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Re:The Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable by hither_shores on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:58PM (#33265709)
Virtual particles are part of an indexing scheme for perturbation series - saying that you leave the perturbative regime when you have "too many" of them is like saying that crystalline solids melt when they have too many normal modes.
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Re:The Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable by xigency on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:39PM (#33269569)
Finally an analogy where I understand neither comparison :)
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