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Oct 2, 2022 at 17:29 comment added Jojo @CharlesHudgins the best understood experiments in high energy particle physics are based on particle collisions. It is also possible to probe nonlinear effects of quantum fields, such as instantons. In general this is much more difficult and less well studied
Oct 2, 2022 at 13:13 comment added Charles Hudgins Of course I don't actually think that the SLAC is firing computational tools. My question is more why a quantum field almost always looks like particles to us. My understanding is that there are some predictions of qft that are not purely particle phenomena, and yet it seems that particles are what we usually observe. Why?
Sep 30, 2022 at 3:50 history answered niels nielsen CC BY-SA 4.0