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One reason the “give me a classical field and I’ll quantize it” route to QFT has fallen out of fashion is its lack of generality and its tendency to mislead.
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Crazy stuff happens when you try to measure the mass and charge and momentum of particles—stuff beyond the measurement problem in QM. Suppose you step on a scale and weigh
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In 1986 Feynman and Weinberg gave lectures in honor of Dirac, who had recently passed. Weinberg dedicates his time to answering the question: “what clues can we find in today’s
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daily reminder that “the scientific method” doesn’t exist I wouldn’t call this an argument, or even a demonstration, but maybe this thread hints at a path towards the “the scientific
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every once in a while I come across accounts like this that talk about incomprehensible quantum woo and have tens of thousands of followers I’m confusedhttps://twitter.com/ts_sci_majic12/status/1249201850051710984 What’s the audience for
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what’s the most interesting application of renormalization (in physics or otherwise), and why? for EFT methods in general you see the explanation of why the sky is blue in tons
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