Putting the Fire in the Equations;    Generating multilevel dynamical processes in Physics and Psychology

 

Potentials from Virtual Particle Exchange

• Where does the Hamiltonian come from? We cannot just invent it!

• We know that the potential energy part of the Hamiltonian really comes from field-theoretic virtual processes. What are these events?

  • Kinetic energy, also, has a mass which is ‘dressed’ by virtual processes.

• Propose: the Energy Operator is itself ‘generated’ by (further) previous levels.

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