Re: Are fields real?

["Dewey Dykstra, Jr." <dykstrad@EMAIL.BOISESTATE.EDU>]

> Jim,
>        I am a little concerned about causality in this statement as a believe
> that Star Trek started long before Bill Nye could be seen on TV? Do you
> know some physics I don't?
>
> Gary
>
> > This concept is sometimes actually useful -- especially  on Star Trek where
> > they talk about "force fields" -- The Star Trek people got this by watching
> > Bill Nye.
> >
> > At least according to _my_ weird usage.
> >
> > Jim Green
>
> Gary Karshner

Gary, the Star Trek crew has traveled back and forth in time several times.
They could have been able to see Bill Nye that way.  Besides, just which
Star Trek crew is being talked about has not been mentioned... ;^)

Dewey


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"As a result of modern research in physics, the ambition and hope,
still cherished by most authorities of the last century, that physical
science could offer a photographic picture and true image of reality
had to be abandoned."  --M. Jammer in Concepts of Force, 1957.

"If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make
reality the basis of our philosophy? ...But we cannot distinguish
what is real about the universe without a theory...it makes no sense
to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what
reality is independent of a theory."--S. Hawking in Black Holes
and Baby Universes, 1993.
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