Nature does not abhor a vacuum. 99.9999999999999999999958% of the Universe is empty.
The rest is old boots and stars and tea stains and you. But atoms are also 99.9999999996% empty.
Everything is mostly nothing really. Looking at it that way, it’s easy to justify eating an entire tub of ice cream.
A friend in physics once told me this. I said, "So you pile up enough nothing and you get something? This philosophy must have been invented by an American." He admitted I had a point. So onward with the tub of ice cream.
With the universe mostly empty, and also it abhorring a vacuum, that feels like a lot of self-loathing. Could explain some of its destructive behaviour. We should give the universe all our empathy and let it know we love it just as it is. It is enough.
We see you, you universe! (Except for your dark matter, dark energy, most of the electromagnetic and audio spectra, very distant/old regions, very small particles, interior of black holes, etc. but we love all of you all the same!)
Most of what we experience as volume is the particle we don’t even bother talking about the mass of, so am I really gaining weight when I house a Hardee’s burger?
The Nothing is what fills the emptiness. The Nothing is something. The Nothing grows the more you think about it. And space is expanding. So, there is even more Nothing than there is anything.
I like how you think!
Can’t quite follow the logic if it, but U ended up in the right place.
I’m like a math teacher who doesn’t want you to show your work, as long as you get the right answer & as long as that answer is a tub of (today:) pink peppermint ice cream, smothered in hot fudge sauce..:
Unless things have changed since I last looked (and things might have!) I think it depends on who you ask. But most matter, as far as we know, is in galaxies, and there's a lot of intergalactic space between all of those.
