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Listener Questions 32: Particles, particles, particles!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Do Virtual Particles Have Mass?

Virtual particles don't really have a well-defined mass, but do they have mass? If you want to think about them in terms of the particle framework, then they can have mass and those masses can be any value. Virtual particles are not things you can ever see or observe. They're just like the way other particles talk to each other. You can only interact with real particles, not with virtual particles.

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