[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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