{"id":49338896,"user":"krapp","time":1787007816,"time_ago":"17 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

No.","comments":[{"id":49339016,"user":"yndoendo","time":1787008723,"time_ago":"17 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I thought a Plasma Window is a form of force-field.","comments":[{"id":49340980,"user":"CoastalCoder","time":1787024434,"time_ago":"12 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

> I thought a Plasma Window is a form of force-field.

Kind of. It weakly repels Gnome users.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":1,"url":"item?id=49340980"},{"id":49339328,"user":"GroksBarnacles","time":1787010925,"time_ago":"16 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Plasma is matter, not a force","comments":[{"id":49339369,"user":"foobarian","time":1787011209,"time_ago":"16 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yet what is matter but a (strong) force","comments":[{"id":49342599,"user":"ndsipa_pomu","time":1787038517,"time_ago":"8 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Matter is usually made of fermions (half-integer spin) whereas force is mediated by bosons (integer spin).","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":3,"url":"item?id=49342599"},{"id":49339445,"user":"krapp","time":1787011667,"time_ago":"16 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Matter is not a force. Matter and forces are two different things in physics.

And the "strong force" is another thing altogether.","comments":[{"id":49339692,"user":"aeonik","time":1787013704,"time_ago":"15 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

I think their point might be that matter is what defines the location of the force field. I.e. it's the EM field doing the actual work.","comments":[{"id":49341649,"user":"qsera","time":1787031310,"time_ago":"10 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

Yea, that is it, and I agree with them. When we say that a particle is at some x,y,z, we just mean that the space at that location behaves in a certain manner, for some reason.

And since we don't like mysteries, we say that there is a "particle" there with so and so properties..","comments":[{"id":49342918,"user":"TheOtherHobbes","time":1787041266,"time_ago":"8 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

It's more like "behaved", because particle measurement events are always historic. Quantum fields are statistical distributions of possible future particle measurement events within spacetime.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":6,"url":"item?id=49342918"}],"comments_count":1,"level":5,"url":"item?id=49341649"}],"comments_count":2,"level":4,"url":"item?id=49339692"},{"id":49340967,"user":"CGMthrowaway","time":1787024302,"time_ago":"12 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

That is, until we find a way to unify the fields","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":4,"url":"item?id=49340967"}],"comments_count":4,"level":3,"url":"item?id=49339445"},{"id":49339808,"user":"ziiinq","time":1787014692,"time_ago":"15 hours ago","type":"comment","content":"

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