Rick16
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I have this uneasiness about mediator particles in general. On the one hand, nature is so economical, even austere (shortest path, shortest time, Fermat's principle, least action, the lazy universe and all that), and on the other hand there is this boundless wastefulness with particles, as if somebody else paid for them. How can I conceptually reconcile these extremes?
I have this uneasiness about mediator particles in general. On the one hand, nature is so economical, even austere (shortest path, shortest time, Fermat's principle, least action, the lazy universe and all that), and on the other hand there is this boundless wastefulness with particles, as if somebody else paid for them. How can I conceptually reconcile these extremes?
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