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Quantum Field Theory Made Easy
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RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy
(April 29, 2014 at 9:17 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Who's your audience?

If it's meant for science undergrads-- looks good. If it's meant for laypeople, I think you need to reduce the numbers down to more basic concepts. Once you pulled out the math, I had no way to know what ideas you were referring to.

I should stress that before doing QFT, a good review on QM would help. That I have covered in:

The Essential Quantum Mechanics and Harmonic Oscillators, Vacuum Energy, Pauli Exclusion Principle

Hope that helps

(April 29, 2014 at 6:11 pm)bennyboy Wrote:
(April 29, 2014 at 12:24 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: QFT is the shit... duh. Tongue


What're your thoughts on the Quantum Eternity Theorem? I'm not sure if that's the actual name of the theorem, but that's what theoretical physicist/cosmologist Sean Carroll called it in his [excellent] debate against William Craig. Which Carroll one by the way, if you're interested in seeing someone clearly beat Craig on both the science and the philosophy. Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0qKZqPy9T8

It's worth watching.

I haven't watched that video but I have come across WLC's argument on "infinity as potential" and "infinity as actual". Let me make a quick rebuttal: physicists don't care about that. Whenever we do a derivative or an integral, we don't make that distinction between these two. So basically, WLC is rejecting everything that was ever done in science since Newton and Leibnitz invented calculus.
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Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by little_monkey - April 29, 2014 at 7:48 am
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by ManMachine - April 29, 2014 at 8:02 am
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by little_monkey - April 29, 2014 at 10:47 am
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by MindForgedManacle - April 29, 2014 at 12:24 pm
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by bennyboy - April 29, 2014 at 6:11 pm
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 29, 2014 at 6:56 pm
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by bennyboy - April 29, 2014 at 9:17 pm
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by little_monkey - April 30, 2014 at 7:28 am
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by MindForgedManacle - April 30, 2014 at 8:52 am
RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy - by little_monkey - April 30, 2014 at 9:15 am

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