Nature abhors a vacuum, horror vacui, first postulated by Aristotle and later restated by Galileo and others, basically states that given the chance energy/mass will rush in to fill a void, and therefore there are no perfect voids in the universe. For Aristotle it was an argument that vacuums could not exist in our universe. Considering quantum effects the idea of the perfect vacuum - empty of everything, probably doesn't exist, and so he was right. In fact his line of his reasoning if followed to its logical conclusions could have led to the development of quantum field theory, prediction of vacuum-energy, vacuum state, vacuum permittivity, quantum fluctuation perhaps then even leading to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Smart guy.
Smart guy.
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