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Thinking again about the math of virtual particles. They are supposed to come in pairs, but together they don't result in anything permanent. What kind of math would do that? What kind of math leads to complete annihilation or cancellation for two particles that both start at the same point at the same time and both end at the same different point at the same time? Presumably they are described by some sort of amplitude with a magnitude and phase. So I don't think you'd multiply the two amplitudes because even if you got the phases to cancel, you can't get the magnitude to equal zero. So I think we're talking about adding the amplitudes in superposition to try to get cancellation. But even here you can't have one being the complex conjugate of the other because that does not guarantee that the two vectors/amplitudes are 180° out of phase in order to cancel. Is there some way to make sure the two amplitudes are 180° out of phase even though they start at the same place at the same time and end at a different place at the same time?