Now
Index Entry
Now:
"How is where man has kidded himself into thinking that there's no change at all.
"Take the gestation rates from the elephant to the half-life radioactivity of atoms which approach cosmic speeds and get back into eternity. What we call now is just a slow-down. In the Gay 90's most people thought that there was no change at all. Even Newton could say 'at rest.'
"I ramified the idealistic-- which is essential to all the palpitations. It goes back to angle, and triangle; and conceptuality independent of size and starting with the fundamental idea that there must be a nucleus. There is no straight line; only the wave coincides with reality."
Citations
- RBF to EJA, at breakfast j200, Idaho, DC, after RBF had read first three chapters of Eccles 'Facing Reality,' until 3:00 a.m. the night before, 14 Feb '72.
