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The matter as physical reality

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some counter-field? Proceeding from the cited statement - yes, because all factors inherent in the interaction will be absent; however in the view of materialism - no, because the occurring fields compensation will not annihilate the space materiality, but simply transform the matter to another state. To clear this point finally, carry out a simple experiment.

Let in some space region where we can neglect the external fields be two bodies A and B each having the mass m and equal-signed charge q. Then the repulsive force of the electrical field of the body B

(where r is the distance between the mass centres of these bodies) acts on the body A which acts on the body B the same. In the case  F₁ = F₂  with any r, both bodies behave independently to each other, i.e., the power interaction is absent; therefore the resulting field

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is zero. But both the electrical and gravitational fields have retained, and if they were material, then the matter as such retained too, it only has transformed into another state.

This example is thought to be enough to understand the above thesis. If not, one who wishes can consider a mental experiment in which a charged body is between two plates; one of them is massive and the other, having a small mass, is charged.

Thus we cleared that there must be some material substance by whose excitation one can obtain all types of known (and possibly, of unknown yet) fields. In the view of dialectical materialism, such substance is named ether. With it, the dialectical materialism in no way insists on its definite structure - this is the matter of physicists. It insists only on the fact as such that the ether exists. The less the materialism insists that ether is some finite structure - again, this is the matter of physicists; but if it is revealed, between the elements of a new structure there also must be the ether as a material substance (if the investigators are not pro the same name, they can name this new as they wish, but they have to keep the principle of its materiality).

Finally, return to the Born's statement concerning the electromagnetic field as a convenient mathematical category. Though we considered after it a field as a material substance (just for the case "should… would…"), it is worthy to point that, regrettably, Born

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has expressed not only his personal opinion but the common opinion of all relativists. So the respectful Readers are encouraged to think of the following paradoxes arising in the case of fields materiality:

- a motion of a neutral particle in an EM field;

- a motion of a charged particle in a gravitational field;

- a motion of an EM wave in a gravitational field,

etc. All these and similar cases will lead you, dear Reader, to the situation in which the classical physics appeared in trying to reveal the body motion through the ether as a material substance. Consequently, the abolition of the material substance between the weighty matter was not a fiction nor an unclear formulation but was a well-considered conduct. Therefore this construction is reduced through the Machism to the idealism:

"The essence of idealism is that the psychical is taken as an initial point, the nature is deduced from it, and then from the nature - an usual human consciousness. This initial "psychical" is so always a dead abstraction concealing a diluted theology" [1, p.220].

It follows from the above that the ether as a physical reality is one of the forms of the matter existence. In our sensations, different types of fields as excited states of the ether determining the interactions between the elements of a weighty matter are the ether revelations. And any attempt to think the space without ether as a material substance reduces to a dead abstraction and inevitably leads the gnosiology to the idealism.