1060.00 Omnisensorial Accommodation

1060.01 The great compressibility of gases is occasioned by the fact that all the tetrahedra are interlinked to one another only by single corners. This is a single bond: it requires the minimum mass-attraction energy of joining. You can fill a very great deal of space with single-bonded tetrahedra; and they are not only highly compressible or infoldable but, being universal-jointed, are most flexible, as are all gases.

1060.02 We will now examine two-bonded associations of tetrahedra. Double-bonding means two mass-attractions. Double-bonds are twice as powerfully cohered and take twice as much energy to disturb their interpatterning. Double-bonding makes a hinge between the tetrahedra. They are, therefore, flexibly interlinked. Forces being applied telegraph throughout the whole system. Both gases and liquids have this property of distributing forces. But whereas single-bonded gases are highly compactible or compressible, doublebonded liquids are noncompressible. If you assemble tetrahedra edge to edge, you cannot compress them any more even though they are flexibly hinged. The coherence of the liquid’s viscosity is inherently twice that of the gases.

1060.03 We get even closer inter-mass positioning when there are three- corner bonds (i.e., triangular faces congruent with faces). This produces crystalline rigidity. Crystalline or triple-bonded structuring does not distribute loads as do gases and liquids. Nature designed the triple-bonding to produce the high cohesiveness in tension of crystalline structures. Due to its triplebonding, the most difficult structure to pull apart is the crystalline.

1061.10 Tree Structure

1061.11 In the structuring of a tree or plant, the crystalline tensions of liquid cell sacs are hydraulically filled in order to distribute the compression and tension loads throughout the whole structure. The hydraulically filled cells of the tree are noncompressible. Thus is the tree capable of holding a five-ton branch out horizontally, due first to the noncompressibility of the liquid content of the cell sacs, and second to the tension being provided at greatest effectiveness by the triple-bond crystalline sac skins. Gases are inserted between the molecules of liquid of the tree’s cell sacs. The gases’ compressibility provides the compressibility or flexibility of the tree’s branches to wave in the wind. If you have ever tried to hold a 25-pound suitcase out horizontally at arm’s length, you can appreciate how great a structural task is being performed when a tree’s five-ton branches wave yieldingly in the storm without breaking off. You can understand that in an ice storm, the hydraulic content of the tree’s cells freezes and can no longer distribute the stresses, and as a consequence during such conditions, many tree branches break off and fall to the ground.

1061.12 We use these combined single-, double-, and triple-bond principles in making the transport airplane’s landing gear operate. The pneumatics are in the airplane’s rubber tires, and the hydraulics operate as nonfreezing liquids forced through long passageways of the airplane’s undercarriage.