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.

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