... My own thinking revolves around spark a renaissance of sorts in K-12 math ed, and I'm looking at synergetics as one of a few sources of new ideas that...
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Jim Lehman
bcat@...
Apr 1, 2000 7:14 pm
Do I have the complete set of quanta modules listed here: A, B, C, D, E,...S, T. Why did Fuller break the ABCDE set and jump to S,T? Jim Lehman...
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Jim Lehman
bcat@...
Apr 1, 2000 7:26 pm
How does mirror reflection relate to Fuller's "A" module (+) and the A module (-)? Does mirror refection symmetry play a role with these plus and minus quanta...
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Kirby Urner
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Apr 2, 2000 4:29 am
... A and B are important. But B is a transformation of A, taking the opposite edge (perpendicular) and sliding it further up the flag pole. The only place C...
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Kirby Urner
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Apr 2, 2000 4:51 am
... The A and B both turn inside-out, giving mirror images of "left" and "right" handed versions of one-another. As Fuller points out, a left-handed glove...
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Jim Lehman
bcat@...
Apr 2, 2000 7:52 pm
My questionable math skills are showing. I could use an assist in determining edge lengths for the diagram: Fig.988.13A for the S module lengths. I'm using a...
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Jim Lehman
bcat@...
Apr 2, 2000 8:13 pm
RE: diagram: Fig.986.411A, T and E Quanta Modules: Edge Lengths. I would appreciate a confirmation on my edge lengths. Note that h = .809 based on this...
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Jim Lehman
bcat@...
Apr 2, 2000 11:10 pm
Thanks Kirby for providing such an extensive background on the modules. You mention Koski's phi scaled versions. Do you know if there are any images of these...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 3, 2000 3:40 am
Re: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/symbol/Hofstadter-event.html I'd probably rephrase the title of this talk, changing from: WILL SPIRITUAL ROBOTS REPLACE...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 3, 2000 8:15 am
... Don't think I can do much beyond point you to the usual web pages. Remember that the T-mod and E-mod have the same shape, just differ in relative size...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 3, 2000 8:34 am
PS: I revisited my post of Oct 1 1998 to geometry-research re the differences between Williams and Fuller with respect to A and B mods. In that post, I...
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Tom Ace
crux@...
Apr 3, 2000 4:20 pm
David Chako had discussed the configuration of vectors obtained by adding two icosarays. I looked into the analogous question for the 12-rays (dodecarays)...
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Tom Ace
crux@...
Apr 3, 2000 4:30 pm
Consider twelve unit vectors defined by the edges of a regular tetrahedron (each edge generating two opposite vectors). If considered as radiating outward from...
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Kirby Urner
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Apr 3, 2000 4:54 pm
... I think it a truism that whatever discourse is the most incomprehensible and plastic -- while at the same time about the eternal design (e.g. quantum...
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Kirby Urner
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Apr 3, 2000 6:50 pm
... Not seeing this yet. Are you saying a "regular tetrahedron" or some other kind? One way I've learned to think is that any "hop" in the IVM may be mapped...
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Tom Ace
crux@...
Apr 3, 2000 7:14 pm
... A regular tetrahedron. (Assuming you start with the usual uniform, symmetric, rhombic dodecahedron.) A rhombic dodecahedron has 24 edges, in 4 sets of 6...
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Tom Ace
crux@...
Apr 3, 2000 7:42 pm
I really screwed up what I said about the rhombic dodecahedron. Its edges don't point to the vertices of a regular tetrahedon. First of all, its edges define...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 3, 2000 7:46 pm
... They are -- some of them. The rh dodeca has two surface angles, a wide and a narrow. The wide angle is 109.47 or acos(-1/3). Rh dodecas pack to fill...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 3, 2000 7:49 pm
Gerald de Jong is lecturing at UCLA right now. Bonnie says Allegra Fuller Snyder is in the audience. The lecture is being broadcast in real time via...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Apr 3, 2000 9:50 pm
Tom Ace wrote: They are the vectors through the midpoints ... the icosadodecahedron looks remarkably like the polyvertexion created by the six great...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Apr 3, 2000 10:49 pm
... Didnt Fuller say we are just comning out of our phase of "permitted ignorance". Global (85-100%) consciousness of specific issues is becoming more ...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 3, 2000 11:12 pm
... I really don't think we can keep putting it off. Either we have enough global awareness now, or we don't. ... Depends what you mean by "dissolve";. The...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Apr 3, 2000 11:54 pm
... Do you not think that {many} of Buckys statement implied a 'one world government' a.k.a. integrated world (there is only one) tho he may not have used...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Apr 4, 2000 12:12 am
... It was not my intention to imply that everyone need not do there part. Tho all of us at some time need help. I was stating that in a bleak world (even if...
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Tom Ace
crux@...
Apr 4, 2000 12:21 am
When I saw RBF speak on February 9, 1978, he said that by his calculations our goose was cooked if sovereignty wasn't gone within 8 years. (I made a note of...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 4, 2000 2:06 am
... Maybe that's why he declared the U.S.A. we have known to be bankrupt and extinct in a book published in 1983. Kirby...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 4, 2000 2:12 am
... Yes, but semantics is important. To say an integrated world needs a 'steering function' I'd agree with. The greek root of steer is 'cyber'. I'd say...
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rybo6
rybo6@...
Apr 4, 2000 3:06 am
... Please clarify this for me. rybo...
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Kirby Urner
pdx4d@...
Apr 4, 2000 3:34 am
... Washington DC has a lot of Greco-Roman architecture and its abstractions having to do with a "steering function" (government) are very Greco-Roman in...
