Why Quantum Field Theory is Wrong

Quantum theory was onto something when it was all about particles interacting directly with each other. However, they took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up with quantum field theory which is demonstrably nonsense.

The wrong turn was made when they embraced the idea that particles could be more than one place at once. They came up with this idea to explain the double-slit experiment, and ended up with Schrödinger's cat.

Had they stayed with a strict particle model, they would have avoided this embarrassing turn. However, people like Niels Bohr could not resist the paradox. To him and many others with him, it sounds like profound knowledge to declare that the sub-atomic is somehow unrelated to common sense.

This is a common mistake by intellectuals. They often fall into the trap of thinking that complexity and paradox is somehow superior to simplicity and common sense.

So, what started out as a simple and elegant theory became a beacon of mathemagical nonsense. Everything became waves and energies, quite the opposite of what the subatomic really is.

This nonsense culminated in the prediction that space contains an infinite energy which is nevertheless zero, the so called zero-point energy.

Having dropped the particle model in favor of waves and energies, the logical consequence of just about anything is that there must be an infinity of it. After all, there is an infinite number of mathematical points possible in a void. A void would therefore contain an infinite amount of energy.

The fact that they ended up with this result should have been a big aha moment for them. It's clearly wrong. Any theory that ends up with an infinity of anything should be rejected. However, this finding was simply added to their long list of "profound" insights.

In a strict particle model, none of the above nonsense is possible. Particles are discrete quanta with a finite size. Everything becomes in this manner finite. The problems of quantum field theory solves themselves if they would only be willing to reject the crazy idea that waves and energy is somehow possible in a void.

In fact, as demonstrated in the chapter in my book on light traveling through a transparent medium, no waves are needed. With energy stored in particles as size, waves disappear from particle physics, and energies becomes a property of particles.

Quantum field theory got everything the wrong way. Particles are not an illusion produced by energy and waves. Particles are real, voids filled with nothing but waves and energies are the illusions.

Niels Bohr

By The American Institute of Physics credits the photo [1] to AB Lagrelius & Westphal, which is the Swedish company used by the Nobel Foundation for most photos of its book series Les Prix Nobel. - Niels Bohr's Nobel Prize biography, from 1922, Public Domain, Link