Richard Feynman explains atoms, space, the solidity of the chair you're sitting on

[CrusaderFrank]

This should be taught in grade school, well

HIgh school at least

The "empty" base contains everything

 

[OKTexas]

This should be taught in grade school, well

HIgh school at least

The "empty" base contains everything

You tell my sore, hurting ass that it's been hovering above that hard chair that I occupied for too long.

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[scruffy]

I keep saying that, right?

"There's no such thing as nothing".

Nothing doesn't exist. It's a figment of the imagination. A convenient lie we tell ourselves so we don't have to divide by zero.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It's not that the Universe is counterintuitive: Speed of light, spacetime, electromagnetism, strong force, quantum electrons; those are the fundamental architecture of it.

I kept asking Grok why atoms form, why don't electrons and protons merge, and at the core of it, the irreducible truth is that that is how our Universe works.

That's just how it is.

Not a very satisfying answer, but that's how it is