From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.physics Title: The nature of the vacuum Article-I.D.: utah-gr.528 Posted: Fri Aug 13 10:26:08 1982 Received: Sun Aug 15 07:12:56 1982 >From the September issue of Science 82: "... the proton attracts friends, other subatomic particles, seemingly from nowhere. And these friends have friends. What you end up with is a little community surrounding the proton .... Incidentally, this unplanned picnic that springs up around subatomic particles is quaintly called the vacuum." =Spencer Thomas (Please excuse me if this is a repeat).