> ... but the title is very confusing to the layman
Given the density of knowledge in your comment, I'm not sure the title could be much different to aid in the understanding of the layman.
Given the density of knowledge in your comment, I'm not sure the title could be much different to aid in the understanding of the layman.
A layman will not know what "emergent particle" means. (I did not.) But they will at least know that the presence of an adjective implies it's not quite "a particle", and the adjective itself gives a hint to the meaning. If the layman is then piqued, they will get clarification in the article itself.
(By which I mean, a balance between immediate understanding vs. links for detail >> primarily links for detail without immediate understanding)
I suppose we would call an L4 Lagrangian point an emergent phenomenon and not a virtual mass (just because it can be orbited). For one thing, if we did a surface integral around the L4 point, of the gravitational field, we would find that there is no mass there; the net flux is zero.