[Ads-l] a quote attribution not attempted

[Stephen Goranson]

In Harpers an essay by Christian Wiman, "The Tune of Things: Is
Consciousness God?" seems to me to tune in and out, but I mention it for a
lack of editing.

[begin quote]

Einstein was familiar with field theory and spent much of his later life
futilely trying to “unify” the existing theory with the Standard Model,
neither of which can account for gravity.7 Still, I find this (perhaps
misattributed) quote by him helpful:

It needed great scientific imagination to realize that it is not the
charges nor the particles but the *field in the space between* the charges
and the particles that is essential for the description of physical
phenomena.

[end quote]


The attribution is easily obtained.

A. Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics (1938) 258-259.


sg

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/the-tune-of-things-christian-wiman-consciousness-god/


https://archive.org/details/evolutionofphysi033254mbp/page/n277/mode/2up?q=%22space+between%22

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