Gordon Kane, director of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, provides this answer. Virtual particles are indeed real particles. Quantum theory ...

Not only are the effects of virtual particles “real” in particle-rich environments, but the particles themselves are real, too. A proton isn't just three quarks and gluons, ...

Monitor earthquakes, play with a virtual particle accelerator, and more. By David Nield. Published Nov 15, 2018 7:30 PM EST. Your phone is capable of more than you might think.

Virtual particle accelerators ... First is the web site, which introduces the main concepts of particle physics, particle accelerators, detectors, and the standard model.

As particle-antiparticle pairs pop in-and-out of existence, they can interact with real particles like electrons or photons, leaving signatures imprinted on the real particles that are potentially ...

An international team of researchers have observed a phenomenon called virtual melting in colloidal crystals. They studied how it helps enable changes from one crystalline structure to another ...

Determining this value as accurately as possible would help physicists nail down exactly which virtual particles are toying with the electron’s magnetic moment—some of which might belong to a ...

By tracking the spectrum of Hawking radiation, scientists might be able to distinguish between high-energy particle physics ...

This is radiation that is predicted to be created when virtual particle–antiparticle pairs within the quantum vacuum are ripped apart at a black hole’s event horizon – the antiparticle then ...

In earlier work, the same team argued that the intense gravitational pull of any compact object—not just a black hole—could split virtual particle pairs in the vacuum of space. This phenomenon ...