Properties of a vacuum

From what I know, a "vacuum" is actually composed of matter-antimatter collision effects (I may be completely off).

 

A vacuum can be described as a region of space with negative pressure. It does not consist of any medium, but rather a region where there is nothing. Matter can occupy itself in a region of vacuum or atmospheric conditions; of course interesting properties may arise such as the casimir effect when subjected to vacuum environments.

 

In a usual sense vacuum is a space from which all material bodies have been removed. It is a space than can potentially be occupied with something.

 

some cents..
vacuum in universe is less than 10^-12 torr or even less (but not zero)..some ppl. like engineers usually refer low pressure (less than atm. pr.) as -ve pr.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy
This may be useful

 

correct me if im wrong (which i usually am lolz), but how can vacuum have negative pressure when there's nothing in it?
the effect of "sucking in" comes from the pressure balancing in 2 different spaces.

 

Hi there,

We say that our Universe is expanding. Of course, not in the sense that a balloon blows up. Our Universe is define as wherever there is space and time. Therefore, space, even empty space (vaccum) is part of our Universe. The expansion comes from the fact that there is more and more space in our Universe as time goes by.

Cheers

 

ah yes, our universe is basically expanding into nothing. while doing it, creating space and time.

 

Hi Razael-
Our intergalactic vacuum primarily has a few molecules of primordal gas per cubic meter (Compare to a few Avagadro numbers here on Earth), a few photons from the cosmic microwave background and starlight, a few neutrinos, and an occasional cosmic ray. It also has two interesting properties, the dielectric permeability and magnetic permittivity of free space, which are constant and related to the speed of light. "Vacuum energy" and associated virtual particles is only associated with strong Coulomb fields, which are not present in intergallactic space.
Bob S