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...great French creators of style are a match for them. Never accustomed hitherto to showing their latest models to the vulgar public, they have created for the Exposition dresses too breathtakingly extreme, fantastic and sumptuous to be worn by one woman in a million, show them mostly on featureless-faced mannequins rough-hewn of pinkish beige plaster, some as disproportioned as surrealism. Barely practical are the clothes shown by Paris conservatives such as Alix, Worth and Lelong. Scorning plaster women, Lanvin has draped two gowns of medieval inspiration and some handsome furs on a gigantic horse and an heraldic lion...
...scattered, dissipated, disorganized. Small reorganizations of energy are possible but always at the expense of a little greater disorganization. In such wise the total energy must go on being shuffled until no further shuffling is possible and its distribution is completely chaotic. Then the Universe will be a "uniform featureless mass in thermodynamic equilibrium"-a warmish, formless soup of aimless atoms and radiation in which nothing ever happens and Time, having lost every shred of meaning, rolls wearily on to infinity...
Thus the cosmologists. Sir Arthur Eddington has done more than anyone else to bring home to laymen the terrible significance of the Second Law. But nimble Sir Arthur, having reduced the Universe to a featureless mass, refuses to let it stay in that condition forever. He shows that the Second Law is, after all, only a statistical law, a mountainous piling up of probability. There is no reason why, sometime, a number of air molecules rushing helter-skelter about a room should not -just by accident-rush into a toy balloon and blow it up. It does not happen because...
Last week in Philadelphia Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, director of the Bartol Research Foundation and able popularizer (The Architecture of the Universe), took a group of distinguished hearers for a ride on the Second Law, got the Universe into an even worse state than Eddington's featureless mass, finally resurrected it. In Dr. Swann's vague soup there was not a particle of matter, all of it having been turned into radiation according to Einstein's sinister little equation, E = MC 2 . His thermodynamic-equilibrium Universe was therefore a vast sea of electromagnetic vibration, nothing more...
...Described by a correspondent of Britain's leading Conservative paper, the London Morning Iost, as "just dreadful-an ugly, big. heavy, bare, forbidding red brick factory with the straight lines of featureless windows and a tower-like tank-utterly out of harmony with the lovely Avon reach that it does its best to monopolize" (being built on the river's brim...