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Nobel Prize physicist Steven Weinberg gives us a picture of a world constituted solely of interacting quantized fields, in which particles are “reduced to mere epiphenomena.”
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Quoted from H.R. Pagels, The Cosmic Code, pp. 238–239, Bantam Books, New York, 1983.
A sophisticated discussion of this issue, which concludes that “the position of a photon cannot be an observable,” is to be found in Peierls’ Surprises in Theoretical Physics, pp. 11–13, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1979.
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Wallace, P.R. (1996). Are Fields All?. In: Paradox Lost. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4014-3_17
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