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84 CHAPTER 19. QUANTUM FIELD MAGICS
• The gravitational field is described by the general theory of relativity,
but the quantization of this theory is beset by great problems. In som
sense we are faced with quantization of space-time; what is the meaning
of this?
• There should, in principle, be a possibility of observing individual gravitons,
quanta of the field...but the observation of individual
gravitons
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must be a next-generation problem!
19.2 The Mantra of Modern Physics
We meet here the mantra of modern physics with fields “quantized” into
particles, and particles “blurred” into fields, as the ultimate form of the
mysticism of the quantum mechanics of Schrödinger, which Schrödinger did
rejected in order to save his soul, and which Bohr exploited to give modern
physics a direction and philosophy at the price of soul.
Of course, your scientific soul asks why fields need to be “quantized”?
Why is it necessary to insist on the existence of particles like photons and
gravitons even if they can never be observed? The following questions present
themselves:
• Why does Lucifer demand a “quantization” of all fields?
• Who is today demanding political correctness of all ideas?
• Why did Planck “quantize” blackbody radiation?
To seek answers we now proceed to a Physics Tribunal after first listen to
the scientist who did what was necessary to do but did not get credit (until
30 years later): Max Born.