Empty space cannot exist. That is the argument. Not only can something come from nothing, it must come from nothing. Nature not only abhors a vacuum, it will not suffer a vacuum to live!Făkünamę wrote:That sounds probable. I recall a lecture about the non-existence of 'empty space', but not the details. Basically the professor postulated and argued that 'empty space' does not exist. Which is kind of funny when you think about it.
A (theoretical) total vacuum - containing no matter and no energy is referred to as a QED vacuum. Here's what wiki (quoting quantum theory) has to say about it...
QED vacuum has interesting and complex properties. In QED vacuum, the electric and magnetic fields have zero average values, but their variances are not zero.[18] As a result, QED vacuum contains vacuum fluctuations (virtual particles that hop into and out of existence), and a finite energy called vacuum energy. Vacuum fluctuations are an essential and ubiquitous part of quantum field theory. Some experimentally verified effects of vacuum fluctuations include spontaneous emission, the Casimir effect and the Lamb shift.[19] Coulomb's law and the electric potential in vacuum near an electric charge are modified.
