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Why God Doesn't Exist
The force of pull
requires a physical
intermediary

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    Can force be conceived without a physical intermediary or contact?

    QM answers yes. One prominent example is the mechanics’ belief that the ‘electromagnetic’ force – light –
    does not need a medium through which to propagate. However, light is an outbound force known as
    push. What about pull? One enthusiast clarifies so we have no doubt:

    “ Contact forces require the physical contact of one object with another, such as a
       hammer striking a nail or the force exerted by a gas under pressure, as when the
       gas produced by exploding gunpowder forces a heavy ball out of a cannon. Field
       forces, on the other hand, need no physical medium of contact” [1]

    As always, the mechanics have no rational justification for such assertions. They just pull out their magic
    wands and do it by decree. They are simply offering an irrational, surrealistic interpretation to a
    phenomenon they can’t explain, especially with particles.  

    In Physics, forces always propagate through a physical medium. Otherwise, we don’t call it Physics. We
    call it magic or Mathematics or something like that. In Physics, if you pull on the ends of a rubber band,
    you feel the force of pull only until the rubber band breaks. Were this force to travel through space as the
    mathematicians suggest, your hands would continue to feel a tug even after the rubber band rips. Or think
    of a spherical cage made of metal gratings, such as a bingo tumbler. If we pull at opposite ends, the
    mathematician will say that the force of pull manifests itself along an imaginary axis extending through the
    center of the cage. The mathematician just averages out all the vectors. However, it is easily demonstrated
    that the force travels through the wires (matter) constituting the tumbler (Fig. 1). For example, a canary
    flapping its wings in midair inside the cage would not feel the composite of forces pulling through its
    belly. We verify this, in turn, by cutting all the wires of the cage simultaneously without disturbing the
    imaginary axis along which the mathematical forces would seem to propagate. The inertial force
    immediately ceases (and the canary will of course fly free). There is no reason to believe that the ‘forces’
    of gravity and light operate differently than the contact force just described. We simply cannot rationalize
    pulling on nothing which pulls on something at the other end. Such a proposal would fail at the
    conceptual stage and could never be experimentally certified.

Fig. 1
The cage or bingo tumbler

    Indeed, the notion that force is a vector (rectilinear propagation) is strictly a mathematical concoction. The
    mathematicians don’t care if one atom pulls on another which then pulls on a third. This is Physics, and
    baby stuff as far as a mathematician is concerned. The mathematicians are interested in net force. They
    want to calculate and predict. They want to know in what direction and to what degree an object will
    move. The notion of an imaginary axis is very convenient for this purpose, and this explains why, in
    Mathematics, force travels through abstract axes, coordinates, and dimensions. In Physics, force is
    relayed through objects. Thus, nowhere in the entire Universe does a force propagate rectilinearly. This
    surrealistic vision belongs exclusively to Math.
Now let's see you pull
without the tablecloth.
The forces manifest themselves
through the wires (matter), not through
the imaginary axis (space).

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