You are probably already asking yourself a similar question- What is the matter?
But does matter actualy exist?
There is an electro magnetic field surrounding every atom which itself is energy and not matter. Even surrounding electrons is a field. Atoms never actually touch one another. Their electro magnetic force fields pull and repulse each other, so in reality all that actually comes into contact is the fields of individual parts, whether that's electrons or sub atomic particles. Of course, depending on their charge, they sometimes attract also, otherwise we would not have the chemical bonding that causes the emergence of molecules.
So, if all matter is basically made up of electromagnetic force fields, then you could say that matter, as we imagine it, does not exist and that what we see as molecules (the basic building blocks of all matter) is just a matter of the different ways in which these electro-magnetic fiels (atoms) are configured.
We tend to imagine matter as a 'solid' substance and energy as some radio-wave like unsolid thing. Would it be correct then to say that in fact matter does not exist and only exists in the same way that a hand written message exists due to the configuration of the ink on the paper? That the ink and the paper is all that 'actually' exists and the message(hand-writing) is just the way the ink is placed in relation to other dots of ink until it forms a message? The paper exists as a solid thing and the ink exists as a solid thing but the message is just perceived/implied so in the strictest sense could be said to not exist.
Or a better question - does reality exist in the first place? Or does it only exist to "us" who are trapped in a peculiar state of the fields?
What in reality gives matter the solid feel it has, when the ingredients of matter themselves are not solid(there is almost an infinite space between an electron and the nucleus, when compared to the size of the atom) and all the atoms comprising a plastic piece are "tied" together by magnetic fields?
Edited by Agobot, : No reason given.
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