Robert B. Leighton - The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)

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The existence of the positive charge, in some sense, distorts, or creates a "condition" in space, so that when we put the negative charge in, it feels a force. This potentiality for producing a force is called an electric field.

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In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

Robert B. Leighton

Atoms are completely impossible from the classical point of view.

Robert B. Leighton