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Re: The energy states of the vacuum



By a vacuum...
do you mean nothing
surrounded by something?


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:01:28 -0400 Ludwik Kowalski
<kowalskil@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU> writes:
On Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004, David Bowman wrote (in part):

If not, where did the matter and antimatter come from?

From the vacuum (as it transitioned to a lower potential energy
value and as it acquired a spontaneous nonzero background
value of the Higgs field).

I would like to see an comprehensive explanation of the concept of
the
"energy of the vacuum."
Ludwik Kowalski




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