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noun - the doctrine that space is fully occupied by matter
PLENISM - In physics, horror vacui, or plenism (), is commonly stated as "Nature abhors a vacuum". It is a postulate attributed to Aristotle, who articulated a...
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| The belief that all space is full of matter. |
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| In physics, horror vacui, or plenism (), is commonly stated as "Nature abhors a vacuum". It is a postulate attributed to Aristotle, who articulated 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. He also argued against the void in a more abstract sense (as "separable"), for example, that by definition a void, itself, is nothing, and following Plato, nothing cannot rightly be said to exist. Furthermore, insofar as it would be featureless, it could neither be encountered by the senses, nor could its supposition lend additional explanatory power. Hero of Alexandria challenged the theory in the first century CE, but his attempts to create an artificial vacuum failed. The theory was debated in the context of 17th-century fluid mechanics, by Thomas Hobbes and Robert Boyle, among others, and through the early 18th century by Sir Isaac N |