Question

What is inside the "empty space" of the forbidden compound?

Answer 1

Empty space”, it is simple to picture it as a kind of vast “void” … a blackness … a volume of emptiness with absolutely nothing in it … no molecules … no atoms … no particles … no forces … no energy passing through it … no … nothing. It would exist everywhere … in outer space … in the spaces between our atoms … everywhere! It literally fills the universe. I can picture it as a void… easily.

Incredibly, that image now appears to be dramatically more complex and dramatically wrong, as explained below.

We might also envision what matter might be like. Matter would be chunks of “stuff”, particles, atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, etc. that in places …would occupy some of this empty space. In school, we were shown sketches of matter as tiny spherical particles of “mass” that come in different shapes and forms called atoms. Atoms were clumps of small particles that bond together to make up all the physical stuff the universe is made of (stars, planets, moons, rocks, dirt, people, etc.).

So basically this empty space is composed of cosmic foam”, “virtual particles of space-time”, “vacuum energy”, “quantum strings”, or … “vacuum Fields”.Apparently, there are different types of cosmic foam. One type is called the “Higgs Field”. The tiny white specs in the image below might represent foam particles of something called “Higgs Bosons”. According to Physicists, this may be only one of a dozen or more strange fields of virtual particles, popping into and out of existence inside space.