Natasha Vita-More wrote:
"What I'm looking for is an analogy for how we interpret
information in ways that are diverse and/or contradictory.
The analogy would reflect how concepts can be understood
from, say, two diverse perspectives."
Buckyballs (Buckminster Fullerenes) show an interesting "duality".
Actually these balls are - as macroscopic objects - particles,
but also waves.
http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/research/c60/
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v401/n6754/f
ull/401680a0_fs.html
The shapes of buckyballs
http://sbchem.sunysb.edu/msl/fullerene.html
with their symmetries and their very different geometries
http://scsg20.unige.ch/~heine/diss/node19.html
http://www.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/ANDERSEN/fullerene/symmetry.html#top
and their crystal patterns too
http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/CAP/aop/96c2n04.html
resemble the interlocked trusses of
Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes
http://shachi.cochem2.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/Fuller/photo/index.html
http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/bucky.html
Incidentally there was a scene in Star-Trek: The Next
Generation in which Worf's son produced fullerenes
and filled them with water.....
More about Fullerenes
http://wunmr.wustl.edu/EduDev/Fullerene/fullerene.html
http://shachi.cochem2.tutkie.tut.ac.jp/Fuller/Fuller.html
http://www.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/ANDERSEN/fullerene/intro.html
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/motm/c60.html
http://buckminster.physics.sunysb.edu/
http://www.susx.ac.uk/Users/kroto/FullereneCentre/main.html
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