“Particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum also permit the fusion of two real photons into a single one, in the presence of… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“All in all, we come to the conclusion that no more than 1 percent of all matter in the universe falls in… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty relation tells us that an infinitely large energy corresponds to infinitely small distances.” — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“But for all practical purposes the formation of ice breaks the continuous symmetries of water non-deterministically. This non-deterministic symmetry breaking is called… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Charged particles can scatter light by absorbing and reemitting it (a). Light can scatter off light only by the mediation of charged… — Henning Genz Light Copy Share Image
“At the end of inflation, just as after the hot Big Bang, the universe is hot. It is, we might say, self-created… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“If the universe as we know it is nothing but a vacuum fluctuation with a purloined total energy that is not much… — Henning Genz Fluctuation Copy Share Image
“Can a cat vanish, but not its grin? Can structure exist without matter? This may be possible in the abstract interpretation of… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to bring a substance down to a temperature of absolute zero; there cannot be a blackbody without radiation because… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“The universe is but one immense unit; it cannot be separated into spatial domains that are totally empty and others that are… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The hotter a substance, the faster and the less ordered its molecular motion, and the larger the momentum with which molecules collide.… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“There is no suchthing as absolutely empty space. All space contains fluctuating fields and particles. Even in the emptiest space that the… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“Real systems are, in this sense, "excitations of the vacuum"- much as surface waves in a pond are excitations of the pond's… — Henning Genz Real world Copy Share Image
“To date, we don't know of any object that cannot, for certain, be subdivided. The chemist's atom consists of nucleus and electrons;… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Considering the energy balance, the reduction in size and the rise in temperature of the black hole form a feedback mechanism that… — Henning Genz Black hole Copy Share Image
“When we cause two of one kind of particle- say, an electron and a positron-to collide, the final products might be totally… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“In the process, we might remember that the ground state, the vacuum state of our world, doesn't display all the symmetries of… — Henning Genz Nature Copy Share Image
“To date we know only two real media that offer almost no resistance to moving bodies. One such medium was discovered in… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“The interpretation of apparent long-distance action by means of continuously propagating effects was vigorously asserted by Isaac Newton. In his wake, the… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“By reversing the steps that we took to advance from the concept of substance to that of Materia Prima, we can imagine… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“The elementary particles are often dubbed the atoms of our day. That may or may not be correct. It might be an… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“As we showed in figure 5, water molecules oscillate about their rest positions in ice. Quantum mechanics says that this remains true… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“INTO AND OUT OF THE VACUUM To make real particles out of the virtual ones that are part of the vacuum fluctuations,… — Henning Genz Quantum mechanics Copy Share Image
“This question about the reason we do not observe any quantum mechanical uncertainty in the appearance of flies or stars was never… — Henning Genz Quantum mechanics Copy Share Image
“If they were as we described them, the existence of black holes would contradict the principles of thermodynamics. One of these principles… — Henning Genz Black hole Copy Share Image
“Recall our discussion of the pendulum. Its position at a given instant does not fix its subsequent behavior. Suppose a photograph shows… — Henning Genz Habits Copy Share Image
“Today, this is the way we define the vacuum: It is the remnant left over in a volume out of which we… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Just as with sound waves, light waves emitted by a moving source show the Doppler effect. What we observe instead of the… — Henning Genz Light waves Copy Share Image
“Among Plato's successors, the most remarkable thinker to pick up this strain of argument is Plotinus. He offers little to those who… — Henning Genz Fitness Copy Share Image
“There is field for every particle. If that field is concentrated in some spatial region, the particle of that field is likely… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“If there weren't any charges, there would be neither absorption nor emission nor any scattering. Light would not impact on the matter… — Henning Genz Goals Copy Share Image
“The one thing we know is that planet Earth does keep moving in the direction of the constellation Leo at a rate… — Henning Genz Earth Copy Share Image
“A space that is empty in the sense that it doesn't contain masses is nothing but a special case of the above.… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“Chaotic or disordered distributions are symmetrical on the average. An observer cannot conclude anything about his location from looking around him. An… — Henning Genz Chaos Copy Share Image
“REALITY OF ZERO-POINT ENERGY The uncertainty relation implies that there cannot be a region in space totally devoid of electromagnetic fields. They… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“As long as two fields that describe one and the same space are identified, the field and the space can be used… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“John Maddox, the editor of the British journal Nature, had immediately suggested that the minister should be told that the Higgs boson… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“We can now infer that at this initial cooldown of the universe across the critical temperature of 10^15 degrees, a mini planetary… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“Second, what properties distinguish an otherwise empty volume that retains only some black-body radiation at zero temperature-dubbed zero-degree radiation-from truly empty space?… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“The vacuum of physics contains in its faculties everything that the laws of nature will permit. It fluctuates-the virtual particles come and… — Henning Genz Nature Copy Share Image
