But atoms, which are completely solid and single, When they pass through the empty void, and nothing Outside of them delays them, then they move As single units on the course on which they started. 160 Therefore they must be of surpassing speed And move much faster than the light of the sun, And cover a distance many times as great In the time the sun’s flash takes to cross the sky.
This is astonishing: two thousand years ago conceiving that light had a speed and that it was limited.
