Comment by aeonik
15 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.
15 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.
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..
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.