The World of Science. . . a nebulous land of wonder with endless corridors and rigid laws!  Each maze explored and each law revealed brings new understanding.  Men of the world must share knowledge with the men of science.  The rare and exciting three-dimensional portrait of the World of Science is a mosaic of impressions, experiences, sights and sensations, each carefully fitted together to produce entertainment and enlightenment.

The space gothic complex of six internonnected buildings, forming the United Science Exhibit, clusters around a landscaped, reflecting pool.  Five graceful open arches tower over the forecourt and a multi-level platform bridges the water and opens the way to the World of Science.

THE HOUSE OF SCIENCE

Films using a unique new system of seven synchronized projectors introduce the audience to science and the scientist and establish the themes of the exhibition.  Man began building the house of science when he began looking for an insight into the natural order.  Ever since he has been adding to knowledge and understanding with his insationable search.

No one knows who placed the foundations or who erected the frame.  But the picture of later development is fairly clear.  As the scientist gleaned new information, he added to the structure.  Sometimes it meant building on existing knowledge.  Other times, it meant destroying walls and rebuilding.  There were long intervals between construction in some areas, while new sections went up in a rush of activity following a major breakthrough or discovery.

Throughout the house of science, despite differences in time and fields of study, there is coherence which makes it one of the most durable and important structures raised by man's intellect.

The scientists who are building today's additions are working at a pace unimaginable before.  Equipped with precission tools, broad channels of communication and laboratory facilities, they are pushing back the edge of ignorance.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE

Natural phenomena prompt man's curiousity; films and audience participation laboratory experiments re-create the great discoveries.

A flash of lightning splits the black night sky . . . white-capped waves lap on the ocean shore . . . seagulls soar on motionless wings in the still, blue air . . . a creature is born . . .

Dramatic or tender, violent or mysterious, the ways of nature stir man's imagination and challenge his understanding.

To begin his unceasing search into the secrets of nature, man only has five senses to perceive physical phenomenon.  Often his senses betrayed him with false impressions or failed to convey any impression at all.  The eye, for instance, saw earth and sky meeting at the horison.  It apprehended only a narrow section of the range of light.  Distant objects were unclear.  Minute particles were unknown.

Man's ability to deduce the underlying causes in the natural order depended upon accurate interpretation of the things he could see.  He had to be precise.  He had to develop instruments to clarify and exten his senses.  To the farther, he built the telescope.  To the closer, he built the microscope.  He designed instruments to capture sound waves his ear would not accept, to wegh the atom, to calculate electrical forces, to measure radiation.

By reducing his data to numbers the scientist can express the laws of science in formulas and apply them in dimensions of his own choosing.  Mathematics is the language of science.

The concept of numbers, their order and their expression by symbols is basic to all human endeavor.  Man almost surely began counting by using things.  He saw three fish, three rocks three trees and he discovered they had in common three-ness.  He took two rocks away and he had one.  He learned that numbers had order: one, two, three.  Rocks ran short so he began expressing numbers in symbols.

Once he had symbols, he found he could manipulate them.  He conceived the equation.  By reducing energy and matter to numbers, he developed a scientific shorthand.

Thus the story of science unfolds.  It is the story of climactic discoveries and dramatic turnings.  The names of its heroes have become household words: Faraday and Einstein, Madame Curie and Newton, Galileo and Darwin.  They changed ways of living and even ways of thinking.  And they led mankind to the threshold of outer space.

THE SPACEARIUM

A vivid experience of space flight under a hemispheric screen.  The amazing degrees, surrounding the audience with planets and galaxies.

Man in space!  Improbable! A trip to the moon!  Poetic fancy of a songwriter!

Not fiction nor fancy.  No Phophecy.  Men living today will land on the moon.  Space travel is reality.

Astronaut to Earth, astronaut to Earth . . . the moon is dead ahead . . . I can see it through the forward port. . . it is a vast desert pockmarked with craters and ringed with jagged mountains . . . there is no water, no sign of life . . . I am circling Earth now . . . will pass the sun next.

There it is . . . off to the left . . . unbelievable . . . great leaping waves of fire shoot thousands of miles into space . . . the light is blinding.

I can make out Mars ahead . . . I'll pass very close to one of its moons, Phobos, the smaller one . . . Mars has a reddish cast and I can make out its canals.

Astronaut to Earth . . . I see Saturn . . . its rings are colored like a rainbow . . . there is one of its nine moons, it could be Rhea . . . nothing but solid masses of ice on Saturn's surface.

Earth, this is Astronaut . . . I've left the solar system . . . Pluto is behind me . . . I'm two billion seven hundred million miles into space . . . I'll soon be in the hub of the milky way . . . there are billions of stars around . . . whirling clouds of gas all about me.

Supernova!  That star simply exploded!  It's brighter than all the other stars in the galaxy . . . that shell of gases will be visible for thousands of years to come . . .

Man's trip to the moon is still in the future and he may never reach the outer galaxy, two billion light years away.  But a journey to a star takes only ten minutes in the imaginative Spacearium in the World of Science.

THE METHODS OF SCIENCE

Exhibits show the working areas of today's scientists; the nature of behavior and the secrets of energy and life.

Scientific research starts with a question.  There is no predetermined procedure for working in science; there is no single scientific method.  There are, instead, as many methods as ther are questions.

Whatever method or technique the scientist uses to find an answer, the indispensable tools in his laboratory are his own imagination and logic.

THE HORIZONS OF SCIENCE

An entreaty for the future of science; how science and technology can be used by society to help broaded mankind's civilization and his future.

The horizons of science are without limit and inseparably intertwined with the future of men.

DOING SCIENCE

Here children participate in science.  They help with elemental experiments and discover for themselves important concepts and laws, under the guidance of specially selected instructors.

When the answers grow out of trial and error, they have imediacy and impact.  This special section of the United States Science Exhibit is for young people only.  It is a laboratory in which youngsters, eight to thirteen, can experience directly the thrill of discovery.  The experiments and lessons to be learned are scaled to the child's capacity.  Fledgling scientist or not, each child will leave with a deeper understanding of the relationships and functions of the natural order.