Particle-antiparticle creation on the cusp of the event horizon? One falls in leaving the other to avoid an annihilation event, thus it continues existence in this universe as a real particle.
Hawking Radiation
Thanks, that sounds like particle physics beyond my area of expertise.
Virtual particles are weird to begin with, but get worse when you look at force messenger virtual particles. It almost feels like a really lazy solution to the problems that come up (e.g. inability to transmit forces inside a sufficient gravity well - oh but wait nevermind, because Feynman said virtual particles don’t need to obey any rules in nature except causality.)
Oh, like your from he Ozarks!