FrediFizzx
Apr7-04, 08:50 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resize=yes,status=no,wi dth=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>"Patrick Van Esch" <vanesch@ill.fr> wrote in message\nnews:c23e597b.0403300428.7371a015@posting .google.com...\n\n| For me, a few reasons to be cautious with virtual particles are:\n|\n| * their bizarre mass (imaginary in some cases)\n| * their bizarre velocity\n| * their timelessness (when in loops)\n| * the fact that you cannot make them have a detector say "click".\n|\n| All the above things are, to me, *defining* properties of what I\'d\n| call a particle, and a virtual one fails the test on all of them.\n\nHmmm? In the SLAC E144 experiment that involved pair production from light\non light, wasn\'t the gamma photon from the electron virtual? And wasn\'t the\nemitting electron seen to recoil? IOW, we do see real recoils from virtual\nparticles interacting with real matter. This tends to make me think that\nvirtual particles are real enough that they can transfer momentum.\n\nFrediFizzx\n\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>"Patrick Van Esch" <vanesch@ill.fr> wrote in message
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| For me, a few reasons to be cautious with virtual particles are:
|
| * their bizarre mass (imaginary in some cases)
| * their bizarre velocity
| * their timelessness (when in loops)
| * the fact that you cannot make them have a detector say "click".
|
| All the above things are, to me, *defining* properties of what I'd
| call a particle, and a virtual one fails the test on all of them.
Hmmm? In the SLAC E144 experiment that involved pair production from light
on light, wasn't the \gamma photon from the electron virtual? And wasn't the
emitting electron seen to recoil? IOW, we do see real recoils from virtual
particles interacting with real matter. This tends to make me think that
virtual particles are real enough that they can transfer momentum.
FrediFizzx
news:c23e597b.0403300428.7371a015@posting.google.c om...
| For me, a few reasons to be cautious with virtual particles are:
|
| * their bizarre mass (imaginary in some cases)
| * their bizarre velocity
| * their timelessness (when in loops)
| * the fact that you cannot make them have a detector say "click".
|
| All the above things are, to me, *defining* properties of what I'd
| call a particle, and a virtual one fails the test on all of them.
Hmmm? In the SLAC E144 experiment that involved pair production from light
on light, wasn't the \gamma photon from the electron virtual? And wasn't the
emitting electron seen to recoil? IOW, we do see real recoils from virtual
particles interacting with real matter. This tends to make me think that
virtual particles are real enough that they can transfer momentum.
FrediFizzx