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Originally posted by Sleepyjack
hmmm, maybe this is getting a little too complicated for its own good. I don't understand much/anything about quantum physics, although isn't it a probability thing, in that at a given time it can be probable that it is empty but more likely isn't going to be?
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Well, I don't really understand it (nobody does), but I think the idea is that pairs of particles (one matter, one anti-matter) are spontaneously created and annihilated in empty space. So if you start with a vacuum, you actually have a fizzing soup of particle pairs.
You could argue that the amount of stuff in the jar is zero, since it's balanced by the amount of antistuff.