Force Fields, Behind the Fog of Maths
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Einstein remarked that there was physics before Maxwell and
physics after Maxwell, the difference being the introduction of
modern field theory. So what difference did fields make and, more
to the point, what are they? In this episode of the
Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon
explore how electromagnetic and gravitational, quantum and
morphic fields shape modern science. They ask whether fields are
a way that mechanistic understandings of nature have revived
Aristotle’s notion of formal and final causes and look at the
fact that fields aren’t energetic or material causes. They draw
on ancient notions of soul to ask how fields can be part of an
expansive notion of science, which has long drawn on entities
that aren’t directly detectable to understand nature. Fields as
realities in themselves are rarely discussed by scientists, the
nature of fields hidden behind a fog of mathematics. But they
fascinated figures like Faraday and Maxwell and might fascinate
us again.
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