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What is the universe made of?

>> No.6394684

strings

>> No.6394685

>>6394678
matter

>> No.6394687

>>6394685
What constitutes matter?

>>6394684
What constitutes strings?

>> No.6394688

>>6394687
Atoms and their sub-particles

>> No.6394692

>>6394688
What constitutes atoms?

>> No.6394695

>>6394692
quarks

>> No.6394696

>>6394692
Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons

>> No.6394697

>>6394695
What constitutes quarks?

>> No.6394698

>>6394692
>and what constitutes X?
>and what constitutes Y?
>and what constitutes Z?
the matter universe is a result of it's geometry, ok? Leave it at that. Read the Shape of Space.

>> No.6394700

>>6394697
the will of Jesus Christ, our eternal Lord and Savior

>> No.6394702

>>6394698
Shape of Inner Space

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6394706

>>6394698
>the matter universe is a result of it's geometry, ok
That's like saying the shape of the pear is the result of the pear. You're just avoiding the question.

>> No.6394710

Energy in space.

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6394713

>>6394697
>>6394692
>>6394687

>> No.6394714

>>6394710
But what is energy made of?

>> No.6394719

>>6394714
That's the wrong question.
Energy is simply something that has impact on the empty space.
So anything is energy, just in different forms.

>> No.6394903

>>6394697
Quarks are not real things. They are only potential for quarks. As are atoms and everything in this universe, being only constantly re-balancing potential.

>> No.6394921

>>6394719
so is energy is like a higher dimension reaching into and changing the universe?

>> No.6395020

brahma

>> No.6395061

>>6394921
No. You think weird things. I think the questions you want answers to can be answered by your local insane drunk person or /x/.

>> No.6395076

>>6394678
don't know why but that pic made my day

>> No.6395111

mereological atoms

>> No.6395167

I don't know but something about those golfs.

>> No.6395179

This is a philosophical question OP, get this shit out of here.

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6395876

I think this question is very related to science -and an interesting one too- even thought it has little philosophial feel to it.

This reminds me of the question about what caused the universe:

>The Big Bang
Then what caused it?
>quantum effects
but what caused those?
...And so on.

Anyway here's the possible solutions I see to question "What is everything made of?":

1) The dividing prosses IS endless and we keep finding even smaller structures indefinitely like a digit of pi.

2) There's a limit where the question just isn't relevant anymore: It's like asking "what happens if you go faster than light?" or "what if you go north from northpole?". Maybe the smallest particles are one-dimentional (strings?) or some other way don't have any meaningful "inside" which any smaller objects could be making.

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6395878

>tfw you realize the universe

>> No.6395884

Also: I tried to think this alongside with the question " what caused the universe?". I tried to come up with the similar possibility as "Universe/God/ First-thing made itself ".

So I feel this option sounds little sillier than the others but maybe you can prosses better ides off of it.

3) Maybe there's a structure (particle/string/whatever) that can be made out of ITSELF so the question of "what is it made of?" keeps looping forever.

....yeah I don't know either -just threw it out there.

this Gif was too big but I felt it fit's here:

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-30372-Simpsons-universe-couch-gag-pe-NenW.gif