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Single Idea 20463
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
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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
from 'Reality is Not What it Seems'
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20457
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Zeno assumes collecting an infinity of things makes an infinite thing
[Rovelli]
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20458
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The world is just particles plus fields; space is the gravitational field
[Rovelli]
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20466
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Quantum Theory describes events and possible interactions - not how things are
[Rovelli]
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20467
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Quantum mechanics describes the world entirely as events
[Rovelli]
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20468
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Quantum mechanics deals with processes, rather than with things
[Rovelli]
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20465
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Nature has three aspects: granularity, indeterminacy, and relations
[Rovelli]
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20461
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The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics
[Rovelli]
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20462
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Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy
[Rovelli]
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20463
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There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields
[Rovelli]
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20464
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The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime
[Rovelli]
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20459
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Electrons only exist when they interact, and their being is their combination of quantum leaps
[Rovelli]
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20460
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Electrons are not waves, because their collisions are at a point, and not spread out
[Rovelli]
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20469
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There are probably no infinities, and 'infinite' names what we do not yet know
[Rovelli]
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20470
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Only heat distinguishes past from future
[Rovelli]
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