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How are you measuring the lifetime of a virtual particle?Ebi Rogha said:It seems there are different interpretations for them. A popular one is this:
ΔE is the uncertainty in the energy measurement and Δt is the uncertainty in the lifetime measurement.
This topic is subtle and requires extremely careful consideration, as you can see from the replies you have received so far. I will add one caution to the mix: do not confuse experimental precision (uncertainty) with the uncertainty relations. The real mystery of quantum mechanics is that even if we had perfect precision in our measurements, the accumulated data sets from measurements would show distributions whose uncertainties satisfy the uncertainty principle.Ebi Rogha said:It seems there are different interpretations for them. A popular one is this:
ΔE is the uncertainty in the energy measurement and Δt is the uncertainty in the lifetime measurement.