If we succeed in getting rid of everything from a part of space i.e. from all the planets, stars, atoms, particles, even light and radiation etc, this space still have weight. It turns out that NOTHING is not nothing but it is something.
How is that possible? Space is bubbling with virtual particles that pop in and out of existence. These particles do this in such a short time scale so the laws of classical Physics forgives the creation of these ghost particles which seem to come out of nothing. The laws of Quantum Mechanics allow this.
To visualize, consider an empty space within a proton. Since most of our physical world is made up of protons and neutrons, this so called empty space (inside protons) gives mass of proton. "Empty space is actually full of quarks and Gluon Field Fluctuations, so empty space is not empty" (Professor Derek Leinweber, University of Adelaide).
Here is the simple visualization. 0 represents nothing. But 0 can also be expressed as 1+(-1) or 1000 +(-1000) and so on. So, this equation 1+(-1)=0 is the key to understand how our universe began. Total energy of the universe =0. However, at the beginning of the universe, the 0 spontaneously divided into two parts. One into millions of trillions of mega watts of energy and other one into negative millions of trillions of mega watts of energy. The total energy of the universe was still zero but it was divided into 2 huge numbers. The positive energy today is represented by all the matter that we can see in the universe in form of stars, planets, radiations and particles. And because energy is equivalent to mass (using Einstein's famous equation E = mc2), so the positive energy of the universe is represented by all the mass that we can see. Now coming to the negative part of the energy: the negative energy is in the form of Gravity. The universe is Flat which means it is in perfect balance. Total energy of the universe is zero. The negative energy (Gravity) perfectly cancels out the energy of matter.
This is a long discussion. Will share an article soon on this too IA.
ReplyDeleteWhat is your basis to say that the negative energy is gravity?
ReplyDeleteAlan Guth's inflationary universe theory
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DeleteHow it can be justified that gravity is the negative energy
ReplyDeleteInflation theory jus says that there was a vaccum energy in early universe, it doesn't say anything about negative energy, that undergo exponential expansion.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the difference between Newton gravitational force and Einstein Gravitational force
ReplyDeleteAccording to Newton, objects fall because they are pulled by Earth's gravity/force. Whereas on contrary Einstein said that these objects do not fall. Rather these objects and Earth just freely move in a curved spacetime and this curvature is formed by mass and energy of these objects
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