AFAIK the particles vs fields discussion is not the same as temperature vs fields. At the risk of straying into quantum info territory: - given all possible information about a collection of particles, you could compute…
Anthony Zee's book on QFT (http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/members/PM/zee/QuantumFieldTh.html) might be what you're looking for. It starts off with a spring mattress analogy (like the one in the linked article, but with more…
It depends on what constitutes 'an element of reality'. Are photons an element of reality? Depending on the field of science/engineering and the specific application, one might choose to work with electromagnetic…
AFAIK the particles vs fields discussion is not the same as temperature vs fields. At the risk of straying into quantum info territory: - given all possible information about a collection of particles, you could compute…
Anthony Zee's book on QFT (http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/members/PM/zee/QuantumFieldTh.html) might be what you're looking for. It starts off with a spring mattress analogy (like the one in the linked article, but with more…
It depends on what constitutes 'an element of reality'. Are photons an element of reality? Depending on the field of science/engineering and the specific application, one might choose to work with electromagnetic…