(July 6, 2009 at 6:32 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: You mix things up ...
Or, on the other hand, the train of thought I was referencing wasn't clear enough (I'll assume responsibility for the misunderstanding). I was describing the 'what' and following it with the 'where', so to speak, by way of background information. My response was intended to point out that there is no true 'nothing', that even this so-called empty vacuum itself is space curvature teeming with a sea of activity. (Science-fiction author Michael Crichton spurred my interest in subatomic realities like Wheeler foam). Nature abhors a vacuum, Aristotle believed, and it seems he was right. Even when one virtual particle is pulled into a black hole away from its pair, the remaining one, becoming a real particle, leaves a "hole" in this vacuum energy that must be filled again (drawn from the black hole itself; q.v. Hawking radiation).
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)