What If Space is NOT Hollow?
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What If Space is NOT Hollow?

C1AdvancedOctober 31, 202619 min
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  • Science

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Thank you to Surfshark VPN for supporting PBS. Spacetime on its smallest scales is a seething ocean of black holes and wormholes flickering into and out of existence, or so many physicists think has to be the case. Let me tell you why we should take spacetime foam seriously, even though we've never

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seen any evidence of it. A while ago we started talking about the fundamentalness of space. Is it the most elementary stage that holds all the complexity of physics? Or is it just a way that our brains make sense of something that's nothing like the space

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of our experience? Well, we have good reason to at least doubt that the fundamental building block of space is just more space. And that's because our best theory of the nature of space, Einstein's general theory

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