top | item 21740295 (no title) pmilot | 6 years ago It's a beautiful excerpt, thanks for sharing. Though I can't help but feel that the author's allegory fits a nebula better than "plain" space. discuss order hn newest kijin|6 years ago Even a nebula is absurdly empty. A particularly dense nebula might have ~10k particles per cubic centimeter floating around in it. Even that is vastly more empty than the vacuum we create inside particle accelerators and such. john_minsk|6 years ago Wow. Really? I would have thought that our artificial vacuum is pretty empty... Any good read on the topic? load replies (1)
kijin|6 years ago Even a nebula is absurdly empty. A particularly dense nebula might have ~10k particles per cubic centimeter floating around in it. Even that is vastly more empty than the vacuum we create inside particle accelerators and such. john_minsk|6 years ago Wow. Really? I would have thought that our artificial vacuum is pretty empty... Any good read on the topic? load replies (1)
john_minsk|6 years ago Wow. Really? I would have thought that our artificial vacuum is pretty empty... Any good read on the topic? load replies (1)
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