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Jack Uretsky wrote:
There is good physics here, or at least good engineering. It
has been known for thousands of years that ordinary masonry
materials are incomparably stronger in compression than in
tension.
http://www.masonryonline.com/members/history_of_masonry.htm
] When masonry materials are stacked vertically,
] they are very stable; every part is undergoing