  A model for gas nanobubbles is proposed in which their remarkable stability
is explained as due to the presence of a qualitatively different form of water
covering the nanobubble surface layer which leads to a reduction of the
diffusion coefficient by a factor of 10^9. It is shown that this new form of
water is created by the interaction between the electrons of water molecules
with the zero point vacuum electromagnetic field. The model gives an estimate
for the life time of surface nanobubbles, explains why they are not influenced
by surfactants and predicts that they should exhibit nonlinear paramagnetism.
