B Fundamental Questions about Atoms

[Sciencelad2798]

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How is it even possible for atoms to function like they do?

I can't help but find the concept of atoms a bit weird. If everything is made of atoms, and atoms are mostly empty space, couldn't that be evidence towards simulation theory? If we can never actually touch anything, and everything is just "levitating" on a force field, couldn't that also be evidence? I am not great at expressing my ideas, I've just been struggling with this, having kind of an essential crisis and could use some reassurance.

 

[Dale]

Summary:: How is it even possible for atoms to function like they do?

I can't help but find the concept of atoms a bit weird. If everything is made of atoms, and atoms are mostly empty space, couldn't that be evidence towards simulation theory?

First, atoms are not mostly empty space. They are entirely filled with strong fields.

Second, no, why would it be evidence towards simulation theory? Again, remember what constitutes evidence as described previously.

By the way, I notice that this is your second thread basically looking at some theoretical prediction and asking if it is evidence towards simulation theory. There really is no evidence for simulation theory because it is not actually a theory in the scientific sense. I.e. you cannot use "simulation theory" to calculate a probability for any observation. So there will not be anything that can possibly be described as evidence towards simulation theory. It simply is not the type of idea for which evidence can even exist. This type of idea is often described as “not even wrong”

 

[Nugatory]

Note also that the forum rules specifically disallow discussions of simulation hypotheses, basically for the reasons that @Dale states above.

So please don't start another thread on the subject? Please?