On Newton’s Cradle
Sven Gelbhaar
Since force is transferred through solid crystalline objects instantaneously, it
makes us reconsider the scope of objects — or potentially better said force
carriers — at work in reality. After all, the humble photon is imbued with
kinetic energy just as is the proud carbon ring. Unfortunately the lowest
scoped object we can interact with is the photon, so the smallest things we can
observe are photons as well. For now all we can do is infer subelectron
particles by their effect on the same, but we really can’t say much about them.
Not to mention particles that don’t interact with what we can observe, but then
again why should we want to?