Molecular Attraction 



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FIG. 22. El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California. If the force of cohesion 

 were suspended, a mountain like this would immediately become the finest dust. 



Things happen too swiftly for you to know much 

 about them. The house you are in falls to dust instantly. 

 You fall through the place where the floor has been; 

 but you do not bump on the cement basement floor 

 below, partly because there is no such thing as a hard 

 floor or even hard ground anywhere, and partly because 

 you disintegrate fall to pieces so completely that 

 there is nothing left of you but a grayish film of fine 

 dust and a haze of warm water. 



With a deafening roar, rocks, skyscrapers, and even 



