What Is the Integrative Nature of Matter?

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Physicists can't talk about the intrinsic nature of matter. They only describe how they behave, and that's how we understand these things. We don't understand what the nature of an atom or an electron or a proton is. That's not like something that physics can even justtt The methodology isn't designed to try to figure out what that is.

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