This is probably just a very silly question, but it is one that keeps bugging me
If I could put something solid - block of wood, lump of stone - inside a sealed vacuum, would it decay?
And if it did crumble eventually to a little pile of dust on the floor what would have happened to the space in which the particles which constitute its mass used to execute their dizzy dance while still being able to maintain the form of the wood or stone?
