|
|
COLLOQUIA & CONFERENCES
AGAINST FIELD INTERPRETATIONS OF
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
David John Baker
Department of Philosophy
Princeton University
February 11, 2008
Monday, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Nursing 127
I examine some problems standing in the way of a successful "field
interpretation" of quantum field theory. The most popular extant proposal
depends on the Hilbert space of "wavefunctionals." But since wavefunctional
space is unitarily equivalent to manyparticle Fock space, two of the most
powerful arguments against particle interpretations also undermine this
form of field interpretation.
 |
|