Background. In 1971 began working with Synectics Education Systems (SES) and WJJ Gordon. I was also working independently with several physicists who were proposing experiments that assumed basic geometries within the foundations of physics. In 1971 I wrote this page about the foundations of foundations. Continuity, symmetry, and harmony were my baseline concepts for order, relations and dynamics. The SES lab was in the basement of Gordon’s home at 121 Brattle Street. We were often consulting with Harvard and MIT professors. That is when I discovered the work of Arthur Loeb and his Philomorphs.

Arthur L. Loeb, Philomorphs. In part it came out of my studies of Plato’s basic geometries and work with the Philomorphs of Harvard’s Arthur Loeb (and his friend, Bucky Fuller). And, in spite of what I had learned about quantum theory, it seems to me that there are what I’ve called, “perfected states within space-time.” As a result, over the years a few physicists told me that my work was idiosyncratic.

Arthur L. Loeb had written Color and symmetry (Wiley, 1971) and Space Structures, Their Harmony and Counterpoint (Addison-Wesley, 1975) and the forward to Bucky Fuller’s Synergetics I (Macmillan, 1975).

Arthur was an integral part of laying foundations for the work to come.

More about the Philomorphs by Denis Weaire, Dublin…

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