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I do not intend to start yet another thread on 'virtual' particles and whether they are part of physical reality. But I still have a question, though.
When physicists are hunting for a previously unobserved, say a 70 GeV particle in Fermilab or LHC or any other particle accelerator, where is this particle hiding?
Or, what are they revealing if not 'virtual' particles?
I must assume that the particle exists 'virtually' before, for the very short time that the uncertainty relation forbids us to observe it. We build particle accelerators then to create sufficiently sudden energetic interaction to reveal them, to make them observable.
Or not?
thanks
When physicists are hunting for a previously unobserved, say a 70 GeV particle in Fermilab or LHC or any other particle accelerator, where is this particle hiding?
Or, what are they revealing if not 'virtual' particles?
I must assume that the particle exists 'virtually' before, for the very short time that the uncertainty relation forbids us to observe it. We build particle accelerators then to create sufficiently sudden energetic interaction to reveal them, to make them observable.
Or not?
thanks
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