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When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

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Peter Higgs
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: May 29
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
Newcastle
Peter Ware Higgs
Nothing
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