The best theory of such a world, in Gassendi's opinion, is the ancient atomism expounded by Epicurus (341 270 bce), according to which atoms are eternal, differently shaped, and moving at different speeds.
In 1905 Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity, in which he explained that space and time are really different aspects of a single unified thing that are perceived differently by observers moving at different speeds.
One sequence involves dancers moving at different speeds.
Often the dancers are moving at different speeds and in separate phrases.
No one argues against this, but it is clear different companies are moving at different speeds.
Water molecules bounce off one another chaotically, moving at different velocities, under changing pressure.
Later the group clumps into a moving sculpture, moving at different rates on different levels.
Mr. Zammuto likes his music stratified, with different layers moving at different speeds, nested mathematically.
Dancers moving at different speeds on different stages coincide (a favorite Cunningham effect).
The reality is that life's a roller coaster – up and down, backwards and forwards, with everyone moving at different speeds.
Nothing quite like this joining of two radically opposed worlds moving at different speeds had been heard in music before.
