Parmenides was then quite old, but his mind was still powerful and clear. The question was what is, what can be, how does anything come into being? And Parmenides gave a very strange answer: Nothing c...
No, no – you don’t understand! he sputtered, his face growing red not just with anger but with embarrassment, which seemed to make him angrier still. Space is empty; it is a void in which the atoms mo...