[HN Gopher] How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
Author : nsoonhui
Score : 27 points
Date : 2022-08-09 13:58 UTC (9 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.quantamagazine.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.quantamagazine.org)
| Koshkin wrote:
| _Nothing is necessary - or sufficient._
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| - A Mathematician's Miscellany
| dieselgate wrote:
| I remember towards the end of college being really curious with
| what a box with "nothing" would contain. Researching this topic
| just lead me to the Kasimir Effect and there are some amazing
| videos that describe it. Haven't looked into it in greater
| technical depth but am just in awe of the natural/physical
| environment within which we exist. The article doesn't seem to
| touch on the above much but great to see "pop" literature on it
| nonetheless.
| wrycoder wrote:
| Another rehash of the same thing we've been hearing for the last
| thirty years. There's nothing new in the article, and I'm
| surprised that Quanta published it.
| layer8 wrote:
| Gotta make something out of nothing.
| SkyMarshal wrote:
| This is so meta.
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