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 ...

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 ...

Physics Why virtual particles don’t exist but do explain reality – for now. So-called virtual particles aren't particles at all. Some argue that they are merely mathematical figments, and that ...

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 ...

That particle could be popping up as a virtual particle, interfering with muons through some as-yet-undetected force, and then disappearing again.

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 ...

At Fermilab, US physicists are refining their measurements of this subatomic particle—which has major implications for the Standard Model.