sci.physics.electromag

On Mar 5, 2:34 am, "FrediFizzx" wrote:

> Well Maxwell, I certainly can feel magnetic fields (the resulting
> forces) just by playing around with some magnets or even electromagnets.
> Ever stick a charged up balloon to your wall or feel the electric field
> from it attract your hair? There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that
> electric and magnetic fields exist so not just theory.

Better re-think this Fred. Just because the FORCES are real, does not
mean fields exist. Fields are simply a mathematical description of the
force distributions. Like so much in modern physics today, it is
mathematics that gives one the impression that it is explaining
something when in fact it's just math. Therefore a "field" is just a
mathematical system invented by some person. It is essentially
imaginary. To be sure the forces and their distributions are real,
and indeed those distributions may in fact more or less follow the
results obtained by your mathematical "field theory", but to ascribe
reality to a "field" is simply wrong. A field is only a model of
reality, it in no way IS physical reality! Hence Electric and Magnetic
FORCES exist, but FIELDS are just THEORY.