SULLIVAN: OK, I’m Worried

INDIANAPOLIS – It is understandable that the name Werner Heisenberg rarely crops up in racing circles. Most people don’t spend much time thinking about quantum mechanics or the uncertainty principle, nonetheless a passage from a relatively popular work, “The Rigor of Angels,” grabbed my attention.

Author William Egginton noted that one popular strain of thought suggests “everything was flux; stability itself was nothing but delusion … the flow of time ensures that nothing we perceive as stable and persistent is in reality the same as it was.”