Dialectical Materialism vs. "The New Physics"

by Mike Gimbel

Frederick Engels stated “…so long as we consider things as at rest and lifeless, each one by itself, alongside and after each other, we do not run up against any contradictions in them…But the position is quite different as soon as we consider things in their motion, their change, their life, their reciprocal influence on one another. Then we immediately become involved in contradictions. Motion itself is a contradiction: even simple mechanical change of position can only come about through a body being at one and the same time both in one place and in another place, being in one and the same place and also not in it…If simple mechanical change of place contains a contradiction, this is even more true of the higher forms of motion of matter…life consists precisely and primarily in this – that a being is at each moment itself and yet something