Gravity is the inwardly cohering force acting integratively on all systems. Radiation is the outwardly disintegrating force acting divisively upon all systems.

— Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

Source: http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s00/p0000.html

Section 000.113 of Synergetics (1975).

Topics: physics