So I’m rereading Last Light and there’s a scene that kinda confused me. When Fred goes down to Covert Support Base 4276, he looks into the vacuum energy extractor. He witnesses universes forming and being destroyed. He experiences this for 10 minutes, but 2 hours on the for everyone else. So, what the hell is going on here? What is this vacuum energy, and how would it allow Fred to see such things that transcend space and time?
So I did some research and asked around Reddit, and vacuum space is a real thing and, unfortunately, very complicated. A bunch of quantum physics stuff that I can’t really make heads or tails of. The simplest I had it explained to me is this:
Vacuum space is the space that contains no mass, but it still theoretically contains energy known as “dark” energy (Just like dark matter, but, well, energy). The main law dealing with vacuum energy is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which basically states that the more we know about one particular property of a particle, the less we know about the others. In this case the properties would be time and energy. This could theoretically create anomalies in time and space, which might explain what Fred saw.
…or they just needed some cool sciencey-sounding thing and took some liberties with it under the assumption that most people wouldn’t think too deeply about it and aren’t theoretical physicists.
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> So I did some research and asked around Reddit, and vacuum space is a real thing and, unfortunately, very complicated. A bunch of quantum physics stuff that I can’t really make heads or tails of. The simplest I had it explained to me is this:
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> Vacuum space is the space that contains no mass, but it still theoretically contains energy known as “dark” energy (Just like dark matter, but, well, energy). The main law dealing with vacuum energy is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which basically states that the more we know about one particular property of a particle, the less we know about the others. In this case the properties would be time and energy. This could theoretically create anomalies in time and space, which might explain what Fred saw.
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> …or they just needed some cool sciencey-sounding thing and took some liberties with it under the assumption that most people wouldn’t think too deeply about it and aren’t theoretical physicists.
Well he’d be staring into a hole containing something the human eye and mind is literally not able to comprehend (not to mention possibily influsing the flow of time and space around him like an artificial black hole)…so the first one is likely, at least to me.
I’m guessing something like a slipspace bubble, not like the portals used to move but like the one that keeps Onyx/Trevellion in the sphere.
Only a theory, not an answer.
Please don’t revive old topics thanks