field theory
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- noun
- /fiːld ˈθɪəri/
- Specialized
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teoría de campos
- Yeah, in grad school I taught myself field theory with this book.
- quantum field theory
- effective field theory
- unified field theory
So now you equate some field theory with a full string theory.
- So now you equate some field theory with a full string theory.
- His name was Albert Einstein, and that book was the unified field theory, the theory of everything.
- That I, I, I still want there to be a universal field theory that maybe I'm cherry picking to try to dream one up.
- And as far as I can tell, it seems like it's not a good PR move during the Cold War to claim that Russia's figured out unified field theory.
- So, so we got the sense of what quantal field theory is, is that a big leap of, of an idea that particles are fluctuations in the field?
- And then I guess that was then the bedrock on which Feynman and Schwinger and Tom and Arga built quantum electrodynamics, which is the first kind of complete quantum field theory.
- So you can have a, a field theory without gravity on a boundary.
- Yeah, in grad school I taught myself field theory with this book.
- I use this book to teach myself field theory.
- Do you want to program a quantum field theory.
- Sure, you could search for all renormalizable field theories and try to do an exhaustive search.
- That was the free field theory, but part of it made the interactions.
Examples
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The standard model, some basic implications of quantum field theory, and the questions of structure formation.
Blog text (19) -
In the modern quantum field theory way of thinking about things, the real thing that exists are quantum fields.
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So I learned field theory on my own with with this book.
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It's a characteristic of gauge-invariant field theories like those that constitute the standard model.
Academic text (2005) -
Even Jordan's pioneering work in quantum field theory was not immediately appreciated.
Academic text (1999) -
Atomic physics teaches a universe of elusive particles; field theory teaches a universe of electromagnetic waves and gravitational fields.
Academic text (1998) -
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the current theory of the strong interactions, is a field theory of quarks and gluons.
Academic text (2003) -
My research focuses on quantum mechanics and field theory, specifically how fields influence particle behavior.
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In my physics class, we learned that field theory helps to explain the interactions between matter and energy in space.
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The development of field theory has revolutionized our understanding of electromagnetic waves and their properties.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'theory' (a set of ideas) combined with 'field' (a domain or region, especially in physics/maths) yields 'a theory about fields' which a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably infer. Although the full technical content requires subject knowledge, the basic meaning is directly derivable from the constituents and follows a common noun-noun naming pattern.
Etymology
Field theory gets its name from imagining a wide field where every spot has a number (like temperature) and those numbers can change and affect nearby places. That's why field theory means a 'theory' that explains how such fields across space and time behave and make things happen.