TOWARD A NEW ELECTROMAGNETICS
PART III:  CLARIFYING THE VECTOR CONCEPT

 

 

 

-- What Force Is --

           We now note that force, for example, is -- and may be defined as -- the time-rate of change of momentum, or

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and this identity states that a force -- any force is COMPRISED OF time-changing "mass-motion."  As such, the force vector is a mass-system vector, not just a massless spatial vector.  Fundamentally, this mass-system vector is a totally different creature from a massless spatial vector.  Our present manner of considering force as a geometer's vector "separately applied to" a mass particle is completely erroneous at the quantum level.  Instead, fundamentally force is always a mechanic's vector.  Force is an EFFECT, not a CAUSE.
        And here mechanics made a most fundamental error, in not recognizing the difference between its kind of vector and that of the geometer.

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