Correct me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they’re gonna lock me up and throw away the key.
— Carl Spackler
For simplicity, but also quite accurately, you could define the Modern Era with Newton’s Second Law: F=MxA. Though more accurately for this piece, we can use the derivative Acceleration = Force divided by Mass. Simply, this is one equation that defines the movement and shaping of physical things. At it’s foundation, the Modern Era has been the human use of fossil fuel energy, coal, oil, and more recently natural gas, to shape and move physical things. Using these energy supplies, these forces, has allowed humanity in the past two-centuries, to reshape and move about this planet in ways unprecedented from the rest of human history. Now there’s been plenty of good in this, but also, and much less debated, plenty bad. Whether good or bad, this reshaping and movement allowed the transformation of locality, the ability to transcend defining by the local, leading paradoxically to ever increasing homogeneity.
On physics and money Joe Costello
Physics and Money
— Carl Spackler
For simplicity, but also quite accurately, you could define the Modern Era with Newton’s Second Law: F=MxA. Though more accurately for this piece, we can use the derivative Acceleration = Force divided by Mass. Simply, this is one equation that defines the movement and shaping of physical things. At it’s foundation, the Modern Era has been the human use of fossil fuel energy, coal, oil, and more recently natural gas, to shape and move physical things. Using these energy supplies, these forces, has allowed humanity in the past two-centuries, to reshape and move about this planet in ways unprecedented from the rest of human history. Now there’s been plenty of good in this, but also, and much less debated, plenty bad. Whether good or bad, this reshaping and movement allowed the transformation of locality, the ability to transcend defining by the local, leading paradoxically to ever increasing homogeneity.
On physics and money Joe Costello