|
This [quantum] void is not nothing. It supposes the existence of a
field, but that field escapes us. It isn't detectable. We can
see its effects, because it links real particles to one another,
and it even seems agitated to us, but we can't observe it. That's
why we call it empty while it is full - full of
the virtualities of matter.
|
|
|
|
|
p. 245
|
|
The Dalai Lama and Jean-Claude Carriere
|
Violence and Compassion
Doubleday, 1996
|
|
English translation of Force du bouddhisme (Editions Robert
Laffont-Fixot,1994). Conversations between
Bstan-'dsin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Jean-Claude Carriere.
Commentary by Carriere, comparing the void of quantum mechanics
to the void described in Buddhism.
|