761.00 Net

761.01 People think spontaneously of a balloon as a continuous skin or solidly impervious unitary and spherically enclosed membrane holding the gas. They say that because the gas cannot get out and because it is under pressure, the pressure makes the balloon spheroidal. This means that the gas is pushing the skin outwardly in all directions. People think of a solid mass of air jammed into a pneumatic bag. But if we look at this skin with a microscope, we find that it is not a continuous film at all; it is full of holes. It is made up of molecules that are fairly remote from one another. It is in reality a great energy aggregate of Milky Way-like atomic constellations cohering only gravitationally to act as the invisible, tensional integrities of the fibers with which the webbing of the pneumatic balloon’s net is woven.

761.02 In a gas balloon, we do not have a continuous membrane of film. There is no such thing as a continuous “solid” skin or a “solid” or a “continuous” anything in Universe. What we do have is a network pattern, a network of energy actions interspersed with vast spaces or lack of energy events. The mass-interattracted atomic components not only are not touching each other, but they are as remote from one another as are Sun and its planets

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Fig. 761.02 Function of a Balloon as a Porous Netyvork.

in the relative terms of respective diameters of each of the phenomena involved.

761.03 The spaces between the energy-action-net components are smaller, however, than are the internally captivated and mutually interrepelled gas molecules; wherefore the gas molecules, which are complex low- frequency energy events, interfere with the higher-frequency, omnienclosing net-webbing energy events. The pattern is similar to that of fish crowded in a spherical net and therefore running tangentially outward into the net in approximately all directions. Fish caught in nets produce an enclosure-frustrated, would-be escape pattern. In the tensegrities, you have gravity or electromagnetism producing the ultimate tension forces, but you don’t have any strings or ultimately smallest solid threads. The more we think about it and the more we experiment, the less reliable becomes our concept “solid.” The balloon is indeed not only full of holes, but it is in fact utterly discontinuous. It is a net and not a bag. In fact, it is a spherical galaxy of critically neighboring energy events.

761.04 The balloon is a net in which the holes are so small that the molecules are larger than the holes and therefore cannot get out. The molecules are gas, but they have a minimum dimension, and they cannot get out of the holes. The next thing that we discover is the pressure of the gases explained by their kinetics. That is, the molecules are in motion; they are not rigid. There is nothing static at all pushing against the net. They are hitting it like projectiles. All of the molecules of gas are trying to get out of the system: this is what gives it the high pressure. The middle of the chord of an arc is always nearer to the center of the sphere than the ends of the chord. Chord ends are always pushing the net outwardly from the system’s spherical center. The molecules are stretching the net outwardly until the skin acts to resist the outward motion and relaxes inwardly. The skin is finite and closes back upon itself in apparently all circumferential directions. The net represents a tensional force with the arrows bound inwardly, balancing all the molecules, hitting them, caroming around, with every molecular action having its chordal reaction. But the molecules do not huddle together at the center and then simultaneously explode outward to hit the balloon skin in one omnidirectionally outbound wave. Not only are there critical proximities that show up physically, but there are critical proximities tensionally and critical proximities compressionally that is, there are repellings.

761.05 What makes the net take the shape that it does is simply the molecules that happen to hit it. The molecules that are not hitting it have nothing to do with its shape. There is potential that other molecules might hit the network, but that is not what we are talking about. The shape it has is by virtue of the ones that happen to hit it.

761.06 When we crowd the gassy molecules into a container, they manifest action, reaction, and resultant. When one molecule goes out to hit the net, it is also pushing another molecule inwardly or in some other direction. We discover mathematically that it would be impossible to get all of them to go to an absolute common center because that would require a lot more pressure. It would have to be a smaller space so the patterns are not all from the center outwardly against the bag. Each one of the patterns is ricocheting around the bag; some are hitting the net and some are only interfering with and precessing each other and changing angles without hitting the net.