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Most people have an intuition about particles, they don’t have an intuition for quantum systems. I wanted to highlight for a general reader that anyons are not
by ivalm 6y ago
Most people have an intuition about particles, they don’t have an intuition for quantum systems.
I wanted to highlight for a general reader that anyons are not particle in the sense of common intuition.
Protons, which the article brings as an example of collective phenomenona, roughly follow a lot of “particle intuition.”
- state_less 6y agoHere is a link to the quasiparticles Wikipedia page that may be helpful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle Personally, I don’t mind if folks reify these things to make it easier to follow, fwiw.
- adrianN 6y agoI wonder whether we could change school curricula so that people develop an intuition about quantum systems instead. I my schooling I learned almost exclusively particle abstractions. It's only natural that I'm more comfortable with particles.
- DagAgren 6y ago> Most people have an intuition about particles That intuition is also most likely completely wrong.