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).