Then you're lost — magritte
The first step is to visualize a vector field: — jgill
The first step is to visualize a vector field: — jgill
What's the purple line in your picture above? What's the green dot? A particle? Is it a trajectory (purple) of a particle (green) in a vector field? What do the vectors represent? What creates them? — Thunderballs
If objective existence needs conscious observers to exist then how could conscious beings develop in the first place? — Thunderballs
I know this article!
— Thunderballs
So you must be on Ulrich’s mailing list. It was only published yesterday — Wayfarer
Ulrich Mornhoff is definitely not going to scam anyone. You can click the link I provided with confidence.
The reason I said that is because when I posted the link to that article, Thunderballs said he knew the article. So I pointed out it had only been published a day previously. — Wayfarer
"For in the quantum field we live, and move, and have our being" — bert1
The particle is a body of information being acted upon by an informational field that is forming and determining the particle, in shape and direction. — Pop
A field has a value at every point. Picture each point being on a spring going up and down; this is the harmonic oscillator! These points moving affect other points moving, dragging on them. The sums of the harmonic oscillators are the wavering waving fields. There are fields for boson and fermions. They can affect one another. — PoeticUniverse
nutshell — ArisTootelEs
In some of the pop-physics books I've read, people like Sean Carroll, Carlo Rovelli, Art Hobson and the like, they tend to say that a field is kind of like a space — Manuel
All these particle paths and interactions later constitute space. Space is that what allows all these particle trajectories. But these paths don't constitute space. — Ozymandy
Space is what allows or permits these processes happening. So would the fields would be space itself or would they be what is involved in the paths particles take? — Manuel
It's the quantum version of a correlation. That means that two or more parts of a quantum system have correlated properties. What's strange about it is that the correlation is indeterminate until a measurement is made, after which the correlation is revealed.
A reasonable example is that of a pattern. A pattern represents collective information that isn't apparent unless the entire pattern is observed. That's a classical pattern! Such a pattern can be said to always exist, regardless of whether it's measured. For the quantum version, there may be two or more possible patterns, which all exist in an abstract space. However, just a single local measurement will select the entire pattern that will be observed. That means a local measurement seems to have a nonlocal effect. However, that nonlocal effect is not apparent at the local level. You need to see the entire pattern, which entails making lots of local measurements and comparing them.
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