{"id":698,"date":"2008-06-02T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/02\/quantum-weirdness-for-monday\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T13:27:00","slug":"quantum-weirdness-for-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/02\/quantum-weirdness-for-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Weirdness for Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Can something come of nothing? Philosophers debated that question for millennia before physics came up with the answer\u2014and that answer is yes. For quantum theory has shown that a vacuum (ie, nothing) only appears to be empty space. Actually, it is full of virtual particles of matter and their anti-matter equivalents, which, in obedience to Werner Heisenberg&#8217;s uncertainty principle, flit in and out of existence so fast that they cannot usually be seen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes the Casimir effect possible, something that now, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11402849\">Economist.com<\/a>, may have a practical use.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can something come of nothing? Philosophers debated that question for millennia before physics came up with the answer\u2014and that answer is yes. For quantum theory has shown that a vacuum (ie, nothing) only appears to be empty space. Actually, it &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/06\/02\/quantum-weirdness-for-monday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}