It’s important to use the right words. We’ve seen that the double-slit experiment must be understood in terms of quantized EM fields and quantized matter fields. This makes the term quantum field theory misleadingly superfluous. It’s all just quantum physics, and quantum physics is entirely about fields. It also makes the word particle superfluous and hugely misleading. There’s a simpler (fewer syllables) and far more accurate word: quantum. There are no particles. Do not imagine, when visualizing a photon or electron as a ripple in a field, that there is a tiny particle floating within the
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