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I have heard from an illegitimate source that there is no such thing as a true vacuum. I just want to confirm this statement true/false and why so if it is true. Thanks.
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I have heard from an illegitimate source that there is no such thing as a true vacuum. I just want to confirm this statement true/false and why so if it is true. Thanks.
This is what I was looking for. Ok so it's not possible, even for the materials with the highest Boiling Points to stay in a solid state with such low pressures? If space is nearly a vacuum then, why aren't the meteors etc. subliminating? (or are they? comets throw vast gaseous tails behind them).It really is impossible in practice, at least over long time scales. All materials have a vapor pressure; that is, atoms detach all the time. (The vapor pressure increases exponentially with temperature; if it reaches atmospheric pressure, the solid will sublimate to gas even in a closed container.)
Actually I wasn't completely sure about what pure vacuum meant either. I'm thinking of a macroscopic volume of space - such as in a container - being completely emptied of atoms, and possibly energy too.There needs to be some additional context to understand what is meant by 'true vacuum'. Torricelli really irked the Pope in the 17th century with his column, and some cosmological models claim the universe is in a false vacuum state.
Those two uses of the term 'vacuum' are tenuously connected- can you provide additional context?