Timeline for Standard Model Particle Properties
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| Dec 6, 2021 at 16:01 | vote | accept | davypough | ||
| Dec 4, 2021 at 21:31 | comment | added | AccidentalTaylorExpansion | @ACuriousMind Well quantum mechanics isn't only about discreteness but it is one of its distinguishing features. A classical harmonic oscillator can change its energy by any amount you want. A quantum HO can only change energy in discrete packets. A field theory can have arbitrary excitations while QFT has particles as smallest possible excitations. | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 20:38 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 20:02 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | I don't think this is a well-defined question. Given a finite set of particles, we can just invent an operator that assigns 1 to the first particle, 2 to the second, etc. Then all these particle are "distinguished by a discrete property" (the number assigned to them), but that doesn't really tell us anything. Also, quantum mechanics is not about discreteness (see: position and momentum operators in QM). | |
| S Dec 4, 2021 at 19:51 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Dec 4, 2021 at 19:51 | history | asked | davypough | CC BY-SA 4.0 |