Are quantum fields energy?

 Are quantum fields energy?

Many times people ask that question. The answer is that quantum fields are material, and material is one form of energy. If we think like that, we must say that quantum fields are energy, but it's in those quantum fields energy has a state that we cannot use it. In that case, I mean that we don't have an antenna that we can use to inject energy from the quantum fields that surround atoms. 

And I know that oversimplified that thing. Paradox is this material is the state of energy. And wave movement is material that turned to wave movement, and we use wave movement every day as an energy or information transporter. So this case material is wave movement and wave movement is information. We use quantum fields as energy in some of their forms. When we use material as an energy source, we use quantum fields as an energy source. 

When radio waves travel in space it's one version of the quantum fields. The idea of the great unified theory is that all wave movement is similar. But their source has different sizes. And that means electricity is only traveling the quantum field. And the same way all other traveling waves are quantum fields. The reason for that is that every single particle from atoms to their subatomic parts is inside its unique quantum field. So by thinking that way atoms are internal quantum fields. All electrons, protons, neutrons quarks, and gluons are in their quantum fields. 

The quantum fields do not interact with the material. The Schwinger effect means that radiation or quantum field can form the material. The thing that we see in atoms is their quantum fields. And then again, the material is one form of the quantum field. The border of an atom is not so clear. A halo surrounds all atoms. Material is the thickest version of quantum fields. 

That halo is the quantum field that is going stronger and stronger when we are close to the atom. Or material is only a thicker form of the quantum field. In some models, the universe is traveling extremely long but extremely thin quantum fields. 

Energy is wave movement. And we can say that material is energy or wave movement packed in a certain form that we call solid. Or actually, the material can have gas, liquid, and solid forms or states. And then somebody says that I forgot plasma. And maybe there are many other states in material. But then we can return to quantum fields. And states of energy. 

Same way as the material has different states, energy has different states, and we know four fundamental forces. 

1) Strong nuclear force (Strong nuclear interaction)

2) Weak nuclear force (Weak nuclear interaction)

3) Electromagnetism

4) Gravitation

So what are quantum fields? They are the mixture of those fundamental forces that surround atoms. Because in those quantum fields, all four nuclear forces interact on an extremely small scale. That means we cannot use those quantum fields as energy sources. 

Or, there is a paradox, we can see material from outside. The thing that we are seeing as an atom is the ball-shaped quantum field. Or actually, the quantum field can also stretch. And the thing that makes the burning release heat is when electrons break the quantum field and sends oscillation through space. 

When we see the material we see only quantum fields around atoms. Then the next step is to think that atoms are only multiple internal quantum fields. So when we are burning some material like tree carbon is making molecules with oxygen. In that process the energy that impacts oxygen and carbon atoms makes their quantum fields oscillate. 

The oxygen will ionize and lose two electrons. Oxygen ions start to jump around until they find carbon, which shares two electrons from its electron shell. That thing makes the electromagnetic bond between carbon and oxygen. 

When atoms make bonds and form molecules they must break their quantum fields. And when electrons travel through that quantum field they impact energy to it. Ion makes bonds more often than atoms is that there is a hole in their orbital. 

That thing makes it possible that another participant in that reaction makes the bubble in their quantum field that falls between electrons. And then electrons must pierce that field or bubble. So that kind of reaction is simple another participant in the reaction is the ion. This is the chemical burn. Simplified we can say that things like carbon make bonds with oxygen. And that bond is the channel that allows electrons to travel between atoms in molecules. 

In nuclear fusion, the reaction is similar to chemical fire. But in that reaction nucleus of two atoms is connected and forms a new atom. In a chemical fire, atoms connect their electron orbitals. So fire is also an interesting thing. And the binary focus in this text is to explain what is a quantum, field that surrounds all particles. At the end of this text, I must just say that the quantum field theory is incomplete. 

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-quantum-field-theory-and-why-is-it-incomplete-20220810/