Timeline for About particle number non-conservation in Quantum Field Theory
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| Aug 18, 2023 at 0:55 | vote | accept | Rond point | ||
| Aug 18, 2023 at 0:39 | comment | added | Rond point | I see thank you ! | |
| Aug 18, 2023 at 0:23 | comment | added | John Doty | A cartoon might be an electron emitting a photon while exchanging a virtual photon with a nucleus, conserving momentum. The electron and nucleus survive, the virtual photon disappears, and you're left with an extra photon. You can wave your hands and claim that this "explains" a light bulb, but really, it's not much of a model. You need something less recherché than QFT to model a light bulb. | |
| Aug 18, 2023 at 0:15 | comment | added | Rond point | Not really, but anyways in classical physics radiation can be absorbed and emitted by matter. What I don't see is what this type of process would look like in QFT | |
| Aug 18, 2023 at 0:09 | answer | added | hft | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 17, 2023 at 23:59 | comment | added | John Doty | Do you imagine that a light bulb conserves photon number? | |
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| S Aug 17, 2023 at 23:57 | history | asked | Rond point | CC BY-SA 4.0 |