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To: Moonman62

Where is the environment that you experience?
Go ahead and crash your car into a telephone pole (especially in a city), and see if nothing observable results. You can pretend that nothing that just happened is real all you wish, but consequences will come whether you want them to or not.

A virtual particle, just as a real one, is defined by science. The defining quality of a virtual particle is that its properties don’t exceed the limits placed on it by the Uncertainty Principle
Circular explanations. How does science “define” anything? How does the uncertainty principle (itself uncertain) define anything either? Science is supposed to be a record of observations, in its purest sense; if the energy interactions are what is observed, then inserting “virtual particles” to fudge the numbers is specious.
80 posted on 10/02/2012 7:52:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Where is the environment that you experience?

I see you don't know the answer. Scientists maneuver through the world just as we do, but being more formal about it with definitions and powerful instruments to improve the senses.

How does science “define” anything?

The same as Miriam-Webster, but with more precision.

How does the uncertainty principle (itself uncertain)...

That statement is another reason why you are in no position to judge science.

Science is supposed to be a record of observations, in its purest sense; if the energy interactions are what is observed, then inserting “virtual particles” to fudge the numbers is specious.

Virtual particles are used in quantum mechanics to come up with the most precise calculations and predictions in science.

81 posted on 10/02/2012 8:03:54 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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