>>12673160Hertz was an interesting guy. one could credit his interpretation of how forces propagate between particles in an electromagnetic field as the early seeds of the interpretation of quantum field theory. in an nutshell he was the first to state a reconciliation of charged particles and fields that avoided the infinite regress of “fields mediate particle interactions, but fields are made of particles, but particles interact via fields, but fields propagate via particles, but but but...”
hertz literally was the first scientific guy to try and resolve that and it was of major importance to guys in early QFT like Dirac and Jordan and Born and Lamb
