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Technically, then, there are no fields either - claiming that fields are real because the field model matches experiments better, commits the same mistake of ta
by amatic 10y ago
Technically, then, there are no fields either - claiming that fields are real because the field model matches experiments better, commits the same mistake of taking the map as real, as when we said that particles are really there. As in Kantian noumena, we can't know the territory, we can just build more useful models.
- michaelfeathers 10y agoExactly. Thinking about it more. Imagine we came at it from the other direction. All we know are quantum phenomena and then we encounter this human-scale world. We would be amazed and stunned by things like billiard balls that behave only half like quanta. I'm surprised this way of seeing the world isn't more wide spread. My opinion is that it should be among people who have a deep interest in science.