<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Skarp</i>
<br />Perhaps you could identify some scales, or are we as humans limited to one scale? Is a humans life one scale and an ants life another scale, or does a new scale start at the atomic level? Is a galaxy another scale? Just trying to pin down a scale as apposed to another in your model.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Space, time, and scale are all continuous dimensions, so there are no boundaries. That does not stop us from selecting arbitrary portions and giving them names. For example, "Cleveland", "the solar system", "The Local Group"; "last month", "the iron age", "the Jurassic period"; "the atomic scale", "microscopic" vs. "macroscopic"; etc.
So feel free to set your own scale boundaries and to name them as you please.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">So is the entire universe empty or full?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">The universe is just as we observe it: mostly empty, but filled here and there with interesting things. That is true at every scale, no exceptions.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">[tvf]: The trick is to realize that everything is filled only in the limit as scale approaches infinitesimal.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">How do you ever approach an infinity of scale?
278643985487584/infinity equals 547884839894867373838/infinity.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I already answered that: "in the limit". If you are unfamiliar with the math of infinities, read up on it. This forum is not a tutorial for acquiring basics that are in standard textbooks and part of a standard education in math or physics. We are simply trying to apply that knowledge to understanding the universe. -|Tom|-
