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rogerl
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Maybe not only virtual particles don't truly exist (as believed by many physicists now). Real particles don't exist as well. According to Aage Bohr, the son of Neils Bohr, particles don't really exist. Nothing moved through the space between the emitter and detector in the double slit experiment. Nothing moved through the space between the piece of changed uranium and the clicking Geiger counter. Clicks in counters are “genuinely fortuitous” events that are correlated with changes in a remote piece of uranium without the intermediary of alpha particles.
Aage Bohr wrote:
"The notion of particles as objects in space, taken over from classical physics, is thereby eliminated. . . . The click being genuinely fortuitous, is no longer produced by a particle entering the counter, as has been a foregone conclusion in quantum mechanics. . . .
The downward path from macroscopic events in spacetime, which in standard quantum mechanics continues into the region of particles, does not extend beyond the onset of clicks."
Can you guys prove subatomic particles really exist? We only detect them. We can't see them in flight. Maybe in between it's only in the math like virtual particles, and only in the detector the field properties transforms to "clicks" that we think are "particles". Isn't it that in QFT, the field is the primary thing. What do you say?
Aage Bohr wrote:
"The notion of particles as objects in space, taken over from classical physics, is thereby eliminated. . . . The click being genuinely fortuitous, is no longer produced by a particle entering the counter, as has been a foregone conclusion in quantum mechanics. . . .
The downward path from macroscopic events in spacetime, which in standard quantum mechanics continues into the region of particles, does not extend beyond the onset of clicks."
Can you guys prove subatomic particles really exist? We only detect them. We can't see them in flight. Maybe in between it's only in the math like virtual particles, and only in the detector the field properties transforms to "clicks" that we think are "particles". Isn't it that in QFT, the field is the primary thing. What do you say?