Recent content by mmaa

I know, i feel a bit like that too. But it's really nice that people are so stoked to help out. I always liked the 'condition of space' idea, but at uni I never got to QFT, we did quantum mechanics, but QFT was part of the masters course. I've been listening to Susskind's lectures on the...

Thank you bapowell, i thought so, but now I'm not so clear. i suppose I'm assuming people know what a field is, when i probably shouldn't, so i might as well say something about excitations as well.. But can I say for example that an electron is the quanta of an electric field?

And also, in QCD/QFT what is the best way to think of the idea of a field? Is it strictly a reference frame/ geometry, or does it have a physical meaning? I was under the impression you can think of them a sort of energy storage devices, but a friend of mine thinks not. Specifically, I am doing...

So when you talk about strong interaction that's gluons right? I know its all a bit hazy in terms of what particles/forces/fields etc are, but since we are talking about bosons already would it be fair to say that most of the mass of the proton and neutron resides in gluons?

Wow, thanks everybody. This forum is great!

Hello, if someone could enlighten me I'd be most grateful. Also, if anybody could point me in the direction of some really good free resources that would be great too. Thanks.