Re: NOTHING LIKE A VACUUM .

On Mar 30, 5:31 am, "socratus" <israel...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks to Einstein's famous equation E = mc2, Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle also implies that particles can flit into and
out of existence, their duration dictated only by their mass. This
leads to the astonishing realisation that all around us "virtual"
subatomic particles are perpetually popping up out of nothing, and
then disappearing again within about 10-23 seconds.
"Empty space" is thus not really empty at all, but a seething sea of
activity that pervades the entire Universe.

That is not the result of either of those maths. It is the result of
an *assumption* that must be made to apply quantum statistics
to continuous functions. The prospects are not so outlandish
when the omitted word, "virtual" is returned to the nouns it
fell off of.

http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html

Sue...



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