A Rational Cosmology: The Impossibility of Infinite Force Exertions

Essay LXI

This is Essay LXI of Mr. Stolyarov's series, "A Rational Cosmology," which seeks to present objective, absolute, rationally grounded views of terms such as universe, matter, volume, space, time, motion, sound, light, forces, fields, and even the higher-order concepts of life, consciousness, and volition. See the index of all the essays in "A Rational Cosmology" here.

Even if a field is not an entity and non-local effects cannot exist, how is it possible to explain the seemingly non-local effect of the field-originating entity needing to exert forces of some magnitude, however small, on the entirety of the entities in the universe in order to be in accord with the equations describing the potentialities for force exertion in a field?

In truth, it is impossible for a single entity to act on absolutely everything else that exists, and this fact can be accounted for by including certain caveats to the use of field expressions.

A given field expression is accurate only for a given instant; since fields involve the exertion of forces, and forces cause acceleration, the concept of a field is inextricably tied to the movement of a particle said to be within a field. As soon as the particle begins to move, it is no longer at the same position at which it has been previously, and a different expression now applies to describe type of force which it experiences.

Similarly, if the entity said to be "within the field" now experiences a different force, so does the field-originating entity, since it, too, partakes in the action-reaction pair. No entity that exerts a force on another can remain static itself. As the field-originating entity changes its location, so does the nature of the "field" it generates change, and this nature is changed to a far greater extent by closer entities to the entity which originates the field than by entities farther away. Ergo, no field which has any actual physical consequence can remain constant for more than an instant.