What do you think is the best way to get across its physical significance?
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Why not, I’ll stop dancing. I think that all that exists are fields. It naturally gives an intuition for signal speed and dissolves the “spooky action at a distance” But particles are certainly real, and describing them as quanta of their corresponding fields 1/n ..
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Replying to @InertialObservr @litgenstein and
absorbs all our ontological ignorance into the word “quanta”.. it’s not quite clear to me what this means wrt field excitations Naievely I would say that it’s an excitation like a drop of water in a splash that breaks free.. for quantum fields the drops can only have 2/3
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Replying to @InertialObservr @litgenstein and
Specific “sizes”, as it were. By sizes I mean quantum numbers 3/3
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And so cross sections would carry physical information relevant to this, hence why you think they’re the most relevant?
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Well cross sections carry the same amount of QUANTUM information as the matrix elements, is my claim
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[almost] narrator: it wasn’t
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Replying to @InertialObservr @MattersDarkly and
Zach you have great questions, like absolutely awesome questions. It really makes me refine my thinking. We’ve all got to somehow make this format more structured/regular
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I’d be down to think about how to do so! Tbh I think stuff of this sort is one of our best resources for solving the more serious problems that we have in physics
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I agree 100% which is why I think it’s vital that we figure something out.. collaboration between unbiased and informed individuals is to be absolutely cherished, and especially on a topic like this
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If nothing else we could keep a document of questions/answers to keep track of what we think about things and what we need to do more work on!
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