¶ Balloon
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the gas molecules, which are complex local, low-frequency energy events interfere with the higher frequency net webbing events. The pattern is similar to that of fish, crowded in a net, and therefore running tangentially outward into the net in approximately all directions.
“A gas balloon’ exterior tension ‘net’ has the shape that it has because some of the molecules are too large to escape and-- crowded by the other molecules-- are hitting the balloon. But the molecules do not huddle together at the center and then simultaneously explode outwardly to hit the balloon skin in one omnidirectionally-outbound shock wave. The molecules near the surface are coursing in chordally ricocheting patterns all around the inner net’s surface. I therefore saw that-- because every action has its reaction-- that it would be possible to pair all the molecules so that they would behave as can two swimmers who dive into a swimming tank from opposite ends, meet in the middle of the tank and then, employing each other’s inertia, shove off from each other’s feet in opposite directions. This pattern indicated that we could have each and all of the paired molecules bounce off”
