Yeah, we'll be able to make some use of, as a mnemonic at least (some people say "meme"), of the fact that the White House dubbed its flagship presidential vehicle in Alaska (flown in?) "the beast" for this occasion. I'm not clear on when it was first benighted with this moniker, but it fits. Vlad and Donald rode in it together.
You might recall: I was going on about the opportunity costs associated with journalistic accounts never linking to the Bucky stuff. That doesn't stop me from making those links myself, journalism be damned (a blog is a kind of journal, so hey, I'm a journalist too).
Those following our literature know how our BEAST modules (BASKET if you add a K) have special meaning for us, in terms of our geometry.
Exactly how that meme wedges into our puzzle will only become more clear in retrospect. What they say about 20-20 hindsight is true, even if 20-20 is a bit of an overstatement. Even with the benefit of an historical record, it all stays kinda blurry, per Lovecraft, or did I get that wrong? I thought Lovecraft considered Universe to be ultimately irrational in the sense of incommensurable.
Speaking of Lovecraft, I was asking Patrick why he thought two entirely separate booths at the Hawthorne Street Fair, both marketing cool art, featured (a) octopus images and (b) anatomically correct hearts. What were the chances? Hidden variables abound. Was there a common studio in the background somehow?
Then it occurred to me the octopus might actually be a rendering of Cthulhu, of whom Patrick had never heard (not everyone has, and even I do not count myself a Lovecraft fan, in the sense of not really having done enough homework to qualify (fan is a rank one earns), a distant admirer maybe?). That flash of insight didn't alter the calculus however, meaning I still found this coincidence surprising.
A tenant of a Jung-informed actively-inferred worldview (model) might include a rule of thumb something like: "expect coincidences that seem insanely improbable, not to mention meaningful" and with that expectation, said Jungian would not experience the same shock and surprise every time such a "miracle" happened. The Synergetics Dictionary contains this relevant meme (you can look it up): only the impossible happens.
D'ya wanna know more about the BEAST particles? This far down in a blog post, we've lost most readers, according to most models, so I put some of those nitty gritty details at the end, for those few who care. "Reward your most loyal readers", that's the rule of thumb, Patreon and all that.
A & B together build the regular tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, dodecahedron (rhombic), whereas the E & S mods have more sway in the five-fold symmetric realm.
Then we're able to give up rigid assembly ideas and simply think in terms of volume equivalents, like measuring cups. Twenty-four A-fulls of water make a unit volume tetrahedron and all that.
How can we break down the volume of a regular tetrahedron in terms of the S module?
This latter four-faceted wedge-shape bricks in the empty space between an octahedron (regular) and its inscribed icosahedron (faces flush), likewise regular.
You might not think of a way right away, but in terms of volume equivalents: S3 + S6 = the UVT (Koski), the four-CCP-ball tet (centers network), meaning scale up your S module by phi (S3) and by phi again (S6) and they add to give us unity. Kinda fun.
Hawthorne Street Fair is mostly about people watching for me, as is the Oregon Zoo. People know they're on display and dress up in their most intriguing outfits, verging on outright cosplay in some cases. I walk around snapping stills, memorializing a yearly event. Check back in my Flickr Photostream for many similar curations.
