Re: [Phys-L] electron location & wave function

[Larry Smith <larry.smith@snow.edu>]

On Apr 11, 2013, at 4:12 PM, John Denker wrote:

> On 04/11/2013 02:39 PM, Bruce Sherwood called attention to
>
> Art Hobson
> "There are no particles, there are only fields"
>  http://physics.uark.edu/Hobson/pubs/05.03.AJP.pdf
>  http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.4616
>  http://henry.pha.jhu.edu/henry.hobson.pdf
>
> > The basic
> > idea he reviews is that everything is fields; "there are no particles" (to
> > put it provocatively).
>
> An excellent point.  To me this is completely un-provocative.  I've been 
> explaining it that way for years.  I gave up on "wave/particle duality" 
> back when I was just a sorcerer's apprentice.
>
> Wave mechanics says one and one makes 0, sometimes.  Wave mechanics says
> one and one makes 4, sometimes.  Wave mechanics says one and one makes
> 2 /on average/.  We can see how the classical result emerges from the
> quantum-mechanical result, in the appropriate limit.


1. John, are you saying that a quantum of a field is the same thing as a wave?

2. The November 2012 issue of AJP has an article by Klein that asserts that the limit of QM as h approaches 0 is not classical Newtonian mechanics.

Larry