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The standard model predicts the influences of known virtual particles on the muon's magnetic strength. Casimir predicted in 1948 that interactions between virtual particles would be detectable as forces between neutral, but electrically conductive, objects. As a consequence of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the equivalence of matter and energy (according to Einstein's famous equation), pairs of so-called virtual particles of all types--always one of matter and the other of antimatter--continually pop into existence. |
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