(April 7, 2019 at 5:57 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Do electrons exist? of course they don't. God created an army of electric spirits whose sole task is to carry charge from point A to point B.
Does this explanation make more sense or less sense?
Can you measure electrons or spirits?
Is there more evidence for electrons or spirits?
Answer those questions and you have your own answer.
As for believing in things you cannot see, do you "believe" in the smallpox virus? Why or why not? After all, you have never seen one.
Actually, the question is valid, but should be qualified. It depends what you mean by exist. If you mean that they are objects which have independent properties and can be located unambiguously in time and space, then maybe not.
If you mean that there's a measurable transfer of energy in the form of light, then yes, and obviously so.
