[RascalPuff]

Newton, understandably for his time, presumed that corporeal reality - matter - is reducible to tiny, ‘billiard ball like’ particles. But modern science has probed the microcosms only to find that matter is made up of ‘fields’ and ‘waves’, that have no discontinuous surfaces; that billiard balls in collision (for example) do not ever actually ‘touch’ or make ‘contact’.

Contact requires the interaction of two or more surfaces, and there are no surfaces - separating the collective system of an exemplary billiard ball, making it discontinuous from the space surrounding it.

Rather, the constituents of the billiard ball are emanating concentric fields (atoms, electrons, etc.), which disallow the simultaneous occupation of it's space by any other so called 'particle' (or collective system of particles) , only become more dense - and resistant to intrusion on its space - as you approach their (unreached) centers.

For all the dominant controversy of ‘particles’, and ‘particle accelerators’, and ‘particle chambers’, and ‘particle physicists’: until further notice - as they are vacantly anticipated - there aren’t any particles.

Best regards,
- RP
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