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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by alasdair_ on Saturday March 19, 2022 @08:49PM (#30738949)
“ bosons, quarks and leptons – with their charges and properties make up everything.”

The empty space between the bosons, quarks and leptons is not made up of any of these particles, yet the space ‘exists’ - without it, everything in the universe would just be a big clump.

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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by PrettyPebble on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:28AM (#30741528)
In general relativity, space is not a thing.
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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by alasdair_ on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @01:50PM (#30846034)
I meant to thank you for this comment earlier - it’s led to a whole bunch of interesting stuff I did not know.
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Re:A 9-line summary of textbook physics by PrettyPebble on Saturday April 09, 2022 @08:09AM (#30967328)
The 9 line summary is now also available as a preprint: https://www.motionmountain.net/9lines.pdf
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