This text presents an intuitive and robust mathematical image of fundamental particle physics based on a novel approach to quantum field theory, which is guided by four carefully motivated metaphysical postulates. In particular, the book explores a dissipative approach to quantum field theory, which is illustrated for scalar field theory and quantum electrodynamics, and proposes an attractive explanation of the Planck scale in quantum gravity. Offering a radically new perspective on this topic, the book focuses on the conceptual foundations of quantum field theory and ontological questions. It also suggests a new stochastic simulation technique in quantum field theory which is complementary to existing ones. Encouraging rigor in a field containing many mathematical subtleties and pitfalls this text is a helpful companion for students of physics and philosophers interested in quantum field theory, and it allows readers to gain an intuitive rather than a formal understanding.
| ISBN: | 9781108415118 |
| Publication date: | 11th January 2018 |
| Author: | Hans Christian (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich) Öttinger |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 270 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of mathematics Statistical physics |