“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
“To sum up: Electron and positron annihilate as a pair, in a particle-antiparticle collision. Their energy heats up the vacuum; when the… — 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
“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
“Protons and neutrons interact strongly with each other because their building blocks do so. The exchange particles of the strong color interaction… — Henning Genz Building blocks Copy Share Image
“SYMMETRY BREAKING The preferential direction fixed by this spontaneous symmetry breaking will now determine which among the elementary particles will share in… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“In the general theory, the field is all-pervasive; there is no such thing as space without a field. The space and all… — 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 orthodox interpretation offers no explanation as to why everyday objects never assume quantum mechanical states that do not allow a classical… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“But it forms the backdrop for Thales' idea that the world arose from the waters. This ur-ocean however to him is not… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Let's return to Archytas's staff and to the expanding Universe. A javelin that is thrown straight upward will drop back down a… — Henning Genz Big bang 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
“We know that the uncertainty relation implies not only the absence of empty space but also the nature of the minimal content… — Henning Genz Empty space Copy Share Image
“The energy that was hidden in the false vacuum is liberated in the course of this phase transition of the universe into… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“The gravitational field of Earth will determine the direction of the rock that you drop from your hand. Aristotle concluded, from the… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Small regions of empty space will see large energies appear in the form of these fluctuations. they may be energetic electromagnetic waves.… — Henning Genz Electromagnetic waves 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 Copy Share Image
“The same energy density that we reach today in electron-positron collisions pervaded the entire universe one ten-billionth of a second after the… — Henning Genz Big bang Copy Share Image
“In general, the removal of energy from gravitationally bound systems accelerates the movement of their components. This also goes for systems whose… — Henning Genz Energy 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 Magnetic fields Copy Share Image
“We don't really know whether there are black holes that emit observable amounts of Hawking radiation. Nevertheless, there is no way to… — Henning Genz Black hole Copy Share Image
“Experiments with the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite, which was launched in 1989, showed in 1990 with overwhelming precision what was already… — Henning Genz Milky way Copy Share Image
“Newton, whose thinking we will discuss in the next chapter, considers the universe as infinite in extent. Gravitation would have all masses… — Henning Genz Next chapter Copy Share Image
“Just as photons are scattered off the charged particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum, electrical charges will interact with the virtual photons… — Henning Genz First place Copy Share Image
“Take an electron at rest. We can liberate its mass energy and transform it into different manifestations of energy by making it… — Henning Genz Change Copy Share Image
