MYTH MODEL: 14#84: WHAT PHYSICALITY IS
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14#84: WHAT PHYSICALITY IS
Definitions live in context;
lovers can have their own words
for things common to all lovers,
the experience of physicality included,
because physicality is motion
and motion permeates
all real things,
among which is making love.
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Motion, Galileo said,
is the primary property of things
for scientists to study;
let philosophers and theologians
play games
with the secondary properties of things.
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The properties of things
are known subjectively by their qualities,
and the quality of motion
is sensed
in the measure
of duration and extension,
time and space, baby.
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Galileo used his own pulse
and the ruled distances
on an inclined plane
to measure duration and extension,
and so he got the ball
of science rolling down it,
gathering momentum
right up to today.
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Newton had the high insight
that the idea of motion
includes change in motion.
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That insight turned
the science of measurement
of the primary property of motion
into physics—
birthing mass and force and fathering relativity,
in abstract mathematical precision that
unleashed the practical fecundity of technology.
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From the whole history of physics,
the Myth Model take home
is that all material Living Things
have a sense of motion
swaddled in the inseparable Qualities
of extension and duration,
mingled with other Qualities,
as tokened by the constants of physics,
those secondary properties
Galileo dismissed.
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John the Myth Modeler
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