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Originally posted by brain page
Well it’s a happy day here at ATS. For I, Mr. BRAN PAGE, one of the smartest people on earth, have decided to grace this blog with my fantastic understandings about everything.
Originally posted by brain page
But if seriousness is all that’s in order, riddle me this? What theory predicts that Area + Movement = Matter? And who was the author of that theory?
Originally posted by brain page
What theory predicts that Area + Movement = Matter? And who was the author of that theory?
"I conceive its extension, or the property it has of occupying space, not at all as an accident, but as its true form and essence.' Extension is the essence of matter then....
...I observed that nothing at all belonged to the nature of essence of body except that it was a thing with length and breadth and depth, admitting of various shapes and various motions. I found also that its shapes and motions were only modes, which no power could make to exist apart from it; and on the other hand that colours, odours, savours and the rest of such things, were merely sensations existing in my thought and differing no less from bodies than pain differs from the shape and motion of the instrument which inflicts it...
----René Descartes from the 'Le Monde'