And what do we think about it (something haha Google won't say) - cheers.
shareStrange as it sounds, I've only ever heard that phrase used in a political sense. It normally refers to how people don't like having no leader(s) to follow. Sooner or later, someone will either step up to the role, or seize it.
I'm guessing that phrase started some time after the concept of airless voids became known, such as after the Renaissance.
Aristotle apparently said it and it means that all spaces must contain ‘something.’
I bet you a dollar that Aristotle won the ‘No Shit Captain Obvious Award’ the year he said this.
But that award was a good thing, correct Shogun? In cinematic terms, was it like an Oscar or a Razzie?
shareI thought it might've been him, I have heard of Aristotle yes but I am not 100% familiar with all his quotes though.
ALSO, in some cases, how does that quote also apply to negative things that happen (read late Roger Ebert's review of "Dead Man Walking" (1995) about Sean Penn's character being driven to commit those crimes.)
It was said by John Broome's great great grandson Winslow Broome in 1901.
Broome the Elder had invented the tool that bears his name - the broom.
Winslow make the comment when vacuums were becoming a thing because he didn't want them to enroach on his family's lucrative broom business.
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Pet abhors a vacuum
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pets+hate+vacuum
Haha, that is a good one, I too at times got reminded of vacuum cleaner here, I was wondering however, do pets also have a feeling for or even of emptiness, i.e. vacuum, like discussed here, just curious, thanks.
shareWell technically most of the universe is comprised of a vacuum which was verified by the famous Michelson-Morley experiment which tried to detect the luminiferous ether.
shareThere are, as I understand it, two basic ‘downhill’ gradients in nature - heat and order. Hot things cool off, water runs downhill, and ordered arrangements tend toward disorder. A vacuum is a highly ordered arrangement.
shareThis here has always been over my head:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
Here's an example. Glucose (or any sugar) is, like water, a highly polar molecule, meaning it has negative & positive centers, which allow for electrostatic charge attractions to be felt between dissolving glucose particles (solute), and water (solvent). By the principle of the tendency of entropy to increase, it is a 'downhill' reaction, or change/transformation, for the highly-ordered lattice structure of the glucose in crystal form, and fairly uniform un-solvated water, to give way to a bunch of glucose molecules each surrounded by a bunch of water molecules, distributed fairly randomly throughout the solution, yielding a much less 'ordered' arrangement. Same with most salts, which tend to dissociate into positive & negative ions in the presence of a polar solvent such as water or ethanol, by basically the same mechanism.
The free energy of any system is given by deltaG (free energy) = deltaH (heat) - T(emp)deltaS(entropy).
ΔG=ΔH−TΔS.