--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> IIRC Epicurus postulated the curve in order to
> account
> for change -- if the whole universe is atoms moving
> in
> one direction at the same speed, with nothing to
> alter
> that arrangement, they will always remain in the
> same
> position relative to one another.
>
>
> --- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> >
> > Reply to Justin: I don't think Epicurus gave an
> > explanation for the curve.
> > At any rate, both Democrius' version of the atom
> and
> > Epircurus' swerving
> > atom are not precisely like the modern scientific
> > descriptions, just
> > interestingly overlapping pictures or concepts for
> > obvious reasons
> >
> >
>
> Nu, zayats, pogodi!
>
>
>
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