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Quantum field theory
Overview
In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is a theoretical framework that combines field theory, special relativity and quantum mechanics. QFT is used in particle physics to construct physical models of subatomic particles and in condensed matter physics to construct models of quasiparticles. The current Standard Model of particle physics is based on QFT.
Despite its extraordinary predictive success, QFT faces ongoing challenges in fully incorporating gravity and in establishing a completely rigorous mathematical foundation.
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At present physics is troubled by the quantum theory. I need not now explain[3] what this theory is, to those who are not already familiar with it.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
Close in meaning to Quantum field theory; the term itself is not named.
A quantum of force is just such a quantum of movement, will, action--rather it is nothing else than just those very phenomena of moving, willing, acting, and can only appear otherwise in the misleading errors of language (and the fundamental fallacies of reason which have become petrified therein), which understands, and understands wrongly, all working as conditioned by a worker, by a "subject." And just exactly as…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy.
States what Quantum field theory is.
Broadly speaking, traditional physics has collapsed into two portions, truisms and geography. There are, however, newer portions of physics, such as the theory of quanta, which do not come under this head, but appear to give genuine knowledge of laws reached by experiment. The world which the theory of relativity presents to our imagination is not so much a world of “things” in “motion” as a world of _events_.
Bertrand Russell, The A B C of Relativity
States what Quantum field theory is.
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Part of Deductive-nomological model.