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.
Cite
@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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