Friday 31 August 2012

A thousand years of non-linear history

Manuel De Landa

When atoms are traveling straight down through empty space by their own weight, at quite indeterminate times and places, they swerve ever so little from their course, just so much that you would call it a change if direction.
If it were not for this swerve, everything would fall downwards through the abyss of space.
No collision would take place and no impact of atom on atom would be created.
Thus nature would never have created anything.
- Lucretius

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