Modern physics often treats the vacuum as an abstract background: a mathematical stage on which particles and fields act. In this view, the vacuum itself has no physical reality.
Quarkbase Cosmology adopts the opposite position: the vacuum is a real physical medium. All particles, forces, and cosmological phenomena emerge from its structure and dynamics.
In Quarkbase Cosmology, the vacuum is not empty space, nor a passive geometric container. It is a continuous, frictionless physical medium capable of sustaining pressure gradients, structural compactations, and stable configurations.
Empty space does not exist. What exists is vacuum in different states of organization.
Physical structure arises when the vacuum undergoes compactation. Compactation is a volumetric organization process, not a field excitation or particle creation event.
The minimal stable compactation of the vacuum is the neutrino, identified as quarkbase N=1. Higher compactations (N > 1) give rise to mass, inertia, and complex structure.
If the vacuum were merely a mathematical abstraction, it could not store pressure, transmit structure, or sustain stable compactations.
Observed phenomena such as inertia, gravitation, wave propagation, and cosmological structure require a physical substrate. Quarkbase Cosmology identifies this substrate as the vacuum itself.
Because the vacuum is physical, it supports pressure gradients. These gradients govern motion, propagation, and large-scale organization.
Gravitational phenomena arise from vacuum pressure imbalance created by volumetric compactations, not from mass acting across empty space.
The neutrino quarkbase is the smallest stable unit of vacuum compactation. Assemblies of quarkbases generate all higher physical phenomena, from particles to galaxies.
For the implications in cosmology, see:
For the foundational role of the neutrino, see:
The vacuum is not the absence of reality. It is reality itself.
In Quarkbase Cosmology, recognizing the vacuum as a physical medium is the key that unifies particle physics, gravitation, and cosmology.
Author: Carlos Omeñaca Prado