If we try to zoom in on the electron, we no longer see "one" electron but rather a seething sea of virtual particles. If you sum over this observed volume, you will regain the charcteristics of the one electron (mass, charge, etc), but there is no one "object".
Is this applicable to valence electrons?
The above quote makes sense for covalent bonding, but for an ionic bond the electron seems to be too quantized to remain a wave.
what we deal with at this scale are individual fourier modes of the quantum field
So does each mode correlate to a different fermion?
For the electron, the field is fermionic and the individual modes obey a Grassmanian algebra.
And the projection of the fermionic field causes the interpretation of the electron to be an “object”?
No, absolutely not. It is the interaction of photons and electrons that give rise to what we call "force".
I’m confused by the part about the electron being made up of photons and electrons, I might be wrong in my understanding of the photon. I don’t think it is
affected by electromagntism, I think that it
is electromagnetism, hence the thought “are they affected by something like nuclear forces?”
Crap, I out of time again . possibly more questions to follow tonight . .or tomarrow.
Thanks
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