Horror vacui (physics)  

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"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me" --Blaise Pascal.

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In physics horror vacui, or plenism ("fullness", from Latin plēnum, English "plenty", cognate via Proto-Indo-European to "full"), is a saying anachronistically attributed to Aristotle, who theorized a belief, later criticized by the atomism of Epicurus, and Lucretius, that nature contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding material continuum would immediately fill the rarity of an incipient void.

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