Re: virtual particles preferred frame?

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>]

At 16:53 -0800 11/6/99, Glenn A. Carlson wrote:

> Though I disagree with the statement that the mass density of the
> virtual particles is zero, I find the argument re the (infinite)
> homogenous medium somewhate persuasive, i.e., it seems an infinite
> homogeneous medium appears unchanged whether moving or not.

I believe the definition of a vacuum would subsume zero mass
density. Mine would, anyway.

> However, I was probably unclear about whether the distribution of
> virtual particles was infinite or not.  I was considering the virtual
> particle cloud surrounding, say, a real electron.  In this case the
> virtural particle cloud is isotropic, but not infinite.

I can't comment on that. Such knowledge better fits someone
above my pay grade. David?

Leigh