Re: Particle physics

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: Particle physics
Date	2016-10-10 13:22 +0100
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Odd Bodkin wrote on 07.10.2016 13:21:
> On 10/5/2016 3:28 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Exactly *none* of the sources that you cited and quoted corroborates your
>> claim that “Physicists […] say [that] *light* *is* a quantum field.”
>> (emphasis mine)  Not even one.  It is not verbatim in any quotation, and it
>> cannot reasonably be concluded from any combination of statements from the
>> quotations.
>>
>>     [What can be concluded from them is (what I already knew): Light
>>      (like every electrostatic, electrodynamic and magnetic phenomenon)
>>      can be understood as an excitation of the electromagnetic field,
>>      and that photons are the quanta (elementary excitations) of that
>>      field; they are “field quanta”.]
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon
> First sentence.

Yes, and you still do not understand is that this correct sentence still 
does not mean that “light is a quantum field”, contrary to what you claimed.

>> You have completely misunderstood what you have read (e.g. reading “quantum
>> field” where it is written “field quantum”); assuming that you really have
>> read it.  That does not surprise me.
> 
> I'm a little surprised that you think quantum field theory does not use 
> both the terms "quantum field" and "field quantum". See additional 
> material from books cited.

Unfortunately, you have no clue what you are talking about.

-- 
PointedEars

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Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 15:52 -0500
  Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-02 00:09 +0200
    Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 07:33 +0200
      Re: Particle physics poraty350@gmail.com - 2016-10-04 08:44 -0700
      Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-05 10:15 +0200
        Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 17:14 +0200
          Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-05 17:21 +0200
            Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 09:03 -0700
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              Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 13:12 -0500
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      Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 17:21 -0700
        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 07:28 -0500
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                Re: Particle physics benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-10-04 19:05 -0400
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 09:53 -0500
              Re: Particle physics moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-10-04 14:47 +0000
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              Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 09:53 -0500
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 08:51 -0700
                Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 11:14 -0500
                Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-06 04:04 +0200
            Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 09:53 -0500
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        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 10:59 -0500
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        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 11:12 -0500
      Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-05 10:28 +0200
        Re: Particle physics Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 07:21 -0500
          Re: Particle physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 18:47 +0200
            Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-10 13:31 +0100
              Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 05:53 -0700
                Re: Particle physics john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 07:43 -0700
          Re: Particle physics Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-10-10 13:22 +0100

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