{"id":33698,"date":"2017-01-21T19:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T03:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/physicists-may-have-just-manipulated-pure-nothingness"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:40","slug":"physicists-may-have-just-manipulated-pure-nothingness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/physicists-may-have-just-manipulated-pure-nothingness","title":{"rendered":"Physicists may have just manipulated \u2018pure nothingness\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-may-have-just-manipulated-pure-nothingness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of those philosophical questions we occasionally ponder: What is nothing? Can nothing be something? If not, then how can something come from nothing?<\/p>\n<p>If there\u2019s one scientific field on the forefront of such conceptual paradoxes, it\u2019s quantum theory. And in quantum theory, nothing actually is something \u2026 sort of.<\/p>\n<p>See, according to quantum mechanics, even an empty vacuum is not really empty. It\u2019s filled with strange virtual particles that blink in and out of existence in timespans too short to observe. Nothingness, on the quantum level, exists on a level of intuitive absurdity; a kind of existence that is paradoxical but, in some conceptual sense, necessary.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/green-tech\/research-innovations\/stories\/physicists-may-have-just-manipulated-pure-nothingness\">http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/green-tech\/research-innovations\/stories\/p...othingness<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of those philosophical questions we occasionally ponder: What is nothing? Can nothing be something? If not, then how can something come from nothing? If there\u2019s one scientific field on the forefront of such conceptual paradoxes, it\u2019s quantum theory. And in quantum theory, nothing actually is something \u2026 sort of. See, according to quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59031,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33698\/revisions\/59031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}