¶ Tetrahedroning
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Tetrahedroning:
“If we are tetrahedroning, we discover that a cube has the volume of three. If you were doing your accounting in cubes you were simply wasting two-thirds of your space. Remembering that the physicist discovered that nature was always most economical, we see that nature would not traffic in doing things with cubes if she could do it with tetrahedra. And she has. This is not unrelated to what Linus Pauling found for the inorganic chemistry and to what Van’t Hoff found for the organic chemistry. We suddenly find that all structuring by nature is done tetrahedrally. It comes out in these beautiful even numbers and why when we were trying to explain things in the XYZ coordinate system we were always coming out with transcendental irrationals.”
¶ Citations
- OREGON Lecture #6, p. 218, 10 Jul '62
