¶ Tetrahedron
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Tetrahedron:
“At all times we are seeking how it can be that nature can develop a virus and billions of beautiful bubbles in the wake of the ship. How does she formulate these lowvely geometries so rapidly. She must have some fundamental pure simple way of developing these extraordinary life cells at the rate she develops them. When we get down to something as simple as finding the tetrahedron was the minimum thinkable set that subdivided the Universe, and had relatedness that we could really establish-- and to find that the organic chemist from an entirely different viewpoint came down to tetrahedron as apparently controlling-- the tetrahedron in this case would join vertex to vertex-- and then the metallurgist half a century later discovering the tetrahedron, but they were not interrelated vertex to vertex but they were interlinked edge to edge. So all the chemists found all the structuring of nature to be tetrahedrally contrived, the minimum system, and we find our thought going that way and it is again a comfortable experience.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #3, pp.90-91, 5 Jul’62
