Sentences with phrase «quantum vacuum»

The possibilities being discussed for dark energy range from quantum vacuum energy to the influence of the unseen extra dimensions predicted by string theory.

Recently, people have been looking toward quantum vacuum and changing states in it as the precursor of the universe.

It must be an energy form even more exotic than quantum vacuum energy.

In 2013 he founded Foundations of Physics Institute — FOPI which main research subject is dynamic quantum vacuum.

From a scientific POV, quantum vacuum fluctuations prove that something can indeed come from «nothing».

Sonny White, a NASA engineer behind the controversial Em Drive, gave a dense presentation on a «quantum vacuum thruster» concept before being attacked by astrophysicists in the audience.

The quantum vacuum is not nothing!

I would guess some sort of boundary between true vacuum and quantum vacuum.

Some would say the quantum vacuum is «eternal» in some way, so that though spacetime does not extend infinitely (except perhaps into the future), the quantum vacuum does in whatever it is embedded in.

So the stakes have shifted: Does the quantum vacuum have a beginning?

why is that these laws can command the void of empty space and create a quantum vacuum?

To believe that a quantum vacuum appeared out of the void of nothingness because of the laws of quantum mechanics demanded it does not solve the question why there is something rather than nothing.

A quantum vacuum is something.

And even if there were no quantum vacuum filling it, empty space would be anything but nothing.

This kind of random fluctuation is thought to have ultimately created our cosmos of stars, planets and existential worriers out of the quantum vacuum — admittedly abetted by some as - yet - unexplained happenstance, such as a period of faster - than - light inflation in the early universe, and matter somehow winning out against its evil twin, antimatter.

Otherwise, the quantum vacuum from which particles appear would be unstable, and the universe would long ago have disintegrated.

Based on particle physics alone, if we were to naively guess what the energy density of the vacuum ought to be, you might think it was zero; and zero was sort of acceptable to us for a long time, but the quantum vacuum that physicists really know is not empty, so, zero was not really a very sensible answer anyway.