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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Nature of the Universe' and 'Letter to Herodotus'

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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
5706 Atoms move themselves [Lucretius]
5696 If there were no space there could be no movement, or even creation [Lucretius]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / d. Entropy
5700 It is quicker to break things up than to assemble them [Lucretius]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void
14043 The void cannot interact, but just gives the possibility of motion [Epicurus]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
14031 Space must exist, since movement is obvious, and there must be somewhere to move in [Epicurus]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
20820 Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
5698 We can only sense time by means of movement, or its absence [Lucretius]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
5715 This earth is very unlikely to be the only one created [Lucretius]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe
5694 Nothing can be created by divine power out of nothing [Lucretius]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 10. Multiverse
14036 There are endless cosmoi, some like and some unlike this one [Epicurus]