¶ Vector Equilibrium: Polarization (1)
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Vector Equilibrium: Polarization:
"…There are two ways you can play this game, because time and again you find that in nesting work… we are, for instance, taking six which would be in this position and you only nest three on it: so we use this nest: this nest: and this nest. We leave untouched, thos nests. They are in closest packing, we find, always alternate spaces that are not being used, so that triangular groups can be rotated into one position-- or 60 degrees to an alternate nestable place.
We get vector equilibrium in this condition; but in the other condition I have it rotating 60 degrees, and instead of being a vector equilibrium, we simply have in effect a polarized system. These are equilibriums going on in all directions and this goes into a polarized condition. Apparently all the organic chemistry is predicated on this polarized condition.
“We find that you can take two halves of the vector equilibrium made out of balls and take one half off it as vector equilibrium, rotate it 60 degrees and bring them together again and instead of having the condition you have in the vector equilibrium of alternate faces being squares and triangles in array around it,”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #7, pp.234-235, 11 Jul’62
