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Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles

OAI: oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/312770 DOI: 10.17863/CAM.59874
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Abstract 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.