Epic blog!

Yes! Epic sounds so much better than emo. My blog is definitely not emo, though some people say so.

Hmmz and it shouldn't be dead either!

The earth on which we live is a sphere in motion. This is a simple concept, taken for granted by all of us. Throughout millennia, mathematics, the physical sciences and their subsequent technologies emerged through close observations of the earth and the celestial hemisphere. It seems odd that our fundamental precepts of science are still based on the concept of a flat earth, even though the earth was known, at least as far back as the days of the ancient Greeks (and most likely well before), to be a sphere, spinning and moving through space. This spherical view of the earth has been covered up, lost, rediscovered and rearticulated over and over throughout history. This view is still being understood in all of its complexity today while the cubic frame of reference continues to dominate the mathematical system on which all of our present sciences are based.

Fuller's synergetic geometry regarded the earth as a sphere in the most essential ways. He sought to frame a system that did not depend primarily on a cubic frame of reference. To do this he looked to nature to find the essential dynamics of her design on the micro, macro and medio scale. As a self-designated "comprehensivist" he set out to bridge the disciplines by basing his discoveries largely on what could be engaged by his own senses. His life experience in the Navy, as a designer, an engineer, an architect, and machinist continued to tell him that he needed a spherical rather than cubic frame of reference. Historically, the basic concepts surrounding a spherical world view often merged in the intersection between seemingly disparate bodies of experience, the sciences and the humanities. Using a spherical frame of reference, music, philosophy, art and the imagination no longer need to be seen in opposition to a scientific, abstract world of fixed rules. A simple look at just the past 2500 years points to this significant fact.