Virtual Particles Real Yet Real Ones Unreal According To Feynman
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 03:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Often when reading about cutting edge physics and the amazing feats of the Large Hadron Collider, we are treated to crazy scenarios involving so called “virtual particles”, also variously referred to as “ghost particles” or worse. These names are there to clearly distinguish the involved concepts from real particles like atoms. Not being bound too much by the restrictions of reality, virtual particles “borrow” energy from nothing, go faster than light, travel back in time, do an infinite amount of loops creating an infinity of other virtual particles during every single infinitesimal moment. read more