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Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:27:04 2010 No.1836811 [Reply] [Original]

Matter bends spacetime, right?
How do we know there is a particle at the center of the bend? How do we know what we call "matter" is not just the bend itself?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:40:04 2010 No.1836853 Because it doesn't matter which is true.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:46:04 2010 No.1836881 >>1836853 Science is full of things like this: phenomena that have multiple perfectly valid interpretations. Not technically useful, but awesome to think about when stoned.

Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:50:04 2010 No.1836895
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>>1836881
Hey now, I haven't done drugs in years. It just makes me skeptical that we're still looking for the Higgs boson, and matter is forever just a bit too small to detect, what with the atom being 99.999...% empty space. If there are no actual massive particles in the middle of these warps in spacetime, that means we shouldn't find the higgs, right?

>>	The Oracle Sat Oct 2 14:54:04 2010 No.1836915 >>1836895 Matter is simply where fields share tangents. They are 0 dimensional objects. There are no objects, just averages.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:55:04 2010 No.1836918 Maybe not a particle, that's just our way of describing. Can't just be the space/time warping though as how else would you explain charge?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:57:04 2010 No.1836930 File: 146 KB, 222x177, conc_conv_petit.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1836915 Are you one of those "matter is a wave" people?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 14:58:04 2010 No.1836936 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_spectrum

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:05:04 2010 No.1836970 >>1836936 Fuck you. I thought for years that it was my idea.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:06:04 2010 No.1836972 >>1836936 I dont see how that relates, either there is a physical that bends space, or there is only the bend in space that we treat as a point

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 15:08:04 2010 No.1836979 >>1836972 >physical point*

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 2 20:58:04 2010 No.1838397 >>1836930 You're just made out of probability. Cope!

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