sci.physics.electromag

"Benj" wrote in message
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> On Mar 8, 7:00 pm, "Timo A. Nieminen" wrote:
> Whoa! Is this a cheap debating trick? This is sort of getting to be
> about semantics. If you wish to define a 'field" as the observed
> forces and actions of charges moving and static then everything you
> say is correct. However that is NOT my definition. I say that the
> charges and the forces are observed reality. Field theory is a model
> IMPOSED upon that reality. To me this isn't dogma it's logic.
Please excuse my putting my nose into this.
However I believe the above is the core of the disagreement here.
Some see a field generally as the area in which forces are observed and can
be measured. Others as the phenomena itself.