I remember when I was a kid, reading a Disney book on science (they had them) that stated if the empty space between the nucleus and electron shells of atoms could be eliminated, you could fit 50,000 navy battleships into the dimensions of a baseball.
Just think...if you could eliminate the empty space between the nucleus and electrons then there would be no fat people.
>the empty space between the nucleus and electron shells of atoms...
A question. If the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant and and a vacuum is a space devoid of matter, “space” is not perfect and even the deepest interstellar void has a density of an atom per cubic whatever (meter, light year, etc).
At the atomic scale a photon traveling through a semi-transparent substance is in a “space devoid of matter”, yet the speed of the photon is less than c as given by the refractive index of the material it is passing through.
Looks to me that there is something I’m missing here.
There’s another question that has me a bit confused. If a “big-bang” is a given, (not quite sure how or if Plank Space or the Vacuum Energy field (whatever that is) could have been around BEFORE the Universe popped into existence), matter and energy being interchangeable, the sum total of each at any point in time during the existence of the Universe would be the same. A Universe a picosecond old would be really really hot and dense but also very very small, an elderly Universe tens or hundreds of billion years old would be way way colder and less dense as well as being Hugh (and series) but both would have exactly the same total amount of matter and energy.
The one thing that I have never seen factored in to the question of the missing mass is weather the massive quantity of kinetic energy from all the “Stuff” moving through space, some portion of it moving at some percentage of C, thus increasing it’s mass the closer to c it gets, might negate the need for “dark matter”
Am I all wet or perhaps just covered in quantum foam?