  | | "The earlier concept of a universe made up of physical
particles interacting according to fixed laws is no longer
tenable. It is implicit in present findings that action rather
than matter is basic. . . This is good news, for it is no
longer appropriate to think of the universe as a gradually
subsiding agitation of billiard balls. The universe, far from
being a desert of inert particles, is a theatre of
increasingly complex organization, a stage for
development in which man has a definite place, without
any upper limit to his evolution." --Arthur M. Young The Reflexive Universe |