Rocks viewed at scale

 
Morton 187: "On an inhumanly large timescale, rocks behave like liquids, coming and going, moving, shifting, melting. Rocks fail to sit there doing nothing. Humans aren't caught in anthropocentrism without an exist, because they can discern rocks to be liquid, attuning to the timescale on which that liquidity operates, letting it affect them, becoming excited or horrified."
 
"Furthermore, on an inhumanly small spatio-temporal scale, tiny slivers of rock vibrate all by themselves. [...] They vibrate and not-vibrate at the same time. [They operate] 'between' active and passive, in this quantum theoretical sense"
 
"The ground state of an entity is [...] shimmering without mechanical input."
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

> tagged with #physics, #objects

> created April 21, 2024 at 3:24:15 PM


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