{"id":3928660,"date":"2026-10-29T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-the-quantum-vacuum-perturbs-atoms-could-shrink-black-holes-and-may-have-helped-form-galaxies\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:02:54","slug":"how-the-quantum-vacuum-perturbs-atoms-could-shrink-black-holes-and-may-have-helped-form-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-the-quantum-vacuum-perturbs-atoms-could-shrink-black-holes-and-may-have-helped-form-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"How the quantum vacuum perturbs atoms, could shrink black holes and may have helped form galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The word &#8220;vacuum&#8221; may conjure the image of empty space. Maybe you think of a region far outside the solar system without planets, debris, gas clouds or light. According to quantum theory, however, a vacuum is never truly empty. Quantum mechanics extends the Heisenberg uncertainty principle\u2014which states that we cannot measure the position and the velocity of an object exactly at the same time\u2014to a vacuum. The result is that a vacuum can never be still.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-quantum-vacuum-perturbs-atoms-black.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;vacuum&#8221; may conjure the image of empty space. Maybe you think of a region far outside the solar system without planets, debris, gas clouds or light. According to quantum theory, however, a vacuum is never truly empty. Quantum mechanics extends the Heisenberg uncertainty principle\u2014which states that we cannot measure the position and the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}