463.00 Diagonal of Cube as Wave-Propagation Model
463.01 There are no straight lines, only waves resembling them. In the diagram, any zigzag path from 4 to
463.02 As the triangle rotates in the cube, it goes from being congruent with the positive tetrahedron to being congruent with the negative tetrahedron. It is an oscillating system in which, as the triangles rotate, their corners describe arcs (see Sec. 464.02) which convert the cube’s 12 edges from quasi-straight lines to 12 arcs which altogether produce a dynamically described sphere (a spherical cube) which makes each cube to appear to be swelling locally. But there is a pulsation arc-motion lag in it exactly like our dropping a stone in the water and getting a planar pattern for a wave (see Sec. 505.30), but in this model we get an omnidirectional wave pulsation. This is the first time man has been able to have a conceptual picture of a local electromagnetic wave disturbance.
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Fig. 462.00 The triangle formed by connecting diagonals of three adjacent faces of the cube is the face of the tetrahedron within the cube. If the triangle is rotated so that its vertexes move along the edges of the cube, its position changes from the positive to the negative tetrahedron. Two equal tetrahedra (positive and negative) joined at their common centers define the cube. The total available energy of a system is related to its surface area, involving the second power (square) of the radius.
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Fig. 463.01 There are no straight lines, only waves resembling them. In this diagram, any zigzag path from
463.03 The cube oscillates from the static condition to the dynamic, from the potential to the radiant. As it becomes a wave, the linear becomes the second-power rate of growth. The sum of the squares of the two legs = the square of the hypotenuse = the wave. The 12 edges of the cube become the six diagonals of the tetrahedron by virtue of the hypotenuse: the tetrahedron is the normal condition of the real (electromagnetic) world.
463.04 There is an extraordinary synergetic realization as a consequence of correlating (a) the arc-describing, edge-pulsing of cubes generated by the eight triangles rotating in the spheres whose arcs describe the spherical cube (which is a sphere whose volume is
463.05 We really find, learning synergetically, from the combined behaviors of the tetrahedron, the cube, and the deliberately-non-straight-line cubical transformation into a tetrahedron, how the eight cubical corners are self-truncated to produce the vector equilibrium within the allspace-filling cubical isotropic-vector-matrix reference frame; in so doing, the local vacatings of the myriad complex of closest-packing cube truncations produce a “fallout” of all the “exterior octahedra” as a consequence of the simultaneous truncation of the eight corners of the eight cubes surrounding any one point. As we learn elsewhere (see Sec. 1032.10), the exterior octahedron is the contracted vector equilibrium and is one of the spaces between spheres; the octahedron thus becomes available as the potential alternate new sphere when the old spheres become spaces. The octahedra thus serve in the allspace-filling exchange of spheres and spaces (see Sec. 970.20 ).