The most precise calculation of the lifetime of our universe finds that a bubble of
vacuum energy made by the Higgs boson could envelop us all in 10139 years
Not exact matches
It's
made up of a little bit of ordinary matter, a lot of some exotic «dark matter» of unknown identity, and even more of a mysterious
energy permeating the
vacuum of space, exerting gravitational repulsion.
The elusive Casimir effect suggests we could use
vacuum energy to move objects and
make stuff — but can something really come from nothing?
When the idea was first proposed mathematically in 1994 it required a vast amount of negative
vacuum energy which
made the idea seem impossible.
Dodelson: Again referring to this dark
energy today, there are two possibilities that lead to optimistic branches and one is that dark
energy today may not be
vacuum energy, it may be something completely different; and a good piece of evidence for that is that inflation itself require [s] dark
energy, so it kind of
make sense to think, [«Well, we had some early [epoch] of dark
energy which is something [we're trying to] figure out, maybe [today] there is also [a] new type of dark
energy we are trying to figure out and it is not
vacuum energy, so that would lead to a less pessimistic future.
Other ideas include
vacuuming the sea and converting the plastic into an alternative
energy source (plastics are
made from petroleum).
(Twenty - seven kilometers of tunnel underground Designed with mind to send protons around A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride»Til in the hearts of the detectors, they're
made to collide And all that
energy packed in such a tiny bit of room Becomes mass, particles created from the
vacuum And then...)
Refrigerator
vacuum panels
made from the ash of burned rice husks won University of Michigan students first prize in the M.I.T. Clean
Energy contest.
And then you have to ask yourself, where in this multiverse would you expect to find astronomers to
make the measurements of the
energy density of the
vacuum?
Sexual maturity, the loss of the sweet fuzzy puppy fuzz that is replaced with the dog hair that will clog up your
vacuum for the rest of his life, and that beautiful day when he figures out once and for all exactly where the potty for puppies is
makes a dog's human proud and gives us the sense that our time and
energy is being well spent.
Even air fresheners can
make a difference - if one aluminium air freshener aerosol is recycled by everyone in the UK; enough
energy could be saved to
vacuum over 876,000 homes for a year — that's a lot of tidy homes!
The market does not exist in a
vacuum; it exists in a world dominated by politicians who aren't
making energy a priority, and who were aware of the effect of their policies on
energy prices long ago.