Morphea the virtual World
The Democritus’s Theory It goes way back, One fine morning some twenty-five hundred years ago, the Greek philosopher Democritus was waiting for a feast when the smell of baking bread wafted from the kitchen to his nostrils. Democritus postulated that although the bread was far away, small parts of that bread travelled the distance to reach his nose. Democritus imagined a very sharp knife that would cut the bread into tinier and tinier pieces of matter down to an amount that could no longer be cut. He called this the Atomos – that which cannot be divided: the building blocks of the universe. The introduction of the Ʃis In some 43,000 years from now, in the first chapter of The Cell, the Ʃi makes its very first arrival in literature. the smallest thing ever to exist. Known as “zero’s shadow,” this creature is so tiny and light that nothing can divide it. In the novel, the writer has defined the Ʃi as a combination of immaterial information. Every being ...