THE CASE OF BANISHED FORCES - A WAY TO LOOK AT INTERACTIONS
Author: Nicolae Mazilu
Published on Monday, January 7th, 2008 in category ProtoQuant
ABSTRACT: In spite of the fact that we can imagine a host of mechanisms of interaction between the constituents of the Universe around us, when it comes to quantifying these interactions we always use the old idea of force, no matter of the nature of interaction or its scale. The classical forces are usually taken with some default properties apparently very natural. These properties of forces are then extended as properties of the interactions that forces are supposed to represent. This fact restricts drastically the class of those interactions, as well as our conclusions about Nature in general. The example closely analyzed here is the definition of temperature and related issues.