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Single Idea 20463

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields ]

Full Idea

There are about fifteen fields, whose quanta are elementary particles (electrons, quarks, muons, neutrinos, Higgs, and little else), plus a few fields similar to the electromagnetic one, which describe forces at a nuclear scale, with quanta like photons.

Gist of Idea

There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields

Source

Carlo Rovelli (Reality is Not What it Seems [2014], 04)

Book Ref

Rovelli,Carlo: 'Reality is Not What it Seems', ed/tr. Carnell/Segre [Penguin 2016], p.109

A Reaction

According to Rovelli, this sentence describes the essence of physical reality.

The 14 ideas from Carlo Rovelli

20457 Zeno assumes collecting an infinity of things makes an infinite thing [Rovelli]
20458 The world is just particles plus fields; space is the gravitational field [Rovelli]
20466 Quantum Theory describes events and possible interactions - not how things are [Rovelli]
20468 Quantum mechanics deals with processes, rather than with things [Rovelli]
20467 Quantum mechanics describes the world entirely as events [Rovelli]
20465 Nature has three aspects: granularity, indeterminacy, and relations [Rovelli]
20461 The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics [Rovelli]
20462 Because it is quantised, a field behaves like a set of packets of energy [Rovelli]
20463 There are about fifteen particles fields, plus a few force fields [Rovelli]
20464 The world consists of quantum fields, with elementary events happening in spacetime [Rovelli]
20459 Electrons only exist when they interact, and their being is their combination of quantum leaps [Rovelli]
20460 Electrons are not waves, because their collisions are at a point, and not spread out [Rovelli]
20469 There are probably no infinities, and 'infinite' names what we do not yet know [Rovelli]
20470 Only heat distinguishes past from future [Rovelli]