Are Perfectly Solid Matter and Perfectly Empty Space Possible?
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Are Perfectly Solid Matter and Perfectly Empty Space Possible? |
| Author(s) | Glenn Borchardt |
| Published in | The Scientific Worldview |
| Date | 2025-12-15 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | matter, space, infinite universe |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Are Perfectly Solid Matter and Perfectly Empty Space Possible?" is an article by Glenn Borchardt published on 15 December 2025 on The Scientific Worldview. His answer is no.
Answering a reader, Borchardt holds that both are imaginary limits the universe cannot produce, because they are ideas rather than things. He allows they are useful ideas — an open doorway is treated as empty and a closed one as solid, though the doorway is full of air molecules either way. In reality every portion of the universe has both properties at once, which is what he means by the matter-space continuum.