> The odd but customary way certain physicists understand this movement is that the electron moves because space is filled with electron-positron pairs momentarily popping into and out of existence. One such pair appears so that the positron (the electron’s oppositely charged antiparticle) is on top of the original electron, and they annihilate. This leaves behind the electron from the pair, displaced from the original electron. As there’s no way of distinguishing between the two electrons, all we perceive is a single electron moving.
I've never heard this idea before. I haven't finished the article yet but this is fascinating to me.
So there's an entire virtual world that needs to exist, but only virtually, to support the real world? That looks like the modern Ptolematic system to me.
A dozen (17?) complex-valued (some scalar, some vector) fields, where the square of the absolute value of a field gives the chance of seeing a particle in a given state.
I think. I’m still learning, and from MOOCs and YouTube not a university course.
The phase space describing those fields, where the measure of each term of the universal wavefunction is equivalent to the amplitude of one point in this space.
Your description suffices for pure states, IIRC. It’s been a while since I did physics.
I've never heard this idea before. I haven't finished the article yet but this is fascinating to me.