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arxiv: 1204.6384 · v2 · pith:OTBIOCZCnew · submitted 2012-04-28 · ⚛️ physics.hist-ph · quant-ph

Quantum fields are not fields. Comment on "There are no particles, there are only fields," by Art Hobson [Am. J. Phys. 81(3), 211-223 (2013)]

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We comment on a recent paper by Hobson, explaining that quantum "fields" are no more fields than quantum "particles" are particles, so that the replacement of a particle ontology by an all-field ontology cannot solve the typical interpretational problems of quantum mechanics.

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