Why Fields Exist Everywhere

The chair you're sitting on feels solid. But it isn't. The atoms in your body feel like stuff. But they're not. Everything you see, touch, and feel is made from something far stranger than tiny balls of matter - invisible fields that stretch across every inch of the universe.

In this calming long-form space documentary, we trace the entire history of how humans discovered what reality is actually made of. From the ancient Greek idea of atoms, through the shocking discovery that atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space, through the quantum revolution that destroyed the very concept of a "particle" - all the way to the deepest answer modern physics has: quantum fields.

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