DemistifySci Podcast - Paradox Lost
It's their new book on presale now . Part II coming up: See my comment to this post : There is a problem with your general thesis to the effect that the only reasonable explanation of a law of force is one which is couched in terms of some material medium. The problem is that physical force as we intuitively perceive it comes ultimately from our own agency acting against a spontaneous physical evolution of a system. So when we are in free fall we experience no force because we are unable to react against it as we do when we stand up on the surface of the earth, for example. But when we are in free fall we can experience inertia as a force if we push another free-falling massive object away from us. So what this amounts to in classical terms is that we interact with a closed deterministic system and in so doing we interfere with its normal spontaneous physical evolution. So what this tells us is that the empirical basis of experimental physics, which includes the agency and...