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3 Sep 2024 21:17:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What is the Universe made of?  
From: Warp
Date: 5 Nov 2010 11:43:05
Message: <4cd42609@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >>>   Space must exist, or else it would be impossible to postulate essential
> >>> properties of physics, such as the Pauli exclusion principle. 
> > 
> >> The Pauli exclusion principle is not part of GR. It's part of QM. :-)
> > 
> >   How does that change the claim "space must exist"?

> I was saying that you're arguing that in GR space must exist, and using QM 
> to prove it, and those are incompatible theories.

  I never said that in GR space must exist. I said that in this universe
space exists. I don't know why you brought GR into this.

> And if you accept general relativity and the identity of acceleration and 
> gravity, you have to throw away space as existing.

  That statement makes absolutely no sense.

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                                                          - Warp


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