Faust's personality scatters and dissipates itself; he takes no action, lets himself be driven, hesitates, experiments, loses his way, considers, bargains, and is interested in his own little happiness".
The tension that exists between the stakeholders of Skid Row and the rest of downtown Los Angeles looks unlikely to dissipate by itself.
Furthermore, a recent interesting, if speculative, proposal suggests that, when driven by an external source of energy, matter will rearrange itself to dissipate this energy most efficiently.
But a new theory, proposed by a researcher at MIT and first reported in Quanta Magazine, proposes that when a group of atoms is exposed for a long time to a source of energy, it will restructure itself to dissipate more energy.
In his Post review, Smith suggested that Disney prevent this by taking the opposite course, simply ignoring Escape from Tomorrow and letting the attention dissipate by itself.
My friend Robert Pogue Harrison put it this way in a recent conversation: "Wherever the real imposes itself, it tends to dissipate the fogs of irony".
This fragile goodwill may dissipate, though, if the government does not apply itself to finding homes for its displaced citizens.
The economy would sort itself, homophobia and hate crime would dissipate, our contributions to global warming would magically reduce and all these awful things dragging the country to the dogs would be a distant, dark memory.
However, since light structures tend to be more flexible, it is necessary that the structure itself shows the ability of dissipating energy and stabilizing itself when subjected to external dynamic loadings imposed by the airflow.
