Architecture Materials. Glass. Verre Glas

There is iron in the center of them instead of magnesium, so they are not green but red, but they are the same rings. The proteins of bacteria and the proteins of humans are the same. In fact it has recently been found that the protein-making machinery in the bacteria can be given orders from material from the red cells to produce red cell proteins. So close is life to life. The universality of the deep chemistry of living things is indeed a fantastic and beautiful thing. And all the time we human beings have been too proud even to recognize our kinship with the animals. Or there are the atoms. BeautifulБЂ”mile upon mile of one ball after another ball in some repeating pattern in a crystal. Things that look quiet and still, like a glass of water with a covered top that has been sitting for several days, are active all the time; the atoms are leaving the surface, bouncing around inside, and coming back. What looks still to our crude eyes is a wild and dynamic dance. And, again, it has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves ...»