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Space Is Made Of Discrete Relational Atoms
Space is not a pre-existing background in which things are placed; it is itself made of discrete disembodied points (atoms of space) that have no position, only relations (connections) to other points, and continuous-seeming space emerges from these relations only when viewed at large scale, analogous to how continuous fluids emerge from discrete molecules.
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Stephen WolframEvidence Quote
“And so the first big realization is from something as unstructured as that, by looking at that on a large-enough scale, it's kind of like how continuous fluids emerge from lots of discrete molecules underneath bouncing around, there's a notion of a kind of continuous-like space that can emerge when you look at that on a large scale.”
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155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics— Sean Carroll's MindscapeCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:30:55 AM
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