Daniel Whiteson

And his basic premise is fields aren't real.

They're not real.

They're not real.

They don't exist.

And he goes further than that.

He says, numbers aren't real.

What?

What?

What does that even mean?

So he's saying that the way that fields are a calculational tool, they're an intermediate step, that the number line itself is that way.

He's not saying you can't have like more of something or less of something, this is bigger than that, but it's an abstraction to say two is a thing, three is a thing, right?

We can say this has more than that, this is closer than that, but to construct a number line is to create an abstraction which is a useful intermediate to talk about these things.

Because instead of saying this is bigger than that, you can say this one's two and that one's three.

And then later I can compare them.

So it's a halfway mark to our calculation.

So he built a whole theory of gravity without fields, without numbers, just based on closer, further, nearer.

And this book, I read it.

It's not easy.

It's a brain twister to try to think about physics without any numbers at all.

And it's not a pretty theory, right?