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TOWARDS INFINITY
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geodesics about it to the other geodesics in the world—and matter cannot be thought of apart from its field." It is all a tangle of relations; physical theory starts with the simplest constituents, philosophical theory with the most familiar constituents. They may reach the same goal; but their methods are often incompatible.