Re: [OT] RE: Actual Warp Drive Theory

KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

>
> Also note, that according to Quantum Mechanics and Heisenberg's
> uncertainty principle, there are such things as 'Virtual Particles'
which
> "exist" only for minuscule moments of time before disappearing again.
As they
> can not be directly observed, they don't have to obey most
conservation
> laws and for example, a low-energy photon can give rise to a virtual
> e+e- pair. Of course, it is a question for philosophers if virtual
> particles "exist". But certainly, there are measurable effects that
you can get
> out of the Quantum calculations only if you include virtual particles.

This is what I was thinking of.  It's probably where the "free electron"
designation got put on photons by some of the non-scientific press.

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