Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, their internal forces compete, causing constant rearrangements that dramatically increase resistance at certain distances. This creates a surprising peak in friction instead of a steady rise, breaking a long-standing physics law.
That’s fair, and I don’t claim that I am not redefining some things in my assessment. It’s more of a philosophical take.
When you “see light,” you’re detecting electromagnetic waves. That’s a physical phenomenon that may or may not count as direct observation, but it’s at least arguable.
Everything could, in theory, be reducible to fundamental parts which are no more “observable” than a field. Those fundamentals could be statistical anomalies, existing as a kind of probability function. The reality you and I have familiarized ourselves with may be the weakly emergent result of endless fields interacting, producing macro behavioral patterns that can be observed as isolated entities like “atoms.”
It’s really not different. I just find the alternative lenses more palatable.