Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles

; and Butterfield, Jeremy (2020) Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1638 (1): 012005. ISSN 1742-6588

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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
Copyright holders	© 2020 The Authors
Departments	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
DOI	10.1088/1742-6596/1638/1/012005
Date Deposited	06 Jan 2021 09:45
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108187

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