(1) My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space and to extend its force (--its will to power:) and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies...
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(2) ...and ends by coming to an arrangement ("union") with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power. And the process goes on--
from Nietzsche's The Will to Power, s.636, Walter Kaufmann transl.
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I was interpreting Nietzsche more in terms of political demographics (from the individual to the group/tribe to the nation, etc.), but, yes, his theory also applies to physics, as well
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Actually, in section 636, he's critiquing physicists at the time and their notion of the "atom", which he eschews as no more than a "subjective fiction". The book WP was assembled from notes and writings of Nietzsche's after he died. Very provocative stuff.
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That's what I said: The "will to power" model applies to any physical body or bodies. It describes the political machinations of people quite handily. Politics is all about the will to power. But so is Twitter, and, all the little bodies interacting therein.