(September 26, 2016 at 9:11 am)robvalue Wrote: I get a bit annoyed when people say there are things that aren't physical, but do literally exist. What's the distinction? I'd really like to know.
I guess the nearest I could say is some subset of things that exist which can act upon, but not be acted upon by, the rest of those things. They are some sort of existent things "above" other things. In such a case, we're just labelling the rest of the existent things physical... meaning they're not non-physical. Seems a bit silly.
Is the EM field of the earth "physical"?
Gravity is intimately tied with physical things and exists as an accepted force of the universe, but it is physical?
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
