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Zero Point Virtual Particles

In this universe, anything that can vibrate will vibrate. No oscillator is ever truly at rest.

In the quantum field, virtual particles are formed and annihilated at the speed of light. A virtual particle can "exist" for a time inversely proportional to the energy deviation from a real particle state. This time frame is approximately 6.6 * 10^-22 seconds.

A virtual particle is a theoretical transient particle that exhibits some of the characteristics of an ordinary particle, while having its existence limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which allows the virtual particles to spontaneously emerge from vacuum at short elapse of time and space ranges. The concept of virtual particles arises in the perturbation theory of quantum field theory (QFT) where interactions between ordinary particles are described in terms of exchanges of virtual particles.

These virtual particles are not directly observable and don't satisfy the usual energy-momentum relation. In calculations, they appear as intermediate states in particle interactions.