From Leibniz: gravity is the universal striving toward a more perfect beauty

2013-12-07 Thread Roger Clough
From Leibniz: gravity is the universal striving toward a more perfect beauty James Collins, in chapter III, section 3 of The Continental Rationalists, [Bruce publishing, 1967] discusses the metaphysics of Leibniz, in particular Leibniz's belief that the universe is striving toward a more

Re: From Leibniz: gravity is the universal striving toward a more perfect beauty

2013-12-07 Thread LizR
Leibniz doesn't appear to be correct. The universe gives the appearance of striving to become larger, and eventually losing bits of itself over the cosmic event horizon, until in the distant future there will perhaps only be a few galaxies left within anyone's Hubble sphere. -- You received this