[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by thomas cuny It is an idea that I came up with in the process of reverse engineering the quark.

A reverse quark engineer, a sort of sub atomic handyman I suppose? Very interesting concept!

kind regards michael.

[Omni]

Originally Posted by michaelrevans@mac.com Nothing takes up space.

Nothing to me means absolutely nothing as in also not taking up space. In english I guess nothing means "no thing" where space isn't seen as a thing so actually it means "empty space". What word is the english word for nothing as I see it?

[mkirkpatrick]

Originally Posted by Omni Nothing to me means absolutely nothing as in also not taking up space. In english I guess nothing means "no thing" where space isn't seen as a thing so actually it means "empty space". What word is the english word for nothing as I see it?

An absolute void,maybe? I think that the confusion lies in the very word itself, it is really two words co-joined no-thing
the absence of any presence whatsoever, absolute de-voidness of absolutely all,an absolute vacuum,in which there is no detectable existance of anything no matter,no energy. no rays,no atoms, no subatomic or atomic waves, there is zero, zero, zero, an absolute void, there is no space either!This is a concept that the human mind can barely grasp let alone accept, but it seems to be so.

kind regards michael.

[michaelrevans@mac.com]

Zero is something. Even the void is surrounded by something.

[Omni]

Ah, "the absence of any presence whatsoever" I like, although it's not one word. I can grasp that concept, in fact it's crusial to my TOE. I will start a quest for a good word for it .

[Guille]

Originally Posted by Omni Ah, "the absence of any presence whatsoever" I like, although it's not one word. I can grasp that concept, in fact it's crusial to my TOE. I will start a quest for a good word for it .

Maybe 'absolute vacuum' is the term you are looking for? But one thing, if presence is existence, there is no such thing that exists which is absolute vacuum.

[michaelrevans@mac.com]

Consciousness of presence is existence even in a one cell organism.The gift of life is the present.

Even in a vacuum there are areas that overlap forming a cusp that defines the space between the vacuum and that which surrounds it.

[thomas cuny]

Originally Posted by Unreal Zelta I agree with Dave, And just a pointer, you stated that fundamental particles do not exist in space-time, that's purely contradictory, no? Space-time consists of the 3 dimensional space, e.g a particle and 1 dimensional time. So, how can they not exist in something that has already incorporated it. Best regards Zelta

Spatial dimensions are how quark trios relate to each other.
Instead of having directions x,y and z, there should be directions
red, green and blue.

[dleviwing]

Thomas;
Would you care to share the source of your comments? I don't believe I've ever come across such an interpretation. It sounds like it is just replacing the xyz with RGB and adding a little BS.

[baudrunner]

The idea that the Universe seems to be expanding away from every point of observation within it is illustrated elegantly by this interactive shockwave example.

However, this fact is not hard to comprehend if you understand the following popular explanation for this effect. Let us take the "Big Bang" example. We observe that the expansion of the Universe is acellerating, so imagine that the front of the expanding Universe is like the surface of a balloon that spreads out and where all the points on its surface are moving away from each other because of its expansion and that this is an ongoing process, then it can be seen that all the points within or on that balloon will move away from any arbitrary point within or on that balloon, whatever direction we observe, given that our point of reference necessarily represents a still point. And the farther away an observed point is the faster it will appear to be moving away. This can be compared to the other popular example of a snipped rubber band, say a six inch long flat rubber band. Draw a point on the band two inches from the left end of it and a point one inch away to the left of that point, and another point three inches away to the right of the original point. Our point in the middle represents the sun. If you stretch the band uniformly to twice its size so that it is twelve inches long, the point to the left of the sun will be two inches away and the point to the right of the sun will be six inches away. Even though the band has expanded uniformly to only twice its length the observed increase in the distance away from the sun of the point to the right of it is thrice that of the other point.