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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 12 June 2012 12:54:31PM 3 points [-]

All of those gluons and quark-antiquark pairs are every bit as stable as the Earth's gravitational field. They're elements of the ground state for a quark.

The process of finding the ground state for a particle from its interactions, including dragging in virtual pairs to screen high field intensities around the singularity, is called Renormalization.