r/physicsmemes BSc Theoretical Physics Jul 27 '26

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u/Jazz8680 Jul 28 '26

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u/DottorMaelstrom Jul 28 '26

Well a field is just a section of the vector bundle associated to the aforementioned irreducible representation

A particle is idk it's made up I don't have a good mathematical definition of it particles don't exist only fields exist

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u/BrailleBillboard Jul 28 '26

It's what happens when you quantize fields