Quotes About Vacuum

In the middle of a war you think of nothing but how it will end. And put off living. When large numbers of people do that, it creates a vacuum within us which the war flows in to fill.

If the universe as we know it is nothing but a vacuum fluctuation with a purloined total energy that is not much different from zero, it may exist for quite a while before the vacuum decides to call in the loan.

The vacuum of physics contains in its faculties everything that the laws of nature will permit. It fluctuates-the virtual particles come and go. The only thing they may be missing is the energy it would take to make them appear as real particles. All that can appear in reality must be present as a possibility- as a state of virtual particles-in a vacuum. Addd energy to the vacuum and those virtual states may appear as particles.

Light is an excitation of empty space proper, of the vacuum. It is no more and no less.

Particle-antiparticle pairs fluctuating in the vacuum also permit the fusion of two real photons into a single one, in the presence of an external field.

We know there is a conservation law for electric charge; this simply means that the sum of these charges in any process remains constant. If a positive charge pops out of the vacuum, a negative one must accompany it, to keep the overall charge zero, as the vacuum demands. To the best of our knowledge the sum of all charges in the universe is zero-and so it must have been from its origin.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

In the vacuum of authority following the demonstrations' initial success, factions from the pre-uprising period are often in a position to shape the outcome.

The United States has every reason from history and geopolitics to bolster the European Union and prevent its drifting off into a geopolitical vacuum; the United States, if separated from Europe in politics, economics, and defense, would become geopolitically an island off the shores of Eurasia, and Europe itself could turn into an appendage to the reaches of Asia and the Middle East.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.

The human mind doesn't like a vacuum. We will populate that vacuum with the contents of our own head, and often that's scary stuff.

I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.