Simon Wrote:
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> I've read a bit more and I'll do some more reading
> - maybe on quantum field theory - I shouldn't
> really need to be spoonfed all the time ...
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> Its just this idea of an attractive force being
> applied by exchanging bosuns which are in fact
> virtual particles that doesn't make natural sense
> to me.
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We have to keep our definitions straight, or we will just get more and more confused. Bosons are NOT virtual particles. Bosons are just the force carrying particles (photons, gluons, W and Z bosons) which have whole number spins. Virtual particles are theoretical particles that have never been observed and are postulated to come into existence in pairs (of particle and antiparticle) for extremely short times (in order not to violate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle). Let's not muddy the water.
Bernard

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