The Invention of Time and Space by Patrice F. Dassonville

Author:Patrice F. Dassonville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

6.2.1 Transtability

The Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (c. 570 BC–c. 480 BC) considered that everything changes, nothing disappears. For Parmenides (c. 504 BC–450 BC) in de Natura, the Universe was stationary; on the other hand, the philosopher Heraclitus (c. 540 BC–c. 480 BC) had an intuition of impermanence: (everything flows, nothing remains) (Ch. 5, 29). Lucretius wrote that nothing stays the same as it is now (Ch. 3, 15: Song V, 830). We also quoted Plutarch, who asserted the impossibility of observing a lethal substance twice in the same state.

The neologism transtable 3 is a technical convenience for saying with one word (in nuce: in a nutshell) that no system is in a steady state: every system is indefinitely seeking an equilibrium that it never reaches. This transtability is caused by continuing interactions between the system and the rest of the Universe. Therefore the state of a system is single, transitory, and irreversible. Apparent evolution of the state of a system:UNSTABLE STATE ⇒ DIFFERENT STATE SEEMINGLY STABLE

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