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Ah, I see, the K-G equation is for the matter. It makes a huge difference. In the context of QM, "fields" refers to quantum field...

Usually it's taken to refer to the viewpoint that you can do QM without having to adopt any interpretation: you just do the math and...

Where is your quote coming from? Please give a link.

The problem with popular science content is that it is designed to entertain, not educate. Granted many of us are entertained by...

You're conflating two separate issues here. The representation of charged fields (btw, the Klein-Gordon equation does not describe the...

"Cannot label them" is too strong a statement. If I have a single electron captured in a Penning trap, I can label it as "the electron...

That's not correct. The electrons don't have well-defined trajectories at all.

Not "wave", "wave function". It provides the weighted distribution of all the places where you might find a particle. When used that...

Why do you think ellipses are seen in atoms? Subatomic particles in atoms do not have well-defined trajectories at all.

See my post #23 about the difference between model and reality. The math is a model. You can never prove anything about reality with a...

They are generally written for other physicists, yes. Textbooks offer something somewhat in between, but unfortunately textbooks don't...

Referring to spacetime as a manifold in the model is not the same as claiming that the entirety of that manifold actually exists in...

Which specific implications? Some are probably parts of the interpretation (optional) but some are probably parts of the theory (not...

No. It's the time it takes light to travel from whatever emitted it, to you.

Then I would recommend adopting a much tighter definition, something more like what I described (you want to be looking at textbooks and...