This is about the science of empty ( vacuum) versus the ancient experience of mind/heart in its natural uncluttered state, traditionally called “Sunyata” by the Buddhist saints of India,”Mu” in Japan, and in the West” emptiness.”
The ancients saw emptiness of mind/heart , the nature of mind uncluttered by discursive thought , achievable only through the joyful discipline of Shamatha ( resting the mind in peace) meditation, as the gateway to both great compassion and ultimate perception.
The science of vacuum and what goes on within it, is about how we can perceive the physics of emptiness/vacuum, which is but one of many thousands of aspects of Sunyata itself, from which everything arises, its major characteristics are that Emptiness as a body of being (Dharmakaya) is actually unceasing, un-originated, unconditional. Absolute nature is the Dharmakaya, the ‘empty’, unconditioned truth, into which illusion and ignorance, and any kind of concept, have never entered.
The Science of Emptiness is full of concept, but has the possibility of great wisdom generated by the ultimate perception which can come from the cultivation of Sunyata through Shamataha meditation itself.
The two, science emptiness and the direct uncluttered perception of mind /heart can be joined.
Further reading:
https://tricycle.org/magazine/becoming-buddha-2/
Behold the void!
Consider it not the void of nothingness
but thine own intellect, blissful and shining.