Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum world (2018)

Re:Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum wor... by nine_k on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @01:05AM (#26151382)

Fields are continuous. E.g. electromagnetic field in the classic electrodynamics is continuous. But its waves, photons, show quantum, discrete properties — see the photo effect. It would be easy if there were some common grid, but it's not the case. You can make photons with whatever energy from a continuous spectrum, but photons of each frequency will carry its own quantum (Latin for "amount") of energy, in discrete portions.

Why is this happening? That's the question worth 1000 Nobel prizes.

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Re:Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum wor... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:12AM (#26152870)

It's called second quantization and is taught in the course of theoretical physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_quantization

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Re:Closed loophole confirms the unreality of the quantum wor... by nine_k on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:42PM (#26159150)

This is the how, not the why. That is, it's not a (more general) model from which quantization follows. Obtaining such a model would be a major breakthrough, provided that it's falsifiable in humanly-attainable conditions (unlike the string theory).

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