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Are Virtual Exchange Particles a Valid Concept in Understanding Remote Forces?
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[QUOTE="planet-75, post: 6425384, member: 665384"] [B]TL;DR Summary:[/B] What is the concept or idea of this term? Such particles are virtual, but it should be possible to associate a basic idea with them, as this is the foundation of calculation methods. I think the concept of vacuum fluctuations in the form of virtual, fluctuating pairs of particles is something else. Is the idea of virtual exchange particles, which allegedly fly back and forth between real particles in order to be able to justify remote forces by impulses, a serious and useful idea, or are there better descriptions for it? That would work, if at all, only for repulsive forces. How, for example, a virtual photon could be used to create an attraction is beyond me. [/QUOTE]
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