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3 Sep 2024 21:12:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What is the Universe made of?  
From: Darren New
Date: 3 Nov 2010 17:32:37
Message: <4cd1d4f5$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   That's like saying that text is just ink and paper. Text is more than
> that.

But text isn't a "thing" independent of the ink and paper. It's a pattern 
and its relationship to human thought processes.  Similarly, the 
electrostatic force isn't a "thing", so asking what it's made out of isn't 
really reasonable, beyond the answer "it's made out of the stuff that the 
parts are made out of."

It's like asking "what is arithmetic made out of?"

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."


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