Fig. 1052.86

Fig. 1052.86 Elastic Tension Membranes May Contain Explosive Forces of Universe: Molecules can be thinned to a film of single-molecular thickness, cohered by a multiplicity of atomic interattractiveness. Such elastic membranes have a proclivity to distribute atomic attraction in a two-way flowing stream. Surfaces of geometrical objects are second powers of their linear dimensions. Thus tensional forces may contain explosive radiational forces. (From a sketch by the author.)

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