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"When you are swimming you dive from one end of the tank–gives you a little acceleration into the tank, when you get to the end, you can put your feet up and double your body up and so forth and shove off from the tank, and if two swimmers could meet in the middle of the tank and double their bodies up like that and put the soles of their feet together and thrust and go in opposite directions, I saw that the molecules that are in motion… and every action has its reaction… there has to be some reaction set, so each molecule which is caroming around, circularly hitting glancing blows and then making a chord, then another glancing blow, had to have one it shoved off from. Each one would have to be balanced, so a balanced pair… all the forces are caroming around… each one will represent one of the chords, the compression chords, which the two ends pressing outwardly glancing blows against the tension skin, which are trying to pull inwardly and they are pulling outwardly. So there’s a net arrow outwardly in the middle of the chord against the net of arrows pointing inwardly. So… I saw this represents what the gases are doing and you could make discontinuous compression/continuous tension geodesic structures in this way. So all this came
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¶ Citations
- RBF Interview by Hans Meyer, Domebook, II, p. 90. Deec’70
