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In another thread I said an electron is an excitation of a quantum field. Is that a mistake as well? I don’t think quantum stuff will ever make sense to me…
by criddell 4y ago
In another thread I said an electron is an excitation of a quantum field. Is that a mistake as well?
I don’t think quantum stuff will ever make sense to me…
- ineptech 4y agoIt's only a mistake if you take it too literally and forget it's a model, e.g. "I measured the electron to have a mass, but I can't see how an excitation in a field would have mass so I guess I must've measured wrong."
- criddell 4y ago> it’s a model Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. We don’t know what is actually happening. Max Tegmark makes a pretty good case for it actually being mathematics.