1. Modern physics views the vacuum as a “false vacuum”, seething with “virtual particles”: The study of these concepts belongs to quantum field theory: (a) For a reflective exposition of this largely in words (!) See P. Teller, “An Interpretive Introduction to Quantum Field Theory”, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1995. (b) A detailed account of the subject by a famous participant is given in S. Weinberg, “The Quantum Theory of Fields”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1995; particularly Volume I, Foundations
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