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the universe's refusal to sit still, scaled from atoms to galaxies fleeing each other

means The act, process, or state of changing position or movinganything from a wave of the hand to the drift of continents.

from From Latin 'motio,' meaning a moving or motion, built on 'movere,' 'to move' — the same root that powers 'move,' 'motor,' 'mobile,' and 'momentum.' It reached English through Old French 'motion' in the late Middle Ages. That busy little 'movere' is one of Latin's great verbs, spinning off a whole family of words about getting things to go.

always relativeYou're never truly still; Earth spins at 1000 mph
first lawObjects keep moving until something rudely intervenes
frozen blurCinema fakes motion with 24 still frames per second
perpetual mythFriction kills every dream of endless free movement
sickness signalMotion sickness is your brain detecting possible poison
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