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Hey, it's Thomas here. I'm the host of Deep Sleep Sounds, another sleep-inducing podcast from the Slumber Studios Network. On the Deep Sleep Sounds podcast, you'll find hundreds of episodes featuring relaxing nature soundscapes, sleep music, calming white noise, and much more. Everything is designed with your sleep in mind, so if you're looking for another great way to ease into a restful night's slumber, then just search Deep Sleep Sounds on your favourite podcast player. I'll see you there, my friends. Hey, it's Thomas here. I'm the host of Get Sleepy, another sleep-inducing podcast from the Slumber Studios Network.
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On Get Sleepy, you'll find hundreds of original bedtime stories and meditations to fall asleep to. Some of our listener favourites are our trips to the Rainy Day Bakery, our Sleepy History series, and our adaptations of classic tales like Beauty and the Beast. Everything is designed with your sleep in mind. So, if you're looking for another great way to ease into a restful night's slumber, then just search for Get Sleepy on your favourite podcast player. I'll see you there, my friends.
There's a piece of scientific trivia that is almost cliche at this point, as it's been doing the rounds for quite a long time, and it goes something like, atoms are in fact 99% empty space. And I think that resonates with people quite a lot because it gets at something fundamentally absurd about the nature of the matter that makes up the entire universe. And that is despite the fact that we feel like we live in a universe filled with solid things, a universe that is tangible, In fact, there is an inherent emptiness to all of that seemingly solid stuff. which is of course relatively counterintuitive. But of course we could then explain away some of that and say it of course appears to be empty or perhaps devoid of matter, but what we are feeling when we pick up the mug from the table or sit in the chair is the forces of
in between the matter, so to speak, that is pushing up against each other. This gives us the the feeling of a tactile universe, I suppose. But something I find even more fascinating and counterintuitive is not just that the fundamental building blocks of our universe are a majority empty space, but that when you really get down to it, the very most fundamental building blocks the quarks are actually not directly measurable at all and this is something that i didn't understand until very recently but quarks though we've known about them for some time now decades now you cannot actually perceive them. You can only ever see the effects of what they have created, the ramifications of their interactions with things.
And so we know that protons are made of quarks, but that is only because we collide them against each other or other things and we can see what happens to the debris of that proton and the behavior of that collision and the interactions of the debris would heavily suggest that there is something that
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