toxikitty

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   by toxikitty 11y ago

   AFAIK the particles vs fields discussion is not the same as temperature vs fields. At the risk of straying into quantum info territory: - given all possible information about a collection of particles, you could compute the temperature. How
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   by toxikitty 11y ago

   Anthony Zee's book on QFT ( http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/members/PM/zee/QuantumFieldTh.html ) might be what you're looking for. It starts off with a spring mattress analogy (like the one in the linked art
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   by toxikitty 11y ago

   It depends on what constitutes 'an element of reality'. Are photons an element of reality? Depending on the field of science/engineering and the specific application, one might choose to work with electromagnetic fields, phot