Alright, break over. Things are going to get weird again. Be with me and know about the weirdness of Physics. The thing about empty space, you’d think, is that it’s empty. That sounds like a pretty safe assumption—it’s in the name, after all. But the universe, it happens, is too restless to put up with that, which is why particles are constantly popping into and out of existence all over the place. They’re called virtual particles, but make no mistake—they’re real, and proven. They exist for only a fraction of a second, which is long enough to break some fundamental laws of physics but quick enough that this doesn’t actually matter (like if you stole something from a store, but put it back on the shelf half a second later). Scientists have called this phenomenon ‘ quantum foam,’ because apparently it reminded them of the shifting bubbles in the head of a soft drink. --Pradip Kattel
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:48:39 +0000
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