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To: fortheDeclaration
Then we won't discuss how virtual particle pairs appear spontaneously from the neutral vacuum!

Oh, let's do! I'm a little fuzzy on that myself. The vacuum has energy, and "contains" space--so technically it's not "nothing." Right? Or am I confused?

Can't we say that even the pre-Big Bang singularity had--at a minimum--mass, and so was not "nothing?"

If you can explain the phenomenon of vacuum energy in layman's terms, I would appreciate it.

35 posted on 02/24/2005 6:47:21 AM PST by TigerTale ("I don't care. I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.")
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To: TigerTale

See post 34


39 posted on 02/24/2005 6:59:11 AM PST by RadioAstronomer
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