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Old November 16th 12, 04:52 PM
h v mohanlal h v mohanlal is offline
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Space is supposed be a perfect vacuum and that is the reason why all heavenly bodies are in perpetual motion by orbiting one or the other bodies. In a perfect vacuum there is absolutely no friction. The only objects that do not seem to orbit are the super massive Black-Holes at the center of all galaxies.

What causes a perfect vacuum state to deteriorate? The presence of solid matter whether molten or otherwise or a liquid that does not vaporize in a vacuum will not affect the vacuum state space. Only the presence of a gas in sufficient quantity reduces the vacuum pressure.

But even though space seems to be empty and a vacuum it is actually brimming with energy of all sorts. All the waves in the electromagnetic spectrum which posses and transmit huge quantities of energy at the speed of light are always present in space. This of course includes our sunlight. But why does the presence of such huge levels of energies not affect the vacuum state of space? This is actually because the photons present in these waves are Unimaginably small and very widely spread out. If an object is exposed to sunlight for one second it will be struck by energy held in approximately 186.000 miles of the sun's rays or the speed of light. Now if we imagine that the sun's rays are frozen we will get an idea as to how dilute or weak it actually is and this is the actual state of these waves in space. The sun's rays appear hot and bright only because it is being transmitted from the sun ay the speed of light. Since these energy waves are dynamic and do not accumulate in space they do not alter the perfect vacuum state of space.