Here you will find follow-up commentary and ongoing discussion concerning the book Waves in an Impossible Sea. They are organized by chapter. Many but not all entries involve follow-up on specific endnotes.
- Part II: Mass
- Part III: Waves
- Part IV: Fields
- 13 Ordinary Fields 169
- 14 Elementary Fields: A First, Unsettling Look 182
- 15 Elementary Fields: A Second, Humble Look 212
- Part V: Quantum
- 16 The Quantum and the Particle 225
- 17 The Mass of a Wavicle 234
- 18 Einstein’s Haiku 251
- Part VI: Higgs
- 19 A Field Like No Other 257
- 20 The Higgs Field in Action 262
- 21 Basic Unanswered Questions 279
- 22 Deeper Conceptual Questions 290
- 23 The Really Big Questions 295
- Part VII: Cosmos
- 24 Protons and Neutrons 311
- 25 The Wizardry of Quantum Fields 320
- 26 Coda: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary 327