Empty space?

[justone]

Re: Arrogant Apes

Quantum theory tells us that particles are constantly popping in and out of existence in the vacuum of empty space all around us. This is one of the consequences of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which says that over short periods of time it is impossible to know the precise amount of energy in a system. Small fluctuations in the amount of mass or energy in a system are possible. Particles can therefore be created spontaneously out of nothing as long as they disappear quickly enough. Virtual particles are always couplets of matter/anti-matter and their term of existence is dictated by mass/energy (i.e. the larger the mass the shorter the lifespan). The Universe allows virtual particles to be created as long as the loan is promptly paid back... a condition that is satisfied once the particles annihilate one another and return to the apparant void.

Furthermore, quantum theory not only tells us this might happen, it tells us it must happen and is taking place constantly. We are surrounded by a quantum sea of virtual particles.

You are making my day, just by replying to my post. Let me see what day is today... and mark it as my celebration day
Led Zeppelin | Celebration Day lyrics
I may be wrong, I may be just in a hurry to conclude, I may be confused - but aren't you repeating what the happy puppy had brought to us --- Perturbation theory ? - or I have read about it somewhere else -- if to take in the account that DP constitutes almost all my reading.

What I like about the virtual particles - they pop up behind your back - you turn around - and they are gone - no trace of them, you turn you back to them - and they pop up behind your back again, you turn around and they are gone.... Can you make a dinner out of them?

 

[Monk-Eye]

Irrational Due Knot Dye

"Irrationals Due Knot Dye"

In case you failed to look it up - virtual particles.

 

[teacher]

Dave it is...

can I call you Dave?

Thanks. Dave.

My names not dave...

Quantum theory, String theory, muti universes, wormholes, speed of C being the limit.

I don't buy none of it.

Hawking don't impress me. Not on theory

But then I'm far too busy being ignored on other fronts to start being ignored on this also.

 

[Gunface]

I didnt get the cat thing, maybe it was because it was late but it was really confusing. I'll look at it more later on.

Schrodinger's cat is a theoretical situation in which a cat in enclosed in a box. The box is set up so that there is a small bit of radioactive material in it. There is an equal probability that the nucleus of the atom will decay or will not decay. If it decays, it will trigger hydrocyanic poison by means of a hammer, which would kill the cat. So the wave function of this would have the cat both alive and dead, since it's impossible to know exactly which without being able to see.

 

[rhinefire]

A box. You said take a box and empty it therefore, you would have a box.