Gribbin (1990: 198):
So a proton is even more the centre of its own cloud of activity than an electron is. As it moves on its way through space (and time) a free proton is constantly emitting and reabsorbing both virtual photons and virtual mesons.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the emitting of "virtual" particles is the instantiation of quantum system potential as photons and mesons — they are no longer "virtual" when instantiated — whereas the "reabsorption" of photons and mesons reflects a change in the quantum system potential that can be instantiated as a result of the particle interactions.
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