Quantum fields carry energy. Does that prove that they’re real?
One of the biggest questions that appears right at the intersection of physics and philosophy is as simple as it is puzzling: what is real? Is reality simply described by the particles that exist — that make us up, that we interact with, and that we can observe and measure — atop the background of spacetime that’s described by General Relativity? Is it fundamentally wrong to describe these…
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