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Is my usage of variants of “emit”, “emission”, “collision”, etc., one of the problems that you guys seem to have with my description? I was using those words because the primer that was provided above also uses variants of “emit”; “collision” (or “absorption”) seemed to be the appropriate word...

I think I might have been thrown by some of the language in the linked primer whose link was provided above: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/virtual_particles.html Is that primer flawed? I’m trying to triangulate between different people’s descriptions, each of which probably...

Can you explain what is wrong with my description for a photon so that I can understand quantum better?

I’m confused. It seems like you said that virtual photon exchange is “not an interaction”, but later said that “what happens where and when within the interaction is outside the theory”, seemingly about virtual photon exchange. I’m honestly trying to understand your terminology, but it seems...

I understood the probabilistic nature of an actual particle with defined characteristics like charge, mass, spin, frequency, etc. moving through space. I didn’t understand the nature of some calculations being made for particles that don’t exist requiring you to imagine all possible values for...

Thanks for the info. I think we are somehow accidentally taking past each other. The issue that I was trying to understand with my question about frequency of virtual photon exchange is that the electrostatic force is something that doesn’t just happen once (unlike an excited electron emitting a...

Thanks again for the info. If you have more time, I’d really like to try to ask more questions that will help clarify things for me. When a virtual photon is exchanged and its effects are calculated, is it always calculated for a specific instant, or is it used to summarize the effects of the...

Thanks for the info. Please see my response to the other answer for follow up questions.

Thanks for info & link. How frequently are the virtual photons exchanged? If they were exchanged twice as frequently, then the electrostatic force should be twice as much, right? Unless there’s a specific reason for the frequency of exchange, could this be evidence for the quantization of time...

(My multipart question is from a very naive perspective, so sorry if it is rife with misunderstandings. Please answer conceptually, with as few & as simple equations as possible. I think that all of the answers to these questions should be understandable to a high schooler, though maybe the...