Is Space a Thing?
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This episode is supported by 23andMe.This is a box.And now it’s empty.Well, not really.We can’t see it, but it’s still full of dust particles, water vapor, air molecules,and on a smaller scale, photons, electrons and other elementary particles.But if we could somehow remove every last bit of matter, could we make that space really,truly EMPTY?Is space just an absence of things… or is space a thing itself?[INTRO]Ancient Greeks gave us the word “aether,” which has been used for centuries to describespace as a thing.Whether space is a “something” or a “nothing” sounds like one of those questions your philosophymajor friend likes to ask late at night.But the very nature of reality hinges on this question.It all has to do with relativity.No, not his relativity....
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This episode is supported by 23andMe.This is a box.And now it’s empty.Well, not really.We can’t see it, but it’s still full of dust particles, water vapor, air molecules,and on a smaller scale, photons, electrons and other elementary particles.But if we could somehow remove every last bit of matter, could we make that space really,truly EMPTY?Is space just an absence of things… or is space a thing itself?[INTRO]Ancient Greeks gave us the word “aether,” which has been used for centuries to describespace as a thing.Whether space is a “something” or a “nothing” sounds like one of those questions your philosophymajor friend likes to ask late at night.But the very nature of reality hinges on this question.It all has to do with relativity.No, not his relativity....
