may in due course make experimental demonstrations of the
actual occurrence of that which he had held to be operational
theoretically. In this kind of assuming it would seem to be
absolutely logical that we have a physically expanding
Universe, which is getting more and more crowded, and therefore,
-
Cite SINS, 22 July 171, Talk 13, p. 10 (Cont)

RBF JEFINITIONS
Now:
(3)
"the expansion is in acceleration. That there must be some
phase of the Universe where the physical energies are
contracting and increasingly orderly. in order to sustain
a regenerative Universe, it could not just be all expansive.
There have to be collections to balance it, very much as we
think of our experiences with the weather. We have low
pressures and high pressures in the atmosphere, and the low
pressures are exhausting it by vacuumizing, pulling the
energies out of the highs until that low pressure itself forms
a high pressure. There is a great pulsative exchange of
highs and lows. An i felt that what our physical Universe
sumtotally might nave is just such a pulsating.
I'd be very
interested if we could discover some phase of the Universe.
where the energies are contracting and becoming increasingly
orderly."
-
Cite RBF at SIMS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July 171,
Talk 13, pp. 10-11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow:
"A wow is an interference phase where, for just a second,
it is not in interference."
-
Cite RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Washington DC, 21 Dec. 171.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow:
"The game of Universe is like chess.
• .
The vector
equilibrium becomes the checkerboard and you can change
the frequency to suit anybody.
. . . A Wow is an interference.
•
Wow-Wow, synchronizations
Adding to it the
complexity of mass attraction
•
"
Citation & context at Chess: Game of Universe, 7 Oct'71

REF DEFINITIONS
Wow:
The Last Wow:
•
(1)
"The energies that fit into our local system here on Earth
are energies given off by other systems. Every chemical
element has its unique frequencies, and those frequencies
can be thought of as the teeth of a gear. . In synchroni-
zation you have two engines of an airplane or boat and they
don't turn over at exactly the same rate, so you hear rhoOWW,
Frhoooww, rrhoo0ww. They come into phase and go out of
phase. Universe is doing just that with these constantly
associating and disassociating energies. Some take millions
and millions of years before they rrhoo0ww. But in any
case we can observe that these energies appear disorderly
merely because they are temporarily not meshing with
something else.
"When the gears and the teeth don't mesh, they take up more
room. You get an omnidirectional crowding, things moved
faster and faster around the periphery to accommodate the
continual expansion of crowding and disorderliness. But
the limit of that velocity is what Einstein called the
speed of light, the speed of radiation of all kinds, 186,-
000 miles-a-second. This is top speed because when you get
to where everything is in phase, all the crowding stops.'
-
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell Playboy Interview, 1972
"
Draft. p. 11

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow: The Last Wow:
"In other words, energy in disassociation expands
outwardly until it reaches the last cycle in the total
regenerative system. We know about total regeneration
because physics has demonstrated that energy is never
created nor lost. So we know that as men alive in the
Universe, we're dealing in a finite system of overlapping
scenarios in which finally the whole scenario tape gets
melted down and reprinted and we get a new show."
(2)
Cite RBF to Barry Farrell, Playboy Interview, 1972. Draft. p. 12.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Now: The Last Now:
"The speeds of all the known different phases of measured
radiation are apparently identical despite vast differences
in wavelength and frequency. Einstein's adoption of
electromagnetic radiation expansion-- omnidirectionally in
vacuo as normal speed suggests a top speed of omnidirectional
entropic disorder increase accommodation at which radiant
speed reaches highest velocity. This highest velocity is
reached when the last of the eternally regenerative Universe
cyclic frequencies of multi-billions of years have been
accommodated, all of which complex of nonsimultaneous
transforming multivarieteied frequency sychronizations is
complementarily balanced to equate as zero by the sum totality
of locally converging orderly and synchronously concentrating
energy phases of scenario Universe's eternally pulsative,
and only sum totally synchronous, disintegrative, divergent,
omnidirectionally exporting and only sum totally
synchronous, integrative, convergent and discretely
directional individual importings."
Cite HBF to EJA in response to a request to repeat his
"brief sentence" on the sphere as a meeting of convergences.
See SYNERGETICS, "Scenario Universe," Sec. 325. and
"Tension and Compression, Sec. 614.08.
19 Jul 71

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow: The Last Now:
(A)
"Finding a Universe in which energy is not being lost,
Einstein assumed a finitely regenerative physical Universe.
Some of the regenerative transformations occur rapidly;
others very slowly. As energies which were in smooth
coordination within a system are given off entropically
they do not immediately synchronise with energies given
off by other systems, due to the fact that every chemical
element has its unique frequencies. Toothed gears correspond
with wave frequency cycles. Waves are cyclic. Whatever
the number of teeth might be, we can call the wave
frequency. Two gears that do not mesh can only be brought
into tangent proximity and take up more room than do
meshing gears. Frequencies given off entropically that don't
mesh with energies given off by other systems take up more
room in Universe. Therfore we have a physically entropic
Universe that is everywhere locally taking more room, ergo
expanding, and increasingly disorderly, from the short
time-span local viewpoint. However, from time to time you
will have frequencies synchronized. You may be familiar
with the sound of an airplane's engines when they are not
synchronized. You hear them go, periodically
because every so often they do
Cite Museum Keynote Address, Denver, pp. 12-13, 2 Jun'71
WOW
-
WOW .
WOW..
.
WOW.

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow: The Last WON:
(B)
"synchronize. Amonst all the various energies being given off
locally and entropically in scenario Universe-- some of them
WOWOWWOWWOWwowwow, very fast-- and some of the periodic wows may
not occur for multi-year spans; and some of the periodic wows
don't repeat in less than 100 million years and greater spans.
The significance of Einstein's assumption of a maximum 186,000
miles per second velocity of radiation of the energies being
given off in a disorderly omnidirectional way, is thatthere is
a top speed. And while 700 million miles an hour, or 186,000
miles per second is very fast, it is very slow in comparison to
no time at all. And this 700 million miles an hour top speed of
Einstein has utter significance because it means that when we
come to the last periodic wow-- necessary to accommodate all
frequencies-- Universe doesn't have to expand any more and
relative disorder ceases.
"The significance of Einstein's radiational top speed is that
there is a point of complete regeneration by which our Universe
is the only and minimum perpetually self-regenerative system,
a self-regenerative Universe of fantastic complexities and
design of great integrity, of which then the sum-total of"
- Cite Museum Keynote Address, Denver, pp. 12-13, 2 Jun'71

RBF DEFINITIONS
-
Wow: The Last Wow:
"running through the total film takes hundreds of billions of
years before it accomplishes its remotest re-wow.
"
Cite Museaum Keynote Address, Denver, pp. 12-13, 2 Jun'71
(C)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow: The Last Wow:
"The significance of the top speed of radiation is
just waiting for the last 'wow!'"
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 April 1971

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wow: The Last Wow:
(Here
"Eddington's Proof of Irreversibility: A box of wooden
matches dumped on the table. Each one splinters the other
a little; therefore there are little hairs sticking out.
They could never be put back in the box in the same way
without pressing, i.e., without investing more energy.
operates the law of the increase of the random element. )
The cycle keeps on, time and again, from dust to atoms to
proton to neutron... This is what nature is doing: pulsating
.. highs and low pressures... maximal dispersal, and then
reassociation, because of regeneration: 100 million years
later they'll all be back in the box again... at the last Wow!"
-
Cite RBF to EJA, Somerset Club, Boston, 22 Apr '71
UNIVERSE, SEC 342
SYNERGETICS

WOW:
The Last Wow: Re-wow:
See Asymmetry
Black Hole
Comet: Around Comes the Comet Again
Cycle: If You Wait Long Enough the Cycles All
Reoccur
Expanding Universe
Meshing
Meshing & Nonmeshing
Negative Universe
Oscillation
Synchronization
(1)

Wow: The Last Wow: Re-wow:
See Chess:
Game of Universe, 7 Oct'71*
Computer (a)(G)
Degrees of Freedom, 13 Dec'73
Entropy, 16 May'72
Self-regenerative, 2 Jun' 71
(2)

Wrapability:
See Omnidirectional Typewriter
Pattern Strip Aggregate Wrapabilities
Unwrap
Tetrascroll
Winding & Unwinding
Unbandage the Sphere

RBF DEFINITIONS
Frank Lloyd Wright:
His
"The last time I visited Frank, he introduced me to his
fellows, saying, 'I am an architect interested in science.
Buckminster is a scientist interested in architecture,'
name will be known through the centuries for reasons that
are entirely mystical, because he understood, as does every
great scientist, that the more we learn the more we realize
how little we know. He saw science supplying things for art
to work with. He was the last of that era of great composers.
I was the instrument man."
- Cite RBF to Bill Marlin, Saturday Review;" 4 Oct 75

F.L. WRIGHT QUOTATION
Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright on R. Buckminster Fuller:
"Buckminster Fuller-- you are the most sensible man in New
York, truly sensitive. Nature gave you antennae, long-
range finders you have learned to use. I find almost all
your prognosticating nearly right-- much of it dead right,
and I love you for the way you prognosticate. To address
you directly will be a hell of a way ofreviewing your book--
I know. I should write all around you, take you apart, and
put you together again to show-- between the lines-- how much
bigger my own mind is than yours and how much smarter than
you I can be with it and leave the essence of your thoughts
untouched.
"But I couldn't do it if I would and I wouldn't do it if I
could. To say that you have now a good style of your own
in saying very important things is only admitting something
unexpected. To say you are the most sensible man in New York
isn't saying much for you-- in that pack of caged fools.
And everybody who knows you knows you are extraordinarily
Faithfully, your admirer and friend, more
power to you-- you valuable 'unit.""
-
sensitive.
.
Cite Frank Llled Wright, Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin,
8 Aug. 138. from a review of NINE CHAINS in Sat. Review of
Lit., 17 Sep. 138; also frontispiece in R.W. Marks RBF Book.

right, Frank Lloyd:
See Artist, 24 Jan'72
Artist: Histrionics, (1)
McLuhan, Marshall, (1)

RBF DEFINITIONS
Wright Brothers:
"It is possible for us now to take the design initiative,
not waiting for patrons to tell us to go to work and thereby
freeing ourselves for the scientific designing of a successful
livingry system for man in Universe. There are no
patrons with free capital initiative who are concerned
exclusively with world problems. However, there was nothing
fundamental to stop the Wright Brothers from considering the
use of all the sky surrounding the Earth and all the
technical knowledge accrued to mankind and all the developed
resources of the Earth in their invention and development of
the airplane. Their province was inherently transcendental
to sovereign nations and political theories. Their
victory affected all men everywhere. Within ten short years
the two Wright brothers did more for mankind-- by bringing
men to their collective senses, and by bringing men together
around the world to witness one another's ways of life, and
one another's individual integrity, thereby to understand
each other-- than all the politicians have been able to do
in all the milleniums of history."
Cite MEXICO 163, pp.15-16, 10 Oct '63

Wright Brothers Airplane:
See Invention, May'70
Periodic Experience, (6)(7)

Wrist:
See Axis: Finger-wrist Axis

RBF DEFINITIONS
Writing:
"I work on different books at the same time-- like a painter."
-
Citation & context at Naga to Eden, 17 Oct '74

RBF DEFINITIONS
Writing:
"Once you get into writing you find suddenly that you're
tapping a much larger audience and that they really will
support it."
Cite RBF address at MXC, Dubuque, IA, 15 Dec. 171, p. 14

-20
Writing:
See Author
Book
Fuller, R.B: His Writing Style
Fuller, R.B: Writing Synergetics
Publishing
(1)

Writing:
See Naga to Eden, 17 Oct'74*
Pole Vaulter, 2 Jul'75
Communications Hierarchy, (2)
Fuller, H.B: The Thinking Me, a8 Dec' 76
(2)

Wrong Door:
See Science Opened the Wrong Door

Wrong:
See Doing Right Things for Wrong Reasons