Physics texts often depict the vacuum as an inert stage upon which particles and fields act. This is a subtle but pervasive metaphor. In truth, the vacuum is alive with relational potential, a field of interactions waiting to be instantiated. Particles, fields, and forces do not act on a neutral backdrop; they co-actualise the vacuum itself. To imagine it as a stage encourages a Newtonian, substance-oriented mindset, hiding the dynamic relationality of space itself.
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