@BevelGear@beehaw.org to Science@beehaw.org • 11 months ago“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”bigthink.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10
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minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink3•11 months ago So I wonder, even if it’s only appearing very briefly it’s still going to exert some small gravitational effect. I don’t think so. Remember: This is energy being converted to mass, not mass coming out of nowhere.
minus-square@skarn@lemmy.todaylinkfedilink1•11 months agoAh right. So, an alternative to dark energy and dark mass?
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink2•11 months agoNo no that’s a completely different phenomenon. This is the phenomenon involved in Hawking’s radiation and similar.
minus-square@bitfucker@programming.devlinkfedilink1•11 months agoCorrect me if I am wrong, but as I understand it mass and energy is equivalent no? And it also still baffles us as to why rest mass and resultant mass from energy should be equivalent at all?
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink1•11 months ago Correct me if I am wrong, but as I understand it mass and energy is equivalent no? Yes. And it also still baffles us as to why rest mass and resultant mass from energy should be equivalent at all? I don’t know about this one. I’m not an expert so don’t quote he on it, but I don’t remember hearing this before.
minus-square@bitfucker@programming.devlinkfedilink1•11 months agoThen why wouldn’t it exert gravitational force?
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink2•11 months agoIt does, but that’s the thing: It does either way. There should be no change due to the conversion of energy to mass.
minus-square@bitfucker@programming.devlinkfedilink1•11 months agoAhh, I see what you mean. Thanks for explaining it
I don’t think so. Remember: This is energy being converted to mass, not mass coming out of nowhere.
Ah right. So, an alternative to dark energy and dark mass?
No no that’s a completely different phenomenon. This is the phenomenon involved in Hawking’s radiation and similar.
Correct me if I am wrong, but as I understand it mass and energy is equivalent no? And it also still baffles us as to why rest mass and resultant mass from energy should be equivalent at all?
Yes.
I don’t know about this one. I’m not an expert so don’t quote he on it, but I don’t remember hearing this before.
Then why wouldn’t it exert gravitational force?
It does, but that’s the thing: It does either way. There should be no change due to the conversion of energy to mass.
Ahh, I see what you mean. Thanks for explaining it