Field Collapse. The answer to Schrodinger's dilemma is what we now call field collapse. In QFT, when a field quantum interacts, it must interact as a unit. Half of the quantum cannot do one thing whil...
Limitation of color. There is, of course, a limit to how far the use of color can take us. A single color can help us visualize a field that is otherwise invisible, but it cannot inform us about the c...
Mass is Inertia......In physics, mass means the tendency of an object to resist changes in course or speed. It is what physicists call inertia. Inertia is a kind of I don't like to be pushed feeling....
So if you want, you can believe that gravitational effects are due to a curvature of space-time (even if you can't picture it). Or, like Weinberg, Wilczek (and me), you can view gravity as a force fie...
There is another reason why imaginary color is an appropriate tool for visualizing fields. You may be surprised to hear this, but the colors that we perceive in nature are also imaginary; they exist o...
We assert that the atom in reality is merely the...phenomena of an electron wave captured, as it were, by the nucleus of the atom...From the point of view of wave mechanics, the [particle picture] wou...
Feynman converts! According to Frank Wilczek, Feynman eventually lost confidence in his particles-only view of nature:Feynman told me that when he realized that his theory of photons and electrons is...
The helium nucleus, for example, contains two protons and two neutrons. If the neutrons were not there, the electrical repulsion between the protons would overcome the strong binding force. However if...
The move from a particle description to a field description will be especially fruitful if the fields obey simple equations, so that we can calculate the future values of fields from the values they h...
NOTHING CAN GO FASTER THAN LIGHTOf course the idea that there is an ultimate speed of light is very high by earthly standards, the magnitude is not the point; any kind of speed limit in nature doesn't...
That the physics community has so ignored the only understandable, paradox-free picture of nature that we have boggles my mind. Maybe physicists like being seen as high priests who are entrusted with...
Non-locality. One of the most troubling aspects of field collapse is that it is instantaneous and occurs at the same time at widely separated points. Physicists call this non-locality. This is especia...
Apparently it did not occur to Feynman that these discrete clicks could also be produced by field quanta that live and die as a unit.
Fields of color. A special feature of this book is the use of color to depict fields that in themselves are unpicturable. Just as the color blue permeates the sky, so you will be asked to picture spac...
I believe that common sense is choosing, wherever possible, the simplest, most intuitively-satisfying explanation that is consistent with observations.
I once read that for every equation, you lose a thousand readers.
In this chapter we will look at the entire edifice of QFT. We will see that it is based on three simple principles. We will also list some of its achievements, including some new insights and understa...
Instead of the ordinary numbers used in conventional mathematics, the quantum nature of the fields requires the use of Hilbert algebra, in which the physical properties are described by vectors in an...
It may seem strange that the same term that slows the spatial evolution of a field also causes it to oscillate, but it is actually straightforward mathematics to show that the frequency of oscillation...
MASS INCREASESThe final paradox of relativity is the increase in mass due to motion. Mass increase has been observed experimentally in particle accelerators, with increases as great as 3000% for parti...
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