A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...
Corrected: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized the MathScience Innovation Center in Richmond, Va., and its funding source. It is an independent consortium of 13 Virginia school divisions ...
Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space ...