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===Path-integral formulation of virtual-particle exchange===

A virtual particle is created by a disturbance to the [[vacuum state]], and the virtual particle is destroyed when it is absorbed back into the vacuum state by another disturbance. The disturbances are imagined to be due to bodies that interact with the virtual particleparticle’s field.

====The probability amplitude====