The paper proposes a 'neo-energetics' ontology in which energy is the primitive, substance-like entity and fields and particles are derivative bookkeeping devices.
On the Development of Effective Field Theory
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This is a lightly edited version of the talk given on September 30, 2020 to inaugurate the international seminar series {\it All Things EFT}. It reviews some of the early history of effective field theories, and concludes with a discussion of the implications of effective field theory for future discovery.
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Energy as a Primitive Ontology for the Physical World
The paper proposes a 'neo-energetics' ontology in which energy is the primitive, substance-like entity and fields and particles are derivative bookkeeping devices.