Compression accumulates potential. As demonstrated in the arch, compression is limited to absolute, local, and within-law relationships of one fixed system. Tension is comprehensive, attractive, and gravitational. Tension is inherently integral and eternally, invisibly, infinitely comprehensive. Tension is comprehensively without law.
Compression tends toward arcs of decreasing radius.
Tension tends toward arcs of increasing radius. Compressions are plural. Tension is singular. Compression is time. Tension is eternity.