Timeline for QFT = QM + SR? for everyday people
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 16:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 17:33 | vote | accept | Árpád Szendrei | ||
| Aug 16, 2018 at 0:15 | comment | added | DanielSank | "Quantum field theory is quantum mechanics applied to Lorentz covariant causal systems. That is, quantum field theory is simply quantum mechanics plus special relativity." That is incorrect. Quantum field theory does not have to be relativistic. Just ask any condensed matter theorist. QFT is quantum mechanics applied to distributed objects, like a violin string. | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 22:52 | answer | added | CR Drost | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 21:53 | answer | added | Finesagan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 20:45 | comment | added | safesphere | As mentioned in the previous comment, the Dirac equation for the electron and positron is relativistic, but does not describe a photon and is not QFT. So the answer should be no, but I will leave it to the experts. | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 20:45 | answer | added | e-eight | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | The existence of a momentum basis or a position basis was already shown by Diracs transformation theory, so I don't understand what Lubos Motl is talking about. Maybe you should suggest to him that he should look at his history of QM again - that is if you are on talking terms with him. | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 18:43 | history | asked | Árpád Szendrei | CC BY-SA 4.0 |