Thanks, Harvey, for the summaries from the book. It is probably easier, however, to simply get our staff writers from Scuba Source to pen a response. The problem with these books is that they are written for the specialist and readers of these forums are not specialists. What is usually needed is the ability to translate scientific material into language that can be understood by the non-specialist.
Often times this will require a considerable amount of time by the writer. Consider the following:
[sp][sp] The effects of viscous adhesion in a highly viscoelastic cytosol would surely precipitate nuclei production whereas Bernoulli streaming could not. However, intracellular gas vacuoles are rare, even in kinetically active systems, as empirical evidence demonstrates.
I just made that up, and it means:
[sp][sp] When surfaces move apart in a liquid, a void (= small empty space) is formed for a moment within the liquid. This gas void is bigger if the liquid is more like syrup than like water. While liquids flowing through a narrowing will also produce void (= gas seeds), the conditions for such streaming (= rapid flow) are not correct within the cytoplasm of the cells. Therefore the gas seeds are never present within cells themselves, as one can find by experiment.
Just an example of what might be in a book as contrasted with what we understand. I feel the same way when I look at a car repair book all Greek to me! :loopy:
Many thanks for your help!