Редактирование: Guide to Atmospherics (раздел)

==Pipeline and Pipenet Theory==
If there is one part of Atmospherics 301 that you should read, this is it.
[[File:pipenet_explanation.png|400px|thumb|right|Pipenet Explanation]]

Our pipes does not simulate flow. Every interlinked pipe is combined into a single pipeline, and every pipeline member is subject to gas sharing. <b>This gas sharing is instantaneous</b>. Lets take the picture on the picture to our right as an example. The gas from the canister will immediately appear on the first node of the volume pump because both of them are connected through the same pipeline, even if the pipes are ten, twenty, or a hundred times longer. As long as two things are part of the same line they will equalize instantly.

<b>The amount that each part of the pipeline gets in the aforementioned gas sharing process is determined by their volume.</b> The first node of the gas pump will get 200/(210+1000+200) of the gas present in the pipeline, the pipes themselves will get 210/(210+1000+200), and the canister will get 1000/(210+1000+200). <b> Most atmospheric devices perform actions only on the gas directly present in their nodes.</b> The pump will only be able to pump this 200/(210+1000+200) portion of the gas allotted to it to the second node. The pipeline will then redo the gas sharing, just with less gas in it (because a part of it has been pumped away), and the process can repeat again.

This means that for bigger and bigger pipelines, each machinery will have a smaller and smaller share of the total volume and will be able to perform work on less and less gas. This is why taking gas out of the huge distribution loop is tedious and long, this is why some supermatter setups will lack moles directly inside the chamber if you expand the cooling space loop too much, this is why thermomachines are less reliable on very huge pipe networks.