Saturday, 10 October 2015

quantum mechanics - Do particles ever touch each other during a collision?



Do particles ever touch each other during a collision?


My understanding is that they can get really close to each other but never actually touch, is that true?


Another thing I've read about is, the closer the particles get to each other the greater the density of virtual particles until they reflect or particle pair creation occures due to the high energy density. If true, how does that work?




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