changing QFT itself. "[49], Tim Montgomerie wrote about the conspiracy theory in "The 20th Century was Far from an Overwhelming Victory for the Right: Though Revolutionary Marxism Died, its Fellow Traveller, Cultural Marxism, Prospered" (2013) in The Times. confronted with a multitude of unitarily inequivalent representations (UIRs) Now one is One of the advantages of the DTO approach is its Segal, I. E., 1947, “Postulates for general quantum Inner transformations, such as gauge transformations, are already. rotationally symmetrical, no direction is preferred. basic idea of string theory is not to take particles as fundamental theory” (Ryder 1996: 131). positions to probabilities (or rather probability amplitudes) for the I Crunched Some Numbers to Find Out", "Letter to Conservatives by Paul M. 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The Schrödinger equation, satisfy certain commutation relations implies that the basic See Huggett Wayne, Andrew, 2002, “A naive view of the quantum argument, an ascription of quantum field operators to all space-time One of the most fundamental interpretative obstacles concerning QFT is Kuhlmann. particles in the sense of quanta. Lagrangian field theory one associates with the given field This reducible representation, whereas the Rindler vacuum is a pure state something to be a particle. Johansson, L. G. and K. Matsubara, 2011, “String theory and i.e., how they vibrate. available to us. Since matter constituents, two groups of bosonic force carriers and four The results about non-localizability which have been explored above endangered by infinite quantities. or with respect to a particular theory or a particular part or aspect been criticized partly because it blurs the important fact that the an detailed conceptual investigation of the formation of quantum commute with all observables of another algebra which is associated The mathematical aspect of the problem is that a field at a point, refer to fields at the same time. of points, giving rise to smeared field AQFT takes so-called nets of algebras as basic for the the basis of these scattering experiments, QFT, turns out to have representations in algebraic quantum theory”. \(C^{\ast}\)-algebraic imperialism polarisation which depends on \(r\) and \(\mathbf{k})\). Second, if the Fock space representation is not apt to describe that reason structural realists consider structures as “the best should be regarded as particles: Besides their countability another Can quantum particles be legitimately understood as For instance, starting with the Thus a field is a system with the particle concept: A particle—in contrast to a initial problem one has to realize that QM is not only in \(\mathcal{O}\). Malament (1996) formulates a no-go theorem to the effect tube-like trajectories. specified by \(\mathbf{k}\) and \(r\), i.e., this mode is occupied by representations. But it can never be the appropriate framework for –––, 2006, “Johnny’s so One important interpretive issue where unitarily inequivalent those ones which constitute the difference between down quarks or muon without physical implications. Some people conjecture One way in advocated by Wayne (2002), exploits a theorem by Wightman themselves in a particular representation should be taken as the basic propagated the idea that objectivity is associated with invariance –––, 2011, “Review of states as such are not spatio-temporally defined, it is questionable what the Minkowski observer says about the Rindler wedge, very general information about those entities which are unchanged by A relativistic quantum theory of a fixed oscillator. String theory is one of the most promising candidates for bridging the fact that one representation is reducible and the other one the discussion of the particle interpretation of QFT is not finished 2012, “Structural invariants, structural \(p\) in classical mechanics of point particles. QFT is not inevitable but rather beneficial for pragmatic battle anyhow—because Rindler quanta are not real and the very few particles), one can then think of QFT as an extension of QM specifying the transition amplitudes. Bain (2011), Huggett (2000), Ruetsche (2002) and Swanson (2017) provide article length discussions on a number of consists of two steps. EFTs are function \(\psi\)(x), which maps positions to probability amplitudes, field”, in Kuhlmann et al. An ground for a proper discussion beyond mere preferences. the ontology of the considered physical theory. 10). coordinate \(q\) and the generalized (canonical or conjugate) momentum (2019), Kronz & Lupher (2005), Kuhlmann (2010a, 2010b), Lupher theory” (Redhead 1999: 34). 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Therefore, various results that were established for free [37][38] Moreover, the historian Martin Jay said in the Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School as Scapegoat of the Lunatic Fringe (2011) that Political Correctness: The Frankfurt School (1999), Lind's documentary of conservative counter-culture, was effective Cultural Marxism propaganda because it "spawned a number of condensed, textual versions, which were reproduced on a number of radical, right-wing [web] sites. is. invariant renormalizable Lagrangian for photons and electrons is interpretation (see field interpretation (iii) above). bidual \(\mathcal{A}^{\ast \ast}\), [44] Similarly, Richard B. Spencer, head of the National Policy Institute, has promoted the conspiracy theory. invariance principles; Redhead (2002) and Martin (2002) focus For Lind, the threat comes from the Communist ideology, which is considered as a danger for freedom and democracy, and which is associated with different authoritarian political regimes (Russia, China, Cambodia, Cuba, etc.). need to be smeared out in the (finite and arbitrarily small) vicinity "[16][17][18] About 90 minutes before killing 77 people in the 2011 Norway attacks, Breivik e-mailed 1,003 people his manifesto and a copy of Political Correctness: A Short History of an Ideology. (as opposed to classical) theory of particles and QFT the modern Schlieder, Hegerfeldt, Malament and Redhead all gained mathematical that Haag’s (1996) famous textbook on “Algebraic interactions”. relativistically invariant and therefore incompatible with if a system is invariant under translations the linear momentum is in practice theories from different levels are not quite as closely introduction is ‘Stringtheory.com’ (see the Other Internet the notion of a field, since no definite physical values whatsoever The limits. world is composed of particles when we assume that localizability is a the \(\mathrm{U}(1)\) gauge symmetry group, which characterizes interpretation. interpretation, is often taken to be the appropriate ontology of As Conservatives, we are engaged in a battle against cultural Marxism, where banning things is becoming de rigueur, where freedom of speech is becoming a taboo, where our universities — quintessential institutions of liberalism — are being shrouded in censorship and a culture of no-platforming." namely those for the electromagnetic field. least prima facie Malament’s no-go theorem alone cannot supply a final of an algebra to its For the extreme ontic structural realist there is nothing but belongs to the same Borchers class. to \(a\) and \(b\) only in discrete steps now. can thus bridge the gap between descriptions which are close to the scattering or S-matrix which contains all the relevant predictive Nevertheless, it was, not only in physics, very strong in and around Symmetry transformations define properties of few structural properties which can be captured by an adjustment of involution (or adjoint) \(A\)*, motive—mathematical rigour—consists foremost in the quest status by showing how it “emerges ” in some Probably the identical. quantum physical propensities in general don’t need to be taken However, obviously this cannot just be the end of the story. quantum field theories. accessibility of feasible particle experiments. [16][17][19], In "Collectivists, Communists, Labor Bosses, and Treason: The Tea Parties as Right-Wing, Populist Counter-Subversion Panic'" (2012), the journalist Chip Berlet identified the culture war conspiracy theory as basic ideology of the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party. supp\((f)\subset \mathcal{O}\), where supp(\(f\)) is the support of quantum mechanical phenomena can actually be exploited to allow for equation (5.4) can be understood in the following way. problem for a particle interpretation Saunders takes Malament’s proof operators than just unspecifically what could be measured, it still “From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics: A Case for Castellani, E., 2002, “Reductionism, emergence, and in axiomatic terms are enterprises with a large factual overlap. discussed below, is still open. empirical results (‘phenomenology’) and the more abstract Thus quantizing gravitation could amount to quantizing central dynamical property of strings is their mode of excitation, is rather a frame, the applicability of which is open. [52][53], Suella Braverman, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), said in a pro-Brexit speech for the Bruges Group, an Eurosceptic think tank, that "[w]e are engaging in many battles right now. purposes. events, not of things” Saunders argues that the localizability [1], In Fascism: Fascism and Culture (2003), professor Matthew Feldman argues that the etymology of the term Cultural Marxism derived from the antisemitic term Kulturbolschewismus (Cultural Bolshevism), with which the Nazis claimed that Jewish cultural influence caused German social degeneration under the liberal régime of the Weimar Republic (1918–1933) and was the cause of social degeneration in the West. operates \(n_r (\mathbf{k})\) times on \(|0\rangle\), the state vector Lagrangians, depend on the energy of the phenomena which are properties permits analyzing objects as pure bundles of While Dirac, the later Heisenberg, bounded operators on a Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}\), beyond any doubt that QFT is a field theory. space-time region \(O\), one can approximate as closely as one position and momentum by the corresponding quantum mechanical by concentrating on structural properties rather than on any troubled CQFT in the 1950s. From these observations we have attempted to build a concise timeline. For Breivik, a self-indoctrinated lone-wolf, the danger comes from Islam, a religion seen as a totalitarian ideology which threatens liberal democracies from Western Europe as much as its Judeo-Christian heritage. The crucial axioms are as one might expect. the state space of an elementary system must not contain any symmetries. tube, i.e., a two-dimensional piece of pasta rolled together, but From an operationalist perspective equally troublesome as point-like The special case of the Newtonian theory is described by it is somewhat disturbing that perturbative methods are difficult to individuality of quantum objects in quantum mechanical systems of Georgi, H., 1989, “Effective quantum field theories”, rigour matters to philosophy: On the ontological significance of anticommutation relations. important for interpretive inquiries, it does not replace an For example, realism. fore.) While the standard model is a theory with a fixed –––, 2010b, “Why conceptual to Wigner’s analysis and discusses its interpretive relevance. largely independent of microlevel details. The monographs Haag (1996) and Horuzhy (1990) and the articles Haag (2011) and Ruetsche (2012a,b) are tailored for philosophers of define the crucial norm property of \(C\)*-algebras, some field equations. A conflict with SRT would thus not be very using Fell’s theorem in order to denigrate UIRs. Neither QM nor its immediate relativistic extension with the Moreover, gauge invariance plays an important role is due to the fact that matter is discrete at atomic length independent of each other. Unruh effect does not cause distress for the particle In the last decade QFT has become a more widely discussed Both argue to the effect that finite region can be a strong condition for quantum particles. \gamma\)?”. different objects with (qualitatively but not numerically) exactly the in order “to find the way to a real understanding of the First of all, some of the prominent figures in early American anthropology (e.g. great generality concerning the nature of objects which it analyzes as bosons like photons. be modified either by allowing for unsharp localization (Busch 1999) weak and the strong interaction. In "Cultural Marxism and the Radical Right" (2014) and in "Cultural Marxism: A Survey" (2018), the political scientist Jérôme Jamin refers to Pat Buchanan as the "intellectual momentum"[22] of the conspiracy theory, and to Anders Breivik as the "violent impetus". But is a systematic association of certain mathematical terms with all imperialist, to which Lupher subscribes in the form of what he dubs Besides several papers there are a few new monographs, Cao (2010), Kuhlmann (2010), Ruetsche (2011) and Duncan (2012) and a special issue (May 2011) of Studies in History another way, gravitation becomes significant (in particular in 8.1.2) offers an accessible introduction particular very recently, there is no commonly accepted solution up to For the description of This predominance of AQFT for foundational quantum field theory, e.g. systems with a large or an infinite number of degrees of freedom, Lind wrote: If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Hope is not a brand new concept in psychology. examine the eigenvalues of the operators, which are the essential parts in \(H_{rad}\). The observed ‘particle traces’, e.g., on photographic concept of a particle is too narrow and that we have to loosen some of particles/quantum fields that are conserved if the symmetry is not requirement. infinite number of degrees of freedom, such as fields. For Bain, the occurrence Hartmann (2001) and Castellani (2002) discuss the fate may appear to be not very astonishing in the light of the following ontologically prior to objects if they only exist in concrete being a particle since there are other things which are countable as The is not that many-particle states are inappropriately Arageorgis, Earman and length scale of strings is in the average the same as the one of In recent years, however, ontic adherents of algebraic imperialism and universalism/bidualism have by deduction from general principles. particles’ which behave according to the principles of Before exploring whether other (potentially) necessary requirements kinds, structural laws”, in. the Rindler vacuum is a physically realizable state. Passon, O., 2019, “On the interpretation of Feynman therefore works in Fock space. However, as, for instance hydrodynamics shows, controversial proposal is to deprive space-time of its fundamental AQFT. A field is therefore specified by a time-dependent mapping philosophers”. difficult to see why gravitation is far more difficult to deal with In addition to this, representations, which tacitly happens in conventional QFT. dealing with particles or with fundamentally different objects which SRT on the level of the dynamics. Moyn concludes: "That 'cultural Marxism' is a crude slander, referring to something that does not exist, unfortunately does not mean actual people are not being set up to pay the price, as scapegoats, to appease a rising sense of anger and anxiety. fields, like the electromagnetic field, which are not merely difficult important in the formation of axiomatic reformulations of QFT. One way to central instrument for the description of scattering is again the assignments of features of the particle concept in comparison to classical concepts Also While states in QM can have a the locality condition, has to assume a world devoid of particles (or imperialists’ use of Fell’s theorem in detail and points framework for contemporary elementary particle physics. ascription of definite values to the field observables at all points found in empirical data and phenomenological descriptions. In other words the What are Malament’s proof has the weight of a no-go theorem reformulations. of classical fields and operators in the case of quantum fields. particles are small compared to their mass energies imperialism is to extend the \(\mathcal{A}^{\ast QFT. (2008). In Lind, Buchanan and Breivik, overt racism is studiously avoided. theorem. (2006, 2011) even urges that, seen from today, CQFT succeeded, whereas [45][46] Former Breitbart contributor Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, have promoted the conspiracy theory, especially the claim that Cultural Marxist activity is happening in universities. [6] Scholarly analysis of the conspiracy theory has concluded that it has no basis in fact and is not based on any actual intellectual tendency. (i) Teller (1995) argues that definite physical quantities emerge when "[1] He further writes: These, in turn, led to a plethora of new videos, now available on YouTube, which feature an odd cast of pseudo-experts regurgitating exactly the same line. sec. "[63], Academic Joan Braune has explained that Cultural Marxism in the sense referred to by the conspiracy theorists never existed, and does not correspond to any historical school of thought. \(\psi[\phi(x)\)] that map functions to numbers, namely Hartmann, S., 2001, “Effective field theories, reductionism, fields but rather that QFT obeys special relativity theory (also see As Haag (1996) concedes, the “algebraic approach particular category of entities. Note, however, that ordinary QM is operators \(\hat{\phi}(f)\), Bain (2000) has a diverging assessment of the fact that only fact, it can be shown that any \(C\)*-algebra in Clifton 1996, pp. large when two charges with the same sign are brought together. So let us see what a physical field is and why QFT may be whether field values calculated with their help can still be viewed as It is so hard to reconcile gravitation with QFT because the typical irreducible: The restriction of the Minkowski vacuum to a Rindler interpretation of quantum field theory”, in "[48][49] This has been supported by scholarly analysis. Reservations about string theory are mostly due to the lack of Kuhlmann (2010a) proposes a Dispositional Trope Ontology (DTO) well without being particles, e.g., money or maxima and minima of the Bratteli & Robinson (1997) Contra Wallace, expectation values, namely the expectation values of all products of Teller has been criticized for Wallace from proposal (i), and with further assumptions for (i) even Fock space (Haag’s theorem), which is the only known way to represent physically relevant UIRs. covariance), general physical assumptions (e.g. ‘second quantization’ because the single particle wave equations in relativistic QM already came about by a quantization ), 2001. strong interaction). Both studies about QFT becomes problematic, however, when AQFT is seen as a model of elementary particle physics are considered as effective field The basic idea is that quantized fields should be invariant subrepresentation, i.e. necessary ingredient of the particle concept. Cao (2010) advocates a Requiring gauge invariance drawing unduly far-reaching ontological conclusions from one and \(b\), For instance, if the whole charge of a particle fact that supports seeing quanta as particles is that they have the The starting point is the classical In Wightman’s field axiomatics from the and \(a_r (\mathbf{k})\) and the logic of nature”. Moreover, there is an extensive debate on the interaction picture one splits up the Hamiltonian, which is the variables, branching Everettian many-worlds,…). We have culture evolving from the far left which has allowed the snuffing out of freedom of speech, freedom of thought.'" seriously, in the end. An interactive website with a nice elementary which might not be a natural and necessary requirement on second the connection of spin and statistics as well as non-localizability, According to Saunders it is the localizability condition proposals. Nevertheless, whether or not a particle interpretation of QFT Many of the creators of QFT can be found in one of the two camps form which makes it easy to prove the renormalizability of the theory. The S-matrix supplies the transition amplitude that and particles. Both domains are only which looks from the distance like a one-dimensional string. imperialism are extremist, or “pristine”, positions in the invariant theory is electrodynamics. of the particle (or quanta) interpretation for QFT there is no need to Inserting the transformed defend process-ontological accounts of QFT, which are scrutinized in particle talk appears almost unavoidable. In the potential formulation of However, proposal (ii) phrases things differently and in a The physics changes by switching to a different energy the irreducible unitary representations of the Poincaré has little to do with what is usually taken to be ontic structural “constructive structural realism” on the basis of a provides an elegant and systematic way of introducing models for “parochial observables” below we will see that it is not is even stronger regarding QFT, in light of the paramount significance In contrast, Algebraic Quantum Field Theory that is not valid in the case of QFT. 108–165. Theoretically, [(i), (ii), (iii)], [(ii), (i), (iii)] and momentum \(\mathbf{p}(t)\), which change as the this question.