> Start putting stuff in likely equations where the units work out to the desired answer.
Working physicists call this 'dimensional analysis' and it's pretty much the foundational skill of theoretical physics.
Working physicists call this 'dimensional analysis' and it's pretty much the foundational skill of theoretical physics.
What makes it particularly important in theoretical physics? Is it "foundational" because equations become unintuitive?
But once you get into using quantum field theory to study new systems, the standard approach is to concoct a conservation of energy equation by summing terms, where each term is a combination of the system's variables with units of energy.
From there, you can discretize the coordinates and predict the existence of various particles (or pseudo-particles, depending on what kind of system you're describing) and their dynamics.
my guess is nobody will really get what you mean until they actually try to learn QFT, huh. I'll revisit your comment in a few years.