Dialectical Materialism vs. "The New Physics"

by Mike Gimbel

Zeno’s paradox is another example of mathematics being improperly used and has absolutely nothing to do with the concept of infinity. Why does a “solid” exist, if it isn’t actually “solid”? Well, it actually is “solid” in terms of our existence and experience. Take the floor on which you are standing, for instance. The atoms that make up that “solid” floor are almost entirely composed of “empty space’ as far as our technological instruments can discern. “Over 99% of the atom’s mass is contained in about one millionth of one billionth of its volume!”[18] Then, why don’t you simply fall through the floor? Each molecule present in that floor is contained in a lattice of other molecules. While each molecule is mostly empty space, the material ingredients inside each atom of those molecules is whizzing around at enormously high speed creating a shell through which it is hard to penetrate. The denser the lattice, the harder the “solid”. That is why you don’t fall though the floor.