Start of the new cycle

[Bill the Piper]

(11-15-2018, 03:55 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Plato was right; Konstantin wrong. Break down an atom, and you have quarks and sons of various kinds about the size of electrons, and electrons, in the new standard model of the atom. It is almost entirely space, and the rest is just energy. An "elementary particle" is now nothing but a blip on a computer screen in a particle accelerator. It is nothing but an energy charge of some kind. There is no such thing as an elementary particle, which reason tells us anyway. Any supposedly solid ultimate particle that occupies space and has mass, can be broken up. There is no limit; reducio ad absurdum. "Matter" is more of a superstition that "soul." "Matter" is nothing but a physical sensation of something blocking our bodies. Einstein already showed that matter can be changed into energy. So there is no such thing as absolute matter, energy, space OR time, according to Einstein. It's all relative.

Energy is made of units called quantums. Konstantin suspected that atoms are made of simpler units, and tentatively we can identify them as quantums. Some people believe that elementary particles are various combination of nanostrings.