[35] The most blatant error in all of physics is the erroneous notion that an acting force is separate from its receiving mass. Force is defined as F ~ d/dt(mv). From that definition alone, it can be seen that the affected mass is a component of the force itself. If you remove the mass m, you do not have force but merely acceleration. The notion of force separated from the mass came from ancient and familiar experiences of pushing on stones with one's hand, etc. In this primitive case the force-creating agent (i.e., the hand) is certainly separate from the affected mass (i.e., the stone). But the "force on the stone" is actually the force created of and with the stone. It is "stone-force," not "force upon the stone." Quantum field theory already tells us that it is the absorption and emission of virtual photons by the stone's mass that "creates the force." In fact it should go one step further: It is the coupled ensemble of the virtual photon flux and the mass of the stone that constitutes a "stone-force." In your mind, you should try mentally replacing the word "force" with the phrase "mass-force" until you root out the deeply ingrained erroneous notion that force and mass are separate. Because of this archaic error, today's physics can only define a mass in terms of its resistance to a disturbing force, and it can only define a force in terms of its overcoming a resisting mass. This error has prevented any proper definition of either force or mass! But the problem is solvable. For a proper definition of mass without the notion of force, see T.E. Bearden, Quiton/Perceptron Physics: A Theory of Existence, Perception, and Physical Phenomena, National Technical Information System, Report AD-763210, 1973.

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