¶ Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom
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Six Motion Freedoms & Degrees of Freedom:
"You always get six edges. They can be at all kinds of angles so that’s where the degrees of freedom are. We find in topology that all somethings have vertexes, faces, and edges, but the numbers of the edges in Universe is evenly divisible by six. These are the six degrees of freedom and they can be positive or negative and they are always there. They are not on a plane; they are omnidirectional.
"The six motion freedoms are complex consequences of the six degrees of freedom. If you want to get an instrument held in position, it takes six restraints. If I have just five restraints, then the tetrahedron will change shape. Shape requires six restraints. Six restraints are what give structure.
“A minimum system is a tetrahedron; a minimum structure has six restraints, so anything that holds its shape has a minimum of six restraints so that the system itself can spin or the system itself can orbit. The system itself can inside out. There are systems behaviors and the six degrees of freedom are internal to it.”
