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Verbs: No 'Where’s, No 'What’s, Only 'When’s:
“Because physics has found no continuums, no experimental solids, no things, no real matter, I had decided half a century ago to identify mathematical behaviors of energy phenomena only as events. If there are no things, there are no nouns of material substance. The old semantics permitted common-sense acceptance of such a sentence as , ‘A man pounds the table,’ wherein a noun verbs a noun or a subject verbs a predicate. I found it necessary to change this form to a complex of events identified as me, which must be identified as a verb. The complex verb me observed another complex of events identified again ignorantly as a ‘table.’ I disciplined myself to communicate exclusively with verbs. There are no wheres and whats, only angle and frequency events described as whens.”
