... Me some more: For example, I think the thesis could be advanced, and probably has been, that militarism often arises when a culture is perceived/felt to be...
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R.Leo Gillis
leog9037@...
Aug 1, 2000 6:07 pm
Greetings; I'm a newbie to the group, but a 20 year fan of Fuller. I've got all his published works and read them several times. I have a degree in philosophy...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 2, 2000 2:47 am
Not sure what it all means but David Chako is our resident mathmatician. Kirby is also pretty good. And Tom Ace is also a mathmatician of good quality i...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Aug 2, 2000 3:56 pm
... I don't claim to be a mathematician (some memo to that effect posted to Synergetics-L at some point, now buried in the archives). I could see using your...
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R.Leo Gillis
leog9037@...
Aug 2, 2000 4:55 pm
... It's true that I worked backwards, very astute of you to see that. Actually I began with the octahedron because one can draw a unicursal, 12 segmented...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 2, 2000 7:09 pm
First i want to correct errors in my previous post. The sum of V, E, F and Angles for cube and octahedron seperately, is 50 not 44. Heaxagonally 39 falls on...
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philip szeto
flexsz@...
Aug 4, 2000 12:37 am
... Dear Learned e-Group (not "groupies"): There is nothing specifically wrong with these in an electronic sensibility! But, keeping an eye on the ball, one...
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SpaceshipEarth@...
Aug 7, 2000 10:55 am
Can anyone comment on the following quotes from Cosmography. The question I'm looking at is, can Synergetic modeling (and other forms of modeling such as the...
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John Mac Cosham
dharmraj@...
Aug 7, 2000 1:23 pm
I don't qualify as more informed opinion. However, my opinion is that Synergetics does offer the possibility of arm chair physics. And if we were to scale the...
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William Olson
abolson@...
Aug 7, 2000 6:44 pm
I have been studying tessellations of the light cone using spacelike intervals in the shape of tetrahedrons. The fact that tetrahedrons tessellate the light...
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David Chako
dchako@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:11 pm
Wow! William, I am greatly intrigued! You seem to have discovered something here, and I am excited to hear more. Welcome to our humble list. We may have some...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:29 pm
What does a tesselating tetrahedron look like? Do you have a web site with some pictures? Ry-bone...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:29 pm
Yes, we (humanity) have not identified any Synergetic geometry with known or implied atomic or sub-atomic particles. Many hope there is connection to be...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 7, 2000 7:29 pm
Yes, who will be the the discoverer of the first Syn.-particle and the accompaning missing links. A scientist? An artist, matmatician, a chemist or a physicist...
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William Olson
abolson@...
Aug 7, 2000 10:49 pm
My web page is at www.pimeson.com and includes pictures of stick models of the particles and the lattice as well as a paper describing the lattice of...
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William Olson
abolson@...
Aug 7, 2000 10:56 pm
... site ... My web site is at www.pimeson.com and it does include pictures of the tetrahedrons as well as a paper describing the lattice or tessellation of...
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philip szeto
flexsz@...
Aug 8, 2000 12:07 am
... Dear William and David: Before we kill one another with grief. Whereas, nobody ever seeing a tetrahedron, because we are prefabing our senses from it; just...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 8, 2000 3:21 am
Lots of hard work there William. i hope you connect with Tell Anderson who was very active in Kirbys Syn list. He also has some indepth work into particles and...
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philip szeto
flexsz@...
Aug 9, 2000 8:24 am
Dear Rybo: I've read very much of your stuff. Other than using too much machine language, you're extremely intelligent with very High I.Q. So, keeping that in...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 9, 2000 3:26 pm
Yay for William Olson and his conical space-tets. i could not open your wire frames with netscape but was able to with explorer. My first thoughts were of...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 10, 2000 4:05 am
Those of you who have visited my 2ndary symbolism web page (or Bucky afficinados) are familiar with 3 opposing edges/events of a tetrahedron. Bucky refers to...
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John Brawley
jbrawley@...
Aug 10, 2000 2:33 pm
... of ... course the ... Universe. (*grin*) That's what you get when taking something as-yet unconnected to physical reality without the requisite grain...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 10, 2000 5:28 pm
Hey John, good to hear from you. Yes, i agree with you. The most gemeralized, yet simplistic, 15 to 1 percentage is a long shot for the male-female...
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philip szeto
flexsz@...
Aug 11, 2000 12:20 am
... i die I never really ascertain your specific logic of machines, excepting it's interesting when machine languages mesh. And, before Chair of the Board...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Aug 12, 2000 3:49 pm
Re: web art strategy: Fuller had a thing for artists, as borderline comprehensivists, in many cases "above the line" (high water mark) of overspecialism. In...
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John Brawley
jbrawley@...
Aug 12, 2000 5:33 pm
... (quantized). ... quantizised ... It is my belief that gravity ought to be thought of as _shape_, not "energy." It can have "energy" distributed through its...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Aug 12, 2000 6:45 pm
John Brawley wrote: ....Been reading, not posting. Nice to see your text. thanks ... Yes, this is Einsteins curved space. ... Physical Universe has no vacum....
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Aug 12, 2000 7:22 pm
... Why are these the only constraints? For the longest time, crystallographers assumed only repeatable lattices, arrangements which self-juxtapose through...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Aug 12, 2000 7:32 pm
... In the case of synergetics, "gravity" is deliberately used on various levels. At one level, it's the tendency of phenomena to follow rules, or, put another...
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SpaceshipEarth@...
Aug 12, 2000 10:55 pm
Oh Kirby! What happened to you? Fuller was way ahead of his time, and he was far from always being right. Take a look at the predictions he made in his 1938...
