Group: sci.physics.electromag
From: "Autymn D. C."
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: Reality of fields, was Re: Magnet Question

On Mar 9, 9:02=A0pm, "Timo A. Nieminen" wrote:
> > Maxwell
> > noted that energy can be transmitted in only TWO ways. =A0One is through=

> > the transfer of mass (kinetic) and the other is in the transmission of
> > waves in a medium. =A0In a so-called "field" there is no mass. But lo
> > and behold, modern physics says there is no medium either!!!

Yes, there /is/ mass in the field. Take the field and divide by
acceleration.

> The field _is_ the medium, at least mathematically. If fields are real,
> then field is the medium, physically. Modern physics says there is no
> _mechanical_ medium.

Atta-Timo, that's whas I'v been a'saying here. Fusics says the medium
is hupomekanic and avallastic, the idiomekanism, so it has no bloopy
blippy particula and subparticula buriede within the fotonic regime.