Concept
Solidity
You are not touching your chair; no particle in you meets a particle in it, and what you feel as resistance is a field relationship with real emptiness on both sides. Pushed to its physical limit, this is the clearest possible case that a relationship can be as real as the things it relates.
Lineage
- Grows out of
- The symphysical
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part One — Why This MattersThe Third ThingWhen simple parts repeat together long enough, something new appears that existed in none of them — and that something is real.