what is the difference between radiation and field.

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anonymous · Answer

could you please elaborate?  are you talking about a radiation field and a force field or just radiation and a force field....?

anonymous · Answer

radiation and a force field

anonymous · Answer

Well

radiations are strictly speaking electromagnetic waves..  so light is radiation .. x rays are radiations, UV microwaves and radio waves that surround you are all radiations.. so basically we are all submerged in a world of radiations

what are force fields?.. 
well.. field is basically an imaginary way of describing the affect of charges and gravity.. we give a number (value) and a direction to EVERY POINT in space saying IF there was anohter charge (or mass) what would be the electrostatic force (gravitational force) that would act on it

gavlois1 · Answer

Building on Mashy's response, radiations emit something, be it an electromagnetic wave, or alpha particles (which are two protons) from alpha decay. It is something we can either see or measure to some degree, most of the time.

A force field would be an area over which a certain force has influence over some object. Gravitational force fields, for example, have a theoretically infinitely large force field, yet at some point the force is basically negligible due to the distance. An electric field between two charged plates exist only in the area between those two plates. It is a defined area which a force is applied without any sort of physical emission (unless you want to get into the quantum theories of it).