Following three rupture and repair episodes, at time
199 the entity forms into the same morphology
encountered in run 1
(figure 9)--albeit, now rotated
through . This morphology again appears
relatively robust, persisting from time 199 to time
1437, through 12 rupture and self-repair episodes.
Between times 1438 and 1500 there are four
additional ruptures. Of these, one is successfully
repaired, but the overall damage to the membrane is now
too great, and by time 1508 it has degenerated into a
single curved chain as shown in
figure 14. Again, it is then no longer
possible to recover a closed membrane through any
simple process of self repair.
Figure 14: Experiment 2, Run 4, Time 1508.
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