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Re:What Is a Particle? by Koshkin on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:44PM (#41620722)
It is true, but also kind of trivial. More subtly, one can say that we tend to call what is real using the same words that we use for mathematical objects that model them.
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Re:What Is a Particle? by lottin on Monday September 23, 2024 @01:32AM (#41622628)
I don't know that we do that. For instance, physicists are able to describe motion in physical terms and don't insist that it literally is a vector. It only happens with quantum fields.
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