¶ Complementarity
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Complementarity:
"Only in the mid-twentieth century did it become scientifically clear that unity is plural-- and, at minimum, two-- that all experimentally detectable phenomena have their unique opposites, and that the complementary opposite behaviors are never mirror images of one another.
“Science is remiss and unnecessarily prejudicial in calling one of a pair of complementary behaviors “negative.” There are always much better descriptive terms. In structural systems’ phenomena we have “compression” and “tension.” As we tense a rope it tautens-- that is, its girth contracts. This means that the rope is also compressing in a plane at 90 degrees to its tensed axis. But tension and compression always and only coexist, as do all the fundamental complementarities such as concave and convex, or associative and disassociative, proton and neutron, male and female.”
¶ Citations
- GODDESSES, Sat. Review, 2 Mar 68
