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Origins of Discontinuity

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Discontinuities occur when light refracts, when neurons or electronic switches activate, and when collisions or decisions or mitosis or myriad other processes enact a change of regime. We observe them in empirical laws, in the structure of solid bodies, and also in the series expansions of certain mathematical functions.

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Jeffrey, M.R. (2018). Origins of Discontinuity. In: Hidden Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02107-8_1

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