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Minimum total potential energy principle
[[File:Irrotational vortex.gif|thumb|The self-gravitational involution of a mass can be visualized as a series of concentric shells. The higher a shell, the lower its rotational frequency. If we sufficiently extend the series of concentric shells, then the outermost shell's rotational frequency will be zero, so that the shell will have the lowest (''i.e.'', zero) actual energy (nonzero&#8209;frequency [[angular momentum]]) and the highest (''i.e.'', zero) potential energy (zero&#8209;frequency angular momentum).]]
The '''minimum total potential energy principle''', formulated in 1854 by [[w:William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|William Thomson]], dictates that the continuum's potential (''i.e.'', zero&#8209;frequency) energy ([[rest mass]]<ref name="RestMass"/>) tends to become ever more negative by condensing into positive actual (''i.e.'', nonzero&#8209;frequency) energy, a half of which becomes radiated into the ambient vacuum and deactualized ([[Red shift|redhshifted]] back to a zero frequency) by the relative expansion of the latter:
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(contracted; show full)—<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Terence_McKenna&oldid=2251202 Terence McKenna]]]

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