Does the Feynman diagram process actually exist, or is it just for computation?

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ronnie snooker
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i want to known whether virtual particle exist or not , and does exchange of particle really happen in interaction.
 
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You can't point to an interaction and say "it was this Feynman diagram". They are tools for calculations in perturbation theory, just like the virtual particles in the diagrams.
I fear everything beyond that is philosophy.
 
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thanks for all of you!
 
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