Does nature actually abhor anything?

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moejoe15 said:
There's a saying that nature abhors a straight line.
There's no such saying. You are mixing two separate sayings together: 1.) "There are no straight lines in Nature", and 2.) "Nature abhors a vacuum".
 
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