RE: Quantum Field Theory Made Easy
April 30, 2014 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 7:33 am by little_monkey.)
(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.
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.
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.