Crumbling of Soils

Abstract

Everybody has had many opportunities to observe breadcrumbs or the crumbs of a cake. Within each crumb one can easily see coarse as well as tiny small holes or pores. And between crumbs, the pores are really big. Whenever a bakery produces bread without those big pores, the bread is heavy, has no tendency to crumble, and is hard to swallow. People stop shopping at that bakery. Similarly, cakes without an attractive pattern of large and small holes and crevices are heavy, appear like a piece of concrete, and are unwanted in a bistro. Without satisfied customers the bakery and the bistro are both on a path to bankruptcy.