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Jan26-09, 09:29 AM   #3
 
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QM is about systems in which the number of particles (of each kind) is fixed, so it cannot describe particle creation and destruction. This restriction of QM is removed by a more general theory, QFT.
Example:
electron-positron annihilation into a pair of photons