Little more than a week ago, Bill Richardson was being sworn in as New Mexico's new governor, his head filled with matters like teachers' pay and cutting taxes.
Anne Chamberlain, the former premier's widow, suggested that Churchill's work was filled with matters that "are not real misstatements that could easily be corrected, but wholesale omissions and assumptions that certain things are now recognised as facts which actually have no such position".
In its original incarnation, Einstein considered a spacetime filled with matter excepting one region, the hole, which was matter free.
That the universe is filled with matter people cannot see matter that simply passes through pretty much everything undetected is hard to accept.
Hence Aristotle's cosmology, in which "the universe was contained in a nutshell, ensconced comfortably within the sphere of fixed stars" and "the cosmos was finite in extent, and entirely filled with matter".
Jesse thinks of reporters as junkies, with different drugs of choice; she is addicted to "the Infilling" — "the compulsive hankering... to be filled, no matter how fleetingly, with the power of human grief, human rage, to do it over and over....".
The areas outside the horizon are instead filled with matter which has been spuriously ejected from the outer layers of the star star during the collapse.
Oddly enough, although Charleton occasionlly mentions and criticizes Descartes with regard to other matters, no note of the fact is made that Descartes, a decade earlier, had proposed explanations, in detail or in outline, for just these sorts phenomena according to a system of nature in which the world is completely filled with matter and in which space distinct from body cannot exist.
Instead, the flash crash was the result of someone placing a multi-million-dollar sell order at market price, meaning ETH would change hands at whatever price bidders were currently offering until the entire order was filled – no matter how much lower the price was than the current price of ETH.
