Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball ...
More information: Alessio Rocci et al, The quantum theory of gravitation, effective field theories, and strings: yesterday and today, The European Physical Journal H (2024). DOI: 10.1140/epjh ...
Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...
Many incompletely understood phenomena lurk in the borderlands between physical theories - between classical and quantum, between rays and waves, and so on. These borderlands - the domain of physical ...
The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Daedalus Vol. 106, No. 4, Fall, 1977 The Search for Unity: Notes for a Histor... The Search for Unity: Notes for a History of Quantum Field Theory This ...