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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 2 December 1921
Long walk over hills.
4.18 P.M. Catastrophism. Nature is a continuous phenomenon concealed by apparent jumps, as Poincare says. But each step is definite. As Russell says, a fog is composed of a finite number of definite particles. So each change of state occurs suddenly, and there is no reason to be surprised at the "complete disappearance" of energy or matter; it is only gone elsewhere. So I refuse to abandon Newton's 3rd Law just because Lorentz cannot account for what looks like lack of compensation.
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