¶ Implosion-Explosion
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Index Entry
The vector equilibrium is of the greatest importance to all of us because all the nuclear tendencies to implosion and explosion are reversible and always in exact balance. The radials and the circumferentials are in balance. But the important thing is that the radials which, if they are outwardly pushing, would tend to explode are always frustrated by the tensile finiteness of the circumferential vectors which close together in an orderly manner to cohere the disorderly sundering. When the radial vectors are tensilely contractive and separately implosive, they are always prevented from doing so by the finitely closing pushers or compressors of the circumferential set of vectors.
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech, p.80, Jun’66
