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...added: "There is no reason why New York should keep on building with doors and windows and separate floor slabs one above the other.'' His building has only two doors (both on the outside; none between rooms), one long spiral window, which winds like the floor in gradually expanding, gradually ascending circles. The museum's wide-open interior is lighted from a dome of pyrex tubing...
...Century. "It will outdo in bizarre appearance any other building in the world," was the verdict of one appraising eye. Fiery old (76) Frank Lloyd Wright, the man who designed it, proudly says that it will be the first building ever conceived in the form of a true logarithmic spiral (descending spiral, widest...
...structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
...Professor Shapley has noticed that spiral galaxies have many star clusters and star clouds - a sign of youth, not age. A star cluster, he observed, is unstable. As it rotates, its stars, revolving at various speeds around the cluster's nucleus, are torn apart by "shearing forces" which break up the cluster and disperse the stars evenly through the galaxy...
Shapley further observed that spiral galaxies (especially the Milky Way) have many unstable, relatively short-lived supergiant stars, another sign of immaturity. Because spherical galaxies, on the other hand, have a smooth, stable structure with few star clusters and no supergiants, he concluded that a galaxy evolves from a spiral to a ball, not vice versa...