I found my leaky triangle! About six months ago, in researching ''nature of things'', I sketched a picture of a leaky triangle as an analogy for, well, a lot of things. The idea that change happens in an unexpected dimension once three things interact. Our way of thinking tends to be what's called dualistic - black/white, true/false, male/female, positive/negative. But I had been wondering: What's happening at the / ? A flip? a boundary? a rotation? Expectation/Reality - I thought about the search for perfection: Perfect shapes, perfect things. Our expectations want perfection but reality is always different than our expectations, no matter how much we try. So what's at the boundary of the two? Well - here's thing thing: First, you now have three things: One side, the other side, and the THING INBETWEEN. That's three. Three things connected. But what happens at the / ? Something completely unexpected. In this case, it is turning a two non-magnetic materials into MAGNETS by the use very use of... triangles. The leak in this triangle? Balanced electrons, whose magnetic charges cancel each other out normally, suddenly get a new order - and suddenly MAGNETISM leaks out of a place it was seemingly impossible/improbable before. (in this case, it is silicon and tin arranged in triangles as shown below). You've got the Tin, the Silicon and the thing inbetween at the boundary - the electrons. The electrons suddenly hook together the tin and silicon into something new that is suddenly magnetic. When two opposing sides in a war sit down to negotiate (the negotiation points just as the electrons are) - typically by the help of a third party (negotiators, or a common enemy - both would work) - they can suddenly bang out a peace treaty; something new created when two things meeting together with a facilitator who works along the boundary, alligning their negotiation points to create a new structure with new properties. It's not that there is something mythical or mystical about triangles and such; but rather I think there is something very basic about this process. And it's nice to see physicists who are starting to see the leaky triangle too, although I don't think they see it quite as broadly as I do.