Following Newton’s idea that only particles affect other particles, physics spent most of last century trying to prove that particles cause all the forces in nature. The aim was to explain forces like magnetism and charge that act at a distance with no actual particles in sight. They succeeded in inventing a world where unseen virtual particles vastly outnumber real particles.
QR4.5.1 The Many Fields Problem
QR4.5.2 The Frog in the Pan
QR4.5.3 Virtual Particles Aren’t Necessary
QR4.5.4 Occam’s Razor
QR4.5.5 A Particle Toolbox
QR4.5.6 The Last “Standard Model”
QR4.5.7 The Current Particle Model
QR4.5.8 A Quantum Wave Model
QR4.5.9 Testing Quantum Realism