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The ground state in a relativistic quantum field theory. A vacuum state does not mean a state of nothing. Because one is dealing with quantum mechanics, the vacuum state has a zero-point energy, which gives rise to vacuum fluctuations. The existence of vacuum fluctuations has observable consequences in quantum electrodynamics.
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