CREATION FROM THE VOID

by George F. Hart, 19th., August, 2009

“The quantum vacuum is where everything that we know came from, even the matrix of space-time”.

Frank Close, “NOTHING – a very short introduction”, p: 107,2009.

Humans are adapted to sense things at the mega-scale – not the atomic level or below and not the galactic or universe level. We have to use logical inquiry to understand things at these other levels and explain them in a universal language which we call Science. Science is the language whereby human being describe reality. We formulate hypotheses and then Theories that conform to facts. Very small things are understood by quantum mechanics. Very large things are understood by gravity. Scientists believe that at the quantum level space cannot be a true void. The uncertainty principle demands that knowing that there is NO PARTICLE AT ANY AND ALL POINTS tells us nothing about momentum [energy] and that energy cannot be zero. Zero point energy is merely the minimum amount of observable energy existing at a location. The classical view is that a zero point can split into two equal but opposites and the void can have an average of zero. By the continual process of splitting into opposites and then uniting into nothing once more the result is that there is no such thing as empty space i.e. a true void. A analogy would be two colliding light waves of equal wave length which when 90 degrees out of phase create dark. BUT is this a mathematical construct when it comes to the void? Is it implicit in the wave/particle duality that if all mass is removed so is all energy and this does not break the uncertainty principle i.e. are zero point energy and zero point motion relevant when all matter is removed? The ground state of a vacuum is the state at which no more energy can be removed from the system. Casimir H. [1948] suggested how to determine if zero point energy is real or just a mathematical construct and in 1996 this was done in the affirmative. The “Casimir Effect” is the CHANGE in zero point energy even though the zero point energy itself cannot be measured. Case notes “The void is a quantum sea of zero point waves, with all possible wavelengths” Close, p. 106. Theoretically zero-point energy is infinite although it may not be accessible as available energy.

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