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What started as a "hollow graphite balloon" in 1966, progressed to a ball of paper and tape in
1985, had heralded the development of three-dimensional fullerene chemistry (and biochemistry)
and associated cluster/microcluster research by 1990. Its basis: The C60 "buckyball", named for R.
Buckminster Fuller, developer of architecture's 'geodesic' dome. Richard Smalley and Robert Curl
of Rice University, and Harry Kroto of the University of Sussex in England,
have shared the credit for the discovery, but it was very much a collaboration.
First noted in common 'soot', and now speculated to be part of the cosmic molecular streamers stretching to the centre of the galaxy, C60 was only produced mechanically in 1990 by laser-vaporizing graphite in a pulsed jet of helium. Recent research has focused upon creating sufficient quantities to allow its many theoretical uses to be explored. The molecule is edgeless, chargeless and unbound, spinning freely. Inert and stable, in crystal form as soft as graphite, but compressed to less than 70% of its volume, C60 becomes harder than diamond. Capable of 'caging' very reactive elements to make them manageable, it possesses a unique affmity for the development of exohedral and endohedral complexes. |
1043.02 This sixness phenomenon tantalizingly suggests its being the same transformative sixness as that which is manifest in the cosmically constant sixfoldedness of vectors of all the topological accountings; and in the sixness of equieconomical alternative degrees of freedom inherent in every event; as well as in the minimum of six unique interrelationships always extant between the minimum of four "star events" requisite to the definitive differentiation of a conceptual and thinkable system from out of the nonunitarily conceptual but inherently finite Universe, because of the latter's being the aggregate of locally finite, conceptually differentiable, minimum-system events. B. F. Fuller |
Nearby, "copper vats" for storage were constructed, so that the energy was always
available. According to Ruth's guides, the secret of the Great Crystal was in its carbon
structure, which by an unrevealed process was "sufficiently powerful enough to raise
the level of energy ten thousand times greater than of any known instrument today". Secrets from Atlantis |
What is the Glass Bead Game?
Hesse, speaks of a Game of Thoughts
"I hear music and see men of the past and future. His personal experience defines the unio mystica of all the separate members of the Universitas Litterarum that he bodied out symbolically in the form of an elaborate Game performed according to the strictest rules and with supreme virtuosity by the mandarins of the spiritual province, Castalia. GALACTIC COORDINATES for the and Spiritual Province of Castalia = O M Y N Y X
that which gives a jewel its fire
reflectivity geometry omni
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721.01 Stability requires six struts, each of which is a combinedly push-pull structural member. It is a synergetic characteristic of minimum structural systems that the system is not stable until the introduction of the last structural component essential to completion of minimum omnisymmetric array. B. F. Fuller |
What is the source of this transcendence? For Teilhard, it is "thought" or "reflection." He describes it
as "the power acquired by a consciousness to turn it upon itself, to take possession of itself as of an
object endowed with its own particular consistence and value: no longer merely to know, but to
know oneself; no longer merely to know but to know that one knows."
Today we find research students are numbered in the hundreds of thousands-soon to be millions-and they are no longer distributed superficially and at random over the globe, but are functionally linked together in a vast organic system that will remain in the future indispensable to the life of the community." You cannot but think of today's "Internet," yet this was written so long ago.
But what of the ultimate future, if any. Teilhard says there are no guarantees, "synthesis implies risk."
"Life is less certain than death." However, if evolution does in fact reach a final stage it will be "the
self-subsistent centre and absolutely final principle of irreversibility and personalisation: the one and
only true Omega." Teilhard's hope for the future of the noosphere is found in what he called the
"Omega Point," perhaps the most controversial aspect of his thought.
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