In article <1d7.2c006bfb.2e8d8b51@xxxxxxx>, GEVANS613@xxxxxxx writes
>Nothing can arrive in a vacuum for neither nothing nor a vacuum can exist.
Can a particular location in space be empty of matter? Most varieties of
the atomic theory of matter, from the pre-socratics onwards, hold that
it must be possible for atoms, or ultimate particles, to be surrounded
by some empty space. Ultimate particles are held to retain their size
and shape; they cannot individually be compressed or expanded. So, to
explain phenomena like the expansion of gases, there must be more or
less empty space surrounding atoms. In western thought the atomic theory
was abandoned for many centuries and philosophers like Descartes and
Spinoza could hold that a vacuum was impossible.
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Philip Baker
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