Quantum fluctuations in a vacuum

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Some physicists are giving up on physical particles and talking about quantum fluctuations in a vacuum.
So, what exactly is a quantum fluctuation in a vacuum?
 
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Actually in the vacuum where exists no matter hence no energy there we tend to find energy. How that's possible?
It comes from the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg.
Where particle-antiparticle couple come in and out of existence and cause fluctuations in the vacuum. They stay for a very brief account of time and thus give rise to the virtual particle concept .
 
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If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!

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