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Not completely sure of what you are saying, but I will try and answer some points. > Well - relatively does. QFT is weirder. Part of it reduces to plain vanill
by rotorblade 12y ago
Not completely sure of what you are saying, but I will try and answer some points.
> Well - relatively does. QFT is weirder. Part of it reduces to plain vanilla Maxwell, but it also includes forces [...]
Indeed. QFT is usually referred to as the more general framework, the actual models that explain our physics are usually called Electroweak theory (QED (Quantum electro dynamics) as a special case) and QCD (Quantum chromo dynamics). These are all QFTs with associated gauge groups (a.k.a. Gauge theories). QED reduces to Maxwell, more or less, in a classical limit.
> That doesn't mean the Newtonian model is just as good.
Oh, absolutely not. But for certain experiments it is preferable to use. The same goes with every theory so far, say GR or QFT, non of them are the final "theory of everything", but I wouldn't say that they are "wrong" or "misleading".