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the quiet force that lets things stick together instead of falling spectacularly apart
means the act or state of holding together as a unified whole, whether physically, socially, or in an argument.
from From Latin cohaesus, past participle of cohaerere 'to stick together' — co- 'together' plus haerere 'to cling, adhere' (the same root that gives us 'adhere' and 'hesitate,' which is literally getting stuck mid-thought). It arrived in English in the 17th century by way of physics, describing the molecular pull that keeps a thing from crumbling, before it spread to describe groups and ideas that hang together just as stubbornly.
- water trick
- Lets bugs walk across pond surfaces like glass
- tree power
- Pulls water up hundreds of feet without pumps
- vs adhesion
- Cohesion sticks to self, adhesion sticks to others
- droplet shape
- Why rain forms spheres, not random blobs
- mercury rebel
- So cohesive it beads instead of wetting glass
apollo 13 crew — three astronauts worked as unified team to survive 1970 lunar mission crisis
all blacks haka — new zealand rugby team's synchronized ceremonial dance before matches since 1884
barcelona tiki-taka — fc barcelona's 2008-2012 passing system required 11 players moving as single organism