Turning all their mass into energy....disappearing completely....Here finally was the answer to the riddle of Empty Space. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle had suggested that matter could pop into existence for incredibly short periods of time. Now Dirac had provided the mechanism by which matter could be created out of the vacuum.
And just as quickly disappear again....
Everything and Nothing: What is Nothing? (Jim Al-Khalili) | Science Documentary | Science vid
So let's take another look at our box. Whenever a particle pops out of empty space, so simultaneously does its antiparticle. Although this sounds completely ridiculous, let me assure you that it 'tis true.
So whenever you try to remove everything out of space it is still awash with all these fluctuations. Within Nothingness there is a kind of fizzing, a dance as pairs of particles and antiparticles borrow energy before annihilating and paying it back again.
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