Even "real" particles are theorized and can't be observed directly. Is that jumping to conclusions too?
The same can be said about your senses and what you experience. Is that also jumping to conclusions?
And assigning particle status to energy isn't what scientists are doing. You're jumping to conclusions, making things up, or just plain ignorant. I'm not sure which one, but I'm pretty sure you're an unreliable source for judging science.
Yes, atomic theory is still just theory. That which a scanning tunneling microscope observes may indeed not actually fit the theory.
BTW, if you could not trust your senses, you would not be able to maneuver in your environment. So don’t try claim that what we experience as real is wholly theoretical, nor jumping to conclusion.
If a virtual particle so-called is not (as I described) assigning (or ascribing) particle status to energy, then how come it is that you cannot tell me what it is?