You keep dragging out the old arguments Bill S that one is actually the same as the +ve and -ve energy in the other thread.

It's a historic argument about whether the vacuum of space could ever be empty even if you removed all the matter.

The argument revolves around the fact the space or void has dimensions left, right, up down and so it moves to the problem can something that has dimensions be empty.

The argument breaks to the fact a literal nothing has no dimensions so how can I move in 3D in nothing.

The historic argument can be seen in fletcher's paradox

"If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless"

There has been interest of late in QM in the question can QM explain the rise of dimensionality I will leave you to read before we discuss further

http://phys.org/news/2011-03-physicists-dimensions-universe.html

http://www.lmu.edu/lmunews/mureika.htm

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/12493

Last edited by Orac; 08/30/12 03:34 AM.
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