What A Modern Battleship Looks Like With No Water Around It We can intervene in things. For instance, if we come across a line of dominoes standing on a table we know that if the first one falls it will knock the next one over onto its neighbour and so on until the whole line has fallen. But we also know that we don't have to just stand there waiting for this entertaining event to occur. We don't have to wait for the first domino to fall spontaneously - we can give it a push.