Re: reply on plants

["A. R. Marlow" <marlow@beta.loyno.edu>]

They're the very real forces everyone feels pushing upward on the 
bottom of your feet.  I don't think they've ever been in dispute.
They're exerted mainly (in our best present model) by electrons in the 
Earth pushing on your electrons.

On Wed, 1 May 1996, Clarence Bennett wrote:

> But I don't recall seeing a previous description of these electrochemical
> surface forces.   Are they real, pseudo, fictitious or what? And in what 
> direction in which frame do they act?
>
> > --  growing stems and leaves in the direction in
> > > > which the electrochemical surface forces are exerted on them, and sending
> > > > out roots in the opposite direction.
>
> Clarence

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