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Re: [Phys-l] The nature of force fields.

At 08:35 AM 5/10/2007, you wrote:
Tibor wrote:
> But what is a force field "really"?

Force field as coined by Michael Faraday? ...

But Frank Wilczek has a secret on the inner meaning of fields:
in a world where influence travels at a finite speed, a field embodies the past...

Alphonsus

When a child walks slowly down the valley of a trampoline made by his
father, the depression he causes in the tramp surface decreases while the
depression caused by his father increases, as he grows closer.



Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!