If a virtual particle dips or blips out of existence then where do they go? Do they come back at a different point showing movement when the blip occurs? Are they some how different when returning?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

If a virtual particle dips or blips out of existence then where do they go? Do they come back at a different point showing movement when the blip occurs? Are they some how different when returning?

merc@nord.pub · 3 days ago

Virtual particles are still only theoretical. I think of them as a mental model of mathematical objects that arise when we try to calculate interactions between real particles.

I know there are some experiments like casimir effect that are attributed to virtual particles. But, it is possible to explain it in other ways.