713.00 Discontinuous Compression

713.01 Subvisible Discontinuity: In the Babylonian, Egyptian, and Ionian eras of ways of looking at, thinking about, and formulating, there evolved a concept of a “first family” of geometrical “solids,” in which each member was characterized by all of its faces being identical and all of its edges being one length only. Humans were then unaware of what physics was only much later to discover experimentally: that nature discloses no evidence of a continuum. Experiment discloses only aggregates of separate, finitely closed events. Ergo, there are no solids.

713.02 Their optical illusion and stubbornly conditioned reflexes have since motivated one generation after another to go on teaching and accepting the misconception of geometric “solids,” “planes,” and “straight lines,” where physics has discovered only wavilinear trajectories of high-frequency, yes-no event pulsations. With the misconception of straight lines came the misconception of the many lines going through the same point at the same time. Wherefore the 12 edges that define the cube were assumed to be absolute straight lines, and therefore sets of them ran simultaneously into the thus absolutely determined eight corner “points” of the cube.

713.03 Humans were accustomed to the idea that edges come together at one certain point. But we now know operationally that if we look at any of the edges of any item microscopically, there is no such absolute line, and instead there is seen to be an aggregate of atomic events whose appearance as an aggregate is analogous to the roughly rounding, wavilinear profiled, shoulder “edge” of a rock cliff, sand, or earth bluff standing high above the beach of the shore lying below, whose bluff and beach disclose the gradual erosion of the higher land by the sea.

713.04 The corners of the solids are also just like the corners of an oceanside bluff that happens to have its coastwise direction changed at 90 degrees by large geological events of nature such as an earthquake fault. Such an easterly coastline’s bluff casts dark shadows as the Earth rotates; seen from airplanes at great altitudes, long sections of that black coastal shadow may appear illusionarily as “straight.”

713.05 We can make Platonic figures in nonsolid tensegrity where none of the lines go through any of the same points at the same time, and we realize that the only seemingly continuous, only mass-interattractively cohered, atomic “Milky Way” tensor strands spanning the gaps between the only seemingly “solid,” omni-islanded, vectorially compressioned struts, do altogether permit a systematic, visually informed, and realistically comprehended differentiation between the flexible tensor and inflexible vector energy-event behaviors, all of which are consistent with all the experimental information accruing to the most rigorous scientific discipline.

713.06 The eye can resolve intervals of about \sfrac{1}{100}th of an inch or larger. Below that, we do not see the aggregates as points. Thereafter, we see only “solid”-color surfaces. But our color receptivity, which means our only-human-optics-tunable range of electromagnetic radiation frequencies, cannot “bring in,” i.e., resonatingly respond to, more than about one-millionth of the now known and only instrumentally tune-in-able overall electromagnetic-wave-frequency range of physical Universe. This is to say that humans can tune in directly to less than one-millionth of physical realityergo, cannot “see” basic atomic and molecular-structuring events and behaviors, but our synergetic tensegrity principles of structuring are found instrumentally to be operative to the known limits of both micro- and macro-Universe system relationships as the discontinuous, entropic, radiational, and omnicohering, collecting gravitational syntropics.

713.07 Convergence: While we cannot see the intervals between atomic-event waves, the tensegrity structuring principles inform our consideration of the invisible events. Every time we instrumentally magnify the illusionarily converging geometrical “lines” defining the edges of “solids,” we see them only wavilinearly converging toward critical proximity but never coming completely together; instead, twisting around each other, then slivering again, never having gone through the same “points.”

713.08 When we first try to differentiate tension and compression in consciously attempting to think about the behavior of structures in various locals of Universe, it becomes apparent that both macro-Universe and microUniverse are only tensionally cohered phenomena. They both obviously manifest discontinuous compression islands. It is evidenced, in cosmically structured systems, both macro and micro, that compression members never touch one another. Earth does not roll “ball bearing” around on the surface of Mars; nor does the Moon roll on Earth, and so forth. This structural scheme of islanded spheres of compression, which are only mass-attractively cohered, also characterizes the atomic nucleus’s structural integrities. Tensegrity discoveries introduce new and very different kinds of structural principles which seem to be those governing all structuring of Universe, both macrocosmic and microcosmic.