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Here are three such columns of tetrahedra which cycle around each ten tetrahedra. This is a very interesting kind of number: ten to cycle. When Drs. Watson and Crick made their famous model of the DNA, the deoxyribonucleic acid, they made a chemists’ reconstruct from the information they were receiving, but not as a microscopic photograph at all. It wasn’t a photograph through a camera, but simply a typical chemist’s reconstruction of the data they were receiving of the associating and disassociating and they found a helix was developing. They found there were 36 degrees to each increment of the helix and the 36 degrees broke into ten increments in every cycle and the increments were the same as our tetrahedra we give here. Now there has been no identification of this tetrahedronal column with the Watson-Crick model, but the number is extremely interesting. Then we find that these columns of tetrahedra-- there has been an identification made by some of the molecular biologists when I gave them this tetrahelix column and they have foundthat it is of the structure used by some of the muscle fibers of man, the fundamental muscle fibers in nature, but it could also have some identification with the DNA. We don’t know whether it does; we don’t know whether it doesn’t…
