Steady-State Eternal Inflation — mentioned by foldr

Sun, 31 May 2015 16:49:41 GMT

>so it's a very good approximation to treat a cup of water, for example, as a continuous fluid, rather than a bunch of atoms. It's a good approximation empirically. I've said a few times now that scientific progress is indeed quite conservative in empirical terms. However, we know now that water is very unlike a continuous fluid in terms of its actual constitution. > So "atoms are mostly empty space" is wrong, by the definition you've been trying to use, just like "matter is continuous" is wrong. Yes I know, that's why I mentioned that QM makes things more complicated. However, it's still…

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Steady-State Eternal Inflation — mentioned by foldr