Something From Nothing

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This is a nice introductory piece.

http://www.nanogallery.info/news/?id...ews&type=anews

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...rse/52951768/1

"...Nothing is something, it turns out, in physics. The equations that explain the innards of atoms produce so-called "virtual" particles that pop in and out of existence all the time on the sub-atomic level. These virtual particles cancel out each other at the end of the day, but in the meantime they lend atomic particles most of their mass. And their existence can be measured in electrical phenomena apparent at very small scales, such as the "Casamir" effect, observable as the attraction of two mirrors towards one another in a vacuum when placed very close together..."

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Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves.

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[Can waves be negative? They have a negative half on an occilloscope, but aside from that....]

"...A Universe from Nothingsums up in many way what has been Krauss's big focus — the big picture, or the character of the universe as a whole. In 1995, Krauss and University of Chicago physicist Michael Turner saw astronomical evidence converging on an idea discarded by Einstein, that a slight anti-gravitational force stretches the universe, increasingly pushing stars and galaxies farther away from one another.
You may have heard of this idea, called "dark energy," which most likely is what Krauss then called "vacuum" energy, a kind of force hidden away inside seemingly empty space. Last year's Nobel prize for physics went to astronomers Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, who in 1998 observed that dark energy was increasing the distances between galaxies at an accelerating rate They measured this acceleration by observing how fast a particular class of exploding stars, so-called Type 1A supernova stars, appeared to be moving away from us. The farther away the supernova, the faster it seemed to be accelerating away, which was quite a surprise at the time..."

[There was a Nova show on Pearlmutter's research.]

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Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves.

Donald Sutherland as "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes