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Misconceptions About Space, Time & The Universe (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Effects of Decompression on Space

Even a sealed off vacuum, space is never really empty. Like traffic on a road, nobody lives there but it's always busy. All these particles flickering in and out of existence for fractions of an instant do cause a net density. Dark matter would casually pass through any shield more easily than a neutrino. And dark energy seems to just add tiny packets of new space which contains energy everywhere all the time.

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