Ideas: Tetra/Geometry/Unity

If the radii of identical close-packed atoms have a value of 1, then the distance between their centers is equal to 2.

It then follows that a basic unit vector of a tetrahedron formed by these atoms would also equal 2.

If a tetrahedron is made out of unit vectors with a value of 2, then the edges of a cube containing this tet must have a value of the square root of 2 or 1.4142136.

This is how to convert from our present artificial 90 degree cubical system of measuring to nature's much simpler 60 degree coordinate system.

**For further information see:**
Synergetics	R Buckminster Fuller	pp 588-9	1975