¶ Bubbles (1)
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Here is a structure that is a three-frequency of modular subdivision, they are six-frequency octahedra. We truncate its corners and we get six little squares and we get eight hexagons, and that is called the tetrakaidecahedron, a fourteen-faceted figure, and it is called Lord Kelvin’s ‘solid.’ Lord Kelvin discovered that this was an all-space filler. There are three (regular) all-space fillers in geometry: the cube, the rhombic dodecahedron, and the tetrakaidecahedron. The volume of the tetrakaidecahedron is 96. It again is a nice even number, but it is a very complex frequency phenomenon. There are various coincidences of our geometry, our mathematical accounting, with that of the viruses and the algae and the radiolaria-- but then we get into all the living phenomena and all the living phenomena are characterized by life cells. And all life cells are little chambers. Life cells and bubbles have the same fundamental characteristic with one another. If you take a glass jar and put a little glycerin in with some soap and get them all homogenized…
