Scientists Created Light from Vacuum

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Scientists Created Light from Vacuum

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http://www.sci-news.com/physics/scienti ... acuum.html

"The experiment is based on one of the most counterintuitive, yet, one of the most important principles in quantum mechanics: that vacuum is by no means empty nothingness. In fact, the vacuum is full of various particles that are continuously fluctuating in and out of existence. They appear, exist for a brief moment and then disappear again. Since their existence is so fleeting, they are usually referred to as virtual particles."
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re: Scientists Created Light from Vacuum

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Vacuum is a bad word for this, being it implies a negative space

In an area void of matter there is at a minimum various EM waves, subatomic particles and gravity which cannot be shielded out of the experiment area
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Couldn't agree more.
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Post by eccentrically1 »

That's interesting; the photons appear in pairs for some reason.
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