Noun : The loss left a vacuum in his heart. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to vacuum rugs. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to vacuum in the dining room. From Dictionary.com.
The subject of false vacua is fascinating in its own right, but also nice because it brings together many different areas of theoretical physics. From Wordnik.com. [April « 2008 « Imaginary Potential] Reference
These are the supersymmetric vacua that we understand best. From Wordnik.com. [The Landscape - For Real This Time] Reference
I have found it practical, however, to attain vacua as high as 1/. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
BUT, there was no statement (or reason) that there CANNOT be such vacua. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
In fact such vacua were constructed shortly thereafter by KKLT and others. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
Dear Professor Polchinski, your answer about string vacua made sense to me. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
It makes predictions: in principle it gives a discrete description of vacua. From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
Quantum fields in curved spacetime exist with non-unitarily equivalent vacua. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
And I understand, the answer is yes, equally well as some simple string vacua. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
If so there might be a difference in vacua structure globally across the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask] Reference
It would be nice to find a smaller number of vacua, so that predictions are possible. From Wordnik.com. [Two cheers for string theory] Reference
We come now to one of the most important elements in the production of high vacua. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
So by this measure the string vacua that we are discussing are not especially complex. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
A large number of vacua is the only explanation we have today for \Lambda in string theory. From Wordnik.com. [Two cheers for string theory] Reference
Apparatus for obtaining vacua of one four hundred-millionth of an atmosphere -- Construction. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
(It is exactly on these grounds that we ignore most of the landscape of vacua of the Standard Model.). From Wordnik.com. [String Theory is Losing the Public Debate] Reference
This applies particularly to vacua as high 1/50,000,000 and to pressures of five millimeters and under. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
The early universe was likely a configuration of a huge number of inequivalent vacua that were unstable. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
Prior to that there were many hopes that non-perturbative effects would destabalize the supersymmetric vacua. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
Some such as Linde and Vilenkin have proposed bubbles of different vacua that determine different particle masses. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
Matter is made up of an infinite number of infinitely small parti - cles, interwoven with an infinity of minute vacua. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
If we had a very large number of realistic vacua (to start, non-supersymmetric ones) I might start getting worried …. From Wordnik.com. [Two cheers for string theory] Reference
Or it may be possible, via some correlations in the properties of different vacua or some cosmological selection principle. From Wordnik.com. [Guest Post: Joe Polchinski on Science or Sociology?] Reference
These different vacua are related to each other by Bogoliubov transformations which emerge from relativistic transformations. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
It is necessary to apply to the results thus obtained a correction which becomes very important when high vacua are measured. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
Nihil infelicius his, quantus iis timor, quanta dubitatio, quantus conatus, quanta solicitudo, nulla illis a molestiis vacua hora. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
The problem is that the computational technology is right at the edge of what we can do, and it is not easy to control these vacua. From Wordnik.com. [The Landscape - For Real This Time] Reference
These different vacua are likely to be unitarily inequivalent, similar to what happens with Hawking radiation and the Unruh effect. From Wordnik.com. [Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask] Reference
It is not merely the force of the external vacuum, but rather the pressure of many tiny internal vacua which account for this cohesion. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Puluj declares that the phenomena I have described in high vacua are produced by his irregularly shaped lumps of radiant electrode matter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891] Reference
Simplicio, remarks on the First Day: “It seems to me that you are travelling along toward those vacua advo - cated by a certain ancient philosopher.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
This is the sort of thing of which we need a lot more before we have believable control over statements about what non-supersymmetric vacua of string theory are really up to. From Wordnik.com. [At The Monastery] Reference
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