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Re:The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential N... by criddell on Sunday April 16, 2023 @07:44AM (#35589146)
In another thread I said an electron is an excitation of a quantum field. Is that a mistake as well?

I don’t think quantum stuff will ever make sense to me…

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Re:The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential N... by ineptech on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:48PM (#35592419)
It's only a mistake if you take it too literally and forget it's a model, e.g. "I measured the electron to have a mass, but I can't see how an excitation in a field would have mass so I guess I must've measured wrong."
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Re:The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential N... by criddell on Sunday April 16, 2023 @02:13PM (#35592679)
> it’s a model

Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. We don’t know what is actually happening. Max Tegmark makes a pretty good case for it actually being mathematics.

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