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Axis of Spin:
"they can’t be going the other way. There must be a neutral axis but you can’t see it. This shows up time and time again in mathematics. Brouwer’s mathematical theorem really shows this… you have a large number aggregate of points very randomly disposed and you stir all those points. It’s easy to prove mathematically that one of the points never moves in respect to the total mass.
"There is always a neutral axis because every system must have the two faces, obverse and reverse. So there must be another point in the southern hemisphere that also didn’t move. So those two points are always in any matrix of seeming total disorder: two will not have moved.
“So these are the axes of spin of systems. If I need an axis of spin, therefore, I find it very interesting that in agglomerating these layers and allowing for the really very large-size numbers that would be accounted for in the masses of Earth. And Newton working in the gravitation of mass defines it in terms of the second power of the relative proximity of the masses. And that second power is in terms of the diameters”
