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Vector Equilibrium: Zero Tetrahedron:
"the opposite vertex. There is now no volume, but we have agreed that the conditions of symmetry in the tetrahedron, the sixness and fourness, are all still there, but they are empty.
"Now with this plane congruent with the opposite vertex we have a very interesting condition. We have all four planes of the tetrahedron going through the same point at the same time-- or, theoretically, as close as you can ever get. You have six edges going through the same point at the same time. We have agreed that this is a condition that can never happen in reality, but in the vector equilibrium-- where it has no size-- we have the only possible time when this would seem to occur.
“So we now have all six edges and a total inventory of four faces and six edges all going through the same theoretical point at the same moment. We have said that this is a vector equilibrium and in a zero condition and is nonreality. Nature would not permit it. But a minute after that, those six edges turbine around the point one way or another-- and you see plenty of models of the lines turbining around-- but we will have to say that there had to be a moment theoretically when this plane”
