Through excerpts from the book by Frank Close that remind us of the philosophical debates, from antiquity to the Renaissance, around the concept of void, this issue leads us into modern physics: the content of void...
The "nothing"... While classical physics has admitted the existence of emptiness, modern physics presents this idea: there are electric, magnetic, gravitational fields in a void.
Better, the quantum void is full of pairs of virtual particles, so some people think that our universe is only a fluctuation of the void. Between the most modern science and philosophical extrapolations to weave new dialogues, exciting.
The "nothing"... While classical physics has admitted the existence of emptiness, modern physics presents this idea: there are electric, magnetic, gravitational fields in a void.
Better, the quantum void is full of pairs of virtual particles, so some people think that our universe is only a fluctuation of the void. Between the most modern science and philosophical extrapolations to weave new dialogues, exciting.
Between the particles, a view of the exhibition permanent 'Universe of particles' in the Globe of science and innovation at Cern, in Meyrin, Switzerland. © Michael Jungblut, Cern
