Continuing my discussion of the book, “Punk Science”.
There is an area of the universe that physicists call the Quantum Vacuum (QV) or Zero Point Field (ZPF). This area should be void like a vacuum, or at least be totally inactive as we expect at zero degrees. However, it appears that this area contains a mass of particles that are known as virtual particles because they pop in and out of existence. Experiments have been performed that change the virtual particles into real particles that have been measured. This is called Casimir forces.
The particles in the QV are photons. A photon is actually two particles, an electron and a positron. An electron has positive mass, and a positron has negative mass, and is considered antimatter. The electron and positron can come together and cancel each other, and become a photon again. This process of appearance and cancellation happens in the QV.
The QV is also known as the Dirac Sea because physicist Paul Dirac predicted antimatter particles, and saw the QV as a combination of antimatter (positron), matter (electron), and light (photon). Later, physicists proved that he was correct.
Ervin Lazlo explains that living organisms have this same relationship with the QV, moving between a real and virtual world. Our particles pop in and out of existence.
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