¶ Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model
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Octahedron as Photosynthesis Model:
"The precessional effect operates on the octahedron’s 12 vectors, and one of them precesses. I want you to think of the six vertexes. You’ve got four on the top like a pyramid–a regular Egyptian pyramid–and a reflecting pyramid at the bottom. So there are four vectors at the north pole; four at the south; and four around the equator. The embracing effect is to make one of the four equatorial vectors precess; it lets go from the two adjacent points in the equator and rotates 90 degrees to join the north pole to the south pole.
"We still have exactly the same six vertexes; we simply connected the poles instead of the adjacent equator points. You will find that what this does is to turn this form into an arc where you have three tetrahedra face-bonded. We go from an octahedron of volume four to three tetrahedra face-bonded: six vertexes, eight faces, 12 edges. There is no way topologically that you can tell that anything has happened. But you have dropped out one tetrahedron, or one unit of quantum.
“This explains why Boltzmann saw the Universe with all the stars giving off energy entropically. He said the energy must be being collected elsewhere. Einstein went along with it.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to Hugh Kenner, Phila. PA., transcript p.7; 8 Jun’75
