But actually everything is merely waves and fields.
There's going to be a time where humans finally reconcile the quantum with the newtonian -- and I can't wait for that day
They’re all largely untestable though
String theory, LQG, half a dozen others
quantum particles => atoms => chemistry => biochemistry => cellular life => multi-cellular life => intelligence
Intelligence -> societies -> technology -> ?
One has to wonder how far can emergence stretch given enough time, some kind of entropic limit probably exists but I'm just a layman, hopefully someone more knowledgeable can share if we already know a physical hard limit for emergence.
The two-slit experiment says otherwise.
Apparently it's not popular among professional physicsts though John Bell investigated it a bit. Einstein had some unpublished notes in the 1920s about a "Gespensterfeld" (ghost field) that guided particles.
Born was influenced by this 'Ghost field' idea when he published his famous interpretation of the 'Wave Function' |Ψ|^2 as a probability rather than a physical field.
More info: Nonlocal and local ghost fields in quantum correlations. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9502017
Interactions act like point particles and potentials for interactions act like waves.
Arguing over the distinction is a bit like debating whether people are the things they do, or the thing that does things. There is some philosophical discussion to be had, but for the most part it doesn't really matter.
It would be going too far to say it's only a wave though. It's both wave and particle.
That said, I do like the single photon experiment, when it's more than a thought experiment.
[0]: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_01.html#Ch1-S5
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality#...
AKA, miracles can happen, hehe.
I'm not trolling, this is a philosophical point I'm making.
repeat the single photon launch many times, and you see a wavelike distribution of photon strikes
> However, the new research demonstrates that the magnetic field of light, long thought irrelevant,
Nearly 20% seems already significant, but 70%?! that's massive.
>17.5% of the measured value for Terbium-Gallium-Garnet (TGG) at 800 nm, and up to 75% at 1.3 µm.
Here's what the crystal looks like
https://www.photonchinaa.com/tgg-terbium-gallium-garnet/
Here's transmission plot (UV-IR)
https://www.samaterials.com/terbium-gallium-garnet-crystal.h...
Note there's almost no effect on transmission
This team might have looked at bandstructure. or not (they didn't say, & I'd guess not)
tl;dr on ECE Theory: Gravity is a curvature of spacetime, electromagnetism is a torsion.
Einstein–Cartan–Evans theory or ECE theory was an attempted unified theory of physics proposed by the Welsh chemist and physicist Myron Wyn Evans ..., which claimed to unify general relativity, quantum mechanics and electromagnetism. The hypothesis was largely published ... between 2003 and 2005. Several of Evans's central claims were later shown to be mathematically incorrect and, in 2008, the new editor of Foundations of Physics, Nobel laureate Gerard't Hooft, published an editorial note effectively retracting the journal's support for the hypothesis.