The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/electroctopus on 2024-12-27 08:48:44.

Original Title: TIL Aristotle hypothesized that nature contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding material continuum would immediately fill the rarity of an incipient void. The hypothesis was termed horror vacui (Latin: horror of the vacuum) or plenism— commonly stated as “nature abhors a vacuum”.