¶ Sphere
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"In further demonstration of the non-mirrored complementary phenomena, we note that compression columns become more and more effective as we make them fatter and fatter going from long, thin cylinders to cigar-shaped systems. By increasing the compression member’s relative girth and shortening its height still further, we finally develop a compression structure that is spherical.
“The sphere is compressionaly ideal. As a slender column it had to be loaded carefully on its neutral vertical axis to avoid eccentric bending. When it is a sphere, however, the compression loads applied from any direction are automatically opposed by one of an infinity of neutral axes. The sphere provides nature’s optimum limit in structural opposition to compressive forces in universe-- ergo, the stars and planets and atoms are all spherical islands of compression.”
