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Virtual pairs virtually annihilate I suppose.
by minitoar 5y ago
Virtual pairs virtually annihilate I suppose.
- akomtu 5y agoSo there's an entire virtual world that needs to exist, but only virtually, to support the real world? That looks like the modern Ptolematic system to me.
- minitoar 5y agoYeah, I think this is the basis for Hawking Radiation as well.
- Filligree 5y agoThey’re mathematical conveniences; they don’t really exist. There are formalisms such as quantum lattice models in which they aren’t needed.
- jd115 5y agoThis isn't really saying anything. What does exist then?
- ben_w 5y agoA dozen (17?) complex-valued (some scalar, some vector) fields, where the square of the absolute value of a field gives the chance of seeing a particle in a given state. I think. I’m still learning, and from MOOCs and YouTube not a university course.
- Filligree 5y agoThe phase space describing those fields, where the measure of each term of the universal wavefunction is equivalent to the amplitude of one point in this space. Your description suffices for pure states, IIRC. It’s been a while since I did physics.