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Tensegrity:
“Then I had also one day gone into the faithfulness of our experience where I said you could not have two actions going through the same point at the same time and we had come to the discovery of the tensegrity structures which had not been the kind of structures that men had tended to think of in the early days. We saw that they had come to a concept of a solid Earth, a solid brick and brick on brick as apriori-- an d from time to time they might help hold things together by throwing in a little tension, maybe bind the things together in tension as a barrel is a tensional thing and they put some hoops around it to hold it together, but primarily you start with the compressional interrelationship, compressional mass helped by the staves in tension-- tension is secondary. Then we found when we tried to differentiate tension and compression in thinking of structures in Universe that apparently the macrocosm and microcosm were something that you might call tensionally cohered. They were at least discontinuous compression. The compression members did not touch one another and the Earth did not ball-bearing around on Mars and this was true in the nucleus. We came to a really different kind of a structure in which the tensegrity principles seemed to coincide with the structuring of Universe–”
