¶ Intuition Sequence (2)
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Intuition Sequence:
"I’m really involved in very tight mathematics. I will point out to you that in my structures there is discontinuous compression and continuous tension: that’s exactly what pneumatics are. But pneumatics has compressibility and I got into noncompressibles such as you have in the liquids and the hydraulics. What I was in effect find I could do was a kind of hollowing out. At any rate, I had a very discrete mathematics about how the loads were distributed. They could be more vectorially fundamental. Synergetic geometry is vectorial geometry. That’s exactly how forces are translated and to what magnitudes.
"And I always must do it nonredundantly. Plurality: there must be always two discrete configurations. When you get to two you have wanderability (vulnerability ?); when you have three you are absolutely fixed.
“So, talking about intuition in the first place, I certainly start off by a priori recognition of the utter mystery of our Universe. While we know how gravity behaves, we haven’t the slightest idea of what gravity is. This has extraordinary mathematical reliability. The whole integrity of Universe is”
