• rah@hilariouschaos.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    They don’t blip out of existence independently, they always annihilate each other. If you have a virtual particle/anti-particle pair, they will come into existence, exist separately for some time, possibly interacting with other, real particles, but in the end there will be some annihilation which ends the interaction and maintains the energy of the universe (no energy is created or destroyed).

    Virtual particles never come into existence alone.