167. False Vacuum

2019-04-25

What does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle have to do with a quantum apocalypse that could unmake the universe at any moment?

Audio Version MP3

Local Maxima, by THUNK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAs59uFbrZ4

Understanding the Uncertainty Principle, by PBS Spacetime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqaWyZsEtY

Estimating the Vacuum Energy Density - an Overview of Possible Scenarios (Margan, 2008) - http://www-f9.ijs.si/~margan/Articles/vacuum_energy_density.pdf

What’s the Energy Density of the Vacuum? (Baez, 2011) _ http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/vacuum.html

Zero Point Energy Demystified, by PBS Spacetime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh898Yr5YZ8

Are Virtual Particles Real? by Gordon Kane - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-virtual-particles-rea/

The Vacuum Catastrophe, by PBS Spacetime - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jAOV7bZ3Y

The Casimir Effect & Black Holes, by Sixty Symbols - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRcmqZkGOK4

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