What Is Something?
What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do? Support us on Patreon so we can make more stuff (and...
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The simple questions are the hardest ones to answer.What is a thing?Why do things happen?And why do they happen the way they do?Let’s try to approach this step-by-step.What are you made of?You are matter which is made of moleculeswhich are made of atoms and those are made of elementary particles.But if elementary particles are the smallest things that exist,what are they made of?To answer a simple question, let’s start simply - let’s wipe the universe clean.Away with matter ,antimatter, radiation, particles… anything.Now let’s take a closer look at absolutely nothing.What is empty space?Is it what we call a vacuum?There are no atoms, no matter, nothing.Is it really all that empty?Nothing gives us the building blocks for everything.In a sense, empty space is a lo...
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The simple questions are the hardest ones to answer.What is a thing?Why do things happen?And why do they happen the way they do?Let’s try to approach this step-by-step.What are you made of?You are matter which is made of moleculeswhich are made of atoms and those are made of elementary particles.But if elementary particles are the smallest things that exist,what are they made of?To answer a simple question, let’s start simply - let’s wipe the universe clean.Away with matter ,antimatter, radiation, particles… anything.Now let’s take a closer look at absolutely nothing.What is empty space?Is it what we call a vacuum?There are no atoms, no matter, nothing.Is it really all that empty?Nothing gives us the building blocks for everything.In a sense, empty space is a lo...
