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Therefore, the world was conceived as a mechanism made of a large number of components that acted independently and uniformly. The beginning of the twentieth century saw the collapse of the mechanistic theory, even in physics (where it was born). Sets of interacting relationships now occupy the center of attention and appear to be of such a disconcerting complexity, that even within a simple physical entity like the atom; the explanatory capacity of Newtonian mechanics has been seriously questioned.
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