alt Hacker NewsWhat about virtual particles, too?
Virtual particles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle :
> As a consequence of quantum mechanical uncertainty, any object or process that exists for a limited time or in a limited volume cannot have a precisely defined energy or momentum. For this reason, virtual particles – which exist only temporarily as they are exchanged between ordinary particles – do not typically obey the mass-shell relation; the longer a virtual particle exists, the more the energy and momentum approach the mass-shell relation.
Virtual particles are the generalisation to all quantum fields of what near-field is in radio to just photons. It's where you don't really benefit much from even calling things "particles" in the first place, because the wave function itself is a much better description.
Unfortunately the maths of QM doesn't play nice with the maths of GR, which is also why zero-point effects are either renormalised to exactly zero or otherwise predict an effect 10^122 times larger than observed.