= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
Luke_A_Somers comments on Question on decoherence and virtual particles - Less Wrong Discussion
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (4)
Technically, what you're referring to here are not simply virtual particles - they're a particular kind of virtual particle known as a 'vacuum bubble'.
Virtual particles are any particles in a Feynman diagram that don't extend off the side. They're permitted to have different amount of energy than you'd expect from applying special relativity to their rest mass and momentum. In vacuum bubbles, there are no particles that extend off the side.