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Does Nothingness Exist?

The Joy of Why

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The Vacuum

A vacuum is what's left when we remove everything that can be removed. In the context of quantum theory, this means removing all particles in a certain way. The state that is left is what we call the vacuum and it contains no energy. Isabelle Boudreau is a theoretical physicist currently at New York University.

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