Sentences with phrase «repulsive vacuum energy»

They're called virtual particles, and the energy associated with the background hum of their constant appearance and disappearance became the way in which we understand the source of repulsive vacuum energy.

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Instead the theory predicted a virtually countless number of vacuum states, with nearly any amount of repulsive energy you could imagine.

It turns out that most of the stuff in the universe is in the form of some energy in the vacuum that has an odd repulsive property.

Strangely enough, the simplest example of energy with repulsive gravity involves Einstein's nemesis, quantum mechanics, which holds that even a perfect vacuum is not empty.

And there are good arguments that you might only find them when the vacuum energy is incredibly small, because a larger vacuum energy blows the universe apart, [it] produces a repulsive force before galaxies could form, and if you believe that observers only form in their galaxies, no observers in those universes.