711.00 Gravity as a Circumferential Force
711.01 Circumference: Circumference
711.02 Then we can open out the same rope to form only a half-circle in which the diameter doubles that of the first circle and the gap is wide open.
711.03 Halfway between the two, the gap is partially open.
711.04 As we open gaps, we make the sphere bigger. The comprehensive tension wants to make it smaller. Struts in the gap prevent it from becoming smaller. Struts make big. Tension makes small. The force of the struts is only outward. The force of the tension network is only inward.
711.10 Circumferential Advantage over Radial: Gravity is a spherically circumferential, omniembracingly contractive force. The resultant is radially inward, attempting to make the system get smaller. The circumferential mass-interattraction effectiveness has a constant coherent advantage ratio of 12 to 1 over the only radially effective mass attraction; ergo, the further inward within the embraced sphere, the greater the leverage advantage of the circumferential network over the internal compaction; ergo, the greater the radial depth within, the greater the pressure.
711.20 Ratio of Tensors: Locally on a circle, each particle has two sideways tensors for each inward tensor. One great-circle plane section through a circle shows two sideways tensors for one inward vector. But, on the surface of a sphere, each particle has six circumferential tensors for each single inward radial vector. When you double the radius, you double the chord.
711.30Struts as Chords in a Spherical Network: When inserting a strut into a tensegrity sphere, we have to pull the tension lines outward from the system’s center, in order to insert the strut between the vertexes of those lines. As we pull outward, the chordal distance of the gap between the spheric tension lines increases.
711.31 If we wish to open the slot in the basketball or football’s skin through which its pneumatic bladder is to be inserted, we pull it outwardly and apart to make room inside.
711.32 The most outward chord of any given central angle of a circle is the longest. The omni-circumferential, triangularly stabilized, interconnecting tension lines of the spherical-network system cannot get bigger than its discretely designed dimensions and the ultimate tensile strength of the network’s tensors, without bursting its integrity. The comprehensive spherical-tensor network can only relax inwardly. When all in place, the tensegrity-compression struts can only prevent the tension network from closing inward toward the sphere’s center, which is its comprehensive proclivity.
711.33 The synergetic force of the struts (that is, their total interrelationship tendency) is not predicted by any one strut taken singly. It is entirely omniradially outward. The force of the strut is not a chordal two-way thrust.
711.34 A fully relaxed spherical tensegrity structure may be crumpled together in a tight bundle without hurting it, just as a net shopping bag can be stuffed into a small space. Thereafter, its drooped, untaut tension members can only yield outward radially to the dimensionally predesigned and prefabricated limits of the omniclosed spheric system, which must be progressively opened to accommodate the progressive interconstruction of the predesigned, prefabricated chordal lengths of the only circumferentially arrayed compression struts.
711.35 The compression struts are islanded from one another, that is, in each case, neither of the separate compression strut’s ends touches any part of any other compression strut in the spheric system. As struts are inserted into the spheric-tension network, the whole spheric system is seen to be expanding omnioutwardly, as do pneumatic balloons when air is progressively introduced into their previously crumpled skins.
711.36 The comprehensive, finitely closed tension network’s integrity is always pulling the islanded compression struts inward; it is never pushing them, nor are they pushing it, any more than a rock lying on Earth’s crust thrusts horizontally side-wise. The rock is held where it is by the comprehensively contractive Earth’s inter-mass-attraction (gravitational) field, or network. But the more rocks we add, the bigger the sphere held comprehensively together by the omnitensively cohering, gravitational consequences of the omni-interattractive mass aggregate.