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To avoid philosophical contradictions, at least in respect to phenomenology in the transcendental aesthetic, particles in this sense must be an association of m
by ethn 6y ago
To avoid philosophical contradictions, at least in respect to phenomenology in the transcendental aesthetic, particles in this sense must be an association of measurable properties (mass, magnetism, charge, etc.) extended in space (and therefore time by the nature of "measure").
Of course there is the other sense of particles in metaphysical domains, such as the 'holes' in semiconductor physics, which cannot be directly measured but can be implied
- platz 6y agoin QED there are really only fields and subsets of those fields that have the label 'particle'; I'm not sure how your metaphysics of properties/extensions maps onto a smooth continuous manifold such as that.
- ethn 6y agoThe article tackles and refutes this pure field view, but continuous manifolds are no issue, and is required for anything to be extended in space--the transcendental aesthetic refutes the type of discursive space you're presuming, such as that of Leibniz. Or to quote yourself: "Anytime someone insists on HN that virtual particles are real, you can just tell them that Arkani-Hamed disagrees with you and that he is also smarter than you."