LH:

THey are not non-physical. That is a totally misleading description. Physical does not mean made ofparticles greater than some preferred minimum. The physical range of phenomena includes space and energy, time and solid accretions thereof such as atoms.

Your three-state description is a simplistic description of the states of matter only. It ignores the peculiarities of transition states, and the interesting range of phenomena of energy itself.

As to your example, why is it any different if your exertions transmit from you to your body to yellow paint to my house to my eyes, than if they transferred from you to your hand to a sharp stick to my eyeball? The contact is quite direct even though the coupling, I grant you, is a bit less solid. But it is still perferctly physical.

# "Of or relating to matter and energy or the sciences dealing with them" according to one of the AmHEr definitions of "physical".

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