What does "exist" mean to a physicist? somt

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wittgenstein

If something hat has no volume and no mass can exist ,what does it mean to say that something physical exists?

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wittgenstein

Sorry about the tablet problems (somt in the title and "hat" not "that")

wittgenstein

I am referring to point and massless particles

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