Re: Questions you love/hate to have asked

[msantos@etse.urv.es]

> > How can one explain, phenomenologically (wow) what determines the amount
> > of momentum transferred to another object. Or must we rest on "the
> > equation says so and the equation is a model of reality."
>
> I don't think that you can. The question assumes that momentum is a
> quantity, like caloric, which inheres to a body and which can be
> transferred to another body. Momentum's not like that!
>
>
> Leigh

If we can say that the electromagnetic field can carry
and transfer momentum as well as energy, why not bodies?

M.A. Santos
msantos@etse.urv.es>