Scientists May Have Found Evidence That ‘Empty’ Space Isn’t Actually Empty

Image Courtesy: NASA/Pablo Garcia Astronomers may have found some of the strongest evidence yet that empty space can alter the way light travels, potentially confirming a strange prediction of quantum mechanics known as vacuum birefringence. The phenomenon was predicted in the 1930s by physicist Werner Heisenberg and suggests that a vacuum is not completely empty. […] The post Scientists May Have…