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[[File:Big Red Ball comparison.jpg|thumb|175px|link=Big Red Ball Phenomenon|The Big Red Ball Phenomenon is an alleged transdimensional corporation responsible for a series of anomalous behaviors involving large red inflatable balls.
[[File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|thumb|175px|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|"Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."<br>—J. Robert Oppenheimer ((April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967))]]
The [[Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction)]] of August 19, 2015 is an early example. These anomalous behaviors have been linked to a geometrical domain of [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against spheres]], with further evidence implicating the criminal mathematical function [[Gnotilus]].]]
 
• ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician '''[[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]]''' Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (''jadhb''): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"?
• ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician '''[[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]]''' Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (''jadhb''): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"?

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"Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."
—J. Robert Oppenheimer ((April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967))

• ... that physician, astronomer, and mathematician Thābit ibn Qurra Thabit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element, and that Thābit instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, with the order of the universe a result of two competing attractions (jadhb): one of these being "between the sublunar and celestial elements", and the other being "between all parts of each element separately"?

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