3 Quotes by Joseph Mazur
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Time dilation, inconstancy of mass, and special relativity suggest that motion is indeed illusory.
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After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.
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And our understanding of that motion remains fundamentally paradoxical.
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