There's a really good explanation of Casimir effects and vacuum fluctuation here - http://www.casimir-network.net/IMG/pdf/Casimir_20effect.pdf - maybe we're missing the information that is informing us on vacuum nothingness much as one might forget the white expanse behind a black dot when looking for black dots?
On Apr 1, 3:54 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 31, 10:10 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:> I don't think we > know Awori - but then I was confined to chemistry. > > There's something called 2,0 Theory in which our world is the shadow > > world of one of a greater number of dimensions including more than one > > dimension of time - but even if the physicists play with the numbers > > of modern science in this it has shades of Plato. We are not much > > better off in terms of origin than the tale of the world held up by a > > turtle. We ask what holds the turtle up and are told it's another > > turtle and after that turtles all the way down. Currently, even red > > shift is under question owing to stars that still seem too old - and > > so on. > > And what is name of theory in which our world > is the shadow of the Vacuum’s world. > 1. > The most fundamental question facing 21st century physics will be: > What is the vacuum? As quantum mechanics teaches us, with > its zero point energy this vacuum is not empty and the word > vacuum is a gross misnomer! > / Prof. Friedwardt Winterberg / > 2 > ‘ Somehow, the energy is extracted from the vacuum and turned > into particles....’ > / Book: Stephen Hawking. Pages 147-148. > By Michael White and John Gribbin. / > 3 > Although we are used to thinking of empty space as containing > nothing at all, and therefore having zero energy, the quantum > rules say that there is some uncertainty about this. Perhaps each > tiny bit of the vacuum actually contains rather a lot of energy. > If the vacuum contained enough energy, it could convert this > into particles, in line with E-Mc^2. > / Book: Stephen Hawking. Pages 147-148. > By Michael White and John Gribbin. / > 4 > ‘ All kinds of electromagnetic waves ( including light’s) > spread in vacuum . . . . thanks to the vacuum, to the specific > ability of empty space these electromagnetic waves can exist.’ > / Book : To what physics was come, page 32. R. K. Utiyama. / > 5. > Vacuum -- the very name suggests emptiness and nothingness – > is actually a realm rife with potentiality, courtesy of the laws > of quantum electrodynamics (QED). According to QED, > additional, albeit virtual, particles can be created in the vacuum, > allowing light-light interactions.http://www.aip.org/pnu/2006/768.html > 6. > When the next revolution rocks physics, > chances are it will be about nothing—the vacuum, > that endless infinite > void.http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/18-nothingness-of-space-theory-o... > # > . . . .etc. > ==.. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
