¶ Bubbles (2)
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Bubbles:
". . . Living phenomena are characterized by life cells and all life cells are little chambers. Life cells and bubbles have the same fundamental characteristic. A glass jar with a little glycerin in with some soap well homogenized makes bubbles which hold their shape very nicely. The top layer of bubbles when there is air above them are round but where the bubbles are adjacent to one another and there is no free space or air around them, they will have flat membranes between the individual bubbles. The top layer tends to round like bubbles do but in between them their facets are stretched tensional membranes. A characteristic of all the bubbles and all the life cells is that while they are quite asymmetrical chambers, some facets are big and some are small and some are hexagons and strange polygons, they are all fourteen faceted. The fourteen faces correspond to the tetra-kai-deca-hedron or to the vector equilibrium. The vector equilibrium has six square faces and eight triangular faces, so 8 + 6 = 14. A tetra-kai-deca hedron has four vertexes, four faces, and six edges, and 4 + 4 + 6 = 14. . . . they correspond to the fourteen facets
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #6, pp.224-225, 10 Jul’62
