Homogeneity is the quality of being similar or uniform.

and heterogeneity is the quality of

being diverse or incom- parable.1.

Definition •A trans-planetary process(es) involving

increasing liquidity and the growing multidirectional flows of people, objects,
places, and information as well as the structures they encounter and create that are
barriers to, or expedite, these flows•Key words: trans-planetary, liquidity,
multidimensional, flows, people, objects, places, and information, structures•The
important aspect of globalization is its sheer magnitude, diversity, and complexity of
the processes•Some terms to consider: •Liquidity: fungibility or mobility•Epoch:
An era of specific characterizations •Solid: A metaphor used for previous epochs

Liquidity Metaphor •With

globalization, things including people, objects, information, and places are melting and
becoming liquid •Solid material realities (people, cargo, newspapers) continue to exist, but
because of technological development (transportation, communication, the internet, and so on)
they can move across the global far more readily•Furthermore, with more globalization, the
liquids are changing to gases; lighter and easy to transfer•Much off the information now
available through the air in the form of signals beamed off satellites•News, GPS, phones,
etc•These transformations have both constructive and destructive effects