Is There any Empty Space?
Most recent answer: 05/25/2013
- Drew (age 16)
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Thanks for those kind words! Now for your questions.
Our brains are not designed to handle all of the information that they get even from the particles with which we interact. They overload. If they somehow had neutrino sensors and tried to process that information too, the overload would be much worse.
All the objects (electrons, neutrinos, photons....) that make up the more familiar world exist as quantum waves, which never really quite go to zero over any region. However, they do get awfully close close over most of space. So we think most of space has have very, very little of anything other than what we call "dark energy", but we don't really know what that is yet. Maybe you could all it "nothing", but we suspect it'll have some properties that make that name inappropriate.
I don't know much at all about "flux tubes between quarks" but quarks don't interact much with neutrinos so whatever the quarks are up to won't keep the neutrino fields out. There is also something called "dark matter", probably some heavier types of particles that also interact very weakly with quarks, that would not be affected.
Mike W. (posted without checking until Lee gets back)
(published on 05/25/2013)