Empty Space is NOT Empty
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An atom is mostly empty space, but empty space is mostly not empty. The reason it looks empty is because electrons and photons don't interact with the stuff that is there, quark and gluon field fluctuations. It actually takes energy to clear out space and make a true 'empty' vacuum. This seems incredibly counter-intuitive but we can make an analogy to a permanent magnet. When at low energies, like at room temperature, there is a magnetic field around the magnet due to the alignment of all the magnetic moments of the atoms. But if you add some energy to it by heating it, the particles gain thermal energy, which above the Curie temperature makes their magnetic moments randomly oriented and hence destroying the magnetic field. So in this case energy is needed to clear out the field, just as in the quantum vacuum. Special thanks to Professor Derek Leinweber, find out more about his research here: http://bit.ly/ZZTKFP
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School is a bunch of lies to approve an exam.
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It's not nothing..the space contains energy. You can't have absolutely
nothing because that's a perfect state - same with a space that contains
everything. Nature is imperfect, that's why there's "something" as
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So does this also apply to the "empty" space inside atoms, or does this only apply to say a "pure" vacuum? Late to the party, but this was just a question that popped into my mind at the final remark in the video. I thought that this applied to the latter but from the final remark about that the inside of an atom is mostly empty I got the impression that he was talking about the former....
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I'm a firm subscriber to the theory of quantum bogodynamics.
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Yay I come from the country that invented Skype what scientist uses
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But, how to extract that energy?
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What does fm stand for? 1:41
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Well empty space is in fact empty yes ? which is why its called empty space. if there are stuffs in it that are too small for the eyes to see then those are not Empty space. even in the simulation you can see empty space. in the simulation you can see spots in the space where there are no activity or the activity have not pass through yet.
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Adams and quorks
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Much fps, Quantum master race !
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what background music is it...its amazing
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is this dark matter?
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Now I understand magnets a bit better :)
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Why does the simulation seem to be periodic, though quantum fluctuations are supposed to be random?
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hello amazing video got a new sub
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is this how the EM drive works . the microwaves are stretching the quarks elongating the flux tubes creating new strange quarks and anti strange quarks . this transfer of energy is what propels the em drive ?😎 because science
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HOLD ON! So in this simulation SOME of the volume is a quantum field, but some have NO QUANTUM FIELD and therefor you can say that at that spot there is NOTHING at ALL even quantum field.
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my head is empty space though
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I can't understand what he says after, "Empty space is actually .........." at 1:53
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