Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles

Roberts, Bryan W. ORCID: 0000-0003-0548-1280 and Butterfield, Jeremy (2020) Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1638 (1). ISSN 1742-6588

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Abstract

In this contribution in honour of Paul Busch, we criticise the claims of many expositions that the time-energy uncertainty principle allows both a violation of energy conservation and particle creation, provided that this happens for a sufficiently short time. But we agree that there are grains of truth in these claims: which we make precise and justify using perturbation theory.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1742-6596
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2021 09:45
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2025 12:56
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108187

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