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| | MAYBE QUARTERLY - Vol 2 / Issue 3 - Time Piece |
 | | Most humans throughout history have considered time (in the big picture) as having a cyclic quality – as clear as Day and Night, and the passing and return of the seasons. |
 | | Nature itself is greatly taken with spirals, and plays unending variations on this single theme, from the helical homes of snails and a thousand sea-creatures, the spiralling horns of a multitude of animals, the coiled cochlear organs of human ears, up to the monstrous and menacing spirals of whirlpools, water-spouts and tornadoes. |
 | | Working at IN PRAISE OF TIME the opposite end of the scale, two physicists, Watson and Crick, won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for their (demonstration that the basic DNA molecule, which holds the secret of the genes, has the structure of a double spiral. |
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