Recent content by Blair Nelson

I am very impressed at how many FAQs you have taken the time to write. Definately a link near the top of my favorites list. There is some really good stuff there on reality and Hawking's Radiation. Have you written any books a layman might nibble at?

Ok I got to the part in you book that says: "But one can easily write down state vectors for the usual, real objects, such as quarks, nuclei, electrons, or photons." So let me rephrase. Is it just the virtual particle concept that has no real counterpart in this context? What does this...

Wow, I really found Chapter A7 enlightning! Thanks for the link, I plan to spend some time studing it! You say there that: "There is plenty of evidence that sums of Feynman diagrams, interpreted as renormalized multidimensional integrals, correctly predict many phenomena. But to...

Thanks for your quick response! So does this mean that if we had a large quantity of Helium in a powerful electric field that there is the possiblity that we might see an He4 atom changed to H3 and H+ as a result of an interaction with a virtual particle?

Is it possible for a virtual particle consisting of a proton/antiproton pair to "pop" into existence close enough to the nucleus of a helium atom (two protons and two neutrons) such that the antiproton of the virtual particle annihilates one of the protons of the helium atom leaving Tritium (H3)...