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"maxwell" wrote in message
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On Mar 16, 3:18 pm, "FrediFizzx" wrote:
> "Benj" wrote in message
>
> news:67f2df34-094c-4197-9899-f04150ee6f38@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Mar 16, 2:46 am, khrapko...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >> Dear Benj: What's the matter? What's the thread? Fields are
> >> obviously
> >> real and mathematics is an idea.
> >> Radi
>
> > Dear Radi,
> > Forces are obviously real and fields are a mathematical idea.
>
> (real force)/(real charge) = (real E field)
>
> The fact that we can use mathematics to successfully express the
> relationship doesn't matter. If given the charge and value of the E
> field, you can calculate the real force. I do believe one can buy
> electric field meters. ;-)


Try again, Fred. Adding the word 'real' to your algebraic equation
does NOT make it real; but as a Platonist you can still believe in it.
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LOL! I was trying to see if Benj was on his toes. He wasn't. I guess
the best we can do is say the ratio is real.

Best,

Fred Diether
Co-moderator sci.physics.foundations