Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of ThinkingSynergetics, according to E. J. Applewhite, was Fuller's name for the geometry he advanced based on the patterns of energy that he saw in nature. For Fuller, geometry was a laboratory science with the touch and feel of physical models--not rules out of a textbook. It gains its validity not from classic abstractions but from the results of individual physical experience. Description by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, courtesy of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller |
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... ergo , six 60 - degree chords equal one frequency cycle ; ergo , one quantum . Closest packed circles or spheres do not occupy all area or space , but six - triangled , nucleated hexagons do constitute the shortest route cyclic ...
... ergo , six 60 - degree chords equal one frequency cycle ; ergo , one quantum . Closest packed circles or spheres do not occupy all area or space , but six - triangled , nucleated hexagons do constitute the shortest route cyclic ...
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... ergo , employing the absolute straight- nothingness , radial line of direction , which , as such , is inherently invisible . 541.04 Radiation is pushive , ergo tends to increase in curvature . Gravity is tensive , ergo tends to decrease ...
... ergo , employing the absolute straight- nothingness , radial line of direction , which , as such , is inherently invisible . 541.04 Radiation is pushive , ergo tends to increase in curvature . Gravity is tensive , ergo tends to decrease ...
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... ergo , the length of each of the cube's edges is 1.414214 . The V2 happens to be one of those extraordinary relationships of Universe discovered by mathematics . The relationship is : the number one is to the second root of two as the ...
... ergo , the length of each of the cube's edges is 1.414214 . The V2 happens to be one of those extraordinary relationships of Universe discovered by mathematics . The relationship is : the number one is to the second root of two as the ...
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