Recent content by JohnRood

For what is it worth, this has certainly given me a lot to think about / investigate.

Another nice link! (And i have a copy of Weinberg--all 3 ... not so easy to read ...)

Sorry "d. o. f." will be "degree of freedom" ?

Hmmm, very interesting. I have a copy of Peskin and Schroeder, which i will also look at. My (very naive) bias is with the answer of LastOne ... .

OK, very good, a meaty article link. Looks very nice. I will attempt to decipher / grok it. Tyvm.

Wow. This is "blowing my mind". IF something even moves, there must be exchange of force carriers, afaik. My feeling is that this IS what "quantization" ultimately buys you. So, i am now led to a weirder question: What good is a "static field", then? Certainly it has (plenty of) energy...

So the "Coulombic Interaction" is mediated (?) by exchange of photons (force carrying bosons)? So somehow this is tantamount to saying: There is no such thing as a static [E / M / EM] field? This is what i get out of your answer, but i am most definitely naive on this topic. Sort of seems to...

So i am taking the MOOC of Galitski et al on Exploring Quantum Physics. I like it. But i keep running into some difficulty with my understanding of what it means to quantize a static EM (or E or M) field: Is the field made up of photons? If so, are they somehow moving at the speed of...

Now i am getting confused about procedures in this forum. I thought this thread was nixed by the admin. Actually, i know more than i have said yet. Let me say a bit more. I am aware that light is E&M fields of a certain frequency. I know that these are detected by molecules as photons...

Ok, thank you for your response. It might not be the case that i have attempted to short-circuit the physics here. And, maybe it is my own fault that this is not apparent. However, i guess you might as well delete this thread. Thank you very mucn.

Hello, I am a mathematician and i have a personal theory of consciousness. Now, i DID read the rules for the forum, and i am aware that you guys don't want to be bothered with this, up to a point. However, i have isolated a key part of my theory in what are possibly satisfactory physical...