Early in the 20th century, Albert Einstein demonstrated that matter and energy are made of the same basic stuff, and that not only is everything that is “solid” in the universe made up of mostly empty space, but that what little actual “mass” there is only exists because some particles interact with a universal, invisible field called the Higgs field. The reason you and I exist is that most of our bodies’ particles create some kind of quantum drag against an invisible Higgs field that makes them slow down (from light speed) and gain mass in the process. That’s at least as weird as anything in
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