Waking up the quantum vacuum Date: Monday, May 03, 2010 @ 21:27:03 UTC Topic: Science Gravity-Induced Vacuum Dominance William C. C. Lima and Daniel A. T. Vanzella Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 161102 (Published April 20, 2010) A quantum field propagating in a curved spacetime can have fluctuations in its vacuum energy density that are large enough to completely dominate its classical energy density. Physics synopsis: http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.161102 This article comes from ZPEnergy.com http://www.zpenergy.com The URL for this story is: http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3181