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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Update Nugget to "The Ontology of Physics"




The prototypical example of an ontological ‘bit’ of chemistry and physics, is the atom (the ‘indivisible’ in its Greek etymology).  But later perspectives can get quite unprototypical:

A neutron star … is basically a giant atomic nucleus, stabilized by gravity.
-- J. Richard Gott, The Cosmic Web (2016), p. 29






[For the full essay, see