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Energy as Substance: Radiowaves, Plasma, and Entanglement Against the Vacuum Ontology
By Kenneth Parrott
Abstract
Conventional physics often describes space as a “vacuum,” implying emptiness or the absence of substance. Yet observable phenomena such as radiowaves, plasma, and quantum entanglement demonstrate that energy itself is substance. If energy lacked substance, it could not manifest, propagate, or exert measurable effects. This paper argues that radiowaves, plasma, and entanglement provide empirical evidence that “vacuum” is a misnomer: space is not void, but a structured medium of flows. The ontology of “nothingness” is therefore incoherent within physical science.
1. Introduction
The term “vacuum” has persisted from early physics into modern cosmology. In laboratories, a vacuum is defined as the removal of air or matter, but in the cosmos, space is far from empty. Radiowaves travel through it, plasmas dominate its visible matter, and entanglement connects particles across its expanse. This paper demonstrates that these phenomena require substance. To call space a vacuum is ontologically inconsistent with the existence of measurable energy.
2. Radiowaves and the Electromagnetic Field
2.1 Substance in Oscillation
Radiowaves are oscillations of the electromagnetic field. They carry energy, momentum, and information, measurable in receivers and antennas.
2.2 Empirical Proof
If radiowaves lacked substance, they could not induce currents, alter plasma states, or produce observable heating effects. Their very detection demonstrates the reality of the electromagnetic substrate.
3. Plasma as the Dominant State of Matter
3.1 Nature of Plasma
Plasma is ionized matter, constituting stars, solar winds, and interstellar filaments. It behaves as a conductive, dynamic medium, organizing itself into currents and filaments.
3.2 Plasma in Cosmic Structure
Roughly 99% of visible matter in the universe is plasma. To deny its substance is to deny the very medium that sustains stars and galaxies.
4. Entanglement as Structured Connection
4.1 Quantum Correlations
Entanglement demonstrates that particles share correlated states across distance. These correlations cannot arise from absence; they require structured connectivity.
4.2 The Medium of Relation
Entanglement is not abstract. It emerges from quantum fields that pervade space, revealing structure even where “vacuum” is assumed.
5. Discussion: Against the Vacuum Ontology
The persistence of the term “vacuum” implies absence. Yet radiowaves, plasma, and entanglement prove presence. Energy is substance, not metaphor. Fields are real, not abstract. Entanglement is structured connection, not coincidence. If any of these lacked substance, they would not exist, could not propagate, and would not be measured. Their existence closes the ontological question: space cannot be nothing.
6. Conclusion
The concept of vacuum as emptiness is inconsistent with physics. Radiowaves require the electromagnetic field; plasma is ionized matter; entanglement demonstrates relational substance. Energy is substance in flow. Therefore, space is not void but a medium of dynamic equilibria and fractal recursion. The ontology of “nothing” collapses under this evidence. Physics must reframe space not as vacuum, but as structured substance.
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