Posted by: A. C. Cockerill | March 5, 2013

Factoid #45: Quantum Foam

Factoid #45: Quantum Foam

Quantum Foam (spacetime foam) is John Wheeler’s 1955 quantum-mechanics theory about the fabric of the universe. The foam is created as energy morphs into virtual particles and these particles annihilate. It resembles water that’s reached a rolling boil.

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