02Region

Adapted for the Internet from:

Why God Doesn't Exist

A field is not a portion

Let’s first distinguish between a region and a portion. A region answers a question

starting

with ‘where’

whereas a portion answers a question starting with ‘what’. A

region has to do

with places and locations. A

portion has to do with objects. We talk

about a region around a

magnet or of a country. This is a

qualitatively

different notion

than talking about a portion of

pizza. A region is specified with coordinates. A

portion

stand alone object that has

dimensions

(

length, width, and height

)

. Hence, the only way that a

field

could

qualify as a portion is if we

regard it as a chunk of space and assume that

space

is a physical

entity. If

space is not a

physical object

, the mathematical physicist cannot

equate space with a portion.

We could still regard the word

field

as an entity if the word

region

qualifies as a

physical

medium or

substance. For example, we routinely refer to a section of the

human body or a

piece of land as a region.

However, it is easy to distinguish between them. Until it is cut and removed

portion,

piece, or a chunk

is a region of a greater whole. An arm is a region of the

body that

turns

into a chunk when it is chopped

off.

A region cannot be extracted

without losing

its identity.

A place such as Mongolia is not just a piece of

land

or an

outline on a map.

Mongolia cannot

do without Russia or China. The references are

crucial to

reach an

understanding of the

concept

Mongolia

. The Mongolian farmer

does not lift a region of

Mongolia

with a shovel,

but

a chunk of soil. If the word

field

defined as a region of

space, it is conceptually a place

and not

a portion.

cannot be ripped from the

mother entity and stand alone. A place is

defined not

terms of what it is itself,

but in

terms of what contains it.

The mathematical field
is unphysical

A field is a region, a chunk of space,
a portion of nothing, you know, like a
piece of a pie. The purpose of this
region is to accelerate charges
through the region.

A field does not occupy space

A region is not equivalent to the thing occupying the region itself. Either a field – the

medium – occupies

space or a field is space. Einstein claims that gravitational field

space

(for otherwise he would have to

define what space is, which he never did.):

“

Einstein himself said that so far as his general relativity is concerned, space

(actually

space-time)

and the gravitational field are the same things...”

[

]

“ There can be no space nor any part of space without gravitational potentials;

for

these

confer

upon space its metrical qualities, without which it cannot be

imagined at

all. The

existence of the

gravitational field is inseparably bound

with the existence

of space.”

[

]

Of course, it is absolutely irrational to even suggest that field and space are identical. Einstein needs to

have his head examined! E

quating

the

gravitational field to space leads to logical

contradictions.

Fig. 1 Field: Region vs. Portion

Ooooh Stevie! Your
explanation is
absolutely
breathtaking!

A region can never attain indepen-
dence from its references. Unlike a
piece, a chunk, or a portion, a region
is not a stand-alone object. Once we
cut a portion of pizza, it stands alone.
We can’t do this with a region. A field
is not formally defined as a piece or
as a portion of space. It never has.
A field is defined as a region of
space. Therefore, by definition, a
field cannot stand alone.