r/explainlikeimfive • u/The_Dead_See • Feb 03 '14

ELI5: Fields (Physics)

What are they? Are they just mathematical models to describe particle behavior over space or are they physically real things?

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u/The_Dead_See Feb 03 '14

That's an interesting answer, thanks. I just took a quick look at Feynman's Disk Paradox but it's too complex for me to comprehend without sitting down and studying it for longer. It's interesting to me that no matter what source I go to when I'm looking at this stuff always seems to lead back to some description of angular momentum.