Originally posted by billybob
when you run resonant frequencies through spheres you get standing wave patterns in the shapes of the platonic solids.
Oy. Bad Science. BEYOND Bad Science ... oh, heck. It isn't even science.
Plato describes the five (and only five) possible regular solids -- that is, those with equivalent faces and with all lines and angles, formed by those faces, equal.
These are the four-sided tetrahedron, the six-sided hexahedron (or cube), the eight-sided octahedron, the twelve-sided dodecahedron, and the twenty-sided icosahedron.
Light never forms dodecahedrons, icosahedrons, octrahedrons, or cubes. You might get a tetrahedron under the right circumstances, but you're more likely to get a cone.
this is how buckminster fuller discovered the vector equilibrium.
No, it isn't. Bucky himself says ``The geometrical model of energy configurations in synergetics is developed from a symmetrical cluster of spheres, in which each sphere is a model of a field of energy all of whose forces tend to coordinate themselves, shuntingly or pulsatively, and only momentarily in positive or negative asymmetrical patterns relative to, but never congruent with, the eternality of the vector equilibrium. The vectors connecting the centers of the adjacent spheres are identical in length and angular relationship. The forces of the field of energy represented by each sphere interoscillate through the symmetry of equilibrium to various asymmetries, never pausing at equilibrium. The vector equilibrium itself is only a referential pattern of conceptual relationships at which nature never pauses.'' www.cjfearnley.com...
how did plato find them?
Groan. Plato didn't find them. Pythagoras did. They're called Platonic Solids because Plato wrote about them.
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so there you think you're sitting there, when actually you are just an amalgam of standing waves. this is so not numerology. this is "sacred geometry". a favourite topic of the illuminati.
Actually, you're not an amalgam of standing waves. I'm not sure you understand what a standing wave is. Here's the definition:
Standing wave -- A wave that does not progress but oscillates up and down about a node with the crest changing into a trough and vice versa There's no shapes. There's no solids, there's nothing else. Just flapping up and down at different frequencies.
THEY believe it.
I'm not trying to be sarcastic, but I would wager that the reason you "know" this is from websites like the above that are full of mistakes, lies, and outright misunderstandings and bad math.
i KNOW this stuff. some of it might be off, but the majority is true. it's not something i can be disuaded from, because it is knowledge in my mind. not a theory. not conjecture. it's all about the nesting of standing wave patterns in the shapes of platonic solids.
Right. So show us, please, how we can set up lights (or splash patterns in the water) to form standing wave patterns in the shape of the 20-sided icosahedron, given that "standing wave" means something isn't moving but just flapping up and down.
