Whats empty space made of?

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  1. riverline Registered Senior Member

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    I know that empty space is measureable. It has volume, and we can put things in it like a cabinet :bugeye: and nobody can say its nothing! so if space is matter! what is it made of?
     
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  3. mathman Valued Senior Member

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    Virtual particles.
     
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    what is space made of? quantum oscillators.

    what are quantum oscillators made of? information.
     
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  7. Betrayer0fHope MY COHERENCE! IT'S GOING AWAYY Registered Senior Member

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  8. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    It's made of space.
     
  9. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Space is not matter.

    Space is the 3D area in which the universe exists. It is not made of anything.
    There might or might not exist any empty space. It seems unlikely. The space where you put that cabinet wasn't empty.
     
  10. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Information cannot exist on its own.
    Besides, about what would the information be ?
     
  11. EndLightEnd This too shall pass. Registered Senior Member

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    Even the emptiest of spaces still has light passing through it.
     
  12. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Then it's no longer empty

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  13. Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    This one is done to death. Space is just a naming convention, the convention can be used differently depending on which person is using it and in what context.

    you can have space and space in a vaccum, in both instance you are dealing with a volume but one instance has quanta (space) while the other is absent of quanta (for the most part this is true.)
     
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    doesnt it have a resistance (capacitance/admittance) or something? I remember it in my high-speed circuit lectures but promptly forgot
     
  15. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Space isn't empty, it cotains everything that we cannot see.
     
  16. deltadrone Registered Member

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    Dark energy takes up almost 3/4 of space. It is also know by Zero Point Energy:Space-Energy. This energy is what Tesla discovered. It is all around us. Go to Wikipedia and look up, Dark energy. It may help you understand. Remember that 1/3 of the universe is comprised of visible matter and dark matter.
     
  17. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Yet foolish inane nonconcepts go on&on&on&on&on.




    It is a word with a definition which people attempt to muddle yet want to use it to communicate.
    I gave the definition & no 1 has provided a better 1.



    You're speaking of things in space or not in space rather than space itself.
     
  18. Caption Registered Member

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    I thought empty space was dark matter. That's the impression I was always under.
     
  19. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    If it's matter, how the heck can you call it empty?
     
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    I'll repeat myself. Empty space (vacuum) does not contain any ordinary (baryonic) or dark matter. According to quantum theory it is filled with virtual particles which pop into and out of existence. Dark energy may be related to the virtual particles but current theory has far to go before we have a good explanation.
     
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    riverline,

    Space has to be made out of something or it wouldn't be space. If space really consisted of nothing, then light would take the same amount of time to pass through one meter as it would to pass through one kilometer of vacuum.

    Maybe space is the least dense form of matter.
     
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    How do you work that out?
     
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    Dywyddyr,

    If space really consists of nothing then one meter of nothing is nothing. One kilometer is one thousand meters, but one thousand times nothing is still nothing. So if light travels one meter or one kilometer in both cases its journey is identical; it travels through nothing. If in both cases light travels through nothing, why would one trip take longer than the other?
     
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