Space-time ?

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I was wondering why space-time is foaming or bumpy at the microscopic level or plank scale ?

[swansont]

"Foam" is a euphemism for small-scale fluctuations that occur, because the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle dictates that we can't know the energy exactly; we need to look longer to get a better idea of what the energy actually is. So on short time scales, when the energy uncertainty is large, you can actually have particle and antiparticle pairs existing.