There is no need to confirm a breakdown of relativity. We already know that it is, at the least, incomplete, if not incorrect. Albert Einstein himself saw this, and was on his own quest for a "theory of everything" in his later years. String theory should become fully "testable" with the startup of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider, part of CERN) in May of 2008. Hopefully we may find proof for the God particle, also known as the Higgs boson. In any case, tremendous amounts of data will be reaped from this machine, and we may very well prove or at least expand upon string theory. (We could also completely disprove it, but I'm trying to be optimistic.)
So, this is pretty much a very big "true" vacuum, devoid of everything except e/m radiation. If this discovery is real, then does quantum foam (you know, the random creation and annihilation of particle-anti particle pairs) still exist in the vacuum, thus making it no longer a true vacuum? Or is it really, truly, and absolutely (other than e/m radiation), empty?
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There is no need to confirm a breakdown of relativity. We already know that it is, at the least, incomplete, if not incorrect. Albert Einstein himself saw this, and was on his own quest for a "theory of everything" in his later years. String theory should become fully "testable" with the startup of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider, part of CERN) in May of 2008. Hopefully we may find proof for the God particle, also known as the Higgs boson. In any case, tremendous amounts of data will be reaped from this machine, and we may very well prove or at least expand upon string theory. (We could also completely disprove it, but I'm trying to be optimistic.)
So, this is pretty much a very big "true" vacuum, devoid of everything except e/m radiation. If this discovery is real, then does quantum foam (you know, the random creation and annihilation of particle-anti particle pairs) still exist in the vacuum, thus making it no longer a true vacuum? Or is it really, truly, and absolutely (other than e/m radiation), empty?