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Does the fact that everything consists of particles constitute a kind of oneness in the universe?

I m an atheist, but I m philosophically atomist. I think this is called particle or material monism?

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  • 5 years ago

    All matter is made of particles. Things get a little more muddled in the subatomic, quantum world. You have particles that blink in and out of existence, particles without mass. String theory suggests that the smallest particles are tightly bound packets of energy. Energy does not consist of particles. The basic forces of the universe- time, gravity, electromagnetic radiation- do not consist of particles. Einstein showed that matter and energy are interchangeable. The relationship is E=mc^2 where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light.

    The universe is a very strange place.

  • 5 years ago

    Notice what you are doing. You are considering all the various objects in the universe and then abstracting out the particulars until you have a concept general enough to apply to them all. Now, is that abstract concept real? Does it consist of particles? What do we do with the fact that we can only deal with the concrete particulars that make up the universe by forming abstract conceptions of them?

    Plato considered our power of conceptualization to be pretty good evidence for the existence of the soul. I am neither a Platonist nor a philosophical Theist like Plato (as a born-anew Christian, my epistemological basis is quite different), but I find him to have been a deeper thinker than the average "new atheist" who churns out books these days.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It's sort of a conceptual oneness. But that's all.

    You don't particles to do that though. You could also say, "Everything is a thing. And since all things are things, all things are united in their thingness."

    The concept isn't false, it just doesn't do any intellectual or philosophical work. It's sort of an extended tautology. But it may do some emotional work....if it makes people feel good about "oneness."

  • 5 years ago

    Everything is of God's mind . That is the only sensible why magic or miracles can happen . Look at Scientist understanding that in reality nothing can exist . But is does .

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  • 5 years ago

    That's sounds kind of like the Buddhist concept of anatman - where they believe no self exists because we're made up of non-self particles.

  • Mackey
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Spacetime does not consists of particles, so assuming that everything does is fallacious.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Everything is really waves, not particles.

  • 5 years ago

    amazing isn't it....and God holds all this together.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Fvck if I know.

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