Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists imagine virtual particles popping in and out of existence to explain how forces transfer between particles.

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties and—perhaps oddest of all—particles that spontaneously spring into being from the ...

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 ...