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the Vast Vacuum. the vacuum cannot be balanced because it is vast. quantum vacuum fluctuation. feedback loops; consciousness
The vacuum is a large space, which has been proven to be the most stable state in the universe. The vacuum is also known as nothingness, and this nothingness makes up 99% of our observable universe. The laws that govern our reality are derived from quantum physics. Quantum mechanics was developed by scientists who were trying to understand how an atom worked: what it was made of; why electrons orbited the proton and so on. They realised that there were certain rules they needed to follow when dealing with atoms because if you changed one thing about an atom (like its speed), another related property would change too (such as its direction). These changes happened instantly no matter how far apart the objects being observed were! This led them to believe that atoms behaved differently than larger objects because something else must be involved in all these instantaneous changes - some sort of ghostly information exchange between matter particles over a distance faster than light itself can travel. This 'something else' became referred to as non-locality or entanglement and it forms part of quantum theory.
But what happens when we try to look at this ghostly information exchange? We cannot see it directly, but can only detect its effects. The particles behave differently depending on whether you observe them or not - and they are only influenced by the observation of other matter in 'our' universe. This implies that if there were another universe (or many universes) with different laws from our own then these non-local changes would happen according to their own set of rules.
So, if there were a universe that was exactly the same as ours - except for one small change (like the direction of motion) then quantum theory tells us that we would be unable to measure this difference locally. We could only detect it by observing other matter in this or another 'universe'. The weird thing is that an observer from outside our universe seeing both universes simultaneously would be able to see how each differed and where they matched up with each other.
This is where the 'vacuum' comes in - it represents this infinity of other universes. In some of these infinite universes, atoms behave differently; in others they do not but they are all part of the one vacuum. Quantum physics tells us that we can observe a particle's properties only by interacting with it and therefore any change must be observed non-locally between multiple matter sources.
This is why we cannot balance the vacuum, even though it may appear to us that there are so many things in life that need balancing. We only see what is going on locally at our own scale.
And what about consciousness? Well, as a matter of fact your question is rather interesting because there are many scientists who believe that the universe has always existed and will always exist. If this were true then perhaps it would not be necessary to ask where the vacuum came from - it would just have always been part of our reality.