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Are Particles Theoretically Tangible?
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RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible?
(March 29, 2022 at 8:12 am)polymath257 Wrote:
(March 28, 2022 at 8:28 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Schrödinger's equation describes electrons, protons and many (perhaps, nearly all other, I'm not a physicist) particles.  If you want to learn more, I would suggest an undergraduate text in physics, such as Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker.

Schrodinger's equation is a non-relativistic equation, and so does not incorporate spin or anti-matter. It is a good approximation for most atomic physics.

Dirac's equation is the relativistic version for fermions (electrons, protons) and Maxwell's equations are the version for spin 1 bosons (photons being the main example).

The philosophy slightly changes when going to field theories, with the Lagrangian being the point of focus.

Some physics professor from a University of California school did a YouTube class on QED; the first equation that he wrote on his board was,

QED = QM + SR
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Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by JairCrawford - March 24, 2022 at 8:45 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Paleophyte - March 25, 2022 at 2:17 am
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 24, 2022 at 10:52 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 25, 2022 at 2:42 am
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Ranjr - March 25, 2022 at 5:02 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 25, 2022 at 6:25 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 27, 2022 at 12:46 am
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 27, 2022 at 9:47 am
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 27, 2022 at 2:25 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Rahn127 - March 25, 2022 at 5:05 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Angrboda - March 25, 2022 at 6:25 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Rahn127 - March 28, 2022 at 5:05 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Rahn127 - March 28, 2022 at 5:36 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 28, 2022 at 8:28 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Jehanne - March 29, 2022 at 10:59 am
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Angrboda - March 29, 2022 at 5:53 pm
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Angrboda - March 30, 2022 at 10:53 am
RE: Are Particles Theoretically Tangible? - by Ranjr - March 30, 2022 at 11:27 am

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