False vacuum
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title:
False vacuum
text:
In quantum field theory, a false vacuum is a hypothetical vacuum state that is locally stable but does not occupy the most stable possible ground state. In this condition it is called metastable. It may last for a very long time in this state, but could eventually decay to the more stable one, an event known as false vacuum decay. The most common suggestion of how such a decay might happen in our universe is called bubble nucleation – if a small region of the universe by chance reached a more st
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Hypothetical vacuum, less stable than true vacuum
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum
date created:
2004-11-22T20:23:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T01:30:36Z
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