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“Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”
(bigthink.com)
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Nope, they actually appear and disappear. The idea is that even in vacuum there's a certain amount of background energy and that energy can randomly turn into matter-antimatter pairs in what is basically the inverse of matter-antimatter annihilation.