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the universe's favorite emptiness, so allergic to itself it births particles from sheer nothing
means A vacuum is a space empty of matter — or, more loosely, the suction created when you remove air from an enclosed space.
from Straight from Latin 'vacuum,' the neuter of 'vacuus' meaning 'empty, unoccupied, void' — itself rooted in 'vacare,' 'to be empty.' That same root left fingerprints all over English: 'vacant,' 'vacation,' even 'evacuate' (literally to empty out). The word entered English as a scientific term, and the cleaning-machine sense came much later, named for the partial vacuum the device creates to inhale your dust.
- not quite empty
- Virtual particles flicker in and out constantly
- zero-point energy
- Empty space still hums with quantum motion
- silent screams
- Sound can't travel, so space is mute
- Casimir effect
- Vacuum pushes two close metal plates together
- no nature ban
- 'Abhors a vacuum' is Aristotle, not physics
dyson v15 detect — cordless vacuum with laser dust detection, released 2021, costs $749
henry hoover — british iconic red wet/dry vacuum, produced since 1981, over 3 million sold