Harmonic oscillator 2

At that time, Feynman already realized that the electromagnetic field is an infinite-dimensional harmonic oscillator. Well, the Dirac field is simply its Grassmann-valued counterpart and every other field is a sort of an infinite-dimensional oscillator, too.

— Feynman’s thesis: arrival of path integrals

— Lubos Motl

2012.04.28 Saturday ACHK