Thomas_More
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But what we do know is that atoms, the building blocks of matter, cannot be erased from existence. We can split them, resulting in a nuclear explosion, but they come together again.
Upon the demise of our solar system, they will be absorbed by the sun, but new explosions will then release these and other atoms into space ad infinitum.
The big bang must also have been an effect, with antecedents.
Well, if you grasp “empty” air and see nothing in your hand, what you don’t see are nonetheless billions of atoms, so I don’t agree with that reductionist definition of matter.
But since scientists are not accessible as individuals to us of the great unwashed, we depend on their TV appearances, where only certain questions are asked, without us being able to ask what we necessarily want to.
Dark energy is where I draw my line of understanding. Scientists don’t understand it.
I always took energy to be a property of matter. So matter must be behind dark energy and the expansion of the universe, but we don’t know what.See?
The Feathered One.
A material being? Or not?
So what would a modern scientific materialist say space is?
Not matter?Above I’ve listed quotes from Wikipedia which state that antimatter is matter. And Lizzie’s video about the empty box shows that “nothing” is not reached, unless one posits religious beliefs.
Space is not empty, since emptiness would be nothing.If things can be produced out of nothing, then materialism, with its cause and effect law of motion, is wrong, as is historical materialism too, and we are left with effects without causality.
The names vacuist and plenist may no longer be used, but their definitions are still valid.
Predictions?
Atomism was a philosophical school of the Indian and Greek world.
If Lucretius is a ready example still in print, he was a vacuist. I don’t know if any of the ancient materialists (atomists) were plenists.
Space is not empty. A point in outer space is filled with gas, dust, a wind of charged particles from the stars, light from stars, cosmic rays, radiation left over from the Big Bang, gravity, electric and magnetic fields, and neutrinos from nuclear reactions.20 Dec 2012
https://wtamu.edu › 2012/12/20 › w…So nothing does not exist.
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe.[1] Dark matter is called “dark” because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not absorb, reflect, or emit electromagnetic radiation and is, therefore, difficult to detect.
In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or “partners”) of the corresponding particles in “ordinary” matter, and can be thought of as matter with reversed charge, parity, and time, known as CPT reversal.
(Wikipedia)
Both are forms of matter.
It matters to me. My dad always told me matter is all that exists. I’d just like to know what others think. Do they accept nothingness?
Not relevant to socialism, but only those interested need answer.
But when you use words like idealism, materialism and socialism you are not getting a point across to most people. Not without circuitous philosophical and historical explanations, by which time they’ve already been inwardly yawning for a while.
So following your logic, shouldn’t you abandon these terms: or constantly fight an uphill battle to bring them back to their original meanings while people yawn every time they see you coming?
And doesn’t that contradict your “language changes, so get over it” exhortation?
How gadgets hook our brains.
Five year olds on average spend an hour and a half a day on smartphones. (Ca m’interesse magazine, June 2023).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7onvK-gbo&pp=ygUcZG9wYW1pbmUgY29tbWVudCBsZXMgYXBwbGlzIA%3D%3D
