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why fields can't be overidden?????

 
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why fields of superclass can't be overidden??? by a subclass
 
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The answer to this question, as to so many "why" questions, is "because the Java Language Specification says so".

Overriding is to do with run-time polymorphism. The Java language only implements run-time polymorphism for instance methods, not for fields or static methods. That's a choice the language designers made. They could have chosen differently, though in this case I think they chose well.
 
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