In reply to Sean Logan's message of Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:24:06 -0700: Hi, [snip] >Ahh, so even atoms are made of this stuff? I like your description of them >as ''eddies'' in the liquid. When you're paddling a canoe, as you pull the >paddle out of the water, (after a stroke), there is sometimes a little >whirlpool flowing away. Didn't Rene Descartes propose the idea that atoms >are simply vortices in the aether?
I would be more inclined to say that electrons are eddies, rather than whole atoms. I think of the other particles in the zoo as composite eddies. (Wheels within wheels as it were.) If no one clicked on ads companies would stop paying for them. :)