Light and Matter; dhw read (Origins)

by David Turell , Saturday, May 31, 2014, 03:04 (3608 days ago) @ David Turell

GK: hey, Dave, where is the skew? Please, I am trying to write better and understand. quantum mechanics is not probabilities? Waving is not important? 
 
I'm not complaining, just observing how you communicate, and I follow your thoughts. Keep working at it. Quantum relationships are always the sum of probabilities. No one fully understands QM, but with renormalization per Feynman the formulas and equations work. 
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> > GK: for a photon. Particle wave duality means just that. They don't know what it is. Yes, it is a "smudge" in a field. They list a set of properties for the photon.- There is more than one type of photon. Please read Matt Strassler's blog for a better understanding of his smudge in a field approach. He is very instructive to follow. 
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> > GK: Let's talk about this "plasma" you are referring to. That's at 10^30-ish degrees and 10^-30 -ish seconds. What is this "plasma"? One fundamental particle? A group of particles? Or one field?
 
After inflation and with the start of the hot BB all energy was in the form of plasma. Quark gluon plasma:
 
 http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys741/xji/chapter2.pdf- Just read the first three paragraphs; after that is math proofs, that I cannot follow. Note as this gas cools the quarks begin to form hadrons then baryons and fermions. And finally matter as we know it. Why most antimatter disappeared is still not understood.
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> > GK: then I would like talk about what you said Nuclear stuff if that's ok-OK