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Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

  • Written by Dipangkar Dutta, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Mississippi State University
Virtual particles: How physicists’ clever bookkeeping trick could underlie realityScientists imagine virtual particles popping in and out of existence to explain how forces transfer between particles. koto_feja/iStock via Getty Images

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained...

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