Question

A discussion of how to discover the “true” type of this phenomenon uses the example of two identical globes connected by a cord, and appears in one of the scholia (“SKOH-lee-uh”) of a 17th-century book. “Endeavour” is the collective name for the “small beginnings” of this phenomenon, which include aversion and appetite, according to a book that distinguishes “vital” and “voluntary” (-5[1])forms of this phenomenon. (10[1])Thomas (10[1])Hobbes, who characterized (10[1])“conatus” (10[1]) (“koh-NAY-tus”) as an infinitesimal unit of this (10[1])phenomenon, defined life as a form of it in the (10[1])first paragraph (10[2])of (10[1])Leviathan. Newton’s (10[1])theory that space, time, and this phenomenon are absolute is rejected in a George Berkeley essay titled for this phenomenon in (10[1])Latin. For 10 (10[1])points, name this physical phenomenon which is an illusion according to (10[3])Zeno’s (10[1])paradoxes. (10[6]0[2])■END■

ANSWER: motion [accept movement; accept moving; accept De Motu; accept rotation until “beginnings” is read]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2396%0%4%102.82

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Amogh KulkarniChicago BWUSTL A59-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BFlorida B6310
Ricky LiMIT ATexas A6410
Ned TagtmeierChicago AStanford A6710
Joel MilesMinnesota AColumbia A6810
Alex AkridgeIndiana AChicago C7510
Chris RayOhio State AMaryland A8510
Andrew HannaVanderbilt ANYU A8710
Geoffrey ChenCornell ABrown A8710
James StevensonMichigan ARutgers B8810
Matt BollingerGeorgia Tech AYale A9010
Enoch YuenImperial AMinnesota B11110
Jack ObermanSouth Carolina APenn State A11410
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AToronto A12510
Graham CopeFlorida ADuke A12510
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley ACornell B12510
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard ANorthwestern A12610
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AChicago B12710
Quynh PhungPurdue AJohns Hopkins A12710
Max BrodskyIllinois AMcGill A12710
Matthew SiffYale BVirginia A12710
Conor ThompsonIowa State AGeorgia Tech B1270
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BIowa State A1270
Kevin YeUC Berkeley BHouston A12710
June YinWUSTL BPenn A12710