(September 22, 2015 at 10:34 am)bennyboy Wrote:(September 22, 2015 at 10:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: Who does that?
How else would you define QM particles?
The problem with QM is that the very name (mechanics) implies a world of particles and after Feynman released his diagrams on the world, we seem to re-affirm the world from the perspective of mechanincs.
It maybe that our world is not fundamentally particles but fields (both force and matter fields). But fields are real physical entities, where under QFT the propogation of an excitation in the field (which moves as a wave) can condense out to look very particle like (ie when it is absorbed by another quantum system). And at that point all of the excitation and wave in the field is simulataneously aborsbed. These properties are neither formless nor ethereal - but they are energetic of course.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
