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One of the points he makes in the paper is that none of the 36 quantum mechanics textbooks he found in the library held that fields were fundamental. "30 impli
by mypalmike 10y ago
One of the points he makes in the paper is that none of the 36 quantum mechanics textbooks he found in the library held that fields were fundamental.
"30 implied a universe made of particles that sometimes acted like fields, 6 implied the fundamental constituents behaved sometimes like particles and sometimes like fields"
- sbussard 10y agoIt's interesting that the authors aren't clear about fields being fundamental, it's not even controversial. I noticed that he looked for books with the words "Quantum Mechanics" in the title. The subject he should be investigating is called "Quantum Field Theory". But regardless, anyone qualified to write a text book on QM should be well versed in QFT.
- sbussard 10y agoThe theory behind the LHC experiment that led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson is based on the unanimously-accepted concept that particles are just quantized localizations of fields. Even in quantum mechanics, problems are solved by assuming that it is impossible to tell the difference between two or more of the same particle - which suggests that they are somehow the same thing. They are different parts of the same field.