¶ Trees
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Trees:
"The tension is entirely in continuous sheathing of compression-resisting liquids and shock-absorbing gases. The tension strength in the sheathing fibres comes from getting those masses of atoms closer and closer to each other and thus exerting greater and greater attraction to each other. As they get closer the fibre gets stronger. If examined under a microscope those overlapping fibres are exactly analogous to the Milky Way. One Milky Way approaches another Milky Way and the attractions between their masses becomes enormous. The series of fibres actually overlaps so closely as to act as one great fibre. . . .
"In compression, licuids are completely noncompressible, and because they are also completely flexible, they distribute the load evenly all over the system.
“This is just what the tree does. She does all of her compression in hydraulics, and in between the hydraulic or liquid molecules, are little gas molecules. They are single-bonded tetrahedra and therefore highly compressible. The gas molecules give springiness and absorb shock. They are smaller than the liquid elements and fill the tiny”
¶ Citations
- Syracuse Address, Pp. 60-61, 7 Nov '67
