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Methods: How are we doing this?

The particles in Ps are so light that you have to use quantum physics to describe them. You cannot think of the electron and positron as individual points moving around each other, because they do not behave that way. They behave as if they are virtually in many places at once.

This is why a good way to simulate quantum particles is with a string of beads, also known as a path integral: