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Science ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 188 (4192) ◽  
pp. 1008-1008
Author(s):  
A. S. Wightman
Author(s):  
Rafael A. Alemañ Berenguer

ResumenLos abundantes análisis filosóficos sobre la física cuántica no se han visto en general acompa- ñados por una consideración equiparable hacia su prolongación natural en la teoría cuántica de campos. Esta teoría se ha revelado en su versión electromagnética como una de las herramientas predictivas más precisas de la ciencia física. No obstante, sus cimientos conceptuales siguen siendo altamente controvertidos y cabe dudar si una ampliación de su formalismo conducirá a la tan deseada unificación de las fuerzas fundamentales, y por ende, a una comprensión global de las propiedades básicas de la naturaleza.Palabras claveFilosofía de la física, teoría cuántica de campos, unificación de fuerzas, predicciónAbstractThe abundant philosophical analyses on quantum physics have not been generally followed by an equivalent consideration toward their natural continuation in the quantum field theory. This theory is regarded in its electromagnetic version as one of the best predictive tools in physical science. Nevertheless, its conceptual foundations are still surrounded by controversy and it is doubtful if an extension of its formalism will lead us to the unification of the four basic forces, and therefore to a global understanding of the basic properties of nature.KeywordsPhilosophy of physics, quantum field theory, unification of forces, prediction


10.1142/10941 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izumi Ojima ◽  
Kazuya Okamura ◽  
Hayato Saigo

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-522
Author(s):  
Hanjo Berressem

While most new materialists, including Thomas Nail, tend to distance themselves from Deleuze, this essay reads the encounter of Nail's ‘process materialism’ and Deleuzian philosophy as productive rather than contentious. After tracing the affinities of their notions of continuity and discontinuity by way of Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque and Nail's Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion and Being and Motion, the essay considers Nail's unfolding of Lucretius’ luminous philosophy in relation to Deleuze's reading of Lucretius from within Deleuze's own ‘philosophical luminism’. Within the multiple overlaps between Nail and Deleuze, particularly vis-à-vis quantum physics and quantum field theory, their divergent readings of the particle–wave duality bring about a productive conceptual tension. Nail's argument about the ontological precedence of waves over particles (‘process precedes existence’) is illuminated by Deleuze's concept of their ontological complementarity (actual particles and virtual waves, virtual particles and actual waves), and vice versa.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Blommaert ◽  
Michael Appleby

The following paper presents a description on the fundamental mechanics of nature.This is the first of a set of papers entitled Foundations of fundamental mechanics, in which this first paper is specifically on the nature of gravity.For all intents and purposes this paper is NOT intended to be a replacement for the General theory of Relativity (GR) (A. Einstein 1915–1916), rather it is intended to be a complimentary extension of its work, with the purpose of extending it into quantum physics. Most notably, to relate it to quantum field theory (QFT), by quantizing the metric of space-time into a potential field theory.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Di Sia

The last century has been a period of extreme interest for scientific research, marked by the overcoming of the classical frontiers of scientific knowledge.Research oriented towards the infinitely small and infinitely big, in both cases beyondthe borders of the visible. Quantum physics has led to a new Copernican revolution,opening the way to new questions that have led to a new view of reality. At the sametime, new theories have developed, involving every field of science, philosophy and art, rediscovering the link between unity and totality and the importance of humanpotential. In a transdisciplinary approach we consider quantum field theory, new ideason the concepts of vacuum and entanglement, metaphysical aspects of quantum revolution and the introduction of different interpretative approaches on the “Whole”.


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