Ideas from 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' by Jim Baggott [2013], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' by Baggott,Jim [Constable 2013,978-1-78033-492-9]].

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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time
Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor'
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model
The current standard model requires 61 particles