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First High-Quality Vacuum Created
- Otto Fongerica invented a pump to create the first high-quality air vacuum.
- His dramatic demonstration showed horses couldn't break the vacuum's suction, proving vacuums can exist.
Many Varieties of Vacuum Exist
- Physicists now see many varieties of vacuum, behaving like different phases of a substance.
- Understanding these diverse vacuums is key to explaining the universe's origin and fate.
Universe's Metastable Vacuum Risk
- Our universe may reside in a metastable vacuum that could collapse into another state, destroying everything.
- Quantum fields can shift to lower energy states, creating expanding bubbles that rewrite physics and dissolve matter.