Asking photons where have they been — mentioned by TheOtherHobbes

Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:15:54 GMT

I think it's been proven fairly comprehensively that particles don't really exist in QFT in any useful sense. See e.g. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.7469.pdf http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/massive-neutrino-expe... Particles may be a useful abstraction, but they're also a very misleading one. It looks a lot as if what really happens is best described by a Two State Vector/Transactional interpretation. Which is very weird, because those are both time symmetric. And that's not a feature you'll find in any particle-oriented theory.

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Asking photons where have they been — mentioned by TheOtherHobbes