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Classical Fields and the Quantum Concept

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

We do a critical review of the Faraday-Maxwell concept of classical field and of its quantization process. With the hindsight knowledge of the essentially quantum character of the interactions, we use a naive classical model of field, based on exchange of classical massless particles, for a comparative and qualitative analysis of the physical content of the Coulomb's and Gauss's laws. It enlightens the physical meaning of a field singularity and of a static field. One can understand the problems on quantizing a classical field but not the hope of quantizing the gravitational field right from General Relativity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610145,
  title  = {Classical Fields and the Quantum Concept},
  author = {Manoelito M. de Souza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610145},
  year   = {2008}
}

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