sci.physics.electromag

On Mar 14, 12:31=A0pm, Benj wrote:
> On Mar 14, 1:48 pm, Benj wrote:
>
> > Have a nice day!
>
> Sorry for my untimely return (what a pain in the butt getting here!)
> but I just saw this quote in Sci.physics and I thought it relevant to
> the discussion here on the reality of fields.
>
> Albert Einstein: "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot
> be based upon the field concept, that is on continuous structures.
> Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the
> theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary
> physics."

All thas matters is if the field is a discrete structure in time.
Einstein should know better; under relativity where one is not, the
field is not.