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What's the difference between electromagnetic field and ether?
by GoblinSlayer 3y ago
What's the difference between electromagnetic field and ether?
- simiones 3y agoAs far as I understand it, the ether was supposed to be matter, ultimately made out of some kind of particles that obey laws of motion. Conversely, the electric field is just a potential. It's not made up of anything, it just describes how charged particles interact if they are in a particular place in space-time.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoPretty sure electric field is material. Interaction is described by theory, not by field, field is material nature of interaction.