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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 12:16:34 2020 No.11903284 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11903289 >>11903299 >>11903772

>matter is res extensa (extended thing)
>all elementary particles are zero dimensional points with no width or volume
Who was in the wrong here?

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2020 12:17:31 No.11903289 Report

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>>11903284
You.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2020 12:19:57 No.11903299 Report

Quoted By: >>11903318

>>11903284
Particles are in 3-dimensional real space. Since points take up space, I argue each point in real space has a size of 1/(aleph 1)

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2020 12:31:00 No.11903318 Report

Quoted By: >>11903788 >>11903791

>>11903299
>Since points take up space,
They exist in space, they don't occupy space.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2020 15:30:01 No.11903761 Report

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Elementary particles are not actually point particles. This is a formality for the math.
In actual physical objective reality, they take up space and look like little balls. There is no reason to do the math with this notion.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2020 15:34:11 No.11903772 Report

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>>11903284
both. only strings are truly fundamental

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2020 15:41:35 No.11903788 Report

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>>11903318
If they occupy 0 space then the interval [0,1] would be a single point. Unless they have space between them.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jul 2020 15:44:30 No.11903791 Report

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>>11903318
If they occupy 0 space then the interval [0,1] would be a single point. Unless they have space between them. But of course then you could assign additional points to the space between them

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