On Jan 12, 2006, at 6:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The current cosmic argument on the ZPF is whether it is dominated by virtual fermions or virtual bosons. The former would represent "dark energy" and the latter "dark matter". Their ratio could explain some recent cosmic anomalies.
The answer I think, in the presence of hydrogen, has to be *strange quarks*, and not necessarily even "virtual". I read a recent article (can't find it right now) that found the magnetic field of the proton is due in modest part (about 10-15 percent if I recall correctly) to the periodic creation and annihilation of strange quark pairs in the close vicinity of the proton. Yes, it was a serious article!
Horace Heffner
