1. There is vastly more nothing than something.
Roughly 74 percent of the universe is "nothing,"
or what physicists call dark energy; 22 percent
is dark matter, particles we cannot see. Only 4
percent is baryonic matter, the stuff we call
something.
2. And even something is mostly nothing. Atoms
overwhelmingly consist of empty space. Matter's
solidity is an illusion caused by the electric
fields created by subatomic particles.
3. There is more and more nothing every second. In
1998 astronomers measuring the expansion of the
universe determined that dark energy is pushing
apart the universe at an ever-accelerating speed.
The discovery of nothing--and its ability to
influence the fate of the cosmos-is considered
the most important astronomical finding of the
past decade.
LeeAundra Temescu
_Discover Magazine_ [June 2007],
"20 Things You Didn't Know About Nothing"
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