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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Solar System, each one
of these strings would be no big-

ger than an average-sized tree. 14
Also, we must constantly bear in
mind that an atom is 100,000
times smaller than the smallest
thing that can be seen with the
naked eye. It is only when one
remembers facts like these can a
person truly grasps how extraordinary the atomic world really is.
Professor of Physics Abhay Ashtekar from the University of
Pennsylvania and Professor of Physics Jerzy Lewandowski from the
University of Warsaw interpret the woven appearance of space as follows
in an article titled "Space and Time Beyond Einstein":
In this theory, Einstein wove the gravitational field into the very fab-
ric of space and time... The continuum we are all used to is only an
approximation. Perhaps the simplest way to visualize these ideas is
to look at a piece of fabric. For all practical purposes, it represents a
two-dimensional continuum; yet it is really woven by one-dimen-
sional threads. The same is true of the fabric of space-time. It is only
because the "quantum threads" which weave this fabric are tightly
woven in the region of the universe we inhabit that we perceive a
continuum. Upon intersection with a surface, each thread, or poly-
mer excitation, endows it with a tiny "Plank quantum" of area of
68
2
2
about 10 -66 cm . So an area of 100 cm has about 10 such intersec-
tions; because the number is so huge, the intersections are very close-
ly spaced and we have the illusion of a continuum. 15
An Article in the New York Times seeking an answer to the question
"How Was the Universe Built?" contained the following lines:
Even the tiny quarks that make up protons, neutrons and other par-
ticles are too big to feel the bumps that may exist on the Planck scale.

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