¶ Foldability of Great Circles: Spherical Vector Equilibrium
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Foldability of Great Circles: Spherical Vector Equilibrium:
“Here I am taking a great circle and folding it on its 60-degree angle, and we fold down, up,up, and down, up, up, and it comes together and makes this bow tie. You bring these corners together and join those edges. And you take four sets of these and they make the vector equilibrium. So, the fewest great circles can be folded up and made into bow ties and reassociated and then, even though you made them into a local bow tie, it seems to re-establish to all the great circles. You can play the game either by going around this way or by going around in a local figure eight. Either one is legitimate. These are very typical characteristics of fundamental wave phenomena.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #7, p. 269, 11 JUL '62
