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1773 - Space is what separates things? What else is it? We continue to discover what space is and we
are far from finished. The whole Earth can be reduced to the size of
a sugar cube if you remove all the “space” between the atoms. Of course,
the sugar cube would still weigh 59,700 trillion, trillion tons after
removing all that weightless space.
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- Space is what separates
things? What else is it?
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you believe the whole Earth can be reduced to the size of a sugar cube if you
remove all the “space” between the atoms.
The sugar cube would still weigh 59,700 trillion, trillion tons after
removing all that weightless space.
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Space as in Outer Space is mysterious .
It can’t be “ nothing” because light waves travel through it. And, “ waves” require some medium in which to
have oscillations. Therefore, space
can’t be just a vacuum. At least that is
what was thought.
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But, way back in 1887, the famous Morley-Michelson experiment realized
that if light waves went through a medium they could be measured at different
speeds traveling in different directions through the medium. The Earth is traveling around the Sun at
67,000 miles per hour. If light’s
velocity was measured going in the same direction and then in the opposite
direction of travel light should have a different speeds. There was no difference, therefore, there was
no medium, no ether.
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In 1905 Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity showed us that
light being electric and magnetic oscillations, actually pulses of photons,
needed no medium and could travel through the vacuum of space.
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When spectroscopy was used to study space we learned that space was full
of dust, particles, atoms. They were
mostly hydrogen atoms ( proton and electron), but, the average was one particle
per cubic centimeter of space. Each
sugar cube volume of space contained one atom on average.
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Around the Sun space is bombarded with a “ Solar Wind” of particles that
has an average density of 3 to 6 atoms per cubic centimeter. This Solar Wind is strong enough to create a
comet’s tail.
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Outer space also bombards us with Cosmic Rays. Cosmic Rays are mostly protons, (hydrogen
nuclei) , but, sometimes some heavier atomic nuclei. A mystery lies behind the fact that 99% are
positive charged protons, or nuclei, but, what happened to their negative
charged electrons? They must be out
there somewhere in space?
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We are also bombarded from space by 3 varieties of neutrinos. Their masses so tiny they fly right through
us and through the Earth back into space.
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One conclusion must be that space is full of particles.
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Space is also full of “ fields”, magnetic fields, electric fields,
gravity fields, or waves. These fields
are traveling energy. There is another
mystery in an anti-gravity traveling energy, a “ vacuum energy”, that is
expanding all of space. Even
accelerating the expansion.
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This vacuum energy was demonstrated in the lab in 1930s known as the
Casimir Effect. This mysterious energy
is thought to be caused by particles and anti-particles filling space and
constantly going into and out of existence.
If true, than space is not empty at all but really full of particles.
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Today this vacuum energy is given the name Dark Energy and it is
credited to ever expanding space at an accelerating rate.
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Space is what we humans use to separate things. It is measured as distance between
things. That distance may be full of
stuff, but, it works to keep things separated.
Just as time is used to keep things from all happening at once.
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Space as a separation of things extends from the very smallest to the
very largest.
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------------------ 10^-35 meters is believed to be quantum space
and the smallest space can be divided.
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----------------- 10^? meters is the length of Quarks separated
by Muons
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----------------- 10^-14 meters is the size of a carbon
nucleus, 14 protons, and 42 Quarks
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----------------- 10^-11 meters is the size of a carbon atom
with the nucleus and 14 electrons.
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is us
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----------------- 10^6 is the Earth
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is Moon’s orbit
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is Earth’s orbit
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----------------- 10^13 is the Solar System
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----------------- 10^21 is the Milky Way Galaxy
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----------------- 10^58 is the Observable Universe
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----------------- 10^? is the actual Universe including Cosmic
Inflation.
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All things are separated in space, from the smallest to the
largest. Somehow they are separated but
still all interconnected? There is a
Quantum Theory called “ Entanglement” that states there is “ something” in
space tying all things together.
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Two particles with Entangled properties remain connected even at
opposite ends of the Universe. An
electron with spin up has a twin with spin down. If one reverses the other reverses
instantaneously regardless of their enormous separation. The communication is faster than the speed of
light. There is something about space
the remains interconnected.
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The Theory of relativity states that space and time are also
interconnected. As velocity approaches
the speed of light space shrinks and time slows. The star Procyon is 11 light years distance. But, if we could travel at 99% the speed of
light , space would shrink, and it would take only 2 years to get there. The size of space depends on how fast you are
going.
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What do we conclude about space?
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Space is not empty
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Space gives us distances that is variable depending on the velocity and
the strength of gravity.
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Space still interconnects entangled bodies.
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Space at the smallest level may be a discrete package the can not be
divided further, a quantum particle of space.
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Space may have more than 3 - dimensions.
There may be extra dimensions wrapped up so small we cannot detect them.
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Space is not nothing. At the bare
minimum it can tie your brain into a knot.
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There are more Reviews about space available upon request:
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#1407 - Space is anything but empty
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#1679 - Space dust
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1242 How does Space-Time change at the
micro-level. At the smallest scales
things become bull’s eyes of wave patterns that spread effects over a range of
probabilities.
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#1241 How can space and time be
related? They are connected by distance
/ time which is velocity. And velocity
is limited to the speed of light, therefore space / time must vary.
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#1258 How much space is in our
Solar System
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#781 Much todo about
Nothing. The Universe is expanding and
more “ nothing” is being created all the time.
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