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Very roughly, for a well-understood force like electromagnetism, we need to consider fluctuations in the field at all scales. And these fluctuations never stop coming as you zoom in. They act like virtual particles with higher and higher energies. We know how to account for the effects of these high-energy virtual particles in our calculations: The intensity of the force changes, but that’s it.，详情可参考新收录的资料