false vacua

A form of false vacuum — A (hypothetical) metastable vacuum whose energy state is at a local minimum different from the global minimum; a vacuum that is relatively stable and long-lived but which still may decay to a lower-energy state.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of false vacuum
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