Originally Posted By: Bill S.
... but how do you perceive a force existing between two bodeis without an exchange of energy?

I would ask you the reverse question: Why do you perceive that there should be energy transfer just because a force exists?

Actually, both are equally logical. What happens when gravitational force exists between earth and moon? Either 'there is energy transfer' or 'there is no energy transfer'. If one is correct, the other is automatically wrong. The present view is that 'there is energy transfer'. I suggest that the present view is incorrect, not because it is illogical as such, but because it leads to the concept of 'virtual particles', which I think is metaphysical. The present view is that gravitational force exists by transferring virtual 'gravitons'.