Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-29927902-20161001081010/@comment-47205-20161003192706

The only physically meaningful difference between them is how they're caused and how they affect particles. Anything else is metaphysics. (If you do go a little deeper, the electric field is the temporal part of the electromagnetic field tensor while the magnetic field is the purely spatial part, and the real quantity underlying both is the electromagnetic potential. If you really want me to explain more, I can.)