• Man is the empowering intellect. Man is designing energy into non-random systems and therefore he is anti-entropic. • Employing anti-entropy in larger sweep-outs. • Students and faculty falling in love with something. • All humanity's built-ins are recognized as creating designs only inadvertently. • We need a cogent inventory and experiments to prove the validity. Bring your whistles. Ring bells when you fool yourself. The Disciplining of the Artist is better than Science Be a creative individual ▪ Man is designed to be limited. ▪ Every individual sees differently through the lens of interest and experience. ▪ All atoms plus infinity therefore equal zero. ▪ The Universe is purely intellectual. ▪ The fundamental complimentarity is that there is no unity (union implication). ▪ Basically they are two congruent balls or spheres with no differences. ▪ There is no reasoning from simple to complex. ▪ The 92 elements are the generalized prime schema (from the magazine Maincurrents Science). ▪ Character comes from cross breeding not from inbreeding. There is a heterogeneous or synergetic gain from bringing unlikes together. ▪ On a stringed instrument a half gives an octave while a third gives a fifth. We do no create, we discover.

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Bucky at the greenboard demonstrating how to multiply by “casting out nines.” Nine is equal to three 3s which is the number of sides in a triangle . . .

We need to find ways to help men reorient themselves We need to show what is going on in universe. Like Casting out nines. Casting out nines concluded our lecture with Bucky. The rest of our time with Bucky was spent experimenting with closest packing of tetrahedrons and octahedrons (using models folded from IBM cards or marbles) and designing and building a 150-foot diameter “kissing” tensegrity dome out of bamboo. The Viet Nam war was just getting started in 1965; Bucky thought domes might be a “solution.” Closest Packing How do marbles arrange themselves under different conditions? In triangles or squares? How would unit tetrahedrons arrange themselves? How about if we add some unit octahedrons? What happens when we have octahedrons and tetrahedrons in a 1 to 4 ratio? What if the container was round, square, or a triangle? Dished or flat?

Marbles tending toward closest packing on a cookie sheet