How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum.

Nothing started to seem like something in the 20th century, as physicists came to view reality as a collection of fields: objects that fill space with a value at each point (the electric field ...

In quantum physics, the vast emptiness of space isn't actually that empty. In fact, what we think of as a "vacuum" is actually teeming with virtual particles - particles that flit in and out of ...

In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron ...

Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that objects would fly through truly empty space at impossible speeds. In 1277, the French bishop Etienne Tempier shot back, de ...

How do scientists store nothing? It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but the answer is causing a stir in the realm of quantum physics after a University of Calgary research team has ...

The problem of the void goes back more than 2,000 years. In “Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing,” James Owen Weatherall gives a wide-ranging account of this remarkable story.

The problem of the void goes back more than 2,000 years. In “Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing,” James Owen Weatherall gives a wide-ranging account of this remarkable story.

You’d assume the answer is “nothing,” but perhaps that’s not quite right. You can take all the particles and antiparticles away, all the various types of radiation, all the curvature of space and ...