Peculiar RealmRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.I often make my home
Inside of a glass dome In my domain a sound Is never to be found But through me I permit Any light to transmit In science articles Virtual particles Always annihilate When "pro-" and "anti-" mate What am I? Answera vacuumlines 1-2: Incandescent light bulbs and old-fashioned television and radio tubes contain a vacuum. lines 3-4: Sound cannot travel through a vacuum. lines 5-6: Light can travel through a vacuum. lines 7-10: In a vacuum, at the quantum (subatomic) level, matter and antimatter in the form of virtual particles are continuously being created and then almost immediately collide with each other, destroying themselves. Hide What Next?
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