¶ Tensegrity
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"If the frequency is high enough the size of the interstices of the tensegrity net may become so relatively small as to arrest the passage of any phenomena larger than the holes. If frequency is high enough, neither water nor air molecules can pass through. They may be made to keep out the weather complex while admitting radar’s microwaves and light, etc. If we ‘up’ the frequency sufficiently we will decrease the residual compressional islands to the microcosmic magnitude of atoms, which only serves to disclose that the atoms and their nuclei are themselves geodesic tensegrity structures, ergo compatible with this ultimate frequency limit-- a fact that is now swiftly looming into the nuclear physicist’s ken.
“We now comprehend that the tensegrity geodesic structuring provides the first true and visualizable model of pneumatic structures in which the relative thickness of the enclosing films, in proportion to diameter, rapidly decreases with the increasing size of the balloons.”
TENSEGRITY- SECS. 655.20 (Gray)-21-22
¶ Citations
- “Tensegrity,” PORTFOLIO + ART NEWS, p. 124, Dec. '61
