Clinamen is the word Lucretius gave to the unpredictableswerve of atoms. He means that these atoms don't just fall down, but because of the swerve collisions happen.[1] Lucretius wrote that without this slight swerve (atoms) would "fall like raindrops and never touch and the world would have never been made".[1] Lucretius was the first to write about Chaos theory.[2]
References
↑ 1.01.1Titus Lucretius Carus; William Augustus Merrill, Lucretius De Rerum Natura (New York; Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1907), p. 414
↑Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality, ed. Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), p. 90
