Somewhere between 1926 and 1950, we gave up the concept of particles in favor of quantum fields. In this video, I explain the motivations for that to a non-physicist: my wife.

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General Scientific Papers:
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https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4812316

Feynman's Papers:
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TIME CODES

00:00 Cold Open
00:12 Getting a baseline
00:55 Matter and Light: What's it made of?
02:38 What is a Field?
04:09 What is a Wave?
05:33 What is a Quantum Field?
07:50 Quantum Fields Visualized
10:26 Feynman Diagrams Explained
12:20 Virtual Particles Explained
13:50 How to use Feynman Diagrams
15:05 Quantum Electrodynamics
18:15 What is its purposes?
18:40 Do particles exist?
19:14 Featured Comment