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Do separate instances of virtual pair production interact with each other. Say you have a virtual pair production of an electron and a positron; they separate and then come back together. What happens in the event that there is another occurrence of a virtual electron/positron pair production nearby the first? Can the electron of the first pair annihilate with the positron of the second pair? I suppose this would mean that the positron of the first pair is left to annihilate with the electron of the second pair, or perhaps some other positron of perhaps a third pair. Is there an electric potential between them? Is there a gravitational force between them?
More generally on average for all possible virtual particles of the vacuum energy, does the vacuum energy in a small volume of space have a force on an adjacent volume of space that pulls or pushes it? Is this due to the effects mentioned in the paragraph above? Thanks.
More generally on average for all possible virtual particles of the vacuum energy, does the vacuum energy in a small volume of space have a force on an adjacent volume of space that pulls or pushes it? Is this due to the effects mentioned in the paragraph above? Thanks.
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