986.450 Energy Aspects of Spherical Modular Arrays
986.451 The rhombic dodecahedron has an allspace-filling function as the domain of any one sphere in an aggregate of unit-radius, closest-packed spheres; its 12 mid-diamond-face points
986.452 These 12 inter-closest-packed-sphere-tangency pointsthe
986.453 We next discover that two ABABO pentahedra of any two tangentially adjacent, closest-packed rhombic dodecahedra will produce an asymmetric octahedron OABABO with O and O being the volumetric centers (nuclear centers) of any two tangentially adjacent, closest-packed, unit-radius spheres. We call this nucleus-to-nucleus, asymmetric octahedron the Coupler, and we found that the volume of the Coupler is exactly equal to the volume of one regular tetrahedroni.e., 24 A Quanta Modules. We also note that the Coupler always consists of eight asymmetric and identical tetrahedral Mites, the minimum simplex allspace-filling of Universe, which Mites are also identifiable with the quarks (Sec. 1052.360).
986.454 We then discover that the Mite, with its two energy-conserving A Quanta Modules and its one energy-dispersing B Quanta Module (for a total combined volume of three quanta modules), serves as the cosmic minimum allspace-filler, corresponding elegantly (in all ways) with the minimumlimit case behaviors of the nuclear physics’ quarks. The quarks are the smallest discovered “particles”; they always occur in groups of three, two of which hold their energy and one of which disperses energy. This quite clearly identifies the quarks with the quanta module of which all the synergetics hierarchy of nuclear concentric symmetric polyhedra are co-occurrent.
986.455 In both the rhombic triacontahedron of tetravolume 5 and the rhombic dodecahedron of tetravolume 6 the distance from system center 0 at AO is always greater than CO, and BO is always greater than/40.
986.456 With this information we could reasonably hypothesize that the triacontahedron of tetravolume 5 is that static polyhedral progenitor of the only-dynamically-realizable sphere of tetravolume 5, the radius of which (see Fig. 986.314) is only .04 of unity greater in length than is the prune vector radius OC, which governs the dimensioning of the triacontahedron’s 30 midface cases of 12 right-angled corner junctions around mid-diamond-vertex C, which provides the 12 right angles around Cthe four right-angled corners of the T Quanta Module’s ABC faces of their 120 radially arrayed tetrahedra, each of which T Quanta Module has a volume identical to that of the A and B Quanta Modules.
986.457 We also note that the radius OC is the same unitary prime vector with which the isotropic vector matrix is constructed, and it is also the VE unit-vector-radius distance outwardly from O, which 0 is always the common system center of all the members of the entire cosmic hierarchy of omniconcentric, symmetric, primitive polyhedra. In the case of the rhombic triacontahedron the 20 OA lines’ distances outwardly from 0 are greater than OC, and the 12 OB lines’ distances are even greater in length outwardly from 0 than OA. Wherefore I realized that, when dynamically spun, the greatcircle chord lines AB and CB are centrifugally transformed into arcs and thus sprung apart at B, which is the outermost vertexergo, most swiftly and forcefully outwardly impelled. This centrifugal spinning introduces the spherical excess of 6 degrees at the spherical system vertex B. (See Fig. 986.405.) Such yielding increases the spheric appearance of the spun triacontahedron, as seen in contradistinction to the diamond-faceted, static, planar-bound, polyhedral state aspect.
986.458 The corners of the spherical triacontahedron’s 120 spherical arccornered triangles are 36 degrees, 60 degrees and 90 degrees, having been sprung apart from their planar-phase, chorded corners of
986.459 In the case of the spherical triacontahedron the total spherical excess of exactly 6 degrees, which is one-sixtieth of unity = 360 degrees, is all lodged in one corner. In the planar case
986.460 The 120 T Quanta Modules radiantly arrayed around the center of volume of the rhombic triacontahedron manifest the most spherical appearance of all the hierarchy of symmetric polyhedra as defined by any one of the seven axially rotated, great circle system polyhedra of the seven primitive types of great-circle symmetries.
986.461 What is the significance of the spherical excess of exactly 6 degrees? In the transformation from the spherical rhombic triacontahedron to the planar triacontahedron each of the 120 triangles releases 6 degrees.