Far from thinking of billiard balls as symbols of reality, Whitehead takes human experience as the event or process that points to the nature of all individual entities, from protons to people. (religion-online.org)
Most theorists hold that such ejections should be quite common during the chaotic tumult of a planetary system's early days, when closely - packed worlds whirling around a star can scatter off each other like billiard balls in a break shot. (scientificamerican.com)
Later he displayed a group of billiard balls in a triangular rack and showed how each ball moves in relation to the others. (religion-online.org)