358 
ise 
hedron has each of its diedral angles exactly 
120 degrees instead of 116° —33’ —54” (or, if 
preferred, where the full circle is made up of 
about 349—2/3 real degrees instead of 360), 
and where equal solids of this form will there- 
fore stack together without voids. The cu- 
rious and interesting speculations and deduc- 
tions that follow from imagining a space with 
more dimensions than real space possesses (as 
four dimension or dimension space), or a 
space having special properties like “curva- 
ture,” ete., are quite well known. All matter 
in the hypothetical space permitting the special 
arrangement of equal spheres as above will, if 
we assume gravity to remain normal, tend to 
concentration as in real space but this tend- 
ency will not be checked or modified or coun- 
SCIENCE 
PROJECTIONS 
Scare 
RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON 
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REGULAR OR PENTAGONAL DODECAHEDRON 
OD © 
TETRAKAIDECAHEDRON 
To accompany paper on “A Geometrical Basis for Physical and Organic Phenomena” by John Millis 
[N. S. Vou. XLVIII. No. 1241 
Drawn by O. W. Robeson 
teracted by a departure from equilibrium re- 
sulting from an approach or approximation to 
the rhombic dodecahedral grouping of spher- 
ical elements, since the tendency will be to 
assume the regular dodecahedral grouping 
throughout. All matter under these conditions 
. must eventually become a stagnant and dead 
plenum, an amorphous and non granular mass, 
in which no physical activity or life could 
possibly have being. 
Another curious paradox, not altogether de- 
void of usefulness, is found in the self con- 
tradictory conception, which is at least semi - 
logical, that there could only be a “real” con- 
tinuous ether in a space with the imaginary 
properties above described! There are as yet 
unsurmounted (and unsurmountable?) difii- 
