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'fragments/reports', 'The Putney Debates' and 'Reality is Not What it Seems'
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
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Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy [Rovelli]
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There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields [Rovelli]
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The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime [Rovelli]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / c. Electrons
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Electrons only exist when they interact, and their being is their combination of quantum leaps [Rovelli]
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Electrons are not waves, because their collisions are at a point, and not spread out [Rovelli]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics
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Quantum Theory describes events and possible interactions - not how things are [Rovelli]
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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter
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Nature has three aspects: granularity, indeterminacy, and relations [Rovelli]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
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The world is just particles plus fields; space is the gravitational field [Rovelli]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow
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Only heat distinguishes past from future [Rovelli]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
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The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]
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