¶ Axis of Spin (1)
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"Euler said that every pattern in the Universe is characterized where the lines cross (the vertexes) and areas (where three lines cross giving any closed set.) And we found that for all polyhedron the number of vertexes plus the number of faces equals the number of edges plus two.
"I thought this plus twoness over and the fact that I found two extra spheres in every layer of closest packing had probably some significance. So I said, one thing we have learned about all systems when isolated from other systems, is that they have the ability to be rotated around or for things to rotate around them. Therefore there are axes of spin. Every system has to have some kind of axis.
“We look at the reel of your tape recorder here and we look at the top of that reel which is going eastward and the bottom is going westward. And the top is going quite fast to the eastward. If I go in from the center, the speed from the top is going slower as it goes close to center, and the bottom is going slower and slower eastward as you go close to the center. Finally at some point in the center”
