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The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

The Quanta Podcast

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The Different Types of Quantum Fields

Davide Gallotto is a physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. He explains how quantum fields are fundamentally different from classical ones. Electrons have no definite position until the moment you observe them. Prior to observation, electrons essentially exist nowhere and everywhere.

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