Mel Acheson: What’s the Deal with Matter? | Thunderbolts

What’s the deal with matter? At the human scale, it’s something like a rock: You can hold it in your hand, feel its weight, and it looks solid with sharp boundaries. It is there. If you look at it with an electron microscope, the solidity is mostly empty space. There are a few dark splotches scattered around that you can call “molecules of matter.” At even greater magnification, those molecules become even more empty space with a few dark splotches scattered around called “atoms of matter.” But you can’t hold them in your hand or weigh them on your bathroom scale. Science critic Mel Acheson describes why matter is not a given, it is an assumption. -- If you see a CC with this video, it means that subtitles are available. To find out which ones, click on the Gear Icon in the lower right area of the video box and click on “subtitles” in the drop-down box. Then click on the subtitle that you would like. The Thunderbolts Project — a Voice for the Electric Universe htt