it's weird to think, if you try to measure the volume of a container by filling it with water and measuring the volume of that water, the mere presence of the water will distort space and result in a slightly smaller volume than if it contained only air, or vacuum

this thought brought to you by Felthry's pondering how one would measure the total volume of a universe with non-flat curvature

@VoxSomniator oh!

physics causes a lot of those

it also causes a lot of powerful expressions of "how the hell does any of this math work"

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