Daniel Garber and Dennis Des Chene have shown that Descartes' collision rules can be reinterpreted as governing reciprocal transfer within contiguous neighborhoods without invoking absolute space.
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Reciprocal transfer(in describing motion between objects)
A two-way exchange where both sides give something to each other at the same time.
absolute space(Newtonian mechanics, critiqued by Einstein and Mach)
Newton's concept of a fixed, unobservable spatial framework with respect to which true motions are defined; the reference frame to which Foucault's pendulum was said to remain aligned
collision rules(as physics principles within Descartes' system)
The principles or laws that describe what happens when two objects bump into each other—how they bounce, stick together, or transfer energy.