"In spite of what our senses tell us, the world is not really a continuum of stuff." #readingToday

In spite of what our senses tell us, the world is not really a continuum of stuff. It is not the smooth and undulating world of Newton, with perfect spheres and light strings. It is rough, granular and random, even unpredictable, when we dig down. It just appears to appear continuous to our imperfect senses, because it is a collection of very many extremely small things, too small to resolve individually. Scale, our friend. Scale, the deceiver.

In Search of Certainty, Mark Burgess, 2013