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The Forum: Fragmentation:  How Tiny Pieces Explain the Whole Picture

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24/10/2015 GMT

Fragmentation:  How Tiny Pieces Explain the Whole Picture

BBC World Service - The Forum, Fragmentation:  How Tiny Pieces Explain the Whole Picture

What can fragmented knowledge and physical matter tell us?

Fragmentation explored in art, in ruins, in the multi-verse and in explosions.

Everything can be broken down into component parts and this multiplicity of existence can  increasingly  be examined and analysed in minute detail - and may be apparent in the potential for a 'multi-verse’. And of course fragmentation can occur in many spheres. It can occur in the brain causing observable damage and in memory and dreams. And, it appears in art and film and writing, and more literally, in the physical environment, telling us stories about the past. 

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