..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

Michael Bailey michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 18:58:48 CST 2012


malignd wrote:

> On another note -- and I apologize if I'm saying what everyone already knows
> -- but but "space" in galactic terms is not the emptiness through which
> solids, liquids, and gases move.  Space is, for (my) lack of a better word,
> a "thing."

but what kind of a thing?
If it's a thing, then aren't we back to the luminiferous ether?
(which wouldn't bother me, I always liked it)

if it doesn't consist of any stuff, then if we call it a thing, aren't
we multiplying entities?
(not that that bothers me so much either)

  When physicians speak of an expanding universe, they're not
> talking about stars and planets, expanding through space: they're speaking
> of "space" itself expanding.
>

after I hit 40 the same thing happened to me...



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