The three circuits: a study of the primary forces . SNOW CRYSTALS. 179 Fig. 28. at the same instant. Practically they do; scientifi-cally they pass in one direction during one impulse,and in the other direction during the reversed im-pulse, though the word during hardly applies to pul-sations which occur in the one hundred trillionthpart of a second. If we could see the molecules inmass as they appear in the atmospherewe would notice great masses of filesdrifting hither and thither. In someplaces coiling up and in other places un-folding, and at the same time shrinkingand expanding longitudina
The three circuits: a study of the primary forces . SNOW CRYSTALS. 179 Fig. 28. at the same instant. Practically they do; scientifi-cally they pass in one direction during one impulse,and in the other direction during the reversed im-pulse, though the word during hardly applies to pul-sations which occur in the one hundred trillionthpart of a second. If we could see the molecules inmass as they appear in the atmospherewe would notice great masses of filesdrifting hither and thither. In someplaces coiling up and in other places un-folding, and at the same time shrinkingand expanding longitudinally and later-ally like the movements of a great numbers of detachedones would be seen skipping about withwonderful celerity and attaching them-selves to each other and to other files pre- m \ Short file of senting the appearance of some varieties molecules ex-of coral formation. This «»™-»^ ^ ternal. us appearance is, view. Slower vibra-however, as evanescent as a flash of tjon< lightning.* During a thunder storm we would notice that the contraction of the files was increasing and the * When the air is disturbed by the voice of a fine singerits molecules frequently assume the form of plants, trees andflowers. 180 THE THREE CIRCUITS. molecules telescoping more closely into each other,some of them apparently swallowing whole observing these we would perceive that theybecame larger and of firmer material and that thisenabled them to usurp more room, and at the sametime assume a more spherical shape, and presentlywe would see great numbers of them falling as dropsof water, some of which would reach the earth whileothers would be absorbed by the files through whichthey descended. Again if we could see a single molecule in per-spective, rapidly undergoing the transposition of its polar extremities its shape wouldFig. 29. r r . be that of a hexagonal solid with eighteen
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