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Appendix 4.
Albert Einstein.
“Physics really began with the invention of mass, force, and an inertial system.
These concepts are all free inventions. They led to the mechanical point of
view. For the physicist of the early nineteenth century, the reality of our
outer world consisted of particles with simple forces acting between them and
depending only on the distance. He tried to retain as long as possible his belief
that he would succeed in explaining
All events in nature by these fundamental concepts of reality. The difficulties
connected with the deflection of the magnetic needle, the difficulties
connected with the structure of the ether, induced us to create a more subtle
reality. The important invention of the electromagnetic field appears. A
courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize fully that not the
behaviour of bodies, but the behaviour of something between them, that is,
the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events”(…) “What
impresses our senses as matter is really a great concentration of energy into a
comparatively small space”(Albert Einstein / L. Infeld. (1938) The Evolution of
Physics. London: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 257, 311-312 ).
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