The atom illusion

[Anomalism]

If atoms are 99.9999% empty space, and we’re made entirely of atoms, then isn’t life just consciousness floating in a near-total void, an illusion of substance made of near-nothing? We’re barely even real. Shimmers pretending to be.

 

[Crepitus]

WHEEEEEEEE!!!

 

[Grumblenuts]

If atoms are 99.9999% empty space

The term "empty space" is redundant. Space is empty ("unoccupied") by definition.

 

[BothWings]

The "empty space" is not really empty space, we just haven't fully defined it yet. Atomic theory is just where we are now, but we are dabbling in other ways of looking at time, matter and space. We are only limited by the tools we have developed so far in order to measure such things. There is so much more in between yet to be discovered. Particle theory has brought us a long way and yet also limits are set the same time.

Keep striving my little humans.

 

[Anomalism]

The term "empty space" is redundant. Space is empty ("unoccupied") by definition.

It helps with the dramatic weight of the idea.

 

[Anomalism]

The "empty space" is not really empty space, we just haven't fully defined it yet. Atomic theory is just where we are now, but we are dabbling in other ways of looking at time, matter and space. We are only limited by the tools we have developed so far in order to measure such things. There is so much more in between yet to be discovered. Particle theory has brought us a long way and yet also limits are set the same time.

Keep striving my little humans.

As our understanding deepens it will probably get more weird, not less. Do you agree?

 

[toobfreak]

If atoms are 99.9999% empty space, and we’re made entirely of atoms, then isn’t life just consciousness floating in a near-total void, an illusion of substance made of near-nothing? We’re barely even real. Shimmers pretending to be.

Well, yes and no. Empty space is a statistical foam with infinite particles appearing from nothing then disappearing back into nothingness all the time. All that 99.9% empty space is partly filled up with the particle-wave motion of electrons spinning in a cloud of probability around the nucleus of the atoms, the nucleus and atom itself held together as with the rest of matter by a series of force carriers bringing about a set of interlocking fields.

So, the solidity of matter (slapping your hand down on a desk) is really just the forces you are seeing and feeling, not the substance, and the gossamer emptiness of matter is likewise just an illusion caused by the quantum statistical nature of existence.

How it all appears just depends on where you are looking at it from.

 

[Grumblenuts]

"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties."

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

"Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

-- Nikola Tesla

And women will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very nature of wheelwork.

-- Grumblenuts

 

[luiza]

If atoms are 99.9999% empty space, and we’re made entirely of atoms, then isn’t life just consciousness floating in a near-total void, an illusion of substance made of near-nothing? We’re barely even real. Shimmers pretending to be.

Spot On
Universe is Consciousness .
Which , under special conditions can become material and this allows Qualia* .
This introduces the Observer factor which Grit Theory ( Particle Physics) ignored until Quantum Theory was advanced .

The opposite cannot happen ( Matterium transforming into Consciousness )which underlines the dead -end nature of particle physics .

P.S.
*In philosophy of mind, Qualia are defined as instances of subjective, conscious experience.

 

[Grumblenuts]

It helps with the dramatic weight of the idea.

Being redundant generally does.
-- added bonus
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-- closed fist

 

[Anomalism]

Being redundant generally does.
-- added bonus
-- free gift
-- new innovation
-- past experience
-- absolutely certain
-- closed fist

Some of us are redundant sometimes, only human. Some are pedantic sometimes too.

;-)

 

[Grumblenuts]

Some of us are redundant sometimes, only human. Some are pedantic sometimes too.

;-)

Then there's the rest of us.

 

[konradv]

The term "empty space" is redundant. Space is empty ("unoccupied") by definition.

There’s no such thing as empty space. It’s just a saying, like ‘dark side of the moon’.

My apologies to Pink Floyd.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

If atoms are 99.9999% empty space, and we’re made entirely of atoms, then isn’t life just consciousness floating in a near-total void, an illusion of substance made of near-nothing? We’re barely even real. Shimmers pretending to be.

there is no electron, the magnetic field comes from the core and is a re distribution of spinning the gravity field. Why do you think when they use electro microscopes which record a wavelength shorter than light that in the pictures it still shows bright and darkness specifically bright in the cores?

 

[PeterPilot]

If atoms are 99.9999% empty space, and we’re made entirely of atoms, then isn’t life just consciousness floating in a near-total void, an illusion of substance made of near-nothing? We’re barely even real. Shimmers pretending to be.

Some make a plausible case that we are in a hologram. Michael Talbot wrote a book about it and I read it years ago. The Holographic Universe.