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“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam” (bigthink.com)
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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think Wikipedia articles about zero-point energy and quantum-foam explain this well.

Btw, wasn't there an experiment with a laser vibrating a nano-particle with nearly lightspeed, separating the particle & anti-particle pair before annihilation, creating matter from nothing?

Ah, btw, Casimir effect.