Re: Fields etc (fwd)

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

Did this message below never make it to the list??  Look also at the
original message.  When I include a quoted passage, I always indent it.
My original intent was simply to direct attention to Feynman's chapter 27
about energy flow and momentum flow.  Maybe I should have placed the
reference at the *bottom* of that message.



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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:44:22 -0800 (PST)
From: William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>
To: list physics teaching <phys-l@lists.nau.edu>
Subject: Re: Fields etc


Hi again Jim!

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Jim Green wrote:
> |photons, or as e-fields and/or b-fields.  But just because the "Something"
> |is invisible, or because there are more than one model used to describe
> |it, this does not force us to declare that it is nothing but an abstract
> |concept.
>
> This seems to be offered sort of like a scriptural quote -- just because
> the Great Feynman said something, it must be true.


No, not at all.  My intention was otherwise.
(Also, the above stuff is mine, and Feynman probably would have objected
to parts of it.)



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