A perfect vacuum — a volume of completely empty space — doesn't exist, because there can never be nothing ...Read the full article
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Joseph Whistle from Canada writes: I think that you CAN have a complete vacuum in the sense that you have a complete 100% absence of matter (not a single molecule or atom or fragment thereof).
You can not have nothing. If matter is all that exist, sure you can have nothing. But there's more. The fabric of space. Kind of like a background environment in which matter can exist. The question is what this fabric is. I bet it facilitates things like gravity. I'm no expert, but at least I CAN imagine a 100% pure vacuum and don't find that a mystery or unachievable at all.
You couldn't really create this on earth, because you can't take out all the matter from a space, because there's nothing pushing it once you reach very close to vacuum. But why into the depth of space? No problemo. I bet you'd have miles to go before you encounter another molecule.- Posted 18/12/07 at 3:58 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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