740.10 Positive and Negative

740.11 Stacked columns of “solidly,” i.e., compressionally continuous and only compressionally combined, cubes demonstrate the simultaneous employment of both positive and negative tensegrities. Because both the positive and the negative tensegrity mast are independently self-supporting, either one provides the same overall capability. It is a kind of capability heretofore associated only with “solid” compressional struts, masts, beams, and leversthat is, either the positive- or the negative-tensegrity “beam-boom-mast” longitudinal structural integrity has the same capability independently as the two of them have together. When the two are combined, either the positive- or the negative-tensegrity set, whichever is a fraction stronger than the other, it is found experimentally, must be doing all the strut work at any one time. The unemployed set is entirely superfluous, ergo redundant. All “solid” structuring is redundant.

740.12 If the alternate capabilities of the positive and negative sets are approximately equal, they tend to exchange alternately the loading task and thus generate an oscillating interaction of positive vs. negative load transferral. The energies of their respective structural integrities tend to self-in terdeterioration of their combined, alternating, strut-functioning longevity of structural capability. The phenomenon eventually approaches crystallization. All the redundant structures inherently accelerate their own destruction in relation to the potential longevity of their nonredundant tensegrity counterparts.