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 ==Definition==
-A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
+A state in which two or more physical objects are "In Contact" (physically touching one another) or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
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 * Force is not transmitted by [[Contiguity]] but only by the fields of the electrons and, perhaps, the Pauli exclusion principle.
-* What some call [[Contiguity]] force is nothing other than the repulsion of one "solid" collection of particles by those on some other "solid" body.
+* What some call [[Nuclei are around 100,000 times smaller than the atoms they're housed in.]] force is nothing other than the repulsion of one "solid" collection of particles by those on some other "solid" body.
-* Clearly kinetic energy can be very high and its effect very damaging, but that should not imply what Aristotle claims above.
+* It might even make sense for Contiguity to be redefined as the interaction of electrons's fields.
 * Even at the nuclear level in a particle accelerator, there is no [[Contiguity]] force, only the force of one very energetic particle's field on another's.

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-* Force is not transmitted by [[Contiguity]] but only by field.
+* Force is not transmitted by [[Contiguity]] but only by the fields of the electrons and, perhaps, the Pauli exclusion principle.
 * What some call [[Contiguity]] force is nothing other than the repulsion of one "solid" collection of particles by those on some other "solid" body.
 * Clearly kinetic energy can be very high and its effect very damaging, but that should not imply what Aristotle claims above.

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 * Scientists up through Maxwell added the concept on an electromagnetic force field that could also act at a distance.
 * The Pauli exclusion principle says that no two particles can have the same quantum identity.  See the wiki page on [[Identical Particle]].
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 * Force is not transmitted by [[Contiguity]] but only by field.

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 * Scientists up through Newton added the concept of gravity that could act on objects at a distance: A force field.
 * Scientists up through Maxwell added the concept on an electromagnetic force field that could also act at a distance.
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 * The continuity principle or continuity equation is another principle of fluid mechanics that states that what flows into a defined volume in a defined time, minus what flows out of that volume in that time, must accumulate in that volume<ref>Continuity principle | physics | Britannica https://www.britannica.com/science/continuity-principle</ref>
 * In physics, contiguity refers to the principle of locality which states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. Again from Aristotle:<blockquote>Wherever we have something capable of acting and something capable of being correspondingly acted on, in the event of any such pair being in contact what is potential becomes at times actual:<ref>Aristotle ''Physics'' Book VIII https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/physics.8.viii.html</ref></blockquote>
-* Electromagnetic effects were known at the time of Plato, but the source was attributed to gods or other unknown entities.<blockquote>Moreover, as to the flowing of water, the fall of the thunderbolt, and the marvels that are observed about the attraction of amber and the Heraclean stones, â€” in none of these cases is there any attraction ; but he who investigates rightly, will find that such wonderful phenomena are attributable to the combination of certain conditions” the non-existence of a vacuum, the fact that objects push one another round, and that they change places, passing severally into their proper positions as they are divided or combined<ref>Plato ''Physics'' http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html</ref></blockquote>
+* Electromagnetic effects were known at the time of Plato, but the source of the effect was attributed to gods or other unknown entities. (The oldest known name for Lodestone was Heraclean Stone,)<blockquote>Moreover, as to the flowing of water, the fall of the thunderbolt, and the marvels that are observed about the attraction of amber and the Heraclean stones, â€” in none of these cases is there any attraction ; but he who investigates rightly, will find that such wonderful phenomena are attributable to the combination of certain conditions” the non-existence of a vacuum, the fact that objects push one another round, and that they change places, passing severally into their proper positions as they are divided or combined<ref>Plato ''Physics'' http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html</ref></blockquote>
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