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| Nov 6, 2018 at 12:24 | comment | added | Andrew Steane | My answer below directly contradicts this one in its use of terminology. This is ultimately about language. We are free to come to mutual agreement about whether or not we want to apply the concept of "action and reaction" to fields as well as material bodies. My view is that it is valuable to assert that momentum is supplied to the field whenever it pushes a particle. This is valuable because it focusses our attention in an insightful way. Local forces between field and particles thus come in balanced pairs. The third law, in this sense, is correct. | |
| Oct 21, 2018 at 14:57 | history | edited | user4552 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2018 at 14:45 | history | answered | user4552 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |