^I found my leaky triangle! About six months ago, in researching
"nature of things", I sketched a picture of a leaky triangle as
an analogy for, well, a lot of things. The idea that change
happens in an unexpected dimension once three things interact.
Our way of thinking tends to be what's called dualistic -
black/white, true/false, male/female, positive/negative.
But I had been wondering: What's happening at the / ? A flip? a
boundary? a rotation?
Expectation/Reality - I thought about the search for perfection:
Perfect shapes, perfect things. Our expectations want perfection
but reality is always different than our expectations, no matter
how much we try.
So what's at the boundary of the two?
Well - here's thing thing: First, you now have three things: One
side, the other side, and the THING INBETWEEN. That's three.
Three things connected.
But what happens at the / ?
Something completely unexpected.
In this case, it is turning a two non-magnetic materials into
MAGNETS by the use very use of... triangles.
The leak in this triangle? Balanced electrons, whose magnetic
charges cancel each other out normally, suddenly get a new order
- and suddenly MAGNETISM leaks out of a place it was seemingly
impossible/improbable before.
(in this case, it is silicon and tin arranged in triangles as
shown below).
You've got the Tin, the Silicon and the thing inbetween at the
boundary - the electrons.
The electrons suddenly hook together the tin and silicon into
something new that is suddenly magnetic.
When two opposing sides in a war sit down to negotiate (the
negotiation points just as the electrons are) - typically by the
help of a third party (negotiators, or a common enemy - both
would work) - they can suddenly bang out a peace treaty;
something new created when two things meeting together with a
facilitator who works along the boundary, alligning their
negotiation points to create a new structure with new
properties.
It's not that there is something mythical or mystical about
triangles and such; but rather I think there is something very
basic about this process.
And it's nice to see physicists who are starting to see the
leaky triangle too, although I don't think they see it quite as
broadly as I do.^
