ABSTRACT
Twentieth-century humanity finds itself then, if Einstein’s vision is in outline correct, not standing on the brink of an infinite abyss of whirling atoms, but rather eddying in an allpervasive medium, a medium analogous to a fluid, in which the currents and waves are ‘forces’ and the vortices are ‘matter’. We ourselves are complex ripples propagating in its depths. Substantivally speaking we are identical with the universe: it is into its substance that the pattern that is our signature is written.
