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[QUOTE="andrew s 1905, post: 5455344, member: 576911"] I have been reading the Quantum Diaries here [URL]http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2011/03/25/an-idiosyncratic-introduction-to-the-higgs/[/URL] and in discussing the Higgs and the LHC experiment he says "The general problem is this: at the LHC, we’re smashing protons into one another. The protons are each made up of a goop of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons. This is important: the protons are [I]more [/I]than just three quarks! As we [URL='http://blogs.uslhc.us/?p=5915&preview=true']mentioned before[/URL], protons are terribly non-perturbative objects. Virtual (anti-)quarks and gluons are being produced and reabsorbed all over the place. It turns out that the main processes that produce Higgs bosons from proton collisions comes from the interaction of these [I]virtual[/I] particles!" Now if I understand "non-perturbative objects" correctly then he seems to be implying that the virtual particles are more than just a calculation artifact.Is this just another case of layman simplification and if so could you explain the correct interpritation? Thanks Andrew [/QUOTE]
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