Virtual particles are a weird ingredient of empty space. One might even argue that it's the source of dark energy. For sure it has a different effect on empty space as normal, real matter does. The negative energy contributions give negative curvature. It is said that the vacuum fluctuations have a very high energy, while in fact it should be negative. — Raymond
What are field points and how can they oscillate? Are it not the excited wavefunctions that show oscillating behavior? — Raymond
Yes, the 'vacuum' energy could be the source of the push of dark energy, the fuel that ever keeps on giving. In the Casimer experiment the 'vacuum' pushes two plates apart — PoeticUniverse
That means on one side there is a different force then on the other. What's different in between? — Raymond
I'm a Mysterian. There are no answers I'm particularly interested in. I just understand that reality is ineffable, to a delineating degree. — theRiddler
Well, now it's effable — PoeticUniverse
at least currently seems to be the case, that there is no such solid foundations that matter is built on, — Reformed Nihilist
quantum bubbles — Raymond
A neutrino walks through a bar — PoeticUniverse
How can physicists be so blind that they don't see that there is more elemental stuff than quarks and leptons? — Raymond
What's the difference between these fields and convenient math? — theRiddler
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