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Single Idea 20463

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields ]

Full Idea

There are about fifteen fields, whose quanta are elementary particles (electrons, quarks, muons, neutrinos, Higgs, and little else), plus a few fields similar to the electromagnetic one, which describe forces at a nuclear scale, with quanta like photons.

Gist of Idea

There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields

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.109

A Reaction

According to Rovelli, this sentence describes the essence of physical reality.

The 14 ideas with the same theme [foundational background containing particles]:

15314 Faraday's single field of variable forces introduces a criterion of Unity into what is ultimate [Faraday, by Harré/Madden]
17548 Maxwell introduced real fields, which transferred forces from point to point [Heisenberg]
18202 The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]
20639 Quantum fields contain continual rapid creation and disappearance [Close]
11931 Energy fields are discontinuous at the very small [Molnar]
18223 In theories of fields, space-time points or regions are causal agents [Field,H]
21201 A 'field' is just a region to which points can be assigned in space and time [Martin,BR]
21212 The Higgs field, unlike others, has a nozero value in a state without particles [Martin,BR]
21731 Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]
21730 A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]
21161 In the standard model all the fundamental force fields merge at extremely high energies [New Sci.]
20462 Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy [Rovelli]
20463 There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields [Rovelli]
20464 The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime [Rovelli]