The 'nothingness' of the vacuum.

[Naty1]

How is this for a perhaps unconventional, but I think accurate, description of the 'empty' vacuum:

Without the vacuum we would be nothing...it contributes to everything around us, our very existence:The 'empty' vacuum has:

...spacetime, from which curvature arises and gives us gravity essential for the formation of galaxies, stars and planets....The Higgs field, from which all mass is believed to arise, ...negative gravity; that is negative pressure, also called the cosmological constant, which is responsble for our expanding universe. Otherwise the universe would be unstable and collapse upon itself to 'nothing'.

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[GeorgeDishman]

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You may find this paper gives you additional ideas on the subject, it compares different types of "nothing" and investigates the probabilities of quantum tunnelling between them:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0301