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Single Idea 20461
[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited
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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.
The
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from Carlo Rovelli
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Zeno assumes collecting an infinity of things makes an infinite thing
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20458
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The world is just particles plus fields; space is the gravitational field
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20466
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Quantum Theory describes events and possible interactions - not how things are
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20467
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Quantum mechanics describes the world entirely as events
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20468
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Quantum mechanics deals with processes, rather than with things
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20465
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Nature has three aspects: granularity, indeterminacy, and relations
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20461
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The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics
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20462
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Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy
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20463
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There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields
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20464
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The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime
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20459
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Electrons only exist when they interact, and their being is their combination of quantum leaps
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20460
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Electrons are not waves, because their collisions are at a point, and not spread out
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20469
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There are probably no infinities, and 'infinite' names what we do not yet know
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20470
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Only heat distinguishes past from future
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