Laplace's Law [Retrospectroscope]

Soap bubbles, rubber balloons, and distended bellies have been seen and experienced by men over centuries giving them the idea of tension and eventually the feeling of blowing out, until someone found a physicomathematical explanation to close the loop from practical to theoretical knowledge and so making a few guys happy, which does not mean at all that the inflated sensation will not show up again and that cattle in the country will not be treated with a stab in the tummy by a would-be-veterinary-doctor to relieve bloat.