[Phys-L] Re: What IS a field? (Was Re: Physics (chem.) Humor)

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

So one concludes we aren't mostly empty space, nicht wahr?

bc

RAUBER, JOEL wrote:

> | The more I learn about fields the more confused I am about
> | them.  Do the particles create the fields or do the fields
> | create the particles?  Does that question even make sense?
> | What IS a field?
>
> I suppose a short glib answer might be that one simply can not
> distinguish between the particle(s) and the field that represents them.
> The electromagnetic field are particles of photons and vice-versa.
>
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> Joel Rauber
> Department of Physics - SDSU
>
> Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
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