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BevelGear ( BevelGear@beehaw.org )  to Science · 2 years ago

“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”

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“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”

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BevelGear ( BevelGear@beehaw.org )  to Science · 2 years ago
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"Nothing" doesn't exist. Instead, there is "quantum foam"
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Quantum physics shows that there is no such thing as "nothing." Even in a vacuum, particles can blink into and out of existence.
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    Luckily you can check out the author’s bio right from the article:

    Dr. Don Lincoln is a Senior Scientist at Fermilab, America’s leading particle physics laboratory, who has coauthored over 1,500 scientific papers. He was a member of the teams that discovered the top quark in 1995 and the Higgs boson in 2012.

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      Okay well maybe I’ll circle back to it, then. Maybe bad science writing has made me a little cynical.

      • Gamma ( GammaGames@beehaw.org ) 
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        A bit of cynicism is always healthy!

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      Oh snap, so this guy is on the faaaaaaaar side of the bell curve wearing the hood and agreeing with me. Well played.

    • GreyEyedGhost ( GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ) 
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      The guy just invents particles and you think we should trust him?

      j/k

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