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the shape that can't make up its mind, so it commits to all of them

means a curve that winds continuously around a fixed point while moving steadily closer to or farther from it.

from From Latin 'spira,' a coil or twist, by way of Medieval Latin 'spiralis' and French 'spirale.' The Latin itself traces back to Greek 'speira,' meaning a winding or coil — the same root that wraps around words for things twisted and looped.

galaxy math
Milky Way arms follow a logarithmic spiral
shell logic
nautilus grows in spiral, never resizing old chambers
DNA twist
your genetic code is a double spiral staircase
weather rage
hurricanes spin into spirals around their calm eye
golden link
spirals approximate the famous golden ratio
for instance

milky way galaxy — our galaxy, a barred spiral with 100-400 billion stars, visible from earth

whirlpool galaxy — messier 51, classic spiral galaxy 23 million light-years away, first identified as spiral in 1845

hurricane katrina — 2005 atlantic hurricane, satellite images showed iconic spiral structure before hitting new orleans

golden ratio spiral — nautilus shell cross-section, demonstrates fibonacci sequence in nature, found in all oceans

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