¶ Tidal
Index Entry
Tidal:
“The question was: Could we get vastly strong, long members that had no section at all? I saw that was exactly what nature had done in her gravitational cohering relationship of the Earth and the Moon with a 320,000 mile tension ‘member’ of zero diameter. Twice daily we may witness this Moon-Earth tension as it gravitationally lifts Moonward billions of tons of the watery ocean film of Earth in what we call tides. ‘Tides’ means ‘tension.’ (As we tie a string we make a tension connection.) I saw that, in the tides and in gravity, nature had accomplished a truly invisible, formless, structural, tensional coherence. The question was: Could man begin to approximate the magnificent efficiencies and economies of these macro-micro tensional integrities of nature? And I discovered it was possible for man to do so.”
¶ Citations
- Mexico '63, p. 30. 10 Oct’63
