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(If statistically one third of all electrons have a speed of 1000 to 1100 seconds,
the probability of finding one electron at that speed is one third, it is said.) (Yet it is
admitted it is impossible to find one electron at any speed.) Bits of matter, thus, ...
(If statistically one third of all electrons have a speed of 1000 to 1100 seconds,
the probability of finding one electron at that speed is one third, it is said.) (Yet it is
admitted it is impossible to find one electron at any speed.) Bits of matter, thus, ...
Page 122
Speed The Futurist Morality will defend man from the decay caused by slowness,
by memory, by analysis, by repose and habit. Human energy centupled by speed
will master time and space. . . . The intoxication of great speeds in cars is ...
Speed The Futurist Morality will defend man from the decay caused by slowness,
by memory, by analysis, by repose and habit. Human energy centupled by speed
will master time and space. . . . The intoxication of great speeds in cars is ...
Page 149
But at the speed of light, he lets her know, mass no longer exists; she is
incapable of that kind of speed, he says, she would perish at that speed. And time
in the sky, he tells her, is measured in light- years. From the earth to the moon, he
says, ...
But at the speed of light, he lets her know, mass no longer exists; she is
incapable of that kind of speed, he says, she would perish at that speed. And time
in the sky, he tells her, is measured in light- years. From the earth to the moon, he
says, ...
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Contents
MATTER | 5 |
land Her Changing Face | 47 |
TIMBER What Was Therefor Them | 56 |
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| Title | Woman and nature: the roaring inside her |
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0060115114, 9780060115111 |
| Length | 263 pages |
| Subjects | › › Feminism Nature Poetry / American / General Sex role Social Science / Women's Studies Women |
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