¶ Gravity (1)
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"inwardly, i.e. radially, attracting each of them. In this configuration they form the vector equilibrium, known to Plato as the cuboctahedron. Here we have clarification of the Copernican ‘nostalgia’ or synergetic proclivity of the circumferentially arrayed spheres to associate symmetrically around the nucleus sphere or the nucleus void which, as either configuration-- the vector equilibrium or the icosahedron–rotates dynamically producing a spherical surface. But the modus operandi of four symmetrically intertriangulated gravitational hoops (in the case of the vector equilibrium) and the six (in the icosahedron) are lucidly manifest. If we took out the central ball, or if it shrinks in diameter, we will discover synergetics’ jitterbug model showing that the twelve circumferential spheres will closest pack circumferentially until each of the twelve circumferentially arrayed balls is tangent to five surrounding balls and thus altogether form the Platonic icosahedron.
“Cyril agreed with me that the hammer men probably didn’t think about these properties of atoms. The fact is that the spheres don’t actually touch each other. They are held together only mass-interattractively and their electron paths are, of course, at distances from their atomic nuclei equivalent relatively to”
