Message from @Octo
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lol subverting reality
gib quantum grants
nah i have no qualms with feynman, that guy was golden. i've read some of his books.
a virtual particle is one that isnt observed its interior on the feynman diagram
like these virtual electron circles
Hol' up
So you bee sayin
whats beautiful about feynman diagrams is they make the symmetry of space and time manifestly obvious
it's like:
A ----- (something happens) ----- B
That electrons ain't electrons and shiet?
you can rotate space and time axes in feynman diagram and its still a valid diagram but it means something different
sheit dog
S H E E E E E I T
electrons are irreducible representations of the poincare group
thats the most accurate answer i can give you
wordsoup
You lost me kang
yes it has to be wordsoup if you dont understand abstract algebra
think of it as a point of stability in a sea of chaos
like when you put sand on a thing and it shakes
it winds up with stable areas right
thats not exactly right, but pretend it is
The poinecare group is the 10d group of symmetries of relativistic spacetime
1 time translation, 3 space translations, 3 space rotations, 3 boosts which are rotations through space & time.
electron fields in my eyes are just an area where electrons may be, and once again my classicl brain kicks in and i assume that if we could slow down time enough we could see a literal orbit. lol
its the symmetry groups of SO(1,3)
a rotation through space & time is basically boosting you from one velocity to another
as you can see these are all inertially stable states
so when you combine the poinecare group with the U(1) group of electric charge, you get electrons as a stable solution
when you combine poincare with SU(2) group of weak force you get W+-/Z bosons of weak force
when you combine poincare with SU(3) group of strong force you get the 8 gluons
lmao ^
whats crazy about QM is retrocausality is just as valid as causality
we can say events are connected, but not that one caused another