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Full Idea
The notions of fields and particles, separated by Faraday and Maxwell, end up merging in quantum mechanics.
Gist of Idea
The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics
Source
Carlo Rovelli (Reality is Not What it Seems [2014], 04)
Book Ref
Rovelli,Carlo: 'Reality is Not What it Seems', ed/tr. Carnell/Segre [Penguin 2016], p.107
A Reaction
This sounds to me just like Anaximander's 'apeiron' - the unlimited [Rovelli agrees! p.168]. Anaximander predicted the wall which enquiry would hit, but we now have more detail.
| 13222 | The Boundless cannot exist on its own, and must have something contrary to it [Aristotle on Anaximander] |
| 1495 | Anaximander introduced the idea that the first principle and element of things was the Boundless [Anaximander, by Simplicius] |
| 404 | Things begin and end in the Unlimited, and are balanced over time according to justice [Anaximander] |
| 405 | The essential nature, whatever it is, of the non-limited is everlasting and ageless [Anaximander] |
| 469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
| 225 | The unlimited has no shape and is endless [Plato] |
| 20461 | The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics [Rovelli] |