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Contraction from Single-and-Outside-layer of VE:
"There is something to warn you about. If I made the five layers of the vector equilibrium, you could not have the condition I have spoken about of becoming icosahedron. You could not have two adjacent layers of vector equilibriums and then have them collapse and become the icosahedron. . . . I could take any single layer of the vector equilibrium and if there is nothing inside it to push it outwardly, it will collapse into becoming the icosahedron. But if there are two layers, one inside the other, the radius contracts when that occurs, and these two layers will not roll on each other. The gears block each other. So you can only have this contraction in the vector equilibrium in a single layer and it has to be the outside layer remote from other layers.
“For this reason we begin to be suspicious about the icosahedron’s condition of 18.63 and its relation to the electron-- we begin to be suspicious that we have the electron kind of shells going in the icosahedron, which are remote from the nucleus group and are therefore not frustrated from contracting in that condition.”
