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by leephillips 1742 days ago
Fields are abstractions that ease the calculation of the forces on charges caused by the positions and motions of other charges. The charges interact, but the fields don’t; there is nothing “there” to interact. (This is classical EM.)

If you are in a room with two charges, the electrostatic field at any point is the addition of the fields from each charge. There is no extra interaction term.