How to Spin ‘Nothing’
This article seems to contain the usage of a linguistic trick employed by scientists and science reporters. These scientists didn’t create matter from literally nothing. They used space, the quantum vacuum, energy, electric fields, and a laboratory.
‘Nothing’ means “not anything.” The term is one of universal negation, referring to the complete absence of things. If there is nothing, then there isn’t anything at all. But if there’s a quantum vacuum, then there’s something (e.g., measurable fluctuations of energy, electromagnetic waves, etc.) and thus not nothing. By “nothing,” the writer is referring to priorly existing things such electric fields, etc., and hence does not mean literal nothingness.