Gears
Index Entry
Gears:
"Frequencies in waves may be thought of very realistically in the terms of cycles, and you can think then, for instance, of a gear, a mechanical gear which has teeth; they represent waves when they come back to the cycle. And in designing the wave phenomena of the Universe, when the Universe has a lot of energy to invest she doesn't do it as often. With a finite amount of physical energy she does big things very infrequently, and little things very frequently. It's exactly like a gear where you have a few big teeth and many little teeth for the same amount of circumference, the same amount of metal."
Citations
- RBF at SIIS, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71, Talk 13, p. 9.
