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Re:We are not mostly empty space by dwaltrip on Saturday May 09, 2020 @12:08AM (#23122233)
I believe there is non-zero vacuum energy. So "something" is going on, whether it be virtual particles popping in and out of existence, even in "empty space".

Granted, I don't really understand the details of what this means, but that's what I remember of the current science.

Re:We are not mostly empty space by mirimir on Saturday May 09, 2020 @12:20AM (#23122282)
Yes, vacuum energy. But that's still probability distributions, and so almost all of the vacuum is empty at any given time.

Most physicists would likely say that there's no point trying to visualize this stuff in mundane terms. Or at least, that's what they were saying the last time I took a physics course.