[TXnMA]

(1) The physical world is made up of inert and changeless matter, and this matter changes only in terms of location in space;

If you are to be rigorous in your analysis, you must concede that this premise is inherently wrong.

E = MC² declares that to be the case.

[TXnMA]

Correction: Not you, milady -- but Nadeau and Kafatos -- are guilty of gross oversimplification -- such as one might expect from the likes of K. Hamm...

[betty boop]

...this premise is inherently wrong.... E = MC² declares that to be the case.

Your correction duly noted, TXnMA! Perhaps Kafatos -- a Romanian physicist -- and Nadeau -- an American historian of science -- have oversimplified a bit. Then again, one might give them a pass by qualifying their statement as an observation from the Newtonian point of view. I imagine prior to relativity theory and quantum theory, such a statement would have been accepted by scientists as essentially correct.

Yet one of the major points Nadeau and Kafatos stress in The Non-local Universe is the insufficiency of the Newtonian ("classical") view to explain what is really going on in the universe.

So "go figure!" :^) (I really did like the book.)

Thanks so much for writing, TXnMA!