Hidden depths

• Autores: Anil Ananthaswamy
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3111, 2017, págs. 28-32
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Ananthaswamy uncovers a new, uncharted layer of reality. Every age has had its own list of reality's basic elements. For the philosopher Democritus, everything was made of atoms. For Aristotle, it was earth, air, water and fire. In the late 19th century, all the talk was of the luminiferous ether, a medium which was thought to carry light. For most of the past three centuries, however, Newton guided their thoughts on what all things are made of. He thought that reality had three elementary components: time, a cosmic clock ticking away in the background; particles with mass; and a space in which the particles moved, which he called the "sensorium of God."