¶ Tension (2)
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Tension:
"When you push the two ends it begins to coil; the radius gets shorter, the radius gets longer. You begin to generalize.
"Now let’s get out to a very high-frequency radius from a given sphere center of a great matrix of the closest-packed spheres. I will go out to the one-hundredth layer and at the one hundredth layer I would have-- we know our frequency is 100-- so our frequency to the second power, 100 x 100 is 10,000. to the second power times 10, so it makes it now 1,000,000, plus 2. So it’s 1,000,002. I know the number of balls now in the one hundredth layer is 1,000,002. Very interesting.
“Now you and I and all the people who have had any rope experiences have had 1,000,002 experiences. More than enough to remember all the special experiences, and out of that we generalize certain experiences of tension. We call it ‘tension.’ We don’t just call it a different piece of rope-- it’s now no longer the main sheet, and so forth, it’s just tension. And this generalization works in to some layers”
