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In this excerpt from his 2017 lecture (at the Royal Institution), theoretical physicist David Tong explains the legacy of Michael Faraday, how quantum mechanics together with Faraday's field theory provide us with an understanding of our Cosmos as a unified and interconnected field, where nothing exists separate from it's surroundings and the Universe. (Uploaded for educational use only).
Source video: Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg
David Tong is a professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge University, specialising in quantum field theory.
More information:
History of Field Theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_philosophy_of_field_theory
Michael Faraday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday
Quantum field theory – the universe as a field. medium.com/@hydramarv/quantum-field-theory-the-universe-as-a-field-8a105f7188c6
""There are fields that underlie everything. And what we think of as particles aren't really particles at all. They're waves of these fields, tied up into little bundles of energy. There are no particles in the world. The basic fundamental building blocks of our Universe are these fluid like substances that we call fields." ~David Tong
In this excerpt from his 2017 lecture (at the Royal Institution), theoretical physicist David Tong explains the legacy of Michael Faraday, how quantum mechanics together with Faraday's field theory provide us with an understanding of our Cosmos as a unified and interconnected field, where nothing exists separate from it's surroundings and the Universe. (Uploaded for educational use only).
Source video: Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg
David Tong is a professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge University, specialising in quantum field theory.
More information:
History of Field Theory en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_philosophy_of_field_theory
Michael Faraday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday
Quantum field theory – the universe as a field. medium.com/@hydramarv/quantum-field-theory-the-universe-as-a-field-8a105f7188c6
""There are fields that underlie everything. And what we think of as particles aren't really particles at all. They're waves of these fields, tied up into little bundles of energy. There are no particles in the world. The basic fundamental building blocks of our Universe are these fluid like substances that we call fields." ~David Tong
