¶ Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom (3)
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"you finally get to a something. You can’t get to something less than four corners. It may be kind of flat and look like a flat triangle but it has really an altitude and you find that the minimum is four corners and six edges and four faces. You cannot get a rock with less than three faces around a corner. If it looks flat, it is just so many faces.
"The tetrahedron is fourfold symmetry: four minimum absolute faces. A cube has only three. The minimum something has four faces of symmetry, four vertexes of symmetry. Now that is then the minimum something, degrees of freedom. I cannot have something less than four corners and I cannot have a face of less than three edges so that the minimum something has six edges altogether. Any one face has three edges so these six edges are vectors in that structure and they really are the defining set of events and with every turn to play in Universe we always get six moves so the minimum something is a minimum play.
¶ Citations
- transcript p. 15, RBF taped interview with Dr. Michael Bruwer, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Chicago; 20 Feb’77
