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Comment by krapp

14 hours ago

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

And the "strong force" is another thing altogether.

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aeonik  14 hours ago

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.

  • qsera  9 hours ago

    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..

    • TheOtherHobbes  6 hours ago

      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.