rah@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
They don’t blip out of existence indepedently, they always annihilate each other. If you have a pair of positive and negative virtual particles, they will come into existence, exist separately for some time, possibly interacting with other, real particles, but in the end there will be some annihilation which ends the interaction and maintains the energy of the universe (no energy is created or destroyed).
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well except when one is near the event horizon of a blackhole, in that case they can in theory survive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
rah@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
Apart form that, yes