By Roland Piquepaille
Some scientists have more imagination than most fiction writers. Take Alexander Feigel of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel for example. He thinks that objects can move by being pushed by "virtual photons" appearing spontaneously in a vacuum. Nature has the story, "Movement from nothing." The most amazing thing with this theory is that it doesn't violate any fundamental law of physics. Read on.Feigel says that objects can achieve speeds of several centimetres an hour by getting a push from the empty space of a vacuum.
How can this be possible?
Feigel draws on the well-established notion that empty space does contain a little bit of energy. This
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