Mass
Mass Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. It is solid; it has mass. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. We are taught in school…
Specifikacia Mass
Mass
Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. It is solid; it has mass. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance.
We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. But what is matter, exactly? As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter comes in 'lumps', and science has relentlessly peeled away successive layers of matter to reveal its ultimate constituents.Surely, we can't keep doing this indefinitely.
We imagine that we should eventually run up against some kind of ultimately fundamental, indivisible type of stuff, the building blocks from which everything in the Universe is made. The English physicist Paul Dirac called this 'the dream of philosophers'. But science has discovered that the foundations of our Universe are not as solid or