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Laihendi
Are you talking about MyTie pants?
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MyTie
Those things are all the rage in randomness.
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Laihendi
D:
Does she still call you fluffy?
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MyTie
Anyone care if I link an email correspondance I had with a physics professor?
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MyTie
Below is a response sent to me by a physics professor. Everywhere it has a > at the beginning of the line denotes it was my origional email. Everything else is what he/she wrote.
Hello <my name deleted>,
>
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> To my understanding:
>
> An atom is an individual unit. It resides in a ‘pool’ of other atoms.
> These atoms do not fit perfectly together, what I mean, is there is
> space between them. What is in this space? Is matter full of
> infinitesimal vacuums?
These questions are unanswered. We do not know if it is possible to have a complete vacuum. There appears to be a vacuum energy. The wikipedia articles "cosmological constant" and "quantum fluctuation"
both touch upon the subject of the vacuum.
Regarding the atom: its volume is mostly empty, that is to say, not occupied by the nucleus or the electrons. By "mostly" I mean greater than 99%.
These statements answer most of your questions, below.
> Although the vacuum is neighbored by matter, the atoms, it is empty.
> It also stands to reason that there is a great deal of this ‘empty’
> space between atoms, and perhaps, inside of atoms themselves. Let us
> reason using a unit of matter. We will take me for example. If we
> were to take a 3D rendition of my body, and enlarge me to 100 times my
> size, and fill all the ‘empty’ parts of space inside of me with neon
> green dye, would I appear the rendition appear to be neon green to the
> naked eye? Is there that much empty space? This is secondary to my
> original point. If there is any empty space inside of me at all, it
> would become immovable if time did not progress inside of that empty
> space,
Right, so, I have to interrupt your train of thought in mid-sentence here. Our current model of time is to treat it as a fourth dimension, yes. A "dimension" is simply a direction in which to move, we do not suppose that there has to be a thing that can move as a prerequisite to the dimension existing in the first place. The arrow of time points forward, meaning that we cannot control our movement through time. We can control our movement through space. But, do we have to exist so that time and space can exist? Again, the question is unanswered.
Cheers,
<his/her name deleted>
> and since it were immovable, I would not be able to move, since the
> space would not travel through the 4th dimension with me. What I am
> saying, is if time does not exist in a vacuum, then the space between
> atoms would not be enterable, since it would never progress to the 4th
> dimensional location to allow entry of matter. Would this lock me in
> place in the 3D world? Is this a logical conclusion of why time does
> progress in a vacuum?
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> Again, thank you for taking time out of your day to answer my
> curiosity.
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> <my name deleted>
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Lusky
Right-o, then.
So, recently bought Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2, right? Right.
So, anyone else have it? Got some questions... :D
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mudfish
Jeedar...
Do you remember
this song
?
I think you'll be mad at me for this.
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GoGoGodzilla
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Lusky
> infinitesimal vacuums?
Something about this short phrase really makes me chuckle, and I can't understand it.
lol...
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